In 1127, the Jin army broke through the Tokyo Pillars, and the Northern Song Dynasty was declared extinct. At that time, the situation was turbulent, soldiers and bandits were everywhere, and some of the former northern Song generals were attached to the Jin Dynasty, or the puppets of the Jin Dynasty. After the situation stabilized, some generals re-voted to the Southern Song Dynasty, such as Niugao, but some people still fought for the Jin Dynasty! Among these traitors, there is one person who is the most shameless, who actually violates ethics and takes his daughter as a concubine! So who is this scum?
First, from rogue to general
This person's name was Kong Yanzhou, and he was a Xiangzhou Lin shu person, and like Yue Fei, he was a Xiangzhou native. However, Kong Yanzhou was a scoundrel who refused to cultivate the land well, and made trouble everywhere, and later fled to Bieliang and entered the army. Not long after, Kong Yanzhou was locked up for causing trouble. However, he was a very cunning person, and actually said that the guards would release him, and Kong Yanzhou escaped from the city in the night. However, Kong Yanzhou killed people again, so he gathered in the mountains and forests and became a robber.
During the Jing Kang period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the war with the Jin Dynasty was very fierce, and the imperial court recruited a large number of troops. Kong Yanzhou took the opportunity to recruit for the army, and because he had a group of subordinates, he was soon given the title of Terracotta Warrior and Horse of the Jingdongxi Road, and became a general of the imperial court from a green forest bandit. Just as the so-called "jiangshan is easy to change, nature is difficult to move", kong Yanzhou after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, learned that the Jin Dynasty army was going to enter Shandong, he led his troops to "rob and kill the residents, burn the house, plunder the property", and then cross the river to escape.
Second, from the collapse of the army to the rebel general
At that time, when the Southern Song Dynasty court was first established, it faced three major enemies, one was the Jin Dynasty, the other was the peasant army, such as Zhong Xiang, Yang Mi, and the original Northern Song Dynasty's rout army, including Kong Yanzhou's department. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, The defeated army was appeased, and Kong Yanzhou was appointed as an envoy to recruit and capture along the river, leading his troops to recruit the rebel army of Zhong Xiang and Yang Mi. In 1130, Kong Yanzhou actually captured and killed the leader of the rebel army, Zhong Xiang, but the military discipline of his troops was corrupt and he lost the hearts of the people.
The Court of the Southern Song Dynasty was also very dissatisfied with Kong Yanzhou's behavior, and in addition, "Yanzhou was violent and did not follow the constraints", so the Southern Song Dynasty, after stabilizing the situation, planned to use troops against Kong Yanzhou and completely eliminate him. Seeing that the situation was not good, Kong Yanzhou led his army to flee north and defected to the puppet regime of the Jin Dynasty. After that, Kong Yanzhou participated in many military operations against the Southern Song Dynasty. After the puppet Qi was deposed, Kong Yanzhou fought with Jin Wushu, "Ke Zhengzhou, captured him to defend Liu Zheng, and broke Meng Bangjie yu Dengfeng", and made many military achievements.
Third, the absurd and shameless traitor
Kong Yanzhou served as a Shangshu of the Ministry of Works and The Army department in the Jin Dynasty, and also served as the Yin of Henan, and was even given the title of King of Guangping County. However, Kong Yanzhou's "absurdity and animal behavior" violates ethics and morality, and is simply not human. His concubine had a daughter who was very beautiful, and Kong Yanzhou actually tortured his concubine, asking her to say that this daughter was not Kong Yanzhou's, and then he took the daughter born of the concubine as a side chamber.
Because Kong Yanzhou's subordinates could not repay the money owed to the government, he took the opportunity to think about the wives and daughters of his subordinates, "privately taking his wife and discounting coupons." Kong Yanzhou's character was very poor, but he was good at using soldiers, "from childhood to the old age, he was always in the army, practicing military affairs, and knowing the advantages and bluntness", so he was reused by the rulers of the Jin Dynasty. After Yan Liang's southern expedition, he planned to appoint Kong Yanzhou as a general, and eventually this scum fell ill and died before the southern expedition. Before his death, Kong Yanzhou also offered advice to Yan Liang, "Cut down the Song Dynasty and take Huainan first."
References: 1. "History of Song"; 2. "History of Jin"; 3. "Records of the Year since Jianyan"