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Chapter 16 Chapter Four Jingkang Shame

The Ming people's "Liangzhai Zashuo" records that: before Song Huizong Zhao Ji was born, his father Song Shenzong went to the Secretariat Province to look at the portrait of Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was collected there. Zhao Ji was born, "When I was born, I dreamed that Master Li would come to visit, so his literary talent is a hundred times better than Master Li's."Probably because Song Huizong Zhao Ji's talent and experience are too similar to Li Yu, the subjugated king of the Southern Tang Dynasty, that's why there is such a saying about heaven and gods, but it is obviously not credible.

Zhao Ji loves calligraphy and painting, and has shown extraordinary talent. The "thin gold style" calligraphy and paintings he created are all fine works of art.He has a wide range of interests, and has a strong interest in Cuju, strange flowers, and strange stones.Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. Zhao Ji's friends are mostly people who like sensuality, such as Wang Shen (married to Song Shenzong's sister, Princess Bao'an), who is Zhao Ji's guest of honor.Wang Shen once obtained half of the famous painting "Hockflower Picture", and the whereabouts of the other half is unknown. He sometimes mentioned this in front of Zhao Ji, saying that he would regret for life if he could not find the other half of "Hockflower Picture".After Zhao Ji heard this, he immediately sent people to search around, and the hard work paid off, and he finally found the other half of "Hockflower Picture".Zhao Ji first sent someone to ask Wang Shen for the half of "Hockflower Picture". Wang Shen thought that Zhao Ji, who loves calligraphy and painting, wanted to collect this painting, so he reluctantly gave it away.As a result, Zhao Ji mounted the two halves of the painting into a complete painting, and then gave it to Wang Shen again, which gave Wang Shen a big surprise.This shows that the relationship between the two is extraordinary.

Another time, Zhao Ji and Wang Shen went out to play together. Zhao Ji suddenly wanted to comb his hair, but found that he had forgotten to bring a grate (sound bi, the same must), so he borrowed it from Wang Shen.Wang Shen took out his own grate, and Zhao Ji saw that Wang Shen's grate was exquisitely made, and he couldn't put it down, and even praised the novelty and cuteness of the grate.Wang Shen immediately said: "I made two pairs of grates, and one has not been used. I will send someone to send it to you later." That night, Wang Shen sent Gao Qiu, a small official in the mansion, to deliver the grate to Zhao Ji.When Gao Qiu arrived at Zhao Ji's residence, Zhao Ji was playing cuju with a group of people, and Gao Qiu was watching and waiting.Gao Qiu played cuju on the street in his early years and was an expert. When he saw Zhao Ji kicking well, he applauded loudly, which attracted Zhao Ji's attention, and he called Gao Qiu to kick together.Gao Qiu saw that the opportunity was not to be missed, and he tried his best on the stage, which greatly admired Zhao Ji.After playing the ball, Zhao Ji sent someone to tell Wang Shen that he should leave the grate with the little official who delivered the grate.From then on, Gao Qiu was favored by Zhao Ji.Later, when some servants complained that Gao Qiu was favored because of his ability to play cuju, Zhao Ji said, "Do you have feet like him?"

It was precisely because of Zhao Ji's promiscuous affairs that Prime Minister Zhang Dun warned the Queen Mother, saying that Zhao Ji was "frivolous by nature and cannot rule the world".If Zhao Ji was just a prince, it would be fine if he spent his life drinking and doing mischief, but he was more or less a talented person, and he could be said to be a celebrity.But such a person became the emperor by chance.There is an old saying in China: "Men are afraid of entering the wrong profession, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man." It doesn't matter if Zhao Ji made a mistake, the people of Song Dynasty will suffer.

After Song Huizong ascended the throne, he had no interest in government affairs at all, and only wanted to indulge in personal enjoyment.University scholar Cai You (the son of Cai Jing) took the opportunity to encourage Song Huizong to say: "The so-called master should take the whole world as his home, enjoy peace and enjoyment, how many years can he work in vain?" .He built palaces and gardens without hesitation in consuming the world's resources.In order to decorate the garden named "Gen Yue", he ordered the collection of strange flowers and stones from all over the world.For this reason, a manufacturing bureau was specially set up in Suzhou and Hangzhou, headed by the eunuch Tong Guan, who gathered thousands of craftsmen from the southeast region to produce various luxury goods for the emperor.

The Suzhou-Hangzhou Yingfeng Bureau was also set up, under the management of Suzhou-Hangzhou businessman Zhu Xi, responsible for searching for exotic flowers and stones among the people in the south of the Yangtze River.All the stones and trees in the common people's homes that can be enjoyed are all taken by name.When moving, the houses were demolished and the walls were removed without any hesitation.The personnel in Yingfeng Juzhong often took the opportunity to extort money, and many people went bankrupt and their families were ruined.The Bureau of Yingfeng transported all kinds of exotic flowers and stones to Tokyo by boats, and there was a continuous flow of them. Every ten boats formed a gang, called "Flower and Stone Gang".Even the boatmen were bullying, and the residents on both sides of the canal were greatly harassed.Once, when a four-foot-high Taihu stone was transported by boat, thousands of people were forced to pull the boats along the way. When the bridge was too low, or the water gate of the city wall was too small, Zhu Xi ordered the bridge to be demolished.Some flower stones were too large to be transported by the river, so Zhu Li ordered them to be transported by the sea. The waves on the sea were high and the wind was strong, and incidents of ship capsizing and death often occurred.Such a waste of time and money, and so on.Because of the great power of the Yingfeng Bureau, people all over the world at that time called the Yingfeng Bureau a small court in the southeast, and they all hated Zhu Yu and others.

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty respected Taoism and built a large number of palaces and temples. He claimed to be the leader of Taoism, the emperor of Taoism, and often asked Taoist priests to tell fortunes.His zodiac sign is a dog, so he ordered to ban the slaughter of dogs in Bianjing, which became a strange talk at that time. Song Huizong got married at the age of seventeen, and his first wife was the daughter of Wang Zao, the governor of Dezhou. After he ascended the throne, Wang was named queen.Queen Wang is mediocre in appearance, frugal in nature, not good at dressing up, let alone please Song Huizong, so she is the queen of the palace in name, but she is not favored in fact.At this time, Emperor Huizong of Song favored concubines Zheng and Wang.The second daughter was originally the escort (the name of the internal servant) in the Empress Dowager's palace. They were both beautiful and good at speech.When Song Huizong was a vassal king, whenever he went to the Cide Palace to pay his respects, the Queen Mother always ordered Zheng and Wang's two daughters to accompany her.The two daughters were cautious and flattering, and they were favored by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty. After a long time, the Queen Mother became aware of it.Song Huizong was very happy that he got his wish.The Zheng family is not only outstanding in appearance, but also can help Huizong deal with the memorials. According to historical records, the Zheng family "since entering the palace, he is good at reading books, can control the chapters, and the emperor loves his talent".Therefore, Song Huizong preferred the Zheng family, and wrote love poems and songs to the Zheng family many times.These lyrics and music were later spread out and spread widely.After the death of Empress Wang, Song Huizong canonized Zheng as empress.

Huizong of Song Dynasty was fond of women, and there were many concubines in the harem. At that time, apart from the two daughters of Zheng and Wang, concubines Liu Gui, Concubine Qiao, Concubine Wei, etc. were also loved by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty because of their beauty. .Among them, Concubine Liu Gui has a lot of love affairs.She came from a humble background, and because of her outstanding appearance, she was favored immediately after entering the palace. She was promoted from a talented person to a noble concubine by seven ranks, which can be said to have reached the sky in one step.However, the good times didn't last long, and Concubine Liu Guifei died of illness shortly after she got the title of concubine.She once planted several plantains in the garden, which she liked very much.One day, Concubine Liu Gui suddenly stroked the plantains and said sadly: "When these plantains grow up, I'm afraid I won't be able to see them anymore." The servants at the side felt ominous when they heard the words, so they told Song Huizong, Song Huizong Didn't take it seriously.Unexpectedly, two days later, Concubine Liu Gui was seriously ill and was bedridden. When Song Huizong went to visit after hearing the news, Concubine Liu Gui had already let go.Song Huizong was so sad that he specially added the four-character posthumous title "Ming Da Yi Wen" to Concubine Liu Gui, compiled her life story into poems and prose, and ordered the Yuefu to compose and sing to express his grief.

Seeing that Song Huizong was often sad because he missed Concubine Liu Gui, the servant Yang Jian boasted that another woman, the Liu family, was as beautiful as Wang Zhaojun back then.Song Huizong was very curious and immediately called him into the palace.Liu's family background is humble, she is the daughter of a restaurant, but she is beautiful and attractive.When Song Huizong saw it, he immediately doted on him and completely forgot the pain of losing his concubine.Mrs. Liu is not only good at flattering, but also very good at adorning. In today's terms, it is quite fashionable.Mrs. Liu designs clothes by herself, and each piece of clothes is novel and unique, which makes her dress up extraordinarily outstanding.Not only Song Huizong liked it, but even women inside and outside the capital followed suit.Lin Lingsu, a Taoist favored by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, saw that Liu was so favored, so he flattered her, calling Liu "Jiuhua Yuzhen Concubine An", and enshrined her portrait on the left of Emperor Shenxiao.

Although the harem was full of beauties, after a long time, Song Huizong felt that the harem was full of artificiality and felt boring, so he wanted to seek excitement outside the palace.At that time, there was a famous prostitute in the capital, Li Shishi, who was the most beautiful in Bianjing. Li Shishi was originally the daughter of a dyer's family in Bianjing City. Her mother died young, and her father cooked milk and replaced her milk to raise her.It is said that she had never cried until she was three years old. According to the custom at that time, her father sent her name to the Buddhist temple, and when the old monk of the Buddhist temple touched the top of her head, she suddenly burst into tears. Roof tiles.The old monk clasped together and praised: "This little girl is really a Buddhist disciple!" At that time, most people called Buddhist disciples "Shi", and the name "Shi Shi" came from this.When Li Shishi was four years old, her father was imprisoned for a crime and died of illness in prison. She had no one to rely on, so she had to enter the Li family who was a prostitute.After growing up, she became a well-known prostitute in the capital because of her beauty and art.And he is famous for his generosity, and has the titles of "parachutist" and "red makeup Jibu".People from all over the world, from imperial court officials, princes and grandsons, down to literati and scholars, and the generation of three mountains and five mountains, all take it as an honor to go to his gate.

After Song Huizong heard of Li Shishi's name, he admired him very much.After Zhenghe, Song Huizong often took a small sedan chair, led several attendants, left the palace in micro-clothes, and stayed overnight at Li Shishi's house.In order to make it easier to have fun, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty set up a travel bureau to be responsible for the emperor's travel matters.What is especially incredible is that the officials of the Xingxing Bureau were also responsible for helping Song Huizong lie: if Song Huizong could not go to court that day because of lewdness, he would say that Song Huizong had a stall (a feast in the palace); Said to have a lesion (infection). It is not a glorious thing for the emperor to not hesitate to visit brothels and brothels, so Song Huizong was always cautious for fear of being discovered by others.But the emperor's affair with Li Shishi spread quickly, but no one dared to ask.Song Huizong thought that he kept it secret, so he went out for private meetings more frequently.Only Cao Fu, the official secretary of the province, really couldn't see it, so he stepped forward and advised Song Huizong to cherish the dragon body so as not to make people laugh.Song Huizong was furious after seeing it, but he was too embarrassed to deal with Cao Fu himself, so he ordered Wang Fu (sound fu, Tongfu) and others to deal with the matter.Wang Fu was a confidant of Song Huizong, and he personally led Song Huizong to Li Shishi's house. He naturally understood Song Huizong's meaning and denounced Cao Fu for leaving the court. Song Huizong only cared about traveling and having fun, and the power of the court completely fell into the hands of Cai Jing and other powerful officials.These people took the opportunity to make a lot of money, frantically searched for the people's fat and people's anointing, and thus became extremely rich.After Cai Jing became prime minister, he embezzled and accepted bribes, and occupied countless lands, houses, and money.There are many concubines and concubines in his family, and there are many servants. Even the kitchen has a dedicated maid who is in charge of chopping onions. One can imagine the degree of extravagance.Cai Jing's sons, Cai You, Cai Wei, and Cai Sui, were all officials to bachelors.When Cai Jing celebrates his birthday, the governments all over the country must present birthday gifts, and they are all precious things. People at that time called it "Birthday Outline".There is a story in the novel "Outsmarting the Birthday Outline", which refers to the birthday gifts given to Cai Jing by officials from all over the country.The great eunuch Tong Guan held the military power of the Song Dynasty and was side by side with Cai Jing. It is said that gold, silver and jewels in his home were piled up like a mountain, and "the private collection was more than the treasury."Another great eunuch, Yang Jian, forced the people to rent land and plant abandoned dikes and weirs. The rent was fixed for places where barren mountains receded from beaches and lakes and rivers were silted up. More than 100,000 more than in previous years.After the death of Yang Jian in the third year of Xuanhe (1121), the eunuch Li Yan presided over the matter of Kuo Gongtian.Li Yan's methods were even more vicious. When he saw the fertile land among the people, he sent someone to the yamen to deliver a paper, saying that it was wasteland, and the fertile land would be under his control. Although the landlord had a land deed, he had no way to complain.He even included all the land in Lushan County (now Henan) as public land, and those who did not declare it would be severely tortured and thousands of people died.Ruzhou was also set up to send tribute items to the capital endlessly, just like Zhu Yu in the south, so that the farmers had no time to cultivate, and all cattle were requisitioned to deliver tribute items. Endure, hang himself to death.Others, such as Zhu Xi and Liang Shicheng, all accumulated a lot of wealth by means of searching, accepting bribes, and selling officials.People all over the world hated these people, and called Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Zhu Mian, Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng, and Li Yan the "Six Thieves". Under the tyrannical rule of Song Huizong and Cai Jing, the Northern Song Dynasty entered the darkest period.As the Song court aggressively "enclosed public land", local tyrants stepped up their acquisition of land, and more and more farmers went bankrupt. Coupled with successive years of floods, droughts and locust disasters, agriculture declined rapidly, presenting a scene of depression.The south was originally a wealthy area, but because of Hua Shigang's harassment, the people couldn't live normally, and even daily food and clothing became a problem.Under such circumstances, the uprisings of Song Jiang and Fang La broke out in the north and south respectively. There are no accurate historical records about the Song Jiang Uprising.Probably before the first year of Xuanhe (1119), thirty-six heroes including Song Jiang recruited rebels and staged an uprising. The scope of their activities was in today's Hebei and Shandong areas.According to Lang Ying's "Seven Revised Class Drafts": These thirty-six people are: Song Jiang, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, Shi Jin, Chai Jin, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi, Liu Tang , Zhang Qing, Yan Qing, Sun Li, Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, Hu Yanchuo, Li Jun, Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Li Kui, Lei Heng, Dai Zong, Suo Chao, Yang Zhi, Yang Xiong, Dong Ping, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Zhu Dian, Mu Heng, Shi Xiu, Xu Ning, Li Ying, Hua Monk, Wu Song. Although the peasant uprising army led by Song Jiang was small in number, wherever they went, they attacked the powerful landlords, and the Song army was powerless to resist.According to legend, the peasant uprising army once stationed troops in Liangshanbo (between Yanggu, Liangshan, and Yuncheng in Shandong Province), which was the prototype of Zhongliangshanbo later.At the beginning of the third year of Xuanhe (1121), Hou Meng, the magistrate of Haozhou, wrote a letter to Song Huizong, thinking that Song Jiang could run so rampant in the world, but the officers and soldiers could do nothing. Their talents must be superior, so it is better to recruit them.Song Huizong thought it made sense, so he appointed Hou Mengzhi Dongping Mansion (now Dongping, Shandong) to be responsible for recruiting and surrendering the Songjiang uprising army.But Hou Meng died of a sudden illness before he could take up his post.However, Song Jiang's peasant uprising army had already moved southward, fighting between the Huanghuai River and the Huaihe River.In February of the third year of Xuanhe (1121), the rebel army arrived in Haizhou (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu) by boat.Zhang Shuye, the governor of Haizhou, sent thousands of officers and soldiers to ambush in the suburbs of Haizhou in advance, and then sent cavalry to challenge the sea to lure the rebels to abandon their ships and land.After the rebel army landed, they were immediately surrounded by ambushes.Zhang Shuye sent troops to burn the ships of the rebel army, and the rebel army's retreat was cut off and they suffered heavy losses.In desperation, Song Jiang led some of his subordinates to surrender to Zhang Shuye. It is said that after Song Jiang's defeat, he was sent by the Song court to conquer another peasant uprising army, Fang La's team.Regarding this matter, there are clear records in "Continued Zizhi Tongjian Changbian", "Tongjian Changbian Chronicle", "Three Dynasties Beimenghui Compilation" and "Emperor Song and Ten Dynasties Outline".However, in 1939, the "Epitaph of Zhe Gong (Ke Cun), the Second General of Hedong, the Former Martial Arts Doctor of the Song Dynasty" was unearthed, which is called the "Epitaph of Zhe Ke Cun" in the historian circles. The epitaph records that Song Jiang did not go to conquer Fang La Zhe Kecun only caught Song Jiang after Fang La's uprising failed.The same historical materials, which is true and which is false, has been debated endlessly by the historians.In any case, the legendary deeds of the uprising by Song Jiang and his partners were narrated and enriched by people at that time and later generations.Shi Naian, a native of the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, compiled a book based on these stories. Since then, the stories of the 108 generals in Liangshanpo have been passed down to this day, and they are very popular. In the autumn of the second year of Xuanhe (1120), a large-scale peasant uprising led by Fang La broke out in Qingxi County (now Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province) in Muzhou in the south. Fang La, also known as Fang Shisan, was born in Qingxi, Muzhou (now Chun'an, Zhejiang).There is Bangyuan Cave in Qingxi, which is a valley with a radius of several tens of miles. It is rich in products, such as paint and wood such as mulberry and fir. Fang La's family is in Bangyuan.After Zhu Xi set up the Yingfeng Bureau in Suzhou and Hangzhou, in the name of enshrining Huashigang, he extorted violently and extorted money.Bangyuandong, like other areas in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces, has been greatly harassed.Fang La's family had a lacquer garden, and was repeatedly blackmailed by the officials of the Feng Bureau. Fang La couldn't bear it, so he used various secret religious activities including Manichaeism (later Mingjiao and Bailianjiao) in the name of opposing Zhu Yuhua Shigang. , organized the masses, intending to launch an uprising, and won the support of the majority of farmers. At this moment, Fang Youchang in Bangyuan discovered Fang La's activities and sent someone to report to the government.When Fang La heard the news, he immediately took decisive measures to kill more than 40 members of Fang Youchang's family. On October 9, the second year of Xuanhe (1120), he called his confidants in his lacquer garden for an emergency mobilization to denounce the crimes of the Song court. , Calling on everyone to raise the pole and revolt, immediately received a warm response from the local people.Fang La's self-named "Shenggong" and his reign name Yongle, established a division of generals into six classes, with red scarves and other colored headscarves as symbols.The peasant army split up and attacked, and all regions responded one after another. The uprising team quickly grew from more than a thousand people to nearly ten thousand people, and captured Qingxi County. Waiting for the county, and divided the troops into two groups to attack Hangzhou.At the end of December of the same year, Fang La's younger sister, Fang Baihua, rushed to Jinmen in a bloody battle, broke through Hangzhou, and caused a major earthquake in the southeast. At this time, Southeast states and counties responded one after another, and the uprising team grew to nearly one million people.Fang La began to plan a long-term strategy, intending to plan the river and defend it, gradually making progress, and overthrowing the Song Dynasty within ten years. Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was terrified when he saw the huge momentum of Fangla's uprising army. He ordered the eunuch Zhi Tongguan, a member of the Privy Council, to be the envoy of Xuanfu in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huainan and other roads, and led an army of 150,000 to suppress it.Before leaving, Song Huizong granted Tong Guan the privilege of dealing with emergencies in the name of the emperor. After Tong Guan arrived in Suzhou, he saw that Huashigang was troubled by Huashigang in the southeast. All industries were withered and people complained. Everyone said that Huashigang directly caused the Fangla uprising.Tong Guan believes that if the Huashigang is not stopped, it will be difficult to put down the Fangla uprising.In the first month of the third year of Xuanhe (1121), Tong Guan ordered Dong Yun, his staff member, to write an imperial edict in the name of Song Huizong, announcing that he would stop going to Suzhou and Hangzhou Yingfeng Bureau, Zaozao Bureau and Huashi Gang.Song Huizong was very unhappy when he heard about it, but there was nothing he could do about it, and he was forced to dismiss Zhu Yu, his father, his son and their relatives from their positions. During the confrontation between Tong Guan and Fang La, the official army preemptively occupied important military towns along the Yangtze River such as Jiangning (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) and Zhenjiang (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) to prevent the rebels from occupying the natural danger of the Yangtze River.However, after Fang La occupied Hangzhou, he did not listen to the advice of Tai student General Lu, and first marched into Jiangning to seize the natural danger of the Yangtze River and prevent the army from crossing the river. Instead, he turned the main force of the rebel army to the south and attacked Wu (now Jinhua, Zhejiang), Qu ( present-day Zhejiang) states.In addition, a part of the rebel army was sent, divided into east and west, and went north to stop the official army. Among them, under the leadership of Fang Qifo, the uprising army going north on the Liuwan East Road attacked Xiuzhou (now Jiaxing, Zhejiang). The army was defeated and forced to retreat in the direction of Hangzhou.The official army immediately gave chase, and on the way to Hangzhou, the rebel army was chased by the official army. The two sides clashed for six days and six nights. The fighting was very tragic, and the rebel army suffered heavy losses.At the end of February in the third year of Xuanhe (1121), Hangzhou was occupied by the government army. Another rebel army going northward on the west road was led by the Eight Great Kings, marched from Shezhou to Jiangning, and once conquered Ningguo (now Jiangxi) and Jingde (now Anhui), but was immediately besieged by a large number of officers and troops, and finally Failure, not only gave up Ningguo and Jingde, but also Shezhou was captured by the government army.So far, the northward march of the Fangla uprising army has completely failed. When the east-west Fangla uprising army in the north suffered serious setbacks, the main force of the uprising army in the south achieved many victories, successively captured Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang) and its affiliated Kaihua, Jiangshan, and Changshan (now Zhejiang) And other counties, Quzhou (now Zhejiang), Chuzhou (now Lishui, Zhejiang) and most of the rural towns they belong to have reached hundreds of miles in Rao (now Boyang, Jiangxi) and Xin (now Shangrao, Jiangxi).However, due to the defeat of the two uprising armies going north, they lost the power to prevent the officers and soldiers from going south, and the fall of Hangzhou lost the barrier to prevent the officers and soldiers from going south. In March of the third year of Xuanhe (1121), the Song court sent Liu Guangshi, Zhang Sizheng, Yao Pingzhong and other troops to the south to suppress the uprising army.In April, within half a month, the government army not only captured Wuzhou and Quzhou one after another, but also severely damaged the main force of the rebel army, leaving them in a very passive situation.On April 19th, when food and ammunition were exhausted, the rebel army had to abandon Qingxi County and retreat to the Bangyuandong mountain area.The officers and soldiers were divided into west and east routes to chase and gather together. On April 24, the officers and soldiers of the two routes met and launched an attack on the rebel army at the same time.More than 200,000 rebels fought fiercely with the government army for three days under the situation of being attacked from the front and rear. Except for some of them who broke out, most of the rest died heroically.Fang La, Eight Great Kings and other rebel leaders were captured by Han Shizhong, who was still a small military academy at that time. According to historical records, after Fangla's uprising, women were plundered wantonly.After his defeat, the plundered women escaped from his lair, Bangyuan Cave. Most of them were naked, and those who hanged themselves in the forest due to humiliation were more than a hundred miles away from each other. After Fang La was captured, he was first sent to Hangzhou and then to Kaifeng, where he was killed on August 24 of the same year.After the failure of the main force of Fangla's uprising army, the rest moved to the east of Zhejiang, joined with other uprising armies active in eastern Zhejiang at that time, continued to fight for half a year, and was finally suppressed by the Song court. After the Fangla Uprising was suppressed, Song Huizong believed that the world was peaceful and he could continue to enjoy himself freely.However, Wang Fu took the opportunity to slander Huizong, saying that the Fang La uprising was caused by the Tea and Salt Law, and that Tong Guan should not blame the bureau.Song Huizong was instigated by Wang Fu, and issued an edict to restore the Yingfeng Bureau, and ordered Wang Fu and eunuch Liang Shicheng to take charge of its affairs.After the Yingfeng Bureau was restored, Zhu Yu and his son were reused again. They extorted more rampantly, and the people in the southeast suffered again.Even Tong Guan couldn't see it, he shook his head and sighed, "The people in the southeast haven't settled their food pots yet, why are they going to engage in Hua Shi Gang again?!" Just when the court of the Northern Song Dynasty was in turmoil, the situation in the north was changing rapidly, and the Jurchen tribe, who had been oppressed by the Liao Kingdom for a long time, became stronger and stronger.The most ironic thing is that Jurchen, the enemy who directly led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, entered the field of vision of the Song court as an ally at the beginning.
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