Xue plays Cai Jing.
Let's put aside Cai Jing described in the novel and look at this person from a historical perspective. Cai Jing can recite classics at the age of four and become a scholar at the age of twenty-three. Later, Cai Jing was taken a fancy to by Wang Anshi, so he had the opportunity to go to Daliao and made great contributions to Dasong. During the period of Song Huizong, he became the prime minister of the dynasty five times, so it is difficult to judge whether such a person is loyal.
But didn't Cai Jing do anything bad? Of course not. Cai Jing did a lot of bad things, just like Cai Jing advocated the new law in order to safeguard it, and vigorously eliminated dissidents. In addition, Cai Jing often denigrates Song Huizong, and his values to Song Huizong are that life is only a few decades, so you should eat, drink and be merry in time. So much so that Song Huizong really felt rich and tried to make ends meet, which led to an empty treasury. The other is to collude with Gao Qiu, Tong Guan and others to make the Northern Song Dynasty a mess.
But in fact, it wasn't Cai Jing who messed up the Northern Song Dynasty. Cai Jing is just a sinister, intelligent and selfish person. Gao Qiu is really in favor, and Tong Guan is really in power. So if Cai Jing destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, he really spoke highly of Cai Jing. So is Cai Jing still a loyal minister? Naturally, he is not. Cai Jing is definitely not a good official, because he doesn't take everyone as his duty, but it is too high to say that Cai Jing is a big traitor. As for whether he is a loyal minister or a traitor, different people have different opinions.
Cai Jing and Gao Qiu? There are four treacherous court officials in the Water Margin, namely Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, Tong Guan and Yang Jian. For these four people, it can be said that they were the main black hands that led to the smog of the entire Northern Song Dynasty.
Cai Jing in film and television dramas.
Many people will wonder whose official position is greater. Here is a brief explanation. In the official system of the Song Dynasty, if you want to say which official position has the greatest power, it must be the prime minister. So in the later period, the emperor of Song Dynasty made some adjustments to this system, dividing the real power of the prime minister, which weakened the power of the prime minister on the other hand and was conducive to centralizing imperial power. Feudal emperors enjoyed the centralization of imperial power. The general power was given to the Privy Council and the financial power to the Third Division, so the real power in the hands of the Prime Minister was only civil rights.
Judging from the official positions of Cai Jing and Gao Qiu, Cai Jing was the prime minister, and Gao Qiu was Qiu, another envoy of the Tang Dynasty. Cai Jing's position is equivalent to that of President of the National People's Congress and Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Moreover, Cai Jing's title is a surname, but it is a vacant post with no real power. Gao Qiu is Qiu, who is in charge of the military power of the whole country, but he also has no right to mobilize the army, and needs the emperor's consent, which is equivalent to the post of Chief of Staff of the Ministry of National Defense today. Tong Guan was in the Tang Dynasty, and the military and political power was in the Privy Council, so Tong Guan is the chairman of the Military Commission today.
So we can roughly compare the positions of the three people. According to the title, Cai Jing has the highest status, and according to the real power, Tong Guan has the greatest power, but it happened that Gao Qiu was the favorite of the Northern Song Emperor. Therefore, it is not surprising that the three people refer to the deer as a horse and the tiger as a disease, which makes the Northern Song Dynasty malodorous.
Introduction to Cai Jing? Cai Jing was the prime minister and calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty. He used to be a very powerful official. Cai Jing was born in an official family, and later passed the imperial examination and entered the officialdom. He started as a local official. Later, he went to Liao country, and when he came back, he was named as the Chinese Book Sheren.
Cai Jing in Water Margin
In the following ten years, Cai Jing was juggling between the ruling and opposition parties at that time. At this time, someone discovered the danger and cunning of Cai Jing. Later, because Cai Bian became the right prime minister, some people hated Cai Jing, and Song Zhezong forbade Cai Jing and his younger brother Cai Bian to be promoted together.
In the next few years, Cai Jing experienced ups and downs in officialdom. Because of this and that relationship, he has never achieved much. It was not until Song Huizong decided to reuse Cai Jing that Cai Jing's life track began to change. In A.D. 1 103, Cai Jing was promoted to the position of left servant. Originally, everyone thought that Cai Jing would make a difference, but in the name of "Jong", Cai Jing secretly contained the prince and took control of the world. Cai Jing came to power to establish a new law, but the new law did not really make the people of the Northern Song Dynasty rich and strong. And in order to establish a new law, Cai Jing suppressed many people who opposed the new law. In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty perished, including Cai Jing.
In a.d.112, Cai Jing was impeached and resigned, and was recalled to Beijing. Song Huizong continued to make Cai Jing prime minister, and Cai Jing came to power again. Later, Cai Jing was also named Flower Stone Class, which caused some unnecessary waste. 1 120, Song Huizong ordered Cai Jing to resign, but Cai Jing came to power again with Zhu Ye's neon screen γ, but by this time Cai Jing was too old to go into politics. Cai Jing's son Cai handled things for him, but Cai often acted as a traitor and took 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.
How did Cai Jing die? In the first year of Jingkang, when the army of rulers went south, Song Huizong abdicated to Song Qinzong, and the border war became increasingly tense. So Cai Jing and his family began to go south to escape the war at that time. However, people at that time thought that Cai Jing was the first of the "six thieves" who led to the corruption of the imperial court, so they started impeaching Cai Jing behind closed doors.
Cai Jing in Zhong Jing Yuefei
Cai Jing was demoted for impeachment. First, he was demoted to secretary supervisor and went to Nanjing. Later, he was demoted and moved to Shaozhou and Danzhou. Finally in Tanzhou, he died there at the age of 80. However, there is a lot of news among the people that Cai Jing did not die of illness, but starved to death, and this starvation was not simply starved to death, but starved to death by the people.
It is said that when Cai Jing was exiled, he was carrying a shipment of jewels, so Cai Jing obviously had money to buy food, so it was not as simple as starving to death. In fact, it is because people along the road hate this heinous traitor and refuse to sell him anything. From Kaifeng to Changsha, Cai Jing is three thousand miles away, so it's hard to buy something to eat. He was hungry and cold all the way. Cai Jing, who was over 80 years old, fell ill and sleepy, and soon died. And after he died, no one even sold him the coffin, so he just wrapped the body in cloth. Buried in a special place for the poor, the sick and those who have no family.
This statement is actually unlikely, because Cai Jing is a * * * senior official, and it is impossible for everyone along the way to know. At that time, there was no TV network, and it was difficult to do this. Besides, businessmen are all mercenary. With so much money in Cai Jing, how could they not buy a meal? As for why later generations made up this story, it is probably hatred and poison to Cai Jing.
Cai Jing's Tomb? According to historical records, Cai Jing died of hunger, cold, old age and infirmity in exile. And according to legend, although Cai Jing brought a lot of gold and silver treasures at that time, people on the road were disgusted with this heinous traitor, so no one sold it to Cai Jing. Finally, Cai Jing starved to death because of this.
Cai Jing tomb
Moreover, after Cai Jing's death, no one sold a coffin to Cai Jing. People around him could only wrap Cai Jing's body with a piece of cloth and bury Cai Jing in a place where homeless people were starving. Although this is just a folk saying, there is no historical record of where Cai Jing was buried. However, it can be seen from here that the future of a prime minister who has been in power for a period of time is very bleak, and there will certainly be no good grave after death.
But later generations built a tomb for Cai Jing. This tomb of Cai Jing is located in Niutun Town, hua county City, Henan Province. Cai Jing died in Tanzhou, which is today's Changsha, but the tomb is in Henan. Because there was no such technical means to transport Cai Jing to Henan for burial, this tomb is obviously a memorial cenotaph. After years of wind and rain, this tomb is very shabby and overgrown with weeds. Cai Jing, who is considered a traitor, naturally won't be worshipped.
However, not long ago, the news that "Putian, Fujian Province will invest a huge sum of money to repair the tomb of Cai Jing, a powerful minister of the Northern Song Dynasty" was issued, which also aroused people's heated discussion. Many people generally believe that there is no need to build a tomb for treacherous court officials. However, many people have commented on Cai Jing's merits and demerits in the past hundreds of years. Now is what future generations should do, give him a place to live. As for whether Cai Jing is really a traitor, we should know more about that period of history, instead of going with the flow.