On the third day of the eighth month of Xiangxing, Xie Ao, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, escorted the coffin of the Empress Dowager through Yangzhou to prepare to enter the river, and Zhao Yu led Xu Zongren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the local civil and military to Dantu by boat. But how to use the gift is quite difficult, you must know that although Xie Daoqing is the empress dowager of the Great Song Dynasty, he was also deprived of all his titles by Mrs. Mengyuan Shouchun County for the crime of surrendering to the country, and now she is a sinner woman. Therefore, it is impossible to greet each other with a national gift, and you can only welcome yourself as a junior.

However, Zhao Yu is the emperor after all, and being greeted by him shows the unusualness of the deceased's identity, which invisibly raises the specifications. After arriving at Dantu that day, Zhao Mengjin had already ordered the 102nd Division of the garrison to prepare for the car, and prepared all the supplies for His Majesty's order. In fact, he was quite hesitant about what method to use, emotionally speaking, he had never met him face-to-face; From the perspective of national interests, it has a mixed reputation, no matter how it is said, the Great Song Dynasty is lost in its hands; On the contrary, from the perspective of others, it deserves sympathy.

Zhao Yu knows that in the annals of Chinese history, there are many queens who have been able to leave their names, but only a few strokes. There are not many biographies, and in the history of the Song Dynasty, only this Xie Daoqing has made a more detailed record in the historical books. It shows that Xie Daoqing is indeed not comparable to ordinary queens. Regarding Xie Daoqing's final edict to surrender to the Yuan, later generations have criticized her a lot, believing that she is a representative of the surrender faction. In fact, starting from the reality of history, for the broken situation of orphans and widows at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing really had too much helplessness, which made it impossible for people to lead her troops to resist the war to the end.

From the perspective of modern people, Xie Daoqing, as a woman, is actually quite bumpy in life, which is sympathetic. In fact, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Xie Shenfu first. At the age of seventeen, she entered the palace as the lady of Tongyi County, and her family was ruined before, no different from ordinary people; When he was canonized as empress at the age of nineteen, Emperor Lizong did not take a fancy to him, but Jia Guifei, who was canonized under the auspices of Empress Dowager Yang; At the age of fifty-seven, she was honored as the Queen Mother, and at the age of sixty-five, she was honored as the Queen Mother.

Although Xie Daoqing is the queen, he still can't compete with Jia Guifei, and Li Zong favors Jia Guifei alone. After Jia Guifei died, Yan Guifei was favored again because she was beautiful. Xie Daoqing never cared who Li Zong liked, so Empress Dowager Yang valued her very much, although Li Zong didn't love her, he respected her very much and treated her with great courtesy. And he is open-minded and takes into account the overall situation, and the harem has been harmonious and stable for 50 years.

After the death of Duzong, the youngest son Zhao Xian succeeded to the throne, and after repeated invitations from the ministers, Xie Daoqing listened to the government with the young emperor, and listened to the government for two years. Although he has the heart to return to the sky and turn the tide, the Zhao dynasty has reached the period of Duzong and Gongzong, and it is already the end of the strong crossbow.

Faced with the endgame, Xie Daoqing's ambition to resist the insult was still unswerving, and she wrote several personal letters and urgent edicts, mobilizing all kinds of military horses to fight against the enemy. The strong enemy is pressing, and the society will fall. Empress Dowager Xie wanted to raise troops from all over the country to 'King Qin', organized several times to resist the Yuan army, and reused Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, and Lu Xiufu to insist on resisting the Yuan. However, in the face of the Yuan army's iron-barreled siege offensive, the people in Lin'an City were panicked, and the courtiers of the Southern Song Dynasty abandoned their officials and fled, and even Zuo Prime Minister Liumengyan also abandoned the official and fled, which made the Empress Dowager Xie, who presided over the government, feel cold.

I couldn't bear it, Xie Daoqing was angry and drafted an edict, posted in the court, the edict said: I have been in the Song Dynasty for more than 300 years, and I have always been courteous to scholars. To make this move here, what face is life to people, and how to see the first emperor in death.

If you only look at this paragraph, Zhao Yu feels that Xie Daoqing can be regarded as a heroine among women, at least much cuter than the later Empress Dowager Cixi. However, its opening of the city to welcome the surrender, even if there is a stain that is difficult to erase for all reasons, not only buried the 300-year-old dynasty of the Great Song Dynasty, but also nailed itself to the pillar of shame in history. But in private, Zhao Yu was still grateful, after all, he secretly arranged for them to go out of the city before surrendering, and preserved the Zhao family's legacy, which led to today's situation.

"Your Majesty, everything is ready, do you want to send warships out of the port to meet you?" Zhao Mengjin saluted and asked.

"No need, just send a baggage boat to cross the river with white silk!" Zhao Yu thought about it and seemed to have made up his mind.

"Your Majesty, is the city clothed in plains, and are the officials and people who greet each other filial piety?" Xu Zongren then asked.

"No, just a sinner!" Zhao Yu shook his head and said.

"Your Majesty, the sin ...... Although the sinner woman has had, after all, she was the empress dowager of our dynasty, the closest relative of Your Majesty, so simple may provoke tongue! Xu Zongren said.

"So what? Could it be that the city is full of vegetarians, and the whole army is filial piety! Zhao Yu frowned and said, "If that's the case, what will the other side think?" A dead sinner woman let me greet her, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military Dai Xiao, the whole army was vegetarian, and the scenery was buried. So tomorrow the Tartars will threaten King Fu and the former emperor Zhao Xian, how do you deal with it, are we going to return to Qiongzhou! ”

"Don't dare!" Xu Zongren was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly saluted. It was immediately clear in his heart that this time Meng Yuanming looked at the condition of returning the Empress Dowager's coffin to seek peace, but it was not a temptation.

If you overreact this time, then the other party will know your shortcomings and threaten them in the next peace negotiation. You must know that not only the former emperor is in Dadu, but also the hundreds of royal relatives and former ministers who are still locked up there, send one today as an exchange condition, and get another one tomorrow, so it is really as the little emperor said that he really returned to Qiongzhou.

In addition, what makes Xu Zongren afraid is what to do if Meng Yuan sends the former emperor Zhao Xian back, and how does the little emperor deal with himself, whether to let this position or not? If you want to let it, let alone whether the little emperor agrees or not, even he will not agree, let alone the proud soldiers who have followed His Majesty for many years. Furthermore, can Zhao Xian have the ability of a little emperor? It is unknown whether the Great Song Dynasty can be revived and the Central Plains can be restored; If you don't let it, you will definitely continue to criticize it, and that will only increase your tongue.

And whether it is or not, Xu Zongren knows that it will cause civil strife and force the little emperor to kill people, which is also a lesson from the past. After Gaozong crossed to the south back then, did he really want to welcome back the second emperor? Although Xu Zongren didn't want to assert it, judging from his blind pursuit of peace and suppression of the main battle faction, it can't help but make people doubt his motive, that is, the return of the second emperor, so that he could not deal with himself. At the moment, it is difficult to guarantee that the little emperor does not have this kind of thought, you must know that it is the reverse scale of every emperor, and no one can touch it. But if he insisted, wouldn't he be involved in the battle for the throne.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates think it's better to be cautious, after all, ......" Zhao Mengjin's political acumen was still poor, and as a member of the clan, he felt that the Empress Dowager should be given the respect she deserved, so he suggested again.

"Zhao Zhi, don't say more, Your Majesty is reasonable, don't be taken advantage of by the enemy, so that the future will fall into passivity!" Xu Zongren hurriedly interrupted him.

"Let's go, go to the city with me!" Seeing that he had already understood, Zhao Yu sighed lightly and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The two obeyed the order and accompanied the little emperor to the head of Danyang City.

Zhao Yu ascended to the top of the city, except for the soldiers on patrol, there was no one else, and the emperor's guard of honor was also unsuffocating, the river wind blew through the Song character banner fluttering in the wind, making a fluttering sound, it seemed that the empress dowager was uneven. He picked up the binoculars and looked at the river, only to see Zheng Yong commanding a heavy boat, crossing the Yangtze River in a single boat, only the white silk hanging on the bow of the boat showed his identity as a welcoming spirit.

Looking at the other side again, Meng Yuan seemed to be afraid that the Song army would take the opportunity to make trouble, and put on a solemn appearance, not only a large number of troops were arranged along the coast, but dozens of warships were also placed on the river. However, the pomp and circumstance of sending the spirit was very large, not only the ceremonial guard was rolled out, and the royal gift was sent, but also the officials helped the spirit to send each other, but it was not clear what grade it was.

"Boyan's guy is really scheming, and he will be our great enemy for a period of time in the future!" After Zhao Yu looked at it, he put down the binoculars and muttered.

"What Your Majesty said is wrong to me, and it is precisely because of fear that he does not hesitate to grovel and show favor to us!" Zhao Mengjin also put down the binoculars and said.

"Zhao Zhi, you haven't understood Your Majesty's meaning yet, Boyan gave him a big gift, it was ill-intentioned, but it was not a gesture of goodwill!" Xu Zongren stroked his beard and said.

"Xu Shangshu is reasonable, this person is not only good at fighting, but also thoughtful, and not bound by common sense, and quietly dug a hole for me!" Zhao Hao said with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, is Boyan really that powerful?" Zhao Mengjin looked at the little emperor's serious face, not like he was joking, and seemed to be very jealous of him. And over the years, he had never seen who His Majesty was afraid of, and frowned.

"Of course, without Boyan here, I'm afraid that Meng Yuan has been greatly injured, and we don't have to stop at the riverside." Zhao Yu sighed, and then advised, "In the future, against him, you must fight with twelve points of spirit, and you must not underestimate the enemy, otherwise you won't know how to die." ”

"Yes, my subordinates know!" Zhao Mengjin nodded.

"Hmph, don't think that we are invincible with firearms in our hands, we rely on our brains to fight, don't forget how you defeated Taizhou back then, at that time it was this guy who commanded tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to sweep through the south of the Yangtze River, so that my Great Song Dynasty suffered a great humiliation!" Zhao Yu saw his careless appearance, and knew that he didn't take it to heart, and emphasized again.

"Your Majesty's words, your subordinates will keep them in mind, do not capture and kill this fang, avenge the country, and swear not to be human!" Zhao Mengjin saw that what the little emperor said was becoming more and more solemn, and he also realized that this was true, and then pointed to the heavenly alliance and swore an oath.

"Your Majesty's eloquence is probably not inferior to Taizu, if it hadn't been reminded just now, the minister would have almost fallen for his trick!" Xu Zongren also sighed.

"Xu Shangshu, the negotiation table is also a battlefield, and the relationship between victory and defeat is not only related to me, but also related to national interests, so we must deal with it carefully!" Zhao Yu twisted his face and said.

"Yes, keep in mind His Majesty's teachings, don't dare to take it lightly!" Xu Zongren said.

"The Empress Dowager, the soul is back!" Seeing that the coffin on the other side had already boarded the boat and turned around, Zhao Yu suddenly looked up to the sky and shouted. Zhao Mengjin and Xu Zongren, as well as the soldiers and guards at the head of the city, heard His Majesty's shouting, and they all looked at him in disbelief, but when they saw his face full of tears, he stood up and saluted the incoming ship......

After receiving the coffin of the Empress Dowager for a memorial service, Zhao Yu ordered the fleet to return to Lin'an, the fleet did not stop along the way, and arrived at the city after a day and a night, only Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and other prime ministers waited, and then got off the boat and boarded the car, and the group went to Jiqing Temple. At present, Xie Daoqing has been removed from his title, obviously he can't be buried in the mausoleum with Li Zong, of course, he can't be buried hastily, let alone abandoned in the wilderness, the best way is to temporarily place the spirit in the temple. On the way, pedestrians looked around, but they didn't know that the car was carrying the Empress Dowager who was forcibly taken to Dadu by the Tartars.

Jiqing Temple is the Jiqing Temple of the Meritorious Temple of the favored concubine Yan of the Emperor of Liberty, it was built in the ten years of the Emperor of Liberty, after three years, the temple is magnificently better than the famous temple of Hangzhou Lingyin, Tianzhu two temples. Zhao Yu Fengling here, but see that the temple covers an area of about 60 acres, and there are also Huitong Hall, West Palace, Zen Pavilion, ** Treasure Palace, Longhuahai Hall, Baiguan Hall and other buildings and more than 80 monks, it is indeed called extraordinary.

According to the introduction of the accompanying head of the court, Li Zong personally gave more than 18,000 acres of temple fields, more than 7,000 tiles of mountainous land and 200,000 yuan of money to build, and the number of monks reached more than 1,200 at the most, and there are still more than 800 people now. Zhao Yu sighed when he heard it, it cost so much to build a temple for a favorite concubine, and he also raised a group of monks to chant scriptures for him every day.

However, Zhao Yu felt that it was appropriate to temporarily store Xie Daoqing's coffin here, but he didn't know how Yan Guifei would feel if he knew about it, and whether the two would fight because of the competition for the spiritual place. And he still didn't get the queen mother's will to let him return to the palace, but he received an errand to let him do magic for Xie Daoqing in the temple and surpass the undead.

Zhao Yu couldn't help but obey, and he was even more annoyed when he asked, it took 7749 days to do a ritual, which showed that he wanted to stay in the temple until winter, and listened to the monks chanting every day. Of course, it is not to let him accompany him every day, as long as he has a stick of incense in the morning and evening, but eating vegetarian every day is enough to make it difficult for him to endure without meat.

"Your Majesty, there are old ministers who come to pay their respects and want to see Your Majesty!" After placing Xie Daoqing's coffin, it was immediately opened to allow the subjects to come to pay respects, and for a time there were thousands of people in the temple every day. Of course, not everyone can make incense in front of the spirit, and they must also be divided into three, six, nine and so on, and of course some ministers will come to see the little emperor by the way.

"Who are they?" Zhao Hao asked while lying on the couch, rummaging through his books.

"Your Majesty, it's an old minister of the first dynasty, this is a famous post!" Wang De didn't dare to answer directly after hearing this, but presented a famous post.

"Huang Yong, Chang Nan, Xia Shilin, Chen Menghu......" Zhao Yu took it and glanced at it, and after silently reciting the names of a few people, he suddenly got up and shouted, "Get out, let them go, when the Queen Mother needed them, they all slipped away one by one, and now they still come to pay their respects with a shy face." I don't bother with them, and I come to the door to scold! ”