Chapter 48 1. China after Yashan

In 1279 A.D., Zhang Hongfan, the general of the Yuan Dynasty, and the last remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty fought a famous battle in Yashan, south of Xinhui, Jiangmen, Guangdong today. This battle ended in the disastrous defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty.Lu Xiufu, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, was unwilling to be humiliated, and resolutely committed suicide by holding the young emperor Zhao Touhai.After hearing the news of her son's death, Empress Dowager Yang cried bitterly: "The one who has endured my death for thousands of miles to get here is just a piece of flesh of the Zhao family. There is no hope now!" She also threw herself into the sea and died.There were more than 100,000 loyal ministers and righteous men in the Southern Song Dynasty who crossed the sea to die for their country.Zhang Shijie, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty who desperately escaped from the encirclement, drowned in a sudden hurricane.The Great Song Empire, known for its gentleness and civil governance, has now perished.

Wen Tianxiang, one of the three heroes of the dead Song Dynasty, was captured before. He watched this tragic battle in the enemy's camp painfully and helplessly. He wrote in his poem: "...a thousand ships go down to the sky In ancient times, there were no wars, no hedgehogs fighting with each other. Rangers came and went day after day, and they became snipe and clam after a stalemate. The southerners want to help Kunlun, and the northerners want the Yellow River. Swallow. Once the sky is dark, the wind and rain are evil, the gunfire, thunder, and arrows fall. Who is female and who is male, and the corpses are floating in blood and the water is muddy. Yesterday, the south ship was full of cliffs and seas. Today, only the north ship is there. Last night, the drums on both sides blew, and today The sound of boats snoring. The northern soldiers go home for eight thousand miles, and everyone enjoys the wine. Only the lonely officials are crying, and they dare not cry to others. The six dragons do not know where they are, and the vast sea is separated by smoke. I want to Who is the golden horizontal belt for beheading a courtier with a sword!"

When Zhang Hongfan was full of pride, he made a record of his merits in Yashan, and the article said, "Zhang Hongfan, the great general of the town, destroyed the Song Dynasty here."A few years later, a great Confucian Mr. Chen Baisha came to visit Yashan. Seeing this inscription, he said with a smile: "These words can't describe his merits and virtues, and I will add another word to him!" Changed the word "Song" into "Song Zhenguo General Zhang Hongfan destroyed Song here".This is not a very wronged Zhang Hongfan, he was originally a Han Chinese, and it is said that Zhang Shijie and Zhang Shijie are still distant brothers.However, this is just the game text of later generations, and it has not changed in history itself.

So many centuries have passed, although even the stones on which the inscriptions were written could not withstand the wind and rain of the years and were destroyed in that vigorous era, this tragic history has not been forgotten.When I was studying, the old gentlemen still used this allusion as an example when they talked about what is called "the writing has right and wrong, and the writing has reputation and loyalty". However, the loyalty is endless, and the history is boundless. Although the Song Dynasty perished, the seeds of revenge were spread everywhere. It is said that during the fierce battle that day, the warships under General Zhang Shijie were burned or sunk one after another. The soldiers fell into the sea, most of them drowned, and only a few escaped.One of them, Chen, a young soldier from Weiyang, swam ashore with a few companions by luck.When Zhang Hongfan was carving stones, Wen Tianxiang was writing an epic, Empress Yang was weeping across the sea, and Zhang Shijie was sighing in the vast sea, these hungry fighters were facing more realistic problems. They were looking for the dead on the beach. The dry rations and the horse meat that died in battle were eaten with a broken pot and a few stones.In the middle of the night, Chen, who was exhausted after the fierce battle, was woken up with a stick and dragged to a boat in a daze.When he woke up, the first thing he saw was his old boss in the Song Army.

This not-so-brave officer surrendered in battle, and now follows the Yuan army nonchalantly.The military officer of the Yuan Army originally had an order to throw all the captured prisoners into the sea, but this kind officer took Chen in violation of the regulations, hid him under the deck of the ship, stuffed him with some dry food, and sneaked in from time to time. Give him a few drops of water to drink from the crack in the deck.However, on a small battleship, it is difficult to keep such a secret, and it will be discovered by others soon.At this moment, a hurricane that affected history suddenly hit.

The hurricane destroyed General Zhang Shijie's breakout fleet and buried the last remaining hope of the Southern Song Dynasty in the waves of the South China Sea.However, the same hurricane saved another person and affected another dynasty—traditional history paid too much attention to the tragic hero Zhang Shijie, but ignored this seemingly inconspicuous little man.In this hurricane, a tragedy and a comedy were staged at the same time.At this moment, the butterfly's wings are flapping slightly, and the turbulence caused will disturb the process of history. This hurricane was quite violent. According to history books, "the hurricane blows the boat, circling like a wheel, and cannot enter for a long time." Many ships capsized in this hurricane, and Zhang Shijie's ship in the same sea area was not spared.Chen's boat was also bumping in the wind and waves, and everyone on board was panicked.The officer who took him in knew that he was capable of witchcraft, so he suggested to the leader of the Yuan army who commanded the warship that it is better to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and let this guy try a ritual, maybe it will be useful.So Chen made a big deal out of it, "knocking his teeth up to the sky, as if referring to ghosts and gods", and performed a ritual, and by coincidence, the storm subsided immediately.The leader of the Yuan army was very happy, and never mentioned the matter of throwing him into the sea again.

When the fleet returned to Tongzhou, Chen said goodbye and landed, and went back to Weiyang's hometown.Because he was afraid of being arrested and served as a soldier, he hid in Jinli Town, Xuyi, married a wife and had children, and made a living by practicing witchcraft, watching Feng Shui, and reciting the horoscope of Nian Geng. He lived until the middle of the fourteenth century and died at the age of ninety-nine.He has no son, but only two daughters in his life. The eldest daughter married to Ji's family, and the youngest daughter married to Wusi, the son of his neighbor Zhu Chuyi, adding a lot of grandchildren to him.

More than half a century has passed, and when Xiao Chen also became Lao Chen, he would often sit solemnly in the sunset of another empire, fondle his grandchildren, and tell the children about the tragic and yet tragic scene. The hopeless decisive battle, telling the stories of those loyal warriors who sacrificed their lives for righteousness, weeping all the time while talking.In the shadow of the setting sun, he used stories to stretch the back of the passing dynasty very, very long.It is these stories that established the original heroic image in the heart of the little grandson Zhu Chongba.Several years later, Zhu Chongba asked his subordinates to organize these stories in his memory into words, turning these oral histories into extremely precious historical documents, allowing us to travel through history to reminisce about the past centuries.

Song Lian, a great writer in the early Ming Dynasty, wrote a sycophantic article praising this old soldier who did not even leave his name: "It is difficult for Chen Lian to understand the behavior of a gentleman, but it is even more difficult to understand the gods." .In times of crisis and crisis, gods pretend to sleep in their dreams, and use them to lift a boat. If they are not sincerely connected to the sky, how can the blessings of gods and men come to this. If we push this, the accumulated virtues are profound and must be credible. The holy lady of Yiqing Zhong, who gave birth to the emperor, has given birth to the foundation of boundless years, and it will be prosperous!"

However, there were so many old survivors like this at that time!This confirms a law in statistics: even if it is a small probability event, as long as there are enough samples in the experiment, it will inevitably happen.From this we can infer that behind the heroes, millions of people are being buried under the dust of history.