As we all know, Zhao Kuangyin is famous for his martial arts, and as a military general, he used his iron coupons and swords and guns to lay a foundation for himself. Zhao Kuangyin, because he was a military general, knew that armed rights for a country, if not well managed, can easily become a weapon for others to commit chaos and subvert the country, at the same time, he learned the historical lessons of the past dynastic feudal towns, so that he vigorously suppressed the forces of the warriors. This is the main reason why in the Song Dynasty, the status of military generals has always been lower than that of literati.
Although suppressing the military generals of the Song Dynasty played a certain role in promoting the stability of the political situation, it also caused a certain degree of weakening of the military power of the Song Dynasty, so that the Song Dynasty has not been able to get rid of the invasion of the surrounding foreign tribes since its establishment, and finally, it was destroyed by the foreign enemy Mongol army. However, since the chaos of ancient times, heroes have emerged, although the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty is relatively weak, but due to the long-term confrontation with foreign enemies, it has also created many famous generals in practice.
Literary and artistic works such as "Yang Jiajian" and "Yue FeiChuan" that everyone is very familiar with can be said to be famous and well-known to women and children. As a result, these two families of soldiers and horses have become the representatives of the famous generals of the Song Dynasty, and when the military generals of the Song Dynasty are mentioned, everyone naturally thinks of these two military horses. But in fact, the real Shomen family during the Song Dynasty was actually not the Yang and Yue families, but the Folding Family and the Seed Family.
Although the current Folding Family General and the Seed Family will be unknown, they were two famous armies in the Song Dynasty.
According to relevant historical records, the Eight Generations of the Folding Family has been in the army, an elite army that has lasted for two hundred years, with a very long history, it can be said that it is the first general of China' family lineage; while the Zhongjia Army is a five-generation military service, which has made outstanding contributions to the Song Dynasty and made outstanding contributions to the fight against foreign enemies. During the 168 years of the Northern Song Dynasty's rule, the Seed Family Army was even more heroic: Seed Shiheng, Seed Curse, Seed Truth, Seed Diagnosis, Seed Friendship, Seed Park, Seed Master Dao, and Seed Master were all generals. The children of the seed family have been in the army for five generations, and dozens of people have died on the battlefield.
Folding Family General: Folding From Ruan in the Five Dynasties period is the founder of the Folding Family General, who was originally a descendant of the Xianbei tribe. The Folding Family was founded in Datong, Shanxi, and is a local family of large ethnic groups to learn martial civilization. Since the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, and the Later Zhou Dynasty, Ruan has always made Fuzhou its headquarters, mainly guarding the northwestern frontier, and in the war with the Khitans, it has won many battles and made a great reputation. During the zhou shizong period, Folding From Ruan and his son Fold de Yu were appointed as jiedushi envoys, each stationed in a border key place, and fought in the father-son soldiers, which once became a good story.
The representative figures of the second generation of the Folding Family Army are the two brothers of folding de fen and folding de wan. As the eldest son, he joined the army with his father since childhood, and was brave and good at war, and his bravery was extraordinary. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the two brothers together guarded the prefecture and resisted the Khitan and won many battle achievements to break the Khitan camp. When he was young, he was an envoy to the festival and guarded the side. According to legend, there was a daughter who later married Yang Ye, and this person was the Folding (She) Taijun, who was very familiar to people later.
The third generation of the Folding Family Army, the most famous is the folding of the emperor's son, the folding of the royal brothers. After the death of his father, the Folding Imperial Order and the Folding Imperial Qingzi inherited their father's business, and were divided into regimental training envoys and jiedushi to make them, and the two brothers led the troops to make many military achievements. During the fifth year of Chunhua, Yuqing served as the emissary of the Baiyong'an Army, defeated the Khitan and beheaded more than 5,000 people. Soon after, Folding Yuqing was seriously ill, and was retaliated by Khitan Han De's stomach, leading a large army to attack, while Folding Yuqing was ill to fight.
According to relevant historical records, at that time, the mother of folding Yuqing wrote a letter to summon her not to fight, but Folding Yuqing thought that she had always received the favor of the country, loyalty and filial piety were difficult to complete, and vowed to die to resist the enemy for the country and fight to the end. On the second day, the Emperor was killed on the battlefield, and his righteousness and courage were loyal to the liver, which made people admire.
According to historical records, the three brothers of the Folding Family, Xiao Yong and Good War, Loyal and Courageous, Courageous and Courageous, Courageous and Courageous, Riding and Shooting, the three brothers have repeatedly performed miraculous feats. The three brothers were loyal to the country and died later. The main generals of the Fifth Generation Folding Family Army were Folding Jishi, Folding Jizu, Folding Jimin, etc., all of whom were famous generals who resisted the attack of Western Xia.
The most famous soldier of the sixth generation was The Folding Kexing, who was also a famous general who resisted the Western Xia army. In the seventh generation of the Folding Family Army, Folding Kecun participated in the suppression of the Fang La and Song Jiang Uprisings; Folding Keshi was brave and fierce, breaking the Qiangxia alliance army of more than 100,000 people, creating one of the few major victories on the northwest border of the Northern Song Dynasty. Among the eighth generation of origami generals, Origami Yanyu, Origami Yanye, orihime Wen, etc. were all famous generals at that time.
Seed Family General: Seed Family Will was originally born in the Luoyang area, is a famous general family that grew up in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty to resist the invasion of the Western Xia and Jin people. The breeding family will be loyal for five generations, loyal to the martyrs of the past, and is revered by people as "Shanxi Famous General". The first generation of seed families rose up from the breeding world. Zhan Shiheng was resourceful, repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and repeatedly broke the intrusion of the Western Xia army. He had eight sons, each of whom was proficient in the art of war, good at riding and shooting, brave and good at war, and had many meritorious achievements in battles against foreign enemies.
Iron Horse Jingo, Blue Blood Yellow Sand, Yang Family General, Seed Family Army... Time has turned back a thousand years, the Northern Song Dynasty has been fighting one after another, and in the smoke and dust of the northwest, stuffed with horses, 150,000 kinds of family armies are fighting with the enemy. The third generation of breeders will fight against the invasion of the Jin people, and many people have sacrificed their lives for the country. Although the fourth generation of breeders will be a few people who are still martial artists, their achievements will be much inferior to those of their predecessors, and gradually, the breeders will be buried.
Later, with the change of Jing Kang, the Song Dynasty as a whole moved south, and the Folding Family and the Seed Family also left the northwest region where they were once guarded. In the peacetime when the war dissipates, people's memories are easily washed away by the ordinary life in front of them, and the achievements of the past are forgotten by people with the passage of time, and eventually disappear. And the Folding Family Army and the Seed Family Army, which once fought on the battlefield and commanded thousands of troops, also slowly faded out of people's vision, and the brave soldiers like the two families never appeared again.
During the two Song Dynasties, there were more wars and social turmoil, such as the folding family general and the Seed family army, and there were also many generals who went out on the expedition together, in addition to the folding and planting families, there were also the Yao family in Shanxi, four generations of loyal martyrs; the Yang family will be three generations of Xiao Yong, heroically killing the enemy; the Southern Song Dynasty Yue family and the Han family two door soldiers, but due to the suspicion and persecution of the traitorous ministers, only two generations of extinction.
Resources:
["History of Song", "Xianyang Wugong Has a "Seed Family Army"" ]