However, although such traitors are evil, they are not all incompetent. In fact, some treacherous court officials are brilliant and have special skills. For example, the following four traitors.
I. Cai Jing
Cai Jing is a famous traitor in the history of China. Together with Cai Jing, Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian and Li Bangyan, they are called "Six Thieves of Northern Song Dynasty". Cai Jing was the first of the six thieves in the Northern Song Dynasty. These six people are insatiable, perverting the law and judging, and doing evil, which makes people miserable. When people sing "it's a good world to pour vegetables into a bucket."
It is said that Cai Jing was born a traitor, fierce and cunning, playing politics. Cai Jing was a follower of Wang Anshi's political reform, but Wang Anshi was demoted. He actively supported the conservative Sima Guang and was praised by Sima Guang. Only from this point of view, Cai Jing is a speculator who has taken refuge in the imperial court. Moreover, in front of Song Huizong, Cai Jing tried to flatter and encouraged Song Huizong to make every effort to satisfy his enjoyment with Kyushu's financial resources. It was also because of his Hua Shi Gang that he caused great disasters to the people in the southeast, which led to the Fang La Uprising and dealt a heavy blow to the Northern Song Dynasty.
Of course, Cai Jing ended badly. After the subjugation of the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Jing was exiled to Lingnan. People don't sell him a soup and a meal on the way. Finally, in a ruined temple, Cai Jing, whose eyesight was dim with hunger, swallowed saliva and died. After his death, he was buried in Louze Garden without a coffin, specially for the homeless.
However, it is worth mentioning that Cai Jing is a talented person. He is a child prodigy. It is said that he can recite Ming history at the age of 4. Later, at the age of 23, he was a scholar and ranked ninth. He worked as a scholar in Xining, Song Shenzong for three years.
Therefore, Cai Jing was actually a person with good academic performance, and later became an official by his own efforts and talents. And Cai Jing has a more powerful skill, that is, his calligraphy.
Cai Jing has great attainments in the art of calligraphy. His calligraphy is unique. In fact, the four great calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai, all referred to Cai Jing, but Cai Jing had a bad reputation and was later replaced by Cai Xiang.
Cai Jing's calligraphy even Mi Fei, a great calligrapher who was proud of his talent, once said that his calligraphy could not catch up with Cai Jing. Cai Jing once asked Mi Fei, "Who is the best calligrapher today?" Mi Fei replied, "After Liu Tang's boxing, it will be you and your brother Cai Bian." Cai Jing asked again, "What's next?" Miffy said, "Of course it's me."
There is another story about Cai Jing's calligraphy. It is said that one summer, two officials were very flattering to Cai Jing and kept fanning him. Cai Jing was so happy that he asked for a fan and wrote two lines of Du Fu's poems on it.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, these two officials suddenly made a fortune. Cai Jing was curious to ask why. Finally, I learned that Duan Wang spent 20 thousand yuan on their fans.
Wang was later, as we know, he was also a talented and accomplished art student. No wonder they can become good friends.
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, 20,000 yuan was equivalent to the total income of a middle-income family in Tokyo.
Two. Qin Gui
Qin Gui is almost a household name traitor. I'm afraid he is the most famous traitor in the history of China. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Gui was a pacifist, and pursued a peaceful policy of ceding territory, surrendering and paying tribute. On the second pilgrimage, he tried his best to belittle the anti-Jin soldiers and prevent them from recovering. At the same time, he is also one of the famous treacherous court officials in the history of China. He founded a private party, denounced dissidents and rose to prison repeatedly.
Qin Gui is most famous for framing and killing Yue Fei, the famous anti-gold sol.
But Qin Gui is as talented as Cai Jing. Qin Gui was born in the imperial examination and became a scholar at the age of 25. His calligraphy attainments are also quite high. He writes very well, especially seal script. Later, Ming Dynasty historian Tao called it "impressive". What's more worth mentioning is that the style of popular songs used by China people is said to come from Qin Gui.
It is said that when dealing with official documents, Qin Gui found that these official documents from all over the country had different fonts and were not standardized, so he devoted himself to studying fonts, decided to implement a standard, and finally chose Song Huizong's "slimming method". Qin Gui created a unique font based on it.
Later, this kind of "font" created by Qin Gui was discovered by the emperor and was widely popularized throughout the country. So that this font gradually evolved into "Song Style" for printing. Xu Huixin's "thin body" and Qin Gui's "Song Style" come down in one continuous line, so that some people say that Song Style is a printing form of "thin body".
In fact, until now, Song Ti is still the most widely used font.
However, for this matter, history is doubtful, some people think it is not, and some people think it is. The main reason is that Qin Gui is a traitor. So this font is not Qin style, but Song style. We don't know who is right or wrong, but there is no doubt that Qin Gui has a high attainments in calligraphy.
Three. Yan Song
Yan Song is also a famous traitor in history. In fact, Yan Song himself has no ability to be an official. His only ability is to charm him in time and steal his power for nothing. After he entered the officialdom, he actually only did four things: first, flattery, second, playing tricks on people, third, seizing power, and fourth, asking for bribes.
Yan Song is greedy. In a.d. 1565, in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Yan Song was robbed, and he got more than 30,000 taels of gold and two million taels of silver, which was equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of the whole country at that time. In addition, there are millions of acres of land, more than 6,000 houses, and countless rare antiques and famous calligraphy and painting.
Yan Song, who was born in poverty, certainly didn't inherit it, so it can only be the result of corruption and bribery. So Yan Song is a famous traitor and corrupt official.
But it is worth mentioning that Yan Song is also very talented. He has been smart and studious since he was a child. Enlightened at Yanshi Temple at the age of five, entered the county school at the age of nine, got promoted in the county at the age of ten, got promoted at the age of nineteen, and entered imperial academy at the age of twenty-five.
So Yan Song was actually a good student, a top student and a child prodigy since childhood. Of course, the reason why Yan Song became a favorite and hot official of Emperor Jiajing was related to his unique skills, that is, he was good at writing green characters.
At that time, Jiajing was obsessed with immortality and was willing to pray for heaven with green words. Green words are not easy to write. It is a kind of prose, which demands the emperor's respect and sincerity for the gods in the sky, and can be expressed in extremely gorgeous words.
As it happens, Yan Song's clear words are well written. It is said that only Qing Ci written by Yan Song can satisfy Emperor Jiajing. Later, people ridiculed him as "the Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty".
Four. Xiaoshenyang
I believe everyone must know that corrupt officials are small Shenyang. In fact, Xiao Shenyang himself is very smart and not as ignorant as the legend says.
Little Shenyang has amazing memory, intelligence, agility and versatility. Little Shenyang is proficient in four languages. Gan Long specifically mentioned in Yueyang Tower that Little Shenyang is proficient in Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan. Thanks to his ability, he has made great achievements in daily government affairs. In particular, people who know Tibetan are needed to handle Tibetan affairs, and Xiao Shenyang is a talent in this field. In this regard, Xiao Shenyang has made outstanding contributions to the court.
Therefore, traitors are generally slaves, and slaves must have special skills, otherwise they will not be favored by the emperor. Therefore, it is necessary to treat treacherous court officials dialectically, instead of generalizing.