Recently, the spy war drama "Kite" has caught fire, and the protagonist in the play is an ace spy worker code-named "Kite", who has been undercover in the military for many years, from the war years to the anti-special struggle after the founding of New China, and has been undercover for more than 30 years. It is said that the protagonist is spliced together by many archetypal characters, but in the Song Dynasty, there was a person who really went undercover against the enemy country for 18 years, which can be called a realistic version of the "kite", his name is Yuwen Xuanzhong.
In 1126, the year of the Jing Kang Rebellion, the Jin people in the north invaded the south, and the Jin soldiers arrived at the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. Suddenly confused, Song Qinzong immediately wanted to pay compensation and seek peace, and also planned to send several brothers and princes to the Jin people as hostages, including the later Emperor Gaozong Zhao. However, Li Gang and other main warrior factions did not intervene, forcibly withheld the edict of Song Qinzong to cut off the land, and ordered Yao Pingzhong to rob the Camp of the Jin Army. As a result, not only did the camp not come down, but Yao Pingzhong, who was afraid of sin, also ran away. Seeing that the commander of the Jin Army, Yan Zongwang, was angry, Song Qinzong hoped that someone would go to the Jin Bing Camp to discuss peace, but the Junchen's eyes widened and no one dared to go. It was a stalemate for half a day, and finally someone stepped forward and said, "Let me go."
This person is Yuwen Void.
Yuwen Virtual, stills of "Jingzhong Yue Fei"
Yuwen's surname Yuwen can be seen from this surname that the ancestors were humble people. In the third year of Emperor Huizong of Song (1109), he became a jinshi before the age of 30, and later served as a living houseman, a national history editor, and a Tongzhi tribute, and by the time of Emperor Qinzong of Song, he had risen to the position of Zhongshu Sheren, roughly equivalent to a confidential secretary.
This trip to the Camp of the Golden Army looked like nine deaths, but in fact, there were few Golden Soldiers at that time, and they were not ready to attack the city, so they went down the donkey, accepted gifts and left, and Zhao Zhuo was also released. Yuwen Xuanzhong successfully completed the mission of Song Jinyihe, and Song Qinzong was very satisfied and planned to give him a big official. But the others looked red in the eyes and wrote various impeachments, and as a result, Yuwen only fell into the work of being an assassin.
In 1127, Jin Bing came again, and this time in addition to Finishing Yan Zongwang, there was also a more ruthless Completed Yan Zonghan. The Song Dynasty also sent people to negotiate peace, willing to cede all the territory north of the Yellow River, but unlike the previous time, the Jin State was already determined to destroy the Song at this time, and the peace talks were not close, the Song Dynasty had to surrender, and Song Qinzong and his father artist Song Huizong, including the monarchs, without exception, became prisoners of the Jin soldiers. Zhao Zhuo was lucky enough to run away and ran to Ying Tianfu, which is today's Shangqiu in Henan, and established the Southern Song Dynasty (later Zhao Shuo continued to flee south, and in 1131 the capital was Lin'an, which is today's Hangzhou), at which time the Jin State looked at him with admiration and immediately sent a large army to arrest him.
Map of the Song-Jin War Situation
Zhao Zhao stood firm on the front foot, and the emissary of the Jin Kingdom on the back foot came. It is required to continue peace negotiations with the Southern Song Dynasty. The courtiers around Zhao Zhuo still had no one to dare to come forward and push around, and at this moment, Yuwen Xuan, who had been assigned to Lingnan, did not know where to get the news, or the sentence: "Let me go." Everyone looked at it, this unlucky egg came again, one side breathed a sigh of relief, the other side unanimously passed, let Yuwen Xuanzhong go to Jin Guohuihe. Subsequently, Emperor Gaozong of Song appointed him a scholar of the Senior Government Hall and a petitioning envoy, and also made Yang Kefu a deputy to go to the Capital of Jin to negotiate peace. Jin Shangdu is today's Baichengzi of Acheng District, Harbin City, and the real purpose of Yuwen's envoy is to be a spy.
Sun Tzu's art of war has clouds: "Know yourself and know the other, and never lose a hundred battles." "But this Yuwen was really confused about the situation, and when he arrived at the Jin Kingdom, he shouted vigorously, saying every day that the Song Dynasty was going to sit on an equal footing with the Jin Kingdom, and that the "two saints" of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong should be taken back to the Song Dynasty... As everyone knows, where does the Jin Kingdom look up to the envoys of the Song Dynasty? Yuwen talked for half a day, and the Jin people simply ignored him. In the end, Jin Guoren was anxious by Yuwen's illusion, so he was put in a big prison, and he was not bothered.
Soon, relations between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty eased. The Jin state sent some of the imprisoned Song Dynasty officials and emissaries back to the Southern Song court. Originally, Yuwen Xuanzhong should have followed along, but he was not, as a qualified spy, he thought that he had to break out of the hall of fame, so he stayed in Jinguo. The Jinguo people did not take it seriously, so they let him stay.
Yuwen was a talent after all, and within a few years of mixing in the Golden Kingdom, he had already flourished. At that time, the Jin Dynasty also invaded many central plains, and there were many Han Chinese in the local area, so a large number of Han officials were needed to manage. And Yuwen Xuanzhong happens to be proficient in poetry and song, and he can also do some policy topics to analyze and analyze the international relations of Song Jin. As a result, his fame grew, his poetry became the benchmark of the Golden Kingdom, and Qu Fu was praised by local artists, quite like Li Bai and Liu Yong.
Mixed with fame, Yuwen Xuanzhong was noticed by Jin Guo, and the prime minister Han Qi first named Yu Wenxuan to promote Yuwen Xuzhong. As a result, Yuwen Xuanzhong started as a Hanlin scholar, and then was promoted to Zhizhi And Taichangqing, and was named the founding duke of Hanoi County. Later, when jin guojin taizu's "Ruide Shengong Monument", Hanlin chengzhi demanded that it must be written by Yuwen Xuanzhong. Soon, Yuwen Xuanzhong was promoted to The Golden Purple Guanglu Doctor because of his superior ability, and the Jin people honored him as "Guoshi".
Yes, at this time, Yuwen Xuanzhong is already very similar to Zheng Yaoxian in the TV series "Kite". Moreover, in his heart, he has always regarded himself as a courtier of the Song Dynasty. He once wrote to his family that he was forced to serve as an official in the Jin Dynasty and that he remained loyal to the Song Dynasty; in a letter to his wife, he said that he only hoped to live up to the country, and that he had not forgotten the emperor and his family all the time.
Zheng Yaoxian, stills from "Kite"
But in the eyes of Song Gaozong and others, Yuwen Xuanzhong had become a complete traitor. Not only did he recognize the thief as his father, but he also gave various information about the Song Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty. It is a typical negative teaching material.
So, as a spy, he must complete some tasks to let everyone know that he is not really a traitor. As he became an official and came into contact with more and more information about the Jin Dynasty, he knew that the gold content of these materials was super high, and if he could make a packaged document for the Song Dynasty court and transmit it to the past, it would be of great help to the Song Dynasty's recovery of lost land.
Ever since Yuwen became an official, he began to secretly get acquainted with various benevolent men who opposed the Jin Dynasty. He first became acquainted with another spy, Gao Shitan, and later became acquainted with Hong Hao and others, enabling him to plant eyeliner everywhere in the Golden Kingdom. Soon, Wang Lun, an envoy of Emperor Gaozong of Song, came to the Kingdom of Jin and secretly contacted Yuwen Xuanzhong. Speaking of Wang Lun, he is also a capable person, and he finds that Yuwen is "in Cao Ying's heart in Han", so he said that he would go back and rehabilitate him. When Emperor Gaozong of Song learned of this news, he not only rewarded Yuwen Shizhong's son Yuwen Shiyu with a grand prize, but also asked his ministers to give Yuwen Xuanzhong the necessary support.
With the network of contact lines, Yuwen's virtual news continued to reach the Song Dynasty.
In 1137, Yuwen Xuanzhong gave Emperor Gaozong of Song a great gift—he killed Emperor Yanzonghan, who was besieging Bieliang. In that year, Jin Xizong ascended the throne; in the same year, Emperor Huizong of Song died near the old city of Wuguocheng, which is now the northern part of Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province.
At that time, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom was Jin Xizong, who was only eighteen years old, and had reigned for less than two years. Around him, there were a number of powerful courtiers who grew up in the process of the rise of the Jin Dynasty, especially Yan Zonghan. Zong Han is the sticky Han in "Yue Fei's Biography", the son of the Prime Minister of the Jin Dynasty, Wen wu shuangquan, has always been a member of the core decision-making level of the Jin State, and can be called the core figure of the song dynasty. In such a relationship between the lord and the weak and the strong, Jin Xizong has always looked at Zong Han unfavorably, Yuwen Xuanzhong saw the opportunity to speak, persuaded Jin Xizong to cut Zong Han's military power, Jin Xizong promoted Zong Han to become the prime minister, in fact, Ming Sheng secretly surrendered, disguised to lift his military power, in the same year, Yuwen Xuanzhong again wrote a letter, accusing Zong Han's subordinate Gao Qingyi of corrupting the law, Jin Xizong took this opportunity to dismiss Gao Qingyi and behead him. Yan Zonghan himself was relatively fierce in nature and could not tolerate his own men being bullied, so he also died of illness a month later.
Without Yan Zonghan, the military strength of the Jin Dynasty began to decline. At the same time, under the leadership of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Wu Xuan and others, the military strength of the Southern Song Dynasty has been increasing. Yue Fei carried out three Northern Expeditions before 1139, all of which were successful. Among them, there were many times when the Generals of the Song Dynasty obtained the internal information of Yuwen Xuanzhong and were able to fully understand the deployment and direction of the Jin State. In 1139, Yue Fei attacked the town of Zhuxian, which was only 45 kilometers away from the city of Bieliang!
At that time, the main attack on the Song Dynasty, Yan Zongbi, which is what we often call The Golden Wushu, found that the Song Dynasty army was getting stronger and stronger, and if it continued like this, I was afraid that the Jin Kingdom would be driven out of the Central Plains. Therefore, he quickly changed his policy and sent emissaries hoping to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty. At the same time, he found that every action he made would be known in advance by the Song Dynasty army, and he felt that there must be an internal traitor. So while negotiating peace with the Song Dynasty, he tried to dig out the inner ghost.
Jin Wushu (完燕宗弼), stills from "Jingzhong Yue Fei"
In fact, before coming into contact with Zong Bi, Emperor Gaozong of Song received a warning letter from Yuwen Xuanzhong, saying that the Jin Kingdom was already at the end of the crossbow, and as long as it persisted for a few more years, it would be able to drive the Jin Kingdom out of the Central Plains and restore the country. The problem is that the little abacus in Song Gaozong's heart has long been beaten: if you are restored, I will have to give the throne to my brother Song Qinzong and go back to be a minister myself, and my resume as an emperor must be hated by my brother, and maybe I will liquidate him one day. In addition, Yue Fei and a large number of other generals were highly skilled in zhen, and they wanted them to continue to fight, and it was estimated that these people would make trouble. Therefore, negotiating peace is the best choice.
In October 1141, Yue Fei was imprisoned, and in November, Song Jin Shaoxing and The Council were agreed.
The following year, Yue Fei died, and the Jin side celebrated the "peace discussion", at the same time, Jin Wushu could also divert his energy to checking the internal ghosts. Although there was no conclusive evidence, he still felt that the biggest suspects were those former Song Dynasty ministers who remained in the Jin Dynasty, so he made a trick to draw salaries from the bottom of the pot, and took the opportunity of peace negotiations to ask the Song Dynasty to send the families of the Song Dynasty officials who had transferred to work in the Jin Dynasty.
Yuwen listened in a vacuum and was anxious. He immediately asked Wang Lun to bring a letter to Emperor Gaozong of Song, saying that if his family stayed in the Song Dynasty, he would still have a life. Therefore, you Song Gaozong might as well say that our Yuwen family members are dead, and they can't find anyone for half a day. Because if you send it all over, then you will die.
The problem is that Emperor Gaozong of Song does not listen to you, and he sent qin juniper, the talent of the first pit teammate in history, to Sichuan personally to find Yuwen Xuanzhong's family members one by one and send them all to the Jin kingdom.
Despite this, Yuwen Waswolf was loyal to the Song Dynasty. He had a plan in mind and was ready to take control of Jin Xizong and force him to send Song Qinzong back to the Song Dynasty, and if he did not, he would directly kill Jin Xizong. This plan is undoubtedly desperate, and it must be combined inside and outside. When Yuwen Xuanzhong planned to give a pill to Song Gaozong, Song Gaozong did not comment and never gave Yuwen Xuanzhong further instructions, so Yuwen Xuanzhong could only wait.
In 1146, Emperor Gaozong of Song and Qin Ju discussed that it was better not to do so. If he was going to do this, both of our thrones and prime ministers would be unsafe, so the two chose to inform Jin Guo. When Qin Juniper came to find Yan Zongbi with the pill, Yan Zongbi's jaw almost fell to the ground. On the one hand, he knew that Yuwen Was the spy who had been hidden for 18 years; on the other hand, It was probably something he hadn't expected at all that Song Gaozong and Qin Ju could betray their friends so thoroughly.
Yuwen Xuanzhong got the news that Yan Zongbi was going to arrest himself in advance, and thought to himself, at the last moment, do a big vote. Therefore, he immediately took someone to find Jin Xizong, hoping to kidnap him, and then blackmail Yan Zongbi.
Unfortunately, he was caught just after he arrived at Kim Hee-jong's palace. As a result, Yuwen Xuzhong and more than 100 members of his family were all killed, and Yuwen Xuanzhong was 67 years old. In addition, Gao Shitan and others who kidnapped Kim Hee-jong with him were also killed together. At this point, the bones of a generation of spies have not survived.
In 1128, he was trapped in an enemy state, and in 1146 he was killed to serve the country, and the real enemy camp was eighteen years. In the meantime, from a no-name pawn to a Jin Guoguo division, and can do a steady stream of all kinds of information to the Song Dynasty, it can be seen that Yuwen Xuanzhong is a veritable great spy. Unfortunately, because he has been undercover in jinguo for a long time, the Song Dynasty people do not know his true identity, but think that he is a traitor, which makes him have been criticized by people, and the deeds are even more hidden. Fortunately, decades later, in 1205, Song Ningzong rediscovered him and justified his name, which eliminated the notoriety he had been carrying. The yuan dynasty historian even recorded his deeds in detail in the "History of Song" and "History of Jin", and only then did he pass on the story of this super spy in Yuwen Xuanzhong.