The empress dowager, who was in internal and external difficulties, was intimidated by the overwhelming threat of force from Mount Tai of the Yuan army, and finally agreed with Chen Yizhong, the right prime minister, to take the road of negotiation and begging. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info She first sent Liu Yue and the other three to Boyan's camp, and offered to call her nephew and grandson the humiliating condition of paying coins, and asked the Yuan Dynasty to call off the army and negotiate peace, but Boyan refused on the spot.

Then he sent Liu Guanjie, the superintendent of the imperial history, to the Boyan camp to serve as a minister, promising to pay an annual tribute of 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 horses of silk, fantasizing about exchanging this heavy price for the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty. Boyan not only refused to allow this concession, but asked the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty to personally come forward to ask for surrender. When the news was transmitted back to Lin'an, Chen Yizhong was afraid that he would be detained by the Yuan army and sent north to Dadu, so he fled to Wenzhou overnight, causing the Southern Song Dynasty to breach the contract. Boyan was furious and ordered the Yuan army to enter Gaoting Mountain, thirty miles on the outskirts of Lin'an, as a warning.

The Empress Dowager appointed Wen Tianxiang as the right prime minister and privy envoy, and supervised all the people and horses to negotiate peace with Boyan, but Wen Tianxiang was detained by Boyan. The Empress Dowager was helpless, she used the name of the little emperor Zhao Xian to pay tribute to Yuan Bai, automatically cut off the emperor's title, changed her name to the lord of the country, and sent Yang Yingkui, the superintendent of the imperial history, to take the jade seal of the Song Dynasty to the Boyan camp, and sent all the remaining rivers and mountains, announcing the complete end of the situation in the south of the Yangtze River in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Before the Yuan army entered Lin'an, the stormy Southern Song Dynasty court hurriedly entered the Fengji king Zhao Yu as the king of Yi, and ordered him to take charge of Fuzhou; at the same time, the king of Fengxin Zhao Yu was the king of Guangzhou, and ordered him to take charge of Quanzhou. After learning about Boyan, who wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots of the Song family, he sent troops to chase after him, but returned without result.

After the fall of Lin'an, there were some civil and military generals in the Southern Song Dynasty who were unwilling to endure humiliation, and when they learned that King Yi and King Guang had arrived in Wenzhou, they all went to defect with the mood of making a comeback, and Lu Xiufu came to Wenzhou at this time. Later, a naval army led by Zhang Shijie also set sail to arrive, and the fleet brought by Chen Yizhong's escape happened to be anchored in Qingao near Wenzhou.

So these important ministers of the Song family in the past are now gathered under the command of the two kings. After consultations, Lu Xiufu, Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie and others unanimously advocated rebuilding the imperial court and rebuilding the world. Then in Wenzhou Jiangxin Temple to support King Yi as the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, King Guang as the deputy marshal, and at the same time issued a letter, showing the loyal ministers and righteous people everywhere to urgently serve the king and restore the old country. At this time, the Empress Dowager, who had become a prisoner of the Boyan Order, appointed two eunuchs to lead more than 100 soldiers to Wenzhou, preparing to welcome the return of the two kings to Lin'an and surrender to the Yuan Dynasty. Lu Xiufu and others were unwilling to return it, so they supported the two kings to go to sea and come to Fuzhou.

King Yi was officially proclaimed emperor in Fuzhou, and changed to Yuan Jingyan, which was Duanzong. At the same time, King Guang was appointed as the king of Wei, and a cabinet headed by Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie, and Lu Xiufu was formed to reorganize and revitalize the government. The establishment of the Fuzhou regime was a hope for the revival of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the hope was very slim, and although there were loyal ministers like Lu Xiufu who tried their best to turn the tide, there were more immoral and incompetent people like Chen Yizhong.

At that time, the Fuzhou regime was known as the Maritime Dynasty, but it was nothing more than a government-in-exile, and at the beginning of its establishment, the ministers were able to work together with each other, but soon contradictions arose. Yang Liangjie, a foreign relative, was proud of his uncle and upheld power in the middle, Zhang Shijie and Chen Yizhong had disagreements; Wen Tianxiang was also expelled from the imperial court because of his disagreement with Chen Yizhong; Su Lieyi was suppressed and depressed; and Lu Xiufu was even more difficult to achieve his ambitions and was squeezed out by Chen Yizhong everywhere.

At first, Chen Yizhong thought that Lu Xiufu had been in the army for a long time, knew about military affairs, and took a very high opinion on him, but soon Lu Xiufu and Chen Yizhong had a difference of opinion, and Chen Yizhong instructed the counselor to impeach Lu Xiufu and remove him from office. Zhang Shijie knew about it and was very dissatisfied, so he said to Chen Yizhong: "When is it now, do you want to dismiss people at every turn?" Chen Yizhong had no choice but to recall Lu Xiufu again, but it can be seen that Yiwang's government-in-exile can no longer do anything big.

The Yuan army attacked Fuzhou, and Zhang Shijie and others led 170,000 officers and 300,000 militiamen to escort Duanzong and King Wei to board the ship and sail to Quanzhou. At that time, the most powerful in Quanzhou was Pu Shougeng, a wealthy Arab merchant, who lived in China for many years, and also obtained the official position of the Song Dynasty's city envoy, in charge of inspecting foreign ships entering and leaving the port, collecting customs duties, purchasing imperial monopoly goods and managing foreign merchants, etc., he controlled a large number of sea ships, and monopolized the local maritime trade.

After Duanzong and his entourage anchored in Quanzhou, Zhang Shijie was anxious to expand the strength of the imperial family and ordered Pu Shougeng's sea ships and assets to be forcibly taken, which angered Pu Shougeng, who was plotting to reduce the Yuan, and made him speed up the pace of anti-Song Dynasty. Because Xingchao was unable to entangle with him, he had to leave Quanzhou, go to Jiazimen in Huizhou through Chaozhou, and then transfer to Qianwan.

Lu Xiufu sometimes burst into tears when the court meeting was in progress, and wiped his tears with his court clothes, which were stained with tears, and the ministers on the left and right did not feel sad when they saw it. However, the Song Dynasty still went to the end step by step, although there were Wen Tianxiang, Li Fu and others in the local area to carry out an extremely difficult struggle against the Yuan, but due to the weak force, most of them did nothing.

Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, learned that the Southern Song Dynasty maritime court had not been exterminated and was still haunting the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, so he urgently ordered Ta Chu, Li Heng, Lu Shitang and others to lead their foot soldiers to cross the Great Yuling, and busily Wutai, Instigated Du, Pu Shougeng, Liu Shen and others led the boat division into the sea. Liu Shen attacked Qianwan, Zhang Shijie faced the unfavorable battle, so he and Lu Xiufu escorted Duanzong to Jingao, Chen Yizhong saw that the situation was tense, escaped in difficulty, and went away to occupy the city.

In December, a hurricane struck Jing O, causing the rain to break and the ship to capsize, and more than half of the soldiers drowned. Although Duanzong and his ministers' ships were spared, they were also full of dangers, causing Duanzong to be frightened and sick. After the hurricane, Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu and others were busy leading the troops to clean up the mess, Liu Shen took advantage of the gap to command the sailors to follow the pursuit, and Xingchao was forced to move to Xie Nuxia outside the mouth of the Pearl River.

After more than 100 days of turbulent travel on the sea, he finally found a foothold where he had a chance to breathe, but there was another turmoil on the flat ground, and the eleven-year-old Duanzong suddenly died of illness in April. In the eyes of some officers and soldiers, this was a bad omen that the life of the court at sea had reached the end of its life, and in order to avoid dying with the court, they asked each to find a way to survive.

At the critical juncture when the tree fell and scattered, Lu Xiufu stepped forward, righteous and awe-inspiring, and encouraged everyone: "Duanzong is dead, and King Wei is still there." Back then, Shaokang was able to rejuvenate the Xia Dynasty with 500 men and horses and a radius of ten miles, couldn't my civil and military officials rely on hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians and thousands of blue seas to revive the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty for 300 years?"

Inspired by the spirit of Zhongxing advocated by Lu Xiufu, the ministers were all emotional, and they all expressed their vows to revive the Great Song Dynasty. Then Lu Xiufu discussed with the ministers to establish the king as the emperor, and the Empress Dowager Yang listened to the government, and Lu Xiufu was ordered to take over as the prime minister of Zuo at this time of crisis, and Zhang Shijie turned the tide and supported the crisis together.

Yashan is in the eighty miles of sea in the south of Xinhui, Guangdong, opposite to the strange stone mountain, the momentum is like two doors, the surrounding tide is turbulent, the boat is difficult, it is a natural fortress that can be defended according to the danger, so it is selected by the line. After the fleet docked, Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu immediately sent people into the mountains to cut wood, and built 30 palaces and 3,000 military houses on the island for the monarchs, ministers, and generals to live in. The remaining 200,000 soldiers continued to live on the ship, and in order to meet the expected life-and-death struggle, they ordered the craftsmen who accompanied the army to build ships and make weapons.

The Yuan general Zhang Hongfan returned to Dadu to report to Kublai Khan, and he said in his recital: "Zhang Shijie established the king as the emperor, and the people of Fujian and Guangzhou rose up to respond. ”

Kublai Khan thought deeply of this, and immediately appointed Zhang Hongfan as the marshal, gave Shang Fang a sword, and ordered him to go all out. Zhang Hongfan recommended Li Heng as the deputy marshal, and went to Yangzhou to point the general, sent 20,000 elite soldiers on land and water, and parted ways to march south, Zhang Hongfan led the boat division to attack Zhangzhou, Chaozhou, and Huizhou by sea, and Li Heng led the cavalry out of Meiling to attack Guangzhou, deliberately narrowing and cutting off the connection between the coastal land and the Southern Song Dynasty maritime court.

Zhang Hongfan led the boat division to attack Yashan, at this time someone said to Zhang Shijie: "The Yuan army has blocked the sea mouth with warships, so that our army is in a dilemma, it is better to break through as soon as possible, choose another way to land, even if you do not win, there is room for maneuver, you can still lead the troops to the west." ”

Zhang Shijie knew very well that the soldiers had lived at sea for a long time, the war was hard, and the morale of the army was fluctuating, and once they landed, it would inevitably collapse, so he replied: "Our army has been tired of running for life at sea for many years, when will we rest? It is better to take this opportunity to fight with the Yuan army." ”

Then he resolutely ordered the burning of the military house of the palace on the island, and all the men and horses boarded the ship again, and then faced the sea by the mountains, and connected the thousands of warships with thick ropes and cables to form a long snake array, and built a high cabinet around it, like a fortress, and placed the ship of the young emperor Zhao Yu in the middle, and ordered the soldiers and ships to live and die together.

The sea surface in the north of Yashan is shallow, and the big ship is very easy to hit the reef, so Zhang Hongfan transferred the boat division back to the southern sea surface and water depth, engaged Zhang Shijie's sailors, and at the same time cut off the passage of fresh water for the transportation of fresh water. Zhang Hongfan found that the Song army's warships were assembled and it was inconvenient to cruise, so he used several light boats, loaded with anointing oil, firewood and grass, to set fire to the company camp in a vain attempt to burn the company camp and win in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shijie had been prepared in advance, and had already smeared mud on the ship in advance, and the well was bound to stretch forward with long logs, so that the fireships of the Yuan army could not approach and the fire attack failed. Zhang Hongfan had no choice but to send additional boat divisions to besiege Haikou, causing the Song army to satisfy their hunger with dry food for more than ten consecutive days, quenching their thirst with seawater, and they were exhausted and fell ill one after another. At this time, Li Heng led his troops from Guangzhou to Yashan to join Zhang Hongfan, who ordered him to control the sea in the north of Yashan and prepare for an attack from the north to the south.

At dawn on the sixth day of February, the sky was full of clouds, and the wind roared and the tsunami roared. The Yuan army chose such bad weather to launch a general attack, intending to mentally crush the exhausted Song army first.

Before the battle, Zhang Hongfan divided the elite of the Yuan army into four routes, and personally led one way. When deploying the sortie route to the general, he said: "The ships of the Song army are anchored to the west of Yashan, and after the high tide, they will inevitably drift eastward, and our army will take advantage of this favorable weather to launch a fierce attack. All boat divisions take the drumming of the handsome boat as the number, and move when they hear the wind, and there must be no mistakes, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

Then led by Li Heng all the way to the boat division, taking advantage of the early tide receding, the water flow from north to south, along the river to carry out a tentative attack on the Song army, in order to expose the strength and weakness of the Song army, Zhang Shijie led the troops to resist bravely, the two sides fought hard, after several battles, no winner or loser, at noon, the tide rose sharply, and the Song ships really moved east.

Zhang Hongfan saw that the time had come, so he ordered the handsome ship to play drum music; Zhang Shijie did not know that this was a signal for the Yuan army to launch another offensive, and mistakenly thought that the officers and men of the enemy ship were drinking and having fun between battles, so he was not on guard. Unexpectedly, the Yuan army rushed over from the north and south at the same time to the sound of drums, forcing the Song army to suffer from the enemy on its back and meet the battle in a hurry.

Due to the fatigue at sea for many years, the Song army could not rest, and most of the physical strength of the soldiers was exhausted, and suddenly they were attacked fiercely, and it was difficult to boost their morale. In this decisive battle related to the fate of the Southern Song Dynasty, something unfortunate finally happened.

Under the strong attack of the Yuan army's various boat divisions, the Song army's fleet suddenly had a broken mast rope and the flag fell, and in an instant, the flags of many ships also landed. Zhang Shijie saw that the flag was falling and the troops were scattered, and the general trend had gone, so he hurriedly mobilized his own soldiers to cut the ship cable, preparing to rush out of the bloody road lightly and fight his way out of the encirclement.

It was almost dusk, the wind and rain were blowing, and the scenery was difficult to distinguish between the distances. Zhang Shijie took advantage of the chaos on the sea to let people take a light boat to the boat of the young emperor Zhao Yu to pick him up from danger, so as to find an opportunity to transfer safely. Lu Xiufu, who had been observing the battle situation in the ship, faced this scene, knew that it was impossible to do anything, and was deeply afraid that the spies would take the opportunity to ask the Yuan army to sell the master, and he was worried that it would be difficult for the light boat to avoid the Yuan army's scattered ships, which would cause the late Southern Song Dynasty emperor to be captured, so he categorically refused the request of the comer.

But he also knew that Zhao Hao's ship was bulky and tangled with other ships, making it difficult to sail. Lu Xiufu estimated that he was no longer able to escort the young emperor away, so he immediately made a decision and decided to die for the country. He dressed up in court clothes, first holding a sword in his hand, urging his wife to throw himself into the sea, and then persuading Zhao Yu.

"The state affairs have been completely defeated so far, Your Majesty should die for the country, and you must not repeat the mistakes of Emperor Deyou. Emperor Deyou was humiliated in most of the distant capitals, and His Majesty could not be humiliated by others again. After speaking, Lu Xiufu picked up the nine-year-old Zhao Yu on his back, tied it tightly with his body with a plain white ribbon, and then walked to the string of the boat step by step, and set foot on the last mile from Lin'an to Yashan, the vast sea with water and sky.

When Empress Dowager Yang heard that the emperor had died, she was grief-stricken, and then she also jumped into the sea and died, and then accompanied the court ministers and harem ladies who jumped into the sea to die more than 100,000 people.

Zhang Shijie waited for a long time to see the return of the light boat that greeted Zhao Yu, so he knew that there was a lot of luck and little luck, so he broke through decisively and took the road under the cover of night. A few days later, many soldiers who had escaped death gathered around Zhang Shijie's ship and anchored at the foot of Hailing Mountain in Nanen. Among them, someone brought Zhang Shijie the bad news that Lu Xiufu was martyred together with Zhao Yu, Zhang Shijie was grief-stricken, and at this time, misfortune met misfortune again, and the hurricane struck again.

The ship's officers persuaded him to go ashore for a while, and Zhang Shijie replied in despair: "It's useless, let's share the weal and woe with you." ”

Then he took heavy steps, climbed the helm tower with difficulty, looked down painfully at the wreckage of the Song army swaying in the wind and waves, burned incense and prayed to heaven, and said: "I have done my best for the survival of the Zhao family. I did not die in Yashan, I was counting on the Yuan army to retreat and set up a new monarch and restore the Song Dynasty. But is it providential that the development of state affairs is so disappointing?"

When Zhang Shijie said this, he suddenly fell into the sea, and the rolling waves accepted another generation of heroes. The Battle of Yashan finally ended with the complete defeat of the Song army, marking the final collapse of the government-in-exile and the final end of the Song Dynasty, which lasted for 320 years.

After the end of the Yashan War, Zhang Hongfan was smug and sent people to engrave the twelve words "Zhang Hongfan, the general of Zhenguo, destroyed the Song Dynasty here" on the stone wall in the north of Li Mountain. However, the people of the Central Plains and the Southern Dynasties did the opposite, although under the high-pressure rule of the Yuan Dynasty, people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, but they always missed Lu Hideo in their hearts, and whenever they saw Yashan, they couldn't help but recite silently: "Lu Hidefu, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, was martyred here." ”

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to express the wishes of their predecessors and themselves, people angrily eradicated the inscription that praised Zhang Hongfan and re-engraved the nine characters of "Song Prime Minister Lu Xiufu died here" to forever commemorate this famous minister who was martyred and martyred.

Lu Xiufu was a great patriot in history, and when he was ordered to be in danger, he tried his best to turn the tide and defend the Great Song Dynasty, but how could the corrupt Southern Song Dynasty be saved by his own personal strength?