.

The following text is extracted from an article that believed that Jiangnan should surrender to the Song army to avoid destruction. I think that according to the logic of the author of the article, it would be better if I didn’t fight for the eight years of the War of Resistance, but maybe the glorious * common prosperity circle has been built now, so it is difficult to agree with his point of view. However, the article introduces the great damage caused by the Song State to Jiangnan from another perspective. As a result, Jiangnan was only a cow from the Song State since then, so it’s enough for everyone to understand this view.

Whether it is the Song army or the Japanese army, the people's homes entered, looted people's wealth, *shuhaige3; plundering or even massacres the city, local powerful people and the people have natural rights to war. I cannot agree with it by begging for the sake of living and property.

By the way, if you have the opportunity to travel to Poland and the Czech Republic, you will find that the styles of Eastern European countries are completely different. Prague is very ancient and retains a lot of historical heritage, while Warsaw is much inferior. However, the Warsaw people are proud of this. The ancient city is in front of the two most powerful empires in the world. The Warsaw people fought to the last moment. Although the city's buildings were destroyed, the national pride produced by persisting in resistance is unmatched by Prague. The Warsaw people will despise the ancient city style of Prague in their words. Prague, which was preserved without resistance, is no different from Paris, which was preserved by the surrender of the Vichy regime.

Historical inspiration left by Li Yu and Qian Chu

Fei Chengkang

In 960 AD, Zhao Kuangyin replaced the Later Zhou Dynasty and established the Song Dynasty, which is known in history as the Northern Song Dynasty. In the following decade, the Song army successively

The general trend of conquering Jingnan, Later Shu, Southern Han and other separatist regimes, and ending the war situation in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by the Northern Song Dynasty has been formed.

Faced with the vast unification trend, Li Yu, the late emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, resisted with force, while Qian Chu, the king of Wuyue, "promoted his own territory"

, thus forming different results of whether the same region is unified by force or peaceful reunification in the same era, and leaving behind future generations

A lot of historical inspiration.

The Southern Tang Dynasty was founded in 937 by Li Yu's grandfather Li Sheng. It was once a powerful country across the Yangtze River. Li Yu's father Nan

During the reign of Li Jing, the leader of the Tang Dynasty, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong led his troops to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Southern Tang army was defeated repeatedly. Li Jing was not only lost,

All the territory north of the Yangtze River was ceded, and the title of emperor was forced to be cut off, paying tribute to the Later Zhou Dynasty. Li Yu, who was good at writing lyrics, was also forced to remove himself from his title, and paid tribute to the Later Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, he wrote "Who is the Lord of the fallen flowers in the wind? I thought about it happily", and was deeply confused about the future of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

When Li Yu ascended the throne, the Northern Song Dynasty had been established. As a poet, Li Yu was very talented; as a monarch, he was extremely incompetent.

Ouyang Xiu made this comment on him in "The New History of the Five Dynasties": "He is arrogant and extravagant, has a good voice and loves to be floating pictures; he is very talkative

, does not care about politics." As a result, the national power of the Southern Tang Dynasty declined. In 971, the Northern Song Dynasty conquered the Southern Han Dynasty, which was separating the Lingnan area, and was in a state of decline.

The situation of encircling the Southern Tang Dynasty on the north, west and south sides. In order to delay the attack of the Song army, Li Yu paid huge tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty every year.

Bao also derogated from the Southern Tang system, demoted the king's decree "decree" to "Jiu", demoted the kings to the Duke of the State, and promoted the Shangshu Province

The surrender was called the Sihui Mansion, the Censorate surrendered was called the Sixian Mansion, etc. Many ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty had expected the demise of the kingdom to be near.

.Xu Kai, a famous minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was glad when he died of illness, "I am now exempted from being a prisoner."

Since 973, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin repeatedly asked Li Yu to go to Bianjing to pay homage to peacefully unify the Southern Tang Dynasty. But Li Yu refused to

He gave up separatist rule, "he was not allowed to be sick", and declared that "the ministers served in the great dynasty and hoped to be worshipped throughout the clan, but he did not expect that this would be the case, and he would just die now."

In 974, Zhao Kuangyin ordered the general Cao Bin to lead his army to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, causing the Southern Tang Dynasty to miss the opportunity for peaceful reunification. The Song army surrounded the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After the capital Jinling, Zhao Kuangyin and Cao Bin both advised Li Yu to stop resisting to prevent the whole city from getting into trouble. Li Yu still hesitated.

The city was destroyed and was captured. Regarding Li Yu's behavior of not knowing the current affairs, Ma Ling made the following comment in "The Book of Southern Tang": Song

After the founding of the dynasty, "everyone in the world looked forward to peace", while Li Yu still "stole the land for 16 years, showing his softness.

, Isn’t it the so-called ‘reverse fate’ that is what is called?”

Wu Yue Kingdom was founded in 907 by Qian Chu's grandfather Qian , and its territory includes the thirteen prefectures in today's Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Fujian.

One Army. In the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Qian Liu has always taken "good service to China" and "protecting the country and safeguarding the people" as his national policy.

, He also instructed his descendants to "save virtue and ability and understand the current affairs, and if they encounter Allah, they should submit to each other quickly", that is, a unified form will appear in China.

During the power, we should quickly give up separatist rule. The four generations of Wu Yue kings followed the teachings of Qian and never became emperor.

He has always paid tribute to the court in the Central Plains.

After the Northern Song Dynasty launched the war to defeat the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu wrote to Qian Chu: "There is no self today, and there is no lord tomorrow"; Wu

The Prime Minister of Yue State Shen Huzi also said that the Southern Tang Dynasty was "the country's shield". However, Qian Chu recognized the situation at that time and not only did he not provide assistance to the South.

Tang, instead, followed Zhao Kuangyin's order and sent a large number of elite troops to attack the Southern Tang. After the demise of the Southern Tang, they were about whether to hand over Wu Yue.

Qian Chu also had a lucky chance of the country's territory. In 978, when Qian Chu went to Bianjing for the second time to pay homage, he once relied on Qingyuan, which was in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The military governor Chen Hongjin presented the land of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou to Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty Zhao Guangyi. Qian Chu once again felt the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The huge tide is unstoppable, "unstop taking soil, disaster comes", and finally decided to "protect the whole nation" and "three thousand miles of beautiful mountains

Sichuan and 110,000 armored soldiers were all given to the central government, thus achieving a strong position for the first time in Chinese history

The peaceful reunification of the prosperous separatist kingdom and the central government.

The two Li Yu and Qian Chu's different attitudes towards national unity have made the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the soldiers and civilians of the Wu Yue Kingdom in life,

Property and other aspects have paid completely different prices.

In order to resist the attacks of the Song army and the Wu Yue army, Li Yu caught almost all the adult men in the territory on the battlefield.

Among all the various Southern Tang troops, there were even "white armored troops" with "paper as armor and farmers as soldiers". After many confrontations, the

There were countless soldiers of the Song army, Wu Yue army, and especially the rammed Southern Tang army soldiers.

The people of the Southern Tang Dynasty were also suffering deeply. The people of Changzhou, Runzhou and other places all experienced the disaster of being trapped in an isolated city. Jinling

The people were besieged in the city for nearly a year. When the Song army attacked the city, "there were rains on all sides, and many soldiers and civilians were injured."

In the end, he was trapped, "the city had 10,000 rice, and the dead were registered with each other", while more poor people died of hunger. On the day of the city's destruction, even though

Both Zhao Kuangyin and Cao Bin ordered soldiers not to be killed indiscriminately, but they failed to stop the killing. Lu You wrote in "The Book of Southern Tang", "

Since the king entered Jiankang, the gate of the Houzhu Palace did not enter." Except for the specially protected Li Yu Palace, the entire city of Jinling, no matter what it is

The Pengmen of the civilians were also the rich people of the officials. The Song army and the Wu Yue army all broke into the door and carried out wanton looting until they were killed.

Qian , a scholar in Qinzheng Hall of Southern Tang, was killed by his whole family before he led his family to escape. The rebel soldiers set fire to the Liang Dynasty.

In the Shengyuan Temple Pavilion, which is more than ten feet tall, thousands of men and women hiding in the pavilion died in the shaking cry of the sky.

After Li Yu surrendered to the Song Dynasty, the Jiangzhou defenders still did not surrender. After being besieged for several months, the Song army attacked Jiangzhou and killed all the men and women in the city.

Young, "Ten thousand people died, and the gold and silk were sold in billions." It is said that Zhao Kuangyin issued an order to pardon the local military and civilians, but unfortunately he was

The day before his decree arrived, the Song army had already massacred the city.

In addition, Li Yu's stubborn resistance also caused the precious cultural heritage to be catastrophic. Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties Song, Qi, and Qi

, Liang and Chen dynasties all built their capitals in Jinling. There are countless ancient relics and ancient buildings inside and outside the city. When the city is broken, it will not be

How many cultural heritage left by predecessors turned into ashes in the war? Li Yu owns more than 10,000 collections of calligraphy and paintings, among which

It was the work of Zhong Yao, a great calligrapher during the Three Kingdoms period and Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty. Before the city was destroyed, Li Yu ordered the custody of this batch of treasures.

Palace concubine: "This is all my treasures. If the city is not guarded, it will burn it and no one will let it go." When the city was broken, Li Yu did not speak like him.

He went to the fire and burned himself, but these priceless treasures were forever destroyed.

Due to peaceful reunification, no one of the military and civilians of Wu Yue Kingdom was killed or injured, nor any of the slightest property losses. Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi, once served as the first emperor of Song Dynasty.

Qian Chu praised him in person: "You can protect one side and return to me, and it will not be bloody, which is deeply commendable." Ou, the author of "The New Five Dynasties History",

Yang Xiu pointed out: "First time in the Five Dynasties, Qiantang has known respect for China and obeyed the ministers; and when it was destroyed, he paused his head and asked for orders, and he did not bother with the war. Now

The people were blessed and prosperous." Su Shi, who served as the governor of Hangzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, also praised the welfare that Qian brought to the residents of Wuyue:

"The people who died of old age and did not know the war, and they played around all seasons, and they heard the sound of singing and drums. They have not been abandoned until now. They are very virtuous than the people.

.” Zhu Guozhen of the Ming Dynasty pointed out more clearly that Qian's family "who returns to the court after the country and does not kill a single person, then his merit will be great."

During the reign of Wu and Yue, people at that time had little favorable impression of this separatist regime, and left several Wu and Yue countries to "recruit the people"

Records: After Qian Chu "received land and returned to the Song Dynasty", the residents of Wu Yue who escaped a war catastrophe thanked Qian's merits for their generations

All of them are all about Qian Wangxing's deeds that benefit the country and the people, such as Qian Wang's construction of Qiantang River embankment, and even legends such as Qian Tang River tide.

Until the late Ming Dynasty, more than 600 years later, people could still see the scene of "the people of Wu and Yue remembering Qian's family, a hundred years of being new"

.

Three Li Yu and Qian Chu's different attitudes towards national unity also influenced the capital of Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the capital of Wu Yue, Hang

The rise and fall of states and surrounding areas for hundreds of years.

Jinling has the shape of a tiger occupies a dragon plaster. It is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and has been an important town in the southeast since the Three Kingdoms period. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty,

The Wu Kingdom and the Southern Tang Dynasty successively established the capital of Jinling. After nearly a hundred years of operation of the two countries, during the wars of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Jinling and

The surrounding areas still maintained an enviable prosperity. Li Yu described "Feng Pavilion, Dragon Tower, and the branches of jade trees are filled with smoke.

The Southern Tang Palace of Luo recalls the prosperity of "cars are like flowing water, horses are like dragons" when they went to Shanglinyuan in spring. However, after the Song army met

After nearly a year of siege in Jinling City, and after the burning and killing of the city when it was broken, Jinling and its neighboring areas were destroyed by war and were full of holes.

. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu was saddened by the ruins of the local area when he passed by Jinling: "After Jinling, he was punished, and now his country is in the mountains and rivers.

Although there are still decaying the ruins and ruins, and the wild smoke and weeds, those who pass by will hesitate and feel sad for it." Wang Anshi of the same period was

The lyrics described in "Guizhixiang" in Jinling did not have the indulgence of the Six Dynasties, but only the killing of "cold smoke and decay of grass and green"

At this time, it had been more than half a century since the Northern Song Dynasty unified Jiangnan, but Jinling had not yet recovered its vitality from this war.

Nearly four hundred years later, the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital in Jinling, and this ancient city regained its vitality.

On the contrary, thanks to peaceful reunification, Hangzhou, the capital of Wuyue Kingdom, entered an unprecedented hundreds of years.
To be continued...