Chapter 8 wrong man

What kind of man is this? He is a top-notch artist and a low-level emperor. He loves to compose poems, write lyrics, collect all kinds of exotic flowers and stones, and love beauties. His calligraphy firmly occupies a place in the Chinese calligraphy circle, and the first "thin gold style" has fascinated many people for thousands of years. His painting skills are even more proficient, reaching the pinnacle, representing the highest peak of an era. He ruined the great country in his own hands and became a famous "faint king" in Chinese history. He is Zhao Ji, the eighth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong—a very special man.

Men are afraid of entering the wrong line of work, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man. A man who enters the wrong line of work will be very miserable, and he may end up in poverty for the rest of his life. And the emperor who entered the wrong line is more likely to be tragic and catastrophic, and the country may be ruined and the people may suffer. The "Compilation of Song People's Anecdotes" compiled by today contains a section of Ming people's notes, saying that Song Shenzong Zhao Xu accidentally saw the portrait of Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the Secretary Province, and admired its elegance, elegance, and spirit. Fei, sighing again and again, hated himself for not having such a son.At night, Zhao Xu dreamed that Li Yu came to pay a visit. When he woke up the next day, good news came from the harem. A concubine who was nine months pregnant in the harem had given birth to a son.

This story is quite entertaining. The person who wrote the story compared Li Yu and Zhao Ji, and then asserted that Zhao Ji was born with a subjugated appearance, and he was the reincarnation of Li Yu. He was talented, but he lacked a strategy for governing the country. Isn't that right, these two people came into the world with artistic cells and brought down a country, they are exactly a pair of twins who are alive and well. Some people may say that the Southern Tang Dynasty that Li Yu took over is already a mess, but Zhao Ji brought down the great rivers and mountains. The destructive power of the two is not at the same level, right?

In fact, the government that Zhao Ji took over was also under great pressure. First of all, the Song Dynasty was the one with the smallest land area in the period of great unification in Chinese history.Before Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin founded the country, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun in the north were packaged and sent to the Liao Kingdom by Shi Jingtan of the Later Jin Dynasty. Without the Great Wall in the north as a barrier, between the newly opened border of the Liao and Song Dynasties and the 800 kilometers from the Song Dynasty capital Bianliang, there is a flat river. , The door was wide open, and there was no danger to defend. The defense line of the Song Dynasty had to shrink to the north bank of the Yellow River, and a defensive system was built based on the Yellow River.

Secondly, the emerging Song Dynasty faced two established powerful countries: Liao and Xixia. Speaking of it, many people did not believe it. In the minds of Europeans at that time, the Liao Kingdom was China, because the Liao Kingdom was a big country in the north of China at that time. And the outer Xing'an Mountains, the south is bordered by the Northern Song Dynasty, Xixia, Goryeo and other countries. For Europeans, the influence of the Liao Dynasty is far greater than that of the Song Dynasty.So much so that they only knew about Liao, but not Song. Since the birth of the Great Song Dynasty, it has been threatened by these two countries. In order to obtain a stable space for survival and development, it has to pay huge amounts of currency to these two countries every year.

There is a strong neighbor on the side of the couch coveting, life is not easy. Thirdly, after more than 100 years of development of the Song Dynasty government, the phenomena of redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses are very serious. Under such circumstances, it is a fatuous lord like Zhao Ji who is in power, and it will be a matter of time before the Northern Song Dynasty subjugates the country. On the eve of Zhao Ji's accession to the throne, Prime Minister Zhang Dun once asserted: "King Duan (referring to Zhao Ji) is frivolous and cannot rule the world!"

Sure enough, Zhao Ji, who was only nineteen years old and frivolous, made a mess of the government when he first came to the throne. His "frivolity" is mainly manifested in his indifference to politics.In addition to his fondness for poetry, poetry, painting and calligraphy, he also fanatically believed in Taoism. When he became the emperor, in order to carry forward Taoism, he built a large palace, claiming to be the reincarnation of "Emperor Shenxiao", "implying" the canonization of Taoism. He is the "King Master Taoist Emperor". Now that the emperor has become the leader of the leader, all civil and military officials have also followed suit. They put on Taoist robes and feather crowns one after another, saying "Wuliang Tianzun" in their mouths. Kneeling and bowing, but with one palm on the chest, bowed deeply, and said: "Infinite Heavenly Venerable, see the leader, I am so polite here."

What the hell, it's a mess, it's a mess! A person of faith should jump out of the three realms, stay out of the five elements, eat vegetarian dishes, eliminate meat and fish, abstain from alcohol and sex, live in immortality, and limit people without measure.But Zhao Ji, a fake Taoist priest, has six impure roots, unbroken seven emotions, infatuated with the world, greedy for money and lustful. It is said that he once sent six thousand court ladies out of the palace at one time, which shows that he is unrestrained.For this reason, he was often ridiculed by the great poet Zhou Bangyan.

Once, Zhao Ji visited Li Shishi at night. After the cloud and rain, Zhao Ji was about to leave.Li Shishi lingered and said: "It's so cold outside, the frost is thick and the horses are slippery, it's better to wait for dawn before leaving." Zhao Ji knew that if he didn't go to court early tomorrow, he would inevitably attract criticism, so he made up his mind to break Li Shishi's hand and left.What he never expected was that Zhou Bangyan, the pilgrim thief, hid under the bed, kept everything in his ears, and wrote a poem "Youth Tour", the word cloud: