King Zhao of Kang founded the Southern Song Empire. It is said that Zhao Cuo can be good at literature and martial arts, good at gaining power, some people say that Zhao Cuo is a good emperor for thousands of years, but some people say that Zhao Cuo is a bad emperor, why do you say so? Because Zhao Zhuo listened to the rumors of the traitor Qin Ju and killed the loyal minister Yue Fei, but was Zhao Zhuo, who killed the loyal minister Yue Fei, a good emperor in the end? Zhao Zhuo's environment is special, and his behavior is difficult to evaluate, which is also the reason why posterity has mixed praise and criticism of him.
Zhao Zhuo was a good emperor
Some people say that Zhao Zhuo is an emperor, why do these people say this? Let's go back to the Song Dynasty at that time and analyze it rationally.
After the Song-Jin peace agreement, the Song paid tribute to the Jin Dynasty every year with 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 silk. Some say this increases the burden on the people. I think it's inappropriate. Let's look at the fiscal revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty, 80 million yuan a year, even if 2 silver is converted into one or two, 250,000 silver and 250,000 silk account for less than 1% of the financial revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty government. Here need to say another thing, or the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia famine, the Ming Dynasty is reluctant to relieve Mongolia, and finally, Houjin in the situation of food difficulties to relieve Mongolia, in the military and disaster relief, soft and hard political wrists, Huang Taiji finally included Mongolia under his eight banners. The powerful Houjin became a great threat to the Ming Dynasty.
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From this point of view, the people of the Song Dynasty were still welcome to buy peace with money. At the same time, the northern nomads have strong military strength and weak production capacity. Once there is no grain to go south to plunder, in fact, they have no way, this is like the peasant revolt, if you do not plunder, you will starve to death. What does the farming civilization use to block the "hungry wolves" of the northern steppe? Only grain can be used. In peacetime they traded for food through horse markets, and in wartime he plundered. Is it better to let him exchange food for food through the market, or to let them plunder? The answer is self-evident.
The alliance between the Song and Liao dynasties also paid a very small price for more than a hundred years of peace, and this peace was a kind of happiness for the peoples of song and Liao. Similarly, the Shaoxing Peace Agreement between the Song and Jin Dynasties basically laid the foundation for the peace situation in the late Southern Song Dynasty. And in this situation, Zhao Zhuo's contribution is indispensable.
Zhao Zhuo was a bad emperor
Many people will say that Zhao Zhuo was a bad emperor, and the biggest thing was to unjustly kill the patriotic loyalist Yue Fei, get close to the villain, and stay away from the loyal subject. But why Zhao Zhuo wanted to kill Yue Fei, there are some reasons:
First, Zhao's general tendency is to make the main sum. This determined Yue Fei's political incorrectness. Yue Fei had always advocated "welcoming the Second Emperor back to the dynasty", which was a threat to Zhao Zhao's position. What the Second Emperor did when he came back and how to place the Law were all big questions. In order to maintain his power, Zhao Zhuo never wanted Yue Fei's plan to become a fact. Once the Second Emperor returned, he had to come down from the position of ten thousand people, to put it bluntly, he was greedy for imperial power.
Second, since the Northern Song Dynasty, there has been a very advanced military management system, and local young and middle-aged soldiers are uniformly managed by the central government and called the forbidden army, while only part of the local army and the old, weak, sick and disabled are left. Military power, on the other hand, was well handled. The lieutenant trained his troops without the right to fight, and the general had no other soldiers except for the guards. Unless the emperor issued a tiger charm to allow the general to lead the troops to the lieutenant, all of them were dealt with illegally, so as to achieve the goal of the soldiers not knowing the generals. However, Yue Fei had a private armed Yue family army in his hands, claiming more than 100,000 people, which must have made Zhao Zhuo feel threatened.
These two points are the main reasons, and some other small aspects are also many, such as bluntly saying that cambodia does not care about the emperor's feelings, knowing that the emperor is incompetent but making the emperor empress, etc., all of which are used as catalysts to eventually lead to this fate.
Zhao Zhuo was not a good emperor. He coveted imperial power, and he was willing to lose half of his position. That's not good. If he can recover the lost land, even if the two emperors return, he will be loved by the people, and may still be honored with the throne, and can be at ease as the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, but unfortunately he does not do so.
Zhao Zhuo could only be counted as the Taiping Emperor
Many people think that Zhao Zhuo is a good emperor, yes, that is before he was captured, he also had many deeds of governing the country and serving the people in his life, but in the later period, he abandoned the people and ignored them, fled for his life, and wrongfully killed the national hero Yue Fei. All these actions were done to keep his throne, which was extremely selfish. During his reign, he did not think of rescuing his relatives who were arrested in the north, people said that tiger poison does not eat children, of course, he is ha without descendants, but it is said that his cruel heart is really chilling, relatives can not care about people, how can they take care of the people, he is not suitable to be an emperor, nor is he qualified to be an emperor. Only caring for pleasure and only wanting to be a "Taiping Emperor" is really not a good emperor.