Chapter 69 third quarter

In Longde Palace on November 26th in the first year of Jingkang (AD 1126), the 44-year-old Zhao Ji had gray hair all night amidst the sound of desperate cries. Yesterday, the city of Tokyo was destroyed, and what awaited their father and son was the inevitable fate of being imprisoned (Jingkang disaster, Emperor Huiqin was taken captive by the Jin army to the north, and thousands of royal nobles and nearly 100,000 civilians were also taken captive. Most of the kidnapped women were forcibly assigned to Jin people as concubines or slaves, including twenty-four daughters of Song Huizong Zhao Ji and nearly a hundred concubines).

At this time, his mind suddenly woke up, and he knew that if he didn't do some things, he would never have a chance. He said to his entourage, I want to leave the palace and go to Jinxian Lane. This is the easiest trip for Zhao Ji to become the empress. Zhao Huan, the "filial" son, took strict care of him before, and his words and deeds were not free. Now, his son no longer has to worry that his father will come to fight for his power , everyone is just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered in the Jurchen case, and they are too busy to take care of themselves. Jinxian Lane was empty, and the attendant told Zhao Ji that Concubine Li Ming might have fled long ago.

Zhao Ji had a feeling that she was still there. Walking into Li Shishi's boudoir, he really smelled the familiar fragrance. You are finally here, Li Shishi turned around and said lightly.No surprises, no sadness, just as calm as countless days before. For a moment, Zhao Ji had the illusion that everything outside the attic was just a nightmare, and nothing had changed, just like the woman in front of him. The teacher made a cup of tea for Zhao Ji, and said that I went to the yard this morning and saw the plum blossoms blooming by the wall. I picked some and made your favorite plum tea. Try it!

The tea is fragrant, and the person opposite is still so beautiful, but Zhao Ji's heart is numb.He said, Shishi, everything is over, our country, our Tokyo, the end is coming.I am sorry to my ancestors, I am sorry to the people of Song Dynasty, I am sorry to you, I am a sinner. Zhao Ji buried his head in Li Shishi's hands as white as jade, and tears overflowed like a stream. Li Shishi gently hugged the man's head, caressing the man's white hair like comforting a child, maybe after so many years, what she has been waiting for is just this day: a man who truly belongs to her and a love that truly belongs to her .

In the past, he was the emperor aloft, while she was a bird in a cage made of gold. Even with all kinds of doting, he could not enter her mysterious and lonely inner world. Until today, fate finally bound their souls together. Together. The moment was short, but real. Li Shishi said that since I lived in this courtyard at the age of fourteen, I have hated this cage. Every day before I go to bed, I hope that I will not see everything in front of me when I open my eyes tomorrow, but now, I fall in love with this old cage. The difficult life is now found to be so real and wonderful. Zhao Ji raised his head and asked Li Shishi, Shishi, have you ever loved me?

Li Shishi smiled and said that for many years, I only think that you are my reliance, not my love, but today I think I am really a fool, is there a difference between the two? Zhao Ji said that if time can come back, I will definitely be a good emperor and a good man, so that the people of the empire will be safe and you will be happy. Li Shishi smiled again, turned to face the window, and said that I have got what I want most in my life. Postscript Kaifeng, Liangshan, "Water Margin" and others Kaifeng, known as Tokyo in ancient times, also known as Bianliang and Bianjing, is located in the east of Henan Province and the center of the Eastern Henan Great Plain.

As one of the seven ancient capitals of China, Kaifeng is now only a prefecture-level city in the inland province of Henan Province with a population of only 800,000. Its status in Henan Province is far inferior to that of the provincial capitals Zhengzhou and Luoyang. It is also in the middle and lower reaches of several regions.Many people think that Kaifeng is poor and ruined, even people who go to its long history will be disappointed. Today, several famous scenic spots in Kaifeng City, such as Xiangguo Temple, Kaifeng Mansion, Yujie, Baogong Temple, Qingming Shanghe Most of the gardens are antique buildings built in recent years, similar in shape but not in spirit. It is not as aggressive as Beijing, as beautiful as Nanjing, and as simple as Xi'an. Even the neighboring Luoyang is more luxurious than Kaifeng.

Today's Kaifeng is not completely old, nor can it be renewed. It is slow in the process of moving towards modern civilization, and its position is quite embarrassing. A thousand years ago, Tokyo was already a super metropolis with a population of one million, while Paris, the largest city in Western Europe at that time, had a population of only about 200,000, and Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) It also has a population of only 300,000; Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, has a population of only 125,000. If we stand on the land of Kaifeng today, we can't imagine the prosperity of Kaifeng a thousand years ago, only from Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Shanghe Tu", Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dream Record" and Song Dynasty's notes and other precious history From the data, we can partially restore the prosperity and prosperity of Kaifeng.

Who ruined all this? The answer is war and floods. In the second year of Jingkang (AD 1127), the Jin soldiers invaded and broke Kaifeng City. The wealth in Tokyo was taken away. , and more civilians and the surviving Zhao royal family chose to cross to the south, and the economy of Bianjing and its surrounding areas suffered a devastating blow. According to records at the time, "From Xuchang to Songcheng (Bianjing)", It has been "thousands of miles without chickens and dogs, and the wells are filled with corpses, and there is nothing to drink... The big kui has been covered with basil, and no one has picked and mowed the sun, millet, pear, and jujube." Kaifeng, the most prosperous city in the world, began to decline and decline. . In 1130, when the Jin soldiers went south again to attack Kaifeng City, there were less than 4,000 strong men in the city.

In the ninth year of Shaoxing (1139 A.D.), the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty negotiated a peace agreement. The Jin people once returned Kaifeng and Henan to the Southern Song Dynasty. Few people live in it, and most of them have become farmland or wasteland. The former Taixue houses were ruined and overgrown with weeds, and turned into pig farms, with pavilions and pavilions. It has also changed beyond recognition, and has become a desolate place with "plumbed eaves and no kisses, no old-fashioned view". At the same time as the economy in Bianliang City was declining, the Bian River, which was the main water artery of Bianjing in those days, was also drying up day by day because it could not perform its original function, and became a stinking ditch (Fan Cheng, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty who was envoy to the Jin Dynasty Da wrote in his poem "Yong Bianhe": "Referring to Gukuhe for fifty years, the dragon boat will be in Shuchuan sooner or later. Returning to Beijing depends on the southeast transportation, sour jujube and Tangli are not good." He also wrote in his own note: " The Bian River has dried up from the north of Sizhou, and the vegetation has grown.")

In 1159 A.D., King Hailing of Jin moved his capital to Kaifeng, but he still couldn't restore the prosperity of the past, and the Jin Empire also declined along with the sinking of Kaifeng.Sixty years later, Kaifeng, the capital of the Jurchens, was broken again by the Mongols, ending its mission as an imperial capital. Several major ancient capitals in Chinese history have been ups and downs with the change of dynasties, prosperity and decline, decline and prosperity, but only Kaifeng, after the collapse of the Northern Song Dynasty Empire, has never recovered and completely declined.In addition to the factors of war, its natural geographical location determines that it must not only accept the impact of man-made wars, but also accept the more brutal natural impact-flooding. Kaifeng is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. When the Yellow River crosses the world's largest Loess Plateau and reaches the flat North China Plain, its flow rate slows down, and a huge amount of sediment is deposited from the middle and upper reaches, causing the river bed to rise by an average of two centimeters per year.Over time, year after year, the famous "hanging river" spectacle has been formed in the Kaifeng river section. The history books of the Qing Dynasty once described the city of Kaifeng as "the city is at the bottom of the kettle, looking up at the Yellow River". Once the Yellow River breaks its banks, Kaifeng will encounter huge floods. The initial prosperity of Kaifeng began in the Warring States Period. It used to be Daliang City, the capital of Wei, one of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. Daliang City was reduced to ruins. In 1305 A.D., the Yellow River broke through again, turning Kaifeng City into a country. In the Ming Dynasty, there were four recorded incidents in history where the Yellow River broke its embankment and flooded Kaifeng; at the end of the Ming Dynasty, peasant uprisings were raging. , Only the battlements and parapets were exposed. After the flood, only 20,000 of the 370,000 people in Kaifeng City remained. The swallowing of the Yellow River again and again, together with the wind, sand, and war, destroyed Kaifeng, the most prosperous city in the world, and gradually buried it under the yellow sand. Standing on Zhongshan Road in Kaifeng City today, you may not know that this location is the Royal Street in Tokyo, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. The bustling street a thousand years ago is now buried eight meters underground; The Daliang City is more than ten meters deep from the ground in Kaifeng today; the Jinbian capital is about six meters from the ground; the Kaifeng City in the Ming Dynasty is about five meters from the ground; the Kaifeng City in the Qing Dynasty is about three meters deep. The city of Kaifeng is built up layer by layer, and the central positions of the five cities are surprisingly consistent, forming a unique and peculiar landscape of "city upon city", which is also the deep imprint of the mother river, the Yellow River, on Chinese civilization. . Kaifeng, as the capital of a feudal empire, has great potential safety hazards. It is not close to mountains, not adjacent to water, and there is no danger to rely on. Faced with the opposition of the officials, his younger brother Zhao Guangyi was even more resolute opponents. He said "the virtue is not in danger" and the Taizu's idea of ​​moving the capital was cut off. In fact, they valued Kaifeng's convenient geographical location and natural economic advantages. . More than a hundred years later, the Zhao Dynasty suffered a bitter fruit for their perseverance, and at the same time changed the progress of Chinese civilization. Its former glory may have been just a mistake at the beginning. With the continuous rolling of the wheel of history, Kaifeng has become more and more declining, and gradually faded out of the ruler's vision.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zhidong built the Guanghan Railway, bypassing Kaifeng, and turned directly to Zhengzhou. After the founding of New China, the capital of Henan Province was moved from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou in 1952. Kaifeng has since become a third-tier city. Now Kaifeng does not even belong to own airport. At the end of the 20th century, Christopher, a famous columnist of the American "New York Times", came to Kaifeng, Henan Province, China, and saw this old and decaying city. After returning, he published a review article called "From Kaifeng to New York: A Glory Like a passing cloud".He said in the article that before the advent of the 21st century, all Americans felt that they were the world policeman who could dominate everything, and that New York was the most important city in the world and the center of the earth, but Christopher Before Americans are satisfied with the status of New York, first understand a decaying city in the Central Plains of China—Kaifeng—the center of the world a thousand years ago, how prosperous it was once, and how decaying it is now. In the vicissitudes of life, in the sky of history, all the brilliance is but a short light. The rise and fall of Kaifeng is due to the Yellow River, and the same is true for the rise and fall of Liangshanshuibo. Liangshan Water Park is located in the transition zone between the central and southern mountains of Shandong and the North China Plain. Between Liangshan and Yuncheng counties, south of Liangshan in the south, it was called Dayeze (or a part of Dayeze) in ancient times, and Dayeze is one of China's "Ten Yam". 1 ("Erya Shidi" in the early Han Dynasty records "Ten Sou": "Lu has Daye, Jin has Dalu, Qin has Yang, Song has Mengzhu, Chu has Yunmeng, there is a district between Wu and Yue, Qi has Haiyu, Yan has Zhao Yuqi, Zheng has Putian, Zhou has Jiaohuo.").According to historical records, Dayu's water control channeled the accumulated water from the flood of the Yellow River into the natural depression, forming the Dayeze ("Shangshu·Yu Gong" records, "Daye is full of water, and Dongyuan is flat"). Liangshan Water Park is actually a natural Yellow River flood discharge area, and the size of its water area depends on the overflow of the Yellow River and the influence of river course changes. From the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, due to long-term wars, the Yellow River burst frequently due to loss of governance.According to historical records, during the 25 years from the first year of Jianlong (AD 960) to the ninth year of Taiping Xingguo (AD 984) in the early Song Dynasty, the Yellow River had no obvious overflow records for only nine years, and there were many collapses in the rest of the years. .During this period, Onozawa was renamed Liangshanbo, which was frequently seen in historical records (in the sixth year of Xiande in the Later Zhou Dynasty (AD 959), "recovering Zhishui, dredging the Wuzhang Canal, crossing Cao, Ji, and Liangshanbo in the east, and passing Qingqing, Yun "Song History·Yang Jian's Biography" contains, "Liangshan Po, the ancient Juyeze, stretches for hundreds of miles, aiding several states in Yunyun, relying on the profit of its catfish."). At this time, the Liangshan Water Park was in its heyday, and there was a saying that "Liangshan Park has eight hundred miles of water" (Shao Bo's "Shao Shi Hearing and Seeing Records" Volume 30). During the Shenzong period, there was a joke about Liangshan Po. It was said that Wang Anshi’s new law reform made great efforts in the construction of farmland and water conservancy. A subordinate offered advice to Wang Jinggong, saying that if the water in the 800-mile water park of Liangshan was drained, it would be 800 miles fertile. Good land, how much grain should be harvested.After hearing this, Wang Jiefu said that the idea is really good. I will discuss it with the emperor tomorrow.At this time, a subordinate named Liu Chang said coldly, the idea is good, but first, someone has to dig a hole of 800 miles beside Liangshan Pod, and fill it with the same amount of soil as the 800-mile water park, and then come to Liangshan Pod The water must have a place to hold it.Wang Anshi immediately understood that this was a bad idea. The authenticity of this joke is doubtful, because the note recording this joke is called "Sushui Jiwen" - the personal "blog" of Sima Guang, Wang Anshi's sworn enemy. But in the 1960s and 1970s, the jokes recorded by Sima Guang became very popular in China, and they were euphemistically called filling lakes and reclaiming fields. It was Song Jiang who really made Liangshanshuipo famous all over the world. Song Jiang led his 107 brothers to haunt here, and rushed to Kyushu in a hurry, which became a household legend. Whether Song Jiang revolted in Liangshanbo is undocumented, but "Song History Yang Jian Biography" records that the eunuch Yang Jian was in charge of founding the "Gongtiansuo" in the sixth year of Zhenghe (AD 1116) in order to cater to Cai Jing's new law. National land ownership certificates and title deeds are reviewed, and all land with unclear ownership is converted into government-owned public land, which is rented out to farmers for land rent.And Liang Shanshuibo is Yang Jian's important goal.He believed that Liangshan Lake in Babaili should be owned by the government and should be taken over by the public land, and fishermen in the lake had to pay tax or use fee if they wanted to fish in the public lake for a living.Yang Jian registered the boats that went in and out of the lake to fish, and collected water surface usage fees. Those boats that did not pay the water surface usage fees and entered Liangshanpo were charged as thieves. With the introduction of Yang Jian's new policy, many honest fishermen and people who dig lotus roots for a living are forced to take risks and become real thieves, resisting the government. The rise of the people's resistance movement in Liangshanshuibo coincided with the time of the Song Jiang uprising, and there should be a great connection between the two. But in history, the rebel army led by Song Jiang was more like a guerrilla team. "Song History Zhang Shuye Biography" records: "Song Jiang started from Heshuo and turned to ten counties. No officer and soldier dared to beat him." "Hou Meng Biography" stated: "Song Jiang ran amok against Qi Wei with thirty-six people, and there were tens of thousands of officers and troops who dared not resist." Although Liangshanshuipo was also the scope of their activities, they did not stay here for a long time, but went around everywhere. Go to war. But because Song Jiang was active here, Liangshan Po gradually evolved into a story of one hundred and eight heroes gathering in Liangshan among the people. In the Jin Dynasty, the Yellow River changed its course, and the water in Liangshan Park gradually dried up; in the 21st year of Dading (1181 A.D.), because "the Yellow River has moved from its old course, the water in Liangshan Park has receded, and the land is very wide, and envoys have been sent to garrison the fields" ("Jin Dynasty") Shihuo Zhi), the situation of perennial water accumulation is no longer; by the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few scattered small lakes left in Liangshan Po area, most of which had become arable land and no longer existed. It is the 800-mile Liangshan Park that has accumulated water all year round. I think we are the generation misled by "Water Margin". As soon as we could read at a young age, our parents let us read the little book of "Water Margin", so we know the benevolent and loyal Song Jiang who rains in time, Chai Jin who is kind and generous, Lu Da who fights injustice, Li Kui who is reckless and heroic, and Wu Song who must revenge , the resourceful Wu Yong, a series of heroic images penetrated into our young hearts. At that time, the hero in our hearts was the Liangshan hero who could eat meat and drink in large bowls, one hundred and eight generals, sworn brothers to Liangshan, walked on behalf of the heavens, and were brothers. However, when we are adults, it is a different taste to go back and read the "Water Margin", which is still known as the "Four Great Masterpieces". Is Song Jiang a hero, or a petty civil servant who is corrupt and perverts the law?Why are heroes such as Li Kui so violent, killing people indiscriminately, and destroying their families at every turn?Is there really harmony among Liangshan heroes?How did Song Jiang replace Chao Gai as the leader of the rivers and lakes?Liang Shan claims to do justice for the sky, rob the rich and help the poor, how much rich has he robbed, how many poor have he helped, and how many "way" has he done for the sky?Why is it that in the eyes of heroes in Liangshan, all the lives of women are worthless, whether they are hags or sluts?Of the 108 heroes in Liangshan, how many were forced to go to Liangshan because they couldn't eat? None of this can withstand too much torture.There are many reasons for the popularity of "Water Margin" in every era, such as political needs or the decline of modern China. The people need stories that seem heroic but bloody as a booster, and "Water Margin" is naked The local obsession with violence and power is covered up and ignored, and most book critics are selectively blind. If you evaluate "Water Margin" now, I think "Water Margin" is the one with the lowest literary value among the four great masterpieces. Its negative impact on the entire nation is far greater than its positive factors, especially on the formation of minors' outlook on life and the world. There are big negative effects. Now many publishing houses still list "Water Margin" as a must-read for teenagers and children, which cannot but be said to be a kind of sadness. Misled by "Water Margin" is also the history of the late Northern Song Dynasty.The fall of the Northern Song Dynasty was different from feudal dynasties such as the prosperous Tang Dynasty. An empire died of foreign invasion when its cultural and economic development reached its peak. The reasons are very complicated, and it is worth reflecting on this history until today.However, the book "Water Margin" takes the Songjiang Uprising in the Xuanhe period at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty as the historical background. Many characters in the novel have historical prototypes, but the whole book is not faithful to the real historical events. A large degree of misreading (half imagination, half obscenity) has been carried out, making the public's understanding of the history of the end of the Northern Song Dynasty more and more joking and romantic. The author does not want to criticize the book "Water Margin" one by one. What this book wants to show readers is: "Water Margin", a novel with the historical background of the Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty, is how different from the real history?What kind of vicissitudes is it like in the era when Liangshan heroes should take action?And what is the connection between the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty and the previous Song Jiang Uprising?And what is the real fatal wound to destroy the empire?What is the true appearance of these historical events of Fang La's conquest of Liao? Based on the above factors, the author writes this book, and introduces the characters in "Water Margin" familiar to readers, so that readers can have a panoramic understanding of the history of the late Northern Song Dynasty. Liangshan may not all be heroes, and "Water Margin" is actually not a history of the Song Dynasty. night wolf howling west wind October 5, 2011 night wolf howling west wind Formerly known as Long Yihua, super moderator of Sina Reading Culture Forum, a famous writer of literature and history, author of long-form online works such as "Pin Chunqiu", "Ghosts Are Crazy", "Hundred Battles" and other popular online works. His published works include "History Is So So What's going on" (co-authored), "Hundred Battles" (three volumes) and so on.