Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin (March 2, 9271-June165438+1October14,976), a native of Jiamaying, Luoyang, was originally from Zhuozhou, Hebei. Zhao was born in a military family, the second son.
During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, according to Prime Minister Zhao Pu's strategy of "South first, then North, first easy and then difficult", he devoted himself to unifying the whole country, and successively eliminated the southern separatist regimes such as Jingnan, Wuping, Houshu, Nanhan and Nantang, and completed the unification of most parts of the country.
Zhao Kuangyin's "relieving the military power with a glass of wine" twice relieved the military power of the imperial generals and local buffer regions, thus solving the self-sufficiency situation of our local soldiers since the middle Tang Dynasty. He also set up a "pile bank" to store money, silks and cloth, so as to redeem the sixteen states that Shi Jingtang, the high-impedance of the late Jin Dynasty, gave to the Khitan.
In the ninth year of Kaibao (976), Zhao Kuangyin died at the age of 50.
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Personality achievement
In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the country was in a fragmented situation, with countries such as Qidan and Beihan in the north and Nantang in the south. During Zhao Kuangyin's administration, he adopted the strategy of "south first, then north, and easy first, then difficult", so that the country gradually moved towards reunification.
At the same time, by adopting three major schemes of "taking its elite soldiers, cutting its power and controlling its money valley", we skillfully implemented measures such as "relieving soldiers with wine", "weakening relative power", "ousting counties", "setting up the president system" and "dispatching system" to strengthen centralization, carry out political, economic and military reforms, and eliminate the abuses of the Five Dynasties.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhao Kuangyin