Why was Yang Silang changed to Yang Zongbao?

Yang Silang, the fourth son of Yang Ye, was handsome and had high martial arts skills. It is said that he was the ideal husband of many girls in Beijing at that time. Yang Silang was young and rebellious, and his father and mother often disapproved of him, which also gave Yang Silang a humiliating character, and Yang Silang was the only one who lived long. However, Yang Silang is just a folk legend, and his real prototype is Wang Jizhong, an official in the Song Dynasty. If you know Wang Jizhong's life experience, you will find that he has many similarities with Yang Silang. Let's introduce Wang Jizhong to you.

In the story of "Yang Jiajiang", in the "Golden Beach Battle" of Song and Liao Dynasties, he was captured by Liao people and recruited as Xu. Fifteen years later, he visited his mother and helped Song break Liao. This story was adapted by Peking Opera as "Shiro Visiting Mother". However, the historical prototype is not Yang, but contributed to the single-source alliance.

Captured and married a noble woman from Liao country.

According to the history of Song Dynasty, none of Yang Ye's seven sons was captured, only his youngest son died in battle. The experience of Wang Jizhong, the former residence of Zhao Hengfan in Song Zhenzong, is quite similar to that of Yang Silang.

Wang Jizhong has known Zhao Heng since he was a child. According to legend, when Kaifeng Prefecture was opened, fortune tellers were asked to touch the bones of several cronies. Speaking of Wang Jizhong, the fortune teller said, "This man is very surprised. Eat Lu Guan for half a life and eat gourds for half a life. " Really smiled and sent it away.

After Song Zhenzong acceded to the throne, Wang Jizhong was promoted quickly and was eventually deployed as Dingzhou's deputy envoy. In April of the sixth year of Xianping (1003), the Liao army besieged Dingzhou, and Dingzhou deployed Wang Chao to order Wang Jizhong to rate 1500 infantry to spy on the enemy, which was discovered by the Liao army.

Wang Jizhong was besieged, but Wang Chao refused to support it (Pan Renmei refused to support Yang Jiajiang), which led to the collapse of Wang Jizhong's army and the arrest of Wang Jizhong himself. Subsequently, Wang Chao reported the military situation to the court, saying that "Wang Jizhong, the deputy general manager, was trapped". Song Zhenzong thought that Wang Jizhong had been killed, and he was very sad. He made a letter to chase Wang Jizhong as our envoy of Datong Army, and his four sons were all officials.

The following year, Emperor Sheng-zong of Liao invaded the south on a large scale, and Song Zhenzong decided to personally expedition. At this time, Zhenzong received a secret letter from Liao Ying, and the writer was Wang Jizhong. Only then did Song Zhenzong know the truth: after Wang Jizhong was captured, Xiao Taihou learned that he was an old man in Song Zhenzong's official residence, so he took him for his own use, sealed his official position, and betrothed a noble woman from Qidan to him. Wang Jizhong said that he would devote himself to Liao.

Communicate and negotiate with Song Zhenzong.

This time, I wrote to persuade Zhenzong to negotiate with Liao. Song and Liao fought for a long time, and no one got any benefits, but they suffered huge consumption of manpower and material resources. By the time Song Zhenzong and Emperor Sheng Zong of Liao came, both sides were war-weary. Therefore, although Emperor Sheng Zong of Liao moved to the south on a large scale, he accepted Wang Jizhong's suggestion and expressed his intention of peace talks to the Song Dynasty through non-governmental channels. At the insistence of Prime Minister Kou Zhun, Song Zhenzong decided to make a personal expedition, but he longed for peace in his heart.

However, the two sides have neither established a formal communication mechanism nor basic political mutual trust, so the peace talks cannot be launched. At this time, Wang Jizhong, with its special status, became the most suitable high-level communication intermediary in Song and Liao Dynasties.

After receiving the secret letter from Wang Jizhong, Song Zhenzong didn't immediately send an envoy to make peace, but wrote back to tell Wang Jizhong that he could convey to the Liao master that there was a truce in the Song Dynasty. If the Liao side was sincere, it could pass the "border official hearing" and "minister of border administration" referring to General Shipu of Zhou Mo who had a good personal relationship with Wang Jizhong.

As a result, while fighting on the front line, the two countries maintained the highest level of indirect secret communication through non-governmental channels in Wang Jizhong and Shipu, and many front-line generals were unaware of it.

How did "Tian Bo House" come about?

Before the Song Dynasty officially sent envoys to Liao Ying's camp to negotiate, Wang Jizhong and Shipu communicated the desire for a truce and the details of how to negotiate. Without Wang Jizhong's advice and guidance, it would be difficult to have a later "Yuanmeng".

Wang Jizhong was praised by both Song and Liao Dynasties for his contribution to the "Single Source Alliance". In terms of Liao country, the Lord of Liao "gave the palace thirty years after being loyal to the family without slaves" and gave him an official title. He was successively named the king of Langxie County, the king of Chu, and the Tang envoy of the South Courtyard (below the king of the South Courtyard, once the king of the South Courtyard in Tian Bu), and so on, and "gave the country title", so it was also called "Yelv Zongxin".

During the Song Dynasty, Song Zhenzong never forgot to bring gifts to Liao. Every time Ji Zhong receives a gift from Zhenzong, he will "cry to the messenger" and ask the messenger to bring back the gift he gave to Song Zhenzong.

In the sixth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (10 13), Song Zhenzong awarded Tianbomen, a foreign official of Wang Jizhong philosopher, the first district. Interestingly, in the novel Yang Jiajiang, Yang's mansion is called "Fu".

According to the History of the Song Dynasty, Jude Wong's loyalty was actually "in Cao Cao's heart, in the Han Dynasty". He once entrusted the messenger of the Song Dynasty to "implore (Song Zhenzong) to issue a master book and call him home", but Zhenzong hesitated and did not promise him, because according to the agreement of Yuan Meng, the Song Dynasty could not ask Liao to send him back to surrender. Song Zhenzong can only tell Wang Jizhong, "If the Lord promises to pay off, it would be a pity to pay a lot of money." . However, Liao Master did not approve Wang Jizhong's invitation.