Taizu of the Song Dynasty laid a stone and locked it in the palace, so that his successor could ascend the throne, enter and kneel down to read. There are three precepts: first, to preserve the descendants of the Chai family; second, not to kill scholar-bureaucrats; third, not to endow farmland.
Zhou Ping was not a descendant of the royal family of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and he was not a literate scholar, and his ups and downs in his life were destined to miss the pastoral leisure life. Not only did Song Taizu's saintliness fail to shine on him, he was still enslaved by his descendants. He served tea and water on weekdays and acted as a human shield when he was assassinated. It's okay to sacrifice his life. This is the mission of a guard, but why did he have to sell his body to warm the bed in the end?
In order to keep his job and chastity, he could only fight against the feudal ruling forces represented by the young prince. From the southern barbarians to the northern barbarians, he fought bandits and guarded the border for Zhao Jiaping, pretending to be a loyal minister all his life, and finally could he escape the drastic changes in officialdom and imperial power...
Author's words: The word "weak Song" seems to be the best summary of this dynasty that ruled the Central Plains for 300 years. It does not have the ambition to "all the people in the world belong to the king", and it does not have the courage to "anyone who openly offends a strong man will be punished no matter how far away". Not mentioning that they drove to Mobei and went straight to Huanglong, they only settled in a corner, where extravagance became common and they were bullied by barbarians. However, it was this weak dynasty that created 80% of the world's fiscal revenue at that time and achieved the prosperity of "soldiers wearing uniforms and farmers walking on silk shoes". The powerful Han people who expanded their territory could not hide the fact that they had lost nearly half of the country's population. Throughout the history of China, the Song Dynasty is the dynasty farthest from the "prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer".
This article is a time-travel story with Zhenzong and Renzong of the Song Dynasty as the background. I have a background in science and have limited skills in classical writing. There will be annotations where there are references to history. If not, it is a fabrication.
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