Chapter 5 Planning for the future and finding a way out
Through the days after the rebirth, although Wu Zhi's heart is also up and down, but after a few days, he has begun to slowly adapt to the new environment, recognized this era, usually saw the village of the Wu family a calm and peaceful pastoral scenery with no quarrel with the world, he also thought that he had crossed into a peaceful and tranquil prosperous era, this Northern Song Dynasty is not the Northern Song Dynasty!
He also only thinks about getting merit for the martial arts family to be named the glory of the martial family, and only thinks about changing the circumstances of the second uncle of the martial family and their family to live a good life, his thoughts are very simple, he just wants to be able to live this life peacefully. But today, Pan Jinlian's visit pierced his gradually calming heart, and it immediately evoked many memories of his past and present lives, and his heart was turbulent!
"Now that Pan Jinlian has appeared, will the recklessness of the rivers and lakes of Fang La, Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, and Lin Chong appear? Will bastards such as Tong Guan, Cai Jing, and Gao Yu appear? And will the damned Song Huizong Zhao Ji succeed to the throne and lose the country? Will the anti-gold heroes Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others appear? Wu Zhi's heart was like a thousand horses galloping by, and he couldn't calm down.
Pan Jinlian's visit made him remember the real history of the Northern Song Dynasty that he had learned before, and he really remembered: another 31 years will be the "Jingkang Shame", the Northern Song Dynasty will die at that time, the Northern Song Dynasty has been in turmoil for more than 30 years, internal and external troubles, when the northern land is lost, the land is lost, even Enzhou will be reduced to the annexation of the Jin State, and the people of Enzhou will be reduced to slaves, where is the peace and tranquility?
What are you kidding?!
Thinking of this, Wu Zhi couldn't sit still, stood up, and slowly paced around the small study, trying to suppress the boredom and uneasiness in his heart, but the more he thought about it, the more chaotic he became.
Wu Zhi before his rebirth, he liked history since he was a child, and he liked to read through history the most, especially about the historical materials of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, he didn't know how many times he read it during his lifetime, all kinds of official history, wild history, anecdotes and miscellaneous anecdotes can be at his fingertips, especially under the influence of the archaeological profession, his thirst for historical knowledge is even stronger, and he is fascinated. And he has a good memory and remembers a lot of things.
Wu Zhi forced himself to calm down and slowly sort out his thoughts, if he remembered correctly, the history of the Northern Song Dynasty that he knew in his heart should be roughly like this:
Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, the temple name Song Taizu, was a native of Zhuozhou (now Zhuozhou, Hebei). Born in a military family, Zhao Hongyin's second son. In the first year of Jianlong (960 AD), he launched the "Chenqiao Mutiny", added the yellow robe, proclaimed the emperor on behalf of Zhou, established the Song Dynasty, and set the capital Kaifeng. After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he successively defeated the separatist regimes of Nanping, Houshu, Southern Han, Southern Tang and Hunan, unified the whole country, and ended the situation of division and chaos of five dynasties and ten countries. During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, he learned the lessons of the Tang Dynasty's eunuch dictatorship and the division of feudal towns that led to the demise, accepted the suggestion of the virtuous minister Zhao Pu, and reduced the status of military attachés through "releasing military power with a glass of wine", so as to "emphasize literature over military force" and strengthen centralized power. So that the Song Dynasty did not have the dictatorship of eunuchs, the division of feudal towns, and the society was relatively stable. However, it also led to the Song Dynasty's "poverty and weakness", and foreign tribes invaded one after another.
After the death of Taizu, Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne as Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the second emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, who reigned for 22 years. The third son of Zhao Hongyin is the younger brother of Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the Northern Song Dynasty. His real name is Zhao Kuangyi, and after Taizu ascended the throne, he was once renamed Zhao Guangyi. Song Taizong is very promising, diligent in government affairs, and cares about people's livelihood; He inherited the will of Taizu, forced the king of Wuyue to surrender his land, and personally conquered the Northern Han Dynasty, trying to recover the sixteen states of Youyun. However, due to his two failed expeditions to Liao, he was passive on the outside and intensified on the inside, which led to the peasant uprising of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun in Sichuan. Taizong was a good ruler and was not good at martial arts, but in general, the Song Dynasty was relatively strong during his reign.
After Taizong turned his back on the "Golden Kui Alliance", his third son Zhao Heng was Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, the third emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, who reigned for twenty-five years. During the reign of Song Zhenzong, the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty became more and more solid, the state management became more and more perfect, and the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively strong. In the early period of the reign, Xianping and Jingde were known as governing the world because of their diligence in political affairs and economic development. However, in the first year of Jingde (1004), the Liao State invaded Lanzhou, and the Zhenzong personally conquered, and the battle of Lanyuan set an alliance under the city, creating a precedent of accepting coins to seek peace and Gou'an, exchanging materials for peace, and increasing the burden on the people. In the later period, Wang Qinruo was appointed to prosper auspiciously, seal Mount Tai in the east, worship Fenyang in the west, and build Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, which cost the people and money, resulting in the intensification of social contradictions.
After the death of Zhenzong, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen succeeded to the throne, was the sixth son of Song Zhenzong, that is, the emperor was only thirteen years old when he was on the throne, and the Empress Dowager Zhang Xian listened to the government, and more than ten years later. His reign began to be more frugal, but he was repeatedly defeated in the Western Xia war, and was forced to compromise with "annual gifts" of silver, silk, and tea, and also sued for peace with the Liao with an increase in annual coins. During the reign, the phenomenon of land annexation and redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses became increasingly serious, although Fan Zhongyan and others were used to carry out reforms, which was known as the Qingli New Deal in history, but the result failed. Renzong was cowardly and incompetent, and although he reigned for forty-two years, he did nothing. But in general, the country was relatively stable during the reign of Renzong.
Renzong had no children, and was succeeded by Yingzong Zhao Shu after returning to heaven, and was the great-grandson of Taizong, the fifth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, who died of illness after only five years of reign. During his reign, he was frail and sickly, and the Northern Song Dynasty declined. During the reign of Yingzong, he appointed his former minister Han Qi and others, and did not think about reform, but there was no war with the Liao State and Western Xia. After dying of illness, he was buried in Yonghou Mausoleum, accompanied by Gao Hou, Di Qing, Yang Yanzhao, etc.
Song Shenzong, named Zhao Ji, the eldest son of Yingzong, succeeded to the throne after Yingzong died of illness, changed the year name to "Xining", reigned for 18 years, died of illness, died of Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of eight, and was buried in Yongyu Mausoleum. After Zhao Ji ascended the throne, in the face of the serious situation of "poverty and weakness" in the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to achieve a rich country and a strong army, alleviate class contradictions, and save the crisis of feudal rule, he did not govern the palace, did not do anything to be lucky, abolished the patriarch, and appointed Wang Anshi to preside over the reform. The new law has been implemented for more than 10 years, and the state's fiscal revenue has increased and its military strength has also increased. However, due to the haste of the reform, the law could not be implemented, and the new law touched the interests of large landowners, which was strongly opposed by conservative officials, and the reform finally failed. After Wang Anshi's resignation, Zhao also maintained most of the new law for nearly a decade until his death. In the war against Western Xia, he appointed Wang Shao in the early stage, won the victory in the Battle of Xihe, and recovered 2,000 miles of the old Han land. In the later period, the eunuch Li Xian was appointed, and he suffered a crushing defeat in Lingwu due to improper command, and Shenzong fell ill for this, and died of illness in the Funing Hall in the Bianjing Palace.
Song Zhezong Zhao Xu, the seventh emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, was the sixth son of Song Shenzong, formerly known as a maid, and was once named the king of Yan'an County, guarding the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty. When Shenzong was critically ill, he was appointed as the crown prince, and in the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Shenzong died, and Zhao Xu ascended the throne as the emperor, which was for Song Zhezong, and changed the yuan to "Yuanyou". He died in Bianjing, reigned for 15 years, died at the age of 24, and was buried in Yongtai Mausoleum. When Zhezong ascended the throne, he was only ten years old and ruled by Empress Dowager Gao. After Empress Dowager Gao came to power, she appointed Sima Guang, a diehard official, as the prime minister. As soon as Sima Guang came to power, he abolished all the "Wang Anshi Reforms" (Xining Changes) during the Shenzong period, and the history called Yuan You was changed, during which the party struggle in the imperial court was still fierce and cruel. Song Zhezong was dissatisfied with the ruling and suppression of Sima Guang and Empress Dowager Gao. In the eighth year of Yuanyou, Empress Dowager Gao died, and Zhezong was in power. After Zhezong came into power, he stated that he would posthumously belittle Sima Guang, and belittled Su Shi, Su Zhe and other old party members in Lingnan, and then reused reformists such as Zhang Chun and Zeng Bu to restore Wang Anshi's reform of the armor protection law, the exemption law, and the Qingmiao law, etc., to reduce the burden on the peasants and improve the country's situation. In the following year, he changed the Yuan to "Shaosheng", stopped negotiating with the Western Xia, and sent troops to crusade against the Western Xia many times, forcing the Western Xia to beg for peace with the Song Dynasty. Yuan Fu died of illness in Bianliang, Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan) in the first month of the third year. Zhezong was one of the more accomplished emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, the party struggle between the new party and the old party was not only not resolved, but intensified during the reign of Song Zhezong, planting the seeds of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhezong died childless, and the Empress Dowager Xiang ignored the strong opposition of the prime minister Zhang Chun and supported her brother Zhao Ji as the emperor, that is, Song Weizong, the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty and the eleventh son of Song Shenzong, who reigned for twenty-five years. Song Weizong is a frivolous and unprovoked master, who is mediocre and incompetent. After Song Weizong ascended the throne, the new law was activated, but Cai Jing, Tong Guan, etc., who he doted on and reused, did all kinds of evil under the banner of explaining the new law, causing the political situation to plummet. During the reign of Zhao Ji, he excessively pursued a luxurious life, procured the "Flower and Stone Gang" in the south, collected strange flowers and stones and transported them to Bianjing to build a garden palace, worshiped Taoism, proclaimed himself "Daojun Emperor", appointed corrupt officials and eunuchs to expropriate and extort tyranny, provoked peasant uprisings in various places, and the Northern Song Dynasty ruled in crisis. When the Jin soldiers invaded and could not cope with it, he hurriedly passed the throne to his son Song Qinzong to deal with, and he was the "Emperor Taishang", but finally could not recover the situation, and the "shame of Jingkang" broke out, and both father and son were captured by the Jin soldiers and went north, tortured, and died in the city of the Five Kingdoms eight years later.
Song Qinzong, named Zhao Huan, was the last emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the seventh year of Xuanhe (1125 AD), when Jin Bing went south, he was enthroned by his father Huizong. The following year, he was forced to use the main battle faction Li Gang to resist Jin, and deposed Cai Jing's party. But he still promised to beg for peace with indemnity and cutting Taiyuan and other three towns. After the destruction of Bianjing City, the gold was reduced, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished. In the second year of Jingkang (1127 AD), he and Huizong were captured by the Jin soldiers and went to the north, and were imprisoned in the city of Wuguo (now Yilan, Heilongjiang), which was known as "the shame of Jingkang" in history. In 1161, Zhao Huan of Qinzong was trampled to death by a horse in the Jin Kingdom, at the age of fifty-seven, and his burial place is unknown.
This is the history of the Northern Song Dynasty that Wu Zhi knows, if the era he is in now is not too different, or the original Northern Song Dynasty, then he will be a little out of time and very sad, and he may have to spend the rest of his life in turmoil in the future. In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, it seemed to be flashy in ordinary times, but in fact it had long been decayed, with more than internal strife and foreign insults.
In Wu Zhi's memory, Zhao Xu will die of illness less than five years later, and Zhao Ji, who is wandering and incompetent Song Huizong, succeeded to the throne, and the Northern Song Dynasty has really become a weak and bullying soft-footed shrimp, watching himself being bullied by the Jin people to the south and destroying the country, even the old and young emperors were captured by the Jin people, it is for the "shame of Jingkang", all the north of the south of the Yangtze River are lost, it can be said that the mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, and the life experience is ups and downs.
God had just given him a new door to pass through rebirth, and now he had pushed him into another door of destruction where the country was ruined and people were destroyed, and this joke was a bit big!
"What should I do? Do you want to watch your home fall and the world collapse? Do you want to watch your relatives around you displaced, helpless, and reduced to slavery? Wu Zhi asked himself.
If he can foresee the future, but he wants to watch the world collapse, the land is ruined, and his relatives are displaced and he is indifferent, his conscience tells him that this is not possible, and he cannot watch his relatives disappear one by one from his eyes. Reborn so far, Wu Zhi has regarded Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Xiao'e and Jin Lian as his dearest people, he will never allow them to have any mistakes, he must protect them!
Guarding his good relatives, guarding his beautiful homeland, and guarding his huge country, this is Wu Zhi's lifelong belief and spiritual sustenance.
So where do we go from here? Wu Zhi's heart moved, walked to the desk, sat down, took out a piece of paper, picked up the wool pen on the pen stand, dipped it in some ink, thought about it, first wrote down the two words Zhao Xu, and then wrote the names of Zhang Chun and Zeng Bu on the left side below, wrote Zhao Ji on the right side, and wrote Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and Gao Yu under Zhao Ji. After pondering for a moment, he wrote Shang La, Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, Lin Chong and others in the back. After a pause, he wrote the names of Zhang Qi, Seed Master Dao, Seed Master Zhong, Zhe Keshi, Yao Xiong and others, and then he wrote the word "military" in big words and added a big exclamation mark.
According to historical evolution, if things are allowed to develop naturally, the Northern Song Dynasty in which Wu Zhi is located will eventually collapse. For the sake of himself and his relatives, he must start planning for a rainy day. He must do his best to change the historical course of the Northern Song Dynasty, at least to delay the period of its collapse and even to be able to change his life and save the endgame, even if he does everything he can.
If you want to change your fate, you must have enough strength! This strength is to have money and power, and it is a lot of money and power, and it must also have its own team and army, and it must be a strong soldier and a strong general. ”
Wu Zhi clenched his fists, and buried his head in writing down a line of words such as the imperial examination, the new policy, power, commerce, industry, military, and training recruits. Song Huizong Zhao Ji is a Keju fan, maybe one day Keju will be used.
Wu Zhi estimated that he might not be able to stop Zhao Ji from becoming the emperor, so he had to deal with Zhao Ji, he was the captain of the school football team before he was reborn, and he was still very confident in his football skills, so it was better to be prepared.
Things work themselves out!
Wu Zhi thought for a long time, his confidence gradually increased, then he pushed the chair and got up, strode open the door and walked out of the small study, and saw Xiao'e leaning on the door with an anxious face waiting for him.
Wu Zhi stayed in this small study until nightfall, the lights were on, and the time for dinner had already passed, Xiao'e came over and urged several times, a little worried.
Now seeing Brother Da Lang's relaxed face, laughing and holding his hand forward, Xiao'e is relieved.