The Yuan Dynasty was the first ethnic minority regime in Chinese history to unify China, and it was also an extremely brutal regime in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Before the Mongols entered the Central Plains, they were still a slave regime, and most of the captured soldiers and civilians were sold to the Mongols as slaves. Therefore, it is not surprising that Wen Tianxiang's wife and daughter were reduced to slavery. However, this was also a political maneuver of the Yuan rulers, a tactic against the resistance, including Wen Tianxiang.
By the time Wen Tianxiang was arrested, his mother and son had died under the knife of the Yuan invaders, and his wife and daughter had been captured.
At that time, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty abducted Wen Tianxiang's wife and daughter to the palace as a person, which made Wen Tianxiang feel a sense of despair, and then a sense of guilt for his family, so that Wen Tianxiang bowed to the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty in exchange for the freedom of his family.
In fact, when the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty persuaded him to surrender, he also told him that if Wen Tianxiang did things for the Yuan Dynasty, he could immediately restore the freedom of his family.
But Wen Tianxiang was unmoved, always adhered to his own beliefs, and did not compromise with the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty.
Wen Tianxiang said in a letter to his sister, "Receiving a letter from a willow girl, cutting the stomach and intestines, who does not have the love of his wife and children?" But that's it... Whatever! Daddy can't help it. Choked up in tears. "
People's hearts are all flesh, not to mention Wen Tianxiang, a good boy who cherishes love and righteousness?
As a father and a husband, the torment in his heart can be imagined when he sees his daughter and wife suffering because they are suffering, but they cannot save each other because of the great national righteousness.
Because Wen Tianxiang was unyielding and would rather die than surrender, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty had no choice but to order his execution.
On January 9, 1283, Wen Tianxiang calmly took up his righteousness.
After Wen Tianxiang's death, Yuan Shizu said falsely, "Good man, can't be used by me, it's a pity to kill it!"
Wen Tianxiang was a talented man, but he was a man with no talent, and he was not reused by the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty at first. When Kublai Khan led the Yuan army south, the representative of the surrender faction and the eunuch Dong Songchen suggested fleeing and moving the capital, and Wen Tianxiang advised the emperor to kill the surrender faction and live with the people as a jinshi. However, the emperor ignored Wen Tianxiang's suggestion and put it on the shelf.
Later, Wen Tianxiang repeatedly said that the emperor did not accept it, and he was annoyed, so he sent him out to an idler, no one paid attention, and later Wen Tianxiang continued to speak out, and the ruler could not bear it, and arranged for him to retire early, when he was only 37 years old.
In 1274, because of the recommendation of the old chancellor Jiang Wanli, Wen Tianxiang re-emerged from the mountains and served as the governor of Ganzhou to fight against the Yuan, until he was captured in 1278. After Wen Tianxiang was captured, he preferred to die unyieldingly, killed himself and became a loyal vassal of Liufang Hundred Generations.
Historically, Wen Tianxiang wanted to commit suicide in prison, not by anyone. Because Wen Tianxiang had no intention of surviving after being captured, he was determined to die.
At that time, empress dowager Xie of the Southern Song Dynasty insisted on surrendering, and the chancellor Lu Xiufu threw himself into the sea with the little emperor on his back.
The Yuan general Zhang Hongfan toasted to Wen Tianxiang at the celebration banquet and persuaded him to surrender: "The emperors of the Song Dynasty are gone, and you have been loyal." There is no point in carrying it any further, hurry up and get lost, the future is unlimited. "
Wen Tianxiang replied: "The upper part of the courtiers cannot defend the Sheji River and the mountains, and the lower cannot save the people of Li, and the sins deserve death." If I were to defect to the enemy, wouldn't I be left with a stink for eternity? "
During his imprisonment, Wen Tianxiang wrote such a poem: "Bronze bird spring love, golden people autumn tears, this hatred by whom snow?" Tang Tang Sword Qi, Bull Fighting Empty Recognition Qijie".
After Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Dadu, people who persuaded him to surrender followed.
The former Southern Song Dynasty prime minister, the Yuan Dynasty's Rebbe Shangshu Liu Mengyan came, the Yuan Dynasty's prime minister Ah Ma came, the Yuan Dynasty prime minister Polo came, the former Southern Song Emperor, 9-year-old Zhao Kui came, and the yuan dynasty boss Kublai Khan also came with sincerity.
But Wen Tianxiang walked all the way to the black, always saying that sentence: if you want to kill, you can kill, no nonsense.
Kublai Khan failed to persuade him to surrender, and became angry, and ordered his guards to use a golden stick to injure his knee bone, but Wen Tianxiang was still righteous and indomitable, and said indignantly: "There is nothing to do except die." "
The next day, Wen Tianxiang was killed at the age of 47.
Among the loyal subjects in history, some are foolishly loyal, and some are loyal to the country and the people in capital letters.
Foolish loyalty is loyalty to only one person, one dynasty, even if there is no way, a tyrant, to be loyal to those who are not worthy, and this kind of loyalty is not advisable.
If a dynasty loses the hearts of the people and is abandoned by the times, such a ruler loses its reason for existence, loses its meaning in being loyal to it, goes against the trend of the times, and is an enemy of the people.
The wisest thing to do is to abandon the dark and cast the light, understand the great righteousness, and fire a cannon at the Emperor, after all, the person who knows the time is Junjie.
True loyal subjects, loyal to not only a dynasty, but the people of Li, as the "king" of the little emperor has surrendered, Wen Tianxiang still does not bow his head.
When Yuan Cheng Xiang Polo persuaded him to surrender, Wen Tianxiang replied: "I am loyal to the Song Dynasty, and I have today, please dispose of it quickly!" "
Polo then said, "You depose the king (Zhao Kui)." What kind of loyal servant is the establishment of another central government? "
Wen Tianxiang replied: "The society is heavy, and the king is light." "
This sentence speaks of Wen Tianxiang's heart, Wen Tianxiang's loyalty is not only aimed at the Southern Song Dynasty, but loyal to the people of the world.
The Yuan Dynasty was a brutal regime, and in the early stages, it implemented a cruel extermination policy against its opponents, and Wen Tianxiang had no illusions about them. Only under the banner of the Southern Song Dynasty court could Wen Tianxiang have more appeal, fight against invaders, and save the people from water and fire.
In Wen Tianxiang's eyes, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were evil regimes, and they were inseparable from them. After being captured, Wen Tianxiang did not have any illusions and only wanted to die. Therefore, Wen Tianxiang's suicide was voluntary, and no one forced him.