In the first month of 960 AD, Zhao Kuangyin, the governor of the Guide Army of the Later Zhou Dynasty, launched a mutiny in Chenqiao Town on his way north to fight against Liao. He put on a yellow robe and forced the young ruler of the Later Zhou Dynasty to abdicate and ascend to the throne to the throne. He established the country and established the capital of Kaifeng, and changed the era to Jianlong, which was known in history as the Taizu of Song.

Faced with the chaos of separatist treason in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, Zhao Kuangyin took advantage of the strong national strength foundation that had been laid by the Later Zhou Dynasty to strengthen centralization, open up statutory and recruit talents, reform the military system, develop production, and accumulate strength. It took fifteen years to destroy the Later Shu, Southern Han, and Southern Tang.

In the winter of 976 AD, he died in the confusing sound of candle shadows and axes. His second brother Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne and was known in history as Emperor Taizong of Song.

After Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, he continued to implement the strategy of first south and then north to complete the great cause of Chinese unification, successively recovered the Kings of Wu Yue Qian Chu and Chen Hongjin who were separating the south, and then sent troops to Taiyuan to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty. This ended the situation of the five generations and ten countries separating the kings for nearly a century, and China once again had the dawn of great unification.

Although several generations of emperors worked hard to restore the Han and Tang dynasties.

However, the chaos and aftermath caused by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms could not be eliminated. The reborn Song Dynasty was innately deficient. The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which were ceded to the Khitan by Shi Jingtang of the Later Jin Dynasty, became the sorrow of the Song Dynasty, causing the Central Plains to lose the northern barrier.

Zhao Guangyi and the emperors of the Song Dynasty returned in vain after several Northern Expeditions. The Liao Kingdom was unable to conquer the Central Plains, the Song and Liao countries had to sign a contract, which was known in history as the Alliance of Chanyuan.

At this point, the Song and Liao countries formed a confrontation. The Central Plains Empire completely lost control of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for the first time, and China actually entered a situation of division between the north and the south for the first time.

After the Chanyuan Alliance, a period of peace occurred between the Song and Liao dynasties for nearly a hundred years, and the Song Dynasty completely changed its external strategy, shrinking its defense, detaining its military and cultural cultivation, developing its economy, and resting its prosperity and prosperity in Chinese history.

However, peace on paper is not true peace after all.

The grassland nation envied the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty could not forget the foundation of its ancestors after all.

In 1115 AD, Song Huizong Zhao Ji, who was known in history to do everything, but he would not be emperor, saw that the Liao power was weak and intended to join forces with the Jin Dynasty to destroy Liao and recover the north. However, the command chaos and extreme weakness of the Song army, who had not experienced a great war for decades, in this battle of revenge, expansively made the Jin Dynasty's ambitions expand.

In 1126 AD, the Jin people went south to capture Tokyo and abducted the two emperors Hui and Qin, which is known in history as the Jingkang Rebellion.

In the second year of Jingkang, Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne in Nanjing and changed the reign to Jianyan, which is known in history as the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Gou, who survived from death, ascended the throne without the courage and confidence to resist the Jin Kingdom. After ascending the throne, he did not make any defense or military deployment. Under the continuous attack and forced of the Jin Kingdom, he fled to Wu Yue to hide in a panic.

In the fourth year of Jianyan, after the Jin army withdrew from Jiangnan, Zhao Gou went to Lin'an. Two years later, the Southern Song Dynasty court officially established its capital in Hangzhou. At this point, only half of the remaining mountains and rivers remained in China.

Although the settled minor court of the Southern Song Dynasty appointed Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi and other generals to resist the Jin Dynasty to recover lost territory.

However, at this time, the king was not virtuous, the ministers were in conflict, the civil society was overwhelmed by the military, and the treacherous ministers were in power. The increasingly corrupt nature could not be concealed under the prosperous economy. The king and his ministers were having too much fun, and the wind of extravagance and enjoyment was raging. At the same time, another powerful grassland nation rose strongly in the north.

In 1232 AD, Song Lizong, who had just succeeded to the throne, intended to regain the old mountains and rivers, ignored the hard begging of the Jin people and joined forces with the Mongols to conquer the Jin Kingdom.

However, this was like the Jin Dynasty that destroyed Liao, destroying a hungry wolf, but it attracted a tiger.

In the first year of Duanping, when Song Lizong saw the Mongols retreat, he organized an army to try to restore the Central Plains, but suffered heavy losses and retreated across the board. This Northern Expedition is known in history as Duanping's entry into Luo.

The failure of Duanping to Luo not only caused heavy damage to the power of the Southern Song Dynasty, but also opened the prelude to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After losing the northwest barrier of the Jin Kingdom, the Mongolian army marched straight in.

Although the Southern Song army and civilians fought desperately to repel the Mongolian army several times, they could no longer save the collapse of the situation. Under the oppression of the powerful Mongolian army, coupled with the powerful minister Shi Miyuan for more than 20 years of disaster, the court's decay and dissolution, the newly ascended mentally retarded emperor Song Duzong also valued the treacherous minister Jia Sidao. The Song Dynasty, which had been destroyed and rebuilt twice, entered a time of surviving after three hundred years of persistence.

The great unification of China that began after Qin Shihuang was the first time in the Song Dynasty.

However, the Song Dynasty was also the only dynasty in the feudal rule of China's history of more than two thousand years. It was also the first time that the Central Plains dynasty was conquered by the northern nomadic peoples as a whole.

History has passed away, but the Tang and Song dynasties were the most glorious and peak times during the feudal rule of China.

Whether it is culture, art, economic population, diplomacy, business, political structure, and scientific education, they have become insurmountable existences.

Not only did it give birth to countless famous figures familiar to later generations such as Su Shi, Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Xin Qiji, Sima Guang, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Er Cheng, Zhu Xi, etc., but it also created a comprehensive prosperity and prosperity of poetry, calligraphy and painting, philosophy, science and technology, navigation, and commerce.

Although most Chinese in later generations believed that the Song Dynasty was weak and poor, and had never been tough under the repeated impacts of the Liao, Jin, Xixia and Mongolia, countless scholars and historians in the East and West believed that the Zhao and Song Dynasty opened the dawn of modern Chinese civilization. If it were not for the destruction of the barbaric grassland nation, it would be very likely that China would enter modern civilization hundreds of years earlier than the West.

"The culture of the Chinese nation has evolved for thousands of years and was created in the Zhao and Song dynasties. Later, it gradually declined and would eventually revive. - Chen Yinke"

This story begins in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It shows how a time traveler transformed the Song Dynasty into a fierce and powerful barbaric country, opening up the dawn of another civilization in China.

Special statement: This story is purely fictional, if there is similarity, it is purely coincidental.
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