Song Gexing

Chapter 137
"I have sent someone to call Uncle Yang Wu. I suggest that he should be the leader, and Ying Zhi and Zizheng should be the assistants. After driving out the Xixia people, we will decide the fate of Qu Yechuan. We can't delay it any longer this time. We really can't divide the three states. Divide evenly and set the rules."

Zhao Fang had already thought of a way to deal with it on the way here, which was to let Yang Tian be the manager, Zhong E and Zhe Jizu be the deputy, and let the three generals handle the matter on their own.

Moreover, Zhe Jizu and Zhong E belong to him. Although the family interests are huge, due to the relationship between these two people and him, both the Zhe family and Zhong family have to support him.

After all, compared to this benefit, Zhao Fang's existence is the greatest benefit, especially the Zhe family needs the relationship between Zhe and his ancestors.

"Uncle Yang Wu is a good candidate, and his official rank is sufficient. It's just that Zi Zheng lacks some qualifications. Why should his father Zhong Zhongping go to him?"

Wen Yanbo said hesitantly, Fu Bi, Ding Du and others also agreed, only Di Qing sat there silent.

Zhao Fang shook his head and said: "Zhong Zhongping is the manager of Yanzhou. Yanzhou is also an important place during the war. It would be bad to leave him. On the contrary, Zi Zheng went to Fuzhou as a deputy, and Uncle Yang Wu is in charge. It should be better."

"This……"

Everyone in the Zhengshitang hesitated. Zhong'e's official position was a bit small. This was a leapfrog promotion that they found difficult to accept.

The current situation in the northwest is that the Yang family has withdrawn from the general family, and the Linzhou family is only relying on the previous relationship to maintain it. Yang Tian no longer needs to fight for Linzhou with all his strength.

The Zhong family is an emerging general, completely different from the Zhe family. The Zhe family is still a vassal town, while the Zhong family is actually a forbidden army.

Zhong Shiheng, the first generation of the Zhong family, was actually a civil servant. When he was the judge of Linzhou Prefecture, the first war between Song and Xia Dynasty began. Zhong Shiheng volunteered and wrote to Fan Zhongyan, who was the Yanzhou transfer envoy at the time.

He was willing to go to Kuanzhou in the Tang Dynasty to rebuild the city, Fan Zhongyan agreed to him, and appointed him as the city guard of the new city, and he brought the forbidden army.

This is the origin of Qingjian City. When Zhong Shiheng built Qingjian City, he recruited a large number of local people and set up archers and Fanjun. This was the predecessor of Zhongjia Army.

However, the Zhong family has never been hereditary, but has outstanding descendants, and there have been generals guarding one side for generations. This is why the Zhong family exists as a general in the Western Army.

This is the biggest difference between the Zhong family and the Zhe family, and the so-called generals of the Western Army are actually like the Zhong family, including the Yao family and the Liu family.

In fact, in the true sense of the Western Army generals, only the Zhe family and the Yang family were local powerful people who had taken root in the northwest since the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that the Yang family withdrew from the Western Army early, while the Zhe family remained until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. Because the Xixia people hated the Zhe family so much, they were uprooted and even their ancestral graves were dug up.

After Zhao Fang reformed the military system, he did not move the Zhejia because the Zhejia had been here for generations. It can be said that every family has martyrs, and every household is orphans and widows.

For the sake of the Song Dynasty, countless family members died and were injured, but those who went forward never regretted it. Although they were Dangxiang people, they were actually no different from Han people.

The men of the Zhe family basically joined the army in their teens, and very few of them lived to be 40 years old. In such a family, Zhao Fang really couldn't bring himself to ban him.

Therefore, although he knew that the existence of a feudal town was not good, he still did not want to cut it across the board and thought of replacing it slowly.

Zhe Jizu was like this. He was called to him and forced him to study since he was a child, so that the Zhe family gradually retired from the hereditary vassal town voluntarily.

Like the Yang family, they did not withdraw from officialdom, but only quit the army. They could also join the military, but they could not be hereditary.

In other words, the Yang family is voluntary, while the Zhe family needs to be guided to volunteer. Moreover, the current head of the Zhe family is Zhe Jizu.Zhe Jizu is currently the magistrate of the prefecture and is in the custody of soldiers and horses. Not long after he returned, his brother Zhe Jimin passed away. As the youngest brother of this generation of the Zhe family, he was naturally the successor.

The inheritance of the Zhe family has always been the brother and the brother, or the son and nephew who is better than the father will be succeeded by him.

This is also the reason why the Zhe family has always been prosperous. The Zhe family is very harmonious. In the past 400 years, there has never been any internal strife between brothers, nephews and brothers because of inheritance rights.

You said that the Song Dynasty was only 300 years old, so how could the Zhe family be a general for 400 years? That's because the Zhe family has been hereditary guarding Fuzhou since the Tang Dynasty.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, when any political power came to power, they did not annex the Zhejia, but kept them in the vassal town, because the Zhejia were too fierce and the gains outweighed the losses.

Even the Liao Kingdom couldn't do anything to them. They attacked many times but failed, so they naturally maintained prosperity for 400 years.

If the Northern Song Dynasty had not been destroyed, the Zhejia family would have continued to exist.

Although Zhe Keqiu, the last general of the Zhe family, surrendered to the puppet Qi and was later poisoned to death by Wanyan Zonghan, there is much controversy among later generations as to whether it was shameful for him to surrender.

The Southern Song Dynasty held a disparaging attitude towards his surrender, but from the beginning of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, some people held different opinions. Some even thought that he was pretending to surrender, and not without reason.

Zhe Keqiu was firm in his stance against the Jin before surrendering. In order to resist the Jin, almost all of the Zhe family's sons died. Moreover, when the Zhe family's base camp was in danger, he even led troops to help Bianjing.

In the third year of Jianyan's reign, Zhe Keqiu's son was captured by the Jin Kingdom. It had been more than two years since the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. His son was captured when he returned to the northwest from Bianjing.

It shows that at this time, he was still trying to lose ground for the Song Dynasty, and sent his son to Bianjing, which was occupied by the Puppet Qi, but with this incident, he could only surrender.

What was the central government doing at this time? After Zhao Gou was threatened by the Jin Kingdom, he actually revealed that Zhe Keqiu had written a letter asking the northwest to unite with Yelu Dashi of Xiliao to attack the Jin Kingdom.

This is a blatant betrayal. Facing such a monarch, there is only one way to get away from being isolated and trapped in the northwest. Isn't it right to surrender to the Kingdom of Jin?

Some later generations vindicated Zhao Gou, saying that he killed Yue Fei because he was worried that the Yue family's army would become bigger, and he was intimidated by Qin Hui, etc. But judging from this incident, Zhao Gou was a proper bastard.

It should be said that none of the descendants of Zhao Ji are good people. They are completely different from his brother Zhe Zong and father Shenzong. I am afraid he is a mutated descendant of the Zhao family.

The war potential of the Jin Kingdom was actually far worse than that of the Liao Dynasty. It can even be said that the Jin Kingdom's destruction of the Liao Kingdom was a bit accidental.

The biggest war between Liao and Jin, the Liao Kingdom lost its main force and was defeated. However, according to historical records, that battle was actually God's will.

The war had just begun, and the Liao Kingdom was backed by an earthquake in the mountains. The landslides caused heavy casualties to the Liao army, and the army's morale was turbulent and collapsed. It was not defeated at all.

Jin Guo had taken a big advantage, but even so, Yelu Dashi still turned the tide and withdrew with the remaining remnants.

And the establishment of Xiliao, the Kingdom of Jin has been helpless, until the Kingdom of Jin was destroyed by the Mongols, Xiliao still exists.

By saying so much, I want to say that Zhao Gou’s stupidity and cowardice made him lose the opportunity to regain the lost ground. Otherwise, the Zhejia Army really joined forces with Xiliao, and coupled with the counterattacks of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, the Jin Kingdom might not be able to win the battle. The North stands firm.

(End of this chapter)