Song Gexing

Chapter 283 The rearrangement of the Goryeo girls

The literary talent of the Song Dynasty is not about the beauty of Song poetry. If it is because of Song poetry, then wouldn’t Tang poetry, Han Fu, and Chu poetry be beautiful?

The best Chinese poems and poems were written in the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, from the Seven Sons of Jian'an to the end of Jiang Lang's talents. Luoyang Zhigui is talking about that era.

But was there culture in the Southern and Northern Dynasties? It was a chaotic time of cannibalism, and poetry ended in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Poetry creation was said in one sentence, and it has become extinct after the Tang Dynasty.

However, the two Song Dynasties are called the Great Song Dynasty for literary talent. From this, we can see that it has nothing to do with poetry. It is about the emergence of New Confucianism, which is the peak of civilization.

It is for this reason that the ancients believed that poetry was a minor thing. It was just a pastime for literati and officials after tea and dinner, and could not be regarded as culture.

Later generations only criticized the Song Dynasty for emphasizing literature over martial arts, but few people reflected on the fact that without the literary talent of the Song Dynasty, Chinese civilization would have been swept into barbarism long ago.

The successive troubled times have caused the civilization since the Han Dynasty to lose its color. In fact, not many years after the revival of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it fell into troubled times again for a hundred years.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had no intention of promoting Chinese culture. The feudal towns were separated for more than a hundred years, followed by the troubled times of the Five Dynasties. There was no civilization at all.

The greatest achievement of the Song Dynasty was the revitalization of Chinese civilization, which made the Jin and Yuan Dynasties who later took over the Central Plains have to be influenced by this civilization and consciously pass it on.

This is the reason why the official history does not recognize the Liao Dynasty and only recognizes the Song Dynasty as the successor to the Tang Dynasty even though the Song Dynasty and Liao Dynasty existed side by side.

In terms of influence on the world at that time, the Liao Dynasty actually surpassed the Song Dynasty. To this day, the Turkic-speaking countries in the Middle East still refer to China with the pronunciation of Khitan.

But the Yuan Dynasty only recognized the Song Dynasty. Don’t forget that the Mongols and the Khitans were both descendants of the Xianbei people, but they just ignored the Liao Dynasty.

The reason is precisely this, because although the Liao Dynasty was Sinicized and learned Chinese culture, it did not carry forward the Han culture and only existed in learning and imitation.

The Song Dynasty created New Confucianism on the basis of Old Confucianism, forming a new situation of contention among various schools of Confucianism, which contributed to the progress of civilization to a level that Daliao could not reach.

Ancient scholar-bureaucrats have always had a concept that a country can perish but a culture cannot perish. Once the culture perishes, the race also perishes and there will never be a chance to stand up again.

The most typical example is Persia, a country that used to be on par with China. Can you still call them Persians now? No, they are already Arabs.

Persia used to be as inclusive as the Chinese civilization and was good at absorbing foreign cultures, but now there is only one culture left, and it is not the culture of its own nation.

It can be said that apart from the genetic testing of the ancient Persian race, there is no way to tell the difference between them and the Arabs.

Imagine that if we did not have the cultural support of the Song Dynasty, we would probably be no different from the Japanese and would not resist the Japanese invasion of China.

With Zhao Fang's Song Dynasty, the most famous Neo-Confucianism now is Zhang Zai's Guan Xue. Especially after shouting out the four sentences of Hengqu, the entire Song Dynasty was shocked.

With Zhang Zai's support, Zhao Fang's voice of being criticized for his immorality was quickly suppressed. The Imperial Academy and the Imperial Academy began to turn around. The crusade against corrupt officials was the cause of the change. With the emperor Nothing to do.

Zhao Fang could only pray silently for the officials who had been raped, and did not dare to complain for them. The Song Dynasty immediately began a campaign to severely investigate corrupt officials.

Fortunately, this is not without its benefits. After all, no matter what era, corrupt officials cannot be eradicated. This time, the inspection really found many moths, which can be regarded as a satisfactory answer to this natural disaster.

Only Zhao Fang himself was worried, because he claimed that he had no bad ethics, but he was not sure whether he had.As far as other bad things are concerned, he's sure he didn't have them, but he's committed a lot of sex with women, and some of them are against the morality of a benevolent monarch.

As for the beauties of Goryeo who were left behind by him, they included the former Princess of Goryeo and the two princesses. The younger princess was still young and had not been touched, but the eldest princess was already 15 years old and had already been harmed by him.

And there are more than just these three, there are also several couples of wives and daughters of high-ranking officials, but after being taken into the harem, no one will talk about their previous identities.

Of course, it does not mean that they are all mother and daughter, but it is true that they are in terms of status. Like the Song Dynasty, all concubines in Goryeo must call their aunt as their mother, while their biological mothers are called Xiaoniang.

After muttering for a few days, Zhao Fang finally gritted his teeth and issued an order that all the remaining Korean girls in the palace who had never slept with them should gather together, be taught by female officials, and find husbands for them.

The older ones will get married immediately, and the younger ones will marry after they are raised. In short, this matter cannot continue. Only those who used to sleep with them have no choice but to stay.

He didn't dare to marry someone else. After this cleanup, there were still nine people left with him, which shows how many people Zhang Dun, the bad guy, had arrested.

But as soon as he returned to the palace that day, he saw the young eunuch coming to report: "Your Majesty, Beauty Zheng asked to see you, and she has been staying there."

"Beauty Zheng?"

Zhao Fang was suspicious and remembered who it was. It was Princess Zheng Suyuan of Goryeo. She had the highest status among all Goryeo women and was second only to the queen in Goryeo.

Zhao Fang left her at the beginning not because of her beauty, but because of her identity. Her father was one of the three guardians of Goryeo and controlled a large number of Goryeo troops.

After Zhang Dun captured Goryeo, he did not kill all the powerful people. That was impossible. Let alone whether he could kill them all, the resistance provoked by a massacre was a contradiction that was difficult to deal with.

Therefore, the principle of killing one group and pulling another group was adhered to. Zheng Suyuan's family was pro-Song Dynasty. Therefore, after the palace was breached, the Zheng family chose to surrender and strongly supported Zhang Dun to calm the people.

In exchange for this, the Zheng family will continue to have high-ranking officials and generous salaries. As long as they hand over their military power, many of the family's children will be recommended to become officials.

Zheng Suyuan didn't come to Bianjing originally, but her father and brother persuaded her to go to Beijing to serve Zhao Fang, and Zhang Dun also agreed to help, so she was sent to Bianjing.

Therefore, Zhao Fang did not dislike her for being a widow and having given birth to a child, so he immediately made her a beauty and brought her into his harem.

Of course, a woman who can be a royal concubine is naturally good-looking, and her charm skills are skills she has learned a long time ago, so Zhao Fang treats her well.

Hearing that she had come to see him at this time and was still waiting, Zhao Fang couldn't help but hesitate, raised his hand helplessly and said: "Let her come in."

After a while, a beautiful and charming woman walked in, bowed and said: "I pay homage to the official, the official must make the decision for me."

As he said this, a burst of crying sounded, which gave Zhao Fang a headache.

"Stop crying, just say what you have to say. People who cry will think I'm bullying you."

Zhao Fang disliked women crying the most. None of his previous treasures were like this. Even Song Yinzhang, who looked like a charming little lady, would not cry.

(End of this chapter)