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At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty suffered from internal and external troubles, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous levies, years of war, and the people were unable to make ends meet. In Dongting Lake area, the peasant rebel army headed by Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao could not bear all kinds of oppression and rose up to fight. Resist the court internally to appease the people; Foreign resistance to the invasion of the Jin army dealt a heavy blow to the corrupt Song Dynasty. In desperation, the Song Dynasty finally suppressed this peasant rebel army by using Yue Fei's army.