One Piece of Song Dynasty

The outer city of Tokyo is forty-eight miles and two hundred and thirty-three paces in circumference. For such a large defensive zone, it is obviously not enough to only rely on soldiers in the city to guard it. In a hurry, reinforcements from all directions cannot arrive immediately. How can we defend the city if there is no one?

Song Qinzong and the ruling ministers made a decision after research to give supplementary official positions to those who had participated in the martial arts examination and achieved excellent results, and ordered them to guard the city. They also selected people with a little martial arts in Beijing and strategic people among the imperial students, a total of more than people. He was granted the position of acting official and also went to the city to guard the city.

There are already many officials, but the number of soldiers is still insufficient, which worries Song Qinzong deeply. After some further research, it was decided to temporarily recruit troops from the capital. There are different types of recruitment, such as bravery, utility, and bravery. They are all divided into categories, formed and managed, and then assigned to various city walls.

An officer named Wang Jian wrote a letter suggesting setting up surprise troops. The imperial court adopted his suggestion and appointed him as commander-in-chief. The rare soldiers recruited were all led by He Li, the governor of Kaifeng. The loyal soldiers recruited were all led by the guarding envoy Sun Futi.

The enemy is facing the enemy, and at this critical juncture of deploying the war of resistance, civil strife broke out in the capital that day. Xin Kangzong, the official in the east wall, was killed by the people in rebellion.

The reason was that the soldiers guarding the city on the east wall fired arrows when they saw the Jin army's cavalry activities under the city. Later, Xin Kangzong felt that the Jin soldiers were far away from the city, so he ordered the soldiers not to fire arrows. He was worried that the arrow would be picked up by the Jin army and used by the Jin army instead.

A sergeant disobeyed orders and shot arrows into the air for no reason, and was scolded by Xin Kangzong.

The sergeant held a grudge in his heart, so he spread the word: "Lieutenant Xin is a relative of Tong Guan, and the soldiers in the city are not allowed to shoot the gold thieves. His purpose is to let the gold thieves board the city."

After the people in the city heard it, they all believed it to be true. They made a lot of noise and spread it everywhere, talking about it and being impassioned. People then went to Xuandemen to gather, and soon thousands of people gathered. They then carried the Dengwen drum to Donghua Gate, beat the drum violently, and shouted loudly, requesting the emperor to issue an order to kill Xin Kangzong.

None of the court officials could stop them. The palace guards inside Donghua Gate were worried that people would rush into the palace, so they opened fire from upstairs. Everyone was frightened and ran away from Donghua Gate to the east of the city.

People climbed up the east city wall, found Xin Kangzong, and "killed him" without saying a word. More than a dozen of Xin Kangzong's generals were also killed.

The riot lasted until night, and Song Qinzong and the ruling ministers were deeply shocked. Song Qinzong demanded that the leader be captured and punished severely. That night, Kaifeng Prefecture captured the five leaders and chopped them in half on the east city wall to suppress the turmoil.

The lack of military and political control has become a stubborn disease that cannot be cured at that time. If political orders fail to pass, military orders fail, "the soldiers and the people are arrogant and cannot be controlled." How could such a government, such an army, and such a people not be completely defeated once invaded by a powerful enemy?

The Jin army is about to approach the city. There are rumors in the city and the soldiers and civilians are uneasy. Some people instigated that if the Jin came to attack the city, they would kill the eunuchs first. The imperial court therefore ordered that eunuchs were not allowed to enter the city, and all eunuchs were required to use yellow flags to spread the imperial edict. Some people also spread the news that when the Jin people attacked the city, the soldiers in the city were likely to take the opportunity to harass them. The imperial court was deeply concerned about this and was worried that if the capital was besieged again by the Jin army, public sentiment would suddenly change and unrest would occur.

In order to appease the army and the people and stabilize the situation, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty issued a special edict on November . The edict said: "I have repeatedly sent envoys to pass the route, and the envoys crossed the road. However, the enemy's power continued, and they invaded by the mausoleum, all because the general had not If we can work together, the suburbs will be harassed again in the first year of life. How can the imperial court be willing to consider the land and people and have summoned soldiers and horses from the towns to help defend the royal family. The soldiers and civilians in the capital should understand my wishes and do nothing to disturb me."

On this day, Wang Qiong and Zheng Jianxiong led eight thousand soldiers and horses to serve the king. Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty was very happy and appointed Wang Qiong as an inspector of the capital. He also gave him a white flag with the word "loyalty and justice" written on it to commend his hard work. Wang Qiong once served as the deputy general manager of the Zhongshan Prefecture Road Horse Infantry Army, and followed Zhong Shizhong to fight against the Jin people in Yuci.

Since Nie Shan had sent an envoy to the Jin army and there was no one in charge of the Privy Council, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty considered it and promoted Sun Fu, Minister Youcheng, to Tongzhi Privy Council, putting Sun Fu in overall charge of military affairs.

Sun Fu was a native of Haizhou and was a Jinshi. He had served as secretary of the province, censor of the censor, wailang of the Ministry of Rites, secretary of the young eunuch, secretary of the Zhongshu Sheren, gishizhong, and minister of the Ministry of War.

When Sun Fu was serving as Minister of the Ministry of War, he wrote a memorial to Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty, recommending the full restoration of the ancestral laws. Song Qinzong asked: "Why?"

Sun Fu replied: "The laws of our ancestors benefited the people, the laws of Xi and Feng benefited the country, and the laws of Zhong and Guan benefited the traitors." As soon as this statement came out, it spread quickly and became a famous saying.

The so-called ancestral law refers to the program of governing the country and the spirit of laws implemented in the era of Song Taizu and Song Taizong, that is, the traditional old law; The new law presided over by Cai Jing during the Huizong era was guided by the spirit of Wang Anshi's reform and added elements of the new era.

In fact, Chongguan Dharma has helped the country quickly get out of financial difficulties, vigorously promoted school education across the country, and made valuable practices in social security, benefiting thousands of ordinary people. However, all this, along with all the glory and praise, was rejected by one vote due to Song Huizong's failure to regain Yanyun.

After Sun Fu was promoted, the post of Shangshu Youcheng became vacant again. Unexpectedly, Song Qinzong actually asked Li Hui, who had just been dismissed a few days ago, to take up this position. This is a very strange thing.

A strange thing happened on the same day. Wang Zongliu, the commander in front of the palace, discovered a wizard.

In the Gongsheng Army, there was a deputy chief named Guo Jing. That day he boasted to people that he could throw beans into soldiers and the soldiers could become invisible. Now if he is allowed to use Liujia regular soldiers and get people, he can defeat the enemy. When facing the enemy, the main soldiers will not move, and the magic soldiers will be used to move forward. The Gongsheng Army belongs to the cavalry and is under the jurisdiction of the Palace Front Division.

Wang Zonglio was surprised when he heard about this. He felt that Guo Jing was a genius, so he recommended it to the court, saying that if he used this person, he would be able to achieve great success.

Prime Minister Tang Ke then summoned some ministers to meet with Guo Jing. Tang Ke didn't believe what Guo Jing said at all. He humiliated Guo Jing in person and said, "It's child's play for a veteran, is it possible?" Guo Jing was asked speechless and could not answer. However, the ministers had different opinions on this.

Tang Ke had actually already noticed the danger of the situation.

Tang Ke became prime minister in August. At that time, the rescue of Taiyuan had completely failed. Facts have proved that the Song Army was no match for the Jin Army with such troops. Therefore, after Tang Ke took office, he worked with ministers such as Geng Nazhong and Nie Chang to negotiate peace with the Jin people, hoping to resolve the issues between Song and Jin through negotiations.