The year is 1120. Emperor Song Huizong, a famously ineffectual monarch, holds power in the [NORTH]. He wasn't too bad a guy, really, just a rather soppy leader of men. Spent a lot of time devising poetry competitions and putting the finishing touches on , that kind of thing. He was so into art that he established , STIMULATING CHINESE ART WORLD.   He's so into art that ONE OF THE GREAT PATRONS OF THE AGE. But kingship is more 

宣和二年，睦州青溪(今浙江淳安)人方腊利用摩尼教在帮源峒聚众万人起事。方腊称圣公，建元永乐，分设官署。随后攻克睦、歙、杭、处、衢、婺等州县，众至数十万。宣和三年初，宋廷任命童贯为江、淮、荆、浙等路宣抚使，领十五万大军南下镇压。方腊控制的州县相继失陷。四月，方腊率部退守帮源峒，与官军决战，所率七万人皆战死，方腊被俘，押送汴京处决。余部继续在浙东转战近一年，后被消灭。
方腊起义失败后，宋徽宗立即恢复了苏杭“应奉局”，并在开封重新设置了“应奉司”，加紧搜刮“四方珍异之物”，宫殿、园林等巨大土木工程也照旧进行。