Chapter 341: Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty

[Ran^文^Library][]. []. The six thieves were: Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao, Li Yan, and Zhu Mian. 【Mairuo Debut】

But all the emperors who have no way are always full of all kinds of traitors and villains, and there are countless such people around Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, traitors, eunuchs, power merchants, Taoist priests and even people in the literary and artistic circles, but anyone who can please Zhao Ji has high-ranking officials and Houlu, and after taking the throne, they all think about the law and make money.

In addition to these six thieves, there are also a large number of people such as Gao Yu and Yang Jian.

Let's start with these little shrimps.

Gao Yu's father and son have been killed by Wu Zhi, and before, the most harmful to Gao Yu in the Great Song Dynasty was the Jingshi Forbidden Army.

Gao Yu made a fortune by kicking football, before Zhao Ji was not the emperor, he accidentally played a ball with Gao Yu, that time Gao Yu played at a super level, and kicked Zhao Ji into a ticket friend, looking for him to play football every day, and then Zhao Ji took the throne, and Gao Yu naturally ascended to heaven.

As a result, this amateur football player was quickly promoted to the vice minister of the state, the minister, and even the deputy national high-ranking official Tai Lieutenant.

The main duty is to take charge of hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in Beijing.

Since then, the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army has changed its taste.

Although the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army has not been good since the Taizu period, the most prominent army in the past dynasties was the Northwest Army of the Great Song Dynasty. However, after all, the forbidden army enjoys policy support, and every year local military regions will select some of the most elite soldiers to supplement the forbidden army, and the forbidden army is still the most powerful external deterrent in the Great Song Dynasty.

But after Captain Gao took the position, he used the forbidden army as a monkey in a variety of tricks. Specifically, Gao Yu regarded the country's army as his own engineering team, building houses and gardens for him; It became a handicraft workshop, and the soldiers processed utensils and transported them to other places to sell; became a follower, didn't train every day, and walked around with him; He also confiscated his military salary and had no source of livelihood, forcing the soldiers to take up all kinds of extra work to support their families.

Bianjing was the most beautiful, elegant and drunken city in the world at that time. Ordinary people first enter Bianjing, and they are inevitably sunk in it by all kinds of moral and conscience norms, not to mention the forbidden army without strict discipline, not to mention the forbidden army that has no strict discipline, and after a few years, almost all the forbidden troops in the capital are corrupted, and the combat effectiveness has plummeted.

This is the bane left by Gao Yu, but fortunately, now, Gao Yu is dead, and although the forbidden army has been corrupted, there is still a chance to make amends.

Another representative traitor is Yang Jian.

is really blind to such a martial name, this Yang Jian of the Great Song Dynasty is not only not a big hero who stands up to the sky, but not even a man, he is a eunuch.

Zhao Ji is a more favored eunuch.

He managed the imperial garden in the palace, originally, this position was only a small position in the Song Dynasty during other emperors, but in Zhao Ji, who was particularly fond of gardening and strange stones, it became an important fat shortage.

Yang Jian did an excellent job in this position, and was promoted to the rank of an official by Zhao Ji, and mixed with the official position of the Jiedu envoy, which was a step higher than that of the Tai Lieutenant.

After a eunuch reaches a certain level of official position, then his remaining pursuit is money, and other than that, he has no other pursuit.

As a result, Yang Jian began to use the power in his hands to make a lot of money.

In ancient times, even in the Song Dynasty, when industry and commerce were so developed, land was also the most fundamental symbol of wealth for people, so Yang Jian began to attack the land.

He didn't dare to touch the land in the hands of the powerful, so he would "take it" from the hands of the people.

Yang Jian's "taking" is very shameless.

He set up a department called "Xicheng Office" and sent special people to the countryside to verify the people's house deeds and land deeds. After the results were taken, the people of Xicheng began to ask, where did this land come from? Answer, my father left behind. Okay, where did your father come from? Answer, grandpa left behind...... And so on until you ask about your grandfather and grandfather.

It's too old, well, okay, come up with evidence to prove that it was your grandfather who gave it to your grandfather!

The people collapsed.

The above is an ancestral collapse, and there is a smart other way to think of another way, and when confronted with questioning, he will say, this is what I bought. Okay, who did you buy it from? Answer, Higashimura head armor. Okay, find the head of the East Village, ask where A bought it, and so on, you can push it to the back of A, B, C, D, and so on, and at that point, even if Sherlock travels through the past, don't try to find the earliest buyer.

Xicheng can keep asking to the five dynasties and ten kingdoms.

And so, the people collapsed again.

The result of the collapse is a rent increase and a tax increase, as long as it is settled, even if there is no natural disaster in the future, don't think about escaping debts. This method began to be promoted in Ruzhou, covering the major rich areas of Jingdong, Jingxi, Huaixi, Huaibei and other roads.

This kind of ferocious exploitation has made the people miserable and complaining, but they dare not speak out.

Even Yanggu County, where Wu Zhi was before, also had a Xicheng office.

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Around Ling'er's good father, Emperor Zhao Ji, there are countless such insatiable traitors and thieves, each of which has a complete set of methods to toss the people back to life, and there are no pants left...... But the harm of these people is very small compared to the "six thieves".

It's not on the list at all.

Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao, Li Yan and Zhu Mian!

These people are the demons who really destroy the country, in addition to the above two who wantonly circle money and damage the public and private interests, they also treat the traitors who bring disaster to the country as a characteristic!

First of all, Cai Jing, when he was young, he was one of the backbones of Wang Anshi's reforms, and he had a passion for the country and the people, and the six famous masters of the Song Dynasty in the Tang and Song dynasties were officials in the same dynasty.

But after two dynasties of emperors, party struggles and ups and downs, by now, he has become a demon. It is the political situation of the Song Dynasty in the past 20 years, from the initial struggle for faith and glory, to the later struggle for parties and grievances, a series of bloody and filthy people bred from the mastermind.

In this person, there is no principle, and the glory, pursuit, and belief of the past have been blown away by political storms again and again, and he has witnessed the removal of good ministers such as Wang Anshi; Sages such as Sima Guang were ruined and almost couldn't even keep their graves; Literary heroes such as Su Shi have been prosperous all his life; Qiangchen such as Zhang Zihou also turned over and fell off the horse.

Wait, is there still peace in this world? I can't even talk about security, what kind of glory and wealth do you say?! These examples stimulated him to the fact that the sunny man shines in adversity, and the gloomy man converts to darkness in adversity. This person gradually became more careful, cautious, delicate, elegant, and gentle.

Moreover, for the sake of one's own glory and wealth, anything can be discarded, even if it is a country.

So he met the new emperor whose taste and cultivation were the same as his and even his calligraphy fan, Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji is a very smart emperor, even a wise emperor, if it weren't for the fact that he devoted himself to art and enjoyment, but concentrated on governing the country, then his achievements would definitely surpass the emperors of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, even if he is treacherous and profligate, if he does not lose the country, he is also an accomplished emperor.

The achievements all occurred in the early stage of his reign, quelling the rebellion, recovering the river and Huang, destroying Tibet, and breaking the Western Xia...... The Song army in the northwest was like a bamboo, and recovered thousands of miles of land in the Hehuang area for the Great Song Dynasty, extending to the Xinjiang region.

The territory of the Song Dynasty reached its maximum during the reign of Zhao Ji.

At that time, Zhao Ji didn't talk about what kind of flowers and stones to build, and even ate with a jade bowl, he was afraid that the ministers would say that he was extravagant.

This is also the traditional virtue left by the emperors of the Song Dynasty, thrift! The Song Dynasty was the richest dynasty, but the emperors were very frugal in food and clothing, Emperor Renzong was reluctant to even eat crabs, and Emperor Shenzong wanted to build a small platform, but he was greeted by the officials in turn for a month before it was built.

Not only thrifty when living, even the mausoleum after death is extremely thrifty, Qin Shi Huang has the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has the Mao Mausoleum, the Tang Dynasty has the Qianling Tomb by the mountain, the Ming Dynasty has the Ming Tombs, the Qing Dynasty emperor began to build the tomb from the throne, a repair for decades, the mausoleum is as rich as the treasury when the burial.

The Liao State is not bad at all, due to customs, their tombs are built in the deep mountains and old forests. After the death of high-ranking officials and nobles dressed in gold and jade clothes, its style is more exquisite than that of the Han people, and the burial is known for its abundance.

The Mausoleum of the Song Emperor is the most shabby, the first construction time is short, each one is repaired after the death of the emperor, and it will be buried in two years at most. The second burial was the thinnest, only the emperor used gold utensils, and the rest of the concubines, even if they reached the level of the empress dowager with real power, were only gilded.

Therefore, although Zhao Ji had a heart for luxury, he was not very embarrassed, so he found Cai Jing, the newly appointed prime minister.

But whenever the emperor doesn't want to learn well, as a courtier, especially the prime minister who is the head of a hundred officials, he should pull the emperor back from the idea of evil paths in time, but Cai Jing didn't, he was too afraid of losing his hard-won glory and wealth, and he had to get used to the emperor no matter what.

So, Cai Jing not only did not persuade Zhao Ji, but also used his profound talent to help Zhao Ji start a luxurious life. He said a total of eight words, which made Zhao Ji wake up like a dream.

"I Ching" cloud: "Feng, Heng, Yu, Da." "Zhou Li" cloud: "Only the king will not." ”

It means that the emperor's expenses do not need to be calculated at all, and he can spend as much as he wants, and it is good to achieve the effect of wealth and prosperity such as "abundance, Heng, Henan, and greatness".

What a luxury, how to come!

The Zhou Dynasty, which the ancients longed for the most, had this kind of official statement, and who would dare to make irresponsible remarks about the emperor's extravagance in the future?

Zhao Ji had an epiphany, he understood what the emperor was going to do. The ancients were honest and did not deceive me, it turned out that there were such predecessors. Yes, it must be so, otherwise why so many people are vying to be emperors, why are they fighting for their heads and bloodshed, just because enjoyment is rare, boundless enjoyment that does not need to be calculated!

Since then, Zhao Ji has been completely addicted to spiritual pursuit and physical pursuit, while enjoying himself, while dealing with the government, but the enjoyment is to satisfy, once the floodgates are opened, it is endless, and gradually developed into the power of the whole country, as much as Zhao Ji's heart.

The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and countless people who have brought disaster to the country and the people have emerged in the court. The frontier lands also suffered.

Zhao Ji is like a simple little boy in adolescence in later generations, and Cai Jing was the first person to show him Japanese action movies, and after this Cai Jing seduced Zhao Ji, he still has countless seeds, countless numbers, various types, and various tastes in his hands...... Every time it makes Zhao Ji's eyes shine!

until Zhao Ji and the Song Dynasty were led to the abyss.

Not counting Cai Jing's other unspeakable crimes, this alone makes Cai Jing the number one thief!

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