In all fairness, with the kind of internal and external troubles, thousands of troubles, criss-crossed, and complicated situations in China at that time, even an experienced and wise lord would be difficult to grasp and control, let alone Zhao Gou, the young emperor Zhao Gou, who was "hairless on his mouth and not firm in his work"?

After Li Gang was deposed, Emperor Gaozong appointed his second ruler, Huang Qianshan.

Huang Qianshan once tricked Emperor Qinzong when he was ashamed of Jingkang, and he couldn't imagine that now he would come to harm our little emperor Gaozong again.

This Huang Qianshan has another identity, he is the eighth generation grandson of Huang Qiaoshangong, a famous scholar in the Tang Dynasty. It's just that compared with the noble character of his ancestors who "raised troops to quell rebellion, hid morality, and raised obscurity", Huang Qianshan's actions could only bring shame to his ancestors.

As for why he wanted to appoint Huang Qianshan as the ruling Dazai, our little emperor Gaozong explained it like this: "How can there be no appearance around the emperor? ”

In other words, the reason why Huang Qianshan was used as the prime minister was because there was no one around Emperor Gaozong, and Huang Qianshan was obedient, so let's make do with it first.

Therefore, for those headache-inducing twists and turns on the dragon case, Emperor Gaozong didn't even discuss it with his lord, and directly used his most powerful trick: "dragging" word trick

For this trick of "dragging", it is also called "covering ears and stealing bells", or "ostrich Dafa". TO PUT IT MORE SIMPLY, IT IS "DO NOTHING", IN BRITISH PARLANCE, "LETITBE".

This trick "dragging" is Emperor Gaozong's specialty, and it can only be used at a critical time.

For example, when King Kang Zhao Gou was the most depressed, he was exiled in Cizhou in Zongze. King Kang and Zhao Gou also dragged and dragged like this. dragged out a generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses. Hold the world's military power; Later, it continued to drag. dragged and dragged out, and dragged out an emperor.

In this process, King Kang Zhao Gou actually didn't do anything, nothing!

Of course, everyone around Zhao Gou said that he was destined to return.

It's just that even Zhao Gou himself doesn't know how this destiny came to him.

Zhao Gou is also a person who practices martial arts, of course, he knows that "the world's martial arts are unbreakable." Only fast does not break". But in fact, Zhao Gou firmly believes that this "drag" trick is nowhere to be found: there is no sign to be found, and there is no speed to speak of, so it is the most powerful martial arts in the world.

The ancients said that "there is no trick to win", which may be what it means

Emperor Gaozong's inaction does not mean that the court of the Jin State will also do the same, especially the Wanyan Sticky Han and Wanyan Wushu brothers.

Last time, the brothers of the Wanyan family sent troops, but they were driven away by Zong Ze and Yue Fei, and returned to the Jin Kingdom in a gray manner, and they were severely punished by the gold lord Wanyan Wu begging.

When Li Gang was demoted again, Jingshi and Zong Ze had died, these two news reached the Jin Kingdom. The reaction of the Jin court was to send troops into the Song Dynasty

History of the Song Dynasty. There is such a record in the "Gojong Honji":

"Yi Wei. The Jin people were trapped in Puzhou, the ruling minister Yang Cuizhong, and the Kaide Mansion, the Jin people who were killed by the minister Wang Di were trapped in Xiangzhou, and the minister Zhao did not try to die. Jia Chen, trapped in Texas, Zhao Shujiao, the commander of the soldiers and horses, died"

In a word: The invasion of the Jin soldiers is like a bamboo, and Mo can do it.

Judging from the map, the captured state capitals are all distributed around Bianliang City in Kaifeng Prefecture, that is to say, the target of the Jin soldiers' attack this time is still Bianjing, the northern gateway of the small imperial court of Yingtianfu

Looking at the continuous reporting of emergency military information, Du Chong, the left-behind adult of Kaifeng Mansion, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, turning around.

The situation in Bianliang City is simple: there are no soldiers to defend.

The number of officers and soldiers in Bianliang City was originally small, and Du Chong used it to fight with the rebels from all walks of life, and they suffered all losses.

Du Chong originally thought that in Bianliang City, the most populous city in the Song Dynasty, he was still worried about not being able to recruit soldiers?

The problem is that Du Chong's reputation is too stinky, and the victory rate of leading troops is surprisingly low, no one wants to come to recruit as a soldier even if he pays more food. No one wants to joke with their lives.

"It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice".

Lack of soldiers and major generals, how about our Lord Du Chong?

On the day when Zhao Bu, the prefect of Xiangzhou, committed suicide in the city, he really came up with a desperate plan for us, Lord Du Chong: digging the embankment of the Yellow River and flooding the Jin soldiers.

History of the Song Dynasty. Gaozong Benji recorded that it was winter, Du Chong broke the Yellow River, and entered Huai from Si to block the Jin soldiers

The Jin army was originally going to besiege Bianliang City, Kaifeng Prefecture. But before the soldiers could reach the city, they suddenly found that the river was rushing and roaring and bursting the embankment.

The of the Yellow River has burst!

This was the only method that Du Chong could think of after the loss of troops in Bianliang City, Kaifeng Prefecture, that could be used to delay and resist the pace of the Jin soldiers' attack.

The Yellow River is not an ordinary river, it hangs high and lies across the land of northern China, and it has a bearing on the lives and property of millions of people in the Yellow River and Huai He.

Therefore, even in the Jingkang Change, when Song Qinzong was facing the disaster of destroying the country, he did not dare to use this trick.

And Du Chong dared to use this trick, which once again proved how selfish he was and how vicious his heart was, so that he could give this kind of order

In fact, after the Yellow River burst its embankment this time, the rolling turbid waves flowed eastward between Huaxian Nan, Puyang, and Dongming counties, and then went east through Juancheng, Juye, Jiaxiang, and Jinxiang to join Surabaya, and then flow south through Surabaya to seize the mouth of the Huai River, and finally flow into the Yellow Sea.

These are not simply numbers, they mean that the Yellow River has been diverted. It means the arrival of a super disaster!

At that time, more than 200,000 people in Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu were drowned; Nearly one million people have died from displacement, disease, plague and other causes, and nearly 10 million people have become refugees who have lost their homes; The most prosperous and fertile Lianghuai region of the Northern Song Dynasty was reduced to ruins.

Later, this temporary passage between the Yellow River and the Huai River was blocked for a while, and it was not repaired by manpower for hundreds of years, and it was almost permanently damaged; It was not until the Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty that the Yellow River slowly resumed the situation of entering the sea from Shandong.

The above is what Du Chong left behind in Kaifeng Mansion did to the land and people of China.

Du Chong demonstrated in public in front of the people of the world what it means to "treat human life as a mustard", and the Song people who died because of him were not much less than the Song people who were killed by the Jin soldiers!

In history, Du Chong was not the only one who used the Yellow River dam as a war purpose, and now these cruel executioners are listed one by one.

In 225 B.C., the Qin general Wang Ben attacked the Wei capital for several days, and then led the Yellow River to irrigate Daliang (that is, Kaifeng Mansion), the king of Wei surrendered, and the Wei state died.

Around 896 AD, Zhu Wen broke the river embankment three times to deal with Li Keyong, causing many man-made floods.

In 918 A.D., Nian Liang general Xie Yanzhang was the Tang soldiers who blocked Li Ke's use, and then broke the river embankment.

In 923 A.D., Liang General Duan Ning broke the Yellow River estuary in Sujube (now Yanjin, Henan).

In 944 A.D., the Emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty broke the Yellow River dam in Huazhou again, and the water overflowed the five prefectures of Bian, Cao, Shan, Pu and Yun. This river break, the water surrounded Liangshan in the southwest of Yunzhou City, and became the famous Liangshanbo, that is, the base of the Songjiang Uprising.

In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to block the westward advance of the Japanese army, blew up the Yellow River embankment at Huayuankou north of Zhengzhou on 12 June, flooding more than 40 counties in eastern Henan, northern Anhui, and northern Jiangsu...... (To be continued......)

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