"Grandson, my grandfather's greatest wish in this life is that Kyushu be the same and our people will be one."
"Gather all the rebels, drive all the Jin people out of Shandong, and recover their homeland."
"The Taiping Army obeyed the order and broke through the Camp of the Golden Army with me."
Many years later, when Xin Renjie, who was lying in bed, shouted "kill the thief", his ears seemed to echo the high hopes that his grandfather had pinned on him to recover the lost land and unify the mountains and rivers, and the picture of pursuing the enemy with the soldiers for thousands of miles and hand-bladed the enemy came to mind.
When it comes to Xin Shuyi, it is easy to think that he is a literary hero who wrote more than 600 words. However, few people know that he is also a warrior who wants to unify the mountains and rivers.
Raise the sword into battle, capture the living among thousands of troops and horses; write words with a pen, and let us memorize texts for thousands of years. Next, let's talk about this writer who came from a martial background but eventually became a literary artist.
In the heart of the Golden Camp in Song
After the "Jingkang Revolution" that subverted Beijing, the flag of the Jin Dynasty was planted on the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, the kings were reduced to prisoners, and the people fled south.
Xin Zan, the grandfather of Xin Abandoned Disease, was unable to move south with the family in time because of the excessive number of family members, the weakness of his son, and the need for livelihood, but remained in the territory occupied by the Jin Dynasty.
For the sake of the survival of the whole family, Xin Zan accepted the official position granted by Jin Guo, first, to avoid the suffering that his family had to endure when they were displaced, and second, he thought that one day he would be able to wash away the shame of blood after lying down and tasting his guts like the gouge of the Yue Kingdom.
In 1140, a baby boy was born in the Xin family, and his grandfather Xin Zan named him "Abandoned Disease" in the hope that his grandson would be healthy. The original meaning of "abandoning disease" and "going to disease" is the same, so the word "abandoning disease" has more meaning than the famous General of the Han Dynasty "Huo to go to disease". Xin Zan hoped that his grandson could also be like Huo Toyi to fight off the Xiongnu, leaving behind the ancient meritorious name of "sealing the wolf Juxu" and unifying the mountains and rivers for the Great Song Dynasty.
Under the guidance of his teacher Liu Zhan and his grandfather, Xin Zhiyi made great progress, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, astrological gossip, arrays of soldiers, qimen and armor, and everything was proficient, which can be described as both literature and martial arts.
Grandfather often took him up high and looked far away, pointing to the Great Song River and Mountain, telling the hatred of the king's father and the hatred of the subjugation of the country. Xin Zan often warned his grandson not to forget that he was a descendant of the Great Song Dynasty, and that when he grew up, he must repel the Jin army and unify the motherland.
Xin grew up in the environment of the brutal rule of the Jin people, and was taught by his grandfather for many years, so he was very young and shouldered the heavy responsibility of recovering mountains and rivers, always hoping to grow up soon and then go to battle to kill the enemy.
The flag of the prime of the year embraces the ten thousand men
In 1161, the Jin lord Yan Liang once again raised an army to the south, hoping to squeeze the Great Song again. This year, Xin gathered more than 2,000 people to prepare for the uprising against jin.
At that time, the anti-Jin uprising team was not only Xin Abandoned Disease. Among them, the Balance Army, which already had a certain strength, was led by Geng Jing, and Xin Zhiyi immediately led the team to join, and also persuaded his friend, a monk named Yiduan, to join the camp.
However, Yiduan defected halfway and stole the rebel seal. In the face of Geng Jing and his brothers' suspicions about him, Xin Did not have the slightest intention of evading, but made a military order that "within three days, the head of the traitor will come to see you."
Xin Qijie analyzed the reason why Yi Duan fled and stole the seal, and he was definitely going to defect to the Jin Kingdom. Therefore, he quickly chased in the direction of the Jinguo military camp, and sure enough, he intercepted Yiduan halfway, and then he carried the head of Yiduan back to his life.
This not only cleared the suspicion, but also made Geng Jing and everyone look at Xin Renyi with disdain. After that, the military's large and small matters were discussed between Geng Jing and Xin Shuyi.
Soon after, civil unrest broke out in the Jin army. While Yan Liang was attacking The Song Dynasty, Yan Yong raised an army to usurp the throne and also killed Yan Liang. Xin and Jia Rui hurried south to contact the Song army, and said that 250,000 soldiers were willing to return to the Song and jointly resist Jin. At the head of the crisis, there were reinforcements to rescue the emergency, and the imperial court was also very happy, and agreed to give the rebel army more than 200 military ranks on the spot.
Returning with the good news that the imperial court was willing to accept the rebel army, Xin Abandoned Disease heard bad news: the rebel army was gone. It turned out that a month after he went south, the general Zhang Anguo rebelled, killed Geng Jing, and defected to the Jin state. The rebels descended, fled, and lost their lives.
Enraged, Xin Wanted to avenge Geng Jing, xin immediately recalled 50 men from the collapsed rebel army, attacked the enemy camp at night, and faced 50,000 enemy troops without any timidity. He really captured the traitor Zhang Anguo and sent him back to Jiankang to be disposed of by the imperial court.
The battle to capture traitors among thousands of troops and horses made the 23-year-old Xin abandon his reputation in the world, and Emperor Gaozong of Song issued three consecutive "young heroes" and summoned him.
At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs were not comfortable with Xin Renjie, a "reformed person" who had defected from the north, so in the end the emperor only gave him a petty official who signed a sentence in Jiangyin, and did not let him lead troops to fight.
Abandoning the disease is like going to the disease, but Emperor Gaozong is not Han Wu.
At that time, Xin Abandoned Disease thought that he was young and vigorous, and there was still a lot of time to prove himself, so as to win the opportunity to go into battle and kill the enemy. But he didn't know that this petty officer had been a 20-year-old official.
Traverse the Chu Mountains and Rivers
When Jiangyin signed the verdict, Xin Zhiyi noticed that the emperor had the idea of recovering the lost land, so he began to write down anti-gold strategies such as "Ten Treatises on Meiqin" and "Nine Discussions", analyzed the current situation of the defeat of Yan Liang's army and the large-scale uprising of the people in the Central Plains, and also offered good strategies such as attracting the people to go south and resolving contradictions in the army.
Although Song Xiaozong admired Xin's talents and wanted to adopt these suggestions, the Qunchen did not agree. In the end, strategic papers such as "Ten Treatises on Meiqin" were only appreciated for a while, and then they were shelved.
The imperial court was reluctant to send troops to the Northern Expedition according to Xin's wishes, for two main reasons:
First, the Great Song Dynasty was established by relying on the rebellion of military generals, so the imperial military generals were the same as the anti-thieves, not to mention that it was Xin Renyi, who had the identity of a "reformed person";
Second, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were paid a high salary, which was based on the small expenditure of the army. The Northern Expedition was bound to involve a great deal of military expenditure, which would inevitably harm the interests of the officials, so the ministers were certainly opposed to the Northern Expedition.
Therefore, in order to break the idea of Xin abandoning the disease and the Northern Expedition, the officials often jointly wrote to the emperor to "secretly calculate" Xin abandoning the disease and let him do some work far away from the military. At this time, the ministers were also secretly observing, hoping to find some handles to abandon the disease.
In 1164, Xin was transferred to guangde tongjue, and was also responsible for some civil governance work that helped the people resolve disputes and build villages. Despite this, Xin zhiyi worked diligently to complete his task. The upright and honest Xin abandoned the disease and was loved by the people, and was often praised by the emperor.
The Qunchen felt that things were not good, and "instigated" the emperor to transfer Xin to the barren Chuzhou as the prefect, which seemed to be promoted, but it was actually suppressed. Because of the war between Jin and Song, Chuzhou was the first place to bear the brunt of it, and after the war, Chuzhou was already devastated, desolate and sparsely populated. If you want to revitalize Chuzhou, it is easy to talk about.
But what the ministers never expected was that Xin Qiyi used the strategy in his "Ten Treatises on Meiqin" to the problem of governing Chuzhou, and he grasped the infrastructure construction, reduced taxes, and attracted merchants and people to live in Chuzhou. In just half a year, he restored the desolate Chuzhou to a thriving scene.
As a result, the "secret calculations" of the ministers became more and more intense, and the frequency of Xin's transfer was also getting higher and higher, and the transfer site was also farther and farther away than once. During His career as an official, he was impeached 43 times and transferred 15 times.
In the end, Xin was transferred to the Hunan area of Jiangxi to suppress the bandits. Xin Ren, who made the Jin Army feel frightened, naturally had to deal with such things as suppressing bandits. He not only completed the task of suppressing bandits, but also set up the Flying Tiger Army, which was specifically responsible for the work of eliminating violence and safety.
Xin Qiyi thought that the imperial court would eventually see his efforts and would definitely let him lead his troops to fight and recover the lost land.
But what he did not expect was an edict to dismiss the official, because he touched the military power and used the money of the imperial court to form the Flying Tiger Army.
The upper can point out the country and the mountains, the lower can worry about the people's hard work and abandonment, and after 20 years of hard work and resentment, what they get is not appreciation, but exclusion.
This year, he was 43 years old.
Eighteen years of retirement
Xin Abandoned, who had resigned from the official, returned to his Jiangxi residence to recuperate and called himself "Jiaxuan Resident". He can only use ink as a company and write words to vent his anger.
The exclusion he had suffered for so many years and the resentment of the Northern Expedition that had always been unmotivated were vented on the paper and ink by him.
"When he was young and did not know the taste of sorrow", he used to "say sorry for the new words", and "now when he knows all the taste of sorrow", he can only "say that the sky is cold and autumn".
Although Xin can enjoy the beautiful life of "saying good years in the fragrance of rice flowers and listening to the sound of frogs" after retiring from the disease, the most important thing in his heart is to recover the rivers and mountains and settle the Central Plains in the north.
Even the dream is "drunkenly picking up the lamp to see the sword, dreaming back to blow the horn company camp" and "the battlefield autumn point soldiers" scene. But back to reality, he could only get together with like-minded friends to talk about his Northern Expedition plan and his deeds in resisting Jin, but he failed to appreciate his "Liu Xuande" Sangu Maolu and respond to his full ambitions.
In the end, he didn't even have the idea of talking freely with his friends. Those friends who were concerned about the country, Zhu Xi, Chen Liang, and so on, all went away before him, and after that, Xin abandoned his heartache, resentment, and grand ambitions, and could only tell himself.
At this time, he himself was full of white hair. When he was young, he was full of vigor and ambition, and his desire to build the Great Song River Mountain with like-minded friends could only be kept in his heart in the end.
The boy's heart is like iron
Xin, who had unfulfilled ambitions and lost his friends, was reluctant to mention the Northern Expedition on weekdays. At this moment, the imperial court sent news of the Northern Expedition that made his heart and mind, and he wanted to activate the Xin abandoning disease of the main war faction.
Ten years of drinking ice, hard to cool the blood. Although Xin Washi was 64 years old at this time, when he heard the news, his blood suddenly surged up, as if he had returned to the time when he was full of spirits.
In 1203, Xin was appointed prefect of Shaoxing and the pacification of eastern Zhejiang. He immediately told the emperor that the Southern Song Dynasty had not had a Northern Expedition for decades, and the result of rushing out of the army could only be a fiasco, and it was necessary to prepare grain and grass and prepare a well-trained army in order to take the Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop.
Subsequently, he made non-stop preparations for the Northern Expedition, bound his many years of Northern Expedition plans into a book for the soldiers to read, prepared grain and grass, trained soldiers, refined equipment, and went out at any time.
However, whether it was food or training, the soldiers did not listen to Xin's orders at all, and he could not mobilize a single soldier at all. It turned out that the official position given to him by the imperial court was just a decoration, just to use the prestige of Xin Touyi to scare off the Jin army, and the emperor did not intend to let him lead troops to kill the enemy.
The suggestion that we should not rush to send troops was also left behind by the imperial court, which insisted on sending troops to the Northern Expedition immediately. Sure enough, news from the front line was nothing more than the defeat and retreat of our army and heavy losses. However, Xin Renyi could only suffer in his heart and pain in his heart.
A person who had planned for almost a lifetime for the Northern Expedition could not "sit still in the southeast war" like Sun Quan, and could only silently climb the BeiguLou and sigh that he "where to look at Shenzhou, full of scenery beigulou".
In 1207, when the Jin army came to the city, the emperor and his courtiers were anxious, and only then did they remember to let Xin abandon the disease and lead the troops to resist. But at this time, Xin Abandoned's disease had already accumulated into a disease, and he was lying in bed.
When Xin heard that the imperial court had finally asked him to lead the troops out on the expedition, he struggled to get up from his hospital bed, wanted to put on his armor, pick up his sword, and rush to the enemy army. But he could only use his last strength to shout on the bed, "Kill the thief, kill the thief, kill the thief."
On October 3, 1207, the man, who had spent almost his whole life "picking up the lamp and looking at the sword in his dreams", still dropped his armor and sword and died.
His grand ambition of "doing things for the king and winning the name of his life and death" was only his own lonely self-congratulations of "looking back, but the man was in the middle of the lights".
This is the life of Xin Renjie.
When later generations mentioned Xin Abandoned Disease, most of them thought of the "dragon in words" who wrote more than 600 words, which should not be the name he himself most wanted to leave in history, and the impression he most wanted to leave on posterity should be "a famous patriotic general of the Southern Song Dynasty".
Xin Zhiyi is just like our people's children and soldiers today, whether it is the ancients thousands of years ago or the Chinese now, we will always be protected by the bravest people. It is precisely with such people that we have the continuation of our nation.
Author | lamb
Review | Mr. Mani Miao, Happy Girl