Although Cai Jing has problems in national affairs, at least his knowledge is quite high. Today, he is at least a senior intellectual. Now doctors, masters and professors are not as high as him. In ancient times, he was also a first-class scholar.
I'm afraid everyone knows Cai Jing's good handwriting, but how valuable is his handwriting? One summer, the weather was very hot In order to please Cai Jing, two small officials in Cai Jing stood by and kept fanning him.
When Cai Jing was happy, he called a fan and wrote two poems by Du Fu on it. Unexpectedly, this fan was bought by an expert for 20 thousand yuan in a few days. It can be seen how valuable Cai Jing's calligraphy is. It's really worth a word.
Let's look at Cai Jing's character again. Cai Jing has an unshirkable responsibility for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. He is a capricious, insidious villain. After he came to power, he almost tossed the DaSong Dynasty, and retribution followed. What is even more intriguing is that it was not others who brought down Cai Jing, but his son Cai You. Actually, Cai You is not a good person. Impeachment of father does not put justice above family interests, but a power struggle between father and son.
After Song Qinzong acceded to the throne, Cai Jing was sent to join the army at the strong request of officials. When he left, he packed several cars of gold, silver and jewels that he usually plundered, so that he could live a stable life. But what he didn't expect was that people in the Song Dynasty hated him, and no matter how much money he paid, no one sold the traitors anything to eat. When he barely walked to Changsha today, he had to live in a ruined temple in the south of the city because he had nowhere to live.
After a long journey and hunger, Cai Jing starved to death in a ruined temple. After Cai Jing's death, there was no coffin, so he had to wrap it in cloth and bury it on a desolate rocky hill. Cai Jing also ended his greedy life.
Cai Jing (1047 February 14- 1 126 August 1 1), a calligrapher, was one of the influential figures in the Northern Song Dynasty. Four prime ministers, seventeen years, the first person in ancient and modern times. To be a minister and a person above ten thousand people, you must have some talent and courage to govern the country. Cai Jing also made some achievements in his official career, such as changing the salt method and tea method, and casting ten large sums of money. Cai Jing also contributed to Sima Guang's coming to power and restoring the official law. But people are often greedy, and the higher their status, the more endless their greed will be. Cai Jing's greedy nature is also exposed in the gradual elevation of his status.
Cai Jing's greed made him the first of the famous "Six Thieves" at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was included in the list of traitors in the history of China, which was as hateful as Qin Gui. Liang Qichao summarized the treacherous court officials in ancient China, including Cai Jing. If such a treacherous court official falls one day, it will certainly come to no good end. Cai Jing was exiled to Lingnan after the incident. Before he left, he packed a boat full of human ointment (gold and silver treasures) from the people and took three women with him. But according to historical records, Cai Jing starved to death on his way to Lingnan. How could he starve to death with so much gold and silver?
It turns out that the merchants in the Northern Song Dynasty are not some businessmen who forget their interests and are unwavering in the face of money. People hate Cai Jing, a big corrupt official and treacherous court official, so people along the way heard that this person is Cai Jing and didn't sell him anything. The hotel owner refused to open a room for him, the restaurant refused to give him food, and the vendor refused to sell him daily necessities and food. On the 3,000-mile road from Kaifeng to Changsha, it is difficult for Cai Jing to buy a bite of rice, a dish and a cup of tea. When he arrived in Changsha, he had nowhere to rest and had to live in a ruined temple in the south of the city. He was sick, sleepy, hungry and cold, and the all-powerful man on weekdays finally realized the "cold and warm" of the world. At this point, he really introspected: "Beijing has lost the hearts of the people, why not?" Finally, I starved to death. After my death, because there was no coffin, I had to wrap the body in a cloth and bury it in a leaky garden, which was specially for the poor, the sick and the homeless.
Cai Jing's statement of starvation is somewhat inaccurate, because information dissemination in ancient times was not as developed as it is now, and it is impossible for everyone to know Cai Jing himself. No one will recognize him as long as he doesn't claim to be Cai Jing wherever he goes. Third, on the 3,000-mile journey from Kaifeng to Changsha, no vendor will be bought off by money and won't sell what Cai Jing needs? Therefore, hunger sounds unlikely. The reason why this statement has been handed down is that people in the Song Dynasty hated corrupt officials and hoped that these corrupt officials who brought disaster to the country and people would come to no good end.
Cai Jing's starvation was a joke, but it ended badly, especially for his descendants. Cai Jing has eight sons, Cai Shu died young, Cai You and Cai? Punished, Cai? Exiled to Baizhou to die, Cai Jing's other children and grandchildren were exiled to remote counties, only Cai? Not punished for marrying the princess.
No matter how beautiful these corrupt officials were before their death, they will not come to a good end in the end. After their death, they will only be reviled and become sinners through the ages. Cai Jing's death also sounded the alarm for future generations, telling those corrupt officials that they would not come to a good end in the end, and it also explained a problem: the living environment of corrupt officials is definitely not optimistic.