In history, the fate of the kings of the fallen countries in each dynasty is different, some emperors commit suicide, some emperors are killed, some emperors are captured, and in order to show their generosity and benevolence, the emperors of the new dynasty often capture the emperor's petty officials, some emperors flee, and finally the destination is unknown...
There is another kind of ending among the many kings of the fallen kingdoms, that is, he was carried by the minister to the sea and committed suicide, and the minister became a national hero.
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This national hero was Lu Xiufu, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. The prime minister of the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty devoted his life to resisting the Yuan.
In February of the second year of Emperor Fuxing's reign, the Song and Yuan dynasties fought a final life-and-death battle, which was also a very famous naval battle, known as the most tragic and fierce battle in history.
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At that time, the Yuan army, with Zhang Hongfan as the marshal of the Yuan Han Dynasty and Li Heng as the deputy marshal, attacked the Song army from the north and south. The Song army burned down the palaces and barracks on the shore and moved to the sea, and more than 200,000 troops and militia were arranged on more than 1,000 wooden boats and connected with ropes to form a phalanx. Zhang Shijie only led his soldiers to die at sea, leaving no soldiers and pawns on land, and as a result, the Yuan army cut off the supply channels of fresh water and firewood. On February 6, the Yuan army broke through the ship formation, and Lu Xiufu, seeing that the general situation had gone, first drew his sword to drive his wife Ni Shi and his second son Qilang, the third son, and his daughter to the sea, and then knelt down to the young emperor Zhao Fu and said: "Your Majesty should die for the country" And then he picked up the nine-year-old young emperor who was tied to the jade seal around his waist, tied it on his back, and jumped into the sea, at this time, he was only forty-two years old.
In the Battle of Yashan, more than 100,000 people were killed and drowned by the Song army, and the Southern Song Dynasty ended here. Lu Xiufu's martyrdom of emperor and emperor Is not only an act of loyalty to the king, but also a concentrated expression of noble national integrity and patriotic spirit. A thousand times stronger than those Han Chinese who were greedy for life and feared death and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty.
When Emperor Gongzong of Song surrendered to the Yuan, he did not surrender with Yu Zhong, but reorganized the anti-Yuan government until he died with Xinjun and Sheji. His death is a kind of national righteousness, embodying the blazing feelings of honor and disgrace between the country and the people, life and death, forgetting the family for the country, and never giving up; It shows the lofty righteousness of never yielding to the invaders and "preferring to be crushed by jade rather than for the whole"; It shows the love for the homeland on which he rests and recuperates, the fist of the land, and the dedication inspired by it. This spirit is the glorious tradition and lofty virtue of patriotism that the Chinese nation has formed and developed over thousands of years, and has become a tremendous spiritual force that inspires the people to resist the enemy and insults. It is precisely because of this that Lu Xiufu has been deeply remembered and sincerely admired by the people of Chinese for generations, and we call him a national hero.
This jump jumped out of the national righteousness of the warm-blooded man of the Chinese nation, jumped out of the heroic feat of loyalty and patriotism, and was admired by the people of the world.