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Chapter 33: Young People Don’t Understand Xin Qiji

[When the Northern Song Dynasty fell, Xin Qiji's family was unable to move south and remained in the land that was conquered by foreign races.]

[Because his grandfather admired the famous general Huo Qubing of the Western Han Dynasty, he hoped that he could also become a great general, like the great general Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty, expel foreigners and protect the territory, so he named him Qi Ji. ]

[When Xin Qiji was born, Shandong had already been ruled by the Jin people. His parents died early, and he was raised by his grandfather.]

[Xin Qiji's grandfather Xin Zan, although he was an official in the Jin Dynasty, had been waiting for the right time to start an uprising against the Jin Dynasty, and had been helping the rebels in various places and providing them with intelligence.]

[Xin Zan attached great importance to Xin Qiji's education and specially invited the famous teacher Liu Zhan to teach him.]

[In this way, Xin Qiji grew up under the expectation of his grandfather, and at a young age, he was already a man of both literary and martial talents.]

[Having personally witnessed the humiliation and suffering that the Han people suffered under the rule of the Jin people, Xin Qiji set his ambition from a young age to restore the Central Plains and avenge his country.]

When he was 13 years old, his grandfather Xin asked him: "You have grown up, what are your ambitions in the future?"

Xin Qiji replied: "You found me the best poet and scholar, the strongest swordsman, and taught me the art of war. I know exactly what you want me to do."

After Xin Zan heard this, he sighed first, then said earnestly: "This matter is too difficult. I wanted to entrust it to your father, but he passed away too early, so I had to let you complete it."

"Although the Jin people stand here and dominate life and death here, this beautiful land does not belong to them," said the young Xin Qiji.

"Drive out the barbarians and recover the old capital."

Xin Qiji bowed deeply to his grandfather and said: "This will be the ideal I will strive for all my life."

[You owe us blood, and you will pay it back with your life sooner or later. 】

【There will always be a price to pay for bullying our people.】

【At this time, Xin Qiji did not yet understand the weight of his oath. 】

【He didn’t know that he would spend the rest of his life running around for this until his death.】

——Born at the wrong time.

——If I were born in the Han Dynasty, I would be a great man like Ban Chao! If I were born in the Tang Dynasty, I would be a figure like Qin Qiong and Li Jing. At the very least, I would have the hope of becoming one of the twenty-four heroes in the Lingyan Pavilion, and I could also write poems and make friends with Li Bai and Du Fu!

But... I was born in such a disappointing dynasty as the Southern Song Dynasty!
——When I was reciting poems as a child, I thought these poets were just cold names. It was not until I learned about their deeds later that I realized they were so vivid.

——I memorized many poems of Xin Qiji when I was a child, but I didn’t understand their meaning. Now I am thirty years old, and when I was teaching my children to recite poems, I inadvertently reread "Poetry of Breaking the Formation". When I read to the part about my white hair, I suddenly burst into tears.

——Compared to the title of the Dragon in the Poetry, Xin Qiji probably hopes that we can call him Xin Qiji, a famous patriotic general of the Southern Song Dynasty.

——'When I was young, I didn't know the taste of sorrow, so I forced myself to express sorrow in order to compose new poems; now that I know the taste of sorrow, I say that the cool weather makes autumn a good time.'

When I was a child, I fell in love with this sentence at first sight when I read the novel. When I grew up, I knew it was written by Xin Qiji, and I fell in love with Xin Qiji at once. Later, I learned about Xin Qiji's deeds, and I really felt a sense of regret.

——When I was young, I couldn’t understand Xin Qiji. When I looked back, I realized that I was no longer young.

……

Great Qin.

Zulong looked at the barrage in amazement.

"Ban Chao of the Han Dynasty, Qin Qiong of the Tang Dynasty, I wonder who in our Great Qin should we compare Xin Qiji to?"

Although Ying Zheng did not know who Ban Chao and Qin Qiong were, he could tell from the twenty-four heroes in the Lingyan Pavilion and the respect that later generations showed to Xin Qiji that these people were by no means ordinary people.

"If my guess is correct, this Xin Qiji can probably be compared to my Meng Tian."

"Such a capable minister, but he was unable to bring his talents into full play. Are the emperors of the Song Dynasty really so incompetent?"

Ying Zheng fell into deep thought.

……

"Xin Qiji? What a good name."

Young Liu Che and teenage Huo Qubing look at the sky.

Liu Che smiled and said, "This Songren grandfather admires you very much. You must work hard and don't let me down."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. When I grow up, I will pay the Xiongnu blood debt with blood!"

Huo Qubing said confidently. "Haha! Good!"

Liu Che said happily: "You are worthy of being the future war god of the Han Dynasty!"

After saying this, Liu Che looked at the sky again and said: "Although Ban Chao is from the Han Dynasty, I don't know that he should be a Han minister after me."

"Although I don't know who Ban Chao was, since he was mentioned by later generations, he must be an extraordinary person."

As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che instinctively became interested in Ban Chao, who was also a Han Chinese but was mentioned in the barrage.

Huo Qubing, who was standing by, showed great interest in this Song man who took himself as his goal and even named himself after him.

"Your Majesty, can I go to the equestrian practice later?" Huo Qubing asked.

"Why? Can't wait to know about Xin Qiji?" Liu Che looked at him. "Since this person has been selected as one of the tragic characters, he must be another failure. Do you really want to see it?"

"Yeah." Huo Qubing nodded.

"Then you have to promise me that you will control your emotions and not let them affect your mood in the future."

Liu Che looked at Huo Qubing seriously.

Huo Qubing was at an age full of vigor and vitality. When he saw Zhao Gou's weak and incompetent behavior, he was so angry that he looked up to the sky and cursed "sad man" for half an hour.

Liu Che was really afraid that this guy would get angry and ruin his health, and then die young.

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"Han history records that Ban Chao, Marquis of Dingyuan, pacified fifty-five countries in the Western Regions with only thirty-six warriors, and shocked distant regions."

Cao Cao said: "The fact that later generations can compare Xin Qiji with him shows how capable Xin Qiji is."

"It's a pity that such a person could not achieve anything. This shows how incompetent the emperors of the Song Dynasty were!"

Cao Cao regretted, "If this man is in my hands, Cao Mengde, what are Liu Bei and Sun Quan?"

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Zhang Fei: "Why is it that chirping woman again? It makes me angry!"

"This son of a bitch Zhao Gou has no blood at all. He doesn't care about his wife and children being humiliated by the barbarians. I have never seen such a shameless person. He is worse than a woman."

"If I, Zhang Fei, were to meet him, I would poke hundreds of transparent holes in him!"

Liu Bei was touched and said: "From these known deeds, Xin Qiji was a young talent with great ambitions. However, he was born in the Southern Song Dynasty and was chosen by the heavens as a tragic figure. I am afraid he was another hero whose ambitions were not fulfilled."

Liu Bei, who had experienced wandering for half his life without achieving any success, knew too well the sorrow of unfulfilled ambitions.

So it’s easy to empathize.

Guan Yu stroked his beard and said coldly: "One Yue Fei is enough to make people angry, and now there is another Xin Qiji. Are the later Southern Dynasties really so incompetent?"

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Li Shimin: "Compared with Qin Qiong and Li Jing, this later Xin Qiji is indeed expected to be one of the twenty-four heroes in Lingyan Pavilion! It is a pity that such a person was born in such a dynasty."

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Zhu Di, who had read the history of the Song Dynasty and understood Xin Qiji's deeds, also lamented: "Xin Qiji has the talents of Guan Zhong and Yue Yi, but he cannot make full use of them. It is really a loss for the king."

As for Kangxi, he once highly praised Xin Qiji in "Imperial Annotation of the Comprehensive Mirror": "Gentlemen looking at Qiji's deeds can't say that Song Dynasty had no one, but it was just worried that Emperor Gaozong couldn't control him. If he had King Xuan of Zhou or Emperor Guangwu of Han, his achievements would have been stopped."

meaning is:

When I observe Xin Qiji's deeds, I cannot help but say that the Song Dynasty was not without talents, it was just a pity that Song Gaozong could not control him.

If Xin Qiji could meet a wise ruler like King Xuan of Zhou and Emperor Guangwu of Han, his achievements would be comparable to those of the ancient wise rulers.

It can be said that Zhao Gou really played a good hand badly.

If he had been a little more normal and had made use of famous generals such as Yue Fei and Xin Qiji, his posthumous title would have been Emperor Guangwu of Song.

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(End of this chapter)