Wang Xian And The Early Years Of The Song Dynasty Secret Research

The Privy Counselor was an important officer appearing after the mid Tang Dynasty,that was a product of coming out on the political stage by envoy and eunuch.The privy position specialized in holding the power of military and politics in Song Dynasty.The leaders of privy council and the chief minister and group of ministers in the executive secretariat altogether called “zaizhi”,which played an important role in the politics of Song Dynasty.Xian Wang came from a beadle,not an intellectual.Even though he didn't have brilliant military abilities,he was still assigned to be privy position two times.The main reason was that it was benefited from his identity of Emperor Taizong's entourage.Almost the privy council was in the control of the kind of person in Emperor Taizong Dynasty.Taizu Dynasty also couldn't avoid assigning their entourages and relatives to take over the privy council.But it had changed in Zhenzong Dynasty.The civil officials began to control the privy council.It was the beginning that the privy council was evolving to an official institution once again.Accompanied by the gradual development of the privy council,the appointment of the privy position had become more normally.Xian Wang was the kind of military officers who transited from the real military officers in Emperor Taizong Dynasty to plenty of civil officials in Emperor Zhenzong Dynasty to being appointed at this position.At the same time,the changing power and transferring position in Xian Wang and other privy officers reflected the control of military by the Emperor in the early stage of North Song Dynasty and the relationship between Emperor and the privy counselors.