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In the first month of the Song, the Jin overran Xiangzhou. On the jisi day, the Emperor issued an edict to lead a campaign in person, and the Retired Emperor departed to visit Nanjing. On the xinwei day, the Emperor had barely finished setting up the war apparatus for defending the city when the Jin arrived beneath the city walls. Bai Shizhong was dismissed from the chancellorship, Li Bangyan was recalled to service as Grand Chancellor, and Zhang Bangchang was made Lesser Chancellor. The people of the capital called Bangyan the 'Playboy Chancellor'. On the renshen day, envoys were sent to urge the commanders of the various circuits to lead troops to the capital's relief. The Jin demanded gold and silver to reward their troops, demanded that their ruler be honored as paternal senior uncle, demanded the return of their people from Yan and Yun who were in Han lands, the cession of the territories of Zhongshan, Taiyuan, and Hejian, and imperial princes and chancellors as hostages, before they would withdraw their army. An edict appointed the Emperor's younger brother, the Prince of Kang, as Envoy of Strategy Before the Army, with Zhang Bangchang as deputy, and Li Ye and Gao Shize accompanying them; whatever they demanded was granted. As for the imperial edicts ceding the Three Garrisons, Li Gang detained them and would not dispatch them. On the yihai day, an edict ordered that the Jin state be addressed as 'Great Jin'. On the dinghai day, the loyalist relief troops arrived together, claiming to be two hundred thousand, and the morale of the capital's populace settled somewhat. In the second month, the Jin envoys arrived again. The Emperor sent Yuwen Xuzhong, bearing the edicts ceding the Three Garrisons that Li Gang had detained, to go to them, while also escorting the Prince of Kang back. Earlier, when the Prince of Kang was detained in the Jin camp, he engaged in archery with the Jin crown prince: he shot three arrows in succession, all hitting the target's bullseye without interruption. The Jin thought he was the son of an ordinary military officer's respectable family and did not seem to be an imperial prince, so they sent him back and instead requested the Prince of Su as hostage. On the yisi day, the Prince of Kang returned from the Jin camp. The Jin besieged the capital for a total of thirty-three days. Having obtained the edicts for the Three Garrisons and the Prince of Su, they did not wait for the full sum of gold and silver to be paid; on the bingwu day, the Jin army withdrew. Cai Jing was banished to Danzhou and died upon reaching Tan[zhou] at the age of eighty. Cai You was banished to Wan'an Commandery, and soon an edict ordered his execution wherever he was found. Tong Guan was banished far away, pursued, and executed at Nanxiong. In the third month, Commissioner of Military Affairs Li Gang was ordered to welcome the Retired Emperor at Nanjing; he reached the capital only in the fourth month. Zhao Liangsi had earlier been banished to Binzhou, and was now executed there. Earlier, in the ninth month of the autumn of the first year of Zhenghe under Huizong, when Tong Guan returned from an embassy to the Liao and reached the Lugou River in Youzhou, there was a man of Yan named Ma Zhi, who had offended the King of Yan in Liao and had nowhere to turn; he therefore met Guan and set forth a strategy for destroying Yan. Guan brought him back, changed his surname to Li and his given name to Liangsi, and recommended him to the Emperor, who bestowed the imperial surname Zhao upon him. The discussions on recovering Yan began from this. In the second month of the second year of Xuanhe, when the Jurchen requested the exchange of envoys to establish good relations, Zhao Liangsi was consequently sent to make an agreement to attack the Khitan from both sides, which ultimately resulted in the state's ruin; now he was executed. Because the Jin had not yet received the Three Garrisons, in the tenth month of winter they invaded again along two routes. In the eleventh month, on the yiyou day, Wolibu attacked the capital and camped at Liujia Temple. In the intercalary month, Nianhan attacked the capital and camped at Qingcheng. An edict appointed the Prince of Kang, [Zhao] Gou, as Grand Marshal of the Armies of All Under Heaven, Chen Gou as Marshal, and Zong Ze as deputy, ordering them to swiftly lead troops to defend the capital. On the bingchen day, the capital fell. On the xinyou day, the Emperor went to Qingcheng. The two chieftains ordered Sun Jin to draft an instrument of surrender; once written, they ordered the Emperor to sign his name, face north, and make obeisance as it was dispatched. They also said that their ruler would separately establish a worthy ruler who would merely be called 'King of Song'. The Emperor remained silent. In the twelfth month, on the renxu day, the first day of the month, the Emperor was detained at Qingcheng. The Prince of Kang opened his Grand Marshal's headquarters in Xiangzhou. On the guihai day, the Emperor returned from Qingcheng. Nianhan requested to send envoys to meet the Prince of Kang, but the envoys returned and reported using the excuse that they could not find the Prince of Kang (Song jian).