Cai Jing's brief introduction
Cai Jing was a prime minister in the Northern Song Dynasty and a calligrapher, who was once a very powerful official. Cai Jing was born in an official family, and later entered the officialdom after being admitted to the imperial examinations. He first worked as a local official. Later, he went to the Liao country, and after he came back, he was named the Chinese Book Scheeren.
In the next ten years, Cai Jing was juggling between the two factions in the ruling and opposition parties at that time, and he rose to the top all the way. At this time, some people discovered the dangers and cunning of Cai Jing. Later, because Cai Bian had become the right-hand prime minister, some people hated Cai Jing, and Song Zhezong forbade Cai Jing to be promoted with his younger brother Cai Bian.
In the next few years, Cai Jing was ups and downs in the officialdom, because of this and that relationship, he never achieved much. It wasn't until Song Huizong decided to reuse Cai Jing that Cai Jing's life track began to change. In 113, Cai Jing was promoted to Zuofushe. Originally everyone thought that Cai Jing would make a difference, but Cai Jing secretly? Shao Shu? In the name of the muzzle of the prince, master the power of the world. Cai Jing came to power to establish a new law, but the new law did not really make the people in the Northern Song Dynasty rich and strong. Moreover, in order to establish a new law, Cai Jing suppressed many people who opposed the new law. And said to the big, in fact, later the Northern Song Dynasty collapsed, including Cai Jing.
In 1112 AD, Cai Jing, who had been impeached and resigned, was recalled to Beijing, and Song Huizong continued to make Cai Jing the prime minister, and Cai Jing took power again. Later, Cai Jing was also named Huashigang, which caused some unnecessary waste. In 112, Song Huizong ordered Cai Jing to resign, but Cai Jing came to power again with Zhu CuO's influence, but at this time, Cai Jing was too old to handle political affairs. Cai Shu, the son of Cai Jing, was handling things for him, but Cai Shu often acted as a traitor and pocketed his own money, so Cai Jing had to resign later. Later, Cai Jing was demoted to Nanjing and died here when he went to Tanzhou, at the age of eighty.
Cai Jing's story introduction
In the novels Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei, Cai Jing is portrayed as a typical villain. However, literary creation belongs to literary creation, so we can't believe it all. Let's imagine that a person who has been in the officialdom for decades and has sat on the position of prime minister five times will be a simple person.
In fact, Cai Jing in history is really an extraordinary person, because he was a child prodigy. Cai Jing was able to recite The Story of Yueyang Tower when he was four years old. At the age of twenty-three, he was a scholar and ranked ninth. And Cai Jing's family also has a high IQ gene. Among them, there are seven Jinshi and three flowers, six of Cai Jing's eight sons are all bachelors, the other two are young and one dies young, and five grandchildren are also bachelors. Such a family, Cai Jing will certainly not be a thinks-off.
In fact, judging from the quality of calligraphy, Cai Jing's calligraphy can be ranked in the Northern Song Dynasty, not because of Cai Jing's bad reputation, and one of the four great calligraphers in the Northern Song Dynasty will not be Cai Xiang instead of Cai Jing. When Song Shenzong was in office, the imperial court basically had no income, inflation was serious, and every war was a losing battle. But later, after Wang Anshi came to power, he took a fancy to Cai Jing, so Cai Jing had the opportunity to go to Daliao and made great contributions to Dasong.
Moreover, during the reign of Song Huizong at that time, if Cai Jing was really incompetent, how could he sit in the position of prime minister for five times? For Cai Jing, novels and other literary works have had a great influence on his image rendering, so that later generations all think that Cai Jing is a heinous traitor, but in fact, whether this is the case or not is still a matter of different opinions.