The collapse of the Divine Sect

There were also those who died peacefully, and when the city was broken, the eunuch Li Shunju refused the horse brought by the attendants. He tore off his shirt and carefully wrote the words on it: "Chen Shun has nothing to hate, may Your Majesty not despise this thief" This is his deathbed report to the emperor, this eunuch did not forget his duties until his death, and advised the emperor not to underestimate the Tangut people again!

Only four officers survived, and they did not go through the gates, but jumped from the city walls. They are Lu Quan, Li Pu, Wang Zhan, and Qu Zhen. Qu Zhen is the No. 2 person in the Yan Army, and he has long been on the blacklist of the Tangut people. He fled alone that night, and when he was about to catch up, a miracle happened! He actually saw a sturdy white horse on the side of the road, and this white horse fled to Mizhi City on his back, and he later named the white horse "Heavenly White"

Finally, I want to talk about Xu Xi, his ending is as wonderful as when he was alive. It is said that he died on the battlefield, but the body could not be found. Neither the Song nor the Western Xia people could find it. So he's not dead? But there was no news of this man after that. If he is still alive, he should be in pain, and he will never see anyone again. If he dies, there will be no peace for his soul. He distorted the fate of an empire, and personally caused the souls of more than 100,000 compatriots! More than 30,000 elite soldiers of the Yan Army and more than 100,000 innocent Song Dynasty people died in Yongle City...

When the battle report and Li Shunju's testament reached the capital, it was late at night. Emperor Shenzong had been waiting in the depths of the dark palace, he never expected that what he was waiting for was such news! More than 100,000 people died in the First World War, which has never happened since the founding of the Song Dynasty. How ironic, how sad! This night, Shenzong went around the bed and was depressed. Sleepless all night. In the early court of October 1st, when he talked to his courtiers about the defeat of Yongle City, he suddenly cried bitterly and couldn't help himself!

He really couldn't forgive himself, and his extremely arrogant and sensitive heart made him quickly fall into self-blame, self-harm and even self-masochism. He was 35 years old this year, which was the most prosperous and energetic period for a man, but his health was rapidly declining!

The more I think about it, the narrower and lower I become, and the worse it is that he is still very smart. Without being blamed by others, he himself knows where the two major battles were lost? Improper employment!

Wang Zhong is just a waste, Gao Zunyu is so selfish. Xu Xi of Yongle City is even more of an eternal joke. He should have lived before the Spring and Autumn Period, how good it would be to be an ancient!

Recalling that when Wang Anshi was still there, Fuxi River, Pingjingman, and Zhengjiaozhi were invincible. Wang Shao, Zhang Dian, Kumamoto, Guo Kui... Everyone is in charge. The two are contrasted. Who are these people he has found... But it's too late to say anything now! The loss of national strength, the withering army, and low morale, if there is any contribution he has made since he ascended the throne, only the Xining reform remains.

But that industrial chain. It is necessary to succeed in the foreign war and recover the land in order to generate greater profits and repay the oppressed domestic economy. Now that the foreign war has reached this point, the chain has been broken, and the shortcomings of the previous reforms will be immediately revealed... In this way, nothing in life is successful, not even positive!

Song Shenzong deeply felt despair, what should he do in the future? And this is not the most desperate thing, half a month after the defeat of Yongle City, an even greater disaster befell the Han people!

On October 10, Song Shenzong was wandering in the palace, and accidentally went to the library of the secretary province and saw a portrait inside. The person in the painting is graceful and elegant, smiling slightly, although the paper is yellow, and the age is old, but the person seems to have a previous relationship with him, so that he stares for a long time, Shenzong asked who this is?

"Back to His Majesty, it is Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty" "It turned out to be him, worthy of a romantic and talented man"

That night, Shenzong saw this merry man and hurting lord more than 100 years ago in a dream, Li Yu bowed deeply to him and slowly approached... And on this night, the 11th son of Song Shenzong was born, and the child's name was Zhao Ji. It is the future Song Huizong! He was a super-fine boy, and when he grew up, no one in the entire empire was more elegant and talented than him; When he was in power, none of the emperors before the entire Song Dynasty could reach his height. In some achievements, even the founding lord Zhao Kuangyin can't reach it, and the imperial dream he completed is what Taizong Zhao Guangyi never forgot and pursued all his life...

On the 7th, Shen Kuo and Qu Zhen were demoted. On the 18th, he was awarded Xu Xi, Li Shunju, Li Ji, Gao Yongneng and other Yongle City soldiers who died in battle.

On December 14, the Liao Daozong abolished the queen Xiao Tzusi as Concubine Hui and drove her sister back to her parents' home.

In the 6th year of Yuanfeng (1083) and the following year, Western Xia continued to send troops in a vain attempt to recover the land lost in the Battle of Wulu Varsity. The first target was Lanzhou, which was taken by Li Xian, the great eunuch of the Song army. On February 1, the Western Xia army besieged the city of Lanzhou. Zhizhou Li Hao wanted to close the city and hold on, and Wang Wenyu, who was under the jurisdiction of Jin, took the Hefei battle of the Three Kingdoms Zhang Liao's defeat of Sun Quan as an example and insisted on fighting. With 700 dead soldiers, they descended the city in the middle of the night and repelled the Western Xia army. On March 16, the Western Xia army attacked Lanzhou again and was repulsed. On the 21st and 24th, Xue Yi and Gao Yongyi, the generals of Hedong Road, defeated the Western Xia army at Jialu Xiling and Zhenqing Liubu respectively.

On April 6, he died. He was depressed and angry, and he had dorsal gangrene and died at the age of 57. The death of a generation of famous generals was finally exchanged for only 7 words of comment, "If you don't die, you can't stop doing things", where is the reason?

In May, the Western Xia army besieged Lanzhou again. In the battle of the 19th, the Song general Wei Ding was killed. Lanzhou City did not fall on the 9th, and the Western Xia retreated, turned to attack the Linzhou Shentang Village on Hedong Road, and was defeated by Zhizhou Zihu.

In order to get rid of the dissatisfaction of the government and the opposition with the dictatorship of the Liang family, Liang Yibu and the brothers and sisters of the Great Liang had to restore the throne of Xia Huizong Li Bingchang, who had been imprisoned for more than 2 years, in June. However, in order to ensure that the Liang family continues to control the government, a major condition for the restoration is that Li Bingchang must appoint his cousin, the daughter of Liang Yiburi, as the queen, known as Xiaoliang Hou... I believe that if I don't say it now, you should also know: the tradition of the Tangut people will be staged again...

On the 1st of June in the leap year, Li Bingchang, who had just been reinstated, hurriedly paid tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, confessed his guilt and bowed to him, and begged to return the lost land. On the 4th, Song Shenzong decreed: Shaanxi, Hedong 2 Road do not build new villages. The New Year's gift to Western Xia is also the same. Just want to go back to the lost territory of Wulu Vaxia? Sue you Li Bingchang: No way!

On the 4th, Liao Daozong posthumously killed the most heroic Yelu Jun in the history of the Great Liao Kingdom as the prince of Zhaohuai.

22nd. The famous minister of the Great Song Dynasty passed away.

On October 20, Yelu Yixin, the first traitor of the Great Liao who was imprisoned in Laizhou, was still very energetic, and he knew that he could not stay in the Great Liao State any longer. Then the world is big, just escape. His goal was the Great Song Dynasty. It's just that the person is lonely and unfamiliar with the road, and he was caught halfway through. His life was ended by a cow's tendon... Like Xiao Guanyin, who was killed by him, and like those who were tortured and abused by him in the prince's case, he was strangled to death. As of now, it seems that the good days of the Great Liao Kingdom have finally come? Liaodao Sect Yelu Hongji has returned to the chaos? Avenge your wife, son, and daughter-in-law? I'm sorry! Wrong! It's a pity: Yelu Yixin's death doesn't match the death of the above 3 people! The first traitor was charged with "forbidden goods in foreign countries" and was just a corrupt criminal. This leaves a bane for future massacres, purges, and retributions! That imperial grandson is the son of the first prince Yelu Jun, and the later Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi. This kid remembers everything clearly!

The first thing the king of the dead country did after ascending the throne was to avenge his grandmother, father, and mother! He sent people to dig up the graves of Yelu Yixin, Zhang Xiaojie and other enemies, killed the corpses to relieve hatred, and crushed the bones and scattered ashes! None of these people's clan relatives have run away. Kill them cleanly! At that time, the Great Liao Kingdom was shrouded in a bloody storm. Everyone is in danger, no matter who they are, as long as they stick a little bit with the case of the year, they will immediately lose their heads!

The Great Liao Kingdom is really decaying. Disintegration begins from within. And it was at that time. There was a nation in the north that suddenly arose, and the unprecedentedly powerful combat power exploded like a flood, and the decaying and depressed Liao people were like a pile of rotting and degraded dregs. Thoroughly cleaned... The root of why this result was caused was buried in the time of Yeluhonki! Not sooner or later, but before the emperor was killed, he was sober! It's not good to save anyone, but to save Yelu Yanxi? History proves that this is the most ignorant of all the 9 emperors of Liao. He had all the problems of the previous 8 emperors, and he was blue in every item, like he was sent by God to corrupt the Liao State. Of course, there is also the credit of his grandfather Yelu Hongji. Yelu Hongji was a rare long-lived emperor, who reigned for a total of 46 years and lived until he was 70 years old before dying... After such a long period of tossing, and then the genius grandson will be defeated, like this, it is difficult for the Liao State not to perish!

In January of the 7th year of Yuanfeng (1084), the Western Xia people were in a hurry and gathered all the 800,000 troops in the country in a vain attempt to recover Lanzhou. However, on the 13th, the 800,000 army was again defeated by Li Xian's Xihe Army under the city of Lanzhou.

On the 22nd, Su Shi, the deputy envoy of the Huangzhou regimental training, was reappointed as the deputy envoy of the Changzhou regimental training. It is said that after coming to Huangzhou, life showed Su Shi another side. Before this, in his hometown of Meishan, he had his parents to take care of, and after entering Beijing, he was famous all over the world, and he was covered by a literary master like Ouyang Xiu, who opposed Wang Anshi when he rebelled against the law, and had Sima Guang and other powerful ministers behind him. But after the Wutai poetry case, he became a criminal who was executed outside of prison, except for a salary, all political powers were completely deprived, and because it was the emperor who offended, he couldn't talk about any future... Even how to fill your stomach has become a problem! The salaries of the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty were not all hard currencies such as copper coins, cloth, and grain, which was only the treatment of the top tycoons in the capital. You have to think about it yourself! Like Su Shi at this time, his salary was replaced by the bags used in the public wine-making, and he had to sell it himself after receiving it every month, so that he could go to the market to buy rice and noodles, and go home to live... Bachelor Su became a petty trader? What a humiliation! But the bigger trouble is still to come, this meager salary will soon be not enough to support Su Shi's 1 wife, 1 concubine, 4 sons, 4 daughters-in-law and grandchildren, and a few servants.

In the predicament, Su Shi made a choice that he would not have made before his death, and his friend surnamed Ma applied for a piece of wasteland in the east of the city for him, about 50 acres, which was cultivated by Su Shi himself! What is it? This is the peasant! Recall what he said when he opposed the law of exemption! This is retribution, and it is also a blessing from God, which makes Su Shi personally experience the pain of the class he despised in the past!

Of course, he doesn't feel pain at this time, as long as he can live safely, it is enough to make him satisfied... From this time on, he cultivated the wasteland to grow crops, and was content and happier that he was a farmer, and he named the sloping land in the east of the city "Dongpo" and renamed himself with these two words! Since then, his name is Su Dongpo, the top five geniuses of the Chinese nation in thousands of years of literary genius are lying in the long wind and lush grass, lying on the infinitely wide and rich earth, completely free from the shackles of fame and fortune, and his heart has been raised to another new level...

In the third year of Huangzhou, Su Shi was moved and wrote a few lines - "Since I came to Huangzhou, it has been three cold meals." I want to cherish spring every year, and I can't regret spring to go. This year, it rained bitterly, and the autumn was bleak in February. Lying and smelling begonia flowers, mud swallow branch snow. Secretly stealing it, the middle of the night is really powerful. He Shu is a sick boy, and his illness has been white..."The small feeling written on this paper is the third line of the book "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" after Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" and Tang Yan Zhenqing's "Manuscript for Nephews" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It also established the status of Su Shi and the first line of books in the Song Dynasty!

On the other hand, this is also Su Shi's sorrow. He wanted to be quiet, but Superman's talent kept him creating until the world remembered him again. At this time, a message came from the capital - the most important task of the empire fell on his shoulders, and Emperor Shenzong wanted him to repair the history of the country!

The history of the country is the evidence that records the success or failure of the life of an emperor of a certain dynasty, whether it is at that time or later, whoever wants to study that period of history must first start with the history of the country. Because it is heavy, it should be left to the most reliable people. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the prime minister of the dynasty always held this job part-time. But this time, Shenzong actually wanted to use Su Shi, the person who ruined the reputation of the court and discredited the new policy, to be responsible!

This rightfully makes a person angry. Wang Jue jumped out, he was so faceless, even if he had no talent and no personality, he couldn't humiliate him like this, he was also the prime minister at this time! Wang Jue is not a simple person, and he was underestimated by Yan zhòng in history. Everyone remembers that he is the prime minister of the Three Decrees, "the last court takes the holy decree, the pilgrimage receives the holy decree, and the next dynasty has already received the holy decree" is a joke that turns the prime minister into a secretary. That's not right! He is the one who opened the Pandora's box of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, from the very beginning to the most critical two steps, he released the unprecedented demon!

How can such a person have no temper and no personality? This time, in order to stop Su Shi, he insidiously flipped through the old yellow calendar, which was still Su Shi's dragon poem, and he characterized Su Shi as a thief. Just ask if only the emperor can be called a dragon in the world, and there is one in Su Shi's poems? What is this not a rebellion?

That's a big crime! Once established, Su Shi is going to exterminate his family! And no one dares to wade into this kind of troubled water, accidentally become an accomplice, be careful that rebellion will be contagious! But there are still people who stand up, Su Shi still has a good friend in the court! No matter how this person is evaluated in history and whether it contradicts Su Shi's political opinions, in Su Shi's heart, this person will always be a brother who can share hardships - Zhang Dian! At this moment, Zhang Dian stood up to defend Su Shi! May I ask the Prime Minister: Are you sure that except for the emperor, none of the courtiers use dragon characters to compose poems? Do you believe that there are still people who use dragon characters as names?

Wang Jue does not show weakness, this juncture must be persistent! As a result, the two of them went back and forth and quarreled on the Golden Palace. It's just that after arguing for a long time, I found that the emperor was sitting on top very calmly, as if thinking about something else... Wang Jue thinks it's not good, someone is rebelling, why isn't the emperor angry? He was not like this 5 years ago, at that time, he degraded Su Shi, held down and beat him hard, and the effect of killing a hundred was very good. But now...

Wang Qi was thinking wildly, and Emperor Shenzong spoke: Poets write lyrics, not like this. Su Shi sings about his cypress tree, what does it have to do with me? What's more, the ancients had Xun's Eight Dragons and Nanyang Wolong, and there were many loyal ministers who used the dragon character as their name. Let him go and repair the history of the country! If you insist on opposing it, use Zeng Gong! Let's all go down! (To be continued......)