The son of a small official from Yanhe County, Hebei Road, his father was framed and executed for offending the county magistrate during his audit of accounts. His mother died of illness. The young man wandered to Bianjing, hanging out in docks and Caogang. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the northern border of the Liao Kingdom was watching with eager eyes, and Xixia repeatedly invaded the border in the western border; above the court, the old and new parties were fiercely fighting, eunuchs were in power, and the local military and administration were corrupt. The Yellow River bursts many times, refugees spread everywhere, and bandits sprang up
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