——It also describes the history of party struggles within the ruling group of the Northern Song Dynasty

The History of the Song Dynasty Cai Jing Biography contains: "Shi Yuanyou and the ministers degraded the dead and exhausted, Beijing was still not comfortable, and the fate waited for his crimes, the first to Sima Guang, the eyes said 'traitorous party', carved the stone Wende palace gate, and self-written as a big monument, all over the county. At the beginning, the end of the Yuan Fu to the eclipse of the word, the speaker and Xining, Shaosheng of the government, then Fan Rou below the evil and so on, all the names in the two three hundred and nine people, are their descendants, not the official Jingshi and near Dian. ”

The issue of Cai Jing's "party membership" listed in "History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Cai Jing" is one of the main "crimes" against Cai Jing who was condemned as a "traitorous minister." This crime accuses Cai Jing of the following four aspects: first, the ministers of Song Zhezong during the Yuanyou period were demoted, exiled, and died, but they were still ordered to be listed for their crimes; Second, the ministers headed by Sima Guang were referred to as "traitorous parties", and engraved the stone tablet of "Party Membership" in the gate of Wende Palace, and personally wrote it into a large tablet text and issued it to all states and counties across the country; the third is to list many of the following people in Fan Rouzhong, who wrote in the last year of Yuan Fu to criticize Xining and Shaosheng's new law and political affairs, as "treacherous and evil"; Fourth, the children and grandchildren of the 309 people who were included in the two party memberships were imprisoned, and they were not allowed to serve as officials in the capital and nearby prefectures and counties.

According to the relevant historical records, in chronological order, some of the main historical facts of the "Party Membership" incident in the "History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Cai Jing" are listed from the beginning to the end, and the history of the party struggle within the ruling group of the Northern Song Dynasty is also described for the Fang family to study and analyze and clarify the truth.

1. The beginning and end of the "party membership" incident of Yuan You and Yuan Fu

The "Party membership" incident mentioned in "The History of the Song Dynasty and the Biography of Cai Jing" has its own process of occurrence and development. It began in the third year of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty (1100), occurred in June of the third year of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty (1104), and ended in August of the third year of Zhenghe (1113), after 13 years and eight months.

In the third year of Yuan Fu (1100) :(1), the Empress Dowager listened to the government, the Yuanyou party returned, and the power of the old school expanded; (2) Purging the crooks, and the reformists were degraded; (3) Cai Jing was expelled from the imperial court, demoted to a magistrate, and revoked from his official position.

On the twelfth day of the first month, Song Zhezong died, Song Huizong Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, the empress dowager listened to the government, jointly dealt with important military affairs, successively recalled and reused a group of degraded old-fashioned ministers to serve in important positions in the imperial court, and recovered the late old-fashioned important figures to the official position, which was called "Xiao Yuanyou" by the people of the time.

On February 21, Han Zhongyan, the newly appointed general doctor and secretary of the Ministry of Ministers Han Zhongyan (the brother of Han Jiayan, the governor of the Imperial Palace, who served as a member of the Privy Council during the reign of Yuan You) was promoted to the rank of subordinate servant; On the eighth day of the fourth month, he was promoted to the right servant of Shangshu and the servant of Zhongshu; On the fourth day of October, he was promoted to the left servant of Shangshu and the servant of the door.

Since March, upon the recommendation of Han Zhongyan and others, Chen Qiang, Zou Hao, Gong Kun, Zhang Tingjian, Jiang Gongwang, Chang Anmin, Ren Boyu, Chen Cisheng, Chen Shixi, Zhang Shunmin, and other Yuanyou Party members have entered Taiwan one after another. For example, on the seventh day of the first month of March, the right to summon and send Weizhou Chen Qian to serve as Zuo Zhengyan, the supervisor Yuan Zhou sprinkled tax Zou Hao as the right Zhengyan, and Zhiluo Zhou Gong Yu as the palace servant; On the eighth day of the fourth month, Li Qingchen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the servant of his disciples, and Jiang Zhiqi, a scholar of Hanlin, was a member of the Privy Council; On November 16, An Tao, a scholar of the Temple of Literature, became a member of the Privy Council; On November 29, Fan Chunli, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the right man of the book.

On 21 April, 25 people, including Su Chunren, Liu Fengshi, Wang Maijian, Han Chuan, Lu Xichun, Wu Anshi, Tang Yiwen, Wang Qinchen, Yang Wei, Lu Tao, Zhang Lai, Liu Shishi, Lu Xizhe, Lu Xiji, Jia Yi, Liu Tanglao, Huang Yin, Chao Buzhi, Huang Tingjian, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Liu Anshi, Qin Guan, Cheng Yi, and Zheng Xia, were reinstated or transferred back to the mainland.

Han Zhongyan, Hanlin bachelor Zeng Zhao (Zeng Bu's younger brother, who was appointed as the governor of Chenzhou because of avoiding suspicion), Zhang Tingjian said: "The living with Yuan You have been favored, and the dead have not been recovered, and there is no recovery, how can I comfort the ghost?" Therefore, on 22 May, an order was issued to 33 deceased Yuan Youdang people, including Wen Yanbo, Wang Wangyu, Lü Dafang, Liu Zhi, Han Wei, Liang Tao, Sima Guang, Lü Gongzhu, Sun Gu, Fu Yaoyu, Zhao Zhan, Zheng Yong, Wang Yansuo, Fan Zuyu, Zhao Yanruo, Qian Xian, Hi Yelin, Zhao Junxi, Li Zhichun, Lü Dazhong, Xian Yu Qianxian, Kong Wuzhong, Yao Mianli, Sheng Tao, Zhao, Sun Jue, Du Chun, Kong Wenzhong, Zhu Guangting, Li Zhou, Zhang Maoze, Gao Shiying, and Sun Sheng. On May 25, he ordered the return of Sima Guang and others to express their favors.

Su Chunren, an important figure of the Yuanyou party, and Lu Dian, Wang Anshi's right-hand man in the reform of the law, put forward the strategy of "eliminating the friends and ending the party strife", and when the power of the Yuanyou party was gradually expanded, they took the opportunity to "can't wait, and the inside should cooperate with the outside" to belittle a group of reformist figures such as Zhang Dian, Cai Jing, and Cai Bian, and wanted to change the new laws of Xining and Yuanfeng, which had been restored from the Shaosheng period (1094-1097) to the second year of Yuanfu (1099).

On April 27, Song Huizong ordered the abolition of the Classification of Ministers and Bureaucrats. The next day, Xu Duo, the servant of the ministry, handed in all the ministers who had been edited into a book. Xin You, Han Zhongyan said: "After Zhang Dian became the prime minister, he set up a special organization to classify and arrange the music of the ministers, pick out those with similar language, and accuse them of slander, and most of the people who should have been edicted before were punished. Han Zhongyan hoped that the bureau would be abolished immediately and all the documents collected would be received from the palace. Zeng Zhao, a member of the Zhongshu House, also said: "It has been five years since the establishment of the Classification Bureau in the winter of the second year of Shaosheng. "Compile 1,900 volumes" and "there is no ancestral precedent to follow in the cataloguing of chapters", and it is also limited to "after May of the eighth year of Yuanfeng to the end of April 11 of the ninth year of Yuanyou." Zeng Zhao requested that all the registered personnel of the Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council be dismissed. Song Huizong agreed and adopted their opinions.

At that time, the old-fashioned Taiwanese officials Feng Ji, Chen Shixi, and Chen Qian repeatedly impeached Zhang Xuan. Chen Qian said that Zhang Dian "monopolized the government, for eight years, lost the country and misguided the dynasty, the crime could not be hidden, the world was angry, and the industry was one." Some people say that Zhang Dian was incompetent as a mountain envoy, causing Zhezong's hearse to be stuck in the mud and unable to walk, sleeping in the wilderness. He also accused Zhang Dian of saying that "King Duan (i.e., Song Huizong) was frivolous and could not let him reign over the world." As a result, Zhang Dian was forced to submit a petition for resignation from government affairs five times. On the first day of September, Song Huizong was dismissed from the post of Shangshu's left servant and subordinate servant on the grounds that Zhang Dian "did not fulfill his duties", and was reappointed as the governor of Yuezhou with special advancement. Chen Zong, Li Qingchen and others thought that the "punishment of Zhang You was too light" in this way, and proposed that "Zhang Duan set up a bureau to review Yuan You's complaint during the Shaosheng period", and classified Yuan You Party members Zhang Shu, and imposed "cruel punishments" and debasement on Yuan You Party members, with more than 1,000 victims, and should be aggravated in accordance with the law. On the third day of October, he was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Wuchang Army and ordered to be resettled in Tanzhou. At that time, the examiners of the Examination Bureau, An Dan and Jian Xuchen, were also disqualified from entering the office.

On March 18, under the exclusion of Zeng Bu and Han Zhongyan, Cai Jing, who was a scholar of Hanlin and a scholar of Hanlin and a scholar and a writer of national history, was dismissed from his post on the grounds that he had relied on Zhangdian to support the restoration of Xining and Yuanfeng's new laws, and the edict was to give him two fictitious titles of Duanming Hall Scholar and Longtu Pavilion Scholar with no real power, and expelled him from the imperial court as the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture. On 19 March, Zeng Bu tried his best to attack Cai Jing and Cai Bian in front of Huizong, "with treacherous intentions and endangering the government and government, and the henchmen are all over the court and beyond, and good people vow not to work with them" and "if Cai Jing is left without leaving Beijing, he will not be able to settle down." At that time, because the Empress Dowager Xiang believed that the "Records of Shenzong" had been tampered with and destroyed by the Yuan You Dynasty, and now it was more difficult to change it to someone else, so on the second day of the fourth month, she ordered Cai Jing to continue to serve as a scholar of Hanlin and temporarily stay in the capital to continue editing.

From then until September, the old-fashioned palace attendants Chen Shixi and Gong Ku, the Taiwanese advisor Zuo Zhengyan Chen Qiang, and the imperial historian Cheng Fengji and others successively impeached Cai Jing for "misleading the country and the dynasty", "being keen to change it", "managing the Wen and Fu prison cases to avenge personal revenge", "befriending the inner servants and eunuchs in order to make great uses", etc., and demanded "the crime of Cai Jing", but none of them were immediately adopted by Huizong. When Cai Jing finished compiling the "Records of Shenzong", he was demoted to the bachelor of Duanming Hall and the Zhijun of Yongxing Army on the third day of October. On the first day of November, when Cai Jing did not go to his post, he ordered Cai Jing to be reappointed as the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture. At this time, Chen Cisheng, the servant of the imperial history, said: Cai Jing "is in Hanyuan, relying on the situation to commit treachery, and removing the border marshal, that is, he has resentment, and the ministers have repeatedly played, and they are not revealed." Today, in addition to knowing Jiangning Mansion, he still receives the post of Duan Ming Palace", and asked to "re-depose the responsibility to show the public". Chen Shixi and others also impeached Cai Jing for "committing a big crime and taking light responsibility", and "resisting the will and disrespecting", delaying time and not going to take office. As a result, on the 5th day of November, Cai Jingxuan was dismissed from his official post as the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture and demoted to the post of palace attendant who promoted the Dongxiao Palace in Hangzhou, and made him live in Hangzhou for 30 months as a punishment.

In May, Gong Yu, the palace attendant, said that Cai Bian (Cai Jing's brother) was "disloyal to the king and had a treacherous heart" and demanded that he be given a "punishment of dethronement". Taiwan officials Chen Shixi, Chen Cisheng, Chen Qiang, Ren Boyu, Feng Ji, and Zhang Tingjian impeached Cai Bian one after another, saying: Cai Jing and Cai Bian "colluded with each other to do evil, confuse the country, and delay the imperial court"; At the beginning of Shaosheng and Yuan Fu, Zhang Dian and Cai Bian "embezzled and manipulated their authority to trap Emperor Zhezong in a guilty situation" and "did great harm and begged for canonical punishment". On May 19, Cai Bian was dismissed from the post of Shangshu Youcheng and served as the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture; Dong Bi, a member of the department, served as the Zhijun of the Xingguo Army, and Shu Kang, who knew Wuweijun, was demoted to Nanyue Temple in Jiantan Prefecture, and they were all considered Cai Bian's "same party". On September 21, Cai Bian was dismissed from his original post and reappointed to an idle post in Dongxiao Palace, and was restricted from living in Taiping Prefecture; Lu Changheng, the governor of Chengdu Prefecture, and Lu Jiawen, the governor of Yunzhou, were all reappointed to the branch office of Nanjing, and they were punished to live in Guangzhou; Zhang Shangying was demoted from a scholar in China to a servant of Longtu Pavilion and a transit envoy of Hebei; Fan Bo was demoted from the matter to the Longtu Pavilion service system, Yingzhou Zhizhou Tong. Because they were all removed from their posts at the same time as Zhang Dian and Cai Bian's "fellow party". Later, some auxiliary ministers proposed that Cai Bian be "punished too lightly," but Chen Cisheng said that "Cai Bian's bad deeds are not under the Zhangduan." On the fifth day of November, he was demoted to the rank of Shaofu and Young Eunuch and the branch of Nanjing, and was still fined to live in Taiping Prefecture, and was immediately fined to live in Chizhou.

On the first day of the seventh month, Song Huizong honored the edict of the Empress Dowager Xiang and stopped listening to the government together. On the third day of the seventh month, Zeng Bu, a member of the Privy Council, advocated the simultaneous implementation of the policy of "Yuan You" and "Shao Sheng", allowing the reformers (the new party) and the conservative faction (the old party) to govern together. Zeng Bu said to Song Huizong: "On the one hand, you can't reuse Su Shi and Su Zhe, and on the other hand, you can't reuse Cai Jing and Cai Bian", because they "each have personal grudges and hate each other" and "as long as these two factions don't gain power, the world will be peaceful." On the ninth day of October, after Zeng Bu was promoted to the right servant of Shangshu and the servant of Zhongshu, Zeng Zhao of Chenzhou wrote a letter to Zeng Bu saying: Many of those who are now serving as auxiliary ministers, attendant officials, and Taiwan officials are people who have worked for Zhang Dian and Cai Bian, and once the situation is different from now, they will first definitely launch Zhang Dian and Cai Bian in order to consolidate their position. On November 29, Chen Cisheng, the imperial servant, said: When Zeng Bu was serving in the Privy Council, he pandered to the subordinate prime minister Han Zhongyan and wantonly launched a border war. Recently, as prime minister, he has been arrogant in power, treating officials in the same column with contempt, making his own opinions, promoting relatives and friends, appointing protégés, and demanding severe punishment according to law.