Yuanyou Party Chapter
What Cai Jing wants is to cover the world's heroes, and everyone is under control! On September 13, Cai Jingxian made a list of Yuan Fu's ministers for 3 years, divided into good and evil, and 3 each. There are 6 people including Zhong Shimei and Deng Xunwu; 13 in the middle; Under 22 people. Only 41 people were listed as "positive". There are especially 39 people in Fan Rouzhong; 41 evil people; 150 in the evil; 312 under the evil spirit; There are 542 people in total!
And this is just the beginning, in essence, these are some small miscellaneous fish of officialdom. Whether it's fried or cut live, you can't really know for sure!
4 days later is the end of the Great Song Dynasty officialdom!
On the 17th, another list was released! There are a total of 120 people, including 25 deacons, including Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Lv Dafang, Liu Zhi, Wang Yansuo, Fan Chunren, Han Wei, Su Zhe, Lu Dian, Zhang Dun, and Zeng Bu. There are 35 officials to be controlled, including Su Shi and Fan Zuyu. There are 48 ordinary officials, including Qin Guan, Huang Tingjian, Cheng Yi, etc. plus 8 famous eunuchs and 4 military attachés!
These names were written by Zhao Ji Yubi of Song Huizong, and the stone was engraved on the stone tablet outside the Duanli Gate. It is the famous Yuanyou Party Monument!
The party monument is the ultimate version of political persecution, and all the tricks that can be thought of are used except for the article "not killing ministers" set by Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty. Among the people on the monument, the dead such as Sima Guang and Lu Gong took them, recovered everything and chased the seals, and became a cow, a ghost, a snake and a god, and they could not turn over forever! Those who are not yet dead are relegated far to the southern miasma ground for polar survival training. It is predictable: If they don't have Su Shi's courage and Fan Chunren's integrity, they will basically die!
And that's just the universal strike, and here's what exactly is targeted:
The celebrities on the stele, who have a skill, should cry bitterly. Their life's work has not only become a life chaser, but also faces the bad luck of being destroyed and disappearing in the world.
Huang Tingjian, one of the four major calligraphers of Su, Huang, Mi and Cai in the Song Dynasty, participated in the revision of the "Records of Shenzong". The content is dedicated to singing against the New Party. Very good! All his writings and handwriting were destroyed!
Su Shi, the unborn genius and the glory of the Song Dynasty, has just been pardoned back to the north and restored his reputation. But at this time, the monument was put on, so works such as "Dongpo Anthology" could not be saved. Not only him, but the writings of the three Sus and the four scholars of Sumen are also among the forbidden ones!
The rest, such as the famous people of the Song Dynasty History Department, Fan Zuyu, who is known as the strongest in Tang history, "Tang Jian", as well as Fan Zhen's "Dongzhai Chronicle", Liu Chu's "Poetry", and Seng Wenying's "Xiangshan Yelu" were also all destroyed!
The only one who survived was the old bastard's "Zizhi Tongjian". No matter what the starting point of this huge book is or who wrote it, its own value is indeed immeasurable, and it is a collective treasure of the Chinese nation. You can't hate the old bastard for hating it...
But Cai Jing doesn't care, destroy! If you really want to love Cai, will Cai Yong of the Eastern Han Dynasty still die? Anyone can kill, let alone a book! Burn! Burn it along with the printing plate! At the critical moment, a doctor of Taixue stood up, his name was Chen Yingzhong. This person is very smart, he didn't object to it explicitly, but gave a question in a certain exam in Taixue, and the question quoted the preface of "Zizhi Tongjian"!
It's safe! No one dares to touch this book again! "Zizhi Tongjian" is the emperor's textbook written by Sima Guang to the official. The preface was written by the imperial pen of Song Shenzong. Isn't what has been approved by the ancestors of the New Deal a holy relic?
The weakness of the "Zizhi Tongjian" really damages the prestige of Taishi Cai. He found balance in other areas. The blow spreads and radiates to the descendants of the party...
This is the first of its kind. Something unprecedented! The most ruthless Zhang Dian before just took away the favor of Sima Guang and the other children's descendants, so that these rich second generations could not be born to be officials. If they are competitive, they can get a diploma by themselves, and there is still no limit. Such as Wen Yanbo's son Wen Jifu. Before the Tongwenguan prison case, he was still in front of the official...
But at this time, Cai Jing announced: All the children on the party tablet, 1 are not allowed to marry the Song Dynasty clan. If the ceremony has not been held, all will be cancelled. 2 No matter whether there is an official or not, he is not allowed to live in the capital. Inventory points are set up everywhere around the capital and strictly monitored, and those who enter Beijing without permission will be guilty of the same crime as the children of the party!
These two points make the children of high-ranking cadres who were born with golden spoons worse than the children of ordinary people. has lost all his privileges, not only can he not be a concubine, but even being an official has become a pipe dream...
For example, a petty official named Cheng Duanyan is just a county lieutenant of Yanling, a typical sesame official, with a firefly-like future, but in this movement, he was deposed and became a white ding. As for the reason, it is very simple, his father's name is Cheng Yi.
Another example is a young man named Li Jie, who won the imperial examination and won the first place in the Ministry of Rites examination! It's a pity that the emperor looked at his background at this time and replaced the champion with another person's name. Because Li Jie's father is called Li Shen, he is a senior party member, and his uncle is even more powerful, he is Chen Qian who went on the boat to give a lecture to Zhang Dian. How can such a bane stay, and go directly to the 18th layer of hell!
In this way, the blow of a system has been completed, and it should be regarded as cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, right? No! Cai Jing thought about it, according to the rich experience of party struggle in the past, it is not in place!
There is still a group of people left, and they almost slipped through the net! These party members in front of them are all rebels who emerged during the Yuanyou period and ended the death of Song Zhezong! So what about the period between Zhezong's death and Zhao Ji's early establishment? Those old party members who can be called the descendants of the Empress Dowager! How do they deal with it?
This kind of person was sorted out 27 people, led by Liu Fengshi, all of whom were demoted and released! Note: This demotion is a demotion to the end! I didn't even have some palace positions before, received some subsidies and other benefits, and became completely laid-off unemployed, so I could only support myself!
It wasn't over yet, and it wasn't long before Cai Jing came up with a new idea. The root is in the top senatorial council formed by Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang and others in Luoyang, Xijing, at that time, they were like another small court, in terms of seniority and prestige, they were even higher than the imperial team in Kaifeng City, which directly affected the implementation of national policies!
How does this work? Now that hundreds of senators have been demoted, who is responsible for forming a senator's council again? In order to put an end to this, Cai Jing ordered: All the officials who have been demoted are not allowed to live together, and they are all separated and scattered in different cities. Strictly control their whereabouts, and do not leave the city... Not even the least personal freedom!
And that's just the beginning. Cai Jing also stipulated: These people are not allowed to talk about the government and politics, are not allowed to teach students, and do not give the slightest opportunity to spread their dangerous ideas and toxic tendencies... Does this still make people live?
These things all happened in a very short period of time, one after the other, and everyone was dizzy. They wondered in pain: What happened to Cai Jing, was he screwed or possessed by a peerless injustice? How perverted to this point. Is there such an abusive person?
Until this time, they still couldn't reflect on themselves, and it was themselves who created Cai Jing!
To understand this, we only need to answer two questions: 1. How can we end partisanship? 2. How can we survive in the midst of party struggle?
The first question is that the party struggle has been going on for more than 20 years, and to put an end to it, almost everyone and all the history books say that it is necessary to be moderate and impartial. In terms of specific operation, it must be like when Zhao Ji first ascended the throne. Starting with the emperor, showing a neutral and modest, the following naturally calmed down ... After a long time, everyone got used to being gentle with each other, and the world was naturally harmonious...
There is no evidence for empty words, and examples are proof! Song Renzong, the most benevolent and upright monarch of the Song Dynasty, is he kind to his courtiers? But it is the source of party contention! What could happen for Lang? The Qingli New Deal is actually equivalent to the Qingli Party Dispute, and Fan Zhongyan, the first person in the 300 years, is actually the initiator of the Party Dispute. What could happen for Lang?
Because the Song Dynasty was super lenient towards Wenchen! The ministers of the Song Dynasty were accustomed to lawlessness, and they usually said when they thought of it, it didn't matter what they said, and even saying more was equivalent to hard work. That's naturally not to say nothing! What is the emperor going to do at this time, just be mild? People are trying to say that they are not officials, and a mild and balanced attitude can stop them? Joke!
Therefore, it will not work to overcome steel with softness, you can only fight violence with violence! I want to eliminate partisanship. The first is to support a certain side that has not changed for a long time. The second is to knock down both sides, and if no one is left, the world can be quiet!
Cai Jing is not an emperor. Unable to formulate a policy, as a courtier, he can only choose the second one. Once you have done it, you will be ruthless! In order to completely get out of the party struggle, he does not distinguish between the enemy and me, the old and the new, as long as there is a threat, he will defeat them all! Such as Zhang Dian and Zeng Bu, these were originally two well-known veterans of the New Party, and even Cai Jing's old boss, but for the sake of a clean new world, Cai Jing forced them to give them two party votes of the old party, this is the new label, in the name of party struggle - die!
Ending the party struggle in this way, Cai Jing is not a great benevolence and righteousness, but he is absolutely wise and brave. History proves that there is only one way, and there is no second way!
The second problem is that the party has reached this point, and the old and new parties have been knocked down by each other more than twice. Almost every participant has fallen, got up, been exiled, returned to Beijing, and got up again, no matter how thrilling and tortuous the process is, there is a common end point - downfall and death... No exceptions! Anyone was defeated. As strong as Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, they are not immune!
How can we survive in such a hostile environment? This is a big problem. Cai Jing is a scheming person, a person who has a great sense of crisis from the beginning and yearns for a safe and comfortable life. As long as he analyzes the past examples a little, he will come to a desperate answer - being in the trend, ups and downs are not free! Whether you are a party leader or a miscellaneous soldier, it is only a moment of honor and an eternal tragedy! If you want to live, you can only survive by trampling everyone around you under your feet and respecting me!
You forced it! So the consequence was Cai Jing's sudden ferocity! Without any warning, he became the most cruel and murderous person in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, regardless of the merits, cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and harming people to death!
A living example reflects this. Zhang Shangying, a veteran of the New Party mentioned above, personally wrote a letter of worship for him, and the text was extremely praised. Can it be said that it is very good to Cai Jing? But there is his name on the monument of the Yuanyou party! For what? Just because he's a threat! With Zhang Shangying's qualifications and temper, sooner or later he will oppose Cai Jing? All right! Whenever possible, press it to death!
Cai Jing succeeded! If the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty is a big jar, and countless members of the old and new parties are poisonous insects, then Cai Jing is the only one who survived in biting each other. He has become a "Gu"...
Cai Jing, as a traitor who brought disaster to the country and the people, ruined the country and destroyed the family, people always like to compare him with famous villains such as Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao. That's not right! Cai Jing didn't live in troubled times, he didn't have the heart to usurp the throne, all his desires were very shallow and very practical! His viciousness is only out of his sense of crisis, and he is a passive response, rather than taking the initiative to harm others. Everything that happened afterwards proves this...
On October 12, Jiang Zhiqi, a member of the Privy Council, was dismissed. On the 27th, Cai Jing's brother Cai Bian was promoted to the Privy Council. On the 23rd, in the midst of the impeachment of the new party, Empress Meng of Yuanyou, who was restored by the old party to the empress dowager, was deposed again and lived in Yaohua Palace. But is it a blessing for Seon to lose his horse? When the catastrophe came 25 years later, when the Zhao royal family was wiped out, there were only 2 people who could successfully avoid the Jurchen list: one Zhao Gou and the other was the Yuan You Empress Meng! (To be continued......)