Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

【When the Jin Dynasty fell, the north-south rift caused by the confrontation between Liao, Song and Jin for nearly three hundred years was already very obvious.

On the one hand, there were Jurchens like Wanyan Chen Heshang who often read literature and history, liked to study "Elementary School", "Analects of Confucius" and "Zuo Zhuan of the Spring and Autumn Annals", and regarded themselves as scholars.

On the other hand, when the Jin Dynasty fell, many Han officials died for their country, and regarded the Jin Dynasty as the orthodox Central Plains and the Southern Song Dynasty as a foreign country.

After the Battle of Sanfeng Mountain, Jin Aizong fled after resisting in Bianjing for a year, first exiled to Guide, and then stationed in Caizhou, and this last stronghold was quickly destroyed under the fierce attack of Mongolia.

In the final battle of Caizhou, Jin Aizong, who was unwilling to lose his country, committed suicide after passing the throne.

The last emperor of Jin, who ascended the throne, took only one hour from the time he ascended the throne to the death of the Mongols who broke the city, setting a record for the shortest reign of an emperor.

In this battle, the Southern Song Dynasty did not contribute much, and the most important official captured in the end was the Han official of the Jin Dynasty, Privy Councilor Zhang Tiangang.

Since they were Han Chinese, it was natural for them to enter the amnesty procedure after offering the captives to the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

In the eyes of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom was gone, and I promised you a high position and generous salary, and you came to play the role of returning to the right path. Isn't it wonderful for everyone to have the best of both worlds?

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As a result, Zhang Tiangang, who was a prisoner, did not buy it at all, and argued:

I was born in Jin, served in Jin, and naturally loyal to Jin.

"The rise and fall of a country has happened in every dynasty. How is the fall of my Jin compared to your two emperors?"

This statement can be said to be very heartbreaking, which angered the Lin'an prefect who was judging Zhang Tiangang at the time and beat him half to death.

This matter was eventually pushed to Song Lizong, so Song Lizong asked Zhang Tiangang if he was really not afraid of death?

Zhang Tiangang was quite calm, saying, "A real man is afraid of dying in an untimely manner, so why should he be afraid?" He only wanted to die quickly to preserve his loyalty.

From the records left by the Jin Dynasty, Zhang Tiangang had always opposed the invasion of the Song Dynasty when he served the Jin Dynasty, and insisted on uniting with the Xia and Song Dynasties to resist the Mongols.

On the eve of the demise of the Jin Dynasty, some people suggested driving the hungry people into the Song Dynasty to attack in chaos; some people suggested that the soldiers practice qigong so that they could not eat food and be invulnerable to swords and guns; and some people suggested that the cavalry wear lion and tiger masks to scare the Mongolian army and horses to defeat the enemy, etc., all of which were refuted by Zhang Tiangang one by one, and he was considered a good official in the standard sense.

Song Lizong therefore loved his talent and promised that he could be exempted from the crime as long as he wrote a confession, but he was still refuted by Zhang Tiangang: Kill him if you want, why write a confession?

Although Zhang Tiangang left the last bit of face for the Jin Dynasty, it can also be seen from him that the identity split between the north and the south was already very serious at that time.

Later, the narrow Mongol Empire perished due to internal strife and division among the Khanates. The Yuan Dynasty established by Kublai Khan in his own territory divided people into different levels, with the Han people at the bottom, which made the division between the Han people in the north and south in terms of identity and material differences more serious.

From this point of view, although the Hongwu Emperor was said by the teacher to be second only to Emperor Taizong of Tang in military affairs, his contribution to bridging the north-south rift was more impressive.

When Zhu later responded to Liu Sanwu's argument about the differences in governing the people in the north and south, he said, "There are north and south in the land, but the people have no two hearts. The emperor treats them equally, so how can there be any difference between them?" It can be said to be very high-level.

But it was already the end of the 22nd year of Hongwu, and Liu Sanwu, who was a Hanlin scholar at the time, still believed that the north could only be oppressed. From this, we can see the thorny degree of the problems left by the demise of the Song and Liao dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty.

However, this topic has gone too far. The Jin people were destroyed, the Mongols went south, and the last romantic man of the Southern Song Dynasty finally stood up. 】

〖It was better during the Northern Song Dynasty and Liao Dynasty. After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was a mess. Wanyan Gou took the lead in not recognizing the northern Han people. In addition, the Jin Dynasty that came later was ruled by the Jin people and the Han people ruled the Han people. It is not surprising that those who did well felt a sense of belonging to the Jin Dynasty.

It is not that the Jin Dynasty was so good, but the Southern Song Dynasty was too bad!

It seems that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty were quite clear in their minds. Zhang Tiangang only mentioned two emperors, and did not name them, but they jumped up and down.

How could I not know which two emperors they were? This is a real-life version of the Soviet joke.

This problem that was cut off by hundreds of years of war could not be solved by the Hongwu Dynasty. Even if there was Emperor Yongle to take over, wouldn’t the game between the north and the south still run through the entire Ming Dynasty?

But at least it was just a regional dispute between southerners and northerners, and no longer a dispute over the identity of southerners and Han people. From this point of view alone, the achievements of Hongwu and Yongle are already invaluable.

From the An-Shi Rebellion to the demise of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, Hebei, the land where China was founded, was slaughtered by wars and massacres over the past 600 years, and its population is less than that of Shanxi. Rather than saying that the economic center of the Ming Dynasty moved south, it is better to say that the northern leg was broken, and only the southern leg can be used.

Mongolia ended the separatist regimes of Song, Liao, Jin, Xixia, Dali and the snowy regions, which was still powerful, but the price was too heavy.

Not only that, Mongolia broke wherever it went. It broke ancient Russia into three parts: Belarus and Ukraine. It broke the Turkic identity in Central Asia and laid the foundation for the five Central Asian countries. It broke the last caliph in the Middle East and made the Arab religion lose its last leader. Let’s not talk about China. Zhu was tough enough not to leave the problem to future generations, and didn’t let us fight each other endlessly like the Arabs or Slavs today.

Wasn’t Xixia killed? I remember that Xixia language was lost.

The complete demise of the Western Xia was not particularly related to the Yuan Dynasty. At least the Western Xia Buddhist scriptures discovered today can be traced back to the reign of Emperor Hongzhi, the Pure Love God of War. It can be inferred that the demise of the Western Xia people was the result of assimilation by the Ming Dynasty.

"Am I...very old?"

The emperor touched his beard subconsciously, and even pulled two tufts forward to see if there were more white beards.

The Queen Ma next to him could see clearly that her husband's mouth was grinning so hard that he couldn't close it. If she wasn't here, she might have laughed three times to express her happiness.

But since she was here...

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. When Luo Guanzhong is invited here, check what he wrote and what this young man said to check whether what he said was true or not. You can know whether the name "Old Zhu" is nonsense..."

But when it came to the end, Queen Ma herself was a little overjoyed.

Seeing the empress burst into laughter, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his beard and pretended not to hear the address:

"The words recorded by this young man are indeed like what we can say."

"I have also heard the name Liu Sanwu. He is well-known in Jingjiang Prefecture and has been recommended by someone."

As for the result of the recommendation, Zhu Yuanzhang skipped it directly and said:

"He can be ranked among the Hanlin scholars in eight or nine years... Maybe what this young man said is really our future."

"This junior... knows our difficulties."

At this time, he was not too excited, but just patted his thigh, as if someone had casually mentioned his depression, and he wished that he could be in front of him, holding his hand to ask...holding his hand to talk.

After restraining her smile, Empress Ma also pulled the emperor to comfort her:

"If this is true, your husband will eventually succeed in his work, and you should be happy."

"Politics does not stop after people leave, and there is this Emperor Yongle to carry on the past and open up the future. How can it not be a blessing?"