The Siege of Bianjing: Diplomacy, War, and People in the Late Northern Song Dynasty

About This Novel

This book traces the complete historical details of the Jingkang disaster at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, tells the peace and war between the Song, Liao, and Jin parties, focusing on the key moments of the great changes in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the causes and consequences of the overall crisis that broke out in the empire from the inside out. During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the empire was prosperous, but hidden dangers under the prosperous times had become an undercurrent. Internal crises such as financial difficulties, chronic military diseases, and vicious party disputes, as well as external crises such as military threats from the Liao and Jin countries in the north, made the empire gradually unstable. In order to "recover" the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun as a strategic barrier, Song Huizong decided to unite with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty. Although the Song-Jin alliance gradually encroached on the Liao Kingdom, the Jin State took advantage of this to see the weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty. Coupled with the complicated interest disputes between the two countries, the Jin State turned south to attack the Song Dynasty. In the first year of Jingkang (1126), the Jin army besieged Bianjing for the second time, and the city fell in November. The Northern Song Dynasty collapsed suddenly, and only three years passed from its prosperity to its demise.

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