In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court was weak and the officialdom was as corrupt as maggots attached to the bones.
Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji was obsessed with calligraphy, painting and rare stones, and entrusted the government to Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Gao Qiu and other treacherous ministers. They sold their official positions and extorted money, plundered the people of the southeast in the name of "Hua Shi Gang", and seized the people's land on the pretext of "Xicheng Tiansuo".
On Jingdong East Road, Liangshan Bo eight hundred miles of water, a hundred and eight generals led by Chao Gai and Song Jiang gathered together. Under the banner of "doing justice for heaven", they robbed the rich and helped the poor, and repeatedly defeated the government and the army. On the Liangzhe Road, Fangla revolted in Bangyuan Cave, claiming to be the Holy Duke, and established Yongle in the Yuan Dynasty. In just a few months, he captured 52 counties in six prefectures, causing shock in the southeast.
The imperial court was beset with internal and external difficulties. The Kingdom of Jin was eyeing the country in the north, and there were uprisings in the country. The Privy Council and Zhongshu Sheng quarreled all day long and could not come up with a good strategy to calm the world. Some people advocated forceful suppression, but the Imperial Guards were rotten to the bone; some people advocated recruiting Huairou, but they were worried about the danger of raising tigers.
In the midst of this incomplete game, a secret plan called "Hidden Dragon" was quietly launched.
They chose a person, a person who was destined to stir up the world, but was swallowed up by the storm.
Reader comments
I said, if so, you see, Song Jiang was an official. According to the policies of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, he could not be an official, and the official's salary was small, so why could he help other people? Therefore, it is really possible that he was an undercover agent of the imperial court, in order to break into Liangshan and collapse it, and Song Jiang did it in the later period.
I said, if so, you see, Song Jiang was an official. According to the policies of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, he could not be an official, and the official's salary was small, so why could he help other people? Therefore, it is really possible that he was an undercover agent of the imperial court, in order to break into Liangshan and collapse it, and Song Jiang did it in the later period.