Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[Before Jingkang was humiliated, the civil servants of the Northern Song Dynasty were not only suppressing military generals. Although they were only separatist regimes, they were not polite in judging the actions of previous dynasties.

For example, Wang Anshi, who was engaged in reform, once criticized Li Bai, saying that Li Bai was "close to the vulgar" and "saw the dirty", so the people of the Tang Dynasty liked him, and finally concluded that although Li Bai was bold and elegant, that was all. I don’t know how to change”.

Later, Su Shi's younger brother Su Che also judged, but the language was much more verbose, and the focus was the same as Gang Jing's.

Flashy, good deeds are popular, and ignorant of justice. This is Su Zhe's attribution to Li Bai. He even criticized Li Bai for daring to praise the knights. Where is the justice? Where is the law?

However, in comparison, Su Che is more famous for his culminating words in "Yanji Lun" in "Lun on Ancient Dynasties".

First, he praised the foresight of the Chanyuan Alliance: "Zhenzong... defeated the captives in Chanyuan. Knowing that they were tired of fighting, they ate them with gold and silk... The people in the north did not know how to fight. The prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties was unprecedented. also."

Then he shyly praised Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures for their good performance: "Emperor Han Wen treated him with peace and marriage, but the Xiongnu became arrogant. Emperor Wu treated him with conquests, and the Central Plains became sick... The reason why the current court is more generous than Emperor Wen of Han, but If the captives are tamed, then Shi's cutting of swallows and thistles will be seen here."

In the end, Tu Qiongdagger said: "I have no shame in ceding the land, but only enjoy its benefits. This is God's will, not human affairs. In the Tianbao Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty...for a hundred years, the beast's heart was rampant...the tribe collapsed, and the Tang Dynasty left Lijie The braid is inward, the Central Plains has not tasted blood, and the soil has recovered itself. Now I can't bear to ruin the lives of the people, and use skin coins, dogs and horses to have sex with different people. It is natural law. What if there is also the change of Tubo in the Tang Dynasty?"

Su Che used the example of ignoring Tubo's civil strife in the mid-Tang Dynasty and watching the barbarians fight to the death and finally regaining the mountains and rivers without bloodshed. This was used to prove that the Song Dynasty could definitely reap the benefits of the Liao Dynasty, which was considered a win.

Although the Liao Kingdom did fall into civil strife in the end, I wonder what Su Zhe would have thought if he had known about the Song Dynasty and Jingkang's humiliation.

In addition, Su Shi dared to criticize anything. For example, in his "Dongpo Zhilin" miscellaneous articles, there is an article "Emperor Wu met Wei Qing in the toilet", in which he wrote indifferently "If Qing is a slave, he is elegant and suitable for licking hemorrhoids. When you see it in the toilet, it's appropriate."

However, considering that Su Shi was a well-known troll who would criticize anything when he was in a mood, and now that some scholars have done research on this collection of essays, it was found that Su Shi made more than one mistake and omission in it, which shows that the writing was quite casual.

This shows how despised joining the army was in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

It's a pity that when the Northern Song Dynasty finally fell, it was still necessary for these "red guys" who had been spurned by the courtiers and scholar-bureaucrats for hundreds of years to try to help the building collapse.

In the first year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers besieged Kaifeng for the second time. The 66-year-old Zongze led the rebel army and acted brazenly as the "King of Qin".

The partial troops crossed the Yellow River on the ice and tried their best to persuade them to break up the siege.

It is a pity that Zhao Gou's lack of courage is known to the whole world. Even because of Zongze's tough anti-gold attitude, this tough old man was unanimously excluded by Zhao Gou and his subordinates.

In the end, Zhao Gou, as marshal, fled south with his ministers without looking back.

The old minister Zongze was thinking about his legacy, and his lone army was directed at Kaifeng, winning thirteen consecutive victories.

Zongze was undoubtedly stubborn. Even though the Northern Song Dynasty was dead, he still unswervingly conquered Bianliang and turned the dangerous city into a strong one.

Under his auspices, the people in Kaifeng in the second year of Jingkang even had time to put up lanterns and colors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, which was considered a last farewell to the Northern Song Dynasty.

But Zongze was undoubtedly stupid. He knew that Zhao Gou had no backbone, but he still wrote 24 letters "Begging for Luan Shu" in a year, asking Zhao Gou to return the capital to Bianjing and preside over the Northern Expedition to fight against the Jin Dynasty. This made Zhao Gou unhappy and frequently obstructed him. Obstruction against gold.

After spending the last time of his life stationed in Bianliang for two years, the 68-year-old Zongze died unwillingly. His son Zong Ying and his subordinate Yue Fei carried the coffin to Zhenjiang and were buried with his wife in Jingxian Mountain.

When talking about Zongze's last words in front of the grave, there were no words about family matters, only three calls:

"Cross the river! Cross the river! Cross the river!!\