What kind of psychological change will make a king give up his throne and power on the road to consolidating the country?When faced with the choice of brotherly infighting, how will he choose where to take the country?
The son of a soldier, aiming to make a name for himself Zhao Kuangyin was born in a prominent military family, and his father Zhao Hongyin was the minister of the dynasty. Xiao Zhao Kuangyin has a heroic personality, brave and fearless, has great ambitions since he was a child, aims to become famous, and has a temperament that is beyond the common people. He also has the temperament of a leader who will achieve great things in the future, and is generous, affectionate, and grateful.
It is this unique character and temperament, coupled with the acquired experience, that has achieved Zhao Kuangyin's great destiny as the founder of the country.
The five dynasties and ten kingdoms in which Zhao Kuangyin lived were an era of division and turmoil. In 959 AD, when he was still a hairy boy, he met a mysterious old monk. The old monk asserted that Zhao Kuangyin had a bright future, and persuaded him to go north to join Guo Wei, who was the strongest at the time. Zhao Kuangyin followed his advice.
This accidental prediction just opened a key chapter in Zhao Kuangyin's life. After he went north to defect to Guo Wei, he immediately made a name for himself in the army.
Zhao Kuangyin was athletic and proficient in riding and archery, and soon established a reputation under Guo Wei. He fought the first battle against Gaoping, defeated the Northern Han army, and won the first battle for Guo Wei. This battle fired the first shot of Guo Wei's claim to be emperor, and also demonstrated Zhao Kuangyin's outstanding military talent.
After Zhou Shizong Chai Rong succeeded to the throne, Zhao Kuangyin was promoted to the commander of the forbidden army, responsible for training the forbidden army, and his prestige spread far and wide. The forbidden army was strict and disciplined under his rule, and became a strong backing for Zhou Shizong's rule. In 956 AD, Zhao Kuangyin Chai Rong marched south, defeated the Southern Tang army many times, and made great achievements. In the Battle of Vortex Mouth, he won more than 10,000 southern soldiers with lessHe also successfully broke through the siege of Qingliu Pass, and made great contributions to the Zhou army.
Zhao Kuangyin has repeatedly performed miraculous feats and won Chai Rong's appreciation. Chai Rong also predicted that Zhao Kuangyin would definitely do something.
In 959 AD, when Chai Rong was on a northern expedition to Youzhou, he had to withdraw due to illness. On the way back, he found evidence of a conspiracy to abolish the establishment, so he temporarily appointed Zhao Kuangyin as the former capital of the palace to replace the original official Zhang Yongde. Chai Rong died the following year, and his son Chai Zongxun ascended the throne as emperor.
At this juncture, the Khitan united with the Northern Han Dynasty to send troops to invade the territory. Chai Zongxun urgently ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the army to resist. When Zhao Kuangyin was leading his troops through Chenqiao, his subordinate strategist Chen Qiao mutinied, supported him as the master, and founded the Northern Song Dynasty. For a time, Zhao Kuangyin jumped from the front of the palace to the founding king.
In the early days of the seizure of power, Zhao Kuangyin faced many difficulties. Li Chongjin, Li Yun and others mutinied, threatening the power of the northeast dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin personally supervised the battle, and quickly defeated it with thunderous means. In order to prevent ambitious warlords from plotting against usurpation of the throne, he also adopted the method of "releasing military power with a glass of wine", and confiscated the military power of some important generals on the condition of pensions.
Zhao Kuangyin clearly realized that if he wanted to consolidate the imperial power, he must rely on the strength of Wenchen. He appointed his henchmen Zhao Pu and others to assist the government, carry out reforms, and strengthen the centralization of power. With the cooperation of the military generals of Wenchen, the Northern Song Dynasty gradually settled down.
Under the active guidance of Zhao Pu and other virtuous ministers, Zhao Kuangyin embarked on various reform measures to make the national strength stronger and stronger, the people prosperous, and the society stable. This period is known as the "Reign of Jianlong".
Zhao Kuangyin had a far-sighted vision, and he adopted a series of policies to encourage the development of agriculture and build water conservancy, so that the irrigated area of farmland was greatly increased and the grain harvest was abundant. He also rectified the evaluation system for officials, urged the local government to be honest and honest, and kept the people from being oppressed. In addition, Zhao Kuangyin also deepened the reform of the military system, made the military establishment more scientific, and greatly enhanced the national defense strength. Under his wise leadership, the Northern Song Dynasty flourished and the society was stable and prosperous.
Zhao Kuangyin was ambitious and vowed to make the Northern Song Dynasty a ** dynasty in the true sense. He adopted the advice of his advisers to "first the south and then the north, first the easy and then the difficult", adopted an active offensive strategy, and used troops in all directions on a large scale.
In 965 AD, Zhao Kuangyin sent the general Pan Yixing to attack Southern Chu, and the following year he led a large army to destroy Hou Shu. So far, the Sichuan Basin has been fully recovered. In 975 AD, Zhao Kuangyin sent hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty and forced the Southern Tang to surrender. At this point, the Southern Tang Dynasty collapsed, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River returned to the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty. After years of conquest, Zhao Kuangyin completed the conquest of the southern region, and the Northern Song Dynasty was unprecedentedly powerful and prosperous.
A feast and drink, the emperor's destiny Between the feasts and pleasures, there are many dangers.
Just when Zhao Kuangyin unified the south and became famous, a huge conspiracy was brewing. In the winter of 976 AD, Zhao Kuangyin and his brother Zhao Guangyi held a banquet in the palace to drink. During the banquet, the two brothers smiled and did not complain at all.
At dawn the next day, the courtiers found that Zhao Kuangyin had died of poison at the age of fifty. Zhao Kuangyin's sudden death shocked the government and the opposition, and the reason became a mystery. There are rumors that Zhao Guangyi took the opportunity to poison and plot to seize the throne. But at this moment, no one would have thought that a brotherly feud was about to erupt.
Zhao Guangyi really took the opportunity to launch a coup d'état, led troops into the palace, and sent people to control the crown prince. The ministers present were either flattering or afraid, and no one objected, and Zhao Guangyi successfully ascended the throne. As soon as he seized power, he went on a killing spree, killed Zhao Kuangyin's cronies, and brutally ** his descendants, causing a palace bloodbath.
However, the good times did not last long, and in the following year, the northern foreign enemies Liao and Western Xia took the opportunity to invade the south. This war for the survival of the Northern Song Dynasty was extremely tragic, and the war fell into a stalemate for a time. It was at this critical moment that Zhao Kuangyin's sons Zhao Defang, Zhao Dezhao and others stepped forward to make meritorious contributions and bravely resist the enemy in the beacon fire.
Zhao Guangyi died in 997 A.D., and his two sons died at a young age. In the end, Zhao Kuangyin's grandson Zhao Heng ascended the throne, that is, Song Zhenzong. At this point, Zhao Kuangyin's line was in power again, and the Zhao family was reborn after defeat.
Zhao Kuangyin was well aware of the righteousness before his death, and he skillfully used his tricks to recover the military power, but because of this, he was careless and did not guard against the treacherous plots around him. Unexpectedly, Zhao Guangyi was a wolf and took advantage of the opportunity of the banquet to poison and kill the king. A brotherly rebellion began.
On this night, the two brothers laughed and laughed at the banquet, and they didn't feel anything unusual. As everyone knows, it is between the swaying lights of this palace and the staggering of cups and plates that fate has been quietly rewritten. When the sound of the axe chisel sounded in the depths of the curtain, the blood of the monarch had stained the court red.
In the years that followed, the descendants of the Zhao brothers were repeatedly bloody. It was not until many years later, when Zhao Gou ascended the throne, that the Zhao family regrouped. The bloody storm behind the curtain that night is vivid, as if to warn people that the rise and fall of dynasties are often hidden in the blink of an eye.
Therefore, when faced with the choice of alternating power and the survival of the family, where should a king go?Where will the future of the country go?History is full of helplessness and drama, the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. We have to think deeply about the rise and fall of a dynasty, the success or failure of which is often in a blink of an eye. Although people today cannot repeat history, they can learn lessons and not repeat the mistakes of the past, so that the country will have long-term peace and stability.
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