In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Huizong of Song fainted and incompetent, and finally the shame of Jing Kang, the Song royal family and the princes and ministers basically became prisoners of the Jin people. At that time, the two famous traitors Gao Li and Cai Jing disappeared. So, where did they all go when Jing Kang was ashamed, and what happened to them in the end?
Gao Li was originally Su Shi's little secretary, who not only knew poetry and songs, wrote well, but also made the gun stick, and had a certain martial arts foundation. He was first recommended by Su Shi to Emperor Huizong of Song's uncle Wang Yi. Later, he was recommended to Emperor Huizong of Song, and he did everything he could to please Emperor Huizong of Song. The boss was very happy, and with a big wave of his hand, he arranged Gao Li to manage the forbidden army.
Gao Li not only pampered himself and treated the forbidden army as his own private service, but also played a lot of flower racks in army training, that is, to coax Emperor Huizong of Song to be happy. As a result, the discipline of the army was abolished and became a useless decoration, and in the face of the Jin soldiers going south, the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty was vulnerable.
After Song Qinzong insisted on staying behind, he handed over the defense of the capital to Li Gang. Although Li Gang was a civilian courtier, he had good military achievements, and he actively organized residents to resist the enemy, which greatly improved the defensive strength of the Northern Song Dynasty in a short period of time. After the Jin people arrived in Beijing, they were met with stubborn resistance from the Song army, and there was no hope of taking Fenjing in a short period of time, coupled with the continuous arrival of the four qinwang armies of the Song Dynasty, the strength of the Song army increased greatly, and the Jin army was in a passive situation. But what Li Gang did not expect was that he was organizing an army to resist Jin with all his might, but Song Qinzong ordered people to ask for peace from the Jin people, and finally exchanged the withdrawal of the Jin army on the condition of ceding land and providing old coins. At the same time, under the threat of the Jin people, Li Gang was deposed from his official post.
Later, under pressure, Li Gangguan was reinstated, but soon Li Gang was ostracized and demoted to the post of deputy envoy of the Baojing Army and went to the local government. Soon after, the Jin army made a comeback, this time because there was no deadly resistance from Li Gang and others, and Fenjing was quickly attacked by the Jin army, and Song Qinzong and others became prisoners. At the time of Jing Kang's shame, Li Gang was unable to serve the country because he was not in Beijing, but he did not become a prisoner of the Jin people because of this.
This man's ending must have been said by his eunuch friend Tong Guan, and the end was too good. The reason was that he died early, and after his death, Emperor Huizong still remembered him and posthumously honored him as a Taishi and bestowed the title of "Duke of Wu". However, after Emperor Qinzong of Song ascended the throne, he ordered him to be exhumed and stripped of his title and title. But he was dead, and he didn't know these things, so his fate was not bad.