The short videos I watched from all dynasties

The Shu Han and Wei Kingdoms in the Three Kingdoms interface were very happy to see the joke of the Eastern Wu.

After the video was over, I wondered why it wasn't continued.

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Li Ranran continued to refresh the video and found another historical handwritten video.

[From criminal to prime minister]

[The Song Dynasty emphasized civil officials over military officials and guarded against military commanders throughout the dynasty. However, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, a general who reached the pinnacle of military rank appeared. He was Di Qing.

Although he was born in a poor family, he was fond of spears, sticks, riding and shooting. When Di Qing was a teenager, he had a dispute with a fellow villager and accidentally injured someone. He was thrown into prison by the government and exiled to the army. He became an unknown Qian soldier in the front line of the Song army. But Di Qing was proficient in riding and shooting, and served as a random soldier in the army.

In the first year of Baoyuan, Li Yuanhao of the Western Xia launched a rebellion and invaded the border of the Song Dynasty. The Song army fled at the sight of the enemy and collapsed at the first blow. The soldiers were defeated by the Western Xia many times and were afraid to fight. The officials of the Song Dynasty living in the capital were extremely anxious and uneasy. It was at this time that the court issued an edict to appoint Di Qing as the third shift messenger, palace attendant and commander of Yanzhou to go to the border to fight.

Di Qing often led the army as a vanguard in the first battle. He led his troops into the enemy camp and the enemy was thrown into chaos. This was the first defeat of the Western Xia in several months. Di Qing fought for four years and fought about 25 battles. He was hit by arrows eight times. He captured Jintang City and Youzhou, massacred the tribes of the Yanmie, burned tens of thousands of stones of grain in the Western Xia, confiscated more than 2,000 tents, captured more than 5,000 people, and built a castle in the enemy's key location. Even though Di Qing was seriously injured, he still led the charge every time. Because of Di Qing's bravery and fearlessness, the soldiers also rushed to be the first.

Di Qing often wore a bronze mask with his hair disheveled, and went in and out of the enemy's army. The Western Xia army was defeated and no one dared to stop him. He was called the Miannie General.

His outstanding military achievements over the years earned him the respect of the government, and Di Qing went from being a self-reliant and unknown person to a deputy privy envoy.

However, the higher his official position became, the more he was feared in the court.

In the fourth year of Emperor Renzong's reign, the barbarian Nong Zhigao of Guangyuan Prefecture rebelled, captured Yongzhou, and then captured several cities. The civil officials and commanders underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, and were defeated repeatedly. Emperor Renzong was extremely anxious, so Di Qing submitted a petition to fight. Di Qing led his army southward, attacked the enemy by surprise, crossed Kunlun Pass in one day and night, pursued the enemy for fifty miles, killed thousands of enemies, captured more than 500 rebels alive, seized tens of thousands of gold, silver, jade and silk, and thousands of livestock, and defeated the rebels.

Song Renzong was overjoyed and appointed Di Qing as Privy Councilor. After half a lifetime of military service, Di Qing finally rose to the highest position in the government, which was the highest power that a military officer in the entire Song Dynasty could get his hands on. The prominent status of a military officer made Di Qing incompatible with the era of civil administration. In the end, he was repeatedly impeached and demoted to Chenzhou.

In the second year of Jiayou reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, Di Qing, who had fought for half his life, died of depression under the criticism of the civil officials in the court. Di Qing was a soldier from Guizhou Province who came from a humble background, but he had made many military achievements and was feared by the civil officials who sat firmly in the court. The brave general who was good at fighting on the battlefield was always in a state of anxiety and died of fear.

Di Qing's ending is a collective microcosm of all Song Dynasty generals. He fought on the battlefield but was always suspected.

＜Di Qing's career was pretty good, and his ending was decent. From the beginning, Fan Zhongyan and other Qingli officials protected him, and Song Renzong was also okay and supported him all the way, so when he was demoted and sent out, he really didn't think clearly, alas＞

＜Not everyone is Su Shi, but everyone has Su Shi's heart. Di Qing felt that if he was transferred to another place to serve as an official, he would be monitored everywhere, and he was worried. In fact, the emperor still wanted to protect him, but Song Renzong was critically ill, and the civil officials were unwilling to let him go [sigh]＞

＜Xiao Di lacks a bit of political sense＞

＜Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, civil officials who were deeply loved by the emperor, suffered misfortune, let alone Di Qing. With the example of Emperor Taizu of Song, Zhao Kuangyin, the fate of military generals who were deeply loved by the army would not be good＞

＜Compared to Wang Deyong, Di Qing is pretty good. Wang Deyong: It’s not my fault that I look like Taizu [covering my face]＞

＜Di Qing's death was not as simple as a civil official forcing a military general to death. Di Qing had always been a man of Emperor Renzong of Song. Because Emperor Renzong wanted to change the ancestral system of valuing civil officials over military officials, Di Qing was pushed to the front. But he failed, and Di Qing became the target of public criticism from all the literati of Song Dynasty, and died in depression.＞

＜At that time, Song Renzong was facing serious border troubles and there were three redundancies in the country, so he wanted to improve the status of military men, but it was a pity for Di Qing＞

＜I found that...anyone whom Song Renzong wanted to use would be attacked by the crowd and had to leave, such as: Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Di Qing...＞

＜Han Qi insulted Di Qing by saying: "The one who sang the first place in the imperial examination outside Donghua Gate was a good boy, but how can this be a good boy?" [狗头]＞

＜Han Qi is not surprising [dog head]＞

＜Literati’s pens kill without shedding blood, their greatest skill is to “die in vain to repay the king”＞

＜That’s why I hate the Song Dynasty the most. Every generation spent money to buy peace. Which dynasty was more bloody than this one＞

＜Daseng is not worthy of Di Qing, Yue Fei, and Xin Qiji. What kind of people are those literati? Their hearts are worthy of death＞

＜Di Qing, a Northwest Army soldier, was doomed to be ostracized by this group of civil officials if he entered the central government. It would be better for him to be a frontier general＞

＜I don’t know if you have watched “The Great Hero Di Qing”, I loved this cartoon when I was a kid [cheers]＞

＜I hate censors the most, especially during the Song and Ming dynasties＞

<The civil officials of the Song Dynasty were just good at talking, and they forced the good men who defended their country to death>

＜A scholar is good for nothing＞

＜People like Di Qing, Yue Fei, and Xin Qiji were really born at the wrong time, and the Song Dynasty did not deserve them＞

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Li Ranran first learned about Di Qing when she was doing classical Chinese reading in high school. This handwritten video summarizes Di Qing's life very well.

People from all walks of life admired Di Qing's bravery, but also regretted his ending.

The Song Dynasty really wasted many good ministers and famous generals.

There are also many literati who are quite dissatisfied with Guangmu's evaluation of civil officials. How can the character of literati be said to be useless by later generations?

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Song Dynasty, the second year of Kaibao

Zhao Kuangyin was afraid to speak as the light curtain pointed at him, and veins on his clenched fists bulged.

Zhao Guangmei wanted to step forward but didn't dare to, because Zhao Kuangyin's face was so terribly gloomy.

What Zhao Kuangyin wanted was to take the military power of the generals into his own hands, not to let the civil officials ride on the heads of the generals!

The many restrictions on military generals are only to correct the trends of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, not to make the entire country weak!

"Let Zhao Pu come to see me."

Now Zhao Kuangyin didn't want to say anything to let future generations solve it. Ancestral system? Humph, who knows what the civil officials will say about it in the future?

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Song Dynasty, the first year of Baoyuan

Not long ago, Zhao Zhen was still lamenting that the famous Northern Song Dynasty general Wang Shao had disappeared, but he didn't expect that the famous general was right next to him.

The pinnacle military general of the Northern Song Dynasty, Di Qing!

Zhao Zhen found Fan Zhongyan and decided to give him full authority over the northwest affairs, and Han Qi returned to the court.

"Mr. Fan, do you know anything about Di Qing?"

Fan Zhongyan smiled and said, "Even if Guangmu doesn't mention it, I will recommend him to the emperor in the near future."

"Oh? It seems that he has caught your eye." Zhao Zhen laughed heartily. With Di Qing around, the chances of winning the war in the northwest were increased.

"However, Di Qing has not achieved much in the past ten years. Even with Guangmu's endorsement, if he is given an important task rashly, the government and the public may not accept it."

"Well, I understand." Zhao Zhen did not expect Fan Zhongyan to answer like this, so he gave up the idea of ​​promoting Di Qing as an exception.

Zhao Zhen sighed in his heart, saying that he had pushed Di Qing too high, which caused the suppression of the ministers.