I, Han Gaozu, actually traveled through Song Gaozong?

Chapter 330
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there have been constant wars in the west. Originally, the main focus was to fight against the Liao Dynasty. However, since Li Yuanhao, a party member, established the Xia Kingdom [-] years ago, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom have formed a fraternal state. The main task of the armies changed from resisting Liao to resisting Xia.

Among them, the most famous ones are the Northwest Zhe and Zhong families. I won’t go into details about the Zhong family. In terms of qualifications, the Zhe family deserves the title of being the first family in the Northwest.

After all, the average age of a person's family in the west is longer than the average age of the founding of the Song Dynasty.

The Zhe family has lived in Fuzhou for generations. It borders the Yellow River to the east, the desert to the north, and the Hexi prefectures to the south. The geographical location is also very important. From assisting Emperor Taizong to attack the Northern Han Dynasty, to the subsequent generations of resistance against the Xia Dynasty, and later against the Jin Dynasty, this family also Indeed, he can be called a family of loyal and loyal people... Yang Yizhong's ancestor is a general of the Yang family. Among the generals of the Yang family is Taijun She, who is actually the daughter of the Zhe family, although the woman is talking about Han Shizhong's daughter-in-law. Liang Hongyu's performance when Huang Tiandang finished the Yanwu technique, but in real terms, this girl who broke away from the family and married into the Yang family is the woman who best embodies this sentence in this dynasty.

This is true for women, let alone men.

During the time of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers besieged Taiyuan, and all the families in the northwest rushed to attack King Qin. However, Zhejia did not take any action because its role was too great to prevent the Xia Kingdom from taking advantage of the opportunity. Later, there was no way, Zhejia The last head of the family, Zhe Keqiu, finally led his troops northward to relieve the siege of Taiyuan. However, he was defeated by the Jin soldiers outside Taiyuan. He fought three times in a row and was defeated all three times.

In desperation, and the Jin soldiers finally captured Taiyuan, Zhe Keqiu retreated to Fuzhou. It was not until the second year of Jianyan that the two emperors arrived at the Five Kingdoms City. The famous Jin general Wanyan Loushi captured Yan'an and ended the war. When they reached the grain road in Fuzhou, the Xia Kingdom was showing its fierce look in front of them, and the Jin Kingdom was watching behind them. When they were running out of food and help, Wanyan Lou's family persuaded him to surrender, and promised him the land in Guanzhong, and Zhe could ask for it. In desperation, he surrendered the three prefectures of Fu, Lin and Feng.

At this point, the Zhe family has gone on a completely different path from the Zhong family.

In the third year of Jianyan, Wanyan Loushi and Zhe Keqiu and his 18 Zhejia army attacked Shaanzhou. In the fourth year of Jianyan, Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Loushi fought with Zhang Jun in Fuping. This defeated the [-]-strong army that the Song State had finally managed to gather, and also defeated the defense line in the west of the Song State. It was not until recent years, under the governance of the Wu brothers, that the land of Sichuan and Shaanxi had no The ability to take the initiative.

And in this crucial battle, there is still a figure that can be found.

From then on, Zhe Keqiu had completely gained the trust of the Jin State. Even before the Battle of Fuping, when the Jin State was preparing to establish political power in the Han region, there was a debate over whether to establish Zhe Keqiu or Liu Yu. .

Until seven years ago in Shaoxing, that is, five years ago, Qin Xiangye's old master Ta Lai Wan Yanchang was preparing to depose Liu Yu's throne. Wanyanchang made a wish to let Zhe Keqiu replace Liu Yu, but was rejected by Wanyanchang in the end... This Wanyan Gao was really a man who devoted himself to gold. He saw that Zhe Keqiu could not be reused, but he also had a lot of troops. In the second year, Zhe Keqiu was poisoned to death.

This is another example of a good bow hidden in a flying bird. There was Guo Yaoshi in the front, and there was Zhe in the back. However, unlike Guo Yaoshi's victorious army, which was all buried alive, Zhejia's army, as the elite of the Western Army, was still captured by the Jin Kingdom. They were retained, but they no longer had numbers and were dispersed into various armies.

The latest news about Zhejia was in the ninth year of Shaoxing. Three years ago, when the Song and Jin Dynasties reached a peace agreement and returned most of the Central Plains and Shaanxi to the Song Dynasty, Xixia sent troops to occupy Fuzhou and Zhejia. The descendants of the family have completely disappeared... Xixia resented the Zhe family for resisting Xia for many years, dug up their ancestral graves, whipped the bones of Zhe family's ancestors, and did their best to humiliate them.

The old man revealed his identity, and the few people around him who were quick to respond understood the reason for their behavior.

The Zhe family had been loyal for more than a hundred years, but something like this happened at the last moment. From the first family in the Western Army to a lackey that was despised by thousands of people, especially with the Zhong family as a foil, the difference was earth-shaking. , it’s really hard to accept.

The feeling here may be nothing to say, but the bitterness and bitterness in it may only be understood by the person involved. Just like this old man, when facing his compatriots, he didn't even dare to recognize each other. The secret of their identity seems to have become a knot in their minds.

Liu Bang had heard about this family for a long time. At this time, he heard him report his family name. After thinking about it, he finally asked:
"You surrendered without a fight, but because you feel guilty?"

The old man burst into tears: "It's now time, and sinners dare not hide it from Your Majesty." "The reason why I surrender is because I can no longer live under the command of this golden man."

Xin Ciying frowned tightly. He naturally admired the Zhe family, and naturally despised Zhe Keqiu's behavior. But in the final analysis, he still had a trace of pity for these people.

At this time, the emperor's question clearly gave them a step to step down, but this person told lies when he should tell the truth, and when he should tell lies, he happened to tell the truth.

It's really weird.

Liu Bang was also obviously choked: "I probably know your mentality."

"It's just that I can't live with it, so what's the point?"

The veteran was still crying: "Your Majesty, you don't know. Nine out of ten of the Jinhan Army belong to the signed army. Sinners like us, although we receive military pay, are no different from the signed army."

Signing for the army means signing all civilians to serve as soldiers, which means that the strong men captured by force form an army. Wang Zao, a former member of Zhongshushe, once said: "When the Jin people invaded, they drove out more people from the two rivers. Arrange them in formation and sign the army."

To put it more bluntly, he is just cannon fodder.

Cannon fodder should naturally be treated as cannon fodder, and their rewards are all based on merit. If they are guaranteed military pay like the Jurchen soldiers, it is absolutely impossible. Their guarantee is the family. It’s just less taxes collected.

"Now that the Jurchens have no annual tribute, no waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, no fertile fields in the Central Plains, and no Han farmers, how can they make money for nothing? If there is no money, that's it. In the past ten months, we have not even stopped. I haven’t even had a full meal!”

"If we weren't all guilty, we would have gone to serve the King long ago. Why wait until today!"

"Your Majesty, you have mercy on us. After all, it is all our own fault... It's just that many of the newcomers to the Zhejia Army are children who had not participated in the war. They are still considered innocent after all."

"I don't dare to ask for anything else. I just hope that the officials will punish me and other old people, and don't involve them."

The old man said a lot, but there was just one voice that kept ringing in Liu Bang's mind:
These signing troops of the Jin Kingdom have not even had enough to eat in the past month!
This is Kaifeng, this is the Central Plains!
This is the most important place of the Jin Kingdom in the Song Dynasty!
If this is the case here, what about other places?

(End of this chapter)