Chapter 281 Chapter 280 Xiaozong Zhao Shen

Song Xiaozong, named Shen, character Yuan Yong, Yuan Shen.His first name was Bo Cong, and later he was given the name Yuan, also known as Wei.It is the seventh grandson of Taizu, and is a branch of Zhao Defang, the youngest son of Taizu.Father Ji Wang Zhao Zicheng, mother Zhang.Born in the first year of Jianyan (AD 1127) in the Southern Song Dynasty and died in the fifth year of Shaoxi (AD 1194). In the autumn of the third year of Jianyan (AD 1129), Gaozong's only son died suddenly, which made Gaozong very sad.The crown prince died, and Gaozong was frightened on the way to escape, and suffered from infertility. For a while, the crown prince was short of people.Minister Fan Zongyin first wrote a letter to request Gaozong to establish a prince early so as to secure the world.Gaozong said to Fan Zongyin: "Emperor Taizu pacified the world with his gods and martial arts, but his descendants did not enjoy the benefits, and even fell into nothing. His feelings are pitiful. If I can't follow the example of Emperor Renzong, how can I comfort the spirit of Taizu in heaven!" Gaozong said The words refer to the passing of Renzong to his nephew Yingzong.

In the third year of Shaoxing (1132 A.D.), Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty sent Zhao Lingchou, the minister in charge of court and clan affairs and the official official who knew Nanwaizong, to visit the clan in the line of "Bo".At this time, there were 1645 descendants of Taizu's "Bo" characters.First, 10 children under the age of 7 were selected from these people.When it was finally given to Song Gaozong for decision, only two of the 10 people remained.Of these two people, one is fat and the other is thin, and the thin one is Bo Cong.After a rough look, Gaozong decided to stay fat and lose weight, and gave Bo Cong 300 taels of silver to send him back to his original place.Bo Cong was about to go out holding the silver, but Gaozong said he didn't look carefully.He asked the two to stand side by side with arms crossed, while he stood aside and looked at it repeatedly.Suddenly a cat passed by the two of them, and Bo Cong stood still. The fat boy kicked the cat. Take on the heavy responsibility of the community!" So he decided to stay thin and send fat.In this way, Bo Cong was brought up in the palace as a candidate for the crown prince.

Bo Cong was born in Xiuzhou.It is said that his mother, Mrs. Zhang, dreamed that someone led a sheep and gave it to her one night, and soon she became pregnant, so Bo Cong's nickname was Yang.When he entered the palace, he was only 6 years old and needed someone to protect him. Emperor Gaozong led him into the harem to meet Zhang Jieyu, Concubine Pan Xian and Wu Cairen.The three of them were sitting in a circle chatting, Concubine Pan Xian had just lost Prince Yuan Yi, seeing Bo Cong, she couldn't help feeling a dull pain, she turned her head to the corner, feeling miserable.Zhang Jieyu smiled and waved to him, and Bo Cong threw himself into Jieyu's arms, so Emperor Gaozong ordered her to raise Bo Cong and give him the name Yuan.Wu Cairen is lonely and helpless, and wants to raise a child.Gaozong found Bo Jiu again, named him Chu, and handed him over to Wu Cairen to raise him.

In order to cultivate Bo Cong, Emperor Gaozong, at the request of the minister Zhao Ding, used the newly built academy in the Xinggong Palace as Zishan Hall, where he was allowed to study and study, and sent rich and talented ministers as praise students.Bo Cong was gifted and intelligent, he was very knowledgeable and memorized, he was different from ordinary people, and was loved by Emperor Gaozong.In the twelfth year of Shaoxing, he was crowned King of Pu'an County.As he grew older, Bo Cong inevitably expressed some opinions on the political situation, which resulted in the dissatisfaction of the traitor Qin Hui.In the twenty-fourth year of Shaoxing, bandits robbed Quzhou (in today's Zhejiang). Qin Hui didn't hear about Gaozong, so he sent Xin Li, a general in front of the palace, to lead thousands of troops to arrest him.Bo Cong told Gaozong about this, and Gaozong was shocked.At that time, Bo Jiu was also named the King of Enping County. Both of them were descendants of the Taizu, and their talents were comparable. Gaozong was hesitant about who he should be his heir.Seeing this, Qin Hui strongly recommended Bo Jiu, and Empress Wu of the Central Palace also echoed this opinion.Emperor Gaozong wanted to test the merits of the two, so he gave 10 court ladies to each.Bo Cong's teacher Shi Hao saw Gaozong's intentions and said to him: "The emperor wants to test you, so be careful in doing it." Bo Cong nodded in agreement.After a few days, Gaozong really recalled the maids. After inspection, the 10 people who were given to Bo Cong were still virgins, and the 10 people who were given to Bo Jiu were not virgins.Gaozong didn't tell others, but he knew in his heart which one was better.

In February of the 30th year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong announced that Li Bocong was the prince, changed his name to Wei, made him King Jian, and issued an edict to the world.In March, it was confirmed that Bo Jiu was called the emperor's nephew, and the heir to the throne was established. Gaozong came to the throne in the first year of Jianyan, and he was in exile. He spent half his life in the army, exhausted physically and mentally, and wanted to be a Zen throne for a long time.After Bo Cong was established as the prince, Gaozong expressed several times that he would pass on the throne to him, but he resolutely refused with tears.Minister Chen Kangbo believed that this matter should not be too hasty, and should first issue the edict of establishing the crown prince, formally establish him as the prince, and confirm his title, so that everyone in the world knows the meaning of the emperor, and then hold the grand ceremony of the Zen seat.Gaozong adopted this opinion and ordered Hong Zun, a scholar, to choose another name for the prince.Hong Zun proposed four names in a row, but Emperor Gaozong was not satisfied.After pondering for a long time, the imperial pen bestowed Bo Cong with the character Yuan Yong.

In May of the thirty-second year of Shaoxing (AD 1162), Emperor Gaozong issued an imperial edict, formally appointing Bo Cong as the crown prince. The imperial edict said: "My virtue is weak, and I have gone through hardships, relying on the protection of the ancestors of heaven and earth, and I was able to inherit the throne. Now for thirty-six years, I have been worrying about work, and I dare not slack off. It is only because of the difficulties of the country that I have not been able to calmly unload the heavy burden and surrender the insurance to Kangning. Now I am humble and peaceful, and I am willing to take a break from fighting. The artifact is entrusted, and my heart is at ease. Now the prince is appointed as the crown prince and renamed Shen, and the imperial order is ordered to choose a day to prepare a book of rites." In June, the imperial edict was issued again: "The crown prince is virtuous, sage, benevolent and filial. In the world, everyone knows the world, and has been in the hearts of the people for a long time...The crown prince can be the emperor.Gaozong recruited the prince and persuaded him to ascend the throne face to face.The prince refused to accept it, and retreated to the side door on the side of the main hall, wanting to return to the East Palace.Gao Zong asked repeatedly, and the prince just agreed.

Civil and military officials then gathered under the gate of the palace to read out the edict of the Zen throne. After reading out, they entered Zichen Hall according to their ranks to welcome the new emperor.After a while, the crown prince was dressed in court clothes and was supported by his servants to come to the throne, but he folded his hands and stood sideways. The servants helped him seven or eight times before he sat down for a while. The prime minister led all the officials to congratulate him. Jumping up, Chen Kangbo said: "Your Majesty, please sit down and accept the congratulations of your officials, so that you can live up to the entrustment of the Supreme Emperor." The prince said sadly: "The order of the emperor is too arbitrary. Let me resign!" Of course, the officials refused, and they tried to persuade him again and again, but after repeated refusals, the prince had no choice but to obey his request and take the throne.

As soon as the enthronement ceremony was over, Xiaozong wore the emperor's ocher dragon robe and jade belt, walked out of the Chanxi Palace, and sent the Supreme Emperor back to the palace. He refused to stop until he was out of the palace gate.Seeing this, Gaozong said happily: "I have entrusted the people, it can be said that I have no regrets." When Xiaozong was the prince, he advocated resistance to gold, and he was more determined to restore it after he ascended the throne.For many years, he hated Qin Hui's dictatorship and betrayal of the country, and advocated resistance to gold.The court life made him hear and witness many wars and wars. He knew clearly that if he wanted to launch a war against gold, he must first strengthen the public opinion of the government and the opposition, reuse the anti-gold men, and repel the remnants of Qin Hui.

In July of that year, Emperor Xiaozong summoned Zhang Jun, a famous anti-golden general, and said to him: "I have heard about Mr. Zhang for a long time, and now the court has to rely on you."At the same time, Emperor Xiaozong issued an edict to recover the official titles of Yue Fei and his son Yue Yun, the famous anti-Jin general, to rebury them according to the ceremony, and to employ Yue Fei's descendants.Because Yue Fei and his son resolutely resisted the gold, they were framed by the capitulators and killed on "groundless" charges, which aroused people's nostalgia and injustice.The Anti-Japanese War faction, Taisheng students and Yue Fei's old relatives filed letters to sue for injustice many times.Qin Hui dominated the government, so of course he ignored it.Xiaozong obeyed the hearts of the people and rehabilitated him, which inspired the government and the opposition.

Although Emperor Xiaozong was in charge of the War of Resistance, in the early days of his accession to the throne, he trusted Shi Hao, a political adviser, and was confused by his speeches for peace, so he was hesitant.He once imagined that he could obtain equal status without fighting against the Jin Dynasty, but he followed Shi Hao's opinion and sent envoys to the Jin Dynasty to inform him about his accession to the throne, hoping that the relationship between the two sides would improve.But of course the Jin Dynasty continued to insist on the old humiliating conditions, and the Song envoy was forced to retreat.In this way, it dragged on until April of the first year of Longxing (AD 1163). At this time, the interior of the Jin Dynasty had stabilized. ) commanded the Jin army that invaded the south, and the Jin army had already made military preparations before the Southern Song Dynasty.

In May, Zhang Jun ordered Li Xianzhong's army in Haozhou and Shao Hongyuan's army in Sizhou to attack separately, starting the Northern Expedition.At the beginning of May, the Xianzhong Army captured Lingbi County as planned, and Shao Hongyuan besieged Hong County, but could not go down.Xianzhong sent soldiers from Lingbi to recruit Jin Shoujiang of Hong County.After the two armies joined forces, they attacked Suzhou together. The Song army crossed Haodengcheng, entered the city, fought bravely in the streets, killed thousands of enemies, captured more than 8,000 enemies, and recovered Suzhou City.When the good news came, the whole country rejoiced and expressed congratulations, and appointed Li Xianzhong as the envoy of Nanjing, Dongbei and Hebei, and Shao Hongyuan as his deputy.Shao Hongyuan was narrow-minded, and because he failed to attack Hong County, he was under Li Xianzhong, so he did not get along with Li Xianzhong.Afterwards, Jin Binghe Shilie Zhining's troops counterattacked Suzhou from Suiyang and were defeated by Li Xianzhong.The Jin soldiers continued to increase their troops, and Xianzhong asked Hongyuan to join forces to attack.Facing a strong enemy, Shao Hongyuan stood still.He said to the general: "In this midsummer, it is not cool to shake a fan. How can you fight hard in armor under the scorching sun?" After hearing such words, the soldiers lost their fighting spirit.Seeing that the commander-in-chief was at odds, some officers even led the troops to flee.Jin soldiers attacked the city of Suzhou, Xianzhong tried his best to resist, but Shao Hongyuan strongly advocated retreating.Li Xianzhong was alone, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Doesn't God want Song to pacify the Central Plains? Why does it always obstruct it!" Helpless, he had to evacuate Suzhou by night, and the Jin soldiers chased him to Fuli. Equipment is lost.The Northern Expedition organized by Zhang Jun failed in this way. Fu Li was defeated, Zhang Jun went to Shu to plead guilty, and officials sent by compromise took the opportunity to slander and slander, Xiaozong began to waver.In July, he appointed Tang Situ, the remaining party of Qin Hui, as the right minister, and asked him to preside over the peace talks with the Jin Dynasty.Tang Situi recruited his comrades and rejected the main battle generals.Zhang Jun was repeatedly impeached and eventually demoted, and other ministers in charge of the war also resigned from office one after another.The overall situation of Song Xiaozong's peace has been decided. In December of the second year of Longxing (AD 1164), Song and Jin re-established the agreement: the Southern Song Dynasty no longer proclaimed its vassals to the Jin Dynasty, but was renamed the nephew emperor; The number; the Southern Song Dynasty returned the prefectures and counties recovered by the Song army to the Jin Dynasty after the failure of Wan Yanliang's southern invasion.This is the so-called "Longxing Peace Agreement".The status of the Southern Song Dynasty improved slightly, but it was still a humiliating peace treaty. After Longxing negotiated peace, Xiaozong was not willing to compromise, and continued to make plans to regain lost ground, hoping to change the unequal relationship between Song and Jin.Xiaozong was in sole control of the power of employing people and personally handled political affairs. However, at that time, Xiaozong was suffering from the ambition of revenge and had no one to trust.In this way, Yu Yunwen, the famous anti-gold general who once won the "quarrying victory" against the Jin soldiers, became a rare talent that can be relied on.In April of the fifth year of Qiandao (1169 A.D.), Xiaozong transferred him back to Lin'an from Sichuan and Shanxi to serve as a privy envoy.In August, he was appointed as the right minister and privy envoy.Before and after this, Xiaozong actively built cities along the border, forged weapons, trained soldiers, and selected generals.He also practiced martial arts himself, so that once his eyes were injured by a broken bowstring, and he couldn't go up for a whole month.In the summer of the sixth year of Qiandao, Emperor Xiaozong sent envoys to the Jin Dynasty with the support of Yu Yunwen, demanding the return of the ancestral mausoleum in Henan and changing the book acceptance ceremony. It turned out that during the Shaoxing period, when the envoys of Jin brought books to Song Dynasty, the emperor of Song had to abdicate to accept the books, and bowed to the courtesies of accompanying officials.After Xiaozong came to the throne, Chen Kangbo was the prime minister. Whenever the Jin envoy came, only the prime minister accompanied the envoy to bring books into the palace, and Xiaozong would not resign his seat.When Tang Si retired as chancellor and restored Gaozong's old rules, Xiaozong was extremely annoyed, so he sent Fan Chengda to the Kingdom of Jin to ask the Jin Lord to change it, and at the same time asked for the return of Henan.He is determined to regain the Central Plains and build up great achievements like Emperor Taizong of Tang.In the eighth year of Qiandao, Yu Yunwen was appointed as Shaobao, Wu'an Army Jiedu envoy, and Sichuan Xuanfu envoy, and sent him to Sichuan to prepare the army for war.Before leaving, Xiaozong told him the strategy of marching, and agreed to join forces in Henan in the future.Yu Yunwen was worried that there would be no response between the inside and the outside on the day of the reunion. Xiaozong replied: "If you are the first to send troops and I delay, I will lose to you; if I leave the army and Qing delays, then you will lose to me." The two of them just clapped their hands and made oaths.A grand ceremony was held on another day, and the lamp was a farewell ceremony for Yu Yunwen in person.Welcome to Yu Yunwen's appointment. Since then, Xiaozong has been more active in preparing for the war, personally inspecting the army many times.He decided to use the excuse of changing the unequal acceptance ceremony as an excuse to find an opportunity to use his troops against Jin.Xiaozong hurriedly sent people to Sichuan with a personal letter to urge troops to be dispatched, and a special order was issued to hand over to Yu Yunwen face-to-face.Unfortunately, this anti-golden hero has passed away, and he has hated Jiuquan. However, Jin Shizong had no intention of using troops against Song Dynasty.Sejong was the Ming lord of the Jin Dynasty. During his reign, he practiced political theory internally, and took Wan Yanliang as a warning externally, and he did not easily talk wars.In February of the first year of Chunxi (AD 1174), the Kingdom of Jin sent Wan Yanzhang to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty sent people to snatch the credentials he brought. Lin'an, ask what happened.The content of the letter of credence is: "During the reign of Longxing, it was agreed to exempt the ceremonies of proclaiming ministers, pronouncing names, and worshiping twice, and reducing the amount of the old coins, and still using the old ceremony to receive the letter of credence in person. This case must be true, and it has been ten years. This year, our country's messenger arrived. He, you did not introduce according to the rules, and even made people take away the letter of credence, is this what the nephew country should do?" Because of Yu Yunwen's death at this time, coupled with Gaozong's intervention, Xiaozong had to resume the old proposal and stand up to accept the letter.Xiaozong's plan for the Northern Expedition was once again aborted. In August of the 14th year of Chunxi (1187 A.D.), the 81-year-old Supreme Emperor Gaozong suddenly fell ill. Xiaozong was so anxious that he stopped handling political affairs in front of the court and stayed in Deoksugung Palace to serve decoctions.But Gaozong's life limit has come, and Xiaozong can't do anything.In September Gaozong died.In grief, he issued a mourning edict, expressing that he would follow the example of Emperor Xiaowu of Jin and Emperor Xiaowen of Wei, and mourn Gaozong for three years.On the first and fifteenth day of every month, Hyojong would wear filial piety and go to Deoksugung to mourn in person.During the mourning period, Xiaozong only ate a little vegetarian food, and he described becoming more and more haggard, and even his concubines were worried about him.There was a lady surnamed Wu in the palace who secretly asked the servants to add a little chicken sauce to Xiaozong's vegetarian dishes. When Xiaozong found out, he was furious and immediately expelled Mrs. Wu from the palace. Xiaozong's filial piety was known to women and children at that time.Although he was Gaozong's adopted son, for decades, father and son got along very well and had deep feelings.After Xiaozong came to the throne, he paid homage to the Supreme Emperor four times a month, and served him with all his heart.At that time, Xiaozong was young and energetic, and wanted to do something to restore the foundation of his ancestors, but Gaozong always advocated quietness and did not approve of using troops against gold.When Xiaozong served Gaozong, every time he made great efforts to restore the plan, Gaozong gradually became unhappy. Once, he simply said: "I will discuss this matter after a hundred years!" From then on, Xiaozong never mentioned it in front of Gaozong. And this matter. When Gaozong died, Xiaozong was already in his 60s.Having been in power for many years, he was already bored, and intends to take advantage of the opportunity of mourning to abdicate. The ministers tried hard to persuade him to stay, so he has no Zen position for the time being, but his intention to retreat behind the scenes is unshakable. In the first month of the sixteenth year of Chunxi, Jin Shizong Wan Yanyong died of illness.His 21-year-old grandson Wan Yanjing succeeded to the throne. According to the provisions of the "Longxing Peace Agreement", the Jin Song Dynasty was the country of uncles and nephews, and the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty called himself the nephew emperor to the emperor of the Jin Dynasty.Song Xiaozong was over sixty years old, and he didn't want to call his nephew to Jin Zhangzong, who was more than 40 years younger than him.In February, the Zen seat was given to Prince Zhao Dun, and he retired to Chonghua Palace to become the Supreme Emperor. After Xiaozong abdicated, the Crown Princess Li was registered as a queen.Li's temperament was fierce and jealous, and she often contradicted Xiaozong and his wife, and hated Xiaozong for vetoing her son's motion to be crowned prince.Guangzong didn't even pay homage to Chonghua Palace for a year, and Xiaozong was unhappy about it.The body goes from bad to worse.Father and son are close relatives. Xiaozong, who was ill, wanted to see his son very much, but Guangzong did not come to visit him until he was critically ill.In the fifth year of Shaoxi (1194 A.D.), Emperor Xiaozong died of illness at the age of 68.His posthumous title is "Emperor Xiaozong, Shaotong Tongdao, Guande, Zhaogong, Philosophy, Wenshen, Wuming, Sheng Xianxiao", and the temple name is "Xiaozong".