During the period from the end of the fourth year of Jianyan to the first year of Shaoxing, the situation of the Southern Song Dynasty was mixed.

Naturally, the joy is the obvious improvement in the military situation.

In the past, when fighting with the Jin soldiers, no matter how big or small the battle was, it was basically a one-sided defeat; And since the end of the fourth year of Jianyan, there have been successive victories over the Jin soldiers, from small victories to big victories, and there has been a constant stream.

This means that the Southern Song Dynasty began to have the strength to compete with the Jin soldiers.

What made Emperor Gaozong happiest was that most of the generals who defeated the Jin soldiers were newcomers who had just emerged, including Wu Jue, Yue Fei and so on. Even Han Shizhong, who has the highest official position, was gradually promoted by himself.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, there are still two nominal emperors in the north, if the ministers in the court are all newcomers promoted by themselves, instead of following the old ministers of the previous dynasty, it is a good thing for the current Emperor Gaozong anyway.

Sadly, the establishment of the puppet Qi regime in Henan

"Daikin Guozhi? There is a sentence in the Taizong Ji: "Attack with peace and discussion, and induce rebellion against the party with arrogance."

This sentence was the basic national policy of the Jin State towards the Song Dynasty. Roughly speaking, peace talks were used to paralyze the Song Dynasty and make the Song Dynasty relax its vigilance so that it would be easier to defeat the Song Dynasty; Use high-ranking officials and even the imperial throne to lure important figures of the Song Dynasty and make them rebel against the Song Dynasty.

Jin Guo had used the trick of "inducing rebellion against the party with arrogance" twice, the first time it was used on Zhang Bangchang's body, the second time it was used on Du Chong's body, and now it is Liu Yu's turn

Who is Liu Yu?

Liu Yu's earliest identity was Hebei Tidian Xing Prison. Because he was afraid of the Jin soldiers, he abandoned his official position and fled to Zhenzhou. Of course, his original intention was to stay away from the terrible barbarians of the Jin Kingdom. But the problem is that later the Southern Song Dynasty court sent him to Jinan Mansion in Shandong to serve as the prefect.

Isn't this a pit man, is it clear that he wants to push Liu Yu into the fire pit again?

The end result is: In the second year of Jianyan. Although Liu Yuxin reluctantly went to Jinan Mansion to take office. However, in December of the same year, when Wan Yanchang of the Jin State led his troops to attack, Liu Yu immediately went out of the city and surrendered, giving up the entire Shandong Province.

After repeated games, on the Double Ninth Festival in the third year of Jianyan, Liu Yu was canonized as emperor by the Jin Dynasty. The name of the country was also set by the Jin Dynasty, called "Daqi", and the capital was located in the Daimyo's Mansion.

From this time on, the Dajin State assigned all the lands in Shandong and Henan that it had already occupied to this "Great Qi" regime to rule.

As a result, Liu Yu became Zhang Bangchang's second.

However, although they are both demoted generals, Liu Yu and Zhang Bangchang are very different.

Zhang Bangchang was respectful of the emperor's title this time, and he pushed it off many times, and even did not do anything in his position; And Liu Yu not only accepted it frankly. He really regarded himself as the lord of a country and tried his best to serve the Jurchens

As for why the Jin State supported the establishment of the puppet Qi. Wanyan Zongpan, the son of Wanyan Wu Qimai, once made this explanation: "The first emperor sealed Yu, and if he wanted to protect the territory, I had to rest the people." ”

And Yue Fei's statement is even more straightforward: "The Jin people set up Liu Yu in Henan, Gai wanted to poison the Central Plains, attacked China with China, and Mu Han had to suspend his troops to watch the provocation." ”

In fact, the worries of Emperor Gaozong and the Southern Song Dynasty were justified, and the establishment of Great Qi did bring great trouble to the Southern Song Dynasty.

First of all, the establishment of the puppet Qi attracted a large group of people who refused to surrender to the Jin people but were not allowed to be allowed to the Southern Song court, and in fact they were competing for talents with the Southern Song court.

Among these talents gathered by the Great Qi, the most famous civil officials are Zhang Chunxiao, the prefect of Taiyuan who once attacked the Jin soldiers, Zhao Jian, who was demoted in the Southern Song Dynasty, Qi Guojian, and so on; In terms of military generals, the most famous are Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou, and Li Qiong, who ran to Liu Yu with 40,000 soldiers, and so on.

It is no wonder that Yushi Liao Gang said to Emperor Gaozong: "The ministers heard that Liu Yu was in Qi and Wei, and he was provincially punished, and he was particularly appeased, recruited people, and lured false officials. ”

Secondly, the establishment of the puppet Qi, on the one hand, cooperated with the Jin State, allowing the Jin soldiers to concentrate all their forces in Shaanxi, which put great pressure on the Northwest Army of the Song Dynasty.

It is reasonable to assume that without the existence of the pseudo-Qi, it would be impossible for the Jin soldiers to concentrate 100,000 troops several times to attack the Northwest Army in Shaanxi. Even in the Battle of Fuping, it was unlikely that they would defeat the Song army.

On the other hand, in order to prove his existence value to the Jin people, Liu Yu repeatedly launched attacks from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, putting great pressure on the Southern Song court.

Moreover, in order to flatter the Jin State, Liu Yu gave the Jin State a lot of support in terms of money and food.

Liu Yu's first action was to set up the Taosha Palace, which was dedicated to excavating the Han cemetery, which led to the excavation of the tombs of the two Beijing families; Then destroy the Ming Hall, get 40,000 taels of gold from the golden dragon, and 3 million copper coins, all of which are dedicated to the golden people.

This is not only that, until Liu Yu was deposed by the Jin people, he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Jin State every year, which made an effective supplement to the Jin State's military expenditure

Of course, as a big state, the layout of the Jin State is not only limited to Liu Yu's chess piece, in October of the fourth year of Jianyan, the Jin State also sent another chess piece to directly enter the core of the Southern Song Dynasty.

When this chess piece just returned to the Southern Song Dynasty, it did not play a big role because of the internal strife of the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty itself.

Ten years later, this chess piece, which was not conspicuous at the beginning, actually dismantled and destroyed all the four major group armies of the Southern Song Dynasty at the critical juncture of the failure of the Jin soldiers on all fronts.

The dismantling and disappearance of the four major group armies, including the Yuejia Army and the Han Army, made the Southern Song Dynasty henceforth retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, and could no longer afford to advance north and conquer the lost territory.

For the Jurchens, the value of this chess piece far exceeded that of Guo Jing Guo Immortal who was in Kaifeng Mansion at the beginning, and it could not be measured by money at all.

The name of this chess piece has only two words: Qin Hui

In October of the fourth year of Jianyan, a few days after Chuzhou was broken by Jin soldiers, a boat suddenly came in front of the water village of the Song army of the Lianshui Army (now Lianshui, Jiangsu).

Now is the time for the two countries to fight each other. Song Jun's reaction was naturally to surround him with knives and guns.

A middle-aged man walked out of the boat. He said to the people around him. His surname is Qin, his name is Qin Hui, and he was captured by the Jin army in the north when Kaifeng fell. He asked if there were any scholars here, and if there were, they would know about him.

At that time, there was really a talent named Wang Andao, who was a wine seller.

God knows if he had really heard of Qin Hui, or if he knew what Qin Hui looked like. You can confirm it as soon as you meet. But this is no longer important, anyway, he came over and respectfully saluted Qin Hui, saying that Lord Zhongcheng has worked hard, and it is not easy to travel far.

The Song Dynasty respected scholars, and when he said this, Lianshui Jun immediately believed it and sent someone to escort the ship to Yuezhou (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang) to meet Emperor Gaozong.

There was also a small episode on the way to see the emperor in Qin Hui:

Because Qin Hui carried a large amount of gold and silver treasures with him, a deputy general named Liu Jing saw that Qian had an open eye, and had a crooked thought, wanting to kill Qin Hui for money and death.

It's a pity. This Liu Jing has a thief's heart but no courage, and was severely reprimanded by Qin Hui. That's it.

Volume 118 of the "Renewal of Capital and Governance Tongjian" has the following records:

And on the third day of the break of Chu City, Hinoki and Wang and Zang won the inkstone boy Xing'er...... To the Lianshui military realm, if it is obtained by the people, they will be bound and killed. Hinoki said: "I am in the imperial history of Qin Juniper." "The soldiers are all villagers...... A little humiliating. Hinoki said: "There are scholars here, you should know my name." ”。 At that time, the king was the wine supervisor, and the people called for it. An Tao pretended to know the juniper, and said: "Zhongcheng is good and hard!" "Everyone who believes in it will not kill it...... There is a deputy general Liu Jing, who wants to kill the juniper and take his capital, and the juniper knows and is responsible, and Jing cannot be issued. The juniper then went to the sea

The name Qin Hui is famous in later generations and has been infamous for thousands of years.

However, at that time, this name was second only to the national hero Li Ruoshui, and it was also a well-known name.

A little recalls what Qin Hui did during the Jingkang period: opposing the cession of the three northern towns, opposing Zhang Bangchang's usurpation, being captured by the Jin army, and accompanying Huizong and Qinzong to suffer......

This pile, piece by piece, how loyal and brave it seems, has always been remembered in the hearts of the people of the entire Great Song Dynasty and admired by all Han people.

However, after the excitement, some questions also surfaced.

In the imperial history, Cheng Qin Hui is the only high-ranking official of the former dynasty who has fled back from the north so far, how did he do it?

According to Qin Hui, when he was a prisoner in the north, he was assigned to Wan Yanchang's men as slaves and was mistreated. Later, because of his outstanding talent, the Jurchens were also greatly admired, and he gradually came into contact with some high-level work, such as writing some paperwork plans or something.

From this point on, Wan Yanchang could no longer do without him, and he even had to carry him with him when he went to the front line to fight.

After that, Qin Hui said that he relied on his personal bravery, saw the opportunity to kill the Jin soldiers who guarded him, seized a boat, broke through many dangers, entered the Yangtze River from the Huai River Valley, and arrived at the water village of the Song army.

Wow, this is amazing, it's just another moving story of Guan Yun walking thousands of miles and riding alone.

No, this is not a thousand miles to ride alone, but a thousand miles to row a big boat, which is more powerful than the martial saint Guan Yunchang.

Let's not mention how many Jin troops there are along the way, especially the huge army led by Wan Yanchang, even Yue Fei's troops can't stop it, but they can't catch up with Qin Hui's ship.

What special magic weapon must his ship have to run so fast?

What's even more incomprehensible is that on Qin Hui's boat, there are also Qin Hui's wife Wang, and the family servants of the whole house, plus a large number of jewelry and coins, and so on.

Could it be that Wan Yanchang really attached so much importance to Qin Hui that he even broke the convention in the army and allowed him to go on the expedition with his family? Even so, how can Qin Hui's scholarly servants and those gold and silver treasures be explained?

In short, all kinds of things that happened to Qin Hui have gone beyond people's daily understanding.

So, everyone was silent.

If such a statement can be easily passed, wouldn't it be an insult to everyone's wisdom.

Therefore, some people suspect that Qin Hui is not a hero who fled back at all, but a spy who turned into a degenerated surrender to the Jin State and then came back to make trouble.

With this inference, various theories from various sources began to appear one after another.

Just when Qin Hui was speechless and unspeakable, two bigwigs from the DPRK came out to help Qin Hui vouch.

This bigwig is Fan Zongyin, the prime minister of the left, and Li Hui, the Privy Council.

Volume 108 of "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian": Hinoki said to himself that he killed the prisoner, and he returned from the boat. Those who are suspicious of the courtiers are said to be detained with He and Sun Fu, and the juniper is alone; and 2,800 miles from Yan to Chu, crossing the river and crossing the Huai, how can there be no ridicule, and he has to kill the prison and go south! Let Dalan indulge him, he will question his wife, and he will return with the Wang family! Only Fan Zongyin, Li Huisu and Hinoyama strongly recommended their loyalty, and ordered the seer to be in the political hall...... (To be continued......)

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