Among these four people, Cai Jing holds the highest position, serving as prime minister for four times, with a term of 17 years. Cai Jing is also the most controversial, because he has dual identities as a traitor, a powerful minister and a prince.
What? Cai Jing is still a talent?
Before discussing Cai Jing's rule of the world, let's talk about his calligraphy.
Cai Jing was in charge of writing imperial edicts with his younger brother Cai Bian after he was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 23. There were four calligraphers in the Northern Song Dynasty, namely Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang. On one occasion, Miffy and Cai Jing were chatting together. Cai Jing asked, "Who has the best calligraphy today?"
Mi Fei replied: "After Tang Liu Gongquan, it's up to you and your brother Cai Bian."
Cai Jing asked again, "Second?"
Miffy proudly said, "Of course it's me."
Miffy is a snob, not a snob. Even he said so, which shows that Cai Jing's calligraphy is really outstanding.
Cai Jing is an opportunist through and through. He is treacherous, corrupt and corrupt, harming the people by mistake, and the people are in trouble. He was one of the sinners who perished in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, during Cai Jing's administration, a series of social welfare systems were implemented, which objectively benefited millions of poor people. It is also a fact that cannot be ignored.
"History of the Song Dynasty" records: "At the beginning of Chongning, Cai Jing was a country, living in a nursing home and a hospital ... In the past three years, he has also established a Yuan Ze full of loopholes." A homestay is an institution that accommodates the lonely, widowed, poor and unable to stand on their own feet, and provides accommodation, medicine and part of the living expenses; An Ji Yuan, also called An Ji Fang, is an institution that accepts patients who have no money to treat diseases. Louze Garden is an institution that focuses on burying unclaimed bodies without owners or bodies that cannot be buried because of poverty. These three systems cover life, old age, illness and death, which embodies Mencius' people's livelihood spirit of "raising people to live and mourning when they die".
Song Huizong highly appreciates the social welfare system established in Cai Jing. In the second year of Zheng He (1 1 12), Song Huizong personally instructed: "Widowed, widowed, lonely, have a single hospital to support, have a place to help the sick, the deceased have a garden burial, and the king is also fundamental." In his view, the establishment of homes for the aged, security homes and leaky gardens is the foundation of kingliness.
Here is a separate introduction to Louzeyuan.
In ancient times, due to wars, disasters, patients and other reasons, there was often a depression scene of "white bones exposed in the wild and chickens crowing a thousand miles away". The Northern Song Dynasty enjoyed economic prosperity and social stability, but many people were forced to make a living. When they were wandering outside, they died in a foreign land because of illness or other reasons, and fell to the side of the road to die, and no one was buried. This is not commensurate with the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty.
The "Huiji" written by Su and others records: "In February of the third year of Chongning, the dead bones were collected and buried. If there are no relatives in the temple for 20 years, the name of the deceased is unknown, and there are beggars or bones exposed, the government and county order the monks to choose the plateau barren land for burial, and their names are unknown. " That is to say, since 1 104, the government of the Northern Song Dynasty has set up Louze Garden, using the barren land with high terrain to build a cemetery and let the dead rest in peace.
Cai Jing never imagined that he had become a beneficiary of this welfare system.
1 126 years, due to the large-scale southward movement of 8 Jin Army, Song Huizong gave the Zen position to Song Qinzong. As soon as Song Qinzong came to power, he won Cai Jing and demoted him as Shao and Dan. Shaozhou is now Shaoguan, Guangdong, and Danzhou is now Danzhou, Hainan. At that time, these two places were undeveloped and belonged to the dangerous Lingnan area. Cai Jing came all the way to Tanzhou and starved to death in a ruined temple.
When Cai Jing died, there were no other relatives around him, and his body was buried in Louzeyuan.