He was gifted and studious, and when he was three years old, his father moved his family to Zhenjiang.
When he was a little older, he studied with a Mr. Meng in his hometown, who often had more than a hundred students, but he was the only one who was highly valued because he wrote a good article at the age of thirteen.
In 1260, at the age of 22, he was admitted to the Jinshi, when the Huainan general Li Tingzhi heard of his fame and sent several people to invite him to the shogunate.
Li Tingzhi was the southern Song Dynasty's left minister, and he was also a general in charge of the army, the town guarded Huainan, and the people in the world said that they had the most talents, with Li Tingzhi in Huainan as the first, and the Jiangnan people called his shogunate a small imperial court.
In this way, he joined the shogunate of Lee Ting-chi.
He is thoughtful and beautiful, his personality is calm, whenever Li Tingzhi invites guests to a banquet, he always does not say a word when the guests talk and laugh, and when it comes to time and politics, he is always silent, and the views put forward have surprised Li Tingzhi every time.
Li Tingzhi
Li Tingzhi then attached more importance to him, always taking him with him no matter where he was transferred, and soon after he was promoted to Zongzheng Shaoqing.
If in the prosperous taiping era, a literati who achieved this high-ranking official was destined to be glorious for a lifetime, but at this time, the Mongolian iron horse once again went south, the Southern Song Dynasty Fancheng fell, and the border defense of huainan was urgent.
Many of his aides fled, but he and a few others did not leave to assist Li Tingzhi in defending Huainan.
However, soon, the Southern Song Dynasty barrier Xiangyang City was breached, at this time Song Duzong died of illness, taking this opportunity, the Yuan army attacked Lin'an in one fell swoop.
Seeing that the Song Dynasty was about to perish, he and his chancellor Su Liuyi fled to Fuzhou with two young princes, Zhao Fu (赵昰) the Prince of Yi and Zhao Fu (赵昺) the Prince of Wei.
The eight-year-old Yiwang Zhao Yan was made emperor for Emperor Duanzong.
At that time, junchen was in exile on the seashore, the conditions were very hard, and Zhao Yan fell into the water and was frightened, and he actually fell ill and died.
The courtiers all wanted to surrender, but he resolutely stopped it, and said that there were still tens of thousands of troops, so why not fight to the death.
Therefore, he and the ministers jointly supported the King of Wei, and after joining zhang Shijie, they jointly stationed at Yashan Mountain.
However, he was also very sad in his heart.
Oh, yes! The Great Song Dynasty has been shaken by wind and rain, the Yuan army is desperately pursuing the little emperor, and the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty has fallen one after another, leaving only Yashan struggling.
The famous anti-Yuan general Wen Tianxiang was defeated and captured at Haifeng, and the anti-Yuan forces on land were destroyed.
At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty was already the end of the crossbow, was there really a possibility of restoration?
He kept asking himself inside.
Soon after, Zhang Hongfan led the Yuan army to attack the cliff gate, and the Yuan army arrived at the cliff mountain one after another, forming a three-sided encirclement of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Battle of Yashan Sea
In order to prevent the soldiers from fleeing, Zhang Shijie ordered the palaces, houses, and strongholds on land to be burned.
He also ordered more than a thousand Song army ships to use the method of "chain ships" to use large ropes to connect in the bay, resulting in the Yuan army attacking with fire and the Song army being defeated.
Seeing that he could not break through, he was determined to die in order not to repeat the humiliation of jing kang's shame a hundred years ago.
So he performed the most tragic scene in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, he drove his wife and children into the sea, and he committed suicide by jumping into the sea with the little emperor on his back!
More than 800 members of the Zhao and Song dynasties also collectively jumped into the sea to commit suicide, many loyal subjects followed, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea to martyr the country, so that the Southern Song Dynasty completely perished, and more than forty years of confrontation with Mongolia ended in failure!
He is the Southern Song Dynasty Zuo Cheng Xiang, the loyal soul of the Sea Kingdom Lu Xiufu!