On this day, Song Taizu has been lying in front of the dragon case for a long time, getting up and exercising his muscles. He chose his leisure project or his old hobby-shooting birds in the back garden of the palace. I saw Mao with a slingshot, aiming left and shooting right. From time to time, a small sparrow was shot down and had a good time.
Unexpectedly, just in a good mood, a chamberlain suddenly sent a message saying that several courtiers claimed to have urgent requests. Mao had to drop his slingshot and hurried to the temple to summon them. However, when I sat down, I found that the passbook on the desk was not urgent at all. In this case, Mao Longyan was unhappy: "What's the emergency in such a hurry? Is it worth it? "
Several courtiers looked at each other and were silent. A courtier bravely replied, "Although things are not urgent, I still think these things are more urgent than shooting birds." This time, Mao was really annoyed. He was so angry that he grabbed an axe and knocked it on the "crow's mouth" of this courtier. As soon as he started, he knocked out two front teeth. "crow mouth" suddenly became dumb and could only swallow a mouthful of blood. At the same time, he slowly bent down, carefully picked up the fallen teeth and put them in his arms.
Mao saw the scene in front of him: "Boy, you are so smart. Do you want to leave a evidence to sue me? " ! The courtiers replied matter-of-factly: "I dare not sue your majesty, but this matter will naturally be recorded by the historian." When Song Taizu heard this, he suddenly became afraid, his anger dissipated immediately, and his face quickly changed from gloomy to sunny, and he became a different person.
Looking at the painful faces of the courtiers, Mao suddenly felt a little cruel, but at this time he felt a little sorry. What shall we do? Get some money and things to comfort you. So the unlucky courtier exchanged blood for a gold thread.
In fact, Song Taizu is not afraid of historians, but of honest pens in their hands. He knows very well that good and evil will go down in history through the powerful pen of historians for future generations to comment on. The historian who wrote this down is the famous historian Sima Guang.