Chapter 73 Yongyule·"Jingkou Beigu Pavilion Nostalgia"/Xin Qiji

After 20 years of idleness, the 64-year-old Xin Qiji was conscripted out of the mountains and entrusted with important tasks because Han Tuozhou, who advocated the Northern Expedition, came to power. Han Tuozhou is a character who has been misunderstood for thousands of years as a hero.After he came to power, he rehabilitated Yue Fei, recovered Yue Fei's official position, and was named king of Hubei.He also cut off the prince of Qin Hui and changed his posthumous title to "Miao Chou".He employed officials in the main battle, actively marched into the Northern Expedition, and achieved great victories.However, due to insufficient military preparations, the sabotage of the peacemakers in the imperial court and the internal traitors in the army ruined the great situation of the Northern Expedition.Just when Han Tuozhou was about to make another Northern Expedition, Empress Yang, a capitulator, and the treacherous minister Shi Miyuan sent assassins to kill Han Tuozhou on his way to court.

The Jin people have been asking the Southern Song Dynasty to hand over Han Tuozhou's head.After Han Tuozhou was killed, Shi Miyuan and others followed suit.At that time, Tai students wrote a poem sarcastically saying: "Since ancient times, He Rong has great power, but I have never heard that the head of the letter can be safe. The soul is empty, and the grandfather's hatred and hatred share the sky. Chao Cuo has been punished for rebellion. The temple claims to be a perfect strategy, but it is afraid that defending the frontier is not inevitable." Yuan people compiled "Song History" and included Han Tuozhou in "The Biography of Treacherous Officials", which is the same as Qin Hui, which can be described as a strange injustice through the ages.It's a pity that later generations didn't notice it, and even today, some people still follow the old saying and turn the truth upside down, thinking that Han Tuozhou's Northern Expedition was to improve his own prestige and status.

Among the main characters Han Tuozhou used in the battle was Xin Qiji.It is a pity that Xin Qiji was already sixty-four years old at this time.When he first heard the news that Han Tuozhou was preparing for the Northern Expedition, Xin Qiji was very excited.He wrote in "Six States Getou": "Don't you see, Han Xianzi, Jin General, Zhao Gucun. Thousands of years of loyalty and dedication, two determined strategies, Ji Yuanxun. Sun Youzi, Fang talked and laughed, and made the whole world." Comparing it to Han Jue (Han Xianzi), the famous official of Zhao State in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Han Qi (Han Qi's posthumous title "Zhongxian"), the fifth ancestor of Han Tuozhou and the famous official of the Northern Song Dynasty, the evaluation is very high.

In the specific measures of the Northern Expedition, Xin Qiji and Han Tuozhou had some differences.Xin Qiji believed that the Northern Expedition was not a trivial matter, and that preparations for war should be done seriously, and even decades of anti-Japanese war preparations should be made.However, Han Yuzhou hoped for a quick battle, and rushed to the battle without sufficient preparation, which was also one of the important reasons for the failure of the Northern Expedition. In the third year of Song Ningzong Jiatai (1203), Han Yuzhou appointed Xin Qiji as the prefect of Shaoxing and the pacifier of eastern Zhejiang. However, because of differences in combat strategies, Xin Qiji was transferred from the front line and went to Zhenjiang to recruit troops.Soon, Xin Qiji went back to Piaoquan.

After the failure of the first Northern Expedition, Han Tuozhou prepared for the second Northern Expedition, and once again appointed Xin Qiji as the privy capital to undertake the decree, asking him to immediately take up his post in Lin'an.This year was the third year of Song Ningzong Kaixi (1207). Xin Qiji was already sixty-eight years old, and he was seriously ill. He died of illness before he took up his post. It is against this historical background that this poem was written.It was made in the first year of Kaixi (1205), when Xin Qiji was transferred to Zhenjiang and ascended the Beigu Pavilion in Jingkou.Only by understanding this period of history can we better understand the content of this poem and the thoughts it wants to express.

The last film is Denglin Nostalgia. Jingkou is now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan once ruled this place and called it "Jingdu". After moving to Jianye, it was changed to "Jingkou".When poets boarded the Beigu Pavilion on Beigu Mountain in the north of Jingkou City, the first thing they missed was of course Sun Quan.Xin Qiji admired Sun Quan very much.He wrote in another poem "Nanxiangzi" that Deng Beiguting also cherished: In Xin Qiji's eyes, Sun Quan is a hero who "sit down the south of the Yangtze River and continue to fight", who dares to contend with Cao Cao in the north and Liu Bei in Western Shu. "Heroes can't find Sun Zhongmou's place" is a feeling.Although looking forward to the Northern Expedition, Xin Qiji was not optimistic about the future of the Northern Expedition due to insufficient preparation and lack of real talents, so he sighed.The following "Dancing Pavilion and singing stage, the wind and rain are always blown away" is a speech by Shengfa.The romantic figures in Zhenjiang and even the entire Jiangnan have become history with the passage of time.

The second historical figure to be mentioned next is the "slave".Ji Nu is the nickname of Liu Yu, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a Cao Group was born, which destroyed the Han and established the Wei Dynasty; the Wei Dynasty gave birth to a Sima Group, which destroyed Wei and established the Jin Dynasty; Unexpectedly, "Chu" will be established instead of Jin.In fact, at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Xuan had already usurped the Jin Dynasty and established Chu.However, at this time, a reckless Liu Yu appeared.He defeated Huan Xuan and restored Emperor Jin'an to the throne.He led his troops north again, destroyed Nanyan and Houqin, and once recovered Chang'an, Luoyang, and the three states of Qing, Yan, and Si in the north.In the end, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was destroyed, he proclaimed himself emperor, and established the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.Liu Yu once lived in Zhenjiang, so it is said here that "the grass and trees in the setting sun, the ordinary alleys, and the humane slaves once lived." The three sentences "thinking about the past" are the imaginary appearance of Liu Yu when he led his troops to the Northern Expedition.

After the film was released, it was a wake-up call to Han Yuzhou with the lessons of history.Wars are to be fought, but they cannot be fought in this way.Xin Qiji pointed out in "Discussion and Training of Militia Shouhuai Shu": "If things are not planned in advance, they cannot be sudden, and soldiers cannot win without planning." There are such lessons in history. "Yuanjia Caocao" refers to the fact that during the Yuanjia period of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, without adequate preparation, he listened to the big words of some "white-faced scholars" and wanted to establish Weiqing in the Western Han Dynasty. The great achievement of returning to the mountains, he hurriedly went to war against the Northern Wei Dynasty, but he was completely defeated, and was chased by the Northern Wei army to the riverside. "Huanghuang Bei Gu" refers to looking back anxiously at the pursuers while running away.It is generally considered to be an allusion to the failure of Zhang Jun's Northern Expedition in the first year of Song Xiaozong's Longxing (1163), which is the well-known "defeat of Fuli" in history.

"In the forty-three years, I still remember the beacon fire on Yangzhou Road." It has been 43 years since Xin Qiji returned to the south in the 32nd year of Shaoxing (1162).However, I still clearly remember the Jin people's invasion of the south. "Buddha Beaver" is the nickname of Tuo Batao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty.He defeated the Northern Expeditionary Army of Emperor Wen of Song Dynasty and pursued it all the way to Guabu Mountain on the north bank of the Yangtze River (in the southeast of Liuhe County, Jiangsu Province today), and built a palace on the mountain, which was later called "Buddha Temple".Now it is the superficial singing and dancing, and people are welcoming the gods with flute and drums again, "a piece of gods and shrine drums", where there is still a little anti-golden scene.

The end of the word is very tragic.The author refers to himself as Lian Po, a famous general of Zhao State in the Warring States Period.In his later years, Lian Po was slandered and dismissed from office, and lived in Liang.Zhao Guo was defeated by Qin many times, Zhao Wang thought of using Lian Po, but felt that Lian Po was very old and didn't know how his health was, and whether he could lead troops to kill the enemy, so he sent an envoy to look first.Lian Po's enemy Guo Kai bribed the envoy to speak ill of Lian Po.Lian Po also wanted to contribute to the country, and knowing the purpose of the envoy's visit, he ate a bucket of rice and ten catties of meat at a meal.Then put on the armor and mount the horse, which means that you are in good health.But the envoy went back and said to Zhao Wang: "Although General Lian is old, he can still eat. He just sat with me for a while and went to shit three times." Therefore, Zhao Wang gave up the plan to use Lian Po.Xin Qiji used this to sigh, who will ask me if I am old and strong, and I can still fight for the country and kill the enemy?Although Xin Qiji has been employed, he has not been entrusted with important tasks, and his transfer to Zhenjiang has shown that he and Han Tuozhou have conflicts in specific combat strategies. He is very clear that he may not be able to get out of this Northern Expedition. What a great effort, and he also clearly foresees the prospect that this Northern Expedition may fail, so he has deep emotion.

This poem is desolate, tragic and deeply touching.Yang Shen's "Ci Pin" even said: "Xin Ci should take "Jingkou Beiguting Nostalgia·Yongyule" as the first." Later generations also have a very high evaluation of this work, although it does have what Yue Ke said. The problem of using too many allusions.