At that time, the Song was the only representative of China, so of course the Han people in the occupied areas would try their best to escape. At the beginning of the end of the Yuan Dynasty, both the northern and southern regimes were called Song, which also shows this. However, there is a serious problem with our education and view of history, and modern people are far behind the ancients in terms of national righteousness.
The Southern Song Dynasty briefly "recovered" Shandong. How did they do it?The Southern Song Dynasty did nothing, it was the remnants of the north who knocked down Shandong and then sent it to the Southern Song Dynasty. I remember that it was the Red Jacket Army that spontaneously defeated the Jin garrison in Shandong, and then surrendered their land to the Song Dynasty.
In the face of the surrender of the Jin State, the Red Jacket Army left the famous sentence "I would rather be the ghost of Jianghuai than the minister of the Jin State". However, the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty forced the Red Jacket Army to reverse because of a series of riotous operations and the heart of a villain. That's all for later.
Overall, if the Southern Song Dynasty had chosen the Northern Expedition, it would probably have been the easiest Northern Expedition in history. Because the Han people in the north still have a very strong and simple sense of national identity.
In fact, the Southern Song Dynasty could easily recover Shandong, but they just engaged in a bunch of riotous operations, and as a result, they gave away the opportunity. Every time the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Expedition were made, there were many heroes and powers in the north who responded to each other. As long as the Southern Song Dynasty was not so timid, recovering the north should be a piece of cake. Not only do I think so, but even Xin Qiji, who has stayed in the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty, thinks so.
Xin Qiji witnessed the huge gap between the two sides, and sighed more than once: This can lose to Jin Guo, it's just a joke!Xin Qiji was a typical Han Chinese who fled from the north to the south, and his defection to the Southern Song Dynasty shows that the Han people in the north still recognized the Southern Song Dynasty. But his depression also explains why the Southern Song Dynasty was never able to recover the Central Plains.
The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were really incompetent to refresh the lower limit, and they were sorry for the Han people in the north who were looking forward to returning to their homeland. The Han people in the north did not have the so-called "unity values" under foreign rule, nor did they understand what "Liaojin had to be the true biography of Li Tang", and they did not believe that "Liaojin is orthodox".
Their most simple national belief is that the Han people should live in a place where there is a Han emperor, Han culture, and Han clothing. It was the incompetent, infighting, mediocre, and cowardly monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty who failed the Han people in the north;But the Han people in the north have never extinguished the most simple national belief in their hearts, until the sound of "the sun and the moon reopen the Great Song Dynasty".