Why did Song Taizong set fire to the ancient city of Jinyang?

Because the city of Jinyang has given Song Taizong too much humiliation, he has failed here many times, so he is out of sight and out of mind.

must have been because he had too many grievances in his heart and had nowhere to vent, and finally chose to set fire to the entire ancient city, which is enough to prove that he is ruthless.

On the one hand, it is to vent the embarrassing results of three defeats. On the other hand, it is for fear that someone will take advantage of the geographical advantages of this place to carry out rebellion or secession.

It is a bit unconvincing that a generation of emperors burned down the city because of their hatred, and the longer-term consideration should be to prevent the enemy from returning to Jinyang City to pose a threat to himself.

Song Taizong lost three times in a row in the ancient city of Jinyang, which was indeed a very shameful thing for an emperor, so he burned this ancient city.

I think the main reason is that this ancient city gave Song Taizu too many constraints, just to vent himself.

Song Taizong has been defeated in the ancient city of Jinyang three times, and as an emperor, he definitely doesn't want to see such a shameful place again.

Song Taizong was once defeated three times in the ancient city of Jinyang, and it may also be because of this reason, so he was very disappointed with this ancient city.

I think it's mainly because Song Taizong was very humiliated, because he failed three times in this ancient city.

Zhao Guangyi was not only afraid that someone would rebel or divide the city with the strong Jinyang City, but also afraid that Taiyuan, which condensed the spirit of the king, would appear to compete with him for the throne.

Abstract: On May 18, Zhao Guangyi ordered the people of Jinyang City to go out of the city, and then asked people to burn Jinyang City clean, and after burning, he asked Li Xianhe to lead Fenshui to the city, and flooded Jinyang again. So far, the famous city that has flourished for nearly a thousand years is buried underground.

"Jinyang City" is Taiyuan, Shanxi, and the current Taiyuan City is no longer a city, and has long been buried deep underground by Song Taizong. Jinyang City is the ancient political and administrative center, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Northern Huai Song Dynasty, Jinyang City has always played a more important role. Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Yuan raised troops from Taiyuan, and then dug the entire Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop, so in the Tang Dynasty, Jinyang City was the most prosperous city in addition to Luoyang, Tokyo and Chang'an, Xijing, also known as "Beijing".

Moreover, in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the former Qin, the former Jin, the Later Jin, the Later Han, and the Northern Han all took Jinyang as their capital, which can also see its historical significance. But when it came to Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, he burned Jinyang City clean, why is this?

In 976 AD, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, died mysteriously, and the Empress Song knew that she urgently notified Zhao Defang, the son of Taizu, to come over and prepare to discuss the succession. But as soon as the next person went out, he bumped into Zhao Guangyi who came in a hurry, and Queen Song was startled when she saw Zhao Guangyi, and then changed her words and asked: "The fate of our mother and son will be entrusted to you in the future!"

It means that the emperor will be you in the future, and you have to take good care of our mother and son. In this way, Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne and became emperor.

The reasons why Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, burned the ancient city of Jinyang are as follows:

1. Because Zhao Guangyi was afraid that someone would rebel or divide the city of Jinyang with the strength of the city;

2, because Zhao Guangyi was afraid that Taiyuan, who condensed the king's sedan chair, would appear to compete with him for the throne;

To sum up, Zhao Guangyi ordered the burning of Jinyang on May 18, less than half a month after the fall of Jinbi Muyang.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, in the seventeenth year of Jin Pinggong (541 B.C.), after the victory of the Northern Expedition of Xun Wu, the general of the Jin State, he built Jinyang City in the Taiyuan area, and after the three families were divided into Jin, Jinyang was the capital of Zhao State for a long time.

Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was once named the "Duke of Tang" for guarding Taiyuan, and it was here that he raised troops against the Sui and eventually established the Tang Dynasty.

Subsequently, there were Later Tang Dynasty, Later Jin Dynasty, Later Han Dynasty, Northern Han Dynasty and other countries or Longxing in Jinyang, or Jinyang as the capital, so Jinyang has the nickname of "Dragon City".

The Northern Han Dynasty was the only country in the north of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and although its territory was small, it also became a major problem for the Later Zhou and Northern Song Dynasty due to the support of the Khitan forces.

Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong and Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, were known for their heroic expeditions to the Northern Han Dynasty, but they all ended in failure.

In the early days of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, with the efforts of the brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi, many separatist regimes in the south, such as the Southern Tang Dynasty and Houshu, were eliminated one after another, and the Central Plains region was basically unified. Under the guidance of the strategy of "first the south and then the north", Zhao Guangyi could finally face the enemy in the north.

In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo (979 AD), Zhao Guangyi, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, finally broke through Jinyang City after paying a huge price, Liu Jiyuan, the late emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, surrendered, and the Northern Han Dynasty perished.

However, not long after the annexation of the Northern Han Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi set up a huge temporary resettlement area outside the city of Jinyang, where all the people of Jinyang were located, and then ordered the ancient city with a history of more than 1,500 years to be set on fire, and then Fenshui was introduced into the ruins, and the city of Jinyang has been wiped out since then.

The reason why Zhao Guangyi did this was because he had a deep hatred for the stubborn Northern Han, but he was more worried that the Northern Han was under the cover of the Khitan forces, and once the Song Dynasty troops withdrew, it would be difficult to ensure the peace of the land.

In addition, there have been many emperors in Jinyang since ancient times, and Song Taizong, who has long been suspected of the improper way of the throne, is also worried that there will be another emperor here, threatening his rule.

Five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the Central Plains divided large and small regimes, when the Song Dynasty eliminated these separatist regimes one by one, they would destroy the capitals of these small countries, because they were afraid that later people would rely on the strong city to divide again, this Nian Sando is obviously because it was frightened by the chaos of the five dynasties, so the Song Dynasty will take such an extreme, but after the secession of the south is eliminated, it does not matter, but it is not considered to do it again in the north, because the danger comes from the north. The great city of Jinyang, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, the last regime of the Five Dynasties, eventually disappeared into the hands of Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty.

Song Taizong and his brother had two regrets until his death: one was that he did not recover the sixteen states of Yanyun; Second, the Northern Han Dynasty was not eliminated. It is said that the Northern Han army defending Jinyang at that time could see millions of arrows in the city one day, which shows the fierce attack of the Song army.

In the end, the Northern Han Emperor Li Jiyuan came out to surrender, and Song Taizong generously pardoned him, but the residents of the city at that time were still desperately resisting the Song army, and he did not surrender when he threw stones and tiles on the roof.

Because the place of Jinyang is too evil, in the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, Li Keyong of the Later Tang Dynasty, Shi Jingjiao of the Later Jin Dynasty, Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty, and Guo Wei Xiaoshan of the Later Zhou Dynasty all grew up in Jinyang, so Song Taizong thought that Jinyang had a dragon vein, and then Jinyang must be destroyed in order to protect the country for ten thousand years, so Zhao Guangyi ordered to dig up the "dragon head" near Jinyang.

In the end, one of the reasons why Zhao Guangyi destroyed Jinyang was that Jinyang, a fortified city, was close to the Liao State in the north, and this place must be defended by a warlike general, but the rebellion of a warlike general is still the easiest to succeed, once they collude with the Liao Dynasty, isn't it another "Northern Han"? So destruction is necessary.

In the end, Zhao Guangyi ordered the residents of the city to be forcibly taken out of the city, and the last fire burned the whole city, and finally brought Fen water for irrigation, and finally completely destroyed Jinyang. His short-sightedness caused the Northern Song Dynasty to lose a strategic town, and whether the Liao Dynasty, the Later Jin, or the Mongols in the north could sweep the Central Plains southward without scruples, all because the important towns were destroyed, the Song army had no strong stronghold in the north at all, and Zhao Guangyi's short-sightedness also laid a hidden danger for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. What do you think of the position of the Zai Sheng clan in Jinyang?

Although it may have led to the destruction of this ancient Qingqi mountain city at that time, but his country was preserved, if this ancient city was not preserved because of the difficulty at that time, then the current consequences may not be like this, and it may directly affect the development of countries in the future.