Wen Tianxiang deserved to be counted as a person, Wen Tianxiang was not originally called Wen Tianxiang, Wen Tianxiang's name was given by the emperor of the Later Song Dynasty, because Wen Tianxiang was talented.
And the talent was appreciated by the emperor of the Song Dynasty and reused by the imperial court, which was an auspicious thing for the Song Dynasty, so he was given the name Wen Tianxiang.
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Many people's impression of Wen Tianxiang is that he is a literary artist, and Wen Tianxiang's literary attainment is indeed very high. Compared to his literary achievements.
Wen Tianxiang's personality and integrity are even more admirable, which is mainly reflected in Wen Tianxiang's loyalty to the Song Dynasty. Wen Tianxiang was born in the last year of the Southern Song Dynasty, and when he was young, the Southern Song Dynasty was during the reign of Emperor Lizong of Song. At this time, the Great Song Dynasty was crumbling.
With his talent, Wen Tianxiang passed the imperial examination and passed the first place in the jinshi examination. Since then, Wen Tianxiang's career has been opened. Wen Tianxiang was talented, but he was not born at the right time.
His life can be compared with Zhuge Kongming. Both of them are talented, and both are born at an inopportune time. Encountering a unable to support Ah Dou, the enemy Wen Tianxiang faced was also more powerful.
When the Yuan army attacked the Song Dynasty in the south and saw that the Song Dynasty was about to perish, the Court of the Great Song Dynasty sent a message of distress to the people of the world. Whoever has the ability to do so must hurry up to the rescue.
Wen Tianxiang received a distress signal from the imperial court and wept bitterly. The reason for his sadness was that he saw that his country was about to be occupied by the Yuan Dynasty.
Wen Tianxiang made an admirable decision, he scattered his family wealth, recruited soldiers, and with his influence and organizational strength, he raised an army of tens of thousands of people.
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The tens of thousands of troops raised by Wen Tianxiang, although numerous, were all a ragtag group. It's not that these people don't have a patriotic heart.
Rather, these people are patriotic and have not undergone practical military training. The Yuan army they had to face was a group of elite troops that had been in the battlefield and could conquer Eurasia.
Such a duel between the enemy and us, needless to say, can know the end. But Wen Tianxiang did not come up as everyone imagined, and he failed to come up.
In fact, under the command of Wen Tianxiang, the army of the Song Dynasty and the army of the Yuan Dynasty had their own wins and losses. Wen Tianxiang also recovered many lost lands and fought many victorious battles.
Wen Tianxiang was captured twice by the Yuan army, but neither time was because Wen Tianxiang's military level was not good, for example, Wen Tianxiang was captured for the first time because the General of the Yuan Dynasty did not play cards according to the routine.
Wen Tianxiang originally went to the Yuan army as an emissary to talk about peace, but in the process of making peace, he quarreled with bo Yan, the commander of the Yuan army, and was arrested and detained by the Yuan army.
The second time Wen Tianxiang was captured, he was betrayed by the Teochew people, and there was a Teochew man named Chen Yi, who was a thief himself, and Wen Tianxiang saw him harassing the people and drove him away.
Chen Yi held a grudge in his heart, because he was familiar with Wen Tianxiang's garrison environment, and took the initiative to lead the way for the Yuan Dynasty general Zhang Hongfan, taking advantage of Wen Tianxiang's lack of preparation, which captured Wen Tianxiang.
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After Wen Tianxiang was captured, it took about three years until he was executed. The saddest thing is not the death of the Southern Song Dynasty hero Wen Tianxiang.
Instead, Wen Tianxiang died at the hands of his own people. This is the most infuriating thing. From the moment Wen Tianxiang was captured, the Yuan Dynasty never treated Wen Tianxiang badly, both up and down.
The commander who seized Wen Tianxiang was named Zhang Hongfan, and he entertained Wen Tianxiang with the courtesy of a distinguished guest, of course, the purpose was to persuade Wen Tianxiang to surrender, Wen Tianxiang paid attention to integrity and never surrendered, and Zhang Hongfan respected Wen Tianxiang even more.
When he arrived at the court of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan heard that Wen Tianxiang had talent, and he was bent on wanting Wen Tianxiang to contribute to the Yuan Dynasty, which was also a courtesy, and Kublai Khan sent a subordinate of the Song Dynasty to persuade Wen Tianxiang.
In the end, Wen Tianxiang did not necessarily have to sacrifice his life for righteousness, his original intention was to surrender, but he could not immediately become an official of the Yuan Dynasty, but as a monk, he slowed down first.
This demand is reasonable and human, and it is impossible for one's own country to immediately confess to being a thief as a father, just after the demise of one's own country. If that's how to mix later.
The persuaded Song courtiers saw that Wen Tianxiang had actually agreed to surrender, and their hearts were very afraid, and they were worried that after Wen Tianxiang surrendered, they would return to their hometown and raise troops to resist the Yuan.
If that would endanger his own life, and Wen Tianxiang had talent, if he surrendered, Kublai Khan would definitely reuse Wen Tianxiang, then these subordinates would not have a chance to ascend to the throne.
For this reason, these subordinates who came to persuade did not tell Kublai Khan the original intention of Wen Tianxiang to surrender, but instead said to Kublai Khan, let Wen Tianxiang die, so that it would be the best ending for Wen Tianxiang.
Kublai Khan could not bear to kill Wen Tianxiang, but when he hesitated, these Song dynasty subordinates had already put Wen Tianxiang to death. Kublai Khan was furious when he learned of this, but it was too late.
epilogue:
In short, the southern Song Dynasty hero Wen Tianxiang, in the face of Kublai Khan, who was thirsty for talent, only wanted to be a soldier, because of his loyalty to the Song Dynasty.
bibliography:
History of the Song Dynasty
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