Zong Ze (1060-1128), also spelled Rulin, was a Han Chinese from Yiwu County (present-day Yiwu City), Wuzhou, Northern Song Dynasty. In the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1091), he successively served as a prefecture and county official in Hebei Damingguan Tao, Zhejiang Longyou, Shanxi Zhaocheng, Shandong Ye County, Shandong Dengzhou (present-day Penglai, Shandong), etc. Wherever he went, he was diligent and loved the people, and had considerable political achievements. Due to the extreme political corruption of the Song Dynasty and the rule of power and treachery, Zong Ze was not promoted and reused for a long time. In March of the first year of Xuanhe (1119), Zong Ze, then the governor of Dengzhou Prefecture, was dismissed from the list for his lack of piety in building the Shenxiao Palace.
After song and Jin concluded the "alliance on the sea", Zong Ze believed that "the world is troublesome" and retreated to the Dongyang Valley in Zhejiang. Soon after being falsely accused, he was assigned To Zhenjiang to continue to be in charge. In the fourth year of Xuanhe (1122), Zong Ze regained his freedom and two years later was transferred to the remote state of Bazhou as a general judge. Zong Ze's "Gu Nan Fu" and "Rebuilding the Temple of Yinghui Hou Yiji" written during this period used the scenery to lyrically express his sad and indignant feelings of not meeting talents and being difficult to reward for his ambitions, and used the metaphor of the late Han Dynasty Bajun's too strict face to express his determination to be a "severed general" and never to be a "surrender general".
In the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1126), Zong Ze, who was serving as a general judge in the southwestern border of Bazhou, was transferred to Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan) as Zongzheng Shaoqing (宗正少卿) on the recommendation of the imperial master Chen Guoting(陳過庭), and was transferred to Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). Munakata, who was 68 years old, received the edict and rushed to Tokyo day and night. At this time, the Northern Song Dynasty was at a critical juncture of life and death under the attack of the Northern Jin Soldiers, and the struggle between the resistance faction and the surrender faction within the Northern Song court was becoming increasingly fierce. Zong Ze was a staunch resistance faction, and as soon as he arrived in Tokyo, he gave Song Qinzong the "three strategies" of resisting Jin, vigorously advocating anti-Jin and opposing peace.
In August of the same year, jin soldiers used troops against the Northern Song Dynasty for the second time, still divided into east and west roads to the south, Song Qinzong, in view of Zong Ze's opposition to peace and fearing that his stay in the capital would hinder peace negotiations, appointed him as the prefect of Ci Prefecture (ci county, Hebei) and sent him to the anti-Jin front. Cizhou has been ravaged by the Golden Soldiers and has been torn into ruin. After Zong Ze arrived at his post, he immediately renovated the city wall, managed the apparatus, recruited volunteers, and waited in a strict position. The Jin soldiers crossed the Yellow River south, worried that Zong Ze would attack from behind, so they divided their troops to attack Cizhou, Zong Ze wore armor to climb the city, commanded the soldiers to shoot back the Jin soldiers with the bow of the god arm, and then opened the city gate to pursue, killing hundreds of enemies.
Although Zong Ze won a partial victory against gold, it did not make up for the overall situation. In late November of the same year, the Jin army attacked Kaifeng in Tokyo, and the Northern Song court became a prisoner of the Jin army. In March of the second year of Jing Kang (1127), the Jin army established Zhang Bangchang as a puppet emperor and established a pseudo-Great Chu regime. In early April, the Jin army escorted more than 3,000 people from Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Qinzong, as well as their clan chambers, concubines, and hundred officials, and withdrew north with the jade seal, gold, silver, jewelry, and treasures collected from Tokyo.
Before the destruction of the city of Tokyo, Emperor Qinzong of Song issued an order from the besieged city to appoint his younger brother Zhao Zhao, the King of Kang, as the Grand Marshal of Terracotta Army, and Zong Ze and Wang Boyan as deputy marshals, and asked them to immediately lead the division to Qin Wang. Zong Ze first organized an army of 2,000 men to rush to Daming and prepare to retake The Second Emperor wei and The Qin Emperor on the way north of the Jin army. Although it had already been spread in all directions, none of the other Qin Wang's divisions came to help, and Zong Ze knew that his troops were weak, so he had to abandon the plan to retake Hui and the Second Emperor of Qin, and instead wrote to King Kang Zhao and persuade him to become emperor.
In May of the second year of Jing Kang (1127), Zhao Shuo declared himself emperor at Yingtianfu (present-day Shangqiu, Henan) in Nanjing, changing the name of Yuan Jianyan to Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhao was made Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty. The chancellor Li Gang was very attached to Zong Ze and sponsored him as the prefect of Kaifeng, and was later appointed as the retainer of Tokyo and the governor of Kaifeng. After Zong Ze arrived, he restored order to kaifeng city after the catastrophe in a very short period of time. He also persuaded Wang Shan, Yang Jin, Wang Zaixing, Li Gui, and Wang Dalang, the leaders of the rebel army with nearly one million troops around Kaifeng, to join him and strengthen the military might.
In the second year of Jianyan (1128), the Jin army once again attacked Kaifeng, Zong Ze chengzhu in his chest, commanding Liu Yan and other generals to repel the Jin army again and again, and Kaifeng became an insurmountable barrier for the Jin army. The people of the north honored Zong Ze, who was mighty in the world, as "Grandpa Zong".
From July of the first year of Jianyan (1127), Zong Ze went to Gaozong 24 times in a year, which is the famous "Beggar Back to the Barbarian Temple", and strongly advised Song Gaozong to return to Kaifeng in an attempt to restore the lost land in the north, but they were blocked by Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and other traitors around Song Gaozong. In October of the first year of Jianyan (1t27), Emperor Gaozong of Song fled all the way from Nanjing to Yangzhou under the name of Inspector Xing. Zong Ze became angry and angry, and gangrene was on his back. Zong Ze knew that he was seriously ill and did not live long, but he still asked Zhao Zhuo to return to Beijing and Kaifeng and swore to teach the Northern Expedition.
On July 12, 2002, before his death, Zong Ze said bitterly to the generals who came to visit: "I am so sad and indignant that the Second Emperor has been dusted, and how many of you can annihilate the enemy, then I will die without hatred!" The mouth kept reciting Du Fu's famous sentence: "Death before the master is successful, and the hero is full of tears." Until the breath was cut off, not a word was a family affair, and he kept shouting "Cross the river!" Crossing! Crossing the river" and passing away.
The news of Zong Ze's death spread, "everyone mourned for it, the government and the opposition were all hung up, and more than a thousand people of the three scholars wept for the text." Li Gang, the leader of the resistance faction, issued a cry in the elegy that "Liang destroyed the building, who with the dome". After his death, Zong Ze was buried with his wife Chen shi in the foothills of the Jingdan Mountains in Zhenjiang. Later, the imperial court gave Guan Wendian a bachelor, a general counselor, and a gift of Zhongjian, and his works include "Zongzhongjian Gongji".