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Why didn't the Song Dynasty kill civil servants?
This oath tablet played a great role in the tolerance and preferential treatment of intellectuals in the Song Dynasty. The oath tablet is about seven or eight feet high and four feet wide, and the oath is three lines.

First, the descendants of the Chai family go unpunished. If they commit rebellion, they will stop in prison, will not be punished by the city and will not sit together.

Second, don't kill literati and writers;

Third, children and grandchildren have this oath, and the sky will fall.

First, because it was established by Mao, it has the authority of national laws;

Second, Zhao Kuangyin is the founding king of the Zhao family, and his oath tablet naturally has the contractual power to bind the whole family;

Thirdly, the mysterious facilities, sacred ceremonies and prophetic curses around the oath tablet can also shock future generations.

Don't say that in China, even in the history of the world, it is rare, if not unique, for the supreme power owner, Song Like Taizu, to dare to make an indelible oath in the form of an inscription not to kill literati and narrators.