Chapter 33 second quarter

Song Jiang in history did set off a bloody storm in the rivers and lakes. Compared with the Fangla Uprising that rebelled at the same time, the Song Jiang Uprising was significantly smaller in scale, but its combat effectiveness was very strong. Initially, Song Jiang's team started in Hebei, and was called Hebei Opera Pirates by the imperial court. They were active in Jingdong East Road and other places, and attracted the attention of the high-level empire. So he issued an edict "the theft on Jingdong East Road, order the east and west roads to be supervised and arrested", but in the same month, he issued an edict "to appease Shandong to steal Songjiang".

Unlike Song Gongming in "Water Margin", Song Jiang, a Hebei opera thief, ignored the winks from the court and continued to fight in Shandong Qing (now Qingzhou, Shandong), Ji (now Juye, Shandong), and Pu (now Shandong Juancheng), Yun (now Dongping, Shandong) and other places swept Qi and Wei for a while, "there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and no one dares to resist." Liangshanshuibo, which was later said to be their base, they used to frequent during this period, but the time was not long. This rebel army was very mobile and did not have a fixed base.

The fighting power of Song Jiang's troops attracted the attention of the government. At that time, Hou Meng, the governor of Bozhou, wrote a letter to the court, saying that no one could resist Song Jiang's rampage in Heshuo Jingdong. For Song Jiang, recruiting should still be the main focus.Zhao Ji listened to Hou Meng's advice, and appointed Hou Meng as the governor of Dongping Mansion, responsible for recruiting Song Jiang. But Hou Meng died of illness before taking office, and the matter of recruiting Song Jiang was gone.The Songjiang Rebel Army continued to move southward and entered Jiangsu from Shandong. Except for Jiang Yuan, the prefect of Yizhou, who organized local officers and soldiers to block it, most of the other counties and counties were unprepared. The rebels were helpless.

In the third year of Xuanhe (AD 1121), Song Jiang's team rushed into Chu and Hai (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu) and other states in Jiangsu Province, and met his nemesis Zhang Shuye in Haizhou Song Jiang. Zhang Shuye, styled Ji Zhong, was born in a famous family. His grandfather was Zhang Qi, a famous minister in the Zhenzong era.Zhang Qi studied both civil and military affairs, and made outstanding contributions to the empire's resistance to the Liao Dynasty. Later, he worked in the positions of the top civil and military leaders of the empire (private envoy, Shangshu Zuopushe), and was named Xu Guogong.Zhang Qi made a lot of contributions, but later he liked to talk about ostentation and lived a luxurious life. Unfortunately, his grave was dug after his death.

The digging of the ancestral grave did not affect the Feng Shui of the Zhang family. Zhang Jizhong had little ambition and liked to read military books. He hoped to gain fame on the battlefield.He was not satisfied with being an idle official in Kaifeng with his shady post, so he voluntarily applied to join the army in the Northwest at the beginning of his official career, and joined the army as a recorder in Lanzhou (eighth-rank battalion-level cadre). In the northwest, he showed his military ability and built Xi'an Prefecture, which effectively prevented the Qiang people from invading. On the recommendation of my old boss in the Northwest, Jiang Zhiqi, who was a veteran of the Privy Council at the time, he was promoted again to the post of Tongshi Sheren, and then he was known to Ansujun, Shu, Hai, Taizhou and other places (the sixth-rank official rank).

In the middle period of Song Huizong's Grand View, Zhang Shuye had achieved the position of Kaifeng Shaoyin (the fourth-rank official rank), and he was a very promising middle-level cadre in the empire. He is Cai Taishi's mortal enemy, and Zhang Shuye himself does not like to cater to the powerful Cai Jing, so he naturally becomes a figure to be excluded in Cai Jing's eyes. After Cai Jing regained his prime minister, he quickly found an excuse to send him out of Beijing to Xi'an to supervise the grassland. Later, the imperial court appointed Zhang Shuye again, and was promoted to the positions of Secretary, Shaojian, Minister of Rites, etc., but in the end, Cai Taishi had no place to stay with Zhang Shuye every day he gained power in Kaifeng, and soon he was sent out by Cai Jing to know Haizhou.

In Haizhou, Zhang Shuye had a head-to-head confrontation with the drama thief Song Jiang and others. Although the imperial court's opinion is to appease Song Jiang and others, but Zhang Shuye believes that if Song Jiang, who has won many battles and victories, is not given any color, Hei Saburo will not sincerely submit to the imperial court, so when Song Jiang enters After Haizhou, Zhang Shuye made active preparations. Aiming at the mobility of Song Jiang's troops, Zhang Shuye sent an intrigue to infiltrate Song Jiang's troops and grasped the whereabouts of the "Liangshan Heroes". , and sent light soldiers to lure the enemy. After Song Jiang's team was lured into the encirclement, he used a fire attack. Song Jiang was defeated, and his deputy leader was captured by Zhang Shuye. Song Jiang was finally forced to surrender.

There are many versions about the ending of Song Jiang. One version is that after Zhang Shuye surrendered the thirty-six people of Song Jiang, he did not show mercy. Instead, he killed Song Jiang and other thirty-six people, buried them under Baihu Mountain, and left The legendary "Hero's Tomb"; another more official version is that after Song Jiang surrendered to the court, he was awarded an official title and led his troops to participate in the southern conquest of Fangla.However, after the Fangla Uprising was quelled, Song Jiang rebelled again, and the imperial court sent Zhe Kecun, a young Northwestern famous general who had just made great contributions in conquering Fangla, to suppress the uprising, and the uprising was put down again.

With more than a thousand troops, Zhang Shuye captured Song Jiang, who was running rampant in Heshuo, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places, and could not even defeat "tens of thousands of officers and soldiers". Jinan Prefecture.In Jinan, he quelled some local peasant uprisings, and was promoted to a direct bachelor of Longtu and educated in Qingzhou. When the Jin soldiers invaded Kaifeng, Zhang Shuye immediately led his troops to serve the king. After the Jin soldiers returned to the north, he suggested that the Jin soldiers had plundered a lot of wealth this time, so the march would inevitably be slow and slow.But Zhao Huan was not so bold, he was afraid that Zhang Shuye and others would offend the Jin people again, so he transferred him to Dengzhou, and he was also the governor of the Southern Metropolis.

When Zhang Shuye arrived in Dengzhou, the Jin soldiers went south again and besieged Kaifeng. Zhang Shuye led 30,000 King Qin. It is a pity that the Northern Song Empire had millions of soldiers. His troops turned out to be the only ones in the second Kaifeng defense battle. One is the local army of Qin Wang Kaifeng, and the others stay put and wait for the Song court to negotiate with the Jin people. After entering Kaifeng, Zhang Shuye was appointed by Zhao Huan as a scholar of Zizheng Palace, signed a letter to the Privy Council, and became the military person in charge of the second Kaifeng defense war.

But at this time, what he was facing was no longer the "Liangshan hero" Song Jiang, but the encirclement of more than 100,000 golden soldiers from the east and west, and only tens of thousands of remnant soldiers were defending Kaifeng. Under the leadership of the group of monarchs and ministers in Kaifeng who talked about the golden change, Zhang Shuye could no longer create miracles, and could only watch the city crumble. After the city of Kaifeng was broken, Zhang Shuye refused to assist the puppet emperor Zhang Bangchang who was supported by the Jin people, so he was escorted to follow the Hui and Qin emperors to the north. Traveling to Baigou (the boundary line between Song and Jin after the destruction of Liao Dynasty), the boatman told everyone that the boundary river had been crossed, and the land of the Kingdom of Jin would be gone any further. Tian died on the journey at the age of sixty-three. Song Jiang was not ashamed to be defeated by this gentleman.