Chapter 703: The Song Dynasty Fell Due to Jia Sidao

【Jia Sidao's life is relatively simple.

He was a playboy in his youth, and he worked hard in his youth. He studied hard and successfully passed the imperial examination in just five years.

In addition, his sister, Concubine Jia, was deeply favored by Emperor Lizong of Song Dynasty. Jia Sidao's official career was destined to be a great success.

In seven years, Jia Sidao's career was prosperous and he was directly promoted to the pacification envoy of Jiangxi Road. But more importantly, he was appreciated by Meng Gong, the unbreakable wall of Southern Song Dynasty at that time.

So after Meng Gong's death, Jia Sidao was directly promoted to the Jinghu Zhizhishi to guard one side and face the iron hoof of the Mongols.

And Jia Sidao's promotion never stopped. Twelve years later, Mengge, who was helped to the throne of Mongolia by Batu, basically settled the internal conflicts in the Asian region of the Mongolian Empire and officially began to attack Song Dynasty.

We all know the result of this matter. Mengge led his troops to attack Shu, but was beaten by the mountain city defense system operated by Yu Jie, and finally he even died in Diaoyucheng.

At the same time, Jia Sidao was ordered to relieve Kublai Khan's threat to Ezhou. Seeing that he could not take the city after a long siege, Kublai Khan returned to plan for the Khanship.

Jia Sidao also relied on this achievement to reach the peak of his political career.

After that, Jia Sidao monopolized the government for 15 years. During this period, he implemented the "planning method" in the army to review military expenditures and the "public land method" in western Zhejiang to solve the financial crisis, but they all failed in the end.

Later, after the defeat in the Battle of Dingjiazhou, Jia Sidao was demoted to Gaozhou Tuanlianshi. He was killed by the guard on the way at the age of 63. Four years after his death, the Southern Song Dynasty perished.

Unlike the final conclusion in the history of the Song Dynasty, Jia Sidao's image changed several times in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

After Kublai Khan returned to the north after relieving the siege of Ezhou, Jia Sidao was described as a famous minister of the revival by everyone from Song Lizong to literati and poets.

The mouthpiece of the Shun court, the arm of the Zhou Dynasty, the talent of the generals and ministers of Yuntai, and the support of the Han Dynasty, etc., are all records of praise for Jia Sidao by people in the late Song Dynasty.

But after the defeat in the Battle of Dingjiazhou, Jia Sidao's reputation reversed from the arm of the Zhou Dynasty to the Dong Zhuo of the Han Dynasty. If you look through the history books carefully, you will find that before the defeat of Dingjiazhou, Song Duzong began to gradually write poems satirizing Jia Sidao after he ascended the throne.

And it is not difficult to guess that one reason is that Song Duzong was supported by Jia Sidao, and Jia Sidao's power has gone a step further. He did not achieve his initial ambition of "wanting to implement the policy of enriching the country and strengthening the army" with the power in his hands, and his foreign policy became more and more compromising. This is the influence of the people.

Another reason is that at this time, the "public land law" and the "planning method" had been implemented for two years, and both the army and the landlords were scolded, which was the influence of the powerful class.

The history of the Song Dynasty was compiled by the recorder "Qi Ju Zhu", which was then compiled into "Li Ji", then compiled into "Shi Lu", and finally became "Guo Shi", which was also the main basis for the Yuan Dynasty's history.

However, the Yuan Dynasty historian Su Tianjue also said that the records of the two dynasties of Lizong and Duzong were the most incomplete. There were still two or three hundred "Li Ji" during the reign of Lizong, but there was no "Li Ji" during the reign of Duzong. Therefore, Jia Sidao in the History of Song Dynasty had some processing elements by the Yuan Dynasty historians.

For example, in the "Biography of Jia Sidao", it was recorded that when Wu Qian ordered Jia Sidao to move to Huangzhou in Hanyang, Jia Sidao thought that Wu Qian wanted to harm him, so he held a grudge and took revenge in the end, which seemed to be petty; but "Lizong Ji" and "Song Late Three Dynasties Political Essentials" clearly recorded that Jia Sidao encountered Mongolian cavalry on the way, and it was only because the escorting elite cavalry fought to the death that Jia Sidao was not killed.

For example, during the reign of Emperor Lizong, powerful eunuchs such as Dong Songchen and Li Zhongfu were causing chaos in the court. After Jia Sidao took over as prime minister, he followed the court's will and finally eliminated them. At that time, people inside and outside the court applauded. However, the "Biography of Jia Sidao" finally added a sentence "promoting a group of small people", which changed the nature of Jia Sidao's behavior of attacking eunuchs and relatives.

In addition, "History of the Song Dynasty" stated that Jia Sidao wanted to negotiate peace with Kublai Khan during the battle of Ezhou, and criticized him for deceiving the emperor, but there is no written record of this so-called "Ezhou Peace Talk" in the history of Song and Yuan Dynasties, and its authenticity is also questionable.

As for the intention of rebellion, it is even simpler. It is said that the imperial garments and imperial items were searched out from Jia Sidao's home, but this kind of accusation of rebellion was the most common means of attacking the court in the Song Dynasty. After all, as long as you are favored, who doesn't have imperial items rewarded by the emperor? The poet Zhou Mi at that time disagreed, saying that his wife had also received dragon and phoenix items rewarded by the court, so could she also be planning a rebellion?

In addition, from the "Song Lizong Ji" and "Shuzhai Laoxue Congtan", we can find records of Jia Sidao building Donghai City, Guangling Fort City, Yangzhou Baoyou City, and using his family property to pay for military expenses. These achievements are not recorded in the "Jia Sidao Biography".

In fact, the politics of power and prime ministers has always been a major feature of the political situation in the Southern Song Dynasty. Starting from Wanyan Gou, the Southern Song Dynasty had to face the threats of the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia one after another. In order to improve the efficiency of state institutions, the power of the prime minister changed from division to concentration and finally monopolizing the three powers of military, finance and politics. It is a national condition that is inevitable.

The Song History only talks about the evil of Jia Sidao's monopoly of power without mentioning his merits. This behavior is tantamount to taking the term "take it out of context" from "don't take it out of context".

And the reason why the Yuan Dynasty historians used means such as deletion and reorganization of historical materials to make Jia Sidao a traitor who could not stand up, and their motives are not difficult to find.

After all, the Northern Song Dynasty fell under Wang Anshi, and the Southern Song Dynasty naturally fell under Jia Sidao, and the root of the problem was still Neo-Confucianism. 】

In the Huagai Palace, Empress Ma keenly noticed that her husband seemed to be a little happy.

After being married for so many years, Empress Ma knew Zhu Baba's temper very well. After carefully thinking about the words of the light curtain, she roughly understood what was going on.

After Hu Weiyong, the emperor of tomorrow acted arbitrarily and deposed the prime minister.

Although most of the time when a husband makes a decision, even ten cows can't bring him back, such as the "Ancestor's Record" and other matters.

But this does not mean that there will be no hesitation in the heart after making a decision, especially since the position of prime minister has lasted for more than a thousand years since the Spring and Autumn Period. If it had not been for the enlightenment of 1988, there would have been fierce discussions in the court by this time.

But no one is talking about it, which means there is no objection. This year, four ministers of the Ministry of Personnel have been replaced, and three ministers of the Ministry of Rites have been replaced. Li Mian, who had just presided over the Eighty-eighth Birthday Festival, is said to have been released again. If not for Li Shanchang's persuasion, If you are persuaded, you may have to become an official.

Now, Empress Ma thought that Zhongba must have found the support that the prime minister did not need to exist from the later generations' theory of power and prime minister politics.

So she simply patted the back of her husband's hand to show her support.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at his queen and then became serious.

Because Zhu Di was still curious and asked: "How come this traitorous official's reputation is related to Neo-Confucianism?"

After all, this period of history is very familiar to the kings of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that dad always used the death of Song Dynasty to warn everyone, and this was just a hundred years ago. At that time, most of the people's children and grandchildren were still alive. In the world.

But Zhu Di's question immediately reminded Tomorrow of one thing:

"Last time I asked you to think about what science is in your free time, but did you get any results?!"

Because there was no special person to record the last light curtain, Zhu Yuanzhang could only memorize the seemingly important parts, and the most difficult thing to remember was the evaluation of science.

Following the emperor's instinct, he could realize that this science might be extremely important in future generations.

But the word order was weird and the words were unfamiliar, so in the end I could only try my best to recall it and throw it to my sons to see what they could think of.

Facing Tomorrow's question, Zhu Biao remained silent, Zhu Di lowered his head, and Zhu Zhen simply pretended not to hear. Only Zhu Zhen raised his head and tried:

"The meaning of this study has a lot in common with the theory that heaven and man are not in harmony with each other."

"My son, please postpone your appointment and try to understand what science is for me."