The jingkang disaster in the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1127) was a great shame for the entire Song Dynasty and even the entire Central Plains Dynasty, the Second Emperor of Qinhui was taken captive, the harem women were plundered as slaves, and the dignity of the Central Plains Dynasty was swept away. Jing Kang shame, Still Snow. When will the courtiers hate, when will they be extinguished! Shame became a major goal of the Southern Song Dynasty, but limited by its own strength, this goal could not be achieved until the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1234), the jin dynasty collapsed, at this time a piece of the heart disease of the Southern Song Dynasty can be considered to be removed. But at this moment, a prisoner of war named Zhang Tiangang braved the world and said something that made the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs angry but helpless.
If the Jin Dynasty can be destroyed, the Southern Song Dynasty must be very strong at this time, right? In fact, the Song and Mongol alliance can destroy the Jin Dynasty mainly by relying on the Mongol army to attack the south, followed by the weakening of the Jin Dynasty since the south of the Liang, the Southern Song Dynasty court of course also played a role, but the main reason is not them. The Jin Dynasty had the hope of a resurgence, but after Emperor Aizong of Jin ascended the throne, the situation gradually improved, and he encouraged the people to vigorously develop agricultural production, and reconciled with the Southern Song Dynasty and Western Xia, established a loyal and filial army directly under the central government, and actively appointed famous anti-Mongolian generals such as Yan Chen monks.
These policies were indeed effective, and in the fifth year of Kim Jong-dae (1228), the Jin army defeated the Mongol army in Dachangyuan and recovered a lot of land, giving the Jin Dynasty hope of reviving the dead. But soon, in the seventh year of Taisho (1230), he ascended the throne of Emperor Taizong of Yuan, who was three ways to cut gold. In the face of the menacing Mongol army, Jin Aizong almost exhausted all his methods, but in the face of absolute strength, all his efforts had no effect.
Two years later, the Sanfengshan Encounter broke out, and a large number of famous anti-Mongolian generals of the Jin Dynasty were killed, and the elite Jin army was defeated. The Mongol army besieged Fenjing and forced Emperor Jin to make peace with high pressure, but Emperor Jin not only did not do so, but killed the Mongol emissaries. Seeing this, the Mongols continued to attack without mercy, and in the third year of Jin Tianxing (1234), that is, the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty collapsed and Jin Aizong committed suicide.
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The news of the fall of the Jin Dynasty immediately reached the Southern Song Dynasty's royal city of Lin'an, and the entire imperial court was overjoyed and immediately arranged for people to escort the remaining prisoners and materials after the fall of the Jin Dynasty. Soon after, the brigade returned, and the prison carts and edicts of the imperial court actually told people that the Jin Dynasty was really destroyed. The people cheered and finally raised their eyebrows, but some people also noticed that one of the captives in the prison cart was a Han Chinese wearing the official clothes of the Jin Dynasty, so they began to curse this traitor who had betrayed his ancestors. This "traitor" was Zhang Tiangang, the last Han prime minister of the Jin Dynasty.
Zhang Tiangang, zi zhengqing, Bazhou Yijin people, was a Han chinese who lived in the Jin Dynasty, so compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty was his real country. Moreover, since the reform of the XiZong system, the Jin Dynasty has gradually abandoned the Khitan system and adopted the Han system in its entirety, so the Jin Dynasty is no longer the original nomadic tribe, but a real feudal dynasty.
Zhang Tiangang was a scholar of the first year of Zhining, and his literary style is recorded in the history books that he was "generous and upright, his arguments were mellow, and he made many changes." Since entering the official field of the Jin Dynasty, he has done his best to assist Emperor Aizong of Jin, who also relied on him, promoted him several times, and after the rebellion of officials and slaves, he became a suffragan of the Jin Dynasty, and his status was equivalent to that of the prime minister.
Zhang Tiangang was directly influenced by Confucian culture, and loyalty and patriotism were engraved in his bones, so even if the Jin Dynasty had gone and Emperor Aizong fled to Caizhou, he was still with him. There was a demon in Caizhou, Mr. Ugu, who said that he could appease the hearts of the army and did not have to spend money and food, and the Emperor of Aizong, who had suffered a major blow from mongolia, immediately believed it without discernment, Zhang Tiangang knew about this matter and strongly advised, and after some impassioned arguments, Emperor Aizong woke up, and the matter was ended. Afterwards, Emperor Aizong also sighed: "Xiang Non-Zhang Tiangang was almost slandered by this thief." "
Such Zhang Tiangang obviously would not easily submit to the Southern Song Dynasty court, so he was very calm and self-assured from beginning to end, and refused to compromise. After arriving in Lin'an, the prefect Xue Qiong asked him, "What is the face here?" Tiangang said indifferently, "The rise and fall of the country is nothing." My death of Jin, how is it better than the Second Emperor of Ru? Xue Qiong was ashamed and annoyed for a while, but he had nothing to say, so he had to take him down. The next day, Xue Qiong played the matter to Song Lizong, who summoned Zhang Tiangang and asked him if he was really not afraid of death? Zhang Tiangang replied, "The death of the eldest husband is not in the middle of the festival, and he is afraid of it." "
Zhang Tiangang even took the initiative to ask for death, wanting to use death to show his ambitions, but Emperor Lizong did not allow it. Later, when a commander asked the prisoners of war to draw a confession, Zhang Tiangang also did not obey because the confession wrote Thatizong as a prisoner, and boldly said: "Kill is to kill, and use the form as!" Even severe torture could not bring him to his knees, and the word "old lord" was written on his confession.
The Southern Song Dynasty monarchs could not do anything about him, and Emperor Lizong had always asked his subjects to be loyal, and Zhang Tiangang was simply the best embodiment of the word "loyalty", so even as an emperor, he would not easily do anything to Zhang Tiangang, at least not on the surface. In the end, the matter was not resolved, zhang Tiangang did not recognize the title of "lord of the prisoners", and his integrity was impressive.
Zhang Tiangang was unyielding in death, which was unacceptable to the Southern Song Dynasty as the orthodox of the Central Plains, but would also be impressed by his integrity. Loyalty to the king and patriotism cannot be done by even a courtier who has long received an orthodox Confucian cultural education, but Zhang Tiangang lived in the Jin Dynasty but had this realization. Later, the "History of Jin" also highly praised him, "Jin died, Zhongde and Tiangang ministers did not change their guard, how ashamed of the ancient righteous soldiers!" "