Chapter 26: Li Gang's Past
There was an article in later generations that described Kaifeng, Tokyo as follows:
At night a thousand years ago, the cities of the world were all dark, and only the cities of the Great Song Dynasty were brightly lit and bright.
A thousand years ago, at night, the world's cities were quiet, and only China's cities were crowded with people, singing and laughing.
And the reason why Tokyo is so prosperous is because of the good luck. The head of the six canals is the Bianhe River, which connects the Yellow River and the Huai River. As far as the eye can see, wine shops and guest posts are spread along the south bank of the Bianhe River, and foot merchants and vendors have supported their business to the roadside, responding to the flow of people shuttling.
Morning glory and horses, the flow of people driving and walking, densely packed along the river, and above the Bianhe River, there are boats and boats, so lively.
And the city of Tokyo, which has been remodeled by the old rules, has everything to make way for the military, so even if the official wharf has to be located in the southern outer city, even if you go north. In September, the autumn wind was tight, and a few young people who had traveled early set off from Taixue, all the way out of the Suzaku Gate, and went south along the Bianshui, and they couldn't help but feel in their hearts.
Liang Su, who has been cautious since entering Tokyo, finally couldn't help but sigh, "The prosperity of the national capital is so great, it really makes us people in the countryside dare not imagine." "This is true, he was born in Dingzhou, which borders the Liao State, and it is not suitable to say that the poor countryside is not suitable, but it is definitely a small local person, and then the whole Hebei was ruined by the Jin State, and even the town when he was a child was gone.
The man behind him snorted, but remained polite in the end, and said, "What is this, Liang... Zhixian, my father had been a Kaifeng Shicao for many years, and Tokyo was ....... at that time Although it is Wen Tian and Wu Xi, but in terms of the prosperity of all industries, it is definitely much stronger than now. ”
The voice was naturally Zhao Fen, who had half of his face swollen.
That's right, he was finally kicked out by his father to take office with these colleagues.
Li Xiuzhi, the resident who came to see him off, frowned, and secretly said You have no brains, this is true, and it was nothing in the past, but you forgot that your old man was still thinking about it behind closed doors at home, if this word spreads, the official family is most disgusted with all kinds of things when the two saints were in power, doesn't this hit the muzzle of the gun? Isn't this pit method?
However, the relationship between the two is very good, and Li Xiuzhi hurriedly added: "Actually, Tokyo is still a little smaller, and the younger brother once heard his father-in-law (Lu Benzhong) say that Yanjing is majestic." At that time, the reason why Taizu set the capital here was because the Bianshui River traversed China, the first to inherit the big river, the rivers and lakes, the South China Sea, half of the world's wealth, and the department stores of the mountains and rivers, all from this road. The capital of the country is Bianjing, and Cao Yun can save too much. And today, the next reunification, it is appropriate to move the capital, otherwise this capital will be in no danger to defend...... It's terrible. ”
Zhao Fen is not a fool, he realized at the beginning that this turning relative was rounding the field for himself (Zhao Fen's sister is the daughter-in-law of the Lu family, and Li Xiuzhi's fiancée is the daughter of the Lu family), and he was about to cheer up, but when he heard the last sentence, everyone was silent, because everyone invariably remembered the defense of Tokyo led by Li Gang during the Jingkang period.
It is true that Li Gang does not know the soldiers, but even if Li Yanxian (who was wanted because he was impeached and did not know the soldiers) and Yue Fei (who scolded him for being a traitor and traitor and was expelled from the army) stood in front of him, it cannot be said that the failure of the defense of Tokyo was his responsibility.
Whose responsibility is that? Let's take a look, in January of the first year of Jingkang, Zhao Ji fled south to Zhenjiang because the Jin army went south to pass on the crown prince Zhao Huan, and proclaimed himself the head of the sect, Emperor Daojun, called "Emperor Taishang". People were panicked for a while, but fortunately, after Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he promoted Li Gang to the right of Shangshu and took up the post of pro-expedition envoy to be responsible for the defense of Kaifeng. Here he did make a mistake and did not follow the advice of the veteran to deploy defenses along the Yellow River in time.
At that time, the Jin army hesitated due to the change of the Song Dynasty's monarch, but the Song Dynasty's general Guo Yaoshi was particularly aware of the fact that the Song Dynasty was weak, and concluded that the Song Dynasty was defenseless, and suggested that the Jin army cross the Yellow River with the momentum of breaking through the bamboo and break through the Yellow River defenders. So afterwards, Li Gang heard that Guo Yaoshi was chopped by Lu Yihao along with his son, and happily drank an extra pot of wine, Li Xiuzhi heard his father say good things about this Lu Xianggong for the first time in his life, as if it was not him who called his big "Lu Jingluo".
Li Gangshu no longer understands military affairs, and at this time he also took the lead and led the Kaifeng army and people to complete the defensive deployment in a timely manner. While persuading Zhao Huan not to run, he personally went to the city to supervise the battle and repelled the Jin soldiers. Jin Shuai Wanyan Zongwang (the second prince) saw that Kaifeng was difficult to attack, so he turned to the plan of luring him to surrender, and Zhao Huan was actually moved.
Because his father couldn't do anything but would seize power, as soon as he saw that he was safe, he actually issued an order to send a report to Huainan and the Liangzhezhou Army to Beijing to send a report, and ordered him to be intercepted and not released, and to wait for the command. It also intercepted the supplies that were transported to the Beijing Division.
Zhao Huan was almost angry with his father, and he wanted to concentrate on fighting with the Emperor Taishang to seize power. The Jin soldiers could not attack for a long time, and they also had the intention of retreating, and they were willing to draw the river with the Jin country as the boundary, cede the three towns of Taiyuan, and give an extra 35 million taels of silver.
Li Gang was almost killed by his myocardial infarction, but he had no choice, he tried every means to delay, and withheld the edict of the three towns, and finally, the delay delayed the 200,000 Qinwang teachers of the Seed Master.
It was too naïve to think that the situation would be very good in this way, and the emperor thought that it was necessary to strictly prevent the soldiers from mutiny, so he urged the soldiers to go to war immediately. Listening to the words of the surrender faction, he dismissed Li Gang, died of anger, and finally made a well-known Liuding Liujia in the city, and looted the women of the city and even his daughters, wives and concubines to give to the Jin people to pay off the debts.......
In short, only you can't think of it, and there is no two holy fathers and sons who can't do it. In the words of the official family, it is really Zhao Song who did not lose the country, and it all depends on the blessing of the gods and Buddhas.
On this kind of emperor, don't talk about Li Gang, you can't win with a pharmacist Li (Li Jing)!
Fan Chengda and the others are okay, Zhao Fen was in Tokyo City at the time, his father was unwilling to attach Zhang Bangchang as the emperor at that time, and the two uncles hid in Taixue, and asked separately where King Kang's official family (now) was, and their mother was hiding on the south bank of Bianshui, how old was he then, seventeen or eighteen years old, while hugging his younger brothers and sisters to prevent them from seeing the corpses outside, while comforting his frightened mother.
It's only been eleven years, and it's still on the edge of this gurgling water, but it's already a different world.
Suddenly, Zhao Fen turned around and bowed in the direction of Ouchi, Tokyo, and bowed down in the direction of southeast Fujian, and said sincerely: "Minister Xie Li." "Thank you too. made Li Xiuzhi the son of someone else's and quickly returned the gift.
I really don't blame them for being like this, the shame of Jingkang is still a miracle medicine for low blood pressure for the Chinese people after a thousand years, not to mention that these people are all witnesses. But after saying that, all of them magically calmed down, because now the two saints are in the temple and Taoism, and the person who dominates Tokyo and even the world, and almost brings the Great Song Dynasty back from a desperate situation, is the official family.
Another gust of autumn wind blew, Li Xiuzhi saw that there were still many people queuing up on Guandu, and proposed to go to the roadside shop to sit for a while, after all, he had to take care of the relatively small Fan Chengda, but Fan Chengda was very lively, and after getting acquainted with it, he asked: "Brothers, why did we come first, but we have to line up behind these people." ”
Li Xiuzhi had to explain, "Since it is officialdom, of course, according to the grade, Brother Zhao and Brother Liang are both magistrates, and you are the chronicle of the navy." Of course, you have to be polite to Zhizhou, pass the sentence and even join the army. ”
"But I see that the first few people are also county magistrates, and Brother Liang is still the magistrate of Fengtai County, which is attached to Yanjing Mansion!"
The three adults were big for a while, do you want to tell this baby that because the old officials in the Hedong and Hebei regions were cut down by King Han Qin, and because the Jiangnan Cabinet was born and could not do general affairs, a group of them were dismissed, so most of the officials sent to Lianghe this time were transferred to the Guanzhong region of Henan, and of course the seniority is in front of you.
However, Liang Su had the heart to sell the former prime minister's son, and took the initiative to say: "Brother Fan Xian, we were both summoned by the official family, and the official family once told me that there is no need to keep it secret, what about you, what can you say about the prelude?" ”