Chapter 1427
Zixuan was stunned when he saw Lu Yan like this.
The movements of his hands stopped involuntarily
"Doesn’t the emperor know? It shouldn't be. Didn't the secret guard come back with the message?"Zixuan was very curious.
Logically speaking, Lu Yan should know such important news.
Lu Yan shook his head.
For the great cause of Yun State and the annexation of Song State,
Lu Yan sent all the members of the secret guard Get out.
As a result, now, the intelligence capability has been greatly reduced.
There are only Hongxiu Zhao and Zixuan’s intelligence organization around.
"I don’t know, please explain it to me."
Lu Yan suddenly became energetic.
"Okay," Zixuan nodded, and then spoke.
In fact, the matter is very simple.
After the death of King Song, in order to maintain the normal operation of the Song Dynasty, Wei Zheng took over all the big and small things. He vaguely became the new person in charge.
But The King of Song had no heirs and no brothers.
He didn’t know who the throne would be given to.
Wei Zheng’s behavior offended the interests of many people, including some careerists.
In the past, the King of Song was suppressing him.
It was nothing.
But after the death of the King of Song, these people began to He became rampant.
He secretly sent personnel to assassinate Wei Zheng. As soon as Wei Zheng died, the entire court suddenly became chaotic, and the Song Kingdom fell apart.
At this time, Xue Andu officially announced that he would join the Yun Kingdom and become the Yun Kingdom. Minister.
With Xue Andu's announcement, others did not dare to show weakness.
Pan Mei immediately announced that she was the"King of Wu", established the Kingdom of Wu, and broke away from the Kingdom of Song.
Pan Mei had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command.
He wanted an army. There is an army, and military power is necessary.
At the same time, Pan Mei also wrote to her good friend in the court, Xia Song, inviting Xia Song to come to the Kingdom of Wu.
At that time, the King of Song passed away, and the entire court was in chaos.
Although Wei Zheng tried to turn the tide, But many ministers ignored him and started looking for a new home.
After Xia Song received Pan Mei's letter, he immediately replied to it. The two of them flirted with each other.
They both had each other's thoughts.
Later, Wei Zheng was assassinated by an assassin sent by someone who didn't know who. In the government office, the Song Dynasty could no longer sustain itself and fell apart.
As for Lu Siniang, who assassinated the King of Song, no one paid attention to it.
Xia Song came directly to Pan Mei's place.
Xia Song was actually very powerful.
Winning him over There were a lot of people.
But in the end, he chose Pan Mei.
There were many reasons.
There were three main aspects.
First, Pan Mei had a better relationship with him.
The two knew each other well.
He was quite convinced of Pan Mei's character.
Secondly, Pan Mei gave him a high position.
He was given the position of prime minister.
This made him very excited.
Thirdly, Pan Mei was relatively strong.
This is what he valued more.
In addition to these three, there are some others The reason.
When two people are paired together, they complement each other and can achieve each other's success.
Xia Song may not have a great reputation, but he is very powerful.
Xia Song started studying when he was four years old, and he was very talented when he was young. He was outstanding and outstanding, and he was very agile in writing poems and poems. When he was
12 years old, Xia Song wrote"Ode to the Fang Gongren", which was completed with the help of his pen, and the poem was also well done. At the age of 17, Xia Song followed his father in Langshan, Tongzhou , wrote the poem"The Ferry", and Wang Pizhi of the Northern Song Dynasty said: There is no one who has written more poems than him in the future. When the Khitan invaded the Central Plains, Xia Chenghao, Xia Chenghao's father, led the Song soldiers to take a close route from a remote road to resist the Khitan. They met the Khitan army at night, and Xia Chenghao immediately He led the Song soldiers to attack the Khitan army.
During the battle, Xia Chenghao was unfortunately injured by a stray arrow and died on the battlefield.
The imperial court subsidized Xia Chenghao's family and rewarded Xia Song with a small military attaché named"Third Squad Envoy".
One day, Xia Chenghao Holding the collection of poems he had written, he was waiting for Prime Minister Li Hang on his way home from the imperial court. He waited left and right, and finally saw Prime Minister Li Hang's group of people retreating from the imperial court and walking back. So he stopped Prime Minister Li Hang's horse's head and bowed down. , respectfully dedicated the collection of poems to Li Hang. Li Hang read the poem"The mountains are broken at the waist, and the streams are divided into swallow tails" and admired it very much. He continued to read, the whole volume is full of good poems. The next day, Prime Minister Li Hang went to court and presented Xia Song's collection of poems to Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty. He said that Xia Song's father died of poverty and asked him to change his civil service. Zhenzong appointed Xia Song as the chief registrar of Danyang County in Runzhou.
In December of the first year of Tianxi reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, Xia Song was transferred to Huangzhou. Pang Ji was his subordinate in Huangzhou. He was appointed as an officer and joined the army. Xia Song treated him with"extraordinary courtesy".
In the third year of Tianxi reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, Xia Song was transferred to Xiangzhou. This year there was a great famine in Xiangzhou, people began to flee, and thieves took the opportunity to steal.
Xia Song opened the public house and distributed grain to the victims. At the same time, he persuaded the wealthy people across the state to take out their remaining grains, and raised a total of more than 100,000 dendrobium to relieve the victims. With Xia Song's active efforts, more than 460,000 people in Xiangzhou survived the famine. The patrol envoy Jiang Zun reported Xia Song's deeds to the emperor, and the emperor gave him a letter of praise.
Later, the people thought of Xia Song's kindness and carved the imperial edict given by the emperor into a stone tablet so that they would never forget it.
Xia Song is very talented.
His name is among the list of talents in Song Dynasty.
Xia Song served as the Minister of Household Affairs in the Song Dynasty and was considered one of the six senior officials.
He was highly regarded by the King of Song Dynasty.
