Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

As a result, in history, when Song Gaozong Zhao Gou ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Chen Dong jumped out to question the legitimacy of Zhao Gou's succession to the throne.

That time Chen Dong obviously screwed up, and was chopped off by Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou.

After the Supreme Emperor returned to Beijing, the censor Sun Zhi and other officials immediately wrote a letter to impeach Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others.

Therefore, Emperor Zhao Huan ordered Cai Jing to retire in Yingtianfu, Nanjing, as the secretary of Zhongfeng doctor; ;Zhu Xie dismissed his officials and returned them to the fields.

Political struggle is not a dinner party, and a bloody purge is about to begin.

Chapter 9 Twelve Bandits Are Rampant

When the political cleansing began in the DPRK and China, Cai Jing, the Minister of Power of the Huizong Dynasty, was the first to bear the brunt.

When the Jin army went south, the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji gave the throne to Prince Zhao Huan, and he fled south to Yangzhou and Zhenjiang.

Although Cai Jing did not escape with the Supreme Emperor, he also went south with his family to escape the war and did not serve the new emperor Zhao Huan.

Moreover, Cai Jing's most promising son, Cai You, was once trained by the Supreme Emperor as a chancellor. He was a confidant of the Supreme Emperor, always accompanied the Supreme Emperor, and was the core figure of the small court.

As a banner of the Huizong Dynasty, Cai Jing and his son had to be knocked to the ground and stepped on a few more times.

Under the clamor of Tai student Chen Dong and others, scholars all over the world accused Cai Jing of being the head of the six thieves.

The censor Shi Sunzhi and others began to write letters to state his treachery, so Cai Jing was demoted to manage Nanjing as a secretary and supervisor. He lived in Hengzhou and moved to Shao , Dan Erzhou.

Cai Jing has reached the age of eighty, but he still has to be moved to Lingnan Yazhou, a place of smog and smog, alone overseas. This is because someone in the court deliberately wants to torture Cai Jing to death!

Even in order to force Cai Jing to death, the people in the court did not allow Cai Jing to go all the way too smoothly and comfortably, but tried every means to torture Cai Jing.

After Cai Jing was demoted and exiled, halfway through the journey, Emperor Zhao Huan actually sent someone to catch up with him, and used the imperial decree to take Cai Jing's concubines named Murong, Xing and Wu.

What's even worse is that Zhao Huan wanted to occupy Cai Jing's favorite concubine himself, but he did evil in the name of asking for it from the Jin man.

At this time, both Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang had led the army to withdraw to the north, but Zhao Huan was inexplicably blamed once.

Cai Jing and the three concubines were reluctant to leave, and wrote a poem to say goodbye: "For the love of peach blossoms and three red trees, every year provokes the east wind. Now go to chase someone else, who likes to respect the old man?"

Once he loses his power, he will be oppressed to this point, Cai Jing really has nowhere to say it is desolate!

However, losing the concubine's care is just the beginning, and the worst is yet to come.

When Cai Jing went to Danzhou to demote, he brought a lot of money with him, but now he has been completely fought and discredited by the court. The vendors along the way are afraid to avoid him and do not want to do his business, so they let Cai Jing spend money on the road. less than something.

Not only that, Cai Jing was insulted by the people along the way, and the county officials along the way also drove him away like a plague god.

After experiencing the heat and cold of the world, Cai Jing couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Jing lost people's hearts, why did this happen."

All the way to Tanzhou, Cai Jing was exhausted physically and mentally, and wrote a poem "Xijiang Moon" to express his state of mind:

"At the beginning of the eighty years, there is no home three thousand miles away,

Walk alone to the ends of the earth, looking at China from a distance and weeping.

The golden hall has paid homage to the prime minister five times, and the jade hall has preached hemp ten times.

Reminiscing about the prosperity of the past has turned into a dream here. "

Cai Jing's poem recalls the prosperity and wealth of his life, which is full of sentimentality.

Shortly thereafter, the lost Cai Jing died of illness in Chongjiao Temple in Tanzhou at the age of 80.

After the death of Cai Jing, who was betrayed by many relatives, his disciple Lu Chuanbian had a conscience and pooled money to bury him.

When Lu Chuanbian wrote the epitaph for Cai Jing, he left the sentence "the end of Tianbao, Yao and Song He are guilty", complaining for his teacher, thinking that Cai Jing cannot be blamed for the invasion of the Jin soldiers.

Tianbao is the reign title of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Yao Chong and Song Jing were the virtuous ministers during the Tianbao period, and they made great contributions to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

What Lu Chuanbian meant was that the An Lushan rebellion in the last years of Tianbao had nothing to do with Yao Chong and Song Jing, and similarly, the Jin army's southern invasion had nothing to do with former prime minister Cai Jing.

After Cai Jing's death, Cai You was also demoted to Yongzhou, and then to Leizhou.

After Cai You was exiled to Leizhou, the imperial court sent envoys to pursue him to Leizhou and bestowed him with death.

When Cai You was killed, Emperor Zhao Huan personally instructed in the edict that Cai Yu should not slip through the net.

So Cai Jing's other son, Cai He, was also killed together.

Cai Jing had nine sons, Cai Shu died early, Cai You, Cai Yu, and Cai Jing were executed, Cai Zi was exiled to Baizhou to die, Cai Yan was not punished for marrying the princess and did not become an official, Cai Jing's other sons and grandsons were all punished. Exiled to remote counties.

Cai Jiuzhifu, who had cooperated with Ximen Qing, was also unlucky and was exiled to the southwest frontier.

Fortunately, Ximenqing's trade network in the Jiangnan area has been established, and it has not been affected by it.

Cai Jing's family was politically purged, and the other five members of the "six thieves" did not escape the fate of being hunted down.

Although Liang Shicheng supported and protected Prince Zhao Huan during the battle between Zhao Huan and Zhao Kai for the heir apparent, he did not save his own life.

After Zhao Huan succeeded to the throne, he soon demoted Liang Shi and became the deputy envoy of the Changhua Army Jiedu.Liang Shicheng was hanged and killed by Zhao Huan when he was on the way.

Wang Fu was also confiscated from Zhao Huan's family at the beginning of his accession to the throne, demoted to the deputy envoy of the Chongxin Army Jiedu, and was executed by Kaifeng Yin Nieshan on the way.

Zhu Xi first dismissed his officials and released him to the fields, and then he was exiled to Xunzhou in Lingnan and imprisoned. Soon after, Emperor Zhao Huan sent envoys to Xunzhou to behead him and execute him.

Li Yan was also bestowed to death shortly after Emperor Zhao Huan ascended the throne.

Five of the "six thieves" had already died, and of course the remaining Tong Guan could not escape death either.

It can even be said that the princelings around the new emperor Zhao Huan want to kill Tong Guan the most.

Because among the so-called "six thieves", only Tong Guan has been in charge of the army for a long time.Not only did he have a Shengjie army composed of the children of the Western Army as his pro-army, but he also had a profound influence on the generals of the Western Army.

If Tong Guan is kept alive, the princelings may not be able to control all the Western Army smoothly.

Even with a little carelessness, Tong Guan might still be able to help the Supreme Emperor restore power!

In order not to stir up a mutiny, Zhao Huan and his ministers took Tong Guan slowly. At first, they demoted Tong Guan as the general of the left guard and asked him to retire and become an official.

After Tong Guan handed over his military power, he was demoted successively to be the deputy envoy of Jiedu of Zhaohua Army, first to Yingzhou on Guangnan East Road, and then to Jiyang Army in Yazhou.

Jiyang Army is Sanya, Hainan Island, a tourist attraction for later generations, the so-called ends of the earth.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, being demoted to this place was not for vacation, but for fear of life.

Because at this time, whether Hainan is called Danzhou or Yazhou, it is a remote, wild and dangerous place.

Compared with the prosperity of the Central Plains, the hardships of committing crimes and performing meritorious deeds here are distasteful.

In addition, the Qiongzhou Strait has been an insurmountable sky cushion since ancient times, with high winds and rough waves, it is easy to sink ships.