Du Chong (?-1141), the name Gongmei, a native of Xiangzhou (now Anyang, Henan), was a minister and prime minister during the two Song Dynasty.

Zhezong Shao Shengjian Jinshi. In the early years of Jingkang, he knew Cangzhou. In the second year of Jianyan, he stayed in Tokyo on his behalf. However, Du Chong was afraid of fighting with the Jin army, so he first gave up all parts of Hebei where the anti-Jin uprisings continued, so that all the uprisings in Hebei were suppressed by the Jin army, thus completely losing more than one-third of the land occupied by the Jin State in the late Northern Song Dynasty. In the third year of Jianyan, he fled south to Jiankang Mansion and lost all the territory of the Song Dynasty north of the Yangtze River, but he was worshiped as the right minister and was stationed in Jiankang as the Jianghuai Xuanfu envoy. Before long, the Jin soldiers crossed the river and surrendered. In the seventh year of Shaoxing, he served as the third envoy of Yanjing in the Jin Dynasty. In the ninth year of Shaoxing, he moved to Yanjing to be the right prime minister. He died when the Shaoxing Peace Conference was signed.

A brief introduction to the life of Minister Du Chong on the occasion of the Two Song Dynasty

Digging the river to block the troops

Du Chong likes fame, is cruel and murderous by nature, and lacks strategy. During the Shaosheng period (1094-1098), Du Chong was admitted to the Jinshi, and was repeatedly promoted to Kao Gonglang and Guanglu Shaoqing, and later served as the prefect of Cangzhou.

In the early years of Jingkang, he was appointed as the editor of Jiying Palace, and then reinstated as the prefect of Cangzhou. At that time, the Jin people invaded the south, and there were many people who came from Yandi to live in Cangzhou, and Du Chong was worried that they were the internal response of the Jin people, so they were all killed, regardless of men, women, and children.

In the first year of Jianyan (1127), Du Chong was promoted to the Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized, and the Beijing Daimyo Mansion was left behind, and later moved to the Privy Council. Guo Yong once put forward many suggestions to Du Chong, but Du Chong did not listen. Guo Yong sarcastically said: "This person has ambitions but no talents, likes fame but has no actual actions, arrogant but wants to gain reputation, let him take on heavy responsibilities, it is difficult to end." This became a portrayal of Du Chong's image in the future.

On the eve of the second invasion of the Song Dynasty by the Jin State to break Kaifeng, Du Chong guarded the mansion of the famous man in Beijing, boasting that "the handsome ministers are not allowed to sit on the throne, and should take the arrows and stones as a matter", which seems to be the reincarnation of Han Xin, who can not only strategize, but also personally lead the troops into battle. However, as soon as Yan Zongwang's Jin Guodong Route Army came, Du Chong did not dare to confront it, and the only countermeasure was to order the Yellow River embankment to be opened, so that the Yellow River would flow from Surabaya into Huai, in an attempt to block the pursuing soldiers behind him. Instead of stopping the Jin Army, more than 200,000 local people were drowned, and the deaths caused by displacement and plague were several times greater. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the most prosperous and prosperous Lianghuai region was destroyed, and nearly 10 million people were homeless and became refugees.

Suppression of the rebels

In July of the second year of Jianyan (1128), Zong Ze, who was bent on the Northern Expedition to recover the territory of Hebei, died, and Du Chong replaced him as the guard of Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo. After Du Chong took over, he immediately did the opposite.

First, the deployment of Zongze's Northern Expedition was suspended. The commander Xue Guang had been ordered by Zongze to go to Xiangzhou, but Wang Shan and Zhang Yong failed to send them due to Du Chong's obstruction, and finally Xue Guang died in battle, Xiangzhou fell, and the minister Zhao did not try to kill himself;

Second, it cut off contact and support for all civilian anti-Kim armed forces in the north, and objectively helped the Jin army sweep the occupied areas. In the autumn of that year, the Jin army did not cross the Yellow River on a large scale and invade southward, but the last prefectures and counties in Hedong and Hebei where anti-Jin forces were active, including the Daimyo Mansion in Beijing and Wuma Shanzhai, were all captured at this time.

"If Zong Ze is there, the thief can be used as a soldier, and Du Chong will be a thief." After Du Chong took office, he not only stopped the Northern Expedition and no longer supported the civil anti-Jin armed forces in the north, but also rejected the anti-Jin armed forces that Zong Ze had already recruited as potential enemies. Ding Jin and Yang Jin first rebelled and became "thieves", and Wang Shan, Zhang Yong and other departments also moved.