Volume 4 Chapter 61: Burning
After the Chinese New Year, the dragon flag of the Zhao Song government suddenly headed westward into the pass, which immediately shocked the whole world.
You must know that before this, the Song Dynasty already had two complete army groups in Guanzhong, namely the Imperial Camp Left Army led by Han Shizhong and the Imperial Camp Rear Army led by Wu Jie. The two armies had a total of 60,000 people... Of course, even if Han Shizhong might still have some legacy issues with the number of troops, after Zhao Jiu directly intervened at the level of commander, it would gradually be impossible for the difference to be too big.
Fifty to sixty thousand troops are enough to properly deal with the situation in Guanzhong from a defense perspective. If we add the elite troops of the front, middle and cavalry of the imperial camp brought by Zhao Jiu this time, the Zhao Song army in Guanzhong area actually has eighty to ninety thousand troops. On the surface, it has exceeded 100,000. If we take into account Li Yanxian's troops between Guan and Luo, the number of 100,000 is definitely more than the actual number.
A real force of 100,000 people, plus the civilian laborers for transportation and the auxiliary troops who would be recruited immediately once the war broke out, was a typical pattern of "an army of hundreds of thousands" in the feudal era... In other words, in an era when transportation, communication, and the number of troops participating in the war were limited, the field troops stockpiled by the Song Dynasty in the Guanzhong region were absolutely capable of launching a decisive battle.
As for the dragon banner of the Zhao Song emperor, the actual situation that many famous generals of the Song Dynasty, including Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Li Yanxian, Wu Jie, and Qu Duan, poured into Guanzhong, which further increased this possibility and made no one dare to neglect it.
As a result, the Jin army began to mobilize on a large scale. The troops in Daming Prefecture turned to the banks of the Yellow River, and the troops in Hedong immediately pressed south to Hezhong Prefecture. Only the Jurchen troops in Longde Prefecture remained silent. This was because this position was inherently delicate and they could completely wait and see what happened before making any further moves.
At the same time, in a hurry and for the convenience of command, the Fourth Prince of Jin, King of Wei Wanyan Wushu and his third brother King of Jin Wanyan Erlido had to temporarily exchange the command of their respective troops... The Fourth Prince Wanyan Wushu, who came to do ideological and political work, officially took over the battlefields of Hedong and Hexi, that is, the command of the Western Route Army; at the same time, the Third Prince Wanyan Erlido also rode out of Yanjing and went straight to Damingfu to take charge.
That’s not all. Wanyan Xiyin, the deputy prime minister of the Jin Dynasty’s capital province, also immediately went to Zhending Prefecture, an important city in North China, to take charge of logistics.
For a time, only the Crown Prince, King of Liao Wanyan Ouben and Qin Huizhi, who actually had no say at the time, remained in Yanjing.
Then, the Jin army's express messengers began to travel frequently between important towns such as Yanjing, Zhending, Taiyuan, Daming Prefecture, Longde Prefecture, Xijing (Datong), Yan'an Prefecture, Daning County, and Hezhong Prefecture, and the top leaders of the Jin army were actually exchanging opinions and initiating discussions on the situation in this way.
At this time, the Jurchens had to face an absolute, core problem.
To be fair, the Jurchens were not afraid of war. They would not lose their courage to fight because of the previous defeats. Moreover, their military strength and combat effectiveness were still undoubtedly superior. But a serious question was whether to cross the river to fight? Especially since the Zhao Song officials had made it clear that they were heading for Yan'an and the mountainous areas around Hengshan in Western Xia behind Yan'an.
It should be noted that the Song and Jin armies had been at war for seven or eight years. Apart from conventional battles and non-combat casualties, the two biggest pain points for the Jurchens came from the Yanling counterattack and the Yaoshan battle. The former caused the Eastern Army to lose more than a dozen Meng'an troops, and the latter caused the simultaneous collapse of four Wanhu troops on the Eastern and Western routes of the Jin Army, resulting in an actual loss of about 20,000 troops.
For the Jurchens, who owned the entire North China and the entire Liao territory, the number of troops could be easily wiped out and the organization could be easily rebuilt, but what was the price to pay for this? Of course, the upper limit of combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.
To be honest, the Jurchens were a bit flustered. Although they responded very efficiently and appropriately, in fact the top leaders were not prepared for any battle, and the middle and grassroots officers and soldiers were unwilling to cross the river to fight in a disadvantaged battlefield and repeat possible failure... At the same time, with the arrival of spring, the Yellow River began to flood. It can be imagined that after the flood, the initiative of the lower half of the Yellow River will be controlled by the Song navy. This means that a new battlefield will be opened up in the lower reaches of the Yellow River where the Song army is short of manpower, making it impossible for the Song army to take care of both ends. This self-evident assumption quickly fell through.
In other words, the Song army carefully chose the time and was clearly well prepared.
The Jin army was certainly in a panic, and the Xixia people were even worse off... Because of traffic delays, information was in a backlog for them.
Two months ago, Li Qianshun, the ruler of Western Xia, received a private ridicule from the Zhao Song official. After thinking about it, he thought it might be a test for him to blockade Hengshan and control the foreign cavalry... Therefore, Li Qianshun first spent three or five days to calm down (after all, he was a man in the top ten of the East Asian power list), and discussed the response method with the civil and military officials at home. After some hesitation, he finally decided to grit his teeth and pretend to be a coward. Half a month after receiving the letter, he sent a reply to the Song Dynasty admitting his cowardice.
Of course, it is impossible to give the foreign cavalry, it is impossible to smash the stele, and it is impossible to erase the "Lingzhi Song Fu"... Let alone the former being an aid to the enemy, even the latter is a symbol of Li Qianshun's literary governance, and an important witness to his establishment of Sinology as the main line. Moreover, as a king who has been on the throne for nearly fifty years and is almost fifty years old, he cannot afford to lose face in the country... He just told Emperor Zhao and the Song people that he had buried him. Anyway, it is impossible for the Song people to come to Xingqing Mansion to witness it with their own eyes, right?
There is no need to say much about what happened next. After the letter was sent out, the Jurchens came to him and vaguely proposed to give him land or something... Originally, Li Qianshun was dancing on two eggs. He left the Great Jin some time ago to find the Great Song just for the sake of gesture. Now the Jurchens said that they would recognize Nianhan's promise to give land. Li Qianshun was naturally happy to return to the warm embrace of the Great Jin.
Of course, Li Qianshun is not a fool.
He wanted the land of Yan'an very much, and so did the Xixia people... You have to know that when Li Qianshun's own mother mobilized all the men in the country, and then took him, who was only thirteen years old, to lead the army in person, just for the Hengshan area. Controlling the Bao'an Army, Suide Army, Jinning Army and Yan'an Prefecture, and mastering all the areas inside the "J" shape of the Yellow River has always been the ultimate dream of the Xixia people.
However, at what cost?
How can there be such a thing as a free lunch? Lou Shi is dead! What is the title of Han Shizhong, the most famous general of the Song Dynasty and the commander of Guanzhong? Where is his hometown? What is the story of Wanyan Huo Nu?
Li Qianshun knew it clearly.
Therefore, during the past month or two, the ruler of Western Xia forcibly suppressed the internal restlessness while engaging in intensive diplomatic contacts with the Jin people, lavishly bribing Wanyan Erluguan (Aguda's sixth son, Wuzhu's sixth brother), the governor of Jin's Xijing (Datong)... According to the ruler of Western Xia's idea, it would be better not to give up Yan'an Prefecture, but to take the former Liao territory on the inner side of the Yellow River, the Heqing and Ningbian areas, and if the Jurchens were willing to give him the Zhe family of Linzhou, he was willing to confer the title of king to Zhe Keqiu.
In a word, don't do anything too exciting. Making money behind the scenes is the most important thing.
Of course, the Jurchens were not fools either. Seeing that Huo Nu wanted to resolve the issue peacefully, they also became perfunctory towards the Xixia people. After two months, let alone Yan'an Prefecture and Linzhou Zhejia, they were even unwilling to give the Heqing Army's territory on the inner side of the Yellow River, which was adjacent to the desert and where no one lived, to the Xixia people.
For a time, Li Qianshun was so angry that he kept telling his confidants as soon as he entered the court, "The Jurchens didn't even give me a single Heqing Army!"
The weight of his resentment was palpable, and was in stark contrast to his surprise when he learned that the Jurchens were going to give him land.
It was precisely this kind of surprise and resentment that made the oldest and most politically experienced ruler in East Asia ignore the developments in the Song Dynasty... Li Qianshun did not take the reports sent by Gao Shouyi seriously, because the discussions and problems in Yan'an Prefecture were real, and it was normal for the people of Song to complain.
Moreover, according to Li Qianshun's understanding, the Song people now widely publicized the court bulletins, making this kind of thing obviously displayed for outsiders to see. Therefore, the things published on it should be symbolic and tentative, and cannot be real information.
It was not as valuable as the "Records of the Grand Historian" sent by the young Emperor of the Song Dynasty, because that book represented the personal attitude of the most powerful man in the world...even though that man was only in his twenties, about half the age of Li Qianshun.
But then, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty led his army to the west to help, and said that he would attack Yan'an and Hengshan! Then, the Jurchens came again, and they also said that they wanted Xixia to send troops to help defend Yan'an. If they defended it, they would send Yan'an!
Things haven't settled down here yet, and a Korean came, speaking in Tokyo official language, asking Li Qianshun to go to Chang'an to apologize? !
One after another, the emperor of the Great Baigao Kingdom was really sickened.
However, no matter how disgusting it is, the matter is before us and Dabai Gaoguo must respond and react.
The imperial court of the Great Bai Gao Kingdom was holding a court meeting in the palace located at the eastern end of Xingqing Prefecture (Yinchuan in later generations). The Great Bai Gao Kingdom Emperor Li Qianshun, who was nearly fifty years old and had forehead wrinkles all over his face, was sitting at the top, with civil and military officials on both sides.
Unlike the envoys who wore golden crowns and golden belts (蹀躞), most of the civil and military officials in the hall at this time wore tight-fitting clothes with round collars and narrow sleeves. The civil officials wore a fu hat, while the military officials mostly wore small golden crowns or small silver crowns... As for Li Qianshun himself, he wore a tall crown, a dragon robe, and a belt.
This shape is very different from the attire when the Western Xia was founded. But if you look closely, the characteristics of Khitan, Han, Western Regions and grasslands can all be revealed, which can be regarded as a great cultural fusion.
Of course, if you look more closely, you will find an important feature unique to Xixia, that is, short hair plus a flying bird-shaped hairstyle.
There was no way around it. This was a continuation of Li Yuanhao's policy of 'keep the head but not the hair, keep the hair but not the head' when he founded the country. Even Li Qianshun, who had completely overturned the 'barbarian rites' and implemented the 'Han rites', could not be shaken. He just made his sideburns thicker and tried not to be bald.
And just as this hairstyle suggests , the Western Xia Dynasty seemed unable to break away from its own narrow style.
Back to the present, although the civil and military order in the hall was in good order, everyone knew that this was not due to the "Han rituals", but the difficulty of the matter was beyond their imagination. Those with the surname Li and Weiming had no idea how to deal with it.
But on the other hand, although the matter is difficult, it is not complicated, so in a sense, there is no need to discuss it excessively.
First of all, everyone knows that it is definitely not possible to go to Chang'an.
Then, King Weiming Chago of Jin tentatively suggested that they might as well agree to the Jin people's request and send troops to Hengshan to assist the Jurchens in defending Yan'an... But this immediately prompted a counter-question from Xue Yuanli, the Han prime minister. In the previous months, the Jin people's contempt for the Great Bai Gao Kingdom had been obvious. If they went to Yan'an and the Jurchens withdrew, and the Song people came again, what would be the matter?
Did they have to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Song army in Yan'an, a place full of Han people? How could his name Cha Ge be a better fighter than Wanyan Loushi?
Therefore, this suggestion was quickly rejected.
At this point, although no one was talking, the plan was already evident.
"Then let's do it!"
Seeing that no one spoke, Li Qianshun thought for a long time and finally decided on the tone with difficulty. "No matter what, Xixia was just a small country before the Song and Jin Dynasties. A small country should have the self-awareness of a small country... All means are for survival! Mr. Xue!"
"I'm here." Xue Yuanli immediately stepped out and bowed his head.
"You go to Chang'an with that Korean man." Li Qianshun said with a sigh. "Take fifty camels, a hundred good horses, and select some gold items. Oh, and there's also the white parrot that can chant Buddhist scriptures sent from the Western Regions. I heard that the young official of the Zhao Song Dynasty is also a Buddhist. Bring it to him to see... Be humble when you get there, and if necessary, promise to release the Hengshan barbarian cavalry and open the horse market... And if the Song people ask for the Dingbian Army camps that I personally took after Jingkang, I can give them to them!"
"Brother!" Hearing this, Cha Ge, who was in his forties, couldn't help but step out again. "This is aiding the enemy."
"It's just a stopgap measure!" Li Qianshun was a little annoyed. "Of course I know that the Great Bai Gao Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty will never be at peace, but when facing hundreds of thousands of elite troops, we have to bow our heads."
Xue Yuanli bowed his head even more, and Cha Ge remained silent.
"As for the Jurchens, we cannot take Yan'an, but we must make it clear that we have no intention of opposing the Great Jin. Not only that, when the Great Jin and the Great Song really come to a showdown, the Great Bai Gao Kingdom will only support the Jin and will never have second thoughts... " Li Qianshun suppressed his frown and called out another person. "Bali Zuren... You are my Chief Censor, go and tell the Jurchens."
A Tangut civil official immediately stepped out and responded carefully.
"That's all, let's go! Prince Jin, follow me to the harem to talk!" After Li Qianshun gave this order, he felt a little impatient, and simply stood up and walked back, with only Prince Jin Cha Ge following closely behind him.
And everyone knew that the next step would be to send more troops to Hengshan, and since more troops were to be sent to Hengshan, Prince Jin would definitely lead the troops. The king took Prince Jin to the harem for a private discussion, which left both the civil and military officials speechless.
However, when Li Qianshun and his brother Cha Ge went to the harem, they did not directly discuss the matter of sending aid. Instead, they called several witches and sorcerers in the harem and asked them to burn mugwort and smoke lamb scapulas in front of the two brothers. Of course, they had to dance and cast magic on the lamb scapulas... The process was long and boring, but the two brothers said nothing and just stared at the lamb scapula in the middle of the witches and sorcerers.
After a long time, with a shout from the nearest witch, like a bolt from the blue, the dry sheep scapula finally cracked. Seeing this, the two most noble men of the Great White Gao Kingdom stood up and hurried forward, ready to take a closer look at the shape of the crack.
It turns out that according to the Xixia people's devout belief in witchcraft, this practice is called "zhibojiao". The good or bad luck is determined by looking at the cracks left by the smoke on the sheep's shoulder blade, and two cracks must be burned before it can be used... Among them, the first crack is the main crack, and the second crack on the main crack is called the guest crack, both of which are extremely important.
According to experience, once the main seam appears, the guest seam will appear immediately.
Sure enough, not long after Li Qianshun and Cha Ge arrived, a thinner guest seam soon appeared above the main seam, which was visible to the naked eye. At this point, the witches and sorcerers all stopped. The witch with the loudest voice in the lead even wrapped the charred sheep shoulder bone with dry wormwood and prepared to present it to King Jin Cha Ge, intending to let Cha Ge hold it for the king to see.
However, Li Qianshun, the ruler of Western Xia who always respected Han etiquette, could not wait at all and snatched the sheep bone directly, taking advantage of the afternoon sun coming from the direction of Helan Mountain in the west to look at the pattern... However, Li Qianshun, who usually had a high level of observation of "burning and scorching", was stunned at the first sight.
There was no other reason. Although the witches and sorcerers stopped as soon as the guest pattern appeared, they did not expect that the residual heat from the scorching heat took effect, or that Li Qianshun took it too quickly and used too much force... On this main seam, three guest seams, two long and one short, had appeared in succession, and each seam was unexpectedly longer and larger than the main seam, with the seams woven horizontally from left to right, which was really surprising.
"This 'Zhi Bo Jiao' is useless." Brother Cha saw that his brother looked unhappy and quickly interrupted to comfort him. "Let's make 'Sheng Ba Jiao' tomorrow..."
Shengbajiao is the second most popular form of divination in Western Xia. It mainly involves killing a sheep through a series of steps, then taking out the intestines from the sheep's stomach and making inferences based on the distribution of food and feces in the intestines.
"How could it be useless? This kind of thing should be seen from the first time..." Li Qianshun threw the lamb scapula on the ground helplessly and shook his head. "It's just that God has made this divination beyond my knowledge, which shows how difficult it is this time."
"Just defend Hengshan." Cha Ge hurriedly advised again. "We have been fighting the Song people for a hundred years, and whoever attacks will suffer... We defend Hengshan, no matter how arrogant the Song people are, they will retreat after a while. Besides, I felt from the beginning that the Song people were just bluffing."
"You don't understand!" Li Qianshun looked down at the sheep scapula on the ground, and sat on his knees without caring about his black hands. "Our Great Baigao country has been established for a hundred years, but it is still a small country... For example, Li Liangfu lost more than 10,000 people in Yinshan before, and the country has not recovered until now. But what about the Song people? They lost millions of people in those years, but they were able to fight back? The Song Dynasty lost the entire Hebei and Hedong, and hundreds of state troops, but it was still so sharp. If we lose Hengshan, we will be in danger of extinction. So, even if the Song people are bluffing, what does it matter? Can we really ignore it?"
Cha Ge was also a little embarrassed.
"Now I am afraid that the emperor of the Song Dynasty is too young and will force us to fight with us. When the three kingdoms around Hengshan fight, we will be forced to send out our entire army to protect ourselves. When the Jin people see us sending out troops, they will deliberately stay across the river and intentionally consume us... This will be difficult." Li Qianshun gave up staring at the sheep scapula, stood up again, looked up at the vaguely visible Helan Mountain in the west, and shook his head more and more. "At the court meeting today, Xue Yuanli gave you and saved my face... He did not mention the disasters of Tianyou and Yongan."
Wei Ming Cha Ge didn't care too much at first, but when he heard the last few words, his face suddenly changed, and his eyelids even twitched.
The so-called "Tianyou" and "Yong'an" disasters refer to the time when Li Qianshun's biological mother, Empress Xiaoliang, was in power. In order to consolidate her own power, she ignored the reality and mobilized the whole country to attack the Song Dynasty, which led to the danger of the destruction of the Western Xia.
The first time was in the seventh year of Tianyou Min'an. Empress Xiao Liang brought her son and mobilized 500,000 people to attack the Song Dynasty. They marched into Yanfu Road, which was the area of Yan'an Prefecture, Suide Army, and Bao'an Army. They ended up in a great defeat.
The second time was two years later in the first year of Yong'an. At that time, Li Qianshun had barely reached adulthood and had a certain appeal, but he still could not stop his biological mother. So Empress Xiao Liang once again mobilized 400,000 people across the country to attack the Song Dynasty. In the end, they were defeated at the city of Pingxia and had to turn to the Liao Kingdom for assistance to ensure the survival of the Dabai Gao Kingdom.
Moreover, the core area of Western Xia is nothing more than the first two of the three sets of the Yellow River. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the population was only over one million. Later, it vigorously developed the Hetao and expanded Hexi. At its heyday, the population was only three million. And how many males could be recruited among a population of three million?
For those over 15 and under 60, 500,000 is the limit for the Western Xia Kingdom.
And this kind of war involving the whole country, once frustrated, or even without frustration, as long as it is maintained for a while, will cause the decline of the national strength of the whole country. This can be seen from the fact that the second expedition after Xiaoliang gave up the farther Hengshan and chose Pingxia City, which is closer to the capital, as the target, and the number of people mobilized was reduced from 500,000 to 400,000.
As for the second defeat, they were unable to organize even the defense of their own land and could only seek interference from the Liao Kingdom.
In fact, the two times Empress Xiaoliang committed suicide were the closest times that Western Xia came to the destruction of the country.
This is the tragedy of a small country with a small population. Even if it is a country founded on military power and a nation with abundant martial virtues, the upper limit of its national strength is here... Once the army is mobilized, it involves the whole country's strength. Once it is frustrated or returns without success, it will take many years of recuperation before it can slow down.
What's more, Xixia's real mobile forces were insufficient.
In the two battles, most of the 500,000 and 400,000 troops were just logistics personnel. The so-called 200,000 troops of the 12th Army were nonsense. They were just the Tanguts and various ethnic tribes who were a combination of military and civilians.
Xixia's real national army is no more than 70,000 or 80,000. Moreover, there are garrisons everywhere, so the field force can be 40,000 or 50,000, which is also the limit. The core Iron Harriers are only a few thousand.
No one knows this better than Li Qianshun and Cha Ge.
The battle in which Weiming Cha Ge became famous all over the world, that is, the battle in which Liu Fa was killed, is clear and accurate in the records of both sides. Although Liu Fa was forced to lead his troops out lightly, because he suddenly attacked the city of Lingzhou in the heart of Western Xia, Cha Ge was actually forced to fight to the death... The two sides fought fiercely for a day, and Liu Fa still continued to break through, and was finally trapped and died.
How many soldiers did Liu Fa have at that time? 20,000.
It is very likely that Chago had only 20,000 infantrymen and several thousand Iron Harriers, and he won by relying on a typical infantry confrontation and cavalry surprise attack from behind.
Once you understand the difficulties faced by Western Xia, you will also understand Li Qianshun's military and diplomatic philosophy of "everything for survival, survival is everything", and you will also understand why Zhao Jiu wanted to gamble on this. Of course, you will also naturally understand why Li Liangfu's battle in Yinshan made Li Qianshun so frightened that he directly killed his wife and the eldest son he raised.
Because that battle was not only a defeat, but more importantly, the Jurchens demonstrated a powerful pursuit and annihilation capability in the battle… The Song people could have been defeated in one battle, causing the Xixia people to lose thousands of people. However, unlike the Song people, the tenacity of the Jurchen cavalry played a huge role after the war. Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshuke's continued pursuit caused the retreating Xixia troops to suffer a fatal blow in front of a suddenly swollen wild river. Countless Xixia cavalry drowned in that unknown river, causing heavy casualties among the Xixia elite troops.
"Outside Hengshan, you can mobilize troops. I'll give you 30,000 of the 50,000 infantry, and I'll give you all the 6,000 Iron Harriers." Li Qianshun sighed when he saw that Cha Ge had finally taken things seriously and was cautious. "Take them to Hengshan, and join forces with Brother Yun, Heda and the others. Together, you'll have 50,000 troops. You can recruit and use the men in Hengshan... I think you can still defend Hengshan for me! But you must not leave Hengshan and help the Jin people get out of trouble! This is also the key point I called you here to remind you! Do you understand?!"
"I understand! I swear by the Buddha that I will never leave Hengshan!" Cha Ge gritted his teeth and swore, but he was a little worried. "But my royal brother, if I take most of the soldiers with me, you only have 20,000 soldiers here, but it's still important. What if the Song army attacks us from Hulu River or Hanhai?"
"If they come from Hanhai, they're seeking death. If they come from a place like Hulu River, at most they can come with 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers. I'll put these 20,000 soldiers in Lingzhou to watch over Hanhai and hold the mouth of Hulu River. Is that not enough?" The wrinkles on Li Qianshun's face finally relaxed slightly.
Cha Ge nodded slightly.
Li Qianshun paused for a moment, but regardless of the blackness on his hands, he directly touched the "bird wings" next to his brother's golden crown, and then said earnestly: "Brother Cha, please go. I dreamed of the Buddha yesterday. He told me that after we get through this, we will be able to make the Great White Gao Kingdom last another hundred years!"
Cha Ge looked up in astonishment, only to see his ambitious brother standing in the royal courtyard, wearing a dragon robe and a tall golden crown. One hand was reaching forward to touch his hair bun, and the other hand was behind his back. There was still smoke of mugwort lingering around, and the early spring sunshine was shining from the Helan Mountains in the west, shining on the face of the Western Xia emperor, making it look golden... This scene actually had a sacred look, and even the wrinkles showed some Buddhist principles.
When Cha Ge heard those words and saw this scene, he was shocked, frightened, happy and sincere. He immediately knelt down and kowtowed beside the sheep scapula and said: "I am willing to fight with the Great Baigao Kingdom for another hundred years for my brother! I also ask my brother to live another hundred years!"
Upon seeing this, the witches and sorcerers around hurriedly knelt down. The noise from everyone was so loud that the air was suddenly filled with the unique smell of mugwort. After Li Qianshun took a few deep breaths, he smiled with his hands behind his back, like the Buddha picking up a flower... Come to think of it, not to mention the protection of the Buddha and the mountain ghosts, even the harmony between the monarch and his subjects and brothers is not comparable to that of the Zhao Song officials who imprisoned their father and brothers.
