Chapter 274 Chapter 273 Ren Song Zhao Zhen

Song Renzong, originally named Yiyi, later changed his name to Zhen.He is the sixth son of Zhenzong and his mother Li Chenfei.Because Empress Liu of Zhangxian had no children, she adopted her as an adopted son.Song Dazhong Xiangfu was born in the third year, and Jiayou died in the eighth year. After Zhao Zhen was born, the palace was held to celebrate.Zhenzong was very happy and regarded him as the apple of his eye.Because his first five sons died one after another, Yiyi was regarded as the sole heir of Zhenzong.When he was less than 5 years old, Zhenzong adopted the suggestion of the minister of the court and conferred a title on him in order to be popular.He was ordered to be the general of the left guard, named the Duke of Qing, and stipulated a monthly salary of two hundred guan.When Yiyi was 7 years old, Zhenzong held a grand coronation ceremony for him, and then granted him the title of Jiedu Envoy and Attendant of the Zhongzheng Army, and became King of Shouchun County.With a command, all states and counties in the Song Dynasty filed petitions to congratulate.

In March of the ninth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (AD 1016), Zhenzong ordered to build a study palace "Zishantang" in the south of Yuanfu Temple in the imperial city for the benefit.The eunuch Zhou Huaizheng was appointed as the supervisor of the palace, the eunuch Yang Huaiyu was the accompanying student, and the Hebei transfer envoy Zhang Shixun and Zuo Sijian Cui Zundu were appointed as the enlightenment teachers who benefited.From then on, Yiyi began to receive formal and strict Confucian education.In February of the second year of Tianxi (AD 1018), Zhenzong adopted the advice of Zaifu Xiang Minzhong, Wang Qinruo and others, and took Shengzhou (which governs today's Nanjing City) as Jiangning Prefecture, and established Jiankang Army as a beneficiary fiefdom.At the same time, he was granted the title of Jiedu envoy of the Jiankang Army, added an official Taibao, and was promoted to king.Zhang Shixun and Cui Zundu of Zhishiguan were ordered to be promoted to the palace to consult and join the army, and Yan Shu of Zhishiguan was appointed to join the army as a record office.In August of the same year, Zhenzong summoned Prime Minister Xiang Minzhong and others in the Chongzheng Hall, showed the "Yan Yao" written by Chen Zhizhong, the governor of Wuzhou, urging the establishment of the crown prince, and decided to establish the crown prince.On August 15th, Emperor Zhenzong issued an edict that Lisheng Wang benefited as the crown prince, gave him the name Zhen, and increased the monthly salary to 2,000 guan.At the same time, Zhang Shixun, Cui Zundu and other East Palace officials were appointed.In September, another grand crown prince canonization ceremony was held, and Zhao Zhen was officially established as the heir to the throne. This year, he was only 9 years old.

In March of the first year of Qianxing (1022 A.D.), Zhenzong died of illness in Yanqing Palace. Zhao Zhen was only 13 years old when he received the imperial edict and became the emperor.It is for Renzong. After Renzong ascended the throne, he respected Empress Liu as the Empress Dowager and Concubine Yang Shu as the Empress Dowager, and listened to and dealt with the empress dowager together on military and state affairs. In fact, the military and political power was completely in the hands of the Empress Dowager Liu.Prime Minister Ding Wei and others also tried their best to flatter Empress Dowager Liu.When the prime ministers were drafting the edict system for the empress dowager to listen to the government, they initially drafted "the punishment of the empress dowager who is both a major military affairs and a power".Ding Wei proposed to remove the word "Quan", but Deputy Prime Minister Wang Zeng fought hard.Wang Zeng also quoted the old system, advocating that the emperor and the empress dowager meet in the Yuchengming Hall every five days, with the emperor on the left and the empress dowager on the right, listening to the government behind the curtain.However, Ding Wei suggested that Renzong received ministers on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, and that all important military and state affairs were decided by the empress dowager and Renzong together.The non-military and political affairs are communicated internally and externally by the servant Lei Yungong (that is, the queen mother decides).In the end, Ding Wei's opinion was adopted.

In the first month of the second year, the Yuan was changed. In order to please the Empress Dowager Liu, Ding Wei proposed to change the "Tiansheng" (the word "Tian" was analyzed as two people, and the two saints were in power together), which was approved by the Empress Dowager.Ding Wei won the Queen Mother's favor, and became even more domineering in the court. Ding Wei's actions quickly aroused the indignation of the ruling and opposition parties.At that time, there was a saying in the capital that said: "If you want to have peace in the world, you should pull out the thorn in your eye (Ding Wei); if you want to make the world happy, you should summon the old Kou." This word reached the ears of Empress Dowager Liu, and she began to be dissatisfied with Ding Wei.Not long after, Wang used Lei Yungong to move Zhenzong's mausoleum without authorization and left his mother's cemetery with good geomantic omens. He told Empress Dowager Liu that Ding Wei and Lei Yungong had colluded with each other and harbored evil intentions in order to do something wrong.After hearing this, the Queen Mother was furious, killed Lei Yungong with a stick, demoted Ding to Henan Mansion (now Luoyang, Henan), and demoted Yazhou (now Yaxian County, Hainan).Ding Wei's trusted advisers, Ren Zhongzheng, Shangshu Linte and others, were also demoted one after another.Wang Zeng was promoted to be prime minister with Feng Zheng, and Lu Yijian, a Quanzhi Kaifeng mansion, and Lu Zongdao, a direct scholar of Longtuge, were promoted to be a political adviser and deputy prime minister.Renzong also changed to listen to the government in Yuchengming Hall with the Queen Mother every three or five.

The young Renzong neither cared about nor was interested in the changes that took place in the court at that time. Apart from sitting with the Queen Mother to listen to the government, he was still concentrating on practicing his calligraphy, which made his later Feibai calligraphy look strong and powerful. Quite a skill, among the emperors of the Song Dynasty, it can be called the first genus. With the passage of time and the growth of age, Renzong gradually matured, and he had his own opinions and thoughts in dealing with things.From the first year of Qianxing, he began to practice handling political affairs.Began to gradually get rid of the constraints and controls of the Queen Mother. When he was 15 years old, the queen mother made the decision and made Guo Shi, the granddaughter of his former relative Guo Chong, the queen. He was very dissatisfied.Because at this time he was passionately in love with Zhang Cairen who entered the palace with Guo Shi.He expressed his disapproval of the empress dowager by alienating the Guo family, entering the Zhang family as a talented person, and then becoming a beauty.Especially since Empress Dowager Liu has been in power for a long time, officials and ministers are frightened by her arbitrariness.Renzong used the story of setting up a letter in the Tang Dynasty to discuss with the political affairs and report to the Empress Dowager of Ming Dynasty. A special order was set up to set up a Licensor, who was concurrently appointed by Yushi Zhongcheng.In the first year of Ming Dynasty (1032 A.D.), an imperial edict was set up to set up a remonstrance court, and the officials of the court were appointed and dispatched by the emperor himself.Any failures in the government, improper appointment of ministers to hundreds of officials, violations and mistakes in the three provinces to the official offices, etc., can be written to remonstrate.

In the seventh year of Tiansheng (1029 A.D.), Fan Zhongyan, the school manager of Mige, wrote a letter, asking the queen mother to withdraw the curtain and return to the government. This violated the taboo of the queen mother and was sentenced to Hezhong Mansion (now Puzhou Town, Yongji, Shanxi).In the following year, Song Shou, a Hanlin scholar and attendant scholar, wrote a letter, suggesting that Renzong should handle everything except military and state affairs by himself.Then Lin Xianke, Liu Huan and others wrote letters one after another, urging the queen mother to return to power, arousing Liu's anger and demoting them far to Lingnan.Although Renzong didn't make it clear about what happened, his dissatisfaction with the empress dowager's domineering increased in his heart.

In March of the second year of Mingdao (1033 A.D.), Empress Dowager Liu died of illness. She ordered Renzong to respect the empress dowager Yang as empress dowager.Finally, when announcing the posthumous edict of Empress Dowager Liu, the phrase "the emperor and the empress dowager arbitrate major military affairs" was deleted.Empress Dowager Yang retired to Baoqing Palace and was called Empress Dowager Baoqing.So far, Renzong ended the life of his son emperor and ruled independently. After Renzong came to power, he first carried out large-scale personnel adjustments. First, he dismissed his internal servant Luo Chongxun and others, and then transferred people who were trusted by the Empress Dowager Liu, such as the privy envoy Zhang Qi, the privy envoy Xia Song and Fan Yong, and the political adviser Chen Yaozuo and others. Yan Shu and others were all demoted to foreign officials.Although the Prime Minister Lu Yijian tried his best to help Renzong, he was dismissed from the prime minister and sentenced to Chenzhou because of suspicion of the Empress Dowager Zeng Afu.Zhang Shixun and Li Di were re-appointed as ministers, and Wang Sui, a scholar in the Imperial Academy, and Li Consulting, the envoy of the third division of Quan, were appointed to participate in state affairs.Song Shou, Sun Zude and others who were demoted for persuading the queen mother to withdraw from the curtain and return to politics were also promoted successively.

In December of the second year of Mingdao (AD 1033), due to the successive years of drought and locust disasters, some people proposed that the yuan should be changed to adapt to changes in the sky and guide harmony.Some people also suggested that before Ming Dao, Jianyuan Tiansheng was done by Ding Wei at that time to please the Empress Dowager, and later changed to Ming Dao.Renzong then issued an edict to change the Yuan to "Jingyou" next year.Renzong was always concerned about the fact that Empress Dowager Liu made the decision to establish Empress Guo for him. Therefore, Renzong finally used the excuse that Empress Guo had no children to abolish the Guo family as a nun and lived in seclusion in Changning Palace.Fan Zhongyan was also demoted as a foreign official because of his remonstrance.

Empress Guo was abolished, Renzong favored Shang Shi, Yang Shi and others, spent the day drinking and drinking, the sound of bells, drums and string music continued day and night, heard outside the palace, and political affairs gradually became sparse.Shang and others actually issued orders in the harem with "religious edicts", and Renzong himself fell ill due to excessive drinking and sex.For a while, rumors spread in the palace, and there was a great uproar in the court.Concerned about state affairs, all the officials and ministers wrote letters one after another, demanding to clean up the harem, and Empress Dowager Yang also personally persuaded Renzong.In September of the first year of Jingyou (1034 A.D.), Cao, the granddaughter of Cao Bin, the former minister who had just entered the palace, was ordered to be the queen, and the harem dispute temporarily subsided.

Unexpectedly, "internal troubles" had just subsided, and "foreign troubles" followed.At this time, the party regime in the west of the Song Dynasty developed rapidly.In October of the fifth year of Jingyou, Li Yuanhao, the son of Li Mingde, officially proclaimed himself emperor. The name of the founding of the country was Daxia, and the name of the year was changed to "Yan Zuo", the government was established, the military power was changed, and the system of writing and etiquette was created, completing the great cause of the founding of Xixia , and became a powerful competitor to the west neighbors of the Song Dynasty.

In April of the second year of Baoyuan (AD 1039), Li Yuanhao sent envoys to Song Dynasty to ask the Song Dynasty to recognize the Kingdom of Xia, canonize the title of emperor, and inquire about the Song Dynasty.Renzong and the ministers of the various dynasties had been unable to make a decision for a long time, and it was not until June of this year that they decided to cut off the official title of Li Yuanhao from the Song Dynasty and prepare troops to conquer Xia.In November, Li Yuanhao preemptively led his troops to invade the Security Army (now Zhidan County, Shaanxi), besieged Taipingzhai (now northwest of Yan'an, Shaanxi) with 30,000 troops, and claimed to attack Yanzhou (now Yan'an, Shaanxi), an important frontier town in the west of the Song Dynasty. In the Battle of Yanzhou, the Song army suffered heavy losses, and Guan Fu was shaken.Renzong was worried and called all his ministers to discuss countermeasures.As a last resort, Renzong appointed Han Qi, who was in charge of the battle, as the commander in chief of Shaanxi.Han Qi recommended Fan Zhongyan again.Fan Zhongyan was ordered to know Yanzhou and led his troops to attack Xixia, only to regain the lost ground. The Song army won a little victory, Renzong thought that Li Yuanhao was afraid of Song Dynasty, and sent people to sneak into Xixia, inciting Xixia to kill each other, hoping to reap the benefits of fishermen.This move made Li Yuanhao very angry. In September of the second year of Qingli (1042 AD), he sent another large-scale army to invade the Song Dynasty.Renzong ordered Ge Huaimin, the general of the Zhenrong Army, to lead his army to resist. He was besieged by the Xia army in Dingchuanzhai (northwest of Guyuan, Ningxia today).Xia's army took advantage of the victory and drove directly to Weizhou (now Pingliang, Gansu). The territory of the Song Dynasty was hundreds of miles away, the houses were burned, and the residents were taken into captivity. After the Battle of Dingchuan, Xia's army grew in strength and Song's army declined. Renzong had no choice but to seek peace with Xia. Pang Ji of Yanzhou, the secret edict, ordered Li Yuanhao, saying that as long as Xixia ceased the war and became a minister, its title of emperor and country could be preserved.It wasn't until the fourth year of Qingli that Li Yuanhao was forced by the attack of the Liao Dynasty and was eager to fight against the Liao Dynasty with the Song Dynasty. He agreed to become a minister and proposed a huge "year gift" at the same time.Renzong was satisfied with Xixia's claim as a minister, and quickly wrote back to Li Yuanhao, saying: "I read the oath, and everything is as agreed." He agreed to Li Yuanhao's conditions for peace.In October of this year, the peace treaty between Song and Xia was reached, and Xia remained a nominal vassal to Song. Song canonized Li Yuanhao as the lord of Xia, and "gifted" 130,000 bolts of silk, 50,000 taels of silver, and 20,000 catties of tea every year, plus festival "rewards" . While Song Xia was stalemate, the Khitan regime in the north was also eyeing the Song Dynasty with covetous hearts.After Renzong came to power, he adopted the suggestion of Liu Ping, an acquaintance with Chengde, and secretly ordered the reconstruction of paddy fields and extensive planting of trees along the border of Hebei to prepare for the intrusion of Liao cavalry.In the first year of Jingyou (1034 A.D.), Khitan stationed troops on the border of Song and Liao in the name of offering sacrifices to the heavens, preparing to invade the Song Dynasty.Renzong heard the news and ordered Hebei to rectify its military equipment, transfer husbands and men to repair the cities and moats along the border of Hebei.At the beginning of the second year of Qingli (AD 1042), the Khitan army suppressed the border and sent people to meet Renzong, questioning why the Song Dynasty sent troops to attack Xia and strengthened the border defense, and threatened the Song Dynasty to cede the 10 counties south of Waqiaoguan recovered in the Later Zhou Dynasty. Yu Khitan.Renzong sent Youzhengyan Fubi to Khitan as an envoy, proposing to make peace or increase "year coins".After several negotiations, the Khitan side agreed not to cede the territory, but only to increase the payment of old coins and reconcile the reconciliation.Fu Bi tried his best not to say "receive", but the Khitan side insisted on calling it offering, or tribute, or accepting.In the end, Renzong succumbed to Khitan's will, and Xu called the word "Na" to make peace.In October of this year, the two sides concluded a peace agreement, and after the Song Dynasty, an additional 200,000 taels of Khitan silver silk will be paid every year.Khitan actually took advantage of the time when the Song Dynasty was trapped in Xixia, and obtained a huge amount of tribute without spending a single soldier. For the Song Dynasty, this was tantamount to another "Chanyuan Alliance." In February of the second year of Jingyou (1035 A.D.), Fan Xi in Yanzhou was impeached. Renzong ordered Li Di and Lu Yijian to handle the case.Renzong was indiscriminate, and he was about to dismiss Li Di as prime minister, and restore the privy envoy Wang Zeng to the same phase as Lu Yijian. In fact, Lu Yijian monopolized the power.Lu Yijian tried his best to cater to Renzong's peace of mind for world governance, whitewashed and flattered with all his might, which plunged the Song Dynasty into an increasingly serious ruling crisis. After Renzong came to power, he followed Tang Taizong's practice of "network heroes from all over the world into my pocket", opened up his official career, and the number of candidates in each imperial examination reached more than a thousand. "Do not dethrone in the imperial examination" also became an unwritten rule from this time on.There are more and more scholars, and there is no restraint in kindness. In addition, internal ministers and foreign relatives are constantly advancing, which makes the situation of redundant officials more and more serious.In the war with Xixia, although the Song army was repeatedly defeated, more and more frontier generals were appointed.In order to prepare for Liao Yuxia, the army continued to expand, which more than doubled the number of 400,000 in Zhenzong's time. Therefore, those who worried about the country and the people were worried about the rise and fall of the country and the future of the Song Dynasty. They wrote letters one after another, demanding reform and strengthening.One of the prominent figures is Fan Zhongyan. Renzong, who had just ascended to Dabao, promoted Fan Zhongyan to the position of admonishment, and Fan Zhongyan went to Shu, and tried his best to reduce redundancy, advocate frugality, and advocate reform and improvement.Renzong admired Fan Zhongyan's character and courage, and appointed him as the waiter of Tianzhang Pavilion and Quan Zhi Kaifeng Mansion. The harsh reality made Renzong vaguely feel the crisis of governance, and began to deliberately change political affairs and get rid of disadvantages.He thought of Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Yu Jing and others who advocated reform and innovation.So in March of the third year of Qingli (1043 A.D.), the number of admonition officials was increased, and Ouyang Xiu and Yu Jing, who were well-respected Jixian school managers, and Wang Su, a member of the staff, were selected to serve in the admonition court.In April, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, who had been demoted as foreign officials for a long time, were promoted as Deputy Privy Envoys.In July, Fan Zhongyan was relocated to participate in political affairs, and Fu Bi, a scholar in the Imperial Academy, was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.I personally gave Fan Zhongyan and others a personal edict, asking them to deal with the urgent affairs of the world, and edicts to the guards all over the country, for all the sufferings of the people and things that are beneficial to the country, they should be consulted and heard in a public mind.On September 3rd, he summoned Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi's ministers in Tianzhang Pavilion, gave them seats and pens, and ordered them to report on the political reform. Fan Zhongyan immediately published the memorial of "Responding to Shouzhao Tiaochen Ten Things", and put forward 10 reform proposals, namely, deposing officials, suppressing luck, promoting tribute, selecting officials, equalizing public land, thickening agriculture and mulberry, repairing military equipment, reducing Corvée, Qin Enxin, heavy orders.At the same time as Fan Zhongyan wrote the letter, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Yu Jing, Han Qi and others also put forward some reform proposals one after another.Renzong adopted them one by one, and then issued an edict to implement these propositions and suggestions, known as the "New Deal". The "New Deal" was carried out with the support of Renzong.However, the implementation of the New Deal encountered opposition from conservative forces in the imperial court from the very beginning.When admonishers Wang Su, Ouyang Xiu and others proposed to reform the bad government, Su Shen, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, accused them of being "fake and routs" and "those who conspired to usurp power".In particular, in order to resist the implementation of the new law, the opposition made waves by taking advantage of the "clique" that Renzong most taboo and ordered to ban several times.After Lu Yijian was dismissed as prime minister, Xia Song of Caizhou (now Runan, Henan) was appointed as the privy envoy.Not long after Xia Song took office, he was impeached by the admonishers Yu Jing and Ouyang Xiu. Renzong then dismissed Xia Song and replaced him with Du Yan, a privy envoy. At the same time, the "New Deal" also touched the vested interests of some people.For example, the implementation of "clearly deposing officials" and "suppressing luck" will damage the interests of a large number of corrupt officials and high-ranking officials, causing them to be the first to attack and slander the New Deal, and it will intensify.In addition, the theory of "cliques" in the court was even more thunderous, which made Renzong shaken from doubts about the New Deal.At this time, a mutiny uprising led by Wang Lun occurred in the Jingdong area, a peasant uprising led by Zhang Hai and Guo Miaoshan occurred in Shaanxi, and locust droughts occurred in many places. Renzong contacted the implementation of the New Deal. After getting up, he lost confidence in carrying out the New Deal, and finally decided to sacrifice the reformers and compromise the opposition. The "Qingli New Deal" seemed to be a flash in the pan, and Renzong's belief in striving for strength was also fleeting.The Song Dynasty continued to follow the old path. Just when Renzong was troubled by the internal contradictions of the court, news came that shocked him even more: On November 28th in the seventh year of Qingli (1047 A.D.), an incident occurred in the Xuanyi Army of Beizhou (now Qinghe, Hebei). Then led the uprising.The Song army was stubbornly resisted by the rebel army under the city of Beizhou, and lost troops and generals.Renzong sent eunuchs to bring the imperial edict to recruit the Anyi army, but the king refused.A month later, the uprising has not been quelled. Renzong sighed with great anxiety: "If none of the ministers will do things for me, what's the use of going to the palace every day?" It comforted Renzong's anxiety a little. At the beginning of the first month of the eighth year of Qingli, Renzong ordered Wen Yanbo to be the Xuanfu envoy of Hebei, and Ming Hao to be the deputy, and stepped up the attack on Beizhou City.Wen Yanbo adopted the suggestion of Liu Zun, a military academy, and rushed to attack the northern city with a large army. Taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the rebel army, he dug tunnels under the southern city wall, selected elite soldiers to sneak into the city gate, opened the city gate, and Song troops poured into the city.Wang Ze first used fire bulls to attack the Song army, hoping to take the opportunity to break out of the siege, but he was outnumbered. During the breakout, most of the rebels were killed. Wang Ze, Zhang Luan, and Ji Bu were captured, and the capital was killed.Renzong ordered the prefectures and counties to seize the "monster party", and countless people were arrested. After the Mutiny in Beizhou, on the night of the eighteenth day of the first lunar month in the eighth year of the Qingli calendar, there was another change in the palace guards, which made Renzong even more frightened. That night, Renzong was staying in Empress Cao's palace.In the middle of the night, Yan Xiu, Guo Kui, Wang Sheng and Sun Li, the Chongzheng guards, in order to rob the palace, killed the military academy guarding the palace in the dead of night, seized the weapons, crossed the Yanhe Hall, and went straight to the palace. Renzong's bedroom.The court lady's cry woke up Renzong.He was terrified, put on his clothes and got out of bed, went out to escape, and was hugged by Empress Cao from behind.Empress Cao closed the door tightly, and hurriedly called the palace guards to call in the guards, and the eunuchs in the palace were also mobilized urgently.Seeing the situation, Yan Xiu and Guo Kui set fire and retreated.While escaping, he was besieged by palace guards and eunuchs swarming in.Yan Xiu, Guo Kui and others wielded knives and fought fiercely with him, and they were all killed in the end. Frightened, Renzong made great efforts to carry out prison affairs.The Imperial City Secretary and officials who entered the Ministry of Internal Affairs were often relegated for dereliction of duty.Among the maids and eunuchs in the Houge who were suspected of being connected with Yan Xiuzhi's change, they were also executed one by one.Not only that, but Renzong, who had palpitations every night, ordered people to cut down all the big trees near the eaves in the palace, rebuilt the city walls, and repaired the gates.The front palace and the back palace also made a dog. Internal and external troubles made Renzong feel extremely distressed, but what made him even more worried was his heir to the throne.From the age of 15, Empress Dowager Liu established the Empress Guo for Renzong, and selected beautiful women to fill the harem, but in the following ten years, no concubine gave birth to a prince for him.In the second year of Baoyuan (AD 1039), Miao Meiren gave birth to a son for him, and the court was full of joy. Renzong personally named his son Xin, and made him a noble and official. Unexpectedly, Zhao Xin died after only living for one and a half years.In the first year of Qingli (1041 A.D.), Zhu Cairen gave birth to a son for Renzong, named Xi, and named him King E, but he died before he was three years old.The emperor's heir became one of the most concerned events inside and outside the court at that time, so there have been incidents of someone pretending to be the prince since then.A man named Leng Qing in Kaifeng Mansion claimed to be the son of Renzong, which shocked the government and the public. After being interrogated by Bao Zheng, the truth was found out.It turned out that this person's mother was a coolie in the palace, but was kicked out of the palace because of a fire in the palace, and married Leng Qing's father, so Leng Qing was able to report the affairs of the palace and confuse the real with the false. In the eighth month of the sixth year of Jiayou (1061 A.D.), Sima Guang, the admonishment court, made a statement that early determination of successors was the most urgent task for the country, and then he met with Renzong to make a request.Hearing what Sima Guang said, Renzong pondered and said nothing: In the past few years, the officials and officials have secretly invited the memorials of the establishment of the reserve to be sent to the palace one after another, and they must be treated with caution.Then he said to Sima Guang: "Does what you said mean that I should choose the clan as his heir?" Sima Guang did not answer directly, but said: "I think I deserve to die, but I hope your majesty will accept it with humility." Pretending to be casual and saying: "It's nothing, such things have existed since ancient times." In September, Sima Guang, Chen Zhu, the imperial servant in the palace, Lu Hui of Zhijiangzhou, and others continued to ask for the selection of the clan. Zhixian is established as the future.Renzong had no choice but to say: "I have been interested in establishing an heir for a long time, but I have never found him." Then he looked around and asked, "Who can be the heir?" If you dare to discuss privately, please make your own choice." Renzong said slowly: "I am trying to adopt a second son in the palace, although the younger one is pure and unwise, let's make the older one!" Han Qi asked Renzong to name him.Renzong said: "It is Zongshi." The agreement to establish an heir was decided. In December of the seventh year of Jiayou, Renzong established himself as the prince, and finally let go of another thing that had troubled him for many years, and he felt a little relieved.On December 23, he summoned his assistant ministers to attend, admonish all officials in Taiwan, and the prince's clan to visit Longtu Pavilion, Tianzhang Pavilion, Baowen Pavilion, etc., and impromptuly wrote a book and distributed it to his ministers.Renzong studied calligraphy since he was a child, and he was proficient in calligraphy. Every palace gate, there are many white inscriptions on the list.After the death of the ministers of the dynasty, the seal script on the forehead of the stele began with Renzong.On the 27th, Renzong summoned his ministers to Tianzhang Pavilion again, and then held a banquet in the Jade Palace. He seemed extremely excited, and said to the ministers: "The world is peaceful now, and I want to share today's happiness with you all. Get drunk and rest." On the evening of March 29th in the eighth year of Jiayou's reign, Renzong's illness worsened, and he suddenly asked for medicine and summoned the queen.When Empress Cao and others arrived, Renzong could no longer speak, and only pointed to his heart with his fingers.Then the medical officer entered the palace, diagnosed the pulse, administered medicine, burned moxa, but it was of no avail.At night, Renzong died in Funing Palace at the age of 54.In October, he was buried in Yongzhao Mausoleum (in today's Gong County, Henan Province), with the posthumous title of "Emperor Ming Xiao, the Divine Man, the Sage of Wu", and the temple name of "Renzong".He reigned for 42 years and changed Yuan as many as 9 times. He was the emperor who enjoyed the longest reign among the emperors of the Song and Song Dynasties.