In March 997 A.D. (the third year of the Northern Song Dynasty), the Bianhe River, which had been frozen for a winter, suddenly thawed; A clear stream moves down the river like jade liquid, flowing towards Bianjing City, and the mandarin ducks, green ducks, and white swans on both sides of the river flock to it, frolicking and fighting on the river surface.

For many years, it is rare to see such a "Qingming Riverside Map" on the Bianhe River; The sunny spring is attacking the Bianliang City with a thunderous momentum, and there is no way to stop it.

In the bright spring, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, who had been the emperor for 22 years, was in the west step of the Wanshou Palace; He was 59 years old.

It is not so much that Zhao Guangyi is the dragon driving Bintian, but that it is more appropriate to say that the rotten wood is in.

It is because of the existence of Zhao Guangyi's rotten wood, even if he enters it, he is still releasing toxins; An originally strong Song Dynasty was poor and weak, but was beaten everywhere, so that it finally perished.

Such a conclusion may seem harsh, but historical development proves; Zhao Guangyi's harmful role cannot be erased.

Zhao Guangyi left the west, and people thought more about the wild histories and legends such as "Candlelight Axe Shadow" and "Jinkui Alliance", and the topic of discussion on the streets was: "The poisoning master of the Great Song Dynasty has finally died!" Luckily! Joy! ”

The Son of Heaven and the Dragon control Bintian, no, it should be rotten wood; The people are not sad but nonsensical ridicule, sarcasm and even schadenfreude; It shows how uninsultable the people's aspirations are.

Zhao Guangyi has been on the throne of the emperor by unscrupulous means for 22 years, and has been establishing his tall image; However, it backfired, and all that was met was a scolding.

Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi is the younger brother of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, and the two are siblings of the same father and mother.

But on that night twenty-two years ago, the brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi drank and played together; Zhao Kuangyin never woke up after getting drunk.

Zhao Kuangyin is a king who loves to drink, and according to convention, his brother can't be defended when he drinks; But people's hearts are different, and flowers are different red; A glass of wine killed him, and he could only regret it.

The problem is that Zhao Guangyi had already left the palace when Zhao Kuangyin died, which also got rid of the suspicion that he killed his brother; But what happened next made him trapped in it, and he couldn't extricate himself.

The first witness to Zhao Kuangyin's death was the Empress Song of Xiaozhuang, and Empress Xiaozhang saw the death of her husband; wants his youngest son Zhao Defang to succeed him; But the eunuch Wang Jien called Zhao Guangyi.

If it wasn't communicated in advance, how could Wang Jien, a eunuch, have such courage? Then there is only one possibility - Zhao Guangyi bought off the eunuch Wang Jien.

Wang Jien called Zhao Guangyi, and Zhao Guangyi naturally became the successor to the throne; What's more, there is a "mystery of Jinkui" that no one can guess, and Zhao Guangyi's ascension to the throne is even more justified.

The problem is that Zhao Kuangyin died unnaturally, he was killed by someone; Zhao Kuangyin was forty-nine years old when he died, which was the age of the day, and there was no record of serious illness before his death.

After Zhao Kuangyin's death, people examined his body and found that there were no injuries on his body; That would say that his death was murder, and that poison was used.

It is precisely Zhao Guangyi who is a master of poisoning, and Meng Chang, the emperor of Later Shu, was poisoned by Zhao Guangyi; Zhao Guangyi poisoned Meng Chang before he ascended the throne, and after ascending the throne, he did three things to Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was even more angry.

The first is to forcibly seize Li Yu's sister. Li Yu was a beautiful man in ancient times, and his family's genes were very good; Her younger sister, Princess Li Fangyi of Yongning, is even more beautiful and beautiful, and Zhao Kuangyin did not dare to beat Li Fangyi when she was in power; As soon as Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, he forcibly incorporated Li Fangyi, the princess of Yongning, into the palace to serve him.

The second is to forcibly occupy Xiao Zhouhou. Xiao Zhouhou is the sister of Li Yu's queen Da Zhouhou, and she looks like a unique one in the south. After the death of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Little Zhou Queen entered the palace and became Li Yu's queen, and her beauty was famous all over the world at that time; Zhao Kuangyin likes Xiao Zhouhou very much, but he is a righteous gentleman and does not use authority to forcibly marry; And also suppressed his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, not to act rashly. After Zhao Guangyi became the emperor, he was not restrained by his brother, and found an excuse to let Xiao Zhouhou enter the palace and keep him by his side until he forcibly occupied it. Xiao Zhou felt humiliated after leaving the palace, but a weak woman was powerless to resist; can only scold Li Yu for being incompetent and allowing himself to suffer great shame, Li Yu is heartbroken but has no power to return to heaven; I can only sigh silently.

The third is to poison Li Yu. Li Yu became a prisoner of the Northern Song Dynasty and could no longer pose a threat to anyone, but Zhao Guangyi was still unwilling to give up; He wanted to completely snatch Xiao Zhouhou over, and felt that Li Yu was a dazzling bag.

On July 7 of that year, the day of Qixi Festival, Zhao Guangyi found an excuse to give Li Yu a cup of poisoned wine and sent him to the west, and after poisoning Li Yu, Zhao Guangyi took Xiao Zhouhou into the palace without scruples and took it for himself.

Zhao Guangyi's vicious imperial career finally understood, and he died at the west step of the Wanshou Palace at the age of 59.

The people were naturally happy about Zhao Guangyi's death, and although there was no scene of jubilation, the expression on everyone's face was from the bottom of their hearts.

After Zhao Guangyi's life was whimpered, Wang Jien, the eunuch who was bought off, wanted to have a coup d'état; was smashed by Prime Minister Lu Duan's heart-wrenching fist.

Before Zhao Guangyi kicked his legs, he overthrew the creed of "brother to brother" and set up his third son Zhao Heng as the prince.

Zhao Guangyi kicked his legs, and the eunuch Wang Jien was worried that the crown prince Zhao Heng would not be good for him after he succeeded to the throne; collusion with the Queen; and then secretly colluded with the governor (deputy prime minister) Li Changling, the commander of the palace (in charge of the imperial forest army) Li Jixun, the governor of the system (in charge of the draft edict) Hu Dan and others, in an attempt to support Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Chu (the eldest son of Taizong); A palace coup is in full swing.

Zhao Yuanzuo is the eldest son of Song Taizong, but this guy is a madman, and the person who supports a madman as the emperor is either sick or has a bad heart.

Speaking of which, Zhao Yuanzuo's madness was forced out by his father Zhao Guangyi.

In May 982, Song Taizong feared that his fourth brother, Zhao Tingmei, the king of Qin, would inherit the throne; He framed him for conspiring with Lu Duosun to rebel, deposed Zhao Tingmei as a concubine, and moved to Fuling.

Zhao Yuanzuo knew that the fourth uncle was actually persecuted by his father, and came forward to defend Song Taizong; In the first year of Yongxi (984), Zhao Tingmei came to Fangzhou (Fang County, Hubei) and died of illness due to palpitations; He was Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of thirty and eight.

After Zhao Tingmei's death, Zhao Yuanzuo went crazy due to illness, so that he used a sharp knife to kill and injure the waiter because of a small mistake.

In the second year of Yongxi (985), Zhao Yuanzuo's condition improved slightly, and Song Taizong was very happy to grant amnesty to the world for this.

At the banquet in the palace on Chongyang Day, Zhao Yuanzuo's illness happened to be not among the banquets; After the banquet of the kings, he came back and passed by Zhao Yuanzuo's mansion, Zhao Yuanzuo said: "You are all waiting for the emperor's banquet, only I have not arrived, this is abandoning me!" ”

So he got angry, got drunk, and set fire to the palace at night; Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty ordered the imperial historian to capture Zhao Yuanzuo and send him to Zhongshu Province for interrogation and abolition as a civilian, and placed him in Junzhou; Later, he was recalled to live in Nangong.

Song Taizong breathed, and Wang Jien, the traditional Empress of Mingde, and several members of the Li family wanted to establish Zhao Yuanzuo as the new monarch; Isn't this looking for your own death? But when the ignorant Empress Mingde saw Song Taizong ascending to heaven, she still sent Wang Jien to summon Prime Minister Lu Duan.

Empress Mingde's intention in summoning Lü Duan was very clear - to coerce him to agree to make Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Chu, the new monarch.

Lu Duan is not confused, he has already heard about Wang Jien and his gang when they planned a coup; Now that he heard that the queen summoned him to the palace, he knew that the situation might change, so he decisively locked Wang Jien in his study and sent someone to guard him strictly; Then he entered the palace to see Empress Mingde.

Lu Duan's hand is amazing, and after Empress Mingde saw Lu Duan, she really proposed to establish Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Chu, as the new king.

Lu Duan unceremoniously pushed back and said, "When the first emperor was alive, it was already clear that the crown prince was Zhao Heng, how could the queen act backslidly in disregard of the first emperor's testament!" ”

Empress Dowager Li was speechless for a while, and Lu Duan continued: "Zhao Yuanzuo has a sick person and becomes the emperor, how can the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty be safeguarded?" It is the ghost idea of the eunuch Wang Jien to make Zhao Yuanzuo the emperor, and Wang Jien should be killed immediately to let the crown prince Zhao Heng ascend the throne! How could the wise person of the Queen Mother be deceived by Wang Jien and do the embarrassing thing of betraying his ancestors and forgetting his ancestors! ”

The Empress Dowager Mingde was teased and advised by Lu Duan, and she had no idea; saw that Wang Jien, a key figure in the plot, was controlled by Lu Duan; had to agree to the crown prince Zhao Heng's accession to the throne.

Lu Duan struck while the iron was hot, and led the ministers to jointly protect the crown prince Zhao Heng's accession to the throne for Zhenzong.

Zhenzong held the first court meeting after ascending the throne, and sat on the main hall to hang the curtain to accept the worship of the ministers.

Lu Duan stood at the bottom and refused to kneel, asking to roll up the curtains; Then he climbed the steps to inspect it, and it was indeed the true sect himself, so he walked down the steps and led the ministers to kowtow and bow down.

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