Chapter 249: The Shame of Jingkang

Song Qinzong ascended the Xuande Gate, and Wu Min and Li Gang announced to the hundred officials and soldiers in front of the gate tower that they were determined to defend Tokyo. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBai Shizhong was deposed, everyone praised him quickly, Li Bangyan and Zhang Bangchang were replaced as ministers, and Cai Mao, who knew the Privy Council, was the secretary of Shangshu Zuocheng.

Li Gang used the 100-step method to divide his troops to prepare for defense, and used 12,000 regular troops on each wall of the four walls; he also organized 40,000 people in the front and rear of the horse infantry army, with 8,000 men in each army, and placed generals under the command of separate officers, and sent the front army to guard the granary outside the East Water Gate, and the rear army to guard Fanjiagang outside the East Gate, and equipped them with all kinds of defensive weapons and tools. Within four days, the facilities for preparing for the defense were generally ready.

At this time, only Wanyan Zongwang's Jinguo East Route Army participated in the siege of Kaifeng, Wanyan Zonghan's Jinguo West Route Army was not only tripped in Taiyuan, but also refused to be deployed by Wanyan Zongwang to cut off the Western Army, so that the 100,000 Western Army led by Zongdao to Kaifeng smoothly, and Wanyan Zongwang passively retreated to Mengyang, a suburb northwest of Kaifeng, and camped.

Yao Pingzhong led the army to rob Yan Zongwang's camp and was completely annihilated, some people pointed out that the surrender faction Li Bangyan and Li Ze intentionally or unintentionally revealed it to the spy Deng Qi in order to force the main battle faction Li Gang and the seed master to negotiate peace. After the failure of the robbery, Li Gang and Chongshidao were revoked from military power.

The Jin soldiers came to Kaifeng again, and Song Qinzong was terrified, and sent a messenger to say: "I didn't know about this matter at first, and I have already blamed the person." ”

Li Bangyan also ordered Song Qinzong not to offend the Jin soldiers, and a thunderbolt gunner was executed by the head of the gun after firing the cannon. Wanyan Zongwang was repulsed by the Western army when he attacked the city again, so he stopped the attack, changed the king of Su Zhao Shu as a hostage, and the king of Kang, Zhao Gou, was able to return.

After Yan Zongwang's Jin Guodong Route Army besieged Kaifeng for the first time without results, before leaving, he sent people into the city to resign, and sent a letter of resignation. When Yan Zongwang retreated, the elite Qin Feng army of the Western Army led by the younger brother of the Seed Master Dao drove 30,000 people to Kaifeng, Tokyo, and the Seed Master Dao immediately ordered him to lead the troops to follow the back of the Jin army, and wait until they crossed the Yellow River to sneak attack, completely eliminate their half of the still on the south bank, and cripple the most elite East Route Army of the Jin State to eliminate the trouble.

Li Gang also suggested using the story of Lan Yuan to escort the Jin army out of the country, and told the generals to pursue them when they had the opportunity. Song Qinzong also agreed with Li Gang's ostensible suggestion and sent 100,000 troops to escort him tightly. However, Wu Min, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other capitulation factions finally overwhelmed the main battle faction, sent people to set up a big banner on the side of the Yellow River, and strictly ordered the army not to bypass the big banner to catch the Jin army, otherwise they would all be executed.

He also proposed a way to make up for the lost sheep, and suggested that a large army should be stationed on both sides of the Yellow River to prevent the Jin army from crossing the river again, which is the next plan to prevent autumn. Song Qinzong was soon overwhelmed by Wu Min, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other surrender ministers, believing that if the Jin army did not come, this huge military expense would be wasted, and refused to adopt the strategy of planting the master. The planter was so angry that he fell ill and died, while Li Gang was transferred to Hebei and Hedong to Xuanfu and did nothing, and was finally exiled to Jiangxi.

Soon after, the Jin State sent Xiao Zhonggong to the Song Dynasty, and Yelu Yujian was the supervising army. Song Qinzong thought that these two were the original nobles of the Liao State, and he could lure them, so he sealed a letter with wax pills and asked Xiao Zhonggong to send Yelu Yu to see them, so that they could be reciprocated. As a result, Xiao Zhonggong hurriedly ran back to Jin Guo to meet Yan Zongwang and dedicated it to him with a wax pill letter. In August, Wanyan Zongwang used this as an excuse to gather troops to re-attack the Song Dynasty, and the second attack on Bianjing was still the match between Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang.

After completing the West Road, Yan Zonghan set out from Datong as he attacked the Song Dynasty for the first time, and defeated Song Zhang Hao's army in Wenshui the next day. Wanyan Zongwang set out from Baozhou on the east road, and broke through the Song soldiers in Xiongzhou and Zhongshan on the same day. Break the Song Dynasty general in the division in Jingcheng, take the Tianwei army to conquer Zhending.

After resting, Wanyan Zonghan attacked Bianjing from Taiyuan on the west road, captured the Weisheng army and attacked Klondefu to cross Mengjin, and Song Xijing, Yong'an Army, and Zhengzhou all surrendered. After the east road, Zongwang Zizhen attacked Bianjing, Zongwang's army crossed the river, and then captured Linhe County, Daming County, Deqing Army, Kaide Prefecture, Gongke Huaizhou and reached the city of Bianjing. Song sent troops to refuse the battle, and was defeated by Wanyan Zongwang and others, and Wanyan Zonghan later arrived at Bianjing City, and was preempted by Wanyan Zongwang.

After more than 250 days of besieged by the 50,000 Jin troops of Wanyan Lou's room, this part of the army of Wanyan Lou's room crossed the Yellow River in the south and moved west to Luoyang, blocking Tongguan, and locking the most elite western army of the Song Dynasty in Tongguan, cutting off the road of King Qin from the east.

The Jin army attacked on two fronts, surrounded on all sides, and trapped Tokyo in complete isolation. Li Gang was deprived of military power because of Yao Pingzhong's failure to rob the village and the seed master Dao, and Song Qinzong gave the prime minister full power to fight, defend, and make peace. While superstitious about the Liujia divine soldiers of the demon Guo Jing, he sent the privy envoy Feng Lu to Wanyan Zonghan's army to seek peace, thinking that it was a double insurance, but it was not the way to defend the city.

Song Qinzong temporarily sent Liu Tao, who was in Beijing, to raise the four walls to guard the palace, and in addition, the second prime minister Sun Fu was the imperial envoy, with different powers and many constraints. Sun Fu, like He?, pinned his hopes on the demon Guo Jing's Liujia Divine Soldier.

The Western Route Army is mainly the deputy commander of Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Xiyin, and Wanyan Lou Room, and Wanyan Yinshuke and other generals belong to his command, and the Han Gaoqing descendant, Shi Liai is the mastermind. Wanyan Lou and Wanyan Xiyin took turns to supervise the division outside Tongguan to stop the Song Dynasty's Western Army King Qin, and the strength of the Jin Army on the east and west roads had exceeded 150,000 people.

On the side of the Song Dynasty, the defenders in the city were less than 70,000, and the Qinwang army in various places was restrained by the orders of Tang Ke and Geng Nanzhong. Only Zhang Shuye, the governor of Nandao, and his two sons Bofen and Zhongxiong disobeyed this surrender-style order, recruited 13,000 soldiers to King Qin, and encountered Yan Zonghan in Yingchang Mansion, and won and lost each other in eighteen battles, and finally the whole army broke into Kaifeng City, which was the only Qinwang army that could enter Kaifeng City. Because of Guo Jing's troubles, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan and the generals broke through Bianjing City and captured Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Qinzong.

In the second year of Jingkang, the Northern Song Dynasty perished, Jin Taizong issued an edict to abolish the two emperors of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, demoted them to concubines, and forcibly took off the dragon robe of the second emperor. Wanyan Zonghan initially wanted to recruit Li Ruoshui, but after a few days, it didn't work, so he casually let his subordinates deal with him. Li Ruoshui scolded endlessly, and was cut by Zong Han's men and died.

After the Jin army plundered, Zhang Bangchang was appointed as the emperor, and the country was called Dachu. Then retreated in two ways; one was imprisoned by Zongwang, including Huizong, Empress Zheng and the prince, the imperial grandson, the concubine, the princess, the princess, and the concubines went north along Huazhou, and the other route was imprisoned by Zonghan, including Qinzong, Empress Zhu, the prince, the clan and Sun Fu, Zhang Shuye, Qin Hui and others traveled north along Zhengzhou, among which there were thousands of people such as music workers and craftsmen in the teaching workshop, carrying literature and maps, treasures and legal objects, and no less than 100,000 men and women returned to the north, which was called the shame of Jingkang in history.

Before and after the Jin soldiers besieged Bianjing, they burned, killed, plundered, and forcibly hugged women. In addition to gold and silver property, a large number of officials and people of the Song Dynasty were taken captive, especially women. The Jin people deliberately extorted 600 girls, but did not extort the boys.

After Yan Zonghan feasted his generals, ordered the palace concubines to change their clothes and serve wine, and those who did not obey were executed.

Wanyan Zonghan's eldest son Sheyema took a fancy to Zhao Fujin, the daughter of Song Huizong, and Wanyan Zongwang asked Huizong to hand over Fujin to Sheyema, but Huizong disagreed because Fujin had already married Cai Jing's daughter-in-law. Wanyan Zonghan said angrily: "Your Great Song Dynasty has destroyed the country, how can you resist the order?"

Huizong said: "There is heaven above, there is an emperor below, and everyone has their own daughter-in-law. ”

However, it was useless, and she took Fujin as her wife on the way to the north, and after returning to Beijing, Jin Taizong gave the emperor Zhao Fujin, the princess Xu Shengying, the palace concubine Yang Tiaoer, and Chen Wenwan to wait for the concubine.

When Concubine Zhu Shen of Song Qinzong was relieved halfway to the north, she was molested by Qianhu Guolu, and many other women were also ravaged and died. At first, there were more than 3,000 people in the sect team, but after arriving in Yanjing, there were only 1,000 or more people left, and nine out of ten people were sick.

The total number of captives before the departure was 14,000, and they were taken to the north in seven batches, of which the first batch of nobles and nobles of the clan was more than 2,200 men and more than 3,400 women, and arrived in Yanshan on 27 April, with more than 1,900 women surviving. Within a month, nearly half of the 1,500 women died, and 1,900 of the 1,900 who did not die were sent to Shangjing to obey the distribution of Jin Taizong.

Empress Zheng of Song Huizong and Empress Zhu of Qinzong were also treated in the same way, Empress Zhu was so humiliated that she hanged herself after returning to the house, and after being rescued, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the water. The other part remained in Yanjing and was rewarded to the Jin soldiers of the Song Dynasty, and many women were sold into prostitution, some were exchanged for a horse by Wanyan Zonghan, and some were sold to Goryeo and Mongolia as slaves.

Nine of these women were prostitutes, and their names were completely lost, and their lives perished. A blacksmith went to buy a woman with eight gold, and found the prince's daughter and grandson, Xiangguo's niece and daughter-in-law, and Jinshi's wife.

Yu Wenxu, the envoy of the Northern Song Dynasty who was detained in the Jin Kingdom, once met Zongji of the Northern Song Dynasty who had become a courtesan, and wrote the words of "Nian Nujiao", and another envoy Wu Ji wrote the words of "The Full Moon of People": "How many sad things in the Southern Dynasty are still singing the flowers of the backyard." In the old days, Wang Xie, the swallow in front of the hall, flew to whose house. Suddenly in a dream, the fairy muscle is better than the snow, and the palace bun is full of crows. Jiangzhou Sima, the green shirt is wet with tears, and it is the end of the world. ”

The shame of Jingkang led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, deeply piercing the hearts of the Han people, Yue Fei mentioned in "Man Jianghong": "Jingkang shame, still not snowing, courtiers hate, when will it be destroyed?"

In view of the lessons of the Southern Song Dynasty, the scholars and doctors of the Ming Dynasty were ashamed to negotiate with the Manchus, so Ming Chongzhen was always in a dilemma about the matter of peace negotiations. Lu Xiangsheng immediately told the emperor: "Your Majesty ordered the ministers to supervise the teachers, and the ministers only know how to fight." "Ming Sizong can only argue that there is no such thing as peace at all, Lu Xiangsheng finally died on the battlefield, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was in the dilemma of peace and war, and walked into the road of destruction.

The martyrdom theory of Chinese women has been paid attention to by Taoists in the Song Dynasty since the shame of Jingkang. Because all the harem concubines and clan women of the Northern Song Dynasty were taken captive to the north as slaves and prostitutes, this shame made Taoists abandon the concept of emphasizing survival over chastity in the Northern Song Dynasty, and instead vigorously advocated women sacrificing their lives to protect chastity.

Due to the circumstances of the time, this concept was gradually accepted by scholars. By the time of the Song, Meng, Ming and Qing dynasties, the number of arches of chastity for female martyrdom was increasing, and between survival and chastity, women could only choose the latter.