Chapter 58 Although "died of life", he fell into a mausoleum and was excavated

Song Lizong appointed Jia Sidao as his prime minister in his later years.This person is the younger brother of his favorite concubine, Concubine Jia. He was originally a rascal in the market, specializing in cockfighting and lackeys, haunting Huajie and Liuxiang.But relying on his sister's relationship, he was promoted step by step.However, although Jia Sidao has little knowledge, he is quite "skillful". So once he became a prime minister, he used the name of "rectifying the court" to clean up the sycophants around Lizong, such as Dong Songchen, and strictly prohibited the children of his relatives from As county guards and supervisors, these people did not dare to interfere in politics for a while.Jia Sidao's power is in the hands of the government and the public, so he can form cliques at will and support his party members.At this time, due to the economic recession in the Southern Song Dynasty, Lizong's luxurious life was affected.So Jia Sidao began to collect wealth in many ways.What kind of economic boundary law is promoted, public land is bought, and the fields of the common people are seized; and paper money is issued indiscriminately, causing inflation.A lot of money was collected by this method of knocking the bones and sucking the marrow, which made Li Zong feel that he was capable.However, what really established his "great achievements" was the war with Mongolia.

Because of "Jingkang Shame", the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty have always been feuds.Although the Southern Song Dynasty professed the tribute to the Jin Dynasty, it was still unconvinced in its heart, so there would be a "Kaixi Northern Expedition". Although it ended in failure, the Southern Song Dynasty's idea of ​​destroying the Jin Dynasty never disappeared.At this time, the power of the Jin Dynasty was also declining day by day, and the Mongolian people in the north became stronger and wanted to unite with the Southern Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin Dynasty together.This incident aroused a lot of discussion in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty. Some people pointed out the fact that in the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, they allied with the Jin to destroy the Liao Dynasty, but were destroyed by the Jin, and opposed going to war with the Jin. The conditions are too tempting.Therefore, in the fifth year of Shaoding (1232), Mongolia officially sent envoys to negotiate with the Southern Song Dynasty to jointly destroy the gold.In the first month of the first year of Duanping (1234), the coalition forces of Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty invaded Caizhou City, Jin Aizong hanged himself and died, and the Kingdom of Jin perished.

Satisfied with the destruction of the world-enemy Jin Kingdom, Song Lizong ordered to send troops to Henan in May of that year, hoping to regain the former homeland of the Northern Song Dynasty.On July 5, the Song army entered Kaifeng and continued to march towards Luoyang.But when they arrived in Luoyang, they were ambushed by the Mongolian army, suffered heavy losses, and retreated in embarrassment.The Song army who stayed behind in Tokyo and other areas also retreated across the board, known in history as "Duanping entered Luo".The disastrous defeat of Duanping's entry into Luo not only caused the Southern Song Dynasty to lose tens of thousands of elite soldiers and a large amount of supplies, but also made Mongolia find an excuse to send troops to the Southern Song Dynasty.In the sixth year of Baoyou (1258), the Mongolian three-way army went south and formally sent troops to the Southern Song Dynasty.

At this time, Lizong hurriedly sent Jia Sidao to lead the army to defend against the enemy, and he was still in the army worshiping him as Prime Minister You.Jia Sidao was as timid as a mouse, so he dared not fight, so he sent envoys to Kublai Khan, the Mongolian coach, to ask for peace.Kublai Khan was unwilling at first, but when he learned that Great Khan Mengge was dead, he was eager to go back to fight for the position of Khan, so he made a favor and agreed to invite and retreat.Jia Sidao took advantage of the retreat of the Northern Army and asked people to chase and beat a few soldiers in the rear of the palace, and then brazenly lied about "great victories on all roads", as if the world would be peaceful forever.In order to gain fame and flaunt the so-called great achievements, he also ordered his disciples to write an article called "Fu Hua Bian", praising his "contribution to aiding Hubei" that did not exist at all, which is extremely disgusting.Emperor Lizong also believed the lie of this brother-in-law, and regarded him as the great savior for rebuilding the royal family.

Song Lizong lived a few more "peaceful" days, and died of illness in October of the fifth year of Jingding (1264).He also had no sons during his lifetime, so he made his younger brother's son Zhao Yu emperor, who was Song Duzong.Jia Sidao is not only a "minister of the shoulders" but also "a meritorious supporter", which is enough for the new emperor to respect him and even call him "Duke Zhou".But sooner or later the merits made up by deceiving people will be exposed. When the Yuan army goes south again, he has no choice but to bite the bullet and go to supervise the teacher.At this time Song Duzong also died, and his son came to the throne as Emperor Song Gong.Jia Sidao's behavior of harming the country and the people has long been outraged by both humans and gods. After being defeated and fled back, he was demoted to Xunzhou by the court and killed by the escort officer Zheng Huchen.Less than a year later, the Yuan army invaded Lin'an City, and the Southern Song Dynasty perished.

Although the Southern Song Dynasty did not directly die in Lizong's hands, his forty years in power, appointed treacherous men and acted mischievously, which made the already unsatisfactory national situation even worse.Although he received a good evaluation in Song history because of his admiration of Confucianism, he was actually to blame for the subjugation of the Southern Song Dynasty.Perhaps it was retribution. Although Li Zong was able to "end his life", after his death, his grave was dug up, his body was destroyed, and even his skull was lost for nearly a hundred years before he could be buried.

There were six emperors in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the tombs of them and their concubines are all in the southeast of Shaoxing.In the 22nd year of Yuan Shizu Zhiyuan (1285), Yang Lian Zhenjia, a Tibetan monk, served as the "Chief Minister of Buddhism in the South of the Yangtze River". He was a disciple of the "National Teacher" Ba Siba. To pervert the law, since he was in charge of Buddhist affairs in the Jiangnan area, in order to pay for the construction and restoration of Buddhist temples, he, along with Yunze, a monk of Yanfu Temple, and the prime minister, Sang Ge, carried out an unprecedented robbery of the six tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty.Not only the tombs of the emperor, but also the tombs of concubines and ministers were not spared. A total of 101 places were looted, and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry buried with them were looted.Among them, because Li Zong had been in power for 40 years, he was buried with a lot of treasures after his death. It is said that when the tomb was opened, white air shot out into the sky, which was formed by the condensation of precious energy.Moreover, his body was well preserved and lifelike. Some people said that it was because Lizong had the Ye Mingzhu in his mouth, so they pried open his mouth and took the Ye Mingzhu away.There are many jewels in Lizong's coffin, and the jewels and jewels surround his body. The bottom of the coffin is covered with woven cotton, and the body is covered with a gold mesh cover.After the robbers took away all the treasures in the coffin, they took Lizong's body out of the tomb, hung it upside down on a tree, and kicked Lizong's head violently to show that they were fearless.The embalmed mercury slowly dripped from Lizong's mouth for three days and three nights.After destroying the tomb robbers, the group of tomb robbers threw the bones of the emperor and empress among the grass, leaving them exposed to the sun and rain.

At this time, Tang Jue, a martyr in Shaoxing, heard about this incident and was very sad and indignant. He sold his property and recruited people. When the night was quiet, he sneaked into the mausoleum and exchanged the bones of pigs and sheep scattered around for the remains of the empress. Put them in pockets made of yellow silk, write the name of the mausoleum of God, put them in a wooden cabinet, and move them to Lanzhu Mountain in front of Tianzhang Temple (near Lanting, Shaoxing today), and plant holly trees on them as a mark.Every cold food festival, they secretly went to sacrifice.Because Lizong's skull was very big, he didn't dare to change it because he was afraid that Yang Lian Zhenjia would find out.But according to Tantra, getting the emperor's skull can make you very rich. Yang Lian Zhenjia ordered people to inlay Lizong's skull with silver and varnish, and make it into a wine vessel for drinking and having fun.The bones scattered in the cemetery were collected into the Lin'an Forbidden City, and a white pagoda was built on it to suppress, in order to suppress the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Generally speaking, all dynasties have protected the tombs of previous emperors. Even if there are grave diggers, it is mostly a personal act and has nothing to do with the government.However, the tomb robbery by Yang Lian Zhenjia and others received the full support of the Yuan government. At that time, officials of the Yuan Dynasty and the Zhao Song clan asked Yuan Shizu to protect the Song Mausoleum, but he ignored it.Many of the treasures obtained from the tomb robbery were also dedicated to the Yuan Dynasty government.Moreover, Yang Lian Zhenjia put forward the theory of "overpowering victory", building a pagoda and placing the remains of the Song Emperor under it to subdue the Song people. Yang Lian Zhenjia took a supportive attitude towards the tomb robbery.

Later, Yang Lian Zhenjia's house was confiscated because of other things, and Lizong's skull was also confiscated in the Xuanzheng Yuan and used to bestow the "emperor teachers" of the Yuan Dynasty.As a result, Lizong's skull was circulated among Tibetan monks, and Wei Su, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, even saw it at a banquet.Later, Wei Su became an official of the Ming Dynasty and told Ming Taizu about this matter.Taizu sighed for a long time, and asked Beiping guards to retrieve Lizong's skull from Tibetan monks. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), he was buried in Yingtianfu (Nanjing, Jiangsu) with an emperor's ceremony. Zong's skull was buried at the former site of Yongmu Mausoleum in Shaoxing.Eighty-five years later, Lizong's skull returned to its original place and was buried in the ground.