Song Lizong personally selected him as the first place. Examiner Wang Yinglin said: "This paper is based on ancient things, and loyalty is like a stone. I thought it would be very gratifying to get such a person. " In the fourth year of Baoyu (1256), he won the first prize in Wen Tianxiang, and later changed his name to Song Rui.
2. In the tenth year of Xianchun (1274), Wen Tianxiang was appointed as Ganzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi). In the first year of Deyou (1275), the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were in an emergency, and the Song court ordered the world to be diligent.
Wen Tianxiang held the imperial edict and wept bitterly. He sent Chen Jizhou to lead the people in the county and contacted Xiximan at the same time. He sent Fang Xing to gather soldiers from Jizhou (now Ji 'an City, Jiangxi Province), and the heroes responded and gathered 10,000 soldiers.
The matter was reported to the court and ordered him to lead the army into Beijing in the name of the envoy of Jiangnan West Road. His friend stopped him and said, "Now the Yuan army is attacking south in three ways, breaking through the suburbs of Beijing and pushing into the mainland.
You went to Beijing as a rabble of more than ten thousand people. This is no different from herding sheep and killing tigers. "Wen Tianxiang replied," I know that's the way it is. However, for more than 300 years, this country has nurtured its subjects and people.
In case of crisis. I deeply regret that none of the soldiers recruited from all over the world rode into Weijingshi. Therefore, I overreached myself and died for my country. I hope that the loyal ministers and benevolent people in the world will rise up after hearing this.
Only by winning with morality can we stand on our own feet and rely more on people to promote the success of our cause. If you follow this route, then the country will be guaranteed. "
3. Wen Tianxiang bid farewell to the emperor. Afterwards, Shangshu said: "The minister of the statue of Wen Tianxiang, in the imperial court, has more intentions of appeasement and peace, but less determination and decisive action.
I request that Lu Shimeng be beheaded as a war sacrifice to boost the morale of the soldiers. "He added:" We learned the lessons of the separatist regime in the Song Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, cut off the buffer regions and established counties and cities, although we completely got rid of the disadvantages of being too big to lose.
But this country is gradually weakening. Therefore, the armies of the northern ethnic minorities will attack a state when they arrive in a state and a county when they arrive in a county. There is still time to regret and grieve over the fall of the Central Plains. It is time to divide the world into four towns and set up a governor as its commander-in-chief.
Incorporate Guangnan West Road into Jinghu South Road and set up a governance office in Changsha; Incorporate Guangnan East Road into Jiangnan West Road and set up a governing office in Longxing (now Nanchang, Jiangxi); Fujian Road merged into Jiangnan East Road and set up a governing office in Fanyang (now Poyang County, Jiangxi Province).
Merge Huainan West Road into Huainan East Road, and set up a governing office in Yangzhou. Changsha was appointed to be in charge of Ezhou and other places, Longxing was in charge of qi zhou and Huangzhou, Fan Yang was in charge of Jiangdong, and Yangzhou was in charge of Huaibei, making the area under its jurisdiction wider and stronger enough to resist the Yuan Army.
Then all localities agreed on a date, got up together, only entered and never retreated, and plotted to return to the land day and night. There are many enemy soldiers, but they are scattered and tired, and I am a hero in the Song Dynasty.
Waiting for the opportunity to attack the enemy, in this case, the enemy soldiers will be easily beaten back. "At that time, the discussion with Wen Tianxiang was extensive and difficult to implement, so his letter came to nothing.
4. Wen Tianxiang heard that Yi Wang was not established, advised him to ascend to the throne, and called him to Fuzhou (now Fuzhou, Fujian) to worship the right prime minister. Soon people will disagree with Chen.
In July of the second year of Deyou (1276), he was appointed as the co-governor of Jiangnan West Road, ready to take office, and called soldiers into Tingzhou (now Changting, Fujian). In October, Zhao Shishang was sent to discuss, and Zhao led the army to capture Ningdu (now Ningdu County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province).
Wu Jun, the counselor, led the army to capture (now Yudu County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province), and Xiao Mingzhe and Chen Dou came from Jiangxi to meet him. Zou Yi summoned troops in Ningdu, Yuan army attacked them, and Zou Yi was defeated.
Liu Qin, Ju Huashu, Yan Shili and Yan Qiyan, who led the troops in the uprising, all died. Professor Luo Kaili of Wugang set out to recapture Yongfeng County (now Yongfeng County, Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province), and soon he was defeated and captured and died in prison. When Wen Tianxiang heard that Luo Kaili had died, he put on mourning and wept bitterly.
On the way, Wen Tianxiang didn't eat for eight days, and then he ate again before he died. In Yanjing, the librarians are diligent and luxuriously furnished. Wen Tianxiang didn't sleep until dawn. So he handed it over to the army and let the foot soldiers guard it.
At that time, Kublai Khan searched for talented officials in the Southern Song Dynasty many times. Wang Jiweng said, "No one can match Wen Tianxiang in the Southern Song Dynasty." So he sent Wang Jiweng to convey the imperial edict. Wen Tianxiang said, "When my country dies, I can only die to serve my country.
If I can return to my hometown as a Taoist because of forgiveness, I will be a consultant in a non-secular capacity in the future. If you give it to a senior official immediately, not only will the doctor who died in the country not live here, but his ambition in this life will be completely abolished.
So what's the use of appointing me? Wang Ji-weng wanted to join Song Guan Xie Changyuan and other ten people in demanding the release of Wen Tianxiang as a Taoist priest. Liu disagreed, saying, "After Wen Tianxiang was released, he called for resisting Yuan in Jiangnan. What about my ten people? "
This incident was later forgotten. Wen Tianxiang has been in Yanjing for three years. Knowing that Wen Tianxiang was unyielding, Kublai Khan negotiated with the Prime Minister to let him go. When someone used Wen Tianxiang's uprising on Jiangnan West Road as an excuse, the result was not released.