Chapter 298: The traitor Jia Rudao
Two of Song's sons died young, so Emperor Lizong chose his younger brother Zhao and Rui's son Zhao Yu as the crown prince. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoBecause Zhao Yu's mother had taken abortion pills during pregnancy, Zhao Yu was congenitally deficient.
After the death of Li Zong, Zhao Yu ascended the throne as Du Zong. After Zhao Yu ascended the throne, he ignored the government and indulged in lust all day long. The right prime minister Jia Rudao is therefore in power, Jia Nidao is a party for personal gain, excludes dissidents, and plays with his wife and concubine in the Geling villa all day long, because he is aggressive and cricket, the people of the time call him the cricket prime minister.
The worst reputation is often the bastard emperor and the corrupt minister, in fact, the most unlucky woman can count the delicate beauties around the emperor. It is not a great blessing to be lucky enough to sleep next to the emperor's pillow, and the very special status of the court has brought all kinds of troubles to those beautiful women. In the era of Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a pair of typical men and women, the man was Song Lizong's favorite minister, Jia Nidao, who was his younger brother, and the woman was Song Lizong's favorite concubine, known as the elder sister's Jia family, Jia Nidao did rely on his sister's beauty to capture high-ranking officials.
Jia Rudao is a powerful prime minister, he is a scoundrel in the market, and the reason why he made his fortune is to rely on his sister who is like a flower. That beautiful fox spirit is the little wife of Song Lizong, she is a contemporary Wu Meiniang who covers her sleeves and is greedy and charming.
Jia Rudao is a famous traitor, in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, when he was politically corrupt and the country's fortunes declined, he quickly climbed to the high position of the right prime minister and privy envoy from a prodigal son who specialized in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, he brutally oppressed the people and lived an extremely absurd and luxurious life.
Jia seems to say that he is a man with all kinds of wisdom and talents, but he lacks a deep spirit, is overconfident in encountering problems, and is not easy to play the role of others; his various measures are still more for the Song Dynasty and less for private families. Although he has the role of a sister, Concubine Jia Chunyou has been dead for seven years, which shows that his credit for Li Zong is still due to his talent.
His practice of the Gongtian method was, in fact, the reason for his final failure and death. Those generals and Zheng Huchen who killed him were all big landlords, Fan Wenhuan, Fan Wenhu, Xia Gui, etc. were all extremely wealthy, they did not want to fight, and they supported troops everywhere to respect themselves, this kind of accumulation of disadvantages was originally caused by the law of the ancestors of the Song Dynasty. Jia Rudao personally came forward to supervise the teacher, which was already desperate, and there was probably no such traitor in history.
Although Jia seems to be a person who is not familiar with politics, he is good at teasing crickets, and he is also a special author of "Promoting Weaving", and people call him Jia worm.
In the West Lake Scenic Area, Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty built an unprecedented manor for Prime Minister Jia Cheng, with strange flowers and plants, extremely luxurious, and full of beautiful scenery, named Houyuan. The famous sentence of Fan Zhongyan of the Northern Song Dynasty is well-known, but it was abused by the faint monarch and traitorous ministers.
Jiafu and the palace across the lake opposite, in the morning to hear the bell of the court, Prime Minister Jia Cheng only went down to the lake. The boat is tied to a thick cable, the end of the rope is connected to a large winch, walking does not have to paddle and brace, more than a dozen strong men push the winch, the boat is like flying, and it will be in front of the palace in a while, Jia Rudao drove away the upright ministers, handed over the big and small government to the big and small doormen, and enjoyed himself in the garden every day, courtesans, nuns, and old palace maids were all brought by him, drinking and watching plays day and night, and only the drinking friends and gambling friends who met when they were young could enter Jiafu.
One day, Prime Minister Jia Cheng was lying on the ground, playing cricket with a group of concubines, a familiar gambler patted him on the shoulder, smiled and said: "This is the important military affairs of Pingzhang, right?" In the Song Dynasty, Pingzhang was another name for the prime minister, and Prime Minister Jia also laughed wildly, so people at that time said: "There is no prime minister in the court, and there is Pingzhang on the lake." ”
Jia Rudao was born in a bureaucratic family at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his father, Jia She, was insidious, cunning, and absurd. Jia Rudao, who grew up immersed in this sewage tank, learned to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble since he was a child, and was abducted and deceived by his father, because of his father's grace, he was made up for Jiaxing Sicang, and in this way, he became a national civil servant.
Not long after, another big pie fell in the world, Jia Rudao's sister entered the palace and became a concubine, and he immediately became a real uncle again. Jia Rudao entered the officialdom at a young age, and in the experience of hearing and seeing, he naturally learned the skills of slapping horses and drilling camps and intriguing, so his official career was smooth, and he was promoted all the way and became a hot figure in the court.
In the first year of Tianqing, the Mongol army marched south to attack the Song Dynasty in three ways, and Kublai Khan besieged Ezhou, and the situation was very critical. Song Lizong hurriedly worshiped Jia Nidao as a privy envoy and led the troops to relieve the siege, but Jia Nidao, who knew nothing about military operations, had already been frightened by the offensive of the Mongol soldiers, and he concealed from the court and the generals, and privately sent a henchman named Song Jing to meet Kublai Khan, willing to pay tribute to Mongolia, but Kublai Khan categorically refused.
In September of this year, the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge was killed by an arrow in the Diaoyu City of Sichuan, and there was a power struggle among the Mongolian nobles, and the royal family who remained in the rear took the opportunity to establish themselves as the Great Khan. In the face of the sudden God-given opportunity on the battlefield, Jia Rudao did not actively plan how to pursue Kublai Khan by victory, but took the initiative to throw himself into his arms and ask Kublai Khan for peace, willing to give 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk every year.
Jia Rudao saw Kublai Khan's army withdrawing, immediately became angry, took the opportunity to intercept and kill more than 100 Mongolian soldiers who fell behind, he concealed the real reason for the retreat of the Mongolian army, as well as the ugly thing of his private peace, and then went to the imperial court with great fanfare, bragging about how he was born and died, and killed the enemy bravely, and finally he carefully arranged a grand triumphal scene.
The mediocre Southern Song Dynasty court heard that the Mongolian army was beaten by Jia Nidao and fled, all of them breathed a long sigh of relief, and the emperor was grateful to Jia Nidao, and Jia Nidao became a national hero and a pillar of the country. At this time, where will anyone distinguish what is true and false, and no one will dare to question it.
Despite this, Jia Rudao still thought that the fat powder on his face was not thick enough, so he instigated a group of shameless literati to write "Fuhua Edition", singing praises for himself, and blowing the merits of guarding Ezhou to the sky. Jia Rudao finally used a beautiful lie to shape himself into a great savior who defends the people and the country.
Kublai Khan ordered the attack on Xiangyang, an important town in the Southern Song Dynasty, for the Battle of Xiangfan, and the Song army used the Han River to send endless resources into the city in order to hold the city. The guards Lu Wende and Lu Wenhuan held the city for six years, and Jia Rudao sent Fan Wenhu and Li Tingzhi to help, but there was discord between the two.
Jia Rudao blocked all news of the Mongol invasion of the south, and the emperor did not know about it, and Duzong learned of it three years after Xiangyang and Fancheng were besieged. Kublai Khan founded the country in Dadu as the Great Yuan, and the volunteers of the two brothers Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui fought in a bloody battle against the Mongol Yuan army. Fancheng was lost, Xiangyang was broken, the Song army continued the street fighting, Lü Wenhuan finally surrendered, and the six-year defense of Xiangyang ended.
Duzong died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve. After the death of Song Duzong, his eldest son Zhao Xi ascended the throne, and the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty was paralyzed. The Meng Yuan army conquered the military towns of Anqing and Chizhou, coerced Jiankang, the Yangtze River defense line collapsed, the government and the opposition were shaken, and all walks of life hoped that Jia Yidao could go on the expedition, but the Song army was defeated. Jia Rudao was demoted and killed by the prison officer Zheng Huchen on his way to his post.
Changzhou was lost, the Mengyuan army slaughtered the city, and soon Pingjiang also fell, and the people of Lin'an were panicked. The Meng Yuan army captured Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and captured the five-year-old Southern Song Emperor Gongzong. A peaceful surrender ceremony was held in the city of Lin'an, and Zhao Yu officially abdicated, but Zhao Yu's elder brother Zhao Yu and younger brother Zhao Yu escaped from Lin'an under the protection of the minister.
Later, the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty, such as Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie, supported two young emperors in succession. The Meng Yuan army pursued the little emperor relentlessly, the Song court continued to flee to the south, and Zhao Yu ascended the throne in Fuzhou, which was for Duanzong and changed to Yuan Jingyan. However, the internal struggle of the small court continued, the Mongolian army approached Fuzhou, and the courtiers Chen Yizhong and Zhang Shijie escorted Zhao Yu and Zhao Yu to flee south by boat, and from then on, the small court could only travel by sea.
The Southern Song Dynasty court arrived in Leizhou, and Zhao Yu, who was only eleven years old, died, and Lu Xiufu and his ministers supported Zhao Yu as emperor and changed Yuan Xiangxing. Fleeing to the area of Xinhui to the South China Sea, Wen Tianxiang was defeated and captured in Haifeng, Zhang Shijie's warship sank, and under the onslaught of the Mongolian army, Leizhou was lost, and the small court moved to Yashan.
The Mengyuan general Zhang Hongfan led the Han army to chase after him and launched a general attack on Yashan, the Song army was unable to fight, and the whole line was defeated, which was known as the Battle of Yamen in history. The desperate Southern Song Dynasty finally committed suicide by jumping into the sea with Zhao Yu with Lu Xiufu and more than 800 members of the Zhao Song royal family, and many loyal ministers followed him, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea to die in the country.
Zhang Hongfan carved on the stone wall the twelve characters of "Zhang Hongfan, the general of the Zhenguo Dynasty, destroyed the Song Dynasty here" and returned, and the Southern Song Dynasty was declared completely extinct. The Battle of Yamen was extremely tragic, and the Song army lost 100,000 in this battle, and the sea was full of corpses.
Wen Tianxiang, who was in Yuanying, personally witnessed the tragic situation and wrote a poem: "When you come to the South China Sea, people are like numbness. The bloody waves beat the heartbreak, and the wind blows the sideburns. ”