Watch the History of Song with you (43): The Rising General Star Pan Mei destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty in one fell swoop

Text | Ning Caichen

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1. Sword Guide Han

Zhao Kuangyin could not defeat the Northern Han Dynasty, so he should still focus on the south. Nantang Li Yu was as warm as ever, making people embarrassed to say it. Wu Yue's monarch Qian Li was more obedient, and none of the others were called the state, and at most they were local forces. There is nothing to tangle, just the Southern Han Liu Gang.

There is no need to find a reason to beat Liu Xun, because the Liu family of the Southern Han Dynasty started from the founding emperor, it is a nest of eggs, beating bastards, everyone will only clap their hands and applaud, and no one will object.

Liu Xun was also a violent young man, and this man was similar to his father who had killed his country's former ministers and relatives of the Liu family. Later, Zhao Kuangyin learned that this person was only violent to his own people, and in the face of Zhao Kuangyin, who countered violence with violence, he obeyed like a chicken.

The Southern Han Dynasty was mainly located in the three provinces of present-day Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan. Hainan was still a barren land until the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Hai Rui was relegated to Hainan because he did not attract the emperor's liking, which was the farthest place that the imperial court could degrade at that time.

Guangxi and Guangdong were called Lingnan at that time, and the lychees in Lingnan were famous, and they were all eaten by Yang Guifei. Du Mu laughed at the red dust concubine, and no one knew that it was a lychee. Added a fire to the lychees of Lingnan.

But at that time, Lingnan was basically a barbarian land. However, outside the barbarian land, there is a place that has long been very prosperous, that is, Guangzhou. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Guangzhou's foreign trade was already very prosperous. During the Tang Dynasty, according to incomplete statistics, there were 500,000 people in Guangzhou.

Therefore, as long as Guangzhou is controlled, it is equivalent to controlling the Lingnan region, because the barbarians are still in a relatively backward tribal system, and their power and population are relatively scattered. The control of Guangzhou means that it has a large amount of money and food and an absolute advantage over the population.

Zhao Kuangyin also went to the Southern Han Dynasty for money, and the treasury of Later Shu Mengchang was moved to Zhao Kuangyin's court. Zhao Kuangyin had a house where he had saved money, and he had been preparing for the recovery of Yanyun in the future, planning to buy it with money first, and then use the money he had saved to recruit loyal and brave people, and fight with his opponents.

Liu Xun has money, but li yu and Qian Li are not obedient, who does not beat him?

The commander this time was the first general of the later Northern Song Dynasty, Pan Mei. This person was personally discovered and cultivated by Zhao Kuangyin, and this battle was the first battle in which Pan Mei became famous.

Saying that Pan Mei was the first general of the Northern Song Dynasty, there must be some people who disagree, and some people may list Li Jilong, Cao Bin, Yang Ye, Zhong Shiheng, Di Qing...

Li Jilong defeated Yelü Hugo twice, but both were in defense, lacking the record of destroying the country in attack; Cao Bin, let's not talk about it; After all, Yang Ye's battle achievements were mainly in the Northern Han Dynasty, and there was a lack of achievements in the Northern Song Dynasty; Seed Shiheng and Di Qing had bad luck, born in the renzong period, renzong did not like to fight, and seed shiheng basically defended all his life; When Di Qing fought with The Western Xia, the rank was too low, not a general, and later it was mainly to suppress the bandits, the bandits and the regular army could not be compared, if Di Qing could live to the time of the Divine Sect, the Divine Sect fought the Western Xia, using Di Qing as the commander, what would be the result? Unfortunately, history has no ifs, and Di Qing is also a tragedy.

And Pan Mei, who destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty, almost destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, and twice begged for Liao, Song Taizong was defeated, and Pan Mei was not defeated.

The Pan Mei mentioned here is the prototype of Pan Renmei in "Yang Jia Jiang". However, "The Yang Family General" deliberately wants to find a counterpart for the Yang family in order to highlight the contradictions and conflicts of the story.

At that time, it was Wang Pu's son Wang Nong who killed Yang Ye, but although this man's father was famous, he was a loyal man, and he himself was not famous enough, so it was obviously inappropriate to use such a person as the opponent of the Yang family.

And when Yang Ye died, Pan Mei was the commander, and since Yang Ye was loyal, then in the novel, Pan Mei was naturally evil.

Pan Mei is definitely the most wronged in history, and others have been wronged, generally after a few decades after death, hundreds of years after rehabilitation. Pan Mei has been wronged for thousands of years, and now, as my father's older generation mentioned Pan Mei, she still gritted her teeth.

You say, how can this person be so different from others?

Cao Bin, like Pan Mei, was a famous founding general of the Northern Song Dynasty, shining under Zhao Kuangyin, and together they recovered the Southern Tang and brought the Central Plains close to unification.

Later, during Emperor Taizong's Second Northern Expedition, Cao Bin was defeated as the main force in the middle of the road. However, later, Cao Bin became the first good general of the Northern Song Dynasty, was admired by the world, and was praised by posterity.

Pan Mei, that is the real victorious general, even if Song Taizong's second Northern Expedition, three roads go hand in hand, the other two roads have been defeated, but Pan Mei this road all the way to singing and slaming, repeatedly won. Unfortunately, the main army has been defeated, they as a countermeasure, no matter how many victories are meaningless, can only withdraw the army, and on the way to withdraw, there was a Yang Ye massacre.

This we will write about in detail later, this matter, in fact, has little to do with Pan Mei, but who let him be the manager? And this defeat, let Song Taizong lose face, although Cao Bin's defeat is the most thorough, but there is a lot of learning inside, Cao Bin has always been for Song Taizong's back, Cao Bin's defeat is Song Taizong's defeat. Therefore, the most thoroughly defeated Middle Route Army did not hold it accountable.

And the Northern Route Army, which won the battle, was completely handled because of Yang Ye's death. Pan Mei demoted the third rank of official, the superintendent Wang Nong "removed from the name, subordinate to Jinzhou", and Liu Wenyu "removed from the name, subordinate to Dengzhou".

After that, Pan Mei never turned over again. Pan Mei had a granddaughter who married Song Zhenzong, but that granddaughter died at the age of 22 and was posthumously honored as "Empress Zhanghuai". Among the Yangmen female generals, this granddaughter was written as the umbrella of the Panmei Palace.

Pan Mei is wronged, fortunately, with the improvement of the overall education level of Chinese people, more and more people are no longer satisfied with just opening the speech, more and more people read history, and more people understand a real Pan Mei.

2. The Family of the Southern Han Dynasty

The first emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty was Gaozu Liu Qi (劉䶮, in chinese). Please note that this character is not in the dictionary, this is a character made by Gaozu of the Southern Han Dynasty, which shows that this person is still very ambitious.

However, those who have ambitions are not necessarily heroes, they may also be bastards, and those who are mixed up in the boss position are also ambitious.

Liu Qi's ancestors moved to Quanzhou (present-day Fujian) because of their business in the South China Sea. At that time, this person was not called Liu Qi, but liu Zhi, called the empress dowager and changed his name to Liu Yan, and then felt that a stone under the mountain was too common, so he changed the rock character to 䶮.

Liu Qi originally wanted to fly the dragon in the sky, but he did not think that there were too many cattle people in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, not to mention those strong people in the Central Plains, just the Southern Tang Li Fu who was not far away from him, let Liu Qi look out of reach.

As a result, Liu Qi publicly announced that it would be difficult for a widow to become a Yao Shun Yu Tang in this life, but it would be a good way to go.

Frank enough, such a realm of thought is close to the current sea kings in the entertainment industry. Throughout ancient history, the emperor who said that the wind was so idyllic, only this one had no other branch.

During Liu Qi's reign, the palace was built every year, the grade was high, the decoration was gorgeous, everyone could let go of the brain and think boldly, it is estimated that it is unimaginable. After all, the place in Guangzhou, as a port city, is too rich. Across the sea, a bunch of aristocrats from barbarian countries need to consume Chinese luxuries.

Moreover, Liu Qi himself is very creative thinking, and at the same time, his face is thick, his courage is great, and the bottom line is low.

In addition to repairing the palace, this person likes to punish others, such as the author of my age, when I was a child, I should have seen the "List of Gods". The punishment of the courtiers by the King of Lu and Dai Ji was too shabby compared to Liu Qi.

Ordinary nasal irrigation, tongue cutting, amputation, steaming, etc., can no longer meet Liu Qi's sensory stimulation. This man built a water prison, likes to throw people into it, there are many southern snakes, artificially put in some more, that effect, we think about it all hit a spirit, people think it is interesting.

Also, Liu Qi sometimes idle panic, may have a sudden idea, throw people into hot water, and then take them out to expose them, sprinkle salt and wine when they are drying, dry them and then throw them into the water, so that they are steamed and dried, until the skin and flesh rot and slowly die. This man is not wasting time.

After this man's death, the people of Lingnan gave him a name "True Mirage", and the mirage was a demon, and no one surrendered.

Liu Qi was busy building palaces and torturing others all his life, and he had no time to educate his son. His sons all grew up casually, occasionally running and playing the game of seeing their fathers torturing people, so that they lost their childish hearts early.

After growing up, his sons were more fierce than one, Liu Zhao's eldest son Liu Yaoshu and his second son Liu Guitu died early, so the third liu Hongdu was established.

Liu Hongdu usually spends all day with rogue villains, and after taking the throne, he is as arrogant and lascivious as ever, and is not pro-government affairs.

"Gao Zu was at the funeral, making a happy night of drinking and dancing with a woman, teaching men and women to watch it. Left and right see the death, there is no one who dares to advise. ”

The ancients died their parents and generally had to keep filial piety for three years. Liu Hongdu did not say three years, 3 days did not keep. At the time of his father's funeral, he also drank and had fun with beautiful women in the palace. Whoever dares to have an opinion, pulls it out and cuts it, so no one dares to say a word.

Liu Hongdu did too many evil deeds, always afraid that his brother or other courtiers would harm himself, so every time there was a gathering and feasting, eunuchs were ordered to guard the door, and the courtiers and clan rooms were naked and searched.

Directors, managers, executives of the Southern Han Dynasty, where is the dignity!?

Liu Hongdu had a younger brother named Liu Hongxi, who was then the King of Jin. This man thought that it was of little significance to live like this without dignity every day, and he did not know that one day his brother would be mad, and he would be over.

To play, you have to grab the joystick in your own hands. Liu Hongdu has a hobby and likes hand combat. Liu Hongxi took advantage of this preference and threw himself into his favor, ordering the commanders chen Daoku to practice hand-to-hand combat with Chen Daoku's gravitationalists Liu Sichao, Tan Lingji, Lin Shaoqiang, Lin Shaoliang, and He Changting, and wait for Liu Hongdu to kill him after he was drunk at the Changchun Palace at night.

After Liu Hongxi succeeded to the throne, he changed his name to Liu Sheng (920-958), and Liu Sheng was absurd and tyrannical. This man went one step further on the basis of his father and brother, extending his clutches to his own family. His brothers and nephews were all killed, and his nieces were taken into the harem. Within a few years, Liu's family was almost killed by him.

Later, this man also built a living hell, and all the boiling water pots and iron soldering beds were all ready. When people commit small transgressions, they suffer from their punishment.

However, this man still had some deeds, and when the brothers of the Southern Chu Ma family interacted, Liu Sheng took this opportunity to send troops to attack the counties in the Guilin jurisdiction, as well as Binzhou, Lianzhou, Wuzhou, and Hezhou, all of which were conquered, and from then on all of them had the land of South Vietnam. The Territory of the Southern Han Dynasty in his hands had actually reached its peak.

With a little success, the man thought he was great, regarded cruelty as bravery, and disdained the emperor of the north. Guo Wei created the later zhou and sent emissaries to greet him. Before leaving, Liu Sheng sent a jasmine flower unique to Lingnan and asked the messenger to bring it to Guo Wei, who did not know what kind of flower it was. The emissary conveyed Liu Sheng's original words: "This is called Xiao Nanqiang."

Unfortunately, Guo Wei died early, and he did not have time to pay attention to Liu Sheng in his lifetime. Just smell the flowers, smile slightly, and throw them aside.

In the sixteenth year of the Southern Han Dynasty (958), Liu Sheng died, and Liu Jixing succeeded to the throne, changing his name to Liu Xun and Changing to Yuan Dabao.

Liu Xun was only 16 years old when he succeeded to the throne, and in terms of imperial age, he was older than Zhao Kuangyin.

During Liu Xun's reign, he inherited the absurdity of his father and grandfather. But add one: rule fainting. This addition led to a great decline in national strength and the erosion of the government.

Liu Xun believed that all the courtiers had families and would not be loyal in order to take care of their children and grandchildren, so they only trusted the eunuchs. The eunuchs were so good, childless, childless, carefree, and always on call. Which is like those courtiers, give them 996 is a blessing, they are not happy, the eunuch direct 007 seamless docking.

Therefore, there was a strange scene in the Southern Han Dynasty, and the subordinates had to be used in the palace, so that at one time the eunuchs were as high as 20,000 people, and it was difficult to find a full-fledged reader in the Southern Han Dynasty. If you have a little ambition, you don't read it, and it is useless to read it, and you can't be an official anyway.

Liu Xun was quite fond of a Persian woman, playing with her in the harem, who was black and fat, Liu Xun called her "beautiful pig", and called herself "Doctor Xiao Xian", which was also strange in taste. Although Yang Yuhuan is a little fat, he is white, and the so-called white covers up the ugliness. Liu Xun likes a black fat man, and the average person really can't understand it.

Later, Liu Xun handed over political affairs to the witch Fan Beard, and even Gong Chengshu and Lu Qiongxian were attached to her, and the political affairs were disordered.

Such a person, whoever beats him, will be a clamor of applause, and it will be more enjoyable than Wu Song's drunken beating of Jiang Menshen.

Zhao Kuangyin's banner against the Southern Han Dynasty was: I will save this side of the Li people. I believe that this is sincere.

3. Pan Mei destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty

In the thirteenth year of Dabao (the third year of the Northern Song Dynasty, 970), the Northern Song Sent tanzhou defense to make Pan Mei lead an army to attack the Southern Han.

Pan Mei was born in Daming County, Hebei Province. Five generations and ten kingdoms, Hebei is the era of famous generals. Pan Mei's father was an ordinary military academy, and it was destined that Pan Mei must start from the grassroots level.

When she was a teenager, Pan Mei said to her good friend Wang Mi: "The Han Dynasty will end, the fierce ministers will be raging, and there are signs of change in the four seas." The eldest husband does not make a meritorious name at this time, takes the riches, and does not do all things together, but shame on him!"

Later, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong fought the First Battle of Gao Pingyuan, because the emperor himself and Zhao Kuangyin performed too brilliantly, and the performance of others was ignored. In that battle, Pan Mei was promoted to deputy envoy of the Western Cabinet gate with merit. It can be seen that in that battle, he also made meritorious contributions.

Later, Pan Mei was appreciated by Zhao Kuangyin, and the Chen Qiao Incident was that Pan Mei went to Kaifeng City alone to report the news that Zhao Kuangyin was proclaimed emperor.

Now, it's time for Pan Mei to play. Because, compared to Cao Bin's gentleness, Pan Mei is more like a sharp sword, and when dealing with bastards, you should use a sharp sword.

Before leaving, Zhao Kuangyin whispered in Pan Mei's ear as usual, and Pan Mei went to battle with a very small number of soldiers and horses. Zhao Kuangyin fights wars, and fewer people do big things, which is the practice.

The Song army was stationed in Baixia. The old generals of the Southern Han Dynasty had been killed for rumors, and the clan rooms had also been wiped out, and only eunuchs were in charge of military power, and the city walls and moats were decorated as palaces and ponds; Ships, warships, weapons and armor, all decayed. Therefore, the Song army basically did not make any effort to capture Hezhou in the Southern Han Dynasty.

Pan Mei sat in Hezhou City, thinking about how to kill Panyu City as soon as possible, but unfortunately his troops were too small to divide the troops and rush forward, and the virtual reality was born, so he could only choose a road and rush all the way to Panyu.

However, before Pan Mei set out, his own troops could not be increased, and he decided to ask Liu Xun to help transfer some of the enemy troops. Therefore, Pan Mei claimed that this road came too tired, playing Panyu, let's take a boat to go, from HeShui straight to the Southern Han Kingdom.

When Liu Xun heard Pan Mei's words, he panicked a little, and hurriedly ordered Pan Chongche, the only remaining good general in the Southern Han Dynasty, to be the Inner Tai Division, and the horse infantry army was unified, giving him 30,000 horses and horses, and asking him to go north immediately, leaving others alone, and must guard Heshui.

Pan Chongche was on the road, with helplessness and self-deprecation, and he knew that the Southern Han was finished. As long as the slightly more normal people know where the gateway to the Southern Han Dynasty is, that is, Shaoguan. As for He Shui, let's talk about it, where do dozens of boats come from, they can destroy us?

However, although he understood, he did not dare to say that the emperors of the Southern Han Dynasty never welcomed others to put forward different opinions. So Pan Chongche went on the road, what can I do, it will be finished, such a Southern Han, today is not finished, it is also a matter of time. At least the 30,000 people in their hands do not need to be buried.

Pan Chongche tried his best to guard He Shui, and he could swear to the old leader Liu Sheng, heaven and earth, that He Shui would not be lost in his hands. Because, Pan Mei could not come here at all.

In October 970, Pan Mei's troops went out of Hezhou, killed thousands of people, attacked the Southern Han Kaijian Village, captured the Southern Han general Jin Hui, and the soldiers pointed directly at Zhaozhou and Guizhou, the two assassins were very cooperative, directly abandoned the city and fled, Pan Mei further conquered Lianzhou, Shaoguan was close at hand.

After losing 4 prefectures in a row, Liu Xun was suddenly very happy, and he said happily to people: "The four prefectures of Zhao, Gui, Lian, and He, which originally belonged to Hunan, are now satisfied with the Song army's seizure, and they will not attack us from the south, but there is no worry." "The extent of its ignorance is evident.

However, Liu Xun still decided to increase the number of troops in Shaoguan, this time, sending a super large force unique to the Southern Han Dynasty, elephants.

An elephant the size of a house, with armor and armor, sitting on it a soldier with an extra-long weapon, rushed to the infantry and cavalry of the Song Army, those horses, who could not be afraid to see it? Liu Xun was excited to think about it, so he did it, and others thought it was feasible.

In December 970, the Southern Han commander Li Chengwo met Pan Mei at the Lotus Peak outside Shaoguan City, and he used his ace, the Elephant Army, for the first time.

Pan Mei's response was simple and rough, but very courageous. He had the soldiers set up a horse-rejecting formation in front of the line, and then all the archers stood in front of the line and shot arrows at the elephants.

This is definitely a contest of courage, if you are scared in front of the battle, once you think of escaping, it will be over, the elephant herd will rush up, immediately will scatter your troops, and then, the Southern Han people will chase after the ass to cover up.

The elephant is coming, the bow and arrow thing, more than 100 meters, even if it can shoot, it has no power. It is only useful within 100 meters. The Song army had to withstand the pressure of the elephants running within a hundred meters and shoot arrows madly. This compares to nothing else, but courage.

An arrow can't hurt an elephant, and a dense rain of arrows passes, and the elephant is like a person being pricked by a horse bee, and it turns its head in pain and runs. Pan Mei followed the elephant, shooting arrows and rushing towards the enemy army, all the way into Shaoguan.

The gateway to the Southern Han Dynasty opened. In the fourteenth year of Dabao (the fourth year of the Northern Song Dynasty, 971), the Song army was advancing step by step, and Liu Xun selected more than a dozen ships, laden with gold and silver treasures and concubines, and prepared to flee into the sea.

Unfortunately, when the emperor who is generally slightly better escapes, he is protected by a bunch of people. For example, Emperor Gaozong of Song ran to the sea by a boat beaten by Emperor Yanzong. Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun were escorted by a bunch of people, and finally drove Yan Zongbi back to the north.

Liu Xun is a bastard, and when the bastard falls alone, a bunch of people just want to beat him. Before Liu Xun could prepare the gold and silver jewelry, the eunuchs and guards stole the ship and fled. They did not beat Liu Xun, leaving Pan Mei to beat.

4. Liu Xun descended to Song

The ship was stolen, Liu Xun could not go, and had to find a way to deal with Pan Mei. Liu Xun consulted with Gong Chengshu, Li Tuo, Xue Chongyu and others and quickly thought of ways to deal with it. They unanimously believed that the reason why the Song Army came to beat us was because there were too many good things in our country, and if all our good things were destroyed, would they still beat us, and would there be any point in beating us?

This idea is strange enough. Think of countermeasures and act immediately. Liu Xun burned down the palace, leaving only a pile of ashes for Pan Mei.

After the good things were burned, Liu Xun went out of the city and surrendered. Pan Mei, you see, my family has nothing left, you better go.

Pan Mei wanted to cry without tears, he came with a mission, and although Wang Quanbin took the national treasury of Chengdu as his own, he still handed over several boxes of gold and silver jewelry to Zhao Kuangyin. He was good, and originally thought that the Southern Han was richer than Later Shu. Unexpectedly, to this day, not a penny has been left.

Unable to explain to Zhao Kuangyin, Pan Mei had to continue to stay in the Southern Han Dynasty and handle the trivial matters in the back beautifully to atone for her sins. At the same time, Liu Xun, Gong Chengshu and others were sent to Kaifeng to obey Zhao Kuangyin.

When he arrived in Kaifeng, Zhao Kuangyin asked about the burning of the imperial palace and the treasury, and Liu Xun put all the responsibility on Gong Chengshu and others.

Liu Xun said: "The sixteenth year of the subject's false number, Chengshu, etc. are all former subjects, and in every matter, the subjects are not free, and when they are in the country, the subjects are the subordinates, and the Chengshu is the lord of the country."

How shameless, all things were pushed clean, it was those ministers and eunuchs who blackmailed the princes of Tianzi, and bad things were done by them.

Gong Chengshu and the others acquiesced, did not deny or refute, and as a result, they were all pulled down by Zhao Kuangyin and cut down.

On May 1, 971, Liu Xun was tied around the neck by Zhao Kuangyin with a cloth and dragged like a dog to a captive ceremony at the Taimiao Temple, after which he was pardoned and given the title of Right Qianniu Wei Grand General, with the title of Grace Pardon, and lived in the Jiangjing Villa prepared by Zhao Kuangyin.

Liu Xun's body is plump and his eyebrows are clear. Ingenious and eloquent, he once used beads to tie the saddle into the shape of a dragon and offer it to Song Taizu. Song Taizu therefore sighed and said, "If Liu Xun can use this skill to govern the country, how can he perish?"

After Liu Xun surrendered to the Song Dynasty, he did things carefully, going to the court early every day, and the last one left to prove that he was within the scope of surveillance. One day, Song Taizu was talking about the Wutang feast, and Liu Xun was the first to arrive. Others have not yet come, Zhao Kuangyin looked at Liu Xun, two people, there is no one else, then drink a cup, give a glass of wine to Liu Xun.

As a result, Liu Xun immediately cried in fear, trembling, just did not dare to drink, knelt on the ground and kept prostrating his head, and said incoherently: "I am fighting against the imperial court, let you send an army on an expedition, this is my mistake." But I have surrendered, and I have been very obedient since I surrendered, so you should let me be a submissive, and this wine really does not dare to drink."

Zhao Kuangyin's second monk was confused, and after Liu Xun's explanation, Zhao Kuangyin finally understood. It turned out that this bastard had treated his courtiers like this before, and when he saw that it was unpleasant, he would give him a glass of wine, but all he gave was poisonous wine.

Zhao Kuangyin laughed after listening to it: "How can you do this when you push people with a pure heart?" After taking Liu Xun's wine glass and drinking it all, let the left and right pour a cup for Liu Xun again.

Liu Xun was ashamed, so he dared to drink.

In the fourth year of the Reign of The Song Dynasty (979), Emperor Taizong of Song sent a feast to Pan Mei and other generals at the Changchun Hall. At that time, Liu Xun and the former Wuyue king Qian Li, who had already surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and the former Qingyuan Jiedu made Chen Hongjin participate.

Liu Xun suddenly stood up and said: "The imperial court will spread far and wide, and the monarchs who have usurped the throne in the four directions are all here today, and soon Taiyuan will be pacified, Liu Jiyuan will arrive again, and the subjects will take the lead in coming to the court, hoping to hold a stick and become the boss of the surrendered kings of various countries." ”

Song Taizong laughed loudly because of this, just as he was on the expedition, this word was a good lottery, and Song Taizong rewarded Liu Xun with a lot of good things.

Former Shu Liu Chan was happy here, not thinking about Shu, compared to Liu Xun, I am afraid that I am ashamed of myself.

Unfortunately, after Emperor Taizong of Song defeated the Northern Han Dynasty, the Liao dynasty failed. Song Taizong was a man of great self-esteem, and if he could drive the Liao people out of Yanyun, then he could also brag in front of these descending kings. Unfortunately, the failure of the Northern Expedition was disgraced, and no matter how you look at it, you feel that these people are looking at their own jokes.

In March 980, Liu Xun died at the age of thirty-nine, the cause of death is unknown, and the official announcement is that he died of illness. However, Li Yu, Qian Li, Zhao Guangyi's younger brother Zhao Tingmei, and Zhao Kuangyin's son Zhao Defang all seemed to have died like this...

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References: Zizhi Tongjian, History of Song, History of the Five Dynasties, Biography of Su Dongpo, Record of Taizu, Eighteen Emperors of the Song Dynasty, If This Is the History of Song, etc.