A brief introduction to Zhang Shuye, a celebrity from the Northern Song Dynasty. What kind of person was he and how did he die?

Zhang Shuye was a famous soldier in the Northern Song Dynasty. When the Eight-Jin Jin Army invaded the Northern Song Dynasty, Huo Suo's second son came to Beijing to be King Qin. He fought bloody battles until the Jin army broke through the capital and was captured by the Jin army together with Song Qinzong. While escorting him to the north, he passed through the boundary river and died heroically.

Zhang Shuye was born in an official family, and his ancestors were officials in North Korea. As time went by, by Zhang Shuye's father's generation, he had moved around and lost his reputation.

In 1065 AD, Zhang Shuye was born in a small mountainous village with a cymbal under a tower in Yongfeng County, Xinzhou. Zhang Shuye liked military affairs when he was young, playing games with his friends and leading troops to fight. When he grew up, he resolutely joined the army and worked as a clerk in Lanzhou.

Lanzhou is located on the border, and the Qiang people often attack, especially in winter when the Yellow River freezes, which is the best time for the Qiang people to attack.

When Zhang Shuye arrived in Lanzhou, he found that every time the Qiang invaded, they would gather in a place called Dadu. After discovering this place, Zhang Shuye immediately suggested building a city fortress here and defeat the Qiang attacks. This suggestion was adopted, and subsequent Qiang intrusions on the Northern Song border were alleviated. Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty saved a lot of effort to defend the frontier, and relied on this achievement to make Xiang and Chenliu the prefects, and the three prefectures of Shu, Hai, and Tai.

During the Daguan period of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhang Shuye was given the same Jinshi background and was transferred to the position of Right Minister as Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the third year of the Great Guan Dynasty, he and his brother Zhang impeached Cai Jing, which eventually led to Cai Jing's removal from office. Although they got rid of a pest for the court, the two Zhang brothers offended Cai Jing. In order to retaliate against them, Cai Jing collected charges against the two people everywhere, which led to Zhang Shuye being demoted to the Xi'an Grassland Supervision Bureau.

A few years later, Zhang Shuye was reactivated and recalled to the capital as secretary and junior supervisor, and then promoted to Taifu and Taifu of Zhongshu. He was promoted to Minister of Rites because of reforming the government affairs of "Konghuang Province". Perhaps because of his rapid promotion, Zhang Shuye was frightened by Cai Jing. Because there was a precedent of Zhang Shuye's brother being impeached and dismissed from office, Cai Jing was afraid that Zhang Shuye would attack him again, so he took the lead. Under Cai Jing's operation, Zhang Shuye was demoted to Haizhou as the magistrate.

In "Water Margin", Zhang Shuye's military ability was very outstanding. With his own ability, he surrendered all the people in Liangshan Boli and made Song Jiang and others surrender. In real history, Zhang Shuye was also a brave warrior.

In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the country declined, while the Jin State in the northern grasslands became increasingly powerful. In the late period of Song Huizong, the Jin army finally launched a wanton attack on the Song Dynasty. Facing the power of Xu Jinguo, Song Huizong had no choice but to escape. Under the advice of the minister, he finally gave up the Zen throne to Prince Zhao Huan, and he and his cronies could not escape.

After Song Qinzong succeeded to the throne, the situation became more and more serious. At that time, Zhang Shuye already knew that the Jin army would besiege Bianjing sooner or later, so he suggested taking the lead. The four generals joined forces and led the cavalry to take a circuitous route behind the Jin soldiers, cutting off the Jin soldiers' retreat, and then joined forces to defeat the enemy.

Unfortunately, this suggestion was not taken seriously by the rulers. Zhang Shuye was transferred by the imperial court to Dengzhou as the magistrate and concurrently as the manager of the capital of South Island. Shortly after his arrival, he received orders from Song Qinzong. Zhang Shuye continued to advance and led his soldiers and two sons to Bianjing to rescue Song Qinzong.

Passing through the Wei State, he encountered invading nomads, so Zhang Shuye led his army and fought forward, killing the enemies along the way, and finally entered Beijing to join Song Qinzong. Song Qinzong met him in person and expressed his gratitude to him for this. Later, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty successively awarded Zhang Shuye a bachelor's degree in Yankang Hall and

On the way to the north, Zhang Shuye tried to die on a hunger strike, but he never succeeded. When we arrived at Hebaigou in Songjinjie, we cried and choked to death at the age of 63.