Speaking of Yang Jiajian, almost everyone knows that the story of Yang Jiajian also took place in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. The Yang family's typical example of "loyalty and filial piety and righteousness" is even more well-known, and it has also been passed down and recorded by posterity in the form of opera. Historically, the Yang family will be the prototype, but when the Northern Song Dynasty fell, why did this Xiao Yong family not stand up?
After the Chen Qiao Mutiny, Zhao Kuangyin destroyed many small countries in one fell swoop and established the Song Dynasty, which is known to be divided into the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, of which Zhao Kuangyin established the Northern Song Dynasty. As the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was originally born in the army and was a soldier in the Later Zhou Dynasty, so he was well aware of the threat of military power to the imperial throne, so he concentrated all his military power in his own hands through the plan of releasing military power through a glass of wine.
The Yang family will be the national heroes who saved the country from water and fire during the Northern Song Dynasty, and many people in later generations will think that the Yang family will only appear in the fictional army in operas and commentaries, but in fact, it is not, he is real in history, Yang Ye, Yang Yanzhao, Yang Zongbao These three generations are the most typical representatives of the Yang family generals, leading the army to defend the Song Dynasty and resist the invasion of the Jin army.
Among them, Yang Ye, as the first generation of Yang family disciples, his prestige can be said to be a shock to the eight directions, he was a famous general in the Northern Song Dynasty, who made great military achievements for the imperial court at Yanmen Pass, and later in the face of the invasion of the Liao army in the Northern Expedition, he used his willingness to go on hunger strike rather than yield to show his loyalty, and his bravery was also unanimously praised by the imperial court. Since Yang Ye began, General Yang has defended the Northern Song Dynasty for generations, and their patriotic determination can be learned from all over the world, but the army that has always believed in patriotism did not say a word when the Northern Song Dynasty was on the verge of extinction, and did not come forward. The main reason for this is not that they don't want to manage, but that they simply don't have the ability to manage.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was born in a martial family, he was afraid of the threat of military power to the imperial throne, so he emphasized literature and light weapons, and once the country began to ignore the development of the army, then the demise was sooner or later, and the Northern Song Dynasty was the most real example. To be backward is to be beaten, not only economically, but also militarily. Zhao Kuangyin concentrated all his military power under the imperial power, and at the same time continued to suppress the military attaches, such a policy made the status of the Yang family general worse than a day, and in the end, many Yang family generals have been reduced to civilians, no longer on the battlefield of the soldiers.
Due to the low military strength of the state, it led to the defeat of Hejin, forced to sign the Tanyuan Alliance, and also ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, resulting in the decline of the state form day by day, and finally to its demise, leaving the shame of Jing Kang.
At the time of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yang family would be just a commoner, and even if there were officials, they were only petty officials with sesame seeds, and they had no ability to prevent the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. Even if they have strong patriotic feelings, in the face of the Northern Song Dynasty, where traitors are in charge, they have no military power and no status, and everything has become empty talk.