Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Li Yu is not stupid. In other words, someone who can write those rhetorical words that have been carefully crafted has a sophisticated mind.

It can only be said that from beginning to end, he really had little interest in governing the country, especially after the initial implementation of some reform policies was blocked, and he easily understood the huge power behind the resistance.

So he simply put all his energy into the poem that interested him most.

And his own fate is not difficult to guess based on the few words of later generations.

Most likely, he was locked up in Bianliang by this good brother from an official family, and he could only write miserable poems to soothe his sorrows all day long.

At this moment, seeing the end of the era, Li Yu felt that his heart was in turmoil.

The south of the Yangtze River is China, and Yanyun in the north is also China. The famous poets of the former Tang Dynasty all traveled thousands of miles to write powerful poems.

He, Li Yu, could be passed down to the world with his literary name, but now his destiny has changed. He did not want to leave to future generations the image of a scholar who could only act like a childish person.

Li Taibai and Du Gongbu were extremely talented, but who has ever witnessed the rise of a unified country in troubled times?

Now, such an opportunity is placed in front of him. If the Zhao Guan family can unify the Song Dynasty, then Li Yu will also enjoy the literary reputation of strengthening the Song Dynasty, and will be praised by those who come after him!

[After the fall of the Song Dynasty, what is a little interesting is what happened to the clan in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Among them, there are those who know better about "according to the weather", such as Zhao Yuqian and Zhao Yurui.

Zhao Yuqian was originally a professor in Ezhou. After the fall of Ezhou, he surrendered to Boyan to work for him and advised Boyan to win over the people and not to be bloodthirsty. Later, he was ordered to meet Kublai Khan in Dadu, and they had a pleasant conversation and then made the decision. He was a Hanlin scholar in the Yuan Dynasty. He died of illness after serving for 27 years and was given the posthumous title Wenjian.

The special thing about Zhao Yurui is that he is the tenth grandson of Zhao Kuangyin and the biological father of Song Duzong. After surrendering, he was granted the title of Pingyuan County Duke and lived in Dadu until his death.

The more legendary ones are Emperor Gong of Song Dynasty and Zhao Mengxi.

Zhao Mengxi was the eleventh grandson of Zhao Kuangyin. He was originally a minister of the Southern Song Dynasty and joined the army. After the death of the Song Dynasty, he returned to seclusion. Seven years later, he was recommended by the ministers of the Yuan Dynasty to serve as an official. He served in five dynasties and became a Hanlin scholar. Zhao Mengxi himself wrote and painted. He also studied poetry, poetry, and calligraphy with "Zhao style". Together with Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, and Liu Gongquan, he was known as the four masters of regular script. His paintings of landscapes, flowers, and birds were exquisite and comprehensive in technique, creating a new trend in the Yuan Dynasty painting world; in poetry, he was known as "Yuanzhu Wen" "Famous, it can be said that he is quite versatile.

In view of this, people at that time praised Zhao Mengxi as the "Crown of the Yuan Dynasty", which Zhao Da probably never dreamed of.

Emperor Gong of the Song Dynasty himself is even more legendary. He could not express the emotion of Li Yu when his country was suddenly overthrown, nor could he express the emotion of Chongzhen, who said that "the king is not the king of the country's subjugation, but all the ministers are the ministers of the country's subjugation", because Zhao Xian ascended the throne at the age of four and was only six years old when his country was overthrown. What do you know?

After the Yuan Dynasty surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Xian was granted the title of Duke of Ying, and when he was sixteen or seventeen years old, he married a Mongolian princess and became his consort. However, when he was eighteen years old, Kublai Khan may have worried that Zhao Xian's status as a conquered king was too sensitive. Head: You go to Tubo to learn Buddhism.

So Zhao Xian, who had just married his wife for two years, left Dadu and began to try to achieve enlightenment.

The old Zhao family of the Song Dynasty was famous in history for not being good at being an emperor, but for being top-notch in other industries.

Zhao Xian only started to come into contact with Sanskrit scriptures when he was eighteen years old, but he soon began to rise to prominence. He was successively the chief minister of Sakya Monastery, and translated "The Theory of the Hundred Dharma Mingmen", "The Theory of Entering the Right Principle due to Ming", "The History of the Ruyi Treasure Tree", "The History of the Wishful Precious Tree" "Wedding Banquet" has left a profound mark in the history of the Sakya sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

In fact, Phaspa, the fifth Sakya Patriarch at that time, took the initiative to join Kublai Khan in creating a new Mongolian word for him. He was granted the title of Imperial Master and Imperial Master by Kublai Khan, and took charge of the affairs of the Academy and the political and religious affairs of Tibet, which essentially formed the A political and religious regime was established. In fact, this was half of Kublai Khan's back garden. Kublai Khan left Zhao Xian here to facilitate his control.

What no one expected was that Zhao Xian convinced the Buddhists in Tibet with his profound Buddhist cultivation. Later, in the late Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yingzong began to use a large number of Han officials. Just in case, he ordered the death of the Buddhist master Zhao Xianci in Hexi. .

Later, during the reign of Emperor Xuande, some Sakya Buddhist scholars in Tibet compiled the "Sino-Tibetan History Collection", perhaps out of sympathy for Zhao Xian or to promote the power of religion. This book recorded Zhao Xian's great aspirations when he died:

"I have never rebelled and been killed. May I seize the Mongolian throne in the next life." With this wish, he was reincarnated as the Han Dynasty Emperor Ming, and he indeed won the throne.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang’s profession was also a monk at the beginning, which was very interesting!

However, this statement pales in comparison to the arrangement of unofficial histories in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties.

From the beginning, Yuan Mingzong came to Zhao Xian for a son, and later Yuan Mingzong fell in love with Zhao Xian's wife and gave birth to a posthumous son. There are all kinds of strange theories, but one thing in common is that Emperor Yuan Shun is Zhao Xian's biological son.

Moreover, the posthumous title of Emperor Yuan Shun was given to him by Lao Zhu personally in recognition of his smoothness, and it was thought of by the people:

After the father is reincarnated, he will give his son a royal title. It is affectionate and righteous, and the love between father and son is deep!

It can only be said that wild history may not be true to the truth, but it must be wild enough.

And after writing this ridiculous thing, looking back, how should we evaluate the Song Dynasty?

As the only separatist regime recognized as orthodox, and as a dynasty that some scholars believe was the most culturally advanced in China, the Song Dynasty had merits.

The three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism merged into one, and the main cultural structure was formed with Neo-Confucianism as the mainstay and Taoism as the supplement. Its influence continues to this day.

Economy, technology and maritime trade flourished at the same time, and all of them had great development. On this basis, the education system was rapidly improved and even explored the limitations of the imperial examination. The number of feudal giant cities also grew steadily, and nursing homes that favored the disadvantaged groups began to appear. These precedents and achievements have important reference significance for later generations.

Of course, there is also the "sharing the world with the literati" that scholars in the feudal era talked about most. Although it has its limitations, it does guarantee the complete collapse of the classical noble class. The incompatibility of Liao, Jin and Mongolia after the sinicization is essentially the ideological friction between its classical nobles and the core of the new Song Dynasty's equal rights culture.

But of course, while making progress, Song Kai's bad head is no less than its achievements. The three changes of the river have caused harm for thousands of years, and the harsh laws and harsh punishments; the gentry group took the stage to perform, and the harm was even more severe; the frivolous monarchs and ministers controlled the naive ministers, showing the shameless and incompetent bottom line of the ruling class, and so on and so forth.

This was an era of extremely sharp contradictions, and it was also an era that every survivor of the Song Dynasty missed.

Wang Yanwu, who invited Wen Tianxiang to die, never served in the Yuan Dynasty. In his later years, he wrote a poem "Qinyuanchun" to miss the Song Dynasty, which belonged to the gentry and new nobles.

This style is completely different from the heroic spirit of the Han Dynasty and the majestic and majestic atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and is full of gentle and roundabout singing.

Today's historians are more polite and give the evaluation of "the romantic style of the two Song Dynasties", just like the theme of our recent two issues, but in fact, I personally think that if it runs through the entire two Song Dynasties, it is more appropriate to call it "the romantic style of the Little Song Dynasty".

The real romantic part of the two Song Dynasties was when Di Qing entered the battlefield alone, when Wang Anshi reformed the law generously, when Su Shi was relieved to go boating, when Yue Fei went straight to Huanglong, when Xin Qiji looked at the sword with a lamp, when Cao Youwen died, when Meng Gong arranged the battle, and when Wen Tianxiang breathed a breath of noble spirit.

It is not in the light-clothed, silk-fanned flower vendors' voices, the seven-treasure carriages of princes on the streets, or the peach blossoms and swallows flying across the river, or a cup of tea after a drunken glass of wine. 】