Chapter 472: The Death of the Great Song Dynasty

From the outside, this room looked no different from the surrounding houses, but when you entered it, it was very different, and it was full of delicate things that Shen Long had moved out of his house, and even the bedding on the bed had been changed.

"You may be seated! I'll get ready first. Shen Long led Wang Anshi and his son to the study to sit down, closed the window, put down the board, put a box with big eyes on the table, pressed the button, and a light shot from the big eyes to the tablet, and the same scene appeared when he watched Bi Sheng's experience last time.

"Okay, let's talk while we watch, if you two have any questions, you can always ask." A huge map appeared on the tablet, the map was divided into several colors, the orange part in the center was marked as "Great Song", and the Liao Kingdom was marked in blue to the north of the Great Song Dynasty, and the east of the Liao Kingdom was Goryeo, facing the Wa Kingdom across the sea.

In the northwest, of course, there was the Western Xia, and further west of the Western Xia were the Yellow Head Uighurs and the Gaochang Uighurs; To the south were the Dali and Angkor dynasties, and the Kakuro and Lhasa royal lines were sandwiched between Dali and Western Xia.

In addition to these, there are many names of countries that Wang Anshi and his sons have only occasionally heard of or even unheard of, such as the Eastern Qarakhanids, the Ghaznavid Dynasty, the Seljuks, the Kepichak Khanate, and the Black-clothed Great Food further west of the Gaochang Uighurs, and the Bagan, Queen's Kingdom, Chola Dynasty, and Srivijaya in the south of Dali.

On this map, the Great Song Dynasty seems so small, and it really doesn't match the status of the world center and the Heavenly Empire in the hearts of Wang Anshi's father and son, Wang Anshi couldn't help but ask, "My Great Song is so small?" ”

"Hehe, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is about 2.8 million square kilometers, and the entire earth is ...... Oh, let's think of it as the whole world, the land area of the whole world is 149 million square kilometers, and the Great Song Dynasty only accounts for less than two percent. Shen Long said lightly, "Let's show you the whole picture of the world!" ”

Anyway, the Great Song Dynasty on the map continued to shrink, and more countries were revealed, and the result was really as Shen Long said, the Great Song Dynasty was just a corner of the world, placed on the Go board, that is, the position occupied by three or five chess pieces.

"This Eastern Qarakhanid State is almost in the Mengchi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, and the Gaochang Uighurs are in the territory of the Western Regions; The south of the Lhasa royal system is the Tianzhu of the year; As for the black-clothed food, there are quite a few merchants who come from there who live in Quanzhou; Farther away, I'm afraid few people have been to Da Song now. Shen Long unhurriedly pointed to the name of the country on the map and explained.

"Okay, let's not talk about this today, let's continue to talk about how the Great Song Dynasty died!" As soon as the voice fell, there was a change on the map, several arrows started from Shaanxi Road, extended to the territory of Western Xia, "After Jiefu took power, he eliminated the bad government, so that the Great Song Dynasty improved slightly, and the Empress Dowager of Western Xia was in charge, and the country was chaotic, so Shenzong thought that this was a good opportunity to crusade against Western Xia, so he first attacked the Qingtang Tubo and Jiaoguo Luo regimes to the west, expanded more than 2,000 miles, established Xihe Road, and in the fourth year of Xining, Han Jiang commanded the army to build Funing and Luowucheng in order to end the city of Hengshan, but unfortunately it was defeated by Western Xia, Later, Wang Shao recruited the Qiang people on Xihe Road to try to attack the Western Xia on both sides, but they still failed under the stubborn resistance of the Western Xia and the conservative forces within the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Hearing the word Shenzong, Wang Anshi couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth for a while, is it really good for you to call someone's temple number if the official family is still alive? But when he heard the latter words, he was speechless again.

"Ten years after Xining, Shenzong changed to Yuan Yuanfeng, Yuanfeng four years, Empress Dowager Liang imprisoned the Xia lord Bingchang, Western Xia was in turmoil, Shenzong deployed Li Xian to go out of Xihe Road, Chong Ge Department out of Yan Road, Gao Zunyu Department out of Huanqing Road, Liu Changzuo Department out of Jingyuan Road, Wang Zhongzheng Department out of Hedong Road, want to conquer Western Xia Xing, Ling Erzhou in one fell swoop." Five arrows appeared on the map again pointing to the Western Xia, but they stopped in Lingzhou, "all sides have won and lost, although some results have been achieved, but still failed to destroy the Western Xia, Shenzong can not afford to be ill, and Yuanfeng died in eight years, and the sixth son Zhao Xi, later called Song Zhezong." ”

"Zhezong reigned for fifteen years, and after the pro-government, he continued the reform of Jiefu, restarted the battle of Hehuang, collected the Qingtang region, and launched two battles of Pingxia City, so that the Western Xia surrendered, and died at the age of twenty-four, because he had no children to pass on his younger brother Zhao Ji, and later generations called Song Huizong." Speaking of this, Shen Long couldn't help but shake his head, "Huizong likes pleasure, ignores the government and entrusts political affairs to the six thieves led by Cai Jing, and there is a lot of chaos in the country. ”

On the map, Shandong, Jiangnan and other places were lit with fires, and in the northeast of the Liao State, there were similar fires, two different colors of arrows collided, and then the color of the Liao State was gradually replaced by gold, "At the same time, the Jurchen rose in the northeast, and broke the 700,000 army of the Liao State with 20,000 soldiers in Hubu Dagang, and then founded the country. Although the iron is strong, it will eventually deteriorate, but the gold will not change, so the gold is the national name. ”

"20,000 troops to break the Liao State!" Wang Anshi pulled off his beard, the Great Song Dynasty has always suffered from Liaophobia, and regarded the cavalry of the Liao State as the strongest army in the world, and now when he heard that the 700,000 Liao army was defeated by a mere 20,000 people, he dared to believe it, "Didn't Shen Daochang say something wrong?" ”

"There are clouds in later generations, 'Liao is abolished, Jin is ruined', the world has been peaceful for a long time, and the army of Liao is gradually degenerating, and in a few decades, they will have long been abolished, and it is not unusual to be defeated by the army of 20,000 tigers and wolves." Shen Long said disappreciatively.

Liao is abolished, and Jin is dead? Does this mean that the Liao State declined because of Buddhism, and the Jin State died because of Confucianism?

Without waiting for Wang Anshi to ask, Shen Long continued, "Seeing that the Liao State was defeated by the Jin State, Song Huizong thought that the Great Song Dynasty could take advantage of it, so he sent people to the Jin State to sign a 'maritime alliance', agreeing that the Song and Jin would die together in Liao, and the Great Song Dynasty would take back the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the rest of the places would belong to the Jin State. ”

"It's a pity that the Great Song Dynasty is really not angry, but hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated by the remnants of the Liao State, and they could only spend money to buy back Yanjing from the Jin State.

At this time, the Liao State on the map has been replaced by the Jin State, and only a small piece is left in the far northwest pole called the Western Liao, and a new arrow stretches out from the Jin State, pointing directly to Bianliang, Tokyo, Wang Anshi and his son can no longer hold themselves, and immediately stand up.

Three years later, the Jin State sent troops south, invincible all the way, Song Huizong was timid, and hurriedly changed his son Song Qinzong to Yuan Jingkang; In the second year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers went south again, surrounded Kaifeng, and broke the outer city of Kaifeng. ”

"The second emperor of Huiqin searched all the money in the city and tried to bribe the Jin State to retreat unsuccessfully, and the Jin soldiers captured Song Huizong, Song Qinzong's father and son, and a large number of Zhao royal family, harem concubines and Guiqing, courtiers and other more than 3,000 people, escorted to the north, and the public and private savings in Tokyo were empty, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished!"

After Shen Long finished speaking, he turned around, and Wang Anshi's father and son were already colorless.