The so-called regional black, that is, regional discrimination, reached its peak in the Northern Song Dynasty, and this discrimination spread to the whole South, so serious that southerners were not allowed to be human.
Portraits of southerners were banned in Song Dynasty, starting from Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shao Bowen recorded in Volume I that "Song Taizu forbids carving stones, saying that it is useless for later generations to paint portraits of southerners", so all the prime ministers appointed in the early Song Dynasty were northerners.
In order to impress future generations, Zhao Kuangyin ordered people to carve this ban on a stone and put it in the government hall of the Prime Minister's Office.
There are clear records about "carving stones in yamen" in Historical Records and National History. According to the records in "The Record of Kaiji Wannian" and "The History of Kaibao", Zhao Kuangyin wrote a sentence "Southerners are not allowed to sit in our hall" besides "future generations don't take southerners as portraits".
The emperor is like this, and the minister is more extravagant. For example, Kou Zhun, a generation of famous soldiers born in Shaanxi, is not only a black southerner, but also thinks that "it is not appropriate to have more officials in the south".
However, southerners are very competitive, and a few scholars will emerge from time to time. According to the test results, they should be admitted as the top scholar.
One year, for example, Kou Zhun presided over scientific research and was responsible for selecting the top scholar. Among them, there are two outstanding people, one is Cai Qi in Pingdu, Shandong, and the other is Xiaoguan in Jiangxi. As a result, Kou Zhun said that famous discriminatory language to the emperor, which made Cai Qi the top scholar. Afterwards, Kou Zhun even proudly said, "I won the top prize for the Central Plains again."
It seems that children compete with others for toys and finally win.
In contrast, Xiao Guan seems to be more outstanding. In the history of the Song Dynasty, he was said to be "handsome, talented and still full of energy" and "aggressive and out of touch with the world".
Selecting talents for our country is not based on talent, but on whether he is a northerner or not, otherwise he will stay in his cool place. Even a sage like Kou Zhun shows how deep the legacy of Scott's ancestors is!
Yan Shu, a famous writer (whose work is the famous sentence "Last night, the west wind withered the green trees, climbed the stairs alone and watched the world"), was almost harmed by Kou Zhun's prejudice.
At the age of 65,438+04, this child prodigy was recommended by Jiangnan to enter the palace for examination by caressing Zhang. I consulted 1000 people at an early age, and he was afraid to take pictures. Moreover, his literary talent is brilliant, such as flowing water. Song Zhenzong was very happy because he got the same background as a scholar.
Unexpectedly, Kou Zhun was very unhappy and told Song Zhenzong that Yan Shu was a foreigner. Song Zhenzong left him speechless: "Isn't Zhang Jiuling a foreigner, too?"
Zhang Jiuling, a native of Shaoguan, Guangdong, was an early scholar in Tang Zhongzong. When Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made his debut in Kaiyuan, he was an assistant minister in Zhongshu. He was a famous sage and poet in the Tang Dynasty, and he was also very famous in the whole history of China.
Song Zhenzong's words showed that the regional discrimination in the Tang Dynasty was also very serious, but the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was not one-track-minded, but also a "rebel" who dared to "break the routine" and used it to abandon prejudice and reuse southerners with both ability and political integrity.
There is also a subtext in Song Zhenzong's words, that is, "I can't do what the emperor of the Tang Dynasty can do for Mao".
From emperors to ministers, we can imagine how depressed southerners are, not to mention the direct result of this discrimination is "selecting talents and bringing more northerners".
This kind of discrimination has undoubtedly dealt a great blow to southerners and hurt their hearts, so that "many southerners have fallen."
Song Zhenzong, Zhao Heng (968- 1022)
But with the development of the times, emperors gradually enlightened. For example, Song Zhenzong mentioned above dared to break the rules set by his ancestors and planned to worship Wang Qinruo, a native of Xinyu, Jiangxi.
However, due to the deep-rooted prejudice against southerners, the then prime minister Wang Dan (from Hebei) cried as if he had been stepped on his tail: "There was no southerner in the ancestral dynasty!"
In order to prevent the appointment, Wang Dan not only reminded Zhenzong not to forget Mao's teachings, but also conscientiously did the boss's ideological work: "If Qin meets your Majesty, the ceremony has been postponed, and the loyalty of the two governments is also equal. In the dynasty of my ancestors, I have never seen a southerner. Although there is a saying in ancient times, a saint must be a saint if he has no way. As a prime minister, I dare not restrain others. This is also an open discussion. "
The effect is that the emperor has done enough for Wang Qinruo. Just leave him in the Privy Council or the two governments. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there is no precedent for southerners to be prime ministers. As a prime minister, I dare not obstruct the appointment of talents, but I can't be so capricious. This is what everyone means, not what I mean alone.
Wang Dan strongly opposed it, because once Wang Qinruo became prime minister, he would be on an equal footing with him and be in the same room. He is ashamed to associate with this "southerner".
Song Zhenzong saw that the Prime Minister's attitude was so firm that it was not easy to forcibly appoint him. It was not until Wang Dan abdicated ten years later (after his death) that Wang Qinruo was appointed as Prime Minister, which made Wang Qinruo's teeth itch: If it weren't for Wang Dan, I would have become Prime Minister ten years ago, and he delayed my youth!
After Wang Qinruo was appointed Prime Minister, he became the first person in the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, regardless of regional discrimination, there is nothing wrong with Wang Dan's original opposition to Wang Qinruo, because this guy is so disappointing that he has become a famous traitor, humiliating southerners and making people's prejudice against southerners more serious-we say that southerners can't be prime ministers, but you still don't believe it!
Then the question comes: Why did Zhao Kuangyin carve such a discriminatory stone? The reason is that after he usurped the throne, he inherited the territory of the later Zhou Dynasty, and the ruling center of the latter Zhou Dynasty was in the north. Therefore, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the important officials of North Korea were basically northerners, and the south was later shot down. Those "newcomers" think that they were raised by their first wife and southerners by their second wife, so it is not difficult to understand their contempt and rejection of southerners.
However, this discrimination against southerners is probably unpopular, so after Wang Qinruo was appointed as prime minister, someone moved Zhao Kuangyin's stone from the prime minister's office. "Because the official wall is not good, the stone has moved elsewhere, and I don't know where it is."
Since then, the imperial court appointed prime ministers and stopped geographical discrimination. The number of southerners who served as prime ministers gradually increased, so that they soon surpassed the northerners. But in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a great reversal. According to statistics, there were 62 prime ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, including 56 southerners and only 6 northerners.
Interestingly, although this prejudice has been broken in the appointment of court etiquette, it does not mean that the world is harmonious. For example, Wang Anshi's political reform, the core figures of Wang Anshi, Lv Huiqing, Zhang Dun, Ceng Bu and others who advocated political reform were all southerners, while the core figures of the opposition, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Lu Hui and Cheng Hao, were all northerners!
This is just a coincidence, or a "natural line" for people to group, and only they can understand it in their own hearts!