Han Qi retreated and returned, Xia Shu sent people to collect the remains of scattered soldiers and Ren Fu and others. He saw Han Qi's manifesto hidden in Ren Fu's belt and Geng Fu's letters. So he submitted the details to the report, saying that Ren Fu disobeyed the order and failed, and the responsibility was not on Han Qi and Geng Fu.

Han Qi's courtesy name is Zhigui, and his name is Gansou. He is from Anyang, Xiangzhou. Han Qi was born in a family of officials in the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu. Most of his ancestors were buried in Bolu. Since his great-grandfather, he was buried in Feng'an Village, Anyang County, Xiangzhou. Therefore, Han Qi believed that he was from Anyang, Xiangzhou.

When Han Qi was four years old, his father died, and he was raised by his brothers. After that, he was able to be independent and had great ambitions. He was taciturn and not easy to play. He was innocent and not good at evil and had excellent knowledge. In the fifth year of Tiansheng, Han Qi passed the imperial examination and ranked second, and was appointed as the chief supervisor, and was magistrate of Zizhou. In September of the first year of Jingyou, Han Qi was transferred to Kaifeng Prefecture and was awarded the fifth-rank official uniform.

At this time, someone pretended to have Han Qi's letter to visit the famous minister Cai Xiang. Although Cai Xiang was suspicious, he liked that this person was generous. So he gave him three thousand coins, wrote a reply, sent four soldiers to escort him, and gave him gifts at the same time. This person went to Kaifeng Prefecture and pleaded guilty in person. Han Qi did not blame him, but said slowly: "Master Cai is cautious in his work, and I am afraid that he will not be able to achieve your wish. Xia Taiwei is in Chang'an, you can go to see him." He wrote a letter to Xia Xuan for this person. His family thought it was tolerant enough not to blame this person, and there was no need to write a letter to recommend him. Han Qi said: "This scholar will imitate my letter and can also impress Cai Xiang, and his talent will definitely be extraordinary." As soon as this person arrived in Guanzhong, he was indeed granted an official position by Xia Xuan.

After the famous scholar Shi Jie compiled the "Three Pilgrimages and Pilgrimage Records", he prepared to present it to the court. One day, he came to ask Han Qi for his advice, and Han Qi pointed out that there were several things that were not to be done. One of them was that Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was addicted to the beauty of a palace maid, which often delayed the time for court. The ministers were a little criticized. Zhao Kuangyin realized that when the palace maid was sleeping, he killed her. Han Qi said: "Can this be used as a model for the whole world? He was already addicted, but he killed innocent people because he regretted his addiction. What are the crimes of the palace maid? If there are people who favor in the future, it will be impossible to kill them." Shi Jie deleted several similar things and admired Han Qi's exquisite knowledge.

In August of the third year of Jingyou, Han Qi was appointed as the Right Censor. In the first year of Baoyuan, he was appointed as the Taichangqing, a direct scholar of Zhaowenguan, and served as the messenger of the Liao Dynasty's Zhengdan Kingdom. During his tenure as a censor, Han Qi dared to make direct comments and made strong comments, especially the most famous of the "Cheng Bi's Response" written in the first year of Baoyuan.

At that time, disasters and strangers occurred frequently, and large numbers of refugees appeared. The prime minister Wang Sui, Chen Yaozuo and the chief political affairs officer Han Yi, Shi Zhongli was helpless. Han Qi successively submitted memorials to impeach four mediocre people, and lamented that the foundation of peace in the 80th year of the Song Dynasty could not be "subscribed to mediocre officials to destroy it", causing the four people to dismiss their posts on the same day, so they said that "a piece of paper fell from the four masters." Since then, he has become famous in the capital.

Han Qi also severely criticized the corrupt style of "buying bribes" and "requests for resignation" at that time, "lucky days grow, rewards and punishments are reversed, the law cannot punish guilt, and titles and salaries cannot be persuaded to make meritorious contributions". He suggested that Zhao Zhen "reduce the cost of floating expenses" from the court, and "nothing is stopped from the nameless." The king once praised him and said, "If you speak now, you will be afraid of it, so how can you make up for your virtue? Just like the words of your words, it can be said that it is serious but not circumspect." Han Qi

After listening, I became more confident.

In the second year of Baoyuan, Sichuan suffered severe drought and hunger. Han Qi was appointed as the squad and pacifying envoy of two groups of power. After he took office, he first reduced taxes, drove away corruption and disabled officials, eliminated hundreds of people in labor, and then distributed all the grain from the local government's regular warehouse to the poor, and added thick porridge to various places. All the Shu people said gratefully: "The messenger will be reborn."

When Han Qi was transferred back to the capital from Sichuan, he analyzed the situation in Shaanxi in detail to the court and was appointed as the Shaanxi pacifier. When he arrived in Shaanxi, he saw that the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were heavy and the people were very poor, so he would be exempted.

In the first month of the first year of Kangding, Li Yuanhao besieged Yanzhou. The defender Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were defeated and captured in Sanchuankou. Fan Yong, who was guarding Yanzhou, was demoted to him. Han Qi boldly recommended Fan Zhongyan, who was demoted to Yuezhou for the crime of "recommendation of friends". He said in the memorial: "If you are involved in friendship, you will mislead the country's affairs and become a clan." He also defended the children of the Liu Ping clan who were framed. Han Qi was appointed as the Shaanxi Provincial Privy Councilor and Fan Zhongyan as the deputy envoy, and acted as the deputy envoy of the pacification envoy. Han Qi presided over Jingyuan Road and Fan Zhongyan presided over Fuyan Road.

There were differences in the strategy of using troops in Xixia. Han Qi held a tough stance and focused on attack strategies and fought with the Xia army. He believed that delaying the time and financial difficulties were too low and it was difficult to support it. He said: "Although Li Yuanhao was invading the country, there were only 40,000 to 50,000 people. We were heavy troops to defend ourselves, and we were weak in power and would not support the enemy when we encountered the enemy. If we came out together, we would move forward and take advantage of the thief to be arrogant and lazy, we would definitely defeat it." Fan Zhongyan strongly advocated defense, oppose rash attacks, advocated long-term defense, and took advantage of the situation to attack and attack, and did not agree with an offensive battle that penetrated the enemy's territory.

It was difficult for Xia Xun to decide, so he sent Han Qi and Yin Zhu to Bian Jing to submit the two strategies of offense and defense to the court, asking Zhao Zhen to make a decision. Zhao Zhen fantasized about solving the problem in one fell swoop, and decided to adopt Han Qi's attack strategy. He also issued an edict to join Fuyan and Jingyuan to attack regularly in the first month of the first year of Qingli. After hearing Fan Zhongyan's request, he changed to Chun Nuan to go out.

In the spring of the first year of Qingli, Li Yuanhao was waiting for an opportunity to attack Song, and was discovered by Han Qi. He ordered the generals to defend strictly. Li Yuanhao led a 100,000 army to attack Weizhou and headed straight to Huaiyuan City. When Han Qi heard the news, he urgently sent generals to lead 18,000 troops, using Sang Yi as the vanguard to resist and block. Before the trip, Han Qi gave Ren Fu the opportunity to face the opportunity and ordered them to go around behind the Xia army. If they could fight, they would fight, and if they could not fight, they would be set up to block the way back. He repeatedly reminded him: "If they violate their orders, even if they make contributions, they would be convicted and executed."

Ren Fu was in the south of Zhangjiabao, so he was greedy for merit and made progress. As a result, more than 6,000 soldiers, including Ren Fu, were killed. After hearing the news, Han Qi immediately ordered the retreat. The father, brother and wife of the fallen soldiers cried in front of his horse's head, holding old clothes and paper money to summon the soul, and cried: "You used to follow Zhao Qi to go out to war, but now you are back and you are dead. Can your soul consciousness also follow Zhao Qi?" At that time, the sound of mourning resounded throughout the world, and Han Qi kept crying and could not move.

The Song army was defeated by Shuichuan. Although Han Qi was not in charge of the command, he could not refuse to blame the ruthless recruitment of troops. Therefore, Han Qi impeached himself by himself, and Zhao Zhen was very shocked. Han Qi was demoted to the Right Censor and the governor of Qinzhou, and Fan Zhongyan was demoted to the Ministry of Revenue and the governor of Yaozhou. In October, the Song court divided Shaanxi into Qinfeng, Jingyuan, Huanqing, and Yu.

The four routes were each set up their commanders, among which Han Qi also served as the deployment of the cavalry and infantry troops of the road, and the management and comforted the border and recruited the envoys.

The Battle of Shuichuan was a Western Xia Li Yuanhao who used the plan of Zhang Yuan, the defeated son of Shaanxi. After defeating Han Qi, Zhang Yuan also wrote a poem to mock him. Zhang Yuan was originally from Huayin County, Huazhou. When he was young, he "responsible with his own heroes", "being arrogant and handsome, with versatile talents", and outstanding talents. After failing to pass the exam, he realized that it was difficult to display his talents, so he decided to rebel Song and surrender to Xia.

Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao rushed to the border. They hired several people to drag a large stone slab in front of them. The stone slab was engraved with poems about the two people sighing and not seeing their talents. They followed behind, chanting poems and crying, hoping to attract the attention of the border commander. The border commander really met them and took them into the account for a while. But he felt that he was not optimistic about his words, so he sent the two people back. After returning to his hometown, Zhang Yuan was beaten by the local county magistrate. This insult made him determined to surrender to Xixia.

Before leaving, Zhang Yuan passed by Xiang Yu Temple, so he "spends wine, drank the Yu Ji, poured the wine and mud statue, and sang the lyrics of 'Qin Emperor', Liu Xiangqi annexed', and sang the lyrics of 'The Qin Emperor was ignorant, Liu Xiangqi annexed', and sang the sad song for a long time, and was deeply moved to escape." Zhang Yuan believed that his talent was far higher than those mediocre people in the court. With these people in power, he would never stand out. He wanted to find all opportunities to prove his excellence. For this reason, he did not hesitate to rebel against Song and Xia.

After he and Wu Hao came to Xixia, they drank all day long in a tavern, deliberately writing on the wall: "Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao come to drink this building" to attract attention. When the patrolman saw it, he took them down and gave them to Li Yuanhao. Li Yuanhao asked why they had violated the taboo. The two shouted: "I haven't paid any attention to the surname yet, so I'm not sure about the name?"

Li Yuanhao was very surprised and released them and entrusted them with important tasks. After the two of them joined Xia, their families were detained by Song to Suizhou. Li Yuanhao specially sent spies to release them forgery and took them to Xixia. Shortly after Li Yuanhao proclaimed himself emperor and established the country, he appointed Zhang Yuan as the Secretary of the Central Committee, and Wu Hao was also valued.

In the Battle of Haoshuichuan, Zhang Yuan assisted Li Yuanhao in defeating the Song army, and more than 10,000 people were killed in the Song army. Looking at the Song army's corpse in Haoshuichuan, the Western Xia army advisor Zhang Yuan wrote a poem on the wall of Jieshang Temple with a proud look: "How could Xia Shui be soaring? Han Qi is not surprised. The dragon and tiger chariot in the river are still talking about their own military equipment." He used the Song army's corpse and blood to gain fame, and his self-satisfaction is beyond words. He mocked Han Qi, and wrote a series of official titles when signing his name: "Tai Shi, Shangshu Ling, and Zhongshu Ling Zhang Yuan followed the Da Jiao." In the same year, she became the prime minister. She had always had fame and fortune, and made the destruction of Song as her ambition, and urged Li Yuanhao to expand the war against Song, capture the land of Guanzhong, Shaanxi, and then head east to the Central Plains. At the same time, she contacted the Khitan and let him attack all the Hebei routes, causing the Song Dynasty to be attacked by both sides, and would inevitably fall into trouble and even collapse.

After the Battle of Haoshuichuan, Zhang Yuan suggested that Li Yuanhao send troops to Weizhou and wait for the opportunity to capture Chang'an. Li Yuanhao adopted his opinion and planned the Battle of Chuanzhai. Li Yuanhao's bold and arrogant announcement of "I should visit the Wei River in person and take control of Chang'an" was also written by Zhang Yuan.

The defeated juren Zhang Yuan rebelled against Song and Xia and gave great harm, which gave the Song Dynasty a great shock and lesson. In the second year of Jiayou, the Song Dynasty changed the palace examination admission system for the imperial examination and Jinshi, and all those who passed the Jinshi were awarded the title of Jinshi! Even those who did not have good grades were awarded the title of "the same Jinshi". Try to prevent the defection of literati and even the use of the enemy.
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