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Candlelight Axe Shadow: The three conquests of the Northern Han Dynasty have not been completed, leaving behind the alliance of Jinxiang, the mystery left by a generation of founding heroes

author:The sun smiled all over the building

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On the third day of the first lunar month in the eighth year of Kaibao (975), the Song army broke through the Lishui River, and then fought fiercely with 100,000 Southern Tang troops on the Qinhuai River, defeated the Southern Tang army, and approached Jiangning City. Jiangning was conquered in November, Li Yu surrendered, and Southern Tang perished. After the fall of Southern Tang, Emperor Taizu of Song Zhao Kuangyin actively prepared to send troops, and in the ninth year of Kaibao (976), Zhao Kuangyin attacked Northern Han for the third time.

Song Taizu was very calm whether he used troops or governed the country, but whenever he eliminated a big country, he would spend two to three years to solve the contradictions in the new homeland, deal with various problems, and develop the people's livelihood, so as to achieve the goal of returning to the heart of the world. But this time, as soon as Jiangnan was pacified, he immediately went out of the Northern Han Dynasty, whether he was too eager. Compared with the Southern Tang, the Northern Han State was weak and weak, and occupying the Northern Han could not bring much economic benefits to the Great Song, and attacking the Northern Han would inevitably touch the Liao State, what was the reason why Zhao Kuangyin was so eager to attack the Northern Han?

Could it be that as the king of a country, he still had to consolidate his power by relying on the prestige and fame brought by the capture of the Northern Han Dynasty?

Candlelight Axe Shadow: The three conquests of the Northern Han Dynasty have not been completed, leaving behind the alliance of Jinxiang, the mystery left by a generation of founding heroes

The Golden Alliance

History is always elusive, and there are always events in the course of history that feel strange. The "Golden Alliance" recorded in the private history of the Northern Song Dynasty is such a mysterious and strange thing, which makes people fully feel that once the wheel of history starts, there will always be some events that are not controlled by manpower, even emperors, can not stop their occurrence.

According to rumors, Zhao Kuangyin's biological mother Empress Dowager Du once asked Zhao Kuangyin: "Do you know why you can win the world?" Zhao Kuangyin replied: "It's the ancestor's accumulation of virtue!" Empress Dowager Du shook her head and said, "That's because the emperor of Later Zhou was young and the Lord Shao was suspicious, so you were able to add yellow robes." Therefore, in the future, I should pass the throne to your younger brother Guangyi, so that my Great Song Jiangshan can be forever. Zhao Kuangyin kowtowed and said, "Be sure to do what my mother says." Therefore, Empress Dowager Du ordered Zhao Pu to draft a covenant and hide it in the golden vault. This is the famous Golden Alliance.

However, there is no clear and unified statement on the origin, content, participants, writers, publicity or not, and collection of the affidavit of the Golden Alliance. Many people think that the authenticity of the Golden Alliance is difficult to distinguish, and even if it is true, its content is very controversial. At least many people believe that even if the covenant is true, the original "Three Transmission Covenant" is the real "Golden Alliance", and the later announced "Single Transmission Covenant" is Zhao Guangyi's tampering with the original "Golden Alliance" in order to retain the imperial throne inheritance in his own lineage.

Candlelight Axe Shadow: The three conquests of the Northern Han Dynasty have not been completed, leaving behind the alliance of Jinxiang, the mystery left by a generation of founding heroes

The fog of history is so thick that to this day we can completely restore the truth of history. But combined with Song Taizu's eagerness to attack the Northern Han Dynasty after Pingnan and Tang, we might as well make a bold assumption. That is, the internal stability of the Song Dynasty at that time was actually unstable, and the forces led by Zhao Jiong had already challenged and threatened Zhao Kuangyin's imperial power. Zhao Kuangyin was obviously aware of this threat and began to consciously weaken Zhao Jiong's power, which led to the so-called dispute over moving the capital, and after the relocation was successful, he hoped to attack the Northern Han Dynasty to establish his supreme achievement in opening up territory, and then rely on his great personal prestige to suppress Zhao Jiong's power and train his son to become an experienced heir.

After all, it is already unreasonable not to pass on the eldest son but to the younger brother, not to mention that the "Golden Alliance" only mentions that the legend is located in Zhao Jiong, and it is even more unreasonable to mention that the retransmission is located in Zhao Kuangyin's eldest son. Because the child was young and afraid of being bullied, the co-author eldest brother gave the family business to his younger brother to take care of, and when the child became an adult, the uncle continued to occupy the eldest brother's family business and did not return it to his nephew.

The main reason why Zhao Kuangyin was so eager to attack the Northern Han Dynasty was probably not to open up territory, but to enhance personal prestige, suppress Zhao Jiong, and clear the obstacles to inheritance for his descendants. After sweeping the Northern Han Dynasty, the situation faced by the Great Song Dynasty was much stronger than that of Later Zhou, and coupled with Zhao Kuangyin's balanced strategy of using culture to dominate the armed forces, it was basically impossible to perform another yellow robe and add to his body. So the only threat can only be from the power struggle within the empire, and it can only be the struggle for the imperial throne within the royal family.

Candlelight axe shadow

In the eighth lunar month of 976, Zhao Kuangyin issued the order to march north, and the five armies marched together and sent troops to Taiyuan. Compared with the previous two northern expeditions, this time, the Song Dynasty was more powerful and stronger. After pacifying the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Song soldiers who went north with the power of tigers and wolves, under the leadership of Pan Mei, Dang Jin and other battlefield generals, could be described as unstoppable.

Liu Jien, who was terrified by the Northern Han Dynasty, had to ask the Liao State for help again, and the Liao State sent Yerusha, the prime minister of the Southern Yuan, and Tar, the king of Ji, came to the rescue with heavy troops.

A bloody battle is at hand, the Great Song army at the peak of combat power and the grassland iron cavalry of the Liao State will have a head-to-head confrontation, although the victory or defeat is unpredictable, but if this war really happens, it is likely to change the trend of history, which is a rare opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty, and may be the only opportunity, because at this moment, they are led by the invincible wise king, the founding emperor who flattened the kingdoms and never forgot to recover Yanyun - Zhao Kuangyin.

However, the development of history is always so ruthless, a piece of news is like a thunder on the ground, so that the army under Taiyuan City fell into confusion for a while. Their monarch, the hero who swept the unai with majesty, the gentle monarch who released the power of the army with a cup of wine and made the oath of the Taizu monument, actually died. He did not wait for his army to return to the dynasty in triumph, did not complete the plan to capture the Northern Han Dynasty, and did not realize the great cause of recovering Yanyun, and on the night of October 19, the ninth year of Kaibao (976), a generation of heroes died mysteriously.

Candlelight Axe Shadow: The three conquests of the Northern Han Dynasty have not been completed, leaving behind the alliance of Jinxiang, the mystery left by a generation of founding heroes

The death of Song Taizu is very bizarre, and there are explanations throughout the ages, but the saying of "candle shadow axe" in "Continuing Xiangshan Yelu" is popular in the world:

"The haze was everywhere, the weather changed sharply, and the hail plummeted", Zhao Kuangyin, who was already ill at the time, ordered Zhao Jiong, the king of Jin, to enter the palace to drink and discuss matters, and he could not hear it. During the banquet, some people saw Zhao Jiong leaving the table from time to time under the candlelight, and they were evasive. When the drink was over, about the next day, the snow outside the hall was piled up several inches high, only to hear Zhao Kuangyin lead the pillar axe to the ground, and loudly said to Zhao Jiong: "Good for it", and then undressed and went to bed, snoring like thunder. At the fourth change, Zhao Kuangyin was found dead in the Banzai Hall, and then Zhao Jiong succeeded to the throne.

epilogue

Candlelight Axe Shadow: The three conquests of the Northern Han Dynasty have not been completed, leaving behind the alliance of Jinxiang, the mystery left by a generation of founding heroes

Zhao Kuangyin died with regret after all, he quickly organized the third northern expedition to the Northern Han Dynasty just after pacifying the Southern Tang, in order to offset the threat of an internal force to the imperial power through a big victory, but the army had not yet returned, such an emperor died mysteriously on a snowy night full of doubts, his death became an ancient doubt, and his death also ruined the hope of the Great Song Dynasty to unify the world. The Great Song Forbidden Army under Megatron, which he participated in establishing, also lost its spirit due to his death, and gradually lost its ability to deter the enemy. The road to the demise of the empire began, and the Han nation also went to the road of hardship of surviving under the iron feet of foreign races for hundreds of years.

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