In the eighth year of Song Renzong's celebration, Cai Bian was born in Chihu, Xiaoli, Xian Yici. He showed extraordinary intelligence at an early age and was loved by his elders. When I was young, I was ambitious and studious, and then I studied in Luo Qing Caotang, Tatou Mountain, Fengting. It is said that Cai Bian never forgets anything, and enlightenment books such as Saint Amethyst and Qian Wen Zi can be memorized, and the Four Books and Five Classics can also be memorized.
Cai Bian himself likes reading, which is not limited to the four books, five classics and eight-part poem in the imperial examination. At the same time, he also likes history books, local chronicles and miscellaneous essays, and even knows the laws of the country by heart. After years of hard study, his knowledge is increasing day by day, and he soon became a well-informed celebrity praised by the village.
In the third year of Xining in Song Shenzong, Cai Bian was admitted as a scholar. In the second year, he was appointed as the monarch book of Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province. Cai Bian packed her bags and went to work. Soon after he took office, he met the evil deeds of the rich oppressing the people.
Gu Xinyuan, a local rich man in Jiangyin County, took advantage of the young crops to collect ill-gotten wealth and exploit the people. They took advantage of the people's urgent need for seed planting and lent food to the people at twice the usual interest rate. Although the people are angry, planting crops is a big deal and can only be tolerated.
When Cai Bian discovered this situation, he immediately ordered to open a warehouse to borrow grain, and carried out Wang Anshi's young crops law to borrow grain from the people to solve the urgent need. Because of his strong support for the new law, Cai Bian was highly valued by Wang Anshi and even recruited as a son-in-law.
Cai Bian became Wang Anshi's son-in-law, so he was properly called Wang Anshi. The New Deal was blocked and Cai Bian was impeached. Under the common requirements of admonishing officials, Ren, Yu Shigong and others, it is urgent to punish the holy family. Cai Bian was demoted to a small government and a small prison. He was assigned to Nanjing and lived in Chizhou.
Wait until the next year, Cai Bian reinstated, just got the magistrate's name, moved to Yangzhou, known as China Taiyi imperial minister. Later, I learned that the Privy Council was responsible for frontier defense, armament and other confidential affairs. At this time, Cai Jing served as prime minister, and Cai Bian was in favor of Cai Jing and Song Huizong to recover the profile and other places, and became Dr. Jin Guanglu.
Cai Jing was ostracized by Cai Jing for opposing Cai Jing's measures, and was demoted with Sue. He worshipped Zhao as our time, entered the school gate as a waiter, and moved to the town east army as our time.
In the seventh year of Zheng He, Cai Bian asked for leave to go back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. He died on his way home at the age of 70 and gave it to a teacher-Shi.
Besides the Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty and a member of the New Party, Cai Bian has two identities. One is Cai Jing's younger brother, and the other is Wang Anshi's son-in-law.
Both Cai Jing and Wang Anshi were criticized as traitors, especially Cai Jing, one of the six thieves in the Northern Song Dynasty, who had a bad reputation in later generations, but he was not so good at that time.
Let's not talk about Wang Anshi for the time being, because most people in later generations think that Wang Anshi is a loyal minister and cannot be regarded as a traitor. Although the new policy he proposed brought some harm when it was implemented, it was good in essence. "Treacherous court official" has always been regarded as a symbol of Cai Jing. Although there are some sayings in later generations, most of them regard Cai Jing as a traitor. Cai Bian and Cai Jing are brothers, so is he also a traitor?
Cai Bian is not a traitor. Although he was impeached by many councilors at that time, the reasons for impeaching him were mostly party struggle and the abolition of the New Deal. Cai Bian was a staunch supporter of the New Deal, so he was attacked by the old party and demoted by impeachment.
Cai Bian himself can get Wang Anshi's fancy and was recruited as a son-in-law, which shows that he took a fancy to his honest and frank. Although he and Cai Jing are brothers, when his brother Cai Jing became prime minister, he disagreed with some behaviors of Cai Jing.
Cai Jing united with Tong Guan, and * * * mastered the military and political encyclopedia. Cai Bian was very opposed to this and even offended his younger brother Cai Jing. Cai Bian was later demoted, that is, Cai Jing and others were excluded. So Cai Bian is different from Cai Jing, he is not a traitor.
Of course, this is not to say that Cai Bian is not at fault. He participated in the struggle between the old and new parties, consumed national strength, and led to the further demise of the Song Dynasty. He should be responsible for the declining national strength of the Song Dynasty.