Who defected to Xixia in Song Dynasty and became a disaster in Central Plains? What's the final outcome?

This man named Bird was from Huayin County, Shaanxi Province during the Northern Song Dynasty. Bird is a brilliant scholar. According to historical records, he is chivalrous, charming and talented. So he thinks highly of himself and has great ambitions. He once wrote: "The Seven Stars stirred the Tianchi Lake with their swords, and rolled the Milky Way to the capital. After the war, Yulong retreated 3 million, and pieces of scales and armor were flying all over the sky. " Such lofty words and aspirations. However, things often backfire. Although Bird was brilliant, I don't know why, but every time he took the imperial examination, he was eliminated.

Speaking of which, I'm going to talk about the imperial examination in Song Dynasty. As early as the Sui Dynasty, talents were selected through imperial examinations. After the Tang Dynasty, and then to the Song Dynasty, after several reforms, the system was improved. At that time, the imperial examination was a three-year cycle, and a big exam was held every three years. The imperial examination is divided into three steps: the township examination, the senior high school entrance examination and the palace examination. After passing the provincial examination, you can become a juren; You can become a scholar after passing the exam; After palace examination passed, he won the Jinshi and. Of course, it is not easy to take the palace exam, but because of the final elimination system, those who are brushed off are called failing the list.

And these failed candidates, all previous exams will be invalid, and they can only start all over again. Bird will be present at every exam, sweating profusely in the examination room. Every time I finally get to the palace exam, I always get a lower ranking and end up in the end. Bird often lamented his talent, and his heart was extremely indignant. The behavior is more barbaric, and he often rushes on the mountain road drunk, and at the same time makes a very sharp scream, which sounds very scary.

Down and out people have down and out friends, and Bird also has a friend with the same fate in the examination room, named Wu Hao. Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao together, always have endless grievances and endless hatred for DaSong. On one occasion, Bird said to Wu Hao, since Dasong didn't give us a chance to display our talents, Li Yuanhao, the founder of Xixia Kingdom, had just been founded after the founding of the People's Republic of China and was fighting Dasong, why don't we go to him?

Want to take refuge in Li Yuanhao, but no acquaintances, obviously it is difficult to succeed. However, Bird has always been a shocking person. He took Wu Hao to drink in a pub in Xixia for a whole day, and wrote on the wall "Bird and Wu Hao are here to visit". When the officers and men of Xixia patrol saw it, they thought it was a taboo for Li Yuanhao, so they arrested and imprisoned Bird and reported it to Li Yuanhao. Li Yuanhao was very surprised. After personal interrogation, he knew that Bird was a talented person, so he didn't pursue the felony of taboo, but entrusted him with an important task.

After a period of hard work, Bird's work was recognized by Li Yuanhao, and he was promoted to the post of Secretariat. In A.D. 104 1 year, Li Yuanhao led an army to crusade against Song Jun, and Bird, as a strategist, went out with the army. He was very angry at the thought that he always failed in the imperial examinations in the past, so he made a clever plan for Li Yuanhao, and soon Song Jun lost his ground.

The Xixia Army returned home with a great victory, and Song Jun lost tens of thousands of soldiers, which became the most serious and painful war since the establishment of the Song Dynasty. When Bird saw Song Jun's body lying all over the ground, he was so happy that he wrote a poem outside the temple on the boundary next to the battlefield: "Xia Song doesn't shrug, Han Qi is not surprised." Full of dragons and tigers, the wanderer said that he was a soldier. "His pride is vividly expressed in the poem. So he felt unhappy, so he wrote a lot of official titles at the back of his signature: Taishi, Shangshuling ... Bird came here.

Because of his achievements, Bird was promoted to the position of the country, and Li Yuanhao paid more attention to him. Bird wanted to destroy the Song Dynasty, so he tried to persuade Li Yuanhao to pursue it. Take Shaanxi first, and then March into the Central Plains. And suggested that Li Yuanhao unite with the Khitan, * * * against the Song Dynasty. At first, Li Yuanhao was ambitious and thought Bird's plan was feasible, so he followed Bird's plan and led his troops to attack Wei Zhou. Unexpectedly, under the command of Fan Zhongyan, Song Jun was not only well defended, but also almost wiped out the Xixia Army.

Therefore, the nobles of Xixia thought that Li Yuanhao's frequent campaigns wasted too much national strength of Xixia. They are not satisfied, so there is constant rebellion. Seeing that the country would fall into chaos, Li Yuanhao decided to make peace with the Song Dynasty in order to protect himself. Unwilling to believe this, Zhang Yuan repeatedly discouraged Li Yuanhao from making peace with the Song Dynasty, but to no avail. After Li Yuanhao surrendered to Song Dynasty, in order to get rid of the control of Qidan, he launched an attack on Qidan in Helan Mountain. Before attacking the Khitan, Bird tried to persuade Li Yuanhao to continue to form an alliance with the Khitan against the Song Dynasty.

However, Li Yuanhao is a man with great political foresight. He didn't listen to Bird's advice, but led the Xixia cavalry, lured the enemy into depth, and finally won a decisive victory, and finally formed a tripartite confrontation with Qidan and the Northern Song Dynasty. Bird knew that he was useless in Xixia, and his wish to destroy the Northern Song Dynasty was even more impossible. So he soon died in a gloomy mood. Bird passed away, but because of him, the Northern Song court reflected. In order to avoid the extreme phenomenon that the exiled candidates of the court exam take refuge in the enemy country, after repeated discussions, the relegation system was finally abolished. For those candidates who have participated in the palace exam but failed well in the exam, they will also be awarded official positions and arranged to work at the grassroots level. (Refer to historical materials: the story of Xixia and the history of Song Dynasty)