Li Gang. In the second year of Zhenghe (1 1 12), he was a scholar and. For five years, he served as a supervisor and assistant in the hall of power, and was soon dismissed as an official for discussing the fault of state affairs. In the first year of Xuanhe (1 1 19), Shangshu asked the imperial court to pay attention to the problem of domestic troubles and foreign invasion, which was considered inappropriate by Zhao Ji, Song Huizong, and was sentenced to Shaxian County taxation in Nanjian Prefecture.
In July of the seventh year of Xuanhe, Li Gang was recalled to the DPRK, and he was appointed as a Taichang Shaoqing. In the winter of that year, Jin Bing attacked the Song Dynasty in two ways, and Wan Yan Zongwang led the East Route Army to Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty. In the case of Song Ting's panic, Li Gang proposed to Song Huizong that he should be transferred to Prince Zhao Huan to call on the military and civilians to resist the gold. After Zhao Huan (Song Qinzong) acceded to the throne, Li Gang was promoted to Shangshu Youcheng, who was appointed as a personal expedition and was responsible for Kaifeng's defense. He led Kaifeng soldiers and civilians to complete the defense deployment in time, personally went to the city to supervise the war and repel the nomads from the city. Seeing that Kaifeng was difficult to storm, Jin Shuai WanYanZongWang turned to luring and surrendering, and Song Ting was filled with humiliation and surrender. Li Gang was dismissed from office by Song Qinzong because of his firm opposition to making peace with the gold ceded territory. Because of the angry demonstrations of Kaifeng soldiers and civilians, Song Qinzong was forced to take back his mandate, and Li Gangcai was put into use again. Unable to break through Kaifeng, Wanyanzongwang withdrew his troops in February of the first year of Jingkang (1 126) after Song Ting promised to cede three towns in Hebei. The Kaifeng garrison battle was won under the organization of Li Gang. After the evacuation of Nomads, Li Gang was rejected and framed by Song Ting capitulators.
In May of the first year of Jingkang, Song Tingqiang appointed Li Gang as the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong and Hebei, and drove him out of the DPRK. After Li Gang took office, Song Ting imposed restrictions on everything, making Xuanfu an empty name and unrestrained military power. Li Gang was forced to resign in September, and Xuan was charged with "focusing on the main battle, losing teachers and wasting money". He was first responsible for the resettlement of Jianchang Army (now Nancheng, Jiangxi) and then moved to Kuizhou (now Baidicheng, Fengjie, Chongqing). Shortly after Li Gang was demoted, the nomads from the army once again besieged Kaifeng in two ways. On the eve of his capture, Song Qinzong remembered to use Li Gang to appoint him as a university student in the Senior Minister's Hall and lead the Kaifeng government, but to no avail. When Li Gang learned of this fate in Changsha, the Northern Song Dynasty had already perished.
Zhao Gou, King Kang, built another court in Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan) in Nanjing. In order to take advantage of Li Gang's reputation, he was appointed as the right servant of Shangshu and assistant minister of Chinese books (right phase). At that time, Li Gang was on his way to Kaifeng. After receiving the appointment, he rushed to Nanjing, tried his best to plan and reorganize the Chaogang for the Emperor, organized anti-Jin, and launched a sharp struggle with the capitulators such as Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan around the Emperor. He opposed surrender, advocated "all peace talks", and severely punished Zhang Bangchang and other Song officials who worked for the nomads from the army, in order to encourage the last festival. In view of the corruption of military and political affairs and the unclear rewards and punishments since the Northern Song Dynasty, he also promulgated Article 21 of the new army system, set about rectifying military and political affairs, and suggested setting up a command house along the river, along the Huaihe River and along the river to implement defense in depth. Li Gang's rectification of military and political facilities helped the Song Dynasty to support the situation, which was acceptable to Song Gaozong. However, Song Gaozong, Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan did not allow him to resolutely resist gold and oppose capitulation. Therefore, they tried to expel Li Gang. Deliberately sabotaged Li Gang's anti-gold deployment and forced Li Gang to resign. Li Gang was expelled from the DPRK after only 75 days as prime minister, and was soon demoted to Ezhou (now Wuchang, Wuhan City, Hubei Province), and then exiled to Wan 'an Army in Hainan Island (now southeast of Guangdong Province). He was not free until the end of the third year of Jianyan (1 129).
In the fourth year of Jianyan, Li Gang returned to Shaowu to live. Since then, from February, the second year of Shaoxing (1 132) to Shaoxing for three years, he served as the ambassador of Xuanhu Guangnan Road, knowing Tanzhou (later changed to Hunan Anfu Ambassador), and from October, five years to November, seven years, he served as the ambassador of Jiangnan West Road, knowing Hongzhou. Although he was excluded, he always cared about state affairs, repeatedly stated his political views, continued to oppose humiliation and surrender, and supported Yue Fei's struggle against gold. Shaoxing died in the first month of the tenth year. Shao Shi died, Shi Zhong decided.
Li Gang wrote a lot in his life, and his legacy was compiled into 180 volumes of The Complete Works of Liangxi by his philosophers and published in the world. Among them, The Biography of Jingkang, Jian Yan's Advance and Retreat, and Jian Yan's Political Notes are the records of Li Gang's personal experience and personal experience when he was in the imperial court at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, which are valuable materials for studying this period of history.