In the Song Dynasty, Taiwan Province remonstrated officials had the right to correct the fault of the emperor and impeach officials. Their comments represented the public opinion at that time to some extent. If you choose an upright scholar-bureaucrat as a guide to Taiwan Province, you can distinguish right from wrong and give advice to the people, which will play a very good role. However, if the monarch lacks the ability to distinguish talents, the courtiers will enter Taiwan for reference, and Zhongliang will not be able to serve the court, and even lead to cronyism and chaos. Song Ningzong is such a person. Although he has the heart of attaching importance to Taiwan remonstrance, his ability is poor, and he doesn't know who is talented and who is mediocre. As a result, he was all mediocre and scum in the position of remonstrance, and he didn't play well in remonstrance.
Song Ningzong's political action in the early years of Jiading was called "Jiading Geng Hua". "Speak first, then be loyal" is the first move of Ningzong's reform, but it is only listening, with little effect. In addition, Ningzong also took measures to clean the Korean Party, but the cleaning went to extremes. Anyone who agrees to resume the Northern Expedition is regarded as the Korean Party. Lu You, a great uninhibited poet in history, was also dismissed on the charge of "changing the party's style from Korea to Japan".
While cleaning up the Korean Party, Song Ningzong is also restoring its position. Zhao Ruyu tried his best to restore his official position and increase his loyalty, and fully affirmed his loyalty and achievements in Shao Xi Neijing.
During the reign of Song Ningzong, he promulgated "Unified Calendar" and "Celebrating the Yuan Dynasty". The unified calendar was published 383 years earlier than the western Gregorian calendar. Although the incomplete volume of Song Ningzong's Yuan Tiao Law and Shi Lei in Qing Dynasty is less than half of the original book, it still preserves laws and regulations on economy, military affairs and criminal law, which provides valuable information for studying the history of Song Dynasty, especially the history of Chinese legal system.
In a word, during Song Ningzong's administration, he didn't push the country to prosperity. Although he has his own ideas, he is vacillating and easily pushed around. In the early stage, the struggle between Zhao and Korea was fierce, and in the later stage, the consorts were authoritarian and attached importance to history and others. During his tenure, he had little effect, which led to the decline of the national movement in the Song Dynasty.
Song Ningzong is not mentally retarded, but he can be described as incompetent. To paraphrase him now, his idea is good and the reality is cruel. He may have a lot of lofty ambitions in his mind, but they are all defeated by reality one by one, and his character is weak and vacillating. Don't say that being an emperor or an ordinary person is a fatal shortcoming.