I remember the first time I came to the Northern Song Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum and inquired about the nearby villagers. I was impressed by her words from you. She said: What is there to see there, those stone men and stone horses can't speak. I wanted to tell her that the statues could really talk. They are thousand-year-old cultural relics, carrying splendid civilizations, inheriting history and culture, and creating a better future. Come here to step out of the history textbook, touch the history, and listen to the distance. The call of the ancients. The stone statue with a sword in his hand and a literati costume tells us that he was a military general, and that he had no ambition in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty attached great importance to the suppression of military generals. The Song Dynasty was also a prosperous dynasty in history, but it could not defeat the regime in the north. This is also one of the fundamental reasons for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, was dressed in a yellow robe, released his military power with a glass of wine, and became the emperor in a wave of operations. Because the emperor was stolen by one of his generals. Therefore, in order to prevent other generals from stealing their thrones in the same way in the future, the core of his rule is to emphasize literature and suppress military force.
Unexpectedly, the military general did not steal his throne, and the candle shadow axe was seized by his own brother Zhao Guangyi in the night of the dragon chair. So far, it is rumored that the elder brother fights the country and the younger brother sits in the country. It's their brothers. The younger brother did the country, and he also emphasized literature and suppressed martial arts. Later, he was also beaten by the regime in the north.
Zhao Guangyi later passed the throne to his son Zhao Heng. That is, the chief director of the tanuki for the prince. He is a joke, although he wants to avenge his father, but he can't beat others, so he cedes the land and pays reparations and asks for peace. Nothing was done, and he put on a high hat for himself. Later, the emperor who was frightened was not sealed even if he had a deed.
The following is the appearance of the tanuki prince, that is, the fourth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. Song Renzong led a group of scholars and doctors to govern the world well, the economy prospered, inventions continued, and talents were produced in large numbers. However, it still emphasizes literature over military force.
Since Song Renzong had no son, the throne passed to his nephew Song Yingzong. This guy has been working as the emperor's spare tire at Song Renzong's place. Song Renzong had no son, so he invited him into the palace as the emperor's spare tire, and when he had a son, he returned the goods and asked him to leave the palace. When his son died, he was invited in again. This tossed back and forth for decades, and later Song Renzong died. Song Yingzong became emperor. Because of his grievances for decades, he did two things after he took the throne, one was to call Song Renzong his father or his own father to call his father. Another thing is to have the minister write the General Guide to Governance. He didn't do anything during his reign, and he also focused on writing the General Guide to Governance.
Next, after his son Song Shenzong ascended the throne, he was supported by his mother, the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao. It can be said that aspiring young people have solid stamina. He was bent on making the country strong. Reuse Wang Anshi's reform of the law. But the old forces and Empress Dowager Gao quickly extinguished this small flame of hope. Song Shenzong was helpless. Later, troops were also sent to attack the regime in the north, but how could the troops under several generations of heavy civil and light military forces be defeated overnight, and they could not defeat others. In the end, he left at a young age with regret.
After Song Shenzong left, his 10-year-old son Song Zhezong ascended the throne. Under the curtain of the grandmother Gao Taotao and the Empress Dowager, the original situation of the Northern Song Dynasty was maintained. Eight years later, Empress Dowager Gao died, and Song Zhezong officially took power. Like his father, he is also an aspiring young man. He reused Zhang Dian to continue to carry forward his father's reform and reform, and turned the tide to reverse the situation in the Northern Song Dynasty. She broke the soil and rejected the Great Liao in the north. Some regimes in the north were forced to pay tribute. It's a pity that God didn't favor this aspiring young man, and he died in his twenties.
Since Song Zhezong had no sons, according to the Northern Song Dynasty, the throne was finally passed to the most unreliable younger brother Song Huizong. He is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but he can't be an emperor. He ate, drank, and studied literature. As a result, the national strength became weaker and weaker, and when the Jin soldiers attacked the national capital Kaifeng, he threw the pot directly to his son Song Qinzong. In the end, the Jin soldiers broke through Kaifeng and directly took their father and son captive to the northeast. Since then, the Northern Song Dynasty has perished.
All in all, the emphasis on literature and light on military force has always run through the entire reign of the Northern Song Dynasty. Now that a thousand years have passed, judging from the statues of the Northern Song Dynasty Emperor's Mausoleum that they left in the Central Plains, Wen is in front, and Wu is also wearing the clothes of Wenchen and standing behind Wen. It can be seen that the emphasis on literature over military force is indeed one of the fundamental reasons for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.