Chapter 12 second quarter

If you want to write an analysis report on Di Qing's tragic fate, the reasons on paper can be roughly as follows: First, Di Qing is too red.Di Qing joined the army from a lower level, and in just over ten years, he rose to the position of the military chief of the empire, the privy envoy. Tongzhi Privy Council), how can the literati of the empire not be jealous. If it's just a political success, then the literati can bear it, but Di Qing's popularity goes beyond the political scope, not only in the army, court, but also among the people.In the northwest, no one sings the old-fashioned song "There is Han (Qi) in the army, and the western thieves are terrified when they hear it; there is Fan (Zhongyan) in the army, and the western thieves are frightened when they hear it". Wearing a white horse and a bronze mask, he is a hero among thousands of horses and horses.The girls in Kaifeng all dreamed that the general came to them on a white horse, took off his mask (tattoos could not hide his handsome and cold face), and sent them tender glances.When Secret Envoy Di was in Tokyo, when he went out to work, he would attract countless fans to watch, causing traffic jams, which became a difficult problem in the traffic control work in the capital at that time.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, idols who are usually popular to such a level can only be produced in literati groups, such as Liu Sanbian who "writes lyrics according to the order" (Xiao Liu is mainly well-known in brothel circles), such as the all-round talent Su Dongpo, and great historians Sima Guang and his sworn enemy Wang Anshi. And a soldier who was born as a criminal attracted the attention of the entire empire (including the emperor's) by virtue of his ability to fight and being handsome (plus self-packaging), and the literati felt that this was a very bad culture Phenomena (of course, more political), it will affect the aesthetic taste and value orientation of the entire empire.The issue of ideology is very important, so whether the literati group in the entire empire was his enemy or his friend before Di Qing became popular, after Di Qing became a privy envoy, the choice is the same-to stand on his opposite side.

Second, Di Qing is too stubborn.Character determines destiny. Di Qing is not only a brave general on the battlefield, but also in life and in political vanity fairs, he is also a stunned young man who never bumps into the wall and never looks back.As long as Di Qing decides what to do, he will never give in and look back.When he was still a farmer in the village in his early years, his elder brother Di Su fought with a bully named Tie Luohan in the village and beat the bully into the water, resulting in a life lawsuit. With deep brotherly love, Di Qing took the life of his elder brother without hesitation. Lawsuit (Later, Di Qing's life was good, and the bully miraculously came back to life).

Di Qing's tattoo became a hot topic both before and after he became famous.In the Northern Song Dynasty, not all soldiers had tattoos on their faces.There are two types of soldiers with tattoos on their faces: one is the overall logo of a unit, such as the "eight-character army" that everyone knows later; the second is those who were exiled for violating the law, which was called the military at the time. Di Qing belongs to the latter category.The status of the supporting army was the lowest in the army of the Northern Song Dynasty, so the first thing many people thought of after they became prosperous was to wash off the tattoos on their faces.

Di Qing didn't, he insisted on keeping his tattoos, he just wanted people to know how he grew from a lowly soldier to a successful man and a hero of the empire step by step. And his conflict with the imperial literati, to a large extent, began with the tattoo on his face. When the first conflict occurred, Di Qing was already a well-known military general in the empire, and he had already achieved the position of deputy chief of Zhending Road, and his boss was Han Qi. Han Qi is Mr. Han in the ode "There is a Han in the army, and the western thieves are terrified when they hear about it".Lao Han is a hardliner, advocating that the party members should fight violence with violence, the point of the needle against wheat, and use offense as defense. It is a pity that he can only be hard-spoken. Yuan Hao's nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and his soldiers were lost, allowing Xixia to win a crucial victory over the Northern Song Dynasty.After the war, Yuan Hao, who was not well-educated, wrote a poem and quietly threw it into the courtyard of Lao Han’s house. The poem said, “How did Xia Song ever rise? , Old Han was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Di Qing met his former boss in Dingzhou, and Lao Han's popularity remained the same as before. As soon as he came to the army, he launched a rectification movement. For soldiers with unhealthy styles, Lao Han's method is very simple-kill. If you can't kill the party members, it's not easy to kill a few soldiers under you. Di Qing obviously disagreed with Han Qi's arbitrariness, and the two began to have conflicts, but the conflicts intensified because of a prostitute. Once, Han Zhizhou invited guests to dinner, and at the banquet Bai Mudan, a famous prostitute in Dingzhou at that time, was invited.After drinking for three rounds, everyone was drunk, including the beautiful woman Bai Mudan.

So, Bai Mudan came to Di Qing's banquet with a wine glass in her hand, and said frivolously that I would like to toast Ban'er. Everyone laughed, which made General Di unable to step down. Di Qing is a person who clearly distinguishes between grievances and grievances, and he must retaliate. Within two days, he led his troops to the brothel, took off Bai Mudan's pants, and dropped dozens of whips on Yi's ass. Di Qing slapped Bai Mudan's butt, which hurt Lord Han's face, and Lord Han also took revenge.Soon he finds his chance for revenge. Jiao Yong, one of Di Qing's old subordinates in the northwest, escorted his troops to Dingzhou. The two had been separated for a long time. Di Qing warmly entertained him in the camp.

The soldiers under Jiao Yong reported Jiao Yong to Han Qi, Han Qi locked Jiao Yong up, Di Qing just spanked Bai Mudan's ass, Han Qi wanted Jiao Yong's head. Di Qing was shocked when he heard the news, and hurried to the office to intercede for Jiao Yong. Han Qi closed the door and disappeared. Di Qing stood in front of the office for a long time, the door finally opened, and Han Qi came out, with Jiao Yong still behind him. Di Qing interceded for Jiao Yong, the reason was very simple, Jiao Yong fought in the Northwest for many years and made a lot of military exploits, he is a good man, if he wants to behead his head just because of a minor fault, isn't it too much, Mr. Han?

With a wave of his hand, Mr. Han ordered Jiao Yong's head to be beheaded in front of Di Qing, and he uttered a classic statement like a declaration - "It's good to be the champion outside the Donghua Gate. okay?" Han Qi's declaration is not unique in the empire. Later, Tian Kuang, who also took the position of privy envoy and also led soldiers in the northwest, also commented on Mr. Han's declaration. Mr. Tian Kuang said, "the number one scholar And, even if you have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, restore Youji, drive out the strong bandits, sing triumphantly, and dedicate victory to the Taimiao, the honor cannot be added." This sentence basically means that even if you lead hundreds of thousands of troops, kill the party members, Restoring the sixteen prefectures of Youyun, driving the Khitan people to Langjuxu Mountain, achieving such achievements as Wei Huo, and returning to the Taimiao to announce the good news to the ancestor Kuangyin, these honors are not as good as winning the first prize outside the Donghua Gate.

Yes, this is what Han Qitian Kuang, who are in charge of the military power of the empire, thinks, and this is also the status of generals and their soldiers in their eyes. No matter how many enemies you have killed on the battlefield, how many cities you have conquered, or how many injuries you have suffered, it is all useless , the high school students outside Donghuamen are the real heroes.The Northern Song Empire was a paradise for literati. Literati could get high salaries, spit on the emperor's face, drink alcohol and courteous prostitutes. Their heads were precious and stable.At the beginning, Lord Han was in the northwest, holding his head high and saying that the party members should attack and attack again, and said that the outcome of a war should not be considered, and of course he would not consider the life and death of soldiers.Because in Master Han's eyes, the heads of generals and soldiers are not as valuable as the ass of a prostitute Bai Mudan. He will feel distressed when Bai Mudan's ass blooms, but he will not feel distressed if his subordinate's head falls off.

Di Qing has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he has never seen any kind of formation, but that day, he was indeed shocked.When everyone was gone, his subordinates reminded him, Chief Manager, you have been standing here for a long time before Di Qing returned to the cold reality.There was silence in front of the office, and Jiao Yong, whose body was separated, was lying in a pool of blood. The Northwest party officials could not chop off his head, but the literati of the empire could, and Mr. Han could. Di Qing admired literati more, and his rise could not have been separated from the support of several literati in the empire at that time.One was Yin Zhu, who had a keen eye for pearls and recommended Di Qing to Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, two military commanders in Northwest China at that time.The second one is Fan Zhongyan. Master Fan once told him earnestly that he should read more books, especially "Chunqiu Zuozhuan".Encouraged by Master Fan, Di Qing transformed from a brave general who fought on the battlefield into a military commander who was able to take charge of his own affairs and command large corps in battle (Di Qing also respected Master Fan very much. Later, after Fan Zhongyan passed away, Di Qing often went to In Fan's mansion, ask Mrs. Fan with the worship of his children, and merge it into the Fan Family Temple to worship).The third one is the legendary treacherous Prime Minister Pang Ji Pang Prime Minister. Pang Ji's strong recommendation gave him the opportunity to become the only military general in the Northern Song Dynasty who could lead troops alone, and defeated Nong Zhigao in one fell swoop. The most beautiful generals. But in front of the Dingzhou Office, what Di Qing saw was an insurmountable gap between him and the literati of the Northern Song Dynasty, a break that had to be made. Di Qing is a person who never bows his head. Perhaps he has made up his mind since the gate of the Dingzhou Office that he will keep tattoos on his face all his life to let people know that he used to be a soldier, a lowly military officer. His tattoos were reserved for the Jiao Yongs. Later, when Di Qingguan worshiped the privy envoy, Zhao Zhen asked the then deputy privy envoy Wang Yaochen to give him a bottle of potion that could wash away tattoos out of kindness. Di Qing, wash it off!Wash away the tattoos, be more arty and elegant, and make friends with talented people. It is best to recognize a somewhat famous ancestor. Didn't your Di family have a famous Di Renjie in the Tang Dynasty? It is not a loss to recognize him as an ancestor. Time will pass Long, maybe the literati will gradually forget who you used to be. Di Qing said no, I just want to leave this tattoo to tell people that a garrison can also sit in the position of a privy envoy through his efforts, three hundred and sixty lines, every step to become the number one scholar, Donghua Gate is not the only way out of life . Wang Yaochen was a little embarrassed.He and Di Qing have a close relationship. When Di Qing was a small soldier in the Gongsheng Camp in Tokyo, Wang Yaochen was the last winner of the Donghua sect—the number one scholar. The companions are also in the crowd, and the companions lament that there is such a big gap between people!The young Di Qing didn't take it seriously, and it's not certain who will have the highest achievement in the future? Many years later, the champion Lang of that year became the deputy of the former bandit army.Even if Wang Yaochen didn't feel ashamed, the literati in the empire couldn't stand it. To fight back, we must fight back. For the glory in front of Donghua Gate, and for the benefit of the imperial literati, they must attack as a whole. As a result, Mistress Di’s house always had accidents. First, it was washed away by water and had to move to Xiangguo Temple. Later, someone saw Mistress Di wearing a yellow robe to play in Xiangguo Temple. So old Mr. Han Qi asked everyone, Hey, did you see "Chishu" (the nickname given to Di Qing by the literati) wearing a yellow robe to play yesterday?Some people also said that they saw two horns growing from Mr. Di's dog, and all kinds of strange talk came about. And the abandoned garden guarded by Lu Da was the back garden of the Di Shumi envoy's house. A "fire" burned the future of the empire's best generals. What happened was very simple.Di Qing's family worshiped ancestors at night, burned paper money, and forgot to report to the fire department (compartment official) in advance. As a result, the fire accidentally caught fire. A small security incident caused an uproar in the empire. The next day, it was spread throughout Tokyo that Misty Di made a strange light at night. After the literati edited and edited the story, it became more exciting, and it naturally spread widely in the streets and alleys. Literacy is different. The literati did not forget to remind the judges that before Zhu Quanzhong (Zhu Wen) usurped the Tang Dynasty, there was such a phenomenon in his family, so let the judges make an analogy. The story reached Zhao Zhen's ears. The emperor was not very interested in this kind of news. First, he was recovering from a serious illness. Second, we all knew what Zhao Zhen was interested in in those two years, and Di Qing could still trust him. Yin is not good, the literati can only spread the matter openly in the court to make it clear. Who should be the leader, of course, must be Ouyang Xiu. During the Jiayou period, Ouyang Xiu presided over the Jinshi examination as a Hanlin bachelor and was the executive chairman of the entire scientific examination draft. Under his auspices, many cultural celebrities emerged during the period, and Ouyang Xiu also became a leading figure in the cultural circle at that time. The weight of speaking is of course very heavy. Of course, let Ouyang Xiu be the leader because he has the experience of successfully defeating the generals of the Privy Council. Wang Deyong is the son of Wang Chao, a general of the Zhenzong Dynasty. He went out with his father at the age of seventeen. He fought fiercely with Li Jiqian and made many military exploits. For several years. Wang Deyong did a good job in the position of the Privy Council. Not only did he manage the army in an orderly manner, but he also dared to put forward his own opinions on some shortcomings of the imperial military system. . It's useless to do a good job. The literati of the empire don't talk about his work at all, but his appearance.Lao Wang was born in the army, very masculine, and has another characteristic, his face is black, but the skin below the neck is very white, the literati use this to explain things, saying that Lao Wang is "like the ancestor of art" - he looks very similar to Zhao Kuangyin , You said Zhao Zhen, can you let a person who looks like your ancestor dangle in front of your eyes every day? Of course, the house used by Wang De is lying on the Qiangang line of the capital, so what does this mean?Zhao Zhen, think for yourself. The result, of course, was that Wang Deyong was demoted from the imperial court. The official reason turned out to be "and it is said that virtue wins the hearts of the soldiers and should not be kept secret for a long time." It seems that it is a crime to win the hearts of the soldiers. Wang Deyong is an honest man with measure. When he left Tokyo, he spread his hands and said that his looks were given by his parents, and it was not my fault that he looked "weird". After Di Qing served as a privy envoy, Wang Deyong returned to Tokyo after serving as a frontier general for decades, and served as Di Qing's deputy—a privy envoy. At this time, Wang Deyong was already in his seventies. But the literati did not let him go because he was an old man in his twilight years. During the Jiayou period, the literati's main artillery was still aimed at the emperor, the heir of the empire, and fired at Zhao Zhen all day long. As a privy envoy, as a man who has been on the battlefield for many years, Wang Deyong can't stand it anymore. Zhao Zhen is also a man, a man with dignity, and he keeps talking about other people's lack of sons all day long. Is it plausible?The old king spoke in the hall, and the tone must be different from that of the literati. Ouyang Xiu lost his temper, and he spoke in class, you old government official!What do you know, are you such a vulgar person meddling in such important national affairs (how did the old Yamen know)? The next day, Lord Ouyang joined Mr. Wang, saying that it is not good for a military man to know too many state secrets (including of course establishing an heir). It's time to take a back seat so the young people can come. Ouyang Xiu spoke, and other literati made moves one after another. Lao Wang was no match at his age, and was soon forced to retreat to the second line, and went home to take care of his grandson. But Di Qing is a bit more difficult to deal with. First of all, Di Qing's temperament is the kind with clear grievances and grievances, obviously not as kind as Lao Wang.After Han Qi sang that play in Dingzhou back then, he did not frighten General Di. Afterwards, no matter in public or private occasions, Di Qing did not hide his dissatisfaction and contempt for his former boss——Han Qi was just a Jinshi. ability?hum!But that's the case (later, Wang Anshi, another subordinate of Han Qi, also made a similar comment—Han Qi is just good looking, it seems that Mr. Han's reputation among his subordinates is really not very good).And whoever laughed at the tattoo on his face, he would retort unceremoniously—without the whip, of course. The issue Mr. Ouyang is facing is very difficult. What he wants to impeach is a person who has no grounds or faults and has a distinctive personality.Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Di Qing has only contributed to the empire and has never done anything wrong.During Di Qing's four years as a privy envoy, there were no small braids for the literati to catch.Gou Changjiao wears a yellow robe and sees a strange light in his home. Normal people know that those words will not come to the table. What can stop Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary world?He repeatedly wrote letters to the emperor, launched a series of attacks on the Di Qing incident, and published two influential articles at the time, one was "On Di Qing Zhazi" and the other was "On Flood Disasters". Ouyang Xiu's thesis is as follows: One, in recent years, Tokyo has suffered from frequent floods. Water is yang, while generals are yin. The floods are mostly due to the reuse of warriors. Second, Di Qing served as a privy envoy for four years. Although there was nothing wrong with it, it was very dangerous for a military general to be in charge of the country's military affairs for a long time. Back then... Third, dismissing Di Qing is also a matter of caring and loving him.There are so many rumors and rumors about General Di, which makes people feel uneasy because he is in a high position. Now that he is transferred from his post, he is also "loving" General Di!It's okay to be wronged by the little brother, you see, none of us are in and out, fame and fortune are just floating clouds.If General Di was a loyal minister, he would not be afraid of death, and of course he would not care about the false name of a privy envoy. A wit is a wit, with strict logic that makes it impossible to refute. When Zhao Zhen saw such a talented article, he still didn't use it.Zhao Zhen is a very sober emperor. He knows that his empire not only needs literati who can quarrel, but also generals who can fight.Moreover, he himself is also a "Di fan". When Di Qing appeared in the northwest, Zhao Zhen was ecstatic. Like the soldiers and civilians of the empire, he was very fascinated by this General Mian Nie.The war in the northwest was tight, and Di Qing could not return to the court to return to command, so Zhao Zhen had someone paint a portrait of General Di, which was hung in the palace every day, and he thought of him when he saw the painting. Boss Ouyang's memorial didn't respond, and the follow-up firepower followed, followed by Fan Zhen, Liu Chang, Lu Jingchu, and Han Qi.In the imperial court in the first year of Jiayou, the bullets of the literati kept flying, and there were only two targets: Zhao Zhen and Di Qing. In the end, Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the empire, had a final showdown with Zhao Zhen on behalf of the literati. There are two major issues this year, one is the issue of the heir, and the other is the issue of Di Qing's privy envoy. You have to solve at least one of them. Does a choice really have to be made?Zhao Zhen asked. Wen Yanbo responded to him in silence. Everyone knows how the emperor will choose. Before signing Di Qing's recall document, Zhao Zhen stopped writing again, looked at Wen Yanbo, who seemed the most honest literati in Jiayou's period, and said a meaningful sentence: ——Di Qing is a loyal minister! Voiceover: You literati are the most prestigious. If you do this today, aren't you afraid that you will leave a reputation in history books for killing loyal officials? And the words returned by Prime Minister Wen are even more meaningful: —— Wasn’t Taizu also a loyal minister under Zhou Shizong? Voiceover: Your old Zhao family has become a whore who steals the forbidden fruit, so you will never be qualified to believe that others will be a lady and a martyr. In the first year of Jiayou (AD 1056), Di Qing received his dismissal document from the privy envoy and sentenced Chenzhou. The person who replaced him was the one who sang "the one who sings as the number one scholar outside the Donghua Gate is Nai Haoer" in Dingzhou. Han Qi. Di Qing lost, it was a "war" he couldn't win at all. But Di Qing is still stubborn, it doesn't matter if he loses, he needs an answer - why? He looked for the emperor, but Zhao Zhen didn't see him, and Zhao Zhen himself didn't know the answer, and he still didn't know how to face his former idol. So he approached Wen Yanbo and asked for an explanation. Wen Yanbo sat on the grand teacher's chair in the Zhongshu Provincial compound, and said unhurriedly, there is no other reason, the emperor suspects you. In one sentence, the former secret envoy of Di Shu was dismissed. Di Qing admitted defeat, but refused to accept it. He also left a sentence: ——"Being honored by the two towns for no merit, and being a vassal without guilt." There are only three words in the voiceover: unfair. Di Qing left Tokyo, that place was not his stage. Of course, neither was Chen Zhou, half a year later, he died in that place, the way of death was very strange, gangrene hair mustache, beard gangrene.There is no record in the history books that the second person died in this way, but the literati of the empire died as they said.There are already many "legends" in Di Qing's life, some of which are true and some of which are false, and the true and false are left to future generations to distinguish. But the literati of the empire couldn't help but feel a little regretful, especially Ouyang Xiu, Di Qing was so staunch and surrendered, which made his pretense of "protecting the national weapon" useless.Nearly a hundred years later, a literati named Qin Hui learned Ouyang Xiu's trick and gave him a name called "Mushou You". We all know the general who was recruited was Yue Fei. Is there any difference between Qin Hui's and Ouyang Xiu's approach?Of course, from a legal point of view, Qin Hui killed people directly, while Ouyang Xiu's method was called indirect injury. For this reason, Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary world in the Northern Song Dynasty who had almost no stains in his life, was charged with a crime of being loyal to the emperor and harming the country. Perhaps it is unfair to attribute the crime solely to Mr. Ouyang Wenzhong. He was just a thug at the forefront. The Di Qing tragedy can be defined as an incident of an elite group beating a vulnerable group. It was a collective crime. The criminal group was called the Northern Song Dynasty literati.Wen Yanbo, Han Qi, Fan Zhen, Pang Ji, Bao Zheng (it is said that he and Di Qing are civil and military hyperbolic stars, did he stand up and say a word for Di Qing? Of course not), Sima Guang, Wang Anshi and other cultures of the Jiayou period Celebrities are thugs and accomplices. After Di Qing's death, he was sought after by the people as well as in the court. Zhezong's eldest princess was married as an adult, and her father asked her who she liked, and the eldest princess said that Di Yong would not marry Di Qing's son. , just like his father, handsome.Later, after Song Shenzong Zhao Xu came to power, he wanted to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and he missed General Di more and more, so he hung Di Qing's portrait in the palace like Zhao Zhen and worshiped him. Of course, the eldest princess failed to marry Di Yong in the end (the family is wrong, what's the use of liking), and Zhao Xu can only think about the ancients, but can't "pity" the people in front of him, and the Privy Council of Shenzong's dynasty is still a literati In our world, warriors and dogs are not allowed to enter, even though Zhao Xu also has such famous generals as Zhong Er and Wang Shao. The fate of the imperial generals was already doomed when Di Qing died in Chenzhou.