In fact, Jiajing basically felt the same way before.
The so-called prosperous age should be almost like Tokyo Menghualu, and then it starts to turn from prosperity to decline.
I used to feel that all this was controlled by some god. In order not to fight against the sky, Zhang Cong’s reforms in front of me also ended hastily. Many of them, knowing that they were good policies, Xia Yan and Yan Song came to power. Then forget about it being abolished one after another.
Perhaps it is necessary to maintain this state of starvation to ensure the stability of the country.
However, when Liao Shengzong's set of Confucian ethics was implemented, not only was it not stable, but the government irreversibly collapsed after his death, giving Jiajing a resounding slap in the face.
After Liao Shengzong passed away, his eldest son Xingzong, who was nearly 16 years old, succeeded to the throne.
It is ridiculous that the moral people supported by Liao Shengzong quickly gathered around Queen Mother Fatian and wanted to create a replica of Queen Mother Xiao, even at the expense of changing the throne.
The weird thing is here. Empress Dowager Xiao had the most contempt for these moral people in her life, so Han Derang, who was born in a medical family, ignored these Confucian scholars. But when this group of Confucian scholars gathered together and lost the control of Liao Shengzong, their first thought was to create the next Empress Dowager Xiao.
Fortunately, Liao Xingzong quickly quelled it with thunderous means.
But after this, the government and the public became suspicious, the monarchs and ministers were alienated, and the decline of Daliao was inevitable.
In addition, another purpose of Liao Shengzong's return to Confucianism was also completely defeated during the reign of Emperor Tianzuo.
That is the orthodoxy represented by Confucianism.
Orthodoxy is destiny.
In this way, even if there is occasional political turmoil in Daliao in the future, this legitimacy will call on people with lofty ideals to turn the tide.
In this way, even if Daliao is facing death and destruction in the future, this legitimacy will call on people with lofty ideals to help the building collapse.
But what about the reality
Since Emperor Tianzuo, the last emperor of Daliao, succeeded to the throne, the government has been in chaos. The female straight people marched straight into the capital to conquer Linhuang Mansion.
Although the military strength at that time was already in disrepair, it could still fight.
However, none of the nobles around Shangjing, including the eunuchs of Huangzhuang, obeyed the order to clear the country, resulting in a large amount of property being used to finance the enemy. The straight woman, who obviously had the mentality of hunting grass in the valley, started to have thoughts about Daliao.
Of course, because their own manor was destroyed, the nobles in Shangjing City all blamed it on King Qin's border troops in order to vent their anger. Because of the policy of providing supplies only when entering the city, the towns surrounding Shangjing refused to allow border troops to enter the city.
The ending was that countless border troops died in the battle outside Shangjing City, and due to their defeat, the general of the border army was completely convicted of collaborating with the enemy.
Since the first time they went to Beijing and were besieged, although the civil servants and nobles of Daliao were in a fierce mood, the generals had no words. At the same time, since then, Daliao has never had any success in field battles against female straight people.
The result was that when the female straight people invaded the army for the second time, a large number of noble officials and ministers defected and surrendered.
In the late Liao Dynasty, Emperor Tian Zuo did not dare to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in various donations. Every year, they wait for the coins sent from the Northern Song Dynasty to survive. In the last few years, the Northern Song Dynasty refused to send him away, and the Liao Dynasty was even more difficult.
In this critical period of life and death, the total donations from the state leaders, ministers and other officials to Qiancheng were only a few thousand taels of silver.
The strange thing is that when the Nüzhi invaded Beijing, they looted tens of millions of taels of silver and eight million coins.
Until the final fall of Nanjing, a total of 30 million taels of silver, more than 20 million taels of copper coins, and countless other gold, silver, and jewelry were looted from the four former capitals of the Liao Dynasty.
Therefore, in the end, Emperor Tianzuo, who originally wanted to be Yao and Shun, could only sit back and wait for death. After ringing the last court bell but no civil and military officials responded, he hanged himself in the palace.
Fortunately, when he finally regained consciousness, he took away all the palaces in the palace and gave them all to Yelu Dashi, a descendant of Taizu, a new member of the royal family, and let him go all the way to the west, leaving him alone. These cowardly Xue cavalry and three million silver became Yelu Dashi's capital to establish Xiliao.
So what are the benefits of legitimacy? Although there are some loyal people who serve the country, most civil and military officials are basically used as scapegoats, or simply tied up as bargaining chips for prisoners. Without royal elites like Yelu Dashi, whether the descendants of Emperor Taizu of Liao Dynasty could be preserved was a problem.
What is the use of such orthodoxy? Along with the content of Zhen Shiyin’s postscript, Jiajing himself had to ask this question in his heart. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft