1, touching the interests of other officials.

The system of "door shadow" and "accepting millet" in the Song Dynasty led to excessive redundancy and decreased quality. Fan Zhongyan decided to weaken the "Menyin" group first, which touched the interests of most people. As a result, a considerable number of big bureaucrats, local officials and big eunuchs began to collude in secret and organized forces to plan and eradicate Fan Zhongyan.

2. Plants and Frames

Xia Song, a former minister, was impeached and demoted by Ouyang Xiu and others, so he hated Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu very much. He asked the maid to imitate Shi Jie's handwriting, tampered with a letter written by Shi Jie to Fu Bi, and tampered with the added contents, suggesting that he would launch a coup and dismount Injong. Xia Song gave this letter to Injong, which is a big newspaper. Renzong read this letter, but if he didn't believe it, he was also suspicious.

3. Touched the most sensitive political pain point since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Ouyang Xiu's On Clans not only does not shy away from factional issues, but also admits that everyone is indeed forming a clique. For Song Renzong, this is an extremely sensitive and serious political issue. Coupled with the voice of opposition to reform inside and outside the imperial court, Renzong made up his mind to expel Fan Zhongyan from the central government in order to maintain the autocratic rule of the emperor.

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The Relationship between Fan Zhongyan and Qingli New Deal

1, the initiator of Qingli New Deal

Fan Zhongyan visited the front line of the Xixia War and witnessed the fiasco of the Northern Song army, which aroused his concern for social reality. As soon as he returned to Beijing, he immediately wrote to ask for reform, so Fan Zhongyan was a representative of the reformists.

2. The leader of Qingli New Deal.

Fan Zhongyan presided over the Qingli New Deal in an all-round way, and his ten points were the central contents of the Qingli New Deal. These ten reform measures make it very feasible to put forward the two major disadvantages of poverty and weakness, internal troubles and foreign invasion in the Northern Song Dynasty.

3. Victims of the failure of Qingli New Deal.

With the gradual development of Qingli New Deal, the interests of conservative forces have been touched more and more. They tried their best to obstruct the reform, and the implementation of the New Deal was not thorough. Soon, Song Renzong could not resist the pressure of conservatives and abolished the reform measures of Qingli New Deal, which failed.

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