Chapter 295: The Mad Emperor

In May of the tenth year of Shaoxing, the Jin people tore up the peace agreement again, invaded the south in three ways, and reoccupied Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. www.biquge.info In July, the Jin general Wuxuan turned to attack Yuncheng and was defeated by Yue Fei, and then attacked Yingchang and was defeated again.

Yue Fei took the opportunity to march into Zhuxian Town and recovered the area south of the Yellow River, which was only forty-five miles away from Kaifeng Mansion. Jin Wuxuan escaped from Kaifeng Mansion, and the northern rebels also responded to Yue Fei, so that the Jin people sighed: "It is easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family's army." ”

But at this time, Gaozong ordered twelve gold medals to urge Yue Fei's class to return to the dynasty, and the success of the Northern Expedition was ruined. Song and Jin Yu reached the "Shaoxing Peace Agreement" in writing, and the two countries were bounded by Huaishui to Dasanguan, and Song ceded most of Tangzhou, Dengzhou, Shangzhou, and Qinzhou, which had been recovered by Yue Fei, and paid Jin 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 horses of silk every year.

Song Gaozong wanted to bring back the bodies of his biological mother and father, and promised Jin to kill Yue Fei on the condition that he would kill him. Zhao Gou and Qin Hui killed Yue Fei, his son Yue Yun, and his subordinate Zhang Xianyu Lin'an on trumped-up charges. The Shaoxing Peace Conference was immediately realized, and the coffin of Song Gaozong's biological father Huizong and his biological mother Wei himself were sent back to the Southern Song Dynasty, and Song Gaozong exchanged the right to rule the southeastern half of the country at the cost of paying tribute to the Jin State.

In the early days of Song Gaozong's reign, he was young and strong, intended to resist Jin, recover rivers and mountains, reuse the main battle faction, and take Li Gang as the prime minister and Zong Ze to guard Bianjing. There were many defeats of the Jin soldiers, which made the situation a little more stable. But later, Zhao Gou did not have the determination to confront the Jin State and deposed Li Gang, Zong Ze and others.

In the twenty-fifth year of Shaoxing, Qin Hui was seriously ill, and Qin Hui planned to let his son Qin Xi take over the phase, but was vetoed by Gaozong, and soon died. After Qin Hui's death, Gaozong attacked his remnants on the one hand, and reused the officials of the surrender faction on the other. Gaozong was infertile, so he chose an heir from two of Taizu's descendants, Zhao Ying and Zhao Xuan, and in the end Zhao Ying won, and Zhao Ying was made the crown prince and renamed Zhao Yan.

The Jin Emperor Hailing King Wanyan Liang invaded the south and was repelled by Yu Yunwen in the battle of quarrying, at this time there was a civil strife in the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Emperor Hailing King was killed, and the Jin army returned north, which made Gaozong retreat. The fifty-six-year-old Gaozong issued an edict to abdicate, and the crown prince Zhao Yan ascended the throne for filial piety. He himself was called the Emperor Taishang, Judeokshou Palace, and after Gaozong became the Emperor Taishang, he indulged in pleasures and spent a lot of money.

After Song Gaozong, the development of the Song and Jin countries was relatively stable. After Xiaozong ascended the throne, reformed the government and tried to recover, the Song Dynasty entered a prosperous period relatively speaking, Xiaozong rehabilitated Yue Fei's wrongs, and used the main battle faction to recover the Central Plains. The Jin Kingdom also invaded the south several times, but most of them gave up halfway, and Xiaozong also carried out a northern expedition, but also failed to recover the country.

Although the Northern Expedition was once victorious, due to the discord of the generals and the idea of underestimating the enemy, the Northern Expedition lasted only 20 days and failed. After Xiaozong had to negotiate peace with the Jin State, the Song and Jin formally signed a peace agreement, known as the Longxing Peace Conference in history, and changed the original title to Jin as an uncle and nephew, Jin was the uncle, and the Song was the nephew, and the Jin changed the edict to the national letter, and the annual tribute was changed to the annual coin, and the silver and silk were reduced by 50,000 taels each, and the Song ceded Qinzhou and Shangzhou to maintain the border. However, Xiaozong still remembered to restore the Central Plains and continued to reorganize the armament.

However, due to the death of Yu Yunwen and a number of other generals of the main battle faction, the Northern Expedition finally failed. In internal affairs, Xiaozong actively rectified the administration of officials, eliminated redundant officials, punished corruption, strengthened centralization of power, and attached importance to agricultural production. On the whole, the internal political situation of the Song Dynasty has improved.

After Gaozong's death, Xiaozong became increasingly cold about politics and finally decided to give way to his son Zhao Dan, also known as Guangzong. However, soon after Guangzong ascended the throne, he suffered from mental illness and was very unfilial to Xiaozong.

Song Xiaozong had four sons, the eldest son, the prince, died of illness at a young age, and the place where he was buried was called Prince Bay. The second choice of the crown prince was the third son Zhao Dan, and his daughter-in-law Li Fengniang became the crown princess. Li Fengniang came from the door of military generals, she dared to say and do, but after Zhao Dian became the prince, she became submissive, Xiaozong laughed at him and laughed, Xiaozong was worried about him, for fear that the prince's status would not be guaranteed, which made Li Fengniang very unhappy.

This unhappiness lasted for nineteen years, Xiaozong abdicated for Gaozong's filial piety, and the forty-three-year-old prince finally ascended the throne for Song Guangzong, and Li Fengniang also got her wish and sat on the throne of the queen. But the queen has her own worries, and what happened after the abolition has not happened, Li Fengniang has survived for 19 years, and it is impossible and will not let other women enjoy it.

One day, Guangzong was washing, and when he saw the palace maid on the side, his hands were like soft wattles, and he couldn't help but say the word "good". A few days later, Li Fengniang sent someone to deliver a food box, and Guangzong opened it to see that it was the palace maid's hands. Guangzong was so frightened that he suffocated his breath in his body, and the whole person was stunned.

There is a Huang Guifei in Guangzong, who knows him very well and knows him very well. In the second year of Guangzong's succession, he wanted to worship the temple of Heaven and Earth and stay in the palace, Li Fengniang took advantage of this gap to summon Huang Guifei, reproached her for bewitching the sick master, and ordered the inner attendant to beat Huang Guifei to death with a big stick. The next day, the suburban altar was worshipped to the sky, and there was a haze on all sides, and suddenly the wind was fierce, the rain was pouring, and the candles were like ghost fires. This time he stumbled back to the palace, and Guangzong's psychosis attacked.

Seeing that her husband had become a waste, Li Fengniang pinned all her hopes on her son and wanted to make Zhao Kuang the crown prince. However, Emperor Xiaozong, who still has real power, has different opinions, and Zhao Bing, the son of the second son, is even more in his favor, which makes Guangzong feel frightened and uneasy from time to time, but he dares to be angry but dare not speak.

And Li Fengniang is different, Xiaozong summoned Guangzong to the family banquet, Li Fengniang went alone, and asked Xiaozong to make her son the crown prince in person. Seeing that Xiaozong didn't answer, Li Fengniang couldn't help but ask her father-in-law: "The ancients had a saying, and the heirs are long." I am married to your Zhao family, and Zhao Kuo is my own son, why can't I be made the prince?"

This made Xiaozong very angry, Xiaozong is not Gaozong's biological son, everyone knows how to avoid a few points in this matter, only she Li Fengniang dared to ask with such a momentum, Xiaozong brushed his sleeves on the spot.

After Li Fengniang returned to the palace, she was not idle, she cried to Guangzong about the matter, and said that Xiaozong had other plans, not to mention the prince, even your throne may not be guaranteed. Guangzong was already full of suspicion about Xiaozong, and now he turned his face, and Guangzong's way of turning his face was to avoid it.

For more than a year, Guangzong did not go to Xiaozong to ask for peace, and his decision to Emperor Taishang caused an uproar in the whole dynasty. The ministers admonished one after another, but Guangzong did not listen, and Li Fengniang's obstruction force was even stronger. Until Xiaozong was dying, the ministers grabbed Guangzong's clothes and cried, but it was still ineffective, and Xiaozong died in infinite pain in the expectation of his son.

Guangzong suspected that his father's death was a trap, and refused to come out to preside over the funeral. In this way, the Empress Dowager Wu was in charge, so that Zhao Kuo ascended the throne and ascended the throne, and Guangzong became the emperor.

This made Li Fengniang's heart good, but what puzzled her was that her son refused to be the emperor. Zhao Kuo was so frightened that he circled around the palace pillars while begging loudly that he couldn't do it, and the Empress Dowager Wu cried while ordering the minister to hold Zhao Kuo and forcibly put on a dragon robe for him to complete the enthronement ceremony.

When the minister went to Guangzong to get the national seal, the mad emperor refused to do anything. Li Fengniang said: "Since my son is the emperor, I will get it myself." Only then did he take out the national seal.

Don't think that your son is the emperor, Li Fengniang can be in good spirits. Wrong, she knew very well in her heart that her son was too cowardly, and he was forcibly put on the throne by the ministers, it was just an ornament, and the power of the court had already fallen into the hands of the ministers, and her time had passed.

In the sweltering heat of July in Hangzhou, 56-year-old Li Fengniang died in loneliness. Due to the viciousness of people before his death, he could not even take the dress after death, so the palace people wrapped the body in a mat and prepared to carry it back to the palace for funeral. Halfway through, someone suddenly shouted: "The mad emperor is here!"

Everyone left the body and ran away, and Li Fengniang's body was exposed to the sun and emitted a foul smell. At the time of the funeral, abalone was placed, and dozens of cakes of lotus incense were lit to cover up the stench of the corpse.

Li Fengniang is like a tumor, exuding miasma, polluting the thriving atmosphere of the Southern Song Dynasty. Although the Guangzong Dynasty only lasted for five years, it greatly damaged the vitality of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the momentum of the country's prosperity and people's prosperity stopped.