Therefore, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to its demise, the Song Dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts. The status of civil servants is particularly high, and to what extent, we can know a thing or two through the story of Di Qing, a famous star in Song Dynasty.
Di Qing and Han Qi are on the same level, but Di Qing is not as good as Han Qi. At that time, there was a man named Jiao Yong under Di Qing, who was a military commander. To this end, Di Qing even pleaded with Han Qi regardless of his identity.
But Han Qi didn't take Di Qing seriously. Because Han Qi is a scholar, and Di Qing is a martial artist. Not only Di Qing's subordinate Jiao Yong was killed by Han Qi in front of Di Qing, but Di Qing himself was exiled to Chen Zhou on trumped-up charges. The reason given by Premier Wen Yanbo is simple: nothing, just that we doubt you and are afraid of your rebellion. What do you want? !
To what extent did Zhao Kuangyin improve the position of civil servants in Song Dynasty? Not only is it a system of high salary and honesty, high material welfare and high social status, but Zhao Kuangyin once said that even a civil servant is a corrupt official, it is worse to rebel than a military commander.
The emperor himself said so, so as a civil servant in the Song Dynasty, if he is not greedy, he is sorry for the emperor.
How did this sentence come from? At that time, Zhao Kuangyin traveled to Zhao Pu incognito and knew that Zhao Pu was already the prime minister. Although Zhao Kuangyin saw on the spot that this seafood was really an altar of gold, he did not punish Prime Minister Zhao Pu. You know, in the 300 years of the Song Dynasty, except for a Zhang Bangchang, the emperor was killed for 33 days, and almost no civilians were killed.
But the military attache is much worse, with Di Qing before and Yue Fei after.