Chapter 462: Jia Xiang came to help
Xiao Tiantian jumped out of the water, and the moment she landed on the iron boat, she returned to her usual appearance, and Sun Hui found that the clothes on her body were not wet at all.
"The enemy didn't come out with the whole army this time, did he?" Sun Hui asked.
"Yes, this time Liu Quan only brought out a thousand warships, and there are still two thousand warships in his naval camp." Xiao Tiantian nodded and said, "But the reinforcements of the Song army have also arrived, and there are almost more than a thousand ships, looking at the flag is Jia Yidao, and the commander of the troops is Fan Wenhu." ”
"Jia Rudao is here?" Although Ye Chuchu didn't know much about history, she had heard of this name, "The 'Cricket Prime Minister' came in person? ”
"yes." Xiao Tiantian obviously also knew about this famous person in history who was named a traitor, "This traitor dared to personally lead troops to the front line to supervise the battle, I can't believe it, maybe that Fan Wenhu faked it, right?" ”
"That's wrong, Jia Rudao is actually very talented and courageous, if he has his banner, he will come in person." Sun Hui said, "That Fan Wenhu is actually a coward, a super straw bag." ”
"Huh? How could it be? Ye Chuchu and Xiao Tiantian were taken aback when they heard Sun Hui's words.
"Then why did his reputation become so bad?" Xiao Tiantian asked.
"He is completely different from Qin Hui, he should be because the implementation of the 'Public Land Law' violated the interests of the literati and doctors, and the history books are all written by literati, of course, I want to demean him as much as possible." Sun Hui said, "In the end, he also entered "The Legend of the Traitorous Minister", which was actually very wronged. ”
The reason why Sun Hui said this is because he deeply knows that the demonization of historical figures can be said to be a kind of teasing for future generations.
In the original history, the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty is an unbearable history, Jia Rudao is a historical figure who lived in that specific era, he survived for the Southern Song Dynasty, and did his best as the prime minister of the dynasty, objectively speaking, he was martyred for the country, and he was by no means a "traitor", and many film and television literary works in later generations demonized him, which was extremely unfair and irresponsible.
As we all know, the three histories of Liao, Song, and Jin that were cultivated by the Mongol and Yuan dynasties after the unification of China had their own likes and dislikes. The team that revised the "History of the Song Dynasty" was a mixed team of the Yuan people and the Han literati who served the Yuan people. The historians of the Yuan Dynasty had the responsibility of supervision and supervision, so they deleted and tampered with a large number of records that were unfavorable to Mongolia. Some people wonder why most of the prime ministers of the Song Dynasty were traitors, and it may not be surprising to understand this. If you want to praise or disparage a person, in the selection of materials, because you can hire them independently, the person being passed on has to rely on the conscience of the editor.
The truth is not found in the "History of the Song Dynasty", but it can be glimpsed from the history written by the Mongols themselves. "Cricket Prime Minister" is the deepest impression of Jia Nidao among the people of later generations, it seems that he has nothing else to do, which is at least a bit caricature, Jia Nidao has served as ambassadors along the Yangtze River, Jinghu, and Lianghuai, although Jia Guifei's nepotism has worked, but his contribution to the fight against Mongolia in these military and political chiefs cannot be erased. So much so that even Kublai Khan praised him at that time and said: "I am like a Taoist who uses it?" In fact, Jia Rudao is a rare talent in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Sun Hui believed that Jia Rudao might really come to the front line of Xiangfan, because the generals of the Song army, such as Fan Wenhu and Xia Gui, were extremely wealthy, and they did not want to fight, so they supported their troops everywhere and respected themselves. This kind of accumulation of shortcomings was originally caused by the Song Dynasty's "ancestral general's law", and Jia Rudao personally went out to "supervise the teacher", which can be said to be a desperate gamble, and there is probably no such "traitor" in Chinese history. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, once asked the Song generals: "How can you wait for the surrender of Yiye?" Answer Yun: "The Song Dynasty has a strong minister, Jia seems to be good at the country, every good scribe, and only light military attachés." The ministers have been uneven for a long time, and their hearts are dissolved, so they want to send money! When Kublai Khan heard this, he was very disapproving, and rebuked: "As said, it seems that the Tao is light and you are also good!" ”
The statement that Jia Nidao is a "traitor" has always been untrue, and the tendency to slander is obvious. Jia Rudao's major crime as a traitor is "privately discussing and claiming to be a minister". This is going to talk about Jia Yidao's performance in the Battle of Ezhou in his prime, which is actually much more wonderful than Khrushchev's performance in Stalingrad. At that time, the Mongols invaded the Song Dynasty in an all-round way, and the Mongol Great Khan Meng Ge personally led the main force of the Mongol army to attack Sichuan in the upper reaches, while the emperor's brother Kublai Khan led a large army to besiege Ezhou (Wuchang) in the middle reaches. Jia Rudao, who was the privy envoy at the time, was appointed in danger, led the army to reinforce Ezhou, and commanded the troops as the right prime minister. During the siege, in order to prevent the Mongol army from attacking the city, it took only one night to build a wooden fence around the city (Monkey Hideyoshi's "One Night City" is nothing compared to him). Kublai Khan praised Jia Nidao very much during this period, and once reprimanded his subordinates that "the defenders of the city are only one soldier and Jia system, and you cannot win with 100,000 people, and you can't pull out after killing for months, and your generation is also guilty." In the later stages of the Battle of Ezhou, Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty issued an edict asking Jia Yidao to move to Huangzhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River to take charge of the overall situation. Jia Rudao only succeeded in breaking through with 700 cavalry, and was known as "the first indecent soldier". Even Wen Tianxiang, a political enemy, did not shy away from his exploits in the Battle of Ezhou when talking about Jia Yidao - "He Yong is also the Battle of Ezhou!" What a sorrow for the escape of Lu Gang! ”
In July of the first year of Kaiqing, the Mongol Great Khan Meng Ge was wounded by a trebuchet in Diaoyu City and died of serious illness. In June, Lu Wende led the army to open the passage of Kuizhou Road, although he did not directly relieve the siege of Diaoyu City, but he firmly defended Chongqing Mansion and opened up the road to Dongchuan. And after Meng Ge was wounded and died, the Southern Song Dynasty court also got the news as soon as possible. and instructed Lü Wende to enter Jingxiang in the east to support the Jinghu battlefield. In September, Lu Wende went from Chongqing to aid Ezhou, defeated the Mongolian army's Batuer Division, and "entered Ezhou at night", giving Ezhou strong support, making Ezhou "stronger and stronger". Jia Rudao may have seen this and understood that Kublai Khan was very likely to ignore the Jinghu battlefield and withdraw his troops to the north to compete for the Khan's throne, so he proposed peace. Sure enough, in November, Kublai Khan accepted the peace talks and withdrew his troops back north.
Jia Nidao also had another thing that was criticized by later generations, that is, at that time, the Song generals Gao Gao and Cao Shixiong both wanted to fight hard, but they were suppressed by Jia Nidao. For this matter, Sun Hui believes that the strong combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cavalry at that time is obvious to all, and the Mongolian army has no advantage at all in the field battle, not to mention that at this time, the southern road of the Mongolian army has been detoured back to Hunan from Guizhou, and the Mongolian army failed in the Sichuan battlefield, and the Mongolian army and the Song army in Jinghu are in a state of confrontation, and the rescue of Hunan is the most urgent.