Although Li Gang was a civil official, his father Li Kui, who was well versed in military affairs, had accompanied Lu Huiqing to resist the Western Xia and made meritorious contributions.

In all dynasties, if Ming Jun was in power, it would be fine, but when Huizong and Qinzong were emperors, then he was a loyal minister for the country and the people, and his official career was a little bad.

In the second year of Zhenghe, Li Gang Jinshi and the first. In the fifth year of Zhenghe, the official supervised the imperial history and served the imperial history in the palace of power, and soon because of the discussion of the mistakes of the government, he was removed from the official ministry, and was reappointed as a member of the ministry, and moved to the house.

In the first year of Xuanhe, Li Gang asked the imperial court to pay attention to internal and external troubles, and Zhao Ji of Song Huizong thought that the discussion was out of place, and he was imprisoned in Shaxian County, Nanjianzhou.

In the sixth year of Xuanhe, because the Jin State and the two armies went south, the Chinese Emperor Li Nan sent an expeditionary force to aid the Song Dynasty, and Li Gang was recalled by Huizong to the dynasty and appointed him as the imperial envoy of the four walls of the capital.

The first time the Jin soldiers attacked the city of Tokyo, Qinzong, who had just obtained the throne, ceded the three places of Hebei in exchange for a short period of peace. After that, Li Gang, who was the main battle faction, was attacked by the Yihe faction and was soon dismissed and demoted.

Because of the attack on the expeditionary force, the empire attacked the Song State, and Qinzong, who had no one to use, had no choice but to reactivate the disgusted Li Gang and order him to defend the city of Tokyo again.

Prime Minister Tang Ke was the main figure of the peace faction, and when he received a letter from Zhao Huan of Qinzong, he knew that his old rival Li Gang might not follow the order, so he first found other courtiers in the court to discuss.

The first person Tang Ke found was the most trusted Shangshu Zuocheng and his subordinate servant Geng Nanzhong, who had been in the palace for fourteen years, and he was also the most discordant person with Li Gang.

After reading the edict of Qinzong, Geng Nanzhong pondered for a moment and then said: "Li Gang has always been arrogant and domineering, and he has the heart to fool the people, and he may not be able to handle the intentions of the officials truthfully. ”

Tang Ke, as the prime minister, naturally knew that the treasury was false and real, and if he really wanted to gather the gold, silver and jewelry according to the requirements of the Jin people, there was only one way to snatch it from the people of Tokyo City, so he sighed with a sad face: "Helplessly, Li Gang is in charge of the army, and now that the official family is detained in the gold camp outside the city, I am afraid that he will most likely resist and disobey the order." ”

"Well, Li Gang will be like this." After thinking about it, Geng Nanzhong said: "Without further ado, you and I will now go to Wang Zongwei, the deputy capital commander of the front division of the palace, he is the uncle of the official family, and he is the general forbidden brigade, only protects the palace rock, guards the capital division, and consolidates the royal family, and now is the time to use him." ”

After Huizong Chan gave up his position and fled the city of Tokyo, Qinzong appointed Wang Zongwei to lead the palace in order to firmly control the military power in his own hands, and now although most of the soldiers and horses in the city are under the control of Li Gang, he also has seven or eight thousand forbidden troops guarding the imperial city in his hands.

Although Wang Zongwei is a relative of the emperor, he is arrogant and noble, and he can't do anything, and he can lead the forbidden army in the imperial city completely because of Qinzong's trust.

After Tang Ke and Geng Nanzhong saw Wang Zongmi, these three courtiers who had completely obtained their power from Qinzong hit it off, and immediately set up an ambush in the Wang family's mansion, and then ordered someone to recruit Li Gang to come to the discussion.

Li Gang, who was commanding the sergeants and the people to defend, did not expect that Wang Zongwei would deal with him, and after receiving the message, he only took a few guards and rode to Wang's house.

After Li Gang came to Wang's house, he met Tang Ke and Geng Nanzhong in the hall, who were holding Qinzong's edicts.

Sure enough, after Li Gang read Qinzong's edict, he learned that Tang Ke was going to lead his troops to loot the people of Tokyo City and gather the gold and silver to compensate the Jinren, and his face immediately turned cold.

Li Gang looked at Tang Ke and the others, and said coldly: "Since ancient times, the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light!" Although this edict is written by the official, please forgive me Li Boji for not being able to receive the decree! ”

Geng Nanzhong, who had long expected Li Gang to be like this, pointed at him and reprimanded angrily: "The Great Song Dynasty is the Great Song of the official family, and you Li Gang are also an official appointed by the official family, and now you are disobeying the order, can you be guilty?" ”

"I'm guilty!" Li Gang said proudly: "Resisting the order and disobeying it is a great crime of disrespect, I naturally know it, but now the Jin soldiers are besieging the city, just waiting for the Jin soldiers outside the city to retreat, I, Li Gang, am willing to hand over the military power and let the officials dispose of it!" ”

"Good, good, good!" Tang Ke shouted: "You Li Gang now hold the power of the army, it seems that you rely on the soldiers, but do you think that no one can cure you?" ”

Without waiting for Li Gang to speak, Tang Ke shouted loudly: "Commander Wang, please take down the criminal officer Li Gang!" ”

If the normal plan continues, even if Li Gang has great ability, he will be killed or restrained by Wang Zongmiao's people today.

Next, Li Gang will naturally be deprived of military power, Tang Ke and Geng Nanzhong and others will command the soldiers to go to Tokyo City to rob the people and collect the money given to the Jin people, but there are accidents in everything.

This time the stakes are very important, and Wang Zongwei also attaches great importance to this matter, so he did not ambush ordinary forbidden soldiers in the mansion, but specially invited a master who is proficient in the magic of Buddhism and Taoism and can perform the "Liujia Method" of Taoism, and ordered him to capture Li Gang.

Guo Jing was originally a small soldier in the forbidden army, and he said that he was good at "making gods serve ghosts", and had the ability to "move mountains and seas, scatter beans into soldiers, and stealthily hide".

Although Wang Zongwei is a little stupid, he is not a fool, he didn't trust Guo Jing at the beginning, and he once tested him personally.

Guo Jing asked people to draw many large circles and small circles on the ground with white powder, and a door was drawn on the left and right sides of the outside of the large circle, with the word "life" written on the left door and the word "death" written on the right door.

Then Guo Jing sat on the south side, chanting words in his mouth. Guo Jing shouted "stop", and someone released a cat and a mouse. Guo Jing shouted "Sheng", the rat was put in the birth gate, the cat was put into the death door, and the cat and mouse entered the big circle together, and turned around along the small circle with each other. The cat and mouse passed by, but the mouse did not look afraid, and the cat did not seem to see the mouse at all. After a while, Guo Jing shouted again: "Die", and the cat and mouse exchanged the entrance door. As soon as the rat entered the door of death, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground and did not dare to move, and the cat jumped over and bit him to death with one paw.

Wang Zongwei and others, who watched the live demonstration, were convinced of it, so the capture of Li Gang this time would make Guo Jing take action.

There are many ignorant people in the world, and it has nothing to do with their status and identity, so since ancient times, there have been many liars who pretend to be gods and ghosts, and there are not a few who can deceive the court officials, but what is fake is fake, and it will never be true.

I heard Wang Zongmian shouting "Do it!" After saying this, Li Gang knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly pulled out the long sword at his waist and rushed out.

At this time, Guo Jing, who was blocked at the gate of the Wang family, was wearing a Taoist robe, wearing a cloak and holding a peachwood sword in his hand, but Li Gang, who had never believed in ghosts and gods, did not mean to be frightened by him at all, and slashed at this 'immortal master' with a swing of his sword.

Guo Jing was shocked, and hurriedly raised the peachwood sword in his hand to block it, but the sword in Li Gang's hand was a sharp weapon, and after cutting off the peachwood sword, it was still alive, and immediately slashed into Guo Jing's neck, and the blood immediately splashed out like money.

Guo Jing, who was regarded as an immortal master by Wang Zongwei and others, really interpreted what it means to be vulnerable at this time, and after being slashed by Li Gang, who was taken out of the door, he fell directly in front of the gate of the Wang family, and soon died of excessive blood loss.