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The Song Dynasty was a dynasty after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, before the Yuan Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty ruled in Chinese history for more than three hundred years, which can be divided into two periods: the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty was one of the few dynasties in Chinese history where both science and technology and culture and social productivity were very developed, and in addition, the Song Dynasty's commercial openness was also the highest in history.
Bao Zheng Bao Qingtian
Countless well-known figures were mentioned in the Northern Song Dynasty, among which Bao Zheng Bao Qingtian was a loyal minister of the most famous name in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bao Zheng was a jinshi in the fifth year of the Heavenly Saint, and served as the inspector of imperial history, after which, he was reappointed to the ZhizhiYuan, and when Bao Zheng served as an official at all levels, he was not a writer and fulfilled his duties, he was not afraid of offending the privileged class, and he repeatedly impeached and punished the powerful, so that some officials and magnates were afraid and hated him, dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out, and those who committed crimes rarely escaped Bao Zheng's legal eyes and sanctions.
Bao Zheng erected three cutters in Kaifeng Province, the shape of the cutters was different, the dragon head was prepared for the imperial relatives, the nobles and magnates, the tiger head was used to punish corrupt officials, and the last one with a dog-headed cutter was to punish those who did not obey the law at the bottom of the people. The sharpness of the blade of the cutter also varies with the level, and the lower the level, the sharper the blade.
During Bao Zheng's tenure, he enforced the law impartially and punished many corrupt officials, but there was a person who did all the bad things but went unpunished, and he made Bao Zheng helpless and unable to bring him to justice, and this person was Chai Wenyi.
Chai Wenyi
Chai Wenyi can be said to have done all the bad things, he not only killed the border generals, but also forced his father to die, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a person full of evil.
The reason why Chai Wenyi was so arrogant and wanton was entirely dependent on his own power, no one dared to move him at that time, and Chai Wenyi had unscrupulously attacked the Yang family generals. In order to rescue Yang Jiabao, who was framed by Chai Wenyi, the Yang family had no choice but to brave the world to lead the soldiers to the execution ground without permission, although they finally fought hard, but they failed to succeed.
The case tossed and turned and finally reached Bao Zheng's hands. After Bao Zheng learned about the whole incident, after many verifications, it was determined that the Yang family was innocent of this case, but on the contrary, it was Chai Wenyi who should be convicted.
In the whole process of the case being tried, Chai Wenyi did something that surprised everyone, he once again moved to kill the Yang family, large and small, such a practice is simply indignant, so that everyone did not expect chai Wenyi to be so rampant, Bao Zheng hated Chai Wenyi for not respecting the law, and took his life like a grass.
Preparing to bring him to justice and convict him, but found that Chai Wenyi's background was too strong, the whole case was tried to the end, leaving Bao Zheng helpless, the reason why the Chai family had such a big power was because the Chai family was related to Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty.
The Chai family is a descendant of the Later Zhou imperial family, and historical records say that during Chai Rong's reign, he led troops to quell the rebellion, and during his reign of diligent government and love for the people, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment and lived a prosperous life, but he died after only six years of reign.
After Chai Rong's death, his seven-year-old son Chai Zongxun succeeded to the throne as Emperor Gong, and Chai Zongxun was too young to govern the country, so the empress dowager supervised the dynasty.
The following year, the officials of Zhenzhou and Dingzhou, who were located on the border of Later Zhou, sent a report urgently, and the Liao state sent troops to call and asked the central government to send troops to quickly support them.
When Chai Zongxun and the empress dowager heard such a battle report, they immediately panicked, so they asked Zhao Kuangyin to lead the troops to resist the enemy. Zhao Kuangyin was originally a dianjian of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and was a close associate of Chai Shizong and was very much used.
Zhao Kuangyin led his troops out on the expedition, but when the army reached Chen Qiaoyi, there was a mutiny. This is the historical Chen Qiao mutiny, Zhao Kuangyin got himself a "yellow robe plus body", launched a mutiny to replace it, in this way, Zhao Kuangyin became the son of heaven, Zhao Kuangyin used his power to depose the Later Zhou Gong Emperor Chai Zongxun and establish the Song Dynasty.
The Great Song Dynasty was given to him by Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin forcing the Later Zhou Gong Emperor Chai Zongxun Zen, and it can also be said that Zhao Kuangyin seized the throne from Later Zhou, and it is very disgraceful for Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin to establish the Northern Song Dynasty.
In history, in addition to not being a military war, the change of dynasty will be kind to the people of the former dynasty's royal family, which is also an effective way for the new government to show its "generosity" and "greatness", and the new emperor may send troops to guard one side to ensure the personal safety of the former imperial family, on the other hand, it will give the former imperial family a lot of wealth to ensure that its children and grandchildren live a worry-free life.
The same is true of the descendants of the Chai clan of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin is not a cruel person, as can be seen from the glass of wine to release the military power. Zhao Kuangyin, one of them, was selfish, and he felt that he felt guilty about the orphans and widows left by Chai Shizong, so he chose to treat them kindly.
Therefore, after the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne as emperor, the former imperial family Chai Clan could be said to be extremely preferential, and the second was to stabilize the imperial court, give a gold medal to avoid death, or protect its descendants, all in order to weaken the opposition in the court and achieve the purpose of strengthening the rule.
There are no shortage of precedents in history for such deeds, such as Cao Pi deposing Emperor Xian of Han and standing on his own, and did not kill Emperor Xian, but treated him kindly and let him live to die naturally. In the same way, Zhao Kuangyin's preferential treatment of the descendants of the Chai clan was based on the fact that they did not rebel against the Song Dynasty and restore the country.
After Zhao Kuangyin changed dynasties and ascended the throne as emperor, he was for the sake of the common people, but also because Chai Rong had promoted his own face, Zhao Kuangyin demoted Chai Zongxun to the position of King of Zheng, and moved the Chai clan to Fangzhou to settle.
In addition, Zhao Kuangyin specially gave the "Danshu Iron Coupon". And this "Danshu Iron Coupon" is also equivalent to Zhao Kuangyin's commitment to treat the Chai clan well, which has been retained in the Chai family until chai Wenyi's generation.
In addition, Zhao Kuangyin even set up three ancestral rules on the stone tablet, one of which was to warn the descendants of the Zhao family to treat the descendants of the Chai family kindly, even if the descendants of the Chai family did all evil things, they regarded the people as grass and mustard, and they could not impose criminal law on them, facing the founding emperor's protection of the Chai family, no matter what Chai Wenyi did, as long as it was not a big mistake of rebellion, Bao Zheng also had no way to take Chai Wenyi.
He did not dare to violate Taizu Zu's ancestral precepts to attack Chai Wenyi, not only did Bao Zheng not dare to do it, but even the entire Song Dynasty did not dare to move their family.
epilogue
The Song Dynasty after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms occupies a very important position in the history of our country, and the change of each dynasty has a very important significance for the subsequent dynasties, and the new dynastic system is gradually perfected.
Chai Rong's previous actions brought great help to the Song Dynasty founded by Zhao Kuangyin, who was one of the most effective ways to balance the power of the court, whether from the guilt in his heart or from the point of view of showing benevolence.