Chapter 246: Song Jiang Uprising
Song Huizong Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, in the face of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has become the end of the strong crossbow, the newly enthroned Song Huizong first rectified the government, but a year later, gradually slacked government affairs, resulting in the rapid demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In order to solve the financial difficulties, Song Huizong set up the Xicheng Kuotian Office, which specialized in looting the people's fat and ointment. The peasants and fishermen of Liangshanbo could not afford to pay heavy taxes, so they had to fight against taxes by arms, so Liangshanbo became a stronghold of an armed peasant uprising.
The peasant uprising led by Song Jiang was initially based on Liangshanbo, and it lasted for four or five years before the uprising was officially declared, and then left Liangshanbo and moved to Hebei and Shandong. The rebel army led by Song Jiang came to Haizhou by boat, fell into the heavy encirclement of the Song army, and surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty in desperation.
Due to the corruption of officials in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the people rose up one after another to resist. Fang La led the people to revolt in Qixian Village, Anhui Province, and established a peasant regime including 52 counties in six prefectures of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi. It had a great impact at that time, and after the failure of the uprising, Fang La was captured and executed by the imperial court, and Fang La's uprising dealt a serious blow to the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty.
During the Song Dynasty, there were numerous armed struggles against the government around Liangshanbo, and the Songjiang Uprising was one of them. The Songjiang Uprising took place at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the fuse that provoked the peasant uprising was the Xicheng Kuotian Office set up by the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to solve the financial difficulties, Song Huizong set up the Xicheng Kuotian Office to collect the people's fat and ointment, and took the entire Liangshanbo into public ownership.
It is stipulated that anyone who enters the lake for fishing, lotus root harvesting, and cutting pu shall be taxed heavily, according to the size of the boat, and those who violate the prohibition shall be punished as thieves. The peasants and fishermen could not afford to pay heavy taxes, so they had to take risks as a last resort, gather with arms, resist rent and taxes, and prevent the killing of officers and soldiers, so Liangshanbo became the stronghold of the peasants' armed uprising.
The peasant uprising led by Song Jiang initially took Liangshanbo as a stronghold, and settled here, and there was a platform for sharing spoils under the mountain, and 36 stone seats were placed. Song Jiang and others persisted in fighting here for a total of four or five years before officially announcing the uprising, and then left Liangshanbo and fought between the Qing, Qi and Pu prefectures, and the government began to notice the existence of this rebel army, and ordered the East and West Road Governors to pursue and appease the Shandong thief Song Jiang.
There were only 36 people in the Songjiang Uprising, and these 36 people were: Song Jiang, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, Shi Jin, Chai Jin, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi, Liu Tang, Zhang Qing, Yan Qing, Sun Li, Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, Hu Yanxuan, Li Jun, Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Li Kui, Lei Heng, Dai Zong, Suo Chao, Yang Zhi, Yang Xiong, Dong Ping, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Zhu Tong, Mu Heng, Shi Xiu, Xu Ning, Li Ying, Hua Monk, and Wu Song.
Song Jiang led the rebel army from Shuyang to Haizhou by boat, and Zhang Shuye, the governor of Haizhou, sent thousands of officers and soldiers to ambush on the outskirts of Haizhou, challenging the sea with light troops, and luring the rebels to abandon the ship and land.
After the rebels landed, they were immediately surrounded by ambushes, and Zhang Shuye sent troops to burn the ships of the rebels. The rebel army was besieged, the retreat route was broken, and the losses were heavy, and in a desperate situation, Song Jiang led the people to surrender the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, and accepted the recruitment of the imperial court, becoming a member of the Song army.
After Song Jiang accepted Zhao'an, he was sent by the Song Dynasty to suppress Fangla, and after Song Jiang surrendered, he went with the officers and soldiers to suppress the Fangla uprising, and Song Jiang changed from the leader of the peasant uprising to the executioner of the massacre of the peasant uprising.
Over the past 300 years in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, there have been hundreds of peasant uprisings, large and small, which have never been seen in any previous dynasty. However, the peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty did not form a nationwide scale after all, the scope of activities was limited to a corner, the number of participants was also limited, and the duration was very short, the elder was a few years, the short was a few months, and the rulers of the Song Dynasty pursued a policy of first securing the inside first, so the peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty failed to become a tool for the landlord class to change the dynasty.
Among the hundreds of peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty, the Liangshanbo peasant uprising led by Song Jiang was basically a relatively small one in terms of scale and impact.
Later, the "Water Margin" written by Luo Guanzhong and Shi Nai'an in the Ming Dynasty was based on the heroes of Liangshanbo, which made the story of Liangshanbo and Song Jiang deeply rooted in the people, and its influence became more and more great, and it almost became a well-known story for women and children. Fiction has some connection to history, but it's not exactly the same thing.
Song Huizong Zhao Ji has been pampered since childhood, and gradually developed a frivolous and prodigal character, but Huizong has loved pen and ink, horseback riding, archery, and juju since childhood, and has a strong interest in exotic flowers and stones, birds and animals, especially in calligraphy and painting, and shows extraordinary talent.
As he grew older, Song Huizong Zhao Ji became obsessed with dogs and horses, and playing games was his forte. Zhao Ji has a maid named Chunlan by his side, who is beautiful and proficient in writing and ink, which was specially given to him by the Empress Dowager, and later became his plaything. But Zhao Ji was not satisfied, he was a prince, and he often visited the Xingqinglou Song House in micro-service, looking for flowers and asking willows, and almost all the famous courtesans in the capital had an affair with him. Sometimes, he also brought his favorite courtesans into the palace in disguise and kept them for himself for a long time.
After becoming the emperor, Huizong was unchangeable, had no intention of government affairs, and continued to live a rotten life. Huizong got married at the age of seventeen, married the daughter of Wang Zao, the Thorn History of Texas, and after ascending the throne, he canonized Wang as the queen. Queen Wang is mediocre in appearance, frugal by nature, and will not please Huizong, although she is the main palace, she is not favored.
At this time, Huizong favored Zheng and Wang, the two concubines, who were originally in the palace of the Empress Dowager, who were born with clear eyebrows and good words. When Huizong was the vassal king, every time he went to Cide Palace to ask for peace, the Empress Dowager always ordered Zheng and Wang to accompany him. The two were cautious, and good at flattery, quite a good impression of Huizong, after a long time, to the queen mother was aware, and when Huizong ascended the throne, he gave the two to him, Huizong got his wish, very happy.
In addition to Zheng and Wang Er, there are also Liu Guifei, Qiao Guifei, Wei Guifei and others who are favored. Liu Guifei was born in a humble background, but she was beautiful and beautiful, and she was favored by Zhao Ji when she entered the palace, and she was promoted from a talented person to a concubine by seven levels. However, the good times did not last long, Liu Guifei died soon after, just when Huizong was sad about this, the chamberlain Yang Jian boasted in front of Huizong that another Liu family had the appearance of captivating the country and the city, no less than Wang Zhaojun, and Huizong was about to summon her into the palace.
Liu was originally the daughter of a restaurant, from a humble background, but she was glamorous and graceful, and when Huizong saw it, he couldn't give up, and he forgot the pain of losing his concubine in an instant. Huizong pampered Liu and was inseparable from her, otherwise he would not be able to eat and sleep at night. In Huizong's view, Liu looked back and smiled, and the six palaces had no color.
Although the harem has 3,000 fans and is as beautiful as a cloud, Huizong felt bored by their deliberate artificiality, so he went out of the palace in search of excitement. Li Shishi, a native of Bianjing, whose surname is Wang, the daughter of a craftsman, lost her father at the age of four, so she joined the Li family as a prostitute, and later became a famous prostitute in the capital.
Since Master Li is famous in Bianjing, Huizong will naturally not let her go, Huizong often takes a small sedan chair, leads several attendants, and goes out of the palace in micro clothes to Master Li's house for the night. In order to have fun, Huizong set up a special Xingxing Bureau to be responsible for leaving the palace. What is absurd is that the officials of the Xingxing Bureau also helped Huizong to lie, saying that Huizong had a banquet in the palace if he did not go to court that day, and if he did not return the next day, he sent a decree saying that there were sores.
The Son of Heaven did not hesitate to be honored in the Ninety-Five, and it was not a glorious thing to be in the brothel of the Qinglou, so Huizong was always cautious, for fear of being discovered by others. In fact, most of the courtiers knew this, but they didn't dare to ask, which made Huizong even more chaotic.
Cao Fu, the secretary of the provincial orthography, once stepped forward and advised Huizong to cherish the dragon body, so as not to laugh at future generations. After hearing this, Huizong was furious, and immediately ordered Wang Hao and others to deal with the matter, these people naturally understood Huizong's meaning, and punished Cao Fu for slandering the Son of Heaven, and Huizong immediately sent Cao Fu to Chenzhou.
Since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the recovery of Yanyun has always been the dream of the emperors of all dynasties, Huizong is very happy, and he wants to complete the unfinished business of his ancestors in order to establish immortal merits. The Hui sect sent Tong Guan to the Liao State to spy on the reality of the truth, and when he passed through Yanjing on the way back, he got acquainted with Yan Ren Ma Zhi.
This person has a bad character, but he claims to have a good strategy to destroy Liao, and he is deeply respected by Tong Guan, who takes him back and changes his name to Li Lianghei. Under Tong Guan's recommendation, Li Liangsi gave Huizong a comprehensive introduction to the crisis of the Liao State and the rise of the Jin State, and suggested that the Song and Jin Dynasty jointly destroy the Liao.
In Li Liangsi's view, the Liao Dynasty would definitely fall, and the Song Dynasty should seize this golden opportunity to send troops to recover the territory previously lost by the Central Plains Dynasty. Huizong was overjoyed, and immediately gave Li Liang's heir the surname Zhao and granted him an official position, and from then on, the Song Dynasty began to unite Jin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun.
Huizong sent Ma Zheng and others to cross the sea from Dengzhou to Jin to plan the destruction of Liao. Subsequently, Jin also sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to study the attack on Liao. After several round-trips, the two sides basically reached an agreement on jointly sending troops to attack Liao, with the Jin State capturing the Zhongjing Dading Mansion of the Liao State, and the Northern Song Dynasty being responsible for capturing the Yanjing Xijin Mansion and the Xijing Datong Mansion of the Liao State. After the destruction of Liao, the land of Yanyun was returned to the Song, and the Song transferred the annual coins to the Liao every year in the past to the Jin State, which is the famous Song-Jin Sea Alliance in history.
Soon after, Huizong learned that the Liao Dynasty had learned about the Song-Jin Alliance, and regretted it very much, fearing that he would be retaliated by the Liao, so he ordered the Jin Dynasty envoys to be detained. During this period, the Jin army successively captured Zhongjing and Xijing of the Liao Dynasty with the momentum of devastating and decaying, and the late Liao Emperor Tianzuo Emperor also fled into the mountains, and the defeat of the Liao Dynasty was a foregone conclusion.
Under such circumstances, Huizong hurriedly ordered Tong Guan to lead an army of 150,000 to march to Yanjing in the name of patrolling the border, intending to reap the benefits of the fisherman. But as soon as this group of men and horses arrived in Yanjing, they were attacked by the Liao general Yelu Dashi's subordinates and returned defeated.
The death of Yeluchun, the king of Liaoyan, Huizong saw that there was an opportunity, and then ordered Tong Guan and Cai You to send troops, at this time, Guo Yaoshi, the governor of Liaozhuozhou, surrendered to the Song Dynasty one after another, opening the road to Yanjing. Although the Song army once invaded Yanjing City and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Liao army, it was forced to retreat due to the lack of support, and the second battle against Yancheng personally deployed by Huizong ended in a fiasco.