In 960, Zhao Kuangyin added a yellow robe to his body, ending the chaos in the feudal towns since the late Tang Dynasty and establishing the "Song", and Vientiane has been renewed ever since. The newly born Song Empire attacked on all sides, destroying The Later Shu, Nanping, and Southern Han, and finally destroyed the more powerful Southern Tang in the neighboring countries, forcing Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to write down "When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much is known about the past." Xiao Lou had another east wind last night, and the homeland could not look back at the ancient famous sentence of the moon and the middle of the moon", and contributed the idiom of "lying on the side of the bed, do not allow others to snore". After cleaning up the cats and dogs in its own backyard, the Song Empire set its sights on the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which had previously been ceded to the Liao State by Shi Jingyao
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is a long area composed of present-day Beijing, northern Tianjin, northern Hebei, and northern Shanxi. In the north of the region are the Yanshan Mountains and Taihang Mountains that can stop cavalry, and the Sangan River and juma River flow in the south-central part, of which there are all kinds of Xiongcheng MegaPasses, and the continuous Great Wall and the insurmountable JuyongGuan are among the leaders. In this area, the Northern Dynasty could go south at any time and drink from the banks of the Yellow River; the Central Plains Dynasty had been blocked layer by layer, making it difficult for the enemy in the north to cross the Thunder Pond. For the nascent Song Empire, whether from practical values or national feelings, it was imperative to retake Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures
In 979, Emperor Taizong of Song personally led a large army in the Northern Expedition and was defeated
In 986, the 200,000-strong army of the Three Roads of the Great Song Dynasty once again went north and was defeated. A generation of famous generals Yang Ye was captured and killed
Since then, the restoration of the past has become a scar, and the unification of the north has become a dream
When the Liao army saw that the Song Dynasty was just like this, they were excited to go south, and they were beaten by the chancellor Kou Zhun with Song Zhenzong
The two neighbors came and went, and no one obeyed the other, so they sat down and signed an agreement, one side gave money, the other side gave righteousness, and created a peace of one hundred and twenty years, and this agreement was the alliance of the abyss
The camera turns to Daliao
The Khitans, a branch of the Eastern Hu Xianbei, founded the country in 916 with the name "Liao". In this way, Liao is older than the Northern Song Dynasty
The Liao state was mainly composed of two major tribes, one was the imperial Yelü clan and the other was the Hou clan Xiao clan. As far back as the tribal era, these two surnames have intermarried for generations, and the king will always be Yelü, and the queen will always be Xiao, and the two clans are united in the same spirit and share a common relationship. Therefore, even though Emperor Shengzong of Liao was young and the situation in the Liao Dynasty was unstable, Xiao Yu was still able to smoothly regent himself as empress dowager and command the whole country without hindrance, thus thwarting the song dynasty's attack. It can be said that it is the kind of unity based on blood and the unique bluntness of the steppe people that unite this tough country, so that it straddles the grassland, intimidating Goryeo in the east, suppressing the Northern Song Dynasty in the south, resisting the Great Xia in the west, and unifying the grasslands in the north
However, since the beginning of the "Ten Fragrant Words Unjust Case", this unity has cracked
Emperor Daozong of Liao was the eighth emperor of the Liao Dynasty, and like all the boys of the Yelü clan, he loved to hunt and was simple-minded. His empress Xiao Guanyin was not like most of the xiao family daughters who could not read a single character, but instead had excellent literary style and high musical attainment. Because she was worried that Liao Daozong would hunt and play without restraint, she was constantly admonished, but she let herself be alienated by Liao Daozong. Because of this anger, she composed many lyrics, but was dedicated to the Liao Daozong by people with ulterior motives as evidence of Xiao Guanyin's adultery with others. The final result was that Xiao Guanyin was sent back to the Xiao family after his execution, and it was an unjust case for The Ten Xiangzi. After this incident, Yelü and Xiao Shi began to deviate from morality, and the courtiers and villains all saw the corruption and mediocrity of the Liao Dynasty from this incident and began to stir
The collapse has already begun
In 1112, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao visited Chunzhou and gathered the chiefs of the Jurchen tribes. When the wine was hot, the Tianzuo Emperor asked the chiefs to dance to help entertain, but only the Guanyan Aguda of the Guanyan tribe refused to obey. Somehow, Emperor Tianzuo did not kill Yan Akuta because of this rebellion--he would use his whole life to regret today's momentary kindness
The Jurchens are a people who came out of the black water of the White Mountains in the north, are good at fishing and hunting, can fight, and are a tough ethnic group like the Khitans in the beginning. The difference is that the Khitans have been pampered for many years and have long lost their blood and sharpness, while the Jurchens are very poor, poor enough to be willing to do anything
In the spring of 1114, Yan Akuta officially rebelled against the Liao, and in that year he captured the Important Town of Huanglongfu in the Liao State, defeated the Liao State several times in a row, and in the third year captured the Liao State's Tokyo and Shenzhou
In 1115 AD, Yan Akuta was founded in Huining Province, Shangjing, with the national name "Jin". It was also from this day that Yan Ah Kuan and his Jin Guo became a major problem for the Liao State
The golden soldiers are brave and fierce. From the day they were born, they were like a lion that fell under the throat of this elephant in the Liao Kingdom, and no matter how the Liao Kingdom broke free, it could not get rid of it
When the Northern Song Dynasty saw this situation, it beat the heart of the falling water dog, coupled with the temptation of the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and could not help but extend an olive branch to the emerging Jin people. In 1118 AD, the envoys of the Song and Jin dynasties made an alliance through the sea route and decided to destroy the Liao, which is known as the alliance on the sea
After years of cannibalizing whale swallowing, the Jin kingdom finally destroyed the Liao state in 1125 AD. But the reward that the Northern Song Dynasty had been waiting for did not come. Two years later, in the year of Jing Kang, the Jin soldiers destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, and Song Qinzong, Song Huizong, and the entire imperial family of the Northern Song Dynasty were captured and escorted back to the Jin Kingdom, accompanied by the property of the entire Song Empire and the beautiful women and craftsmen of the entire capital city. The vast capital was squeezed dry and sucked up, and since then it has completely withdrawn from the stage of history and has never recovered
Then, the Jin people embarked on the same path as the Liao people. A lot of money and extravagance made the fall come so quickly. When the impoverished Yuan people arose, the Jin people also became helpless like the Liao people of that year, and the Southern Song Dynasty began to unite with the Yuan people to destroy the Jin kingdom, just like that year
History always loops back and forth with this lamentable and ridiculous law, but this time, there is only one winner
In the end, the main force of the Jin army was destroyed, the good generals were all lost, jin Aizong hanged himself in Youlanxuan, the Song people yashan lamented, 100,000 soldiers and civilians committed suicide and martyrdom, and Lu Xiufu held the eight-year-old young emperor to surrender to HaiMingzhi. The Jin and Song dynasties were destroyed, and the Liao state had been dead for 153 years
The enmity between Song, Liao, and Jin, which had lasted for hundreds of years, had finally come to an end
Reading history, or making people strangle their wrists, or making people sigh, the blood color that shakes in the shadow of the sword and the candlelight always makes people so intoxicated