Qian Song

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Before the peace talks between the Qian and Song Dynasties, Zongze had already noticed that there were still many counties in the east of Hebei that were not occupied by the Dagan Dynasty. The militia held fast.

Zong Ze is very aware that these pro-Song armed forces are a very important force, so Zong Ze has been actively contacting these pro-Song armed forces, and suggested to Zhao Gou to send someone to manage the Hebei and Hedong roads.

At the beginning, under the strong suggestion of Zong Ze, Zhao Gou, who restored the heart of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, also sent people to serve as Hebei Recruitment Envoy and Hedong Economic System Deputy Envoy, and asked these people to contact Hebei Hedong The main intention of the two groups of pro-Song armed forces is to organize and lead the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong as soon as possible, so that they will not be deprived of unified leadership, command and dispatch, food and other material support for a long time. They were defeated by the dry army.

It was at that time that the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei held back many troops of the Dagan Dynasty, which prevented the Dagan Dynasty from eradicating the remnants of the Song Dynasty, and allowed Zhao Jian to establish a small court of the Western Song Dynasty.

When Zongze was appointed to preside over the defense of the eastern part of Shaanxi, Zongze divided its defense area into four districts, east, west, south, north, and each district selected brave men of strategy to lead them. In the four suburbs, 24 strong camps were established, each with a commander. The guarding generals led tens of thousands of newly recruited volunteers to train and lecture in the newly established teaching ground.At the same time, Zongze built Lianzhuzhai like fish scales in the prefectures and counties along the Yellow River to strictly prepare for the imperial defense, so as to link up with the pro-Song armed forces in East Hebei.

At that time, the eastern part of Shaanxi formed a strategic base for restoring the lost land of Lianghe after the reconstruction of the Song regime. The pro-Song armed forces in Shaanxi, Hebei, and Hedong were all willing to obey Zongze's orders and restraint.

This allowed Zongze to have hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, making him the leader of the Song army.

It is precisely because of such Zongze's support for Zhao Gou's ascension to the throne that Zhao Gou was able to become the emperor of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The reason why Zongze supported Zhao Gou's ascension to the throne was because he hoped that his father, mother, all concubines, six daughters, and the entire clan would be captured by Li Cun, and his mother and all concubines would be played by Li Cun. Zhao Gou, the great enemy of Zhao, can work hard, work hard, manage the Sichuan-Shaanxi area well, and create conditions for him to counterattack, and then he will lead his hundreds of thousands of troops to fight back to the Central Plains with the most powerful Western Army of the Zhao and Song Dynasties. Take back Bianliang City in Tokyo, and rescue Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

In fact, in order to be able to ascend the throne and be called God, Zhao Gou at that time also made a big deal for Zong Ze and others who were the main battlers.

Unexpectedly, after Zhao Gou became emperor, he immediately changed his face, and became quite negative about killing back to the Central Plains, regaining lost land, rescuing Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, and the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

——Although Zhao Gou used Zongze to preside over the defense of the eastern part of Shaanxi at that time, and even though Zhao Gou also adopted some of Zongze's suggestions, Zhao Gou himself never seriously resisted the attack of the Gan army, let alone recovered The plan of losing ground and revenge.

Not long after, the Gan army moved westward again, smashing Zongze's defense and dispersing Zongze's main force.

Zong Ze had no choice but to lead the remnant army to take advantage of the favorable terrain in Shaanxi to resist the dry army step by step.

At that time, the most trusted and obeyed by Zhao Gou were Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan who wanted to move the newly established small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty to Shu and surrender to the Daqian Dynasty.

Not only did Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan cater to Zhao Gou's wishes, they were preparing to move the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty to Shu, and they also tried their best to slander Zongze's military and political facilities.

And those who advocated the recovery of the old Xinjiang, including those who went to Hebei to contact the pro-Song armed forces, were all recommended by Zongze, so they became the targets of Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and other leaders at the beginning of their tenure. .

As a result, those who were sent by the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty to Hebei to contact the pro-Song armed forces did not get the support of Zhao Gou and the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty at all.

Those who were sent by the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty to contact the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei, did not dare to make promises to the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei, and did not dare to make decisions.

The key point is that those who were sent by the Western Song court to contact the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei, really couldn't use any property or name to motivate the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei. There is no support from the regular army at all.

This undoubtedly greatly affected the enthusiasm of the Hebei pro-Song armed forces to serve the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty.

Later, when the Qian Song Dynasty negotiated peace, Zhao Gou agreed without hesitation to the additional clause proposed by Li Cun, that is, he was not allowed to contact the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei.

In other words, Zhao Gou and the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty under his leadership sold out the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei.

Since Zhao Jian established the Grand Marshal's Mansion, there has been a fierce struggle within his supreme ruling group between the main combat faction headed by Zong Ze and the peace faction headed by Zhao Gou, Wang Boyan, and Huang Qianshan.

When Zongze recommended people to organize the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei, Zongze repeatedly asked Zhao Gou to set up his capital Chang'an, and it would be better for the emperor to come to the front line of the battlefield in person, the conflict between the two factions intensified.

Zong Ze opposed the move of the capital, especially to the self-proclaimed Shu, because it was to escape in the name of moving the capital. Ze believed that the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty should immediately return the capital to Chang'an after the peace talks.

However, the dry army easily broke through Zongze's blockade and almost failed to capture Zhao Gou in Chang'an, making Zhao Gou think that Chang'an was extremely unsafe, so after the peace was negotiated, Zhao Gou hid in Xingyuan Mansion and never Don't mention the matter of returning to Chang'an.

Zong Ze is a stubborn person.

After the peace talks between the Qian and Song Dynasties, Zongze built a large number of fortifications in the eastern part of Shaanxi, recruited a large number of soldiers, and then wrote to Zhao Gou one after another, asking him to come back to Chang'an and not to settle in Xingyuan Mansion. All.

Even though Zhao Gou ignored it, after all, the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty was settled in Xingyuan Mansion, Zong Ze still sent a letter of memorial to Xingyuan Mansion, insisting that Zhao Gou return to Chang'an.

From the time when the peace was negotiated in the Qian Song Dynasty, Zong Ze appealed to Zhao Gou to return to Luan, with a total of more than [-] memorials.

——In this era of extremely inconvenient transportation and communication, Zong Ze kept writing memorials to Zhao Gou with a frequency of two or three letters per month, persuading Zhao Gou to return to Luan.

In these memorials, Zong Ze told Zhao Gou that all his soldiers and generals had expressed their strong desire to help the country.

For example, Ding Jin, who has more than [-] soldiers, is willing to take full responsibility for defending Chang'an; Yang Jin, the hornless ox, will also lead his troops out of Tongguan to welcome back Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, who were captured by the Dagan Dynasty, and the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Zong Ze also told Zhao Gou that the walls of Chang'an City have been strengthened, the towers and oars have been decorated, the Long Hao has been dredged, the equipment has been prepared, the gates have been lined up, the battle array has been reviewed, and the popularity has been braved. It is sharp, if the Gan army advances westward again, it will be called back and forth, so please return to Chang'an as soon as possible.

Zong Ze also said to Zhao Gou that if Zhao Gou did not take this opportunity to return to Chang'an, it would inevitably disintegrate the loyalty of millions of pro-Song armed forces in the Lianghe area, and discourage hundreds of millions of people from the Zhao and Song Dynasties. If there is no hatred of the people, the world will be in danger!

The contents of Zong Ze's memorials to Zhao Gou, especially the part describing the prosperity of his army, are obviously exaggerated.

But Zongze is really not blowing cannons, nor is he trying to make a big cake for Zhao Gou. His intention of doing this is to arouse Zhao Gou and others' ambition to avenge their shame. Gouan.

At the same time, as the person who has the closest connection with the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Zongze clearly sensed that since the Qian-Song peace talks, many pro-Song armed forces that had been actively moving closer to the Western Song court suddenly stopped cooperating with Zongze. What's more, they either directly captured the person sent by the small court of the Western Song Dynasty to contact them, or directly cut off the person sent by the small court of the Western Song Dynasty to contact them, and then used it as an investment. The name was transferred to the Dagan Dynasty.

For example, Zhao Bangjie and his gang from the Wuma Shanzhai that Zongze had hoped for before.

There are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in this group alone, and they are all heroes of Yanzhao. As long as the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty gives some soldiers and send people to train them, they can form a very powerful army. combat power.

However, not long ago, under Ma Kuo's lobbying, Zhao Bangjie personally chopped off the head of the person sent by the Western Song Dynasty to contact him, and then Zhao Bangjie carried the head of the person sent by the Western Song Dynasty to contact him alone Follow Ma Kuo to see Wang Yan.

This kind of thing happened one after another, and the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei are rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zong Ze understood that the Dagan Dynasty had begun to disintegrate the pro-Song armed forces in the East of Hebei.

Zongze knew better that if he didn't stop it, the Dagan Dynasty would definitely be able to wipe out all the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei.

And once such a thing happened, it would be absolutely impossible for them to return to the Central Plains, regain the lost land, and then fight back to Bianliang City in Tokyo to rescue Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Zongze very much hoped that the Dagan Dynasty could make some stupid moves at this time, for example, blindly use force to eliminate those pro-Song armed forces.

If this is the case, those pro-Song armed forces will have to continue to pro-Song, and they will have to continue to fight the Daqian Dynasty to the end.

But Li Cun really didn't give the Western Song Dynasty the slightest chance. He not only gave Zhang Suo, Fu Liang, Ma Kuo and other people in charge of recruiting pro-Song armed forces a high status, very flexible recruiting conditions, and the greatest autonomy to let them You can do everything you can, and personally interviewed the leaders of some particularly famous pro-Song armed forces, and then personally appease those pro-Song armed forces, so that they can rest assured that they will serve the Dagan Dynasty, and the Dagan Dynasty will definitely not treat them badly.

Li Cun has personally ended, and Zong Ze, whose hands and feet were bound by Zhao Gou, must not be able to drag the Daqian Dynasty with the monarch and ministers united as one.

Zongze can only hope that Zhao Gou will return to Chang'an, and then their monarchs and ministers will work together to fight against the monarchs and ministers of the Dagan Dynasty to keep the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei.

Unexpectedly, the more Zong Ze called Zhao Gou back to Luan, the more it backfired.

At the beginning, Zhao Gou used lies such as preparing to return to Luan to perfunctory Zong Ze.

Later, Zhao Gou simply ignored Zong Ze's memorial.

In July, most of the pro-Song armed forces were either recruited by the Daqian Dynasty or wiped out by the Qianjun Army. Ding Jin and Yang Jin, who were originally active at the border of the Qiansong Dynasty, had to bring along and were willing to follow Their people completely retreated to Shaanxi, while Li Cheng, who was also active on the border of the Qian and Song Dynasties, directly took his troops to vote for Zhai Xing. I am afraid that it will not be long before they will be completely wiped out.

——Ding Jin and Yang Jin actually wanted to vote for the Daqian Dynasty, but they committed a lot of crimes in Hebei, Hedong, and Henan. Yang Jin was the murderer who killed Zhai Jin Therefore, Li Cun issued a kill order, and made it clear that he would never let Ding Jin, Yang Jin, and their heinous people go, but some people under Ding Jin and Yang Jin who had not committed any serious crimes were smart. This is actually one of the important reasons why Ding Jin and Yang Jin hurriedly withdrew to Shaanxi, because they were afraid that they would become poor commanders if they stayed on the border of Qian and Song Dynasties. .

The pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei is Zongze's best hope to regain lost ground and fight back to Tokyo's Bianliang City, but Zongze can only watch his biggest reliance being disintegrated and swallowed by the Daqian Dynasty.

Soon after, Zong Ze learned that the Dagan Dynasty had a bumper harvest this year, and the total amount of grain obtained exceeded the best year of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Zong Ze inadvertently heard all kinds of popular good policies implemented by the Daqian Dynasty, as well as various wise decisions of Li Cun.

Also, Zong Ze found that the voices supporting the Zhao Song Dynasty have become smaller and smaller.

Go back and look at Zhao Gou, who only knows how to enjoy himself in Xingyuan Mansion, and the Sichuan-Shanxi area, which has not been smoothed out or developed at all after more than a year.

Zong Ze couldn't help spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Zong Ze was already 70 years old at this time. After he shouted hoarsely and still failed to turn around, his enthusiasm for serving the country all turned into worrying about the country and depression.

As a result, Zongze became sick from worry and anger, and gangrene developed on his back.

When Zongze knew that his life was coming to an end, he summoned his generals to his side and asked them to persevere in the great cause of restoring the old Song Dynasty. The verse that makes the hero burst into tears" is used to show that he is determined to die.

A few days later, Zong Ze ended his old age of fighting.

With Zongze's last breath, he kept shouting "Exit! Exit! Exit!", before resigning without saying a word about personal matters.

Zhao Gou didn't feel any regrets about Zong Ze's death.

On the contrary, Zhao Gou secretly rejoiced that no such old stubbornness forced him to return to Chang'an.

Soon after Zongze's death, Zhao Gou couldn't wait to appoint Du Chong to take over the area under Zongze's management.

Zhao Gou actually had considerations for letting Du Chong replace Zong Ze.

——Zhao Gou knows that the person Li Cun hates the most is him who agreed to dig the Yellow River embankment, and the second is Du Chong who offered him a plan to dig the Yellow River embankment. Therefore, anyone may surrender to the Daqian Dynasty, except Du Chong. May surrender to the Dagan Dynasty.

Du Chong is a violent, harsh, headstrong person who likes to kill and lacks strategy.

It can be said that there is almost no common ground between Du Chong and Zong Ze.

As far as their style and actions in presiding over the defense of the eastern part of Shaanxi are concerned, the difference between the two is huge:

Zongze has high prestige and great appeal. The key is to have a heart of loyalty, patriotism and selflessness. Therefore, he can gather all kinds of pro-Song armed forces scattered in various places under the banner of the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty, and organize them to resist. Dry the army and defend the troops of the Zhao and Song Dynasties;

As for Du Chong, he lacks prestige, neither loyalty nor wit when things happen.

After Du Chong took office, he went his own way, tyrannical and arrogant, and became more and more unpopular.

As a result, most of the troops collected and assembled by Zongze before scattered away; those who voluntarily accepted Zongze's orders and restraints, such as Ding Jin and Yang Jin, who did not come to Shaanxi, such as Ding Jin and Yang Jin, simply occupied the territory Zixiong, he has to walk the old road that Li Cun once walked.

This caused chaos in Shaanxi again. Even in Shu, there were many heroes who were unwilling to be ruled by Zhao Gou, the cowardly emperor, and the spineless small government of the Western Song Dynasty, so they led the crowd to revolt.

As a result, the Sichuan-Shanxi area has a tendency of a group of heroes rising together. Zhao Gou did not hesitate to hand over Liu Kai and Li Yanxian in exchange for peace with the Daqian Dynasty, which did not bring real peace to the Sichuan-Shanxi area.

It is worth mentioning that the pro-Song armed forces that are still struggling to support themselves in Hedong, Hebei, are still in close contact with Zongze, and they are all expecting Zongze's commander-in-chief to come out of Tongguan, and they cooperate with each other , Collaborate to drive out the Dagan Dynasty.

But Du Chong refused to continue this relationship with these pro-Song armed forces.

——Du Chong fully implemented the strategic policy that Zhao Gou expected not to provoke the Daqian Dynasty so as not to set fire to himself, and he did not plan to send troops out of Tongguan to enter the Central Plains at all. He put the crisis of the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei Regardless of it, he didn't intend to support each other with the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong at all, and he wholeheartedly cut off from the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, and spared no effort to help Zhao Gou and the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty in the Sichuan-Shaanxi area.

Under the ebb and flow, those pro-Song armed forces in Hedong, Hebei, who were dying, could no longer support them. They were either recruited by the Daqian Dynasty, or completely wiped out by the Qianjun, or they were broken into pieces. Fleeing to the Sichuan-Shanxi area.

It didn't wait until the end of this year, only in mid-November, the last pro-Song armed force was wiped out by Li Yanxian, and the Hedong region of Hebei, which had been in turmoil for many years, finally completely restored peace.

Li Cun lost another serious worry.

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