Worries: Border Affairs, Party Struggles and Northern Song Dynasty Politics
by Lin Hu
About This Novel
The hundred years of peace after the Chanyuan Alliance was just an accidental result of the sometimes correct and sometimes wrong decisions made by policymakers on both sides of the Song and Liao Dynasties. The Xixia rebellion against the Song Dynasty, Qingli's increase in coins, and the Liao-Xia war shattered the Song people's dream of peace and left deep and lasting psychological trauma. Emperor Shenzong, who was considered the most talented person after Zhao Kuangyin, had a dark shadow hidden in his heart. He ignored the collective opposition of the elders and ministers and insisted on supporting Wang Anshi, who had an extreme personality, to implement reforms. This great revolution completely changed the history of the Northern Song Dynasty. From then on, the increasingly fierce party struggle occupied the center of the political stage and became the most terrifying internal worry of the Song Dynasty until the Jurchens went south, Bianliang fell, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished. Party strife begins with external troubles and ends with external troubles... In the story of "Sorrow", there is no historical inevitability beyond the individual. There are only specific responses of specific characters to specific issues at specific historical moments, and the corresponding specific historical consequences.
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Official(1)Scraped 12d ago
After reading it, it is very interesting and has a sense of history.
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Official(1)Scraped 12d ago
After reading it, it is very interesting and has a sense of history.
