In fact, Song Huizong doesn't want to stop people from eating dog meat. Only at that time, the treacherous court official was in power, and one of them, a treacherous court official named Cai Jing, went crazy with slanders. One day, this Cai Jing was full and had nothing to do. He wanted to flatter Song Huizong, so he gave him a memorial to please Song Huizong: "Dear Emperor Song Huizong, you are a dog, but how can you be eaten as the son of heaven?" I think you should ban the whole world from eating dog meat! Otherwise, it is a big disrespect for you! "And this Song Huizong obviously listened to this sentence, because he immediately wanted to issue an imperial edict prohibiting people from eating dog meat.
The reason why Cai Jing offered such slanderous remarks that people were forbidden to eat dog meat was also because courtiers at that time thought that dog meat was filthy and could not be served in elegant halls or even at the dinner table. That's why this Cai Jing will come up with such slanderers, but the people will suffer then. Because pork used to be so expensive that ordinary people couldn't afford it, they had to eat dog meat, a cheap and ordinary meat. If the "dog ban order" is really promulgated, people may starve to death.
At this time, a loyal minister named Li Gang said nine words: "God is a mouse, and Song has no cat?" This means that your father, Song Shenzong, is still a mouse. Do you still want the whole Song Dynasty to stop raising cats? Song Huizong was ashamed after hearing this sentence, which made the "dog ban" give up.