The Northern Song Dynasty Xiongzhou General Shoulu No. 17 Poetry Book General Liu Ping

Seventeen Poetry Book General Liu Ping

Liu Ping was born in the sixth year of Kaibao (973), his family was in Xiangfu County, directly under the capital, and his father Liu Hanning was a military attaché who had followed Emperor Taizong of Song in his conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty, and had made military merits for the two cities of Lianke. In the first year of the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song (1004), he was ordered to lead an army to cooperate with the general Jing Si in the area of Mozhou (present-day Renqiubei, Hebei) to block the Liao Dynasty's southern expeditionary army.

Liu Ping was born as a shogun, although he was infected by the family environment, he practiced kung fu since he was a child, could ride and shoot well, and formed the disposition of "just straight and straight", but he did not follow the path of most of the children of the family to follow their fathers to the martial arts. Why? He was well aware of the imperial court's determination to advocate "advocating literature and suppressing martial arts", and realized that the era of relying on martial courage to get ahead had passed, so he aimed at the imperial examination, angrily studied, and gave up the opportunity to supplement low-level martial posts to his brothers. In the second year of Jingde, Liu Ping was 33 years old in the scientific expedition, although it was not a teenager's pride, but it had greatly surpassed its peers and ranked among the scholars. The Song Dynasty officialdom was the most important examination, so that entering the army was the right way to enter the class, almost all the ministers and ministers were from this, and even the children of civilians could be promoted to the prime minister, while other bureaucrats' children were supplemented, officials were discharged from the post, and military merits were all miscellaneous classes, and their promotion was far less than that of those who were born in the imperial examination.

Liu Pingzhongju's first official post after that was that of Wuxi (now part of Jiangsu) County Lieutenant (from Jiupin), specifically responsible for the county's public security, equivalent to the current county public security bureau chief. Wuxi belonged to the Taihu Lake Basin is a rich area, when a group of thieves came from the west of Zhejiang, the leader of the good to make a long gun, nicknamed "Liu Tie Gun", Liu Tie Gun everywhere to rob the house, the neighbors where they went complained. Coinciding with the New Year's Day festival, liu Ping, a county lieutenant, and his colleagues went to Wuxi Zhixian to pay respects to the New Year, and they did not think that the official authority of The county was very large, and they sat on a chair without blinking their eyelids. Liu Ping's violent temper came up, coupled with the gossip of his colleagues, it was intolerable that he rushed up and pulled Zhixian off the chair and beat him fiercely, and his colleagues panicked and came up to grab Liu Ping. Liu Ping did not listen to their persuasion, and there was no way for his colleagues to pull up this sad Zhixian and run to the back room. Some people said, why don't you run outside, run outside Liu Ping still have to go home, see Zhixian does not have to beat him? When the people hurriedly rescued the chief, he calmly went home, and when he returned home, he still poured himself a drink, and as a result, he was so drunk that he threw the matter of Dazhi County out of the cloud of nine clouds. The next day, the news came out that people were talking about it, some said that Liu Xian was too bold to be unlucky, and some people were considering how the bandits would deal with it in the future. Liu Tiegun and his gang were even more unscrupulous when they heard the news, and they ganged up to gather in the market outside the city to drink. Unexpectedly, Liu Ping had sent people to secretly follow him, so he learned of the bandits' movements in time, and he immediately led his archers to surround the other side. Liu Ping bore the brunt of it, swinging his book and directly killing the already drunken "Liu Tie gun" and five backbones, directly killing them, and then arresting the remaining twenty or so people. Here is a special introduction to the weapon used by Liu Ping called "Book" and 殳 is the same weapon, similar to a stick, but this stick has edges and angles, and it is very sharp. After the bandits were suppressed, Zhixian reported him to the imperial court along with the thief and the beating of his superiors. Presumably, it was to relieve the troublesome local disaster, so the envoy in charge of the civil finance of benlu had a high evaluation of Liu Ping, so he recommended him, and as a result, he was not only not unlucky, but also promoted because of his merits, and was promoted to Zhi County of Yanling County (now part of Henan) in Kaifeng Province.

In the eighth year of DazhongXiangfu (1015), Liu Ping was relieved of his official duties due to the death of his father. On the way back to Beijing, they encountered more than ten bandits robbing, these bandits are also not long-eyed, and who can rob them can't do it, they have to rob Liu Ping. Liu Ping didn't say a word, Zhang Bow took the arrow and fired three arrows at the same time, and in an instant, the three bandits were killed on the spot, and the rest of the bandits were frightened and scattered and fled. This scene was just seen by the prime minister Kou Zhun, who inquired and learned that it was Liu Hanning's son. Kou Zhun's mind is worthy of being a tiger in the door, and this son will definitely become a pillar of the country. Therefore, the chancellor Kou Zhun personally recommended Liu Ping to the imperial court, so he was officially promoted to Luzhou Zhizhou, and his official title was also moved to the palace of Zhengbapin.

In May of the first year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1017), Liu Ping was summoned to the imperial court and served as the inspector of Zhengbapin. According to the rules of this dynasty, the supervision of the imperial history was an official of the imperial court's highest supervision organ, the imperial history, and although the official rank was not prominent, he shouldered the responsibility of supervising and impeaching hundred officials, and was always valued by the son of heaven and courtiers. When he first served as a Taiwan counselor, Liu Ping had the courage to discuss things and pointed out the maladministration of the government, which left a deep impression on the ministers. Two years later, Liu Ping concurrently served as the Judge of the Third Division, that is, he was awarded a part-time job in the highest financial and economic organ of the central government. The three divisions are under the jurisdiction of the household department, salt and iron, and the degree branch, and the judges are deputies of each ministry, and the powers and responsibilities are not small.

Liu Ping's fourteenth year of politics, from the local to the central, experience is not shallow, and the 47-year-old is the time of vigorous energy, coupled with the emperor's good feelings, so Liu Ping let go of his hands and feet, did not avoid the magnates, and criticized the government several times. But because of this, he offended the right to say that he had planted the seeds of bad luck. According to records, Emperor Zhenzong of Song, appreciating Liu Ping's talents, intended to reuse him. Ding Shu, who was good at exercising power, took the opportunity to tell the emperor: Liu Ping was the son of a general and had always known soldiers, and if he was sent to the northwest to unify the army, it would be enough to restrain the party. Ding Zhi's compliments, in fact, concealed calculations, not only immediately dispelled tianzi's thoughts, but also ruined Liu Ping's bright prospects as a civilian official.

In his later years, Song Zhenzong was ill and probably suffered from stroke, so he was often unable to manage the government. Ding Formed an internal and external alliance with Empress Liu, and the party was in a different position, and expelled the newly reinstated chancellor Kou Zhun and his successor Li Di from the dynasty, thus controlling the government. Both Kou and Li had a good relationship with Liu Ping, one was a former protector, the other was the same year, and now that the mountain has fallen, his official fortunes are naturally not smooth. When the Shaanxi transit envoys were vacant, Liu Ping was appointed, but soon after he was demoted to Xiangzhou (襄州, in modern Xiangfan, Hubei) as a zhizhou (知州) due to a disagreement with his deputy.

In February of the first year of Qianxing (1022), Emperor Zhenzong of Song died and Emperor Renzong took the throne. Liu Ping came to run, and his nemesis Ding Shu stepped down, and he was promoted to the position of attendant from Liupin. The following year, at the beginning of the first year of the Tiansheng Dynasty (1023), Liu Ping was again recalled to the dynasty to restore the dispatch of the Three Divisions salt and iron judges. In June, the Song Dynasty deployed Tian Min, the deputy capital of Huanqing Road, who was fighting on the Xia front, and for some reason dismissed the official, and this change in military attaché personnel thousands of miles away from Kaifeng originally had nothing to do with Liu Ping, but I don't know who and what kind of intentions he had, and in what way she reminded Empress Dowager Liu that when discussing the replacement, empress Dowager Liu reminded empress Dowager Liu of the words that Ding had praised Liu Ping to the former emperor in the past. As a result, the imperial court ordered Liu Ping to change from a civilian official to a military post, from a military official to a military official, from a shiyushi and a salt and iron judge to an envoy of Yiku and a soldier on Huanqing Road, and concurrently served as the governor of Ying Prefecture (邠州, in modern Bin County, Shaanxi). According to the custom, the name of the Iku envoy is responsible for the Inner Court Yiku, but in fact it is only one of the complex military rank officials, and the official title is only Zhengqipin. The command of the army is the actual position of dispatching soldiers, but the level is lower than that of the deputy capital. In fact, under the influence of the trend of respecting and inferiority at that time, civilian officials rarely had the will to follow the military. In short, in the eyes of the courtiers, Liu Ping's new official position was much worse than his original position, and it was also contrary to his long-cherished wish for many years. After that, he was changed to deputy envoy for the six-way system and transportation of Huainan Jiangsu and Zhejiang Jinghu. This position was the deputy governor of the imperial court in charge of the management of Caoyun, and the yamen was located in Zhenzhou (present-day Yizheng, Jiangsu). Soon, the rulers realized that financial management was not his master, so he only walked a few stations, and then received a new appointment and changed to Xiongzhou (present-day Xiong County, Hebei) Zhizhou. His tenure was in the seventh year of Tiansheng, from 1029 to 1032 AD.

Xiongzhou is located in the forefront of Hebei against Liao, the jurisdiction is not large, but military defense is very important, since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the position of Zhizhou has been held by military generals, usually also concurrently serving as marginal pacification envoys, that is, responsible for handling border affairs. Liu Ping served as a county guard here for four years, fortunately, at that time, the relationship between the imperial court and the Liao Dynasty was normal, and there was nothing wrong on the border, in addition to solving local civil problems and making defensive suggestions, he focused on investigating various intelligence of the Liao state and reporting it to the central government in a timely manner. In the first year of the Ming Dynasty (1032), his rank was promoted from Assassin Shi to Regimental Envoy, and he was changed to the commander of the German Army (present-day Zhengding, Hebei). Liu Ping's official movements since Wu had become smoother. In the following year, that is, in the first year of Jingyou (1034), Liu Ping successively commanded the envoys of the Four Chambers of the Dragon Divine Guard, and the infantry of the Guards' Army were all waiting, and the rank was also moved from regimental training envoy to defense envoy, and successively sent Dingzhou (present-day Hebei) Zhizhou and Huanqing Road deputy capitals to deploy. It should be noted that the Commander of the Dragon God Guard and the Infantry Of the Guards were all senior military positions of the Central Forbidden Army, which was called "Guan Jun" at that time, and the latter position was also the third in command of the Infantry Division of the Guards and Pro-Army, one of the three major commanding organs of the Forbidden Army, with an official rank from Wupin. Liu Ping was appointed not to take up his post in the Beijing Division, but it marked his position in the military. As for the defensive envoy, when Liu Ping went to Dingzhou to take office, Song Renzong said with emotion to his courtiers: Liu Ping, really can be described as a general of poetry and books! Tianzi's golden mouth and jade words quite relied on Liu Ping, a Confucian general.

In the same year, when Yuan Hao rebelled and invaded the Song Dynasty, Liu Ping was ordered to take over the deployment of the deputy capital of Huanqing Road. Before leaving, Song Renzong personally summoned Liu Ping in the palace, and after talking, he praised the strategy of his marching formation, saying: "Knowing that Qing qing has a general strategy, he entrusted it to the side, and Qing Qi Mian zhi!" Emperor Renzong's words expressed the high expectations placed by the imperial court on Liu Ping, and immediately rewarded him with a million copper coins. Receiving the emperor's grace and praise, Liu Pingpiao, during his inauguration at Huanqing Road, once he was drunk, and in spite of the prohibition, he ordered his men to break the iron lock of the arsenal and enter the warehouse to look through the weapons and armor. This dynasty is most afraid of armed mutinies, and the armor depots in various places in peacetime are locked doors, and only in wartime can they be opened and used. When Su Qi learned of the news, he immediately impeached Liu Ping for arranging disorderly discipline, and the Taiwan counselor of the Supervision Organ then impeached Liu Ping. Liu Ping had also been a royal historian in that year, and naturally was familiar with this number of roads, and although he repeatedly defended himself, he was eventually dismissed from his military post of infantry commander and transferred to Zhizhou (知州, in present-day Dali County, Shaanxi). At that time, Li Di was calculated by Prime Minister Lü Yijian and had left the position of second minister, but fortunately, Li Yu was promoted to the position of Privy Councillor, which was the same as the Privy Councillor, so the central structure would not have much impact on Liu Ping. Soon, Liu Pingshang expounded the Imperial Strategy and was summoned by the Son of Heaven. Song Renzong apparently still had a good feeling for him, so he reinstated his rank as an officer. Subsequently, he was reassigned to the vice capital of Zhizhou (知州, in modern Puyang, Henan) and Cangzhou (沧州, in present-day southeastern Cangzhou, Hebei).

In the third year of JingYou (1036), Fan Zhongyan, the acting prefect of Kaifeng Province, was dissatisfied with the prime minister Lü Yijian's rule for many years, resulting in a lot of shortcomings in the government, so he successively wrote to Tianzi to attack Lü's dictatorship. Lü Yijian was trusted by Emperor Renzong of Song, and his cronies spread throughout the imperial court, and the only civilian officials who dared to echo the critics were Yu Jing, Ouyang Xiu, and a few other civilian officials, so Fan Zhongyan was naturally retaliated against and deposed from the dynasty. When the officials gathered to besiege Fan Zhongyun, Liu Ping, who was in the Hebei military camp, also took advantage of the situation to speculate, and he wrote a letter attacking Fan Zhongdrown for slandering the chancellor, and there was a lot of overstepping. At this time, Liu Ping was nearly a year old, and many years of political experience made him deeply familiar with the way of being an official, and it was better to dare to go with the flow than to go with the flow, so at this moment he also pushed Fan Zhongyan fiercely. Sure enough, he then moved the capital of the official palace to Yu Hou and changed the position of deputy capital of Gaoyang Pass (高阳關, east of present-day Gaoyang County, Hebei).

In October of the first year of Baoyuan (1038), Yuan Hao, who had been planning for a long time, abandoned various official titles of the Song Dynasty and officially proclaimed himself emperor at Xingqing Province (present-day Yinchuan, Ningxia). In December, the Northwest Front reported the bad news to Kaifeng.

After receiving the accurate news that Yuan Hao was proclaimed emperor, the Song court immediately made a strong statement: First, he appointed the three envoys Xia Zhu to know that the Yongxing Army (present-day Xi'an City, Shaanxi) and yongxing Junlu were deployed, and the official Fan Yong was deployed for both Yanzhou Zhizhou and Yanyan Road, and the envoys of Yanyan and Huanqing Road were slightly appeased, and at the same time, Xia and Fan were given the title of envoys, so that the two of them were responsible for the defense of Shaanxi region; second, they issued an edict to Shaanxi and Hedong to cut off border trade along the border with the party; and third, they issued an edict to all places to search for western Xia spies. Those who captured one person were rewarded with 100,000 yuan; finally, they were awarded the official title of envoy to the Tubo grand chieftain, Luo Jiedushi, and rewarded with property to mobilize him to use troops against Yuan Hao.

Just before Yuan Hao openly opposed the Song Dynasty, Liu Ping had been transferred from Hebei to the northwest to serve as the deputy capital of Huanqing Road. At the end of that year, due to the need to prepare for war, the imperial court changed him to the deputy capital of Yanyan Road, and also pacified the deputy envoy of Yanyan and Huanqing Road, and the rank was promoted from defensive envoy to Zhengwupin observation envoy, stationed in the line from Yanzhou (present-day Yan'an City, Shaanxi) to Qingzhou (present-day Qingyang City, Gansu). In the following year, he was also concurrently appointed as guan goujing original road soldiers and horses, and the title of guan jun was promoted to deputy commander of the guard infantry army, and the additional rank was promoted to jingjiang army jiedu observation and retention. Liu Ping, who held the posts of three generals of Yan Yan, Huanqing, and Jingyuan, was the most powerful military general in the Imperial Imperial Xia Four-Road Defense Zone. In this regard, Liu Ping also became the most prominent of the Confucian generals who changed their military positions at that time, and none of the people who had similar experiences with him before and after received this honor, including the good general Zhang Kangqi, who had surpassed him in the battle of his contemporaries.

On the basis of years of experience in leading troops, Liu Ping put forward several offensive and defensive countermeasures against the enemy and our posture, and the "History of Song" retains one of the passages in this biography, which is roughly as follows: Since the division of the party, although it was once called a vassal, it occupied the territory, sat on the Han households, armed the troops, and peeked into the interior, and the imperial court had to take strict precautions in the four roads of Yanyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, and Qinlong. Now that Yuan Hao is in power, the political punishment is cruel, the people have rebelled and separated, and they have formed a grudge with the Tufan Luobu in the west, which is the opportunity of heaven's death. The subjects should not be taken lightly, and the enemy should not be indulged. Once Dang Xiangxi was allied with Qigu luo and the north was united with the Khitans, how would it be dealt with? At present, Yuan Hao's forces are not strong, if you take advantage of this to concentrate the four-way soldiers and horses, plus the Archers of the Han Dynasty, you can get 200,000 elite troops, three times the enemy, divide the troops into two roads, and within a month, you can recover hengshan (that is, the Hengshan mountain range in today's northern Shaanxi, formerly known as Baiyu Mountain, located in the present-day Dingbian of Shaanxi, south of Jingbian, Wuqi, Zhidan, Ansai, and Zichang) highlands. Then he sent envoys to appease The Luobu to oppress Yuan Hao. It then crosses the river from the northeast of the river to the west, dividing the other tribes under its control and weakening its power. In the end, with a large army, Yuan Hao could only escape as a poor coward, how could he be troubled!

In addition, the Western Xia territory did not produce five grains, and the grain per year was taken from Hong and Yu prefectures (between present-day Dingbian and Jingbian in Shaanxi). The local Qiang people are brave and good at war, and the party is proud of this to gain momentum. If I get here, I can take the mountain as the boundary, according to the high danger, overlook the desert, guard the town of tunbing, and have natural danger. However, his proposal did not hear back, probably violating the principle of using troops pursued by Emperor Taizong of this dynasty, that is, he would rather divide the troops and guard than concentrate his military strength, and its purpose was to prevent the generals from usurping their powers. Although Liu Ping was said to be a general from the imperial court and had a very high status, according to the custom at that time, he could only serve as the deputy of the civilian commander, which was the product of the Principle of "Using Literature to Control The Army" of the Song Renzong Dynasty. After he was transformed into a military attaché, he could not really stand alone, so whether in Shaanxi or Hebei, he could always only do the deployment of the deputy capital. His immediate superior that day was Fan Yong, a civilian minister who had just been transferred from the interior, and his actions had to be dispatched by even a scholar with no experience in the battlefield. In this regard, even if Liu Ping was not convinced, he had no choice. Speaking of which, fighting with troops originally belonged to the special responsibility of military generals, and the role of military generals required them to be proficient in military strategy and brave in fighting, just as the civilian ministers must be both proficient in Wenhan and good at administrative management. In other words, the division of labor among civil and military officials is different, and this division of labor cannot be confused with each other. Since ancient times, it has rarely relied on civilian officials with no battlefield experience and military acumen to achieve battlefield victory. In the Warring States period, Zhao Kuo, a scholar of the Zhao Kingdom, buried the lesson of 400,000 troops with the feeling of "talking about soldiers on paper", which is proof of this. However, in the Song Dynasty, such rules were designed. Everything seemed to be destined, and Liu Ping was about to plant on the coat of this military attaché.

The conversation returns to the battle of Mikawaguchi at the beginning. At the beginning of the first month of the first year of Kangding (1040 AD), Yuan Hao sent people to surrender to Fan Yong of Yanzhou Zhizhou, and Fan Yong, who had no military experience, easily believed the other side, and on the one hand, he immediately reported the matter to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he relaxed his vigilance. Taking advantage of Fan Yong's carelessness, Yuan Hao personally led an army of 100,000 troops from Tumen (土門, 70 kilometers northwest of present-day Ansai County, Shaanxi, on the border with Jingbian County) all the way south, claiming to attack the security forces northwest of Yanzhou, but suddenly attacked and captured the fortress jinmingzhai north of Yanzhou City, capturing the defender Li Shibin. This Li Shibin, who had smuggled the treasure of the party's generals, was originally a local tribal Hao chieftain, known as "Iron Wall Xianggong", with many subordinates, and was appointed by the imperial court as the inspector of Jin Mingzhai, responsible for guarding the fortress north of Yanzhou. After Yuan Hao attacked Jin Mingzhai, he followed the army to the city of Yanzhou. The incident was too sudden, because at the beginning of the Western Xia army's southward march, Fan Yong ordered Liu Ping, who was stationed in Qingzhou, and Shi Yuansun, who was stationed in the security army, to lead an army to Tumen to block the attack. Seeing that the dangxiang army suddenly attacked and yanzhou city was facing danger, Fan Yong was frightened and quickly sent someone to recall Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun from the front. Liu Pingren could not use troops on his own, and could only obey the order to return. When they braved the snow day and night and arrived at Sanchuankou on the 22nd of the first month, they met the main force of Western Xia. Judging from the relevant records, Yuan Hao used his troops boldly and exquisitely, often adopting flexible tactics of encircling points to fight for reinforcements. This time, the 10,000-step horse led by Liu Ping was in ambush. In the face of a strong enemy, Liu Ping was still bold and brave, still daring to fight, he commanded the army to meet the battle with the Yanyue Array by the river, repeatedly repelled the other side's attacks, and killed and injured thousands of dang xiang troops. However, the strength of the Song army was limited in the end, and it could not withstand the continuous siege of the cavalry and the intensive crossbow shooting, and Liu Ping, who personally supervised the battle, was hit by the left ear and right neck of the stray arrow. Two days after the fierce battle, Huang Dehe, a eunuch in the rear, led more than a thousand of his men to escape, causing the army and camp to collapse. In the early morning of the third day, Yuan Hao raised his whip and commanded a large number of cavalry to attack on all sides, annihilating the remnants of the Song army and capturing Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun.

The Battle of Sanchuankou was the first fiasco after the Song Dynasty fought against Xia, with more than 10,000 troops and two generals in a row. After the news reached Kaifeng, there was a loud noise in the hall. In the future, the punishment that should be punished will also be punished, and the pension should also be compensated, but why the Heavenly Dynasty Shangguo was defeated by a handful of Xi Rong's hands was a lingering question of the ambition of the head. After Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun's family suffered incomparable pain, they gradually became peaceful because of the comfort and gifts of the imperial court. Although the two families have different backgrounds, the children are blessed by misfortune and go further in their careers. Let's talk about the situation of the Shi family first. This Shi Yuansun originally had an extraordinary life, he was the grandson of Shi Shouxin, the first founding father of the dynasty, and if it were not for the active cooperation of Shi Shouxin, who was in charge of the defense of Kaifeng City, Zhao Kuangyin would not have been successfully "yellow robe plus body" in front of the palace of later Zhou. Therefore, after the founding of this dynasty, the Shi family was full of wealth, and Shi Baoji, the son of Shi Shouxin, also became the horse of Song Taizu, and the official residence was a festival envoy, which was really a one-person achievement and the whole family enjoyed happiness. Shi Yuansun was not old enough to be replaced by his grandfather, and his debut was from the East Head of The Eight Pins. Before the Battle of Sanchuankou, the officials had already been deployed in front of the palace and the deputy capital of Yanyan Road, plus the rank of envoy. This dedication to the battlefield has brought blessings to the family. When the imperial court learned of his death in battle, it posthumously awarded him the title of Taifu (太傅) of the Dingnan Army Jiedushi (節度使) and Longgao (龍高) and hired seven of his descendants as officials.

Looking at the situation of the Liu family, it is even more unusual. Liu Ping's younger brother Liu Jianji, who gave way to his brother in his early years, was given the opportunity to make up for the yin and became a low-level military attaché. Before Liu Ping's accident, his official title was Zheng Jiupin (正九品) and he was sent as a defender of the front line of Longgan City (龍竿城, in present-day Longde County, Ningxia). Because of the imperial court's pension for his brother, he was specially appointed to the Inner Temple Chongban of Zheng Bapin and promoted to Zhizhou (知州) in Wonju (原州, in present-day Zhenyuan County, Gansu). Before leaving, Song Renzong summoned and encouraged him: The worries of the country have not been removed, the family vendetta has not been repaid, and Qing must not do his best! He later lied to the jurisdiction of The Original Road of Jing, the deputy envoy of Xiongzhou Zhizhou and the pacification of the northern edge of the river, and the official zhiliupin of the Western Gate envoy, plus the title of assassin, all of which are the last words. In addition to Liu Jianji, the remaining fifteen sons of Liu Ping were also taken care of by official positions, which was really the emperor's grace. Among them, Liu Ping's eldest son Congwen, the second son Liu Yisun Yin supplemented Congwu, and later also served as an official in the west of the Shangmen Envoy, and the remaining five sons were all Yin to supplement the military post, and later roughly became a subordinate to intermediate military attaché.

Fate sometimes fiddles with people and tears apart an already happy ending. In the fourth year of the Qing calendar (1045), Yuan Hao declared himself a vassal to Tianzi and signed the "Qing Calendar Peace Agreement", and the imperial court was greatly relieved. In May of the following year, the imperial court suddenly received a report from Western Xia that it was going to send Shi Yuansun back. The loyal martyrs who were praised in those years actually lived, that is, they were taken prisoners, which really made the monarchs lose face, and how to advocate "killing to become benevolent" to the chinese people in the future. The courtiers were indignant, and many demanded that they be cut off on the border to wash away the shame of the country. In the end, it was Prime Minister Jia Changchao who was sober and open-minded, and persuaded Tianzi to forgive the matter. People could not be killed, but all the officials given to them were to be recovered, and then they were escorted to the remote state of Jeonju (now part of Guangxi) to be supervised and severed from their contact with the outside world. Shi Yuansun was now in his twilight years and had been under house arrest in Jeonju for a period of time, and because of the sympathy of Fan Zhongyan and others, he moved inward to Xuzhou (徐州, in modern Xuchang, Henan), but remained under supervision. He eventually died in depression. The return of Shi Yuansun also brought another bad news, Liu Ping was not only alive, but also married and had children in the five years of Western Xia, which was really unbearable. After all, Liu Ping did not step into the country, the party official did not officially report the matter, and there were probably few people in the know. For the sake of the face of this dynasty, he could only pretend not to know, treat this information as a rumor or even a rumor, and seal it tightly, and Shi Yuansun was supervised to death, which may also be related to this. As a result, the benefits gained by Liu Ping and his family were not lost. With the passage of time and the decline of those who know, this matter has gradually disappeared, and it still leaves too many blanks for historians.