The rest of the gold reduction chapter
Huashigang is like the last straw, finally crushing the south of the Yangtze River... The first to resist is not the most oppressed, but the smartest and calmest. His name is Fang La, and his family runs a lacquer garden, which is considered a middle class. History records that when he launched the uprising, he was far from the end of the mountain, just because he felt that the opportunity had come! As a native of Jiangnan, Fang La was also exploited very angrily, but he endured it without having a seizure. Until this time, the critical point had arrived, and Fang La decided to resist!
On this day, he gathered the suffering masses around him and openly gave him a dinner party! When everyone had eaten almost, Fang La made a speech, which was very level, and in my opinion: A few years later, Yelu Dashi made a speech in the Western Regions in order to rebuild the Liao State, and he couldn't compare with him!
The speech is divided into several parts: 1. Temptation. Fang La asked: Now there is a family whose children work hard and work hard for a year to earn some subsistence food, but they are all robbed by their lazy father and brother. A little resentful, just punch and kick. You say, "Are your sons willing?"
Unwilling! Everyone resonated, of course they knew what Fang La was referring to!
Resonance is followed by sanity. Part II: The International Situation. Fang La said: "My father and brother squandered it, but they also took the money and gave it to the enemy, who relied on our money to get richer, and in turn doubled down on us. Instead of making decisions for us, our fathers and brothers drive their children to serve the enemy. The children were unable to support it, and punishment followed. Despite this, the amount of money handed over to the enemy does not decrease every year. Are you willing?
Outrageous! The people are boiling, this is the crux of the Song Dynasty!
Next, Fang La's speech went to the real topic. The possibility of a successful resistance was analyzed: the people of the southeast had suffered for a long time, and we rose up, and we were able to gather more than 10,000 people within ten days. The magistrates would not immediately report to the imperial court if they knew about it, because that would affect their political performance. In this way, as long as it is delayed for 2 months, Jiangnan will be full of flames and out of control. At this time, the imperial court got a report. Nor will they immediately send troops to encircle and suppress it. Because the ministers are to be convened for counseling, they should be discussed for at least one month. After mobilizing troops and horses and crossing the Yangtze River, half a year has passed. At that time, the rebel army had already become bigger, as long as it mastered the land south of the Yangtze River, there was no need to use swords and guns, and the Song Dynasty would surely perish!
For what? Because of the money! The Song Dynasty had to give nearly one million yuan to Liao and Xia every year, and it also needed more funds to maintain its operation, and these funds were provided by the people of the southeast. Now that the rebel army occupies the southeast, if the Song Dynasty wants to survive, it will inevitably turn to squeeze the Central Plains. The people of the Central Plains were oppressed. It will also be chaotic. At that time, Liao and Xia will also take advantage of the chaos to enter... At that time, even if Zhao Kuangyin is resurrected, he will not be able to save the Great Song Dynasty! We just need to divide the river with it first, lightly punish the meager endowment, and wait for the collapse of the Song Dynasty. At that time, with Jiangnan's abundant financial resources and stable people's hearts, this world is not ours?
To sum up, the words of this small businessman in the lacquer garden are convincing! First of all, he saw through the officialdom of the Song Dynasty at that time! 2 months to report to the opening. Sending troops to Jiangnan in half a year, this speed is already very fast, basically the same as the speed at which Di Qing defeated Nong Zhigao in the Song Renzong era. And the efficiency of the Song Huizong era, what is the comparison with the Song Renzong era? Other than that. He also saw through the foundation of the Song Dynasty - "money", a delicate empire that wants money everywhere and can't do without money at all times! If you can't squeeze the southeast, you will definitely squeeze the Central Plains, at that time, there will be thousands of holes and air leaks everywhere, and the world of Zhao and Song will collapse immediately!
And the development of events also completely confirmed Fang La's inference!
The Fangla uprising took "Zhu Mian" as the slogan, and instantly spread all over the south of the Yangtze River. The number of people who responded to the uprising was not "ten thousand in ten days", but 100,000 in a few days!
On November 1, Fang La called himself the Holy Father and Jianyuan Yongle. Capture Qingxi County. On December 2, Muzhou was captured. Then to the north captured Shouchang, Tonglu, Sui'an.
Then. The news only then reached Kaifeng City. Sure enough, it's 2 months! Only then did the magistrate give up his illusions and admit that he had failed in his duties. And after arriving in Kaifeng, Prime Minister Wang Hao continued to fantasize and wanted to suppress this matter...
On the 20th, the rebel army captured Shezhou. Then the city of Hangzhou was broken, and the first important town in the southeast was lost! The rebel army has arrived close to the Yangtze River, threatening the Jiangbei and Huainan areas, and the Huainan transit envoy can't stand it, so he complains to the capital in the name of the governor, and the news has reached Zhao Ji's ears! But fortunately, Zhao Ji didn't let the hundred officials pull any skin, but urgently summoned the armed eunuch Tong Guan in his busy schedule! On the 21st, he was ordered to lead 150,000 Western Song Army and Forbidden Army to the south to quell the rebellion! Before leaving, he thought about it and gave the eunuch Tong a great privilege for a day, "If there is an emergency, you should use the imperial pen to do it" If the situation is urgent and there is no time to report, you can issue a proclamation in the name of the Son of Heaven. This is not just as simple as not accepting the order of the monarch outside, it is simply a general, the same as the emperor!
In January of the 3rd year of Seonhei (1121), Tokyo Province and Kamikyo Province had fallen, and Yelu Yanxi was now in Xijing Province. This benevolent brother has a very good mentality, and Da Liao is about to die, but he is very leisurely. He publicly declared to the outside world, "I am a brother with the Song Dynasty and an uncle and nephew with the Western Xia, even if the Liao Kingdom is lost, it will still be rich and noble wherever I go" After speaking, he did it! He packed more than 500 bags of gold, silver and jewelry, tied them to more than 2,000 horses, and was ready to run away at any time. What a genius emperor this is, and even more genius than him is his minister Xiao Fengxian! Third, the traitor made persistent efforts and made a decisive feat in the work of helping Jin to destroy Liao! At such an urgent juncture, he completely collapsed the military and political system of Liao...
Things still have to start with the tradition of the Khitan people, and Emperor Tianzuo interpreted this tradition to the extreme! After the tragedy of 'killing his wife and son' jointly performed by his grandfather Yelu Hongji and the first traitor Yelu Yixin, he also cooperated with the third traitor Xiao Fengxian to stage the most powerful and promising son of 'killing his wife and son' in the last scene, so as to kill one of his most capable and promising sons of Zhongxing, and also let Wanyan Aguda get a biggest harvest - the surrender of the most famous general of the Liao army!
Yelu Yanxi had a total of 6 sons: the eldest son, Yelu Aolu, the king of Jin, and the most virtuous born to Concubine Wen Xiao Sese; The second son, King Yelu Yali of Liang, the third son of King Yan Yelu Tartlu, the fourth son of King Zhao Yelu Xi Nilie, the fifth son of King Qin Yeluding, and the sixth son King Xu Yelu Ning. Ding and Ning were both born to Brother Xiao Gui, the concubine. And this concubine is Xiao Fengxian's sister. And so, tragedy struck... Xiao Fengxian suddenly decided to carry out a palace coup on a whim and put his nephew on the throne of the emperor when the country was about to be saved. Then King Jin must die!
To achieve this, the scope of the coup d'état is too large. In addition to King Jin's own strength, his mother Concubine Wen alone is super powerful. Concubine Wen has a sister and a sister, the elder sister is married to the clan Yelu Tart Geli, and the younger sister's husband is the most important hope of the Great Liao State at this time - the famous general Yelu Yuxuan! At this time, he was leading the army to engage the Jin army on the front line. This shows how complete the system of King Jin is. From the inside out, from politics to the military, the full set is complete. Correspondingly: If all this is really destroyed, the strength of the Great Liao State will be immediately downshifted. At a time of national crisis, it is purely suicidal to do so. But Xiao Fengxian doesn't care, he only has the happiness of a handful of people in his family in his eyes! Ruining everyone for the sake of a small family, this is the common idea of the scum of Song and Liao. The third traitor did the work of Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, Wang Hao and everyone else, and the high level of business was really the most dazzling existence in that era!
Here's your chance! On this day, the eldest sister's family affection was unstoppable. First, he entered the palace to visit his second sister Concubine Wen and nephew King Jin. After that, I thought of the third sister and the third brother-in-law. Long time no see? See you anyway! She went to the front. The third sister and the third brother-in-law are all in the army. Such a touching family scene fell in the eyes of the people of Liao, and they all sighed that they were really the eldest sister than their mother, and they loved her deeply. But in the eyes of the third traitor, it turned bad in an instant!
He went to report to Yelu Yanxi: The Jin Dynasty launched a coup d'état, Concubine Wen's sister first went to the palace to contact Concubine Wen and King Jin, and now go to the front line to contact Yelu Yuxuan, as long as the military power is in hand, you have to be the emperor!
Yelu Yanxi was immediately furious, and he couldn't help but say that he killed Concubine Wen's three sisters, the concubine Xiao Yu, and Concubine Wen's eldest brother-in-law, Yelu Tartley. Only his son King Jin was spared, and sent people to the front line to recall Yelu Yu... Yelu Yu was stunned, who did he recruit to provoke whom? He was dying for the country, and suddenly the country wanted his life. What is this all for? When he came to his senses, there were only two paths left: wait for death or run away...
He has become the last straw that crushed the empire of Da Liao for more than 200 years - the famous general Yelu Yu lowered his gold! Borrow the strength of the golden army to take revenge! In this way, Jin Taizu picked up the treasure out of thin air! He received him warmly and ordered him to be the striker of Liao on the spot! The Manchu Qing Dynasty poured the power of the whole country into it. Hong Chengchou, who was only captured after winning the Battle of Songshan, has since obtained a living map of the Ming Dynasty and is invincible after entering the customs. And the country of gold is effortless. Xiao Fengxian picked up Yelu Yu like a poster!
In addition, Emperor Tianzuo sent to chase Yelu Diligu, Xiao Yaomai, Xiao Degong, Xiao Monk Nu, Xiao Gan and others all knew the injustice of the King of Jin, and were afraid that they would become the next target of the third traitor, so they deliberately indulged Yu Yu to throw himself into Dajin. And Xiao Fengxian was also afraid that these people would learn from each other in the future, so he didn't dare to add crimes, and he was rewarded one by one...
At this point, the morale of the Great Liao's army has been exhausted, and it is only a matter of time before the country is lost. But the king of Jin is not dead, the dream of the third traitor's uncle still can't be realized, and after 1 year, he used Yelu Yu's reluctance to chase Emperor Tianzuo as an excuse, so that Emperor Tianzuo killed his most virtuous eldest son with his own hands. This tragedy of "killing his wife and children" has just come to an end. From conception, to development, to the ending, this matter is a condensed version of the demise of the Great Liao, Yelu Yanxi and Xiao Fengxian worked closely together to truly achieve a virtuous circle of "as long as you dare to dig a pit, I dare to jump, as long as you dare to jump, I dare to dig a pit again"...
Turning his attention back to the Great Song Dynasty: this month, the Fangla rebel army captured Wuzhou and Quzhou.
Tong Guan crossed the Yangtze River and found that he was facing a completely unfamiliar world. To put it simply: the Song Dynasty's decrees were not passed, taxes could not be collected, the army was scattered, and the most important thing was that the people were no longer the children of the Song Dynasty! The cruel reality drove the originally honest Jiangnan people crazy, and their decades-old anger made them extremely fierce. Shi Zai: Just take Hangzhou City as an example, they set fire to it for 6 days after attacking it, searched for officials all over the city, as long as they were caught, they immediately cut off their limbs, dug out their viscera, boiled them into anointing oil, and shot them to death with arrows, etc., how ruthless they came!
In response to this, Tong Guan did not move, did not rush to kill, and decided to start with psychology first! He wrote an edict in the name of Zhao Ji, which said that the matter of Huashigang was a misunderstanding, and that a lot of flowers, trees, bamboos and stones had indeed been purchased from Jiangnan over the years, but they were all bought, and the official specially allocated special funds to units at all levels, and repeatedly ordered that they should be bought and sold fairly to the people. I didn't expect such scum as Zhu's father and son! They deceived their superiors and subordinates and filled their pockets, not only harming the people of Jiangnan, but also deceiving the emperor who was far away in Kaifeng City... Therefore, O people, I am also a deceived man, just like you!
Now the emperor knows that he is wrong, so he ordered the dissolution of the Ying Feng Bureau, the abolition of Huashigang, the dismissal of the Zhu family, and the relevant departments to bring them back to the capital for trial! During this period, Jiangnan had those who had radical behavior, and the official understands very much, and pardons you for your innocence!
This is a very formal edict of self-sin, which has alleviated the emotions of the people in Jiangnan at once, and is more effective than their torture and killing of hundreds or thousands of corrupt officials. Hua Shigang is gone, the Zhu family is down, the emperor apologizes, and he is not guilty of murder and arson... It means that good days have finally appeared! So why rebel? So the deep-rooted concept of kings, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons was revived, and everyone went back to their respective homes, what should they do. Poor Fang La, abandoned by the vast majority of class brothers!
On February 9, an order was issued to appease Fang La.
In February, the Jin envoy Halu crossed the sea and landed in Dengzhou, this time to discuss when to send troops. But I don't know why, this time the Song Dynasty became hesitant and vague, Jin Envoy couldn't ask anything, and waited for 3 months on May 13 before he entered Kaifeng City. After another 4 months, nothing has been finalized!
Halu was so angry that he had to return to China on August 20. He finally agreed with what the leader said, "The hellish Han people always have moths, and the simple Jurchens are really not suitable", in fact, this time he wronged the Song Dynasty...
At this time, the Song Dynasty not only had to pacify Fangla in the south, but also pacified the Song River in Shandong. In such a situation, who can and who dare to talk to the Jin envoy about joining forces with Jin to destroy Liao? So Jin Guoren waited for more than half a year in vain, and returned to his hometown full of resentment...
In February, Song Jiang was recruited and surrendered. Speaking of this uprising, the Chinese are all too familiar. The reason, of course, lies in the popularity of Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin", one of the four classical masterpieces. However, many of the plots in "Water Margin" are fictional, including the number of protagonists. The history records that "Huainan robbed Song Jiang and rampaged through Heshuo with 36 people", and Shi Dacai tripled this number out of thin air, Chinese that is, the well-known "Water Margin 108 Generals" (to be continued...... to be continued)