You can't fit two knives in one sheath.

- Yi proverb

Jin's national fortunes are in full swing and unstoppable. Its appetite is to annex the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty, how can a few frontier cities with a few projectiles be satisfied to cope with the past?

The Jin State soon amassed a large army and launched a fierce attack on Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province), the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Gong Huaizhou family, who lives in Tokyo, continues to this day and is already a big family with Gong Qilin as the patriarch. In order to defend the Great Song Dynasty, the Gong family had more than a dozen young men conscripted into the army, and less than two or three survived.

Gong Qilin had long heard of the barbaric acts of the Jin army, and now that he saw that the enemy was about to enter Tokyo City again, he thought in his heart: It seems that he can no longer live in Tokyo City. So, he convened a meeting of the men of the Gong family to discuss the question of the stay of the big family.

Some of the Gong clan asserted: "The barbarians of the Jin State are here to punish the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and they have nothing to do with us ordinary people. It's better for us to stay in Tokyo City and keep our business. If they flee, they will be displaced, and it will be very hard, and the lives of women, children, and children will naturally be difficult to protect. ”

Others asserted: "The barbarians of the Jin Kingdom, like the barbarians of the Liao Kingdom, are barbarians of the north, with a tyrannical temperament, robbing people and plundering property, setting fire to houses, and killing people like hemp. ”

Gong Qilin saw that the two families were arguing, so he had to decide that each family would make their own decisions and end the family meeting.

At this time, the army of Jin had already advanced to a distance of more than 100 miles from Tokyo, and began to set up the layout before the war.

Gong Qilin no longer had the heart to take care of Yin Shi's family property, so he hurriedly took the men, women and children of the family, bid farewell to the Kaibao Temple Iron Tower, which had to face each other every morning, and followed some remnants of the Great Song Dynasty to flee to the far south.

Gong Qilin's eldest son, Gong Kaishan, stayed alone because he served in the capital guard.

Gong Kaishan deeply felt that during the reign of Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji of the Great Song Dynasty, traitorous ministers Cai Jing, Wang Huang, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, Li Bangyan and others controlled the government and government, wantonly looted the people's wealth, were extremely poor and extravagant, and were extremely corrupt. Huizong believed in Taoism, proclaimed himself the head of the sect, the emperor of Taoism, built a palace, and issued it to the Taoist priest, but he did not care about the life and death of the people of Limin. The mediocrity and extravagance led to a peasant uprising led by Fang La and Song Jiang.

The enemy is pressing, and the community is in danger. Zhang Bangchang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty and the representative of the main and faction, advocated peace, and took Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, as hostages, and went to the Jin State to ask for peace, and cede the land and pay compensation.

Huizong Zhao Ji passed the throne to his eldest son Zhao Huan (Qinzong) and proclaimed himself Emperor Taishang.

After Qinzong ascended the throne, he immediately demoted Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, and reused Li Gang to fight against the Jin State. However, he was very cowardly, incompetent, indecisive, listened to the slander of traitorous ministers, and dismissed Li Gang.

Seeing that they were unable to return to the sky, in order to prevent the Jin army from massacring their own people after breaking the city, they took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender to the invader Jin's army.

The Jin army, which was victorious without a fight, marched into Tokyo, a world-famous city and the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

At that time, the purpose of the Jin invasion of the Great Song Dynasty was to take a fancy to the abundant products and the money of the tribute, and did not want to occupy the Han land in the Central Plains, so they wanted to set up an obedient Han monarch to help them raise tribute.

Although the remnants of the Great Song Dynasty all adhered to the central unification and proposed to set up another Zhao family as the king, they were resolutely rejected by the Emperor of Jin. Zhang Bangchang became the only candidate. Most of the Great Song relict ministers held fierce opposition, the most fierce of which was the later traitor Qin Hui.

The Emperor of Jin supported Zhang Bangchang to establish an empty shell regime with the name of Great Chu, and canonized Zhang Bangchang as the emperor of Great Chu.

Zhang Bangchang was frightened, for fear that he would be sorry for the Zhao royal family, he refused to ascend the throne due to fraud, shirked in every possible way, and even used self-judgment as a counterpoint. However, in the end, Jin Guo threatened to slaughter the city and forced Zhang Bangchang to obediently submit.

The once glorious Northern Song Dynasty officially came to an end.

The Jin army captured more than 100,000 people from Zhao Ji of Song Weizong, Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong and his concubines, clansmen, craftsmen, Qin Hui, Gong Kaishan and other main battle factions, and countless gold and silver treasures, and happily returned to their capital Shangjing. This scene is very similar to the scene when the Great Mongols later plundered a large number of Khorezm craftsmen. The difference is that the emperor of Khorezm fled to a distant place to carry out the war of resistance, and was not in the huge prisoner brigade, which can be regarded as saving the royal face.

Because the name of the Great Song Dynasty in this year is Jingkang, which is known as the shame of Jingkang.

Along the way, the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom humiliated the Song royal family in every way.

Gong Kaishan and other courtiers did their best to protect their emperor, and were repeatedly beaten by the Jin soldiers.

After arriving in the capital of the Jin Kingdom, the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom forced Huizong and Qinzong to put on mourning clothes together, went to meet the temple of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta, and offered prisoners to the ancestors.

Emperor Jin issued an edict to abolish the titles of emperor of Huizong and Qinzong, demoted him to a concubine, and forcibly took off the dragon robes of two people.

Gong Kaishan saw that the noble and supreme Son of Heaven was being bullied by a foreign race, so he rushed forward desperately, protected the sacred dragon body of Qinzong with his body, and scolded loudly: "The barbarian of the Jin Kingdom, the dog generation rat, dare to be rude to my Great Song Emperor? ”

The soldiers of the Jin Kingdom were furious, pulled out the sharp knife inserted in their waists, brutally cut Gong Kaishan's throat, and then continued to humiliate and mock the poor deposed emperor.

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was mischievously made Duke of Dude by the Jin Emperor and imprisoned in Hanzhou (present-day Changtu County, Liaoning Province), and later moved to Wuguocheng (present-day Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province) and imprisoned. During his captivity, Song Huizong suffered mental torture and wrote poems of remorse, grievance, and desolation:

The west wind shook the door all night,

The depression and solitary hall are faintly lit.

Looking back on three thousand miles,

There are no geese flying in the south of the mountain.

After the withdrawal of the Jin State, Zhang Bangchang, who had been the emperor for a month, returned to power under Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Song Huizong.

Zhao Gou was proclaimed Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty by the remnants of the Great Song Dynasty in Nanjing (present-day Shangqiunan, Henan Province), and the Great Song Dynasty was re-established. Because the new Song Dynasty is located in the south of the homeland, it is known as the Southern Song Dynasty in history.

Song Gaozong was forced by the pressure of his ministers to give Zhang Bangchang, who was acting as a puppet of the Jin State, to death.

Gong Qilin's family traveled to Jinling City (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and found a secluded alley in Zhuzi Alley to live temporarily, so as to observe the changes in the situation and then make the next step.

Jinling is an ancient city. During the Six Dynasties, it was the largest city in the world at that time, with a population of one million, and it was also the first city in the world with a population of more than one million.

The political center of the Sui and Tang dynasties was in the north, and Jinling was deliberately degraded by the rulers of the north, and the administrative district system was reduced to a county in Runzhou for 130 years in the Tang Dynasty.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Jinling was designated as the capital by the Southern Tang Dynasty, the city was greatly expanded, and there was no major war in the territory for more than 70 years, and the people were recuperated. The markets on both sides of the Qinhuai River are prosperous, and merchants gather. Economic prosperity has also led to the development of culture. Jinling's poetry, calligraphy and painting have opened up a generation.

Even if the northern country is in decline and the great enemy is at present, the nobles in Jinling City are still singing in unison, caressing their red sleeves, and there is no sense of crisis of national annihilation.

When Gong Qilin, who had just arrived, saw these extravagant and flashy scenes, he felt a burst of sadness in his heart, and couldn't help but chant the famous work "Bo Qinhuai" by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu:

smoke cage cold water moon cage sand,

Night park Qinhuai near the restaurant.

The merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country,

Across the river, the tail garden flowers are still sung.

In 1129, the ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty suggested that Jinling be the capital to show the map of Kuang's restoration of the Central Plains. Unfortunately, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou no longer had the courage to go on the Northern Expedition, and decided to set up the capital in Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) in the south of the Yangtze River, but under the pressure of public opinion, it was decided to change the Jiangning Mansion including Jinling to Jiankang Mansion as the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Although the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty had no intention of going north, the emperor of the Jin State insisted on invading the south.

In less than three months, the Jin army quickly moved south, capturing many prefectures and counties in the Southern Song Dynasty from Qinzhou (present-day Tianshui, Gansu Province) to Qingzhou (present-day Qingzhou, Shandong Province) in the east.

Song Gaozong Zhao Gou had no choice but to flee to Lin'an, and then decided to abandon the Huai River defense line, retreat to the Yangtze River moat, and stick to half of the rivers and mountains.

This time, Gong Qilin's family did not follow the exiled emperor to continue to flee south, because the Yangtze River was their last bottom line away from their homeland. They fear that if they continue to flee south, they may never return to their hometown of Tokyo.

Gong Qilin opened a private school in Bamboo Alley, specializing in teaching literacy to the children of ordinary people in the vicinity, earning a meager amount of silver to support his family. His second son, Gong Kaiyuan, because he had previously been the guard of Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, had to say goodbye to his parents and fled to Lin'an with the emperor.

The Jin army conquered Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui Province) and Hezhou (now Hexian County, Anhui Province) and other places, moved to Majiadu (now northeast of Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province) to cross the Yangtze River, defeated the Yangtze River defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even the capital of Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) and the capital of Lin'an.

The Guozuo of the Southern Song Dynasty once again faced the dangerous situation of the building about to collapse.

At that time, the climate was cold, and the invading Jin army was even more murderous. Song Gaozong Zhao Gou had no way to go to the sky and no hole to the ground, so he had to take a wooden boat to drift and wander on the sea near Wenzhou and Taizhou in Zhejiang.

He looked at the misty sea, and then looked at the land that had been ravaged by the Jin army, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "Since the sky gave birth to me, why did you put me in such a miserable situation?" ”

The sky is speechless, the turbid waves are rolling, the sea and the sky are the same, and the relatives are crying.

Gong Kaiyuan followed closely behind Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, and saw that the emperor who was honored and powerful was infinitely sentimental, and he was helpless to be alone, so he courageously persuaded forward: "Your Majesty, the miasma outside the cabin is attacking. The emperor takes care of the dragon's body, you better go into the cabin to rest. ”

Song Gaozong Zhao Gou sighed deeply again, and then walked into the cabin gloomily.

Gong Kaiyuan quickly closed the hatch......

The all-out offensive of the Jin State did not achieve the expected goal of completely destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, so it immediately changed its strategic deployment, changed the all-out offensive to the west, and concentrated its forces on attacking Sichuan and Shaanxi, in an attempt to control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and create favorable conditions for the roundabout encirclement of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Gong Kaiyuan was a meritorious protector and was appointed as a general by Song Gaozong. He led the army to deal a heavy blow to the main force of the Jin State in Shunchang, which had a major impact on the war situation against the Jin, and planned the operations of other armies of the Southern Song Dynasty in the east and west flanks and the Xijing area, suppressed the fierce offensive of the Jin army on the whole front, and created good conditions for the Southern Song Dynasty army and people to counterattack the enemy on a large scale.

Subsequently, the Southern Song Dynasty generals Wu Lan, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others led the army to repel the Jin army that attacked Shaanxi, Xijing, and Huaidong.

In the autumn of 1130, the Jin army defeated the Southern Song army's Sichuan-Shaanxi Five-Route Army at Fuping (present-day Fuping, Shaanxi Province), leaving the Southern Song army in a difficult position in the northwest battlefield.

The Sichuan-Shaanxi army had to retreat to Heshangyuan (now southwest of Baoji, Shaanxi Province) and other places, fortified according to the danger, and resisted the Jin army.

The Jin State repeated its old tricks, established a buffer state between the Jin State and the Southern Song Dynasty, and canonized the Jinan prefect of the Song Dynasty, Han Liu Yu as the emperor of the Great Qi, using the Han to control the Han, let the traitors sell their lives for themselves, and took the attack on the Southern Song Dynasty as the main task.

In 1136, in order to restore the Central Plains, Yue Fei led his army to the northern expedition against the puppet regime Daqi, recovering large areas of lost territory in western Henan and southern Shaanxi. Other Southern Song armies defeated the Great Qi army at Lotang (southeast of present-day Dingyuan, Anhui Province), forcing the Jin State to abolish the Great Qi regime and return Shaanxi and Henan to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Only then did the two sides reach a peace agreement and a temporary truce.

In the summer of 1140, the Jin State suddenly broke its promise, tore up the peace treaty between the two countries, and divided its troops into four directions to attack the Southern Song Dynasty.

Yue Fei took advantage of the situation to counterattack, repeatedly defeated the invading Jin army, recovered Zhengzhou, Chenzhou (now Huaiyang, Henan Province) and other places, and at the same time sent people to sneak across the Yellow River, penetrate deep into the rear of the Jin army, and contact the rebel army in Henan and Hebei, forming a favorable situation for the Jin army stationed in Tokyo to advance from east to west and attack from north to south.

In 1142, just as Yue Fei was preparing to raise troops to recover the Central Plains and serve the country with loyalty, the Jin State sent back Qin Hui, who had transformed from a staunch anti-war faction to a surrender faction, which changed the favorable situation of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Song Gaozong listened to Qin Hui's slander, fell into the Jin State's divisive plan, and was afraid that the Jin State would send Song Qinzong back and threaten his throne, so he decided to beg the Jin State for peace and forced Yue Fei to retreat and return to the court.

The Han land recovered by Yue Fei fell into the hands of the Jin State again.

Yue Fei, a famous anti-gold general, was also executed by Qin Hui on trumped-up charges. Other representatives of the main battle faction, such as Han Shizhong, Li Gang, Gong Kaiyuan, etc., were either demoted or killed.

Gong Kaiyuan didn't know what Song Gaozong really thought in his heart, and thought that the emperor was temporarily confused. Therefore, while scolding Qin Hui, who confused the emperor, he was filled with grief and anger for Yue Fei, who was succumbed to death.

The famous Shaoxing Agreement surfaced: the Southern Song Dynasty declared itself a vassal to the Jin State, and the Jin Emperor canonized Song Gaozong as the Great Song Emperor; The Great Song Dynasty paid 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 horses of silk to the Jin State every year; The Song and Jin states were bounded by Huaishui in the east and Dasanguan in the west, and half of the Tang and Deng states and the Shang and Qin states were included in the Jin state.

Jin agreed to return the coffins of Song Gaozong's mother, Concubine Wei Xian, and Song Huizong, who had died in a foreign country, and promised to continue to imprison Song Qinzong and all other princes.

On May 1 of that year, Concubine Wei Xian of Song Huizong was allowed to escort her husband Song Huizong's coffin back to the Great Song Dynasty.

Before leaving, Song Qinzong, who was still detained in the Jin Kingdom, held the wheel of his stepmother, Concubine Wei Xian, with both hands, and said with infinite grievance: "Please tell Gaozong that if I can go back in this life, I don't want to re-ascend the throne, as long as I am the master of Taiyi Palace, I will be satisfied." ”

After hearing this, Concubine Wei Xian cried and said, "If you don't go back, I'd rather be blind." ”

At this time, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou no longer had biological heirs, but he was unwilling to let the half-brother Song Qinzong come back, and he never submitted the conditions for replacing him when he negotiated peace with Jin Guo, let alone allowed Song Qinzong's children to inherit the throne.

As a result, Song Qinzong did not return to the land of the Great Song Dynasty until his death.

Concubine Wei Xian really suffered from an eye disease in her later years and was blind in one eye.

The Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty basically coexisted peacefully for more than 20 years.

In the autumn of 1161, the new emperor of the Jin State could not tolerate the beautiful and rich Jiangnan in the hands of others, and attacked the Southern Song Dynasty in four directions.

The Sichuan-Shaanxi army of the Southern Song Dynasty took advantage of the situation to counterattack, defeated the invading enemy, and successively recovered 16 prefectures including Qinzhou and Taozhou (now Lintan, Gansu Province), and took advantage of the coup d'état within the Jin State to recover more than 10 prefectures such as Haizhou (now Haizhou Town, Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province) and Tangzhou (now Tanghe, Henan Province).

At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty became justified and arrogant, no longer bowed to the Jin State, and also reduced the annual coins paid.

The Emperor of Jin was shot by his subordinates and suffered a complete defeat.

At the beginning of 1163, after the domestic situation of the Jin State stabilized, the army of the Jin State came back, took 16 states from the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty army, garrisoned 100,000 troops in Henan, and demanded Haizhou, Sizhou, Tangzhou, Dengzhou, Shangzhou and the year coin, and then occupied Fuli (now Suxian County, Anhui Province), crossed the Huai River, and Chen Bing on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Zhao Yun of Song Lizong saw that his army was unable to support it, so he was forced to negotiate peace with the Jin State.

There was no major war between the two sides for the next 40 years.

Since then, the mediocre and decadent emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty has forgotten the danger of the country and the lost land, and sang and danced in the beautiful scenery of Lin'an.

As the Southern Song Dynasty poet Lin Sheng wrote in "The Title of Lin Andi":

Outside the mountain, Outside the mountain,

When does West Lake singing and dancing stop?

The warm wind smokes the tourists drunk,

Straight Hangzhou as Bianzhou.