Zhao Yuanzuo was born in a stable environment after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, and the internal relations between the Zhao and Song royal families at this time were harmonious.

At that time, his father Zhao Guangyi had a very good relationship with his eldest brother Zhao Kuangyin, who was the emperor. When Zhao Kuangyin went to visit, he personally treated his moxibustion.

Zhao Guangyi unconsciously shouted in pain, Zhao Kuangyin stopped, and tested it on himself to see the effect of the medicine.

Such a brotherly act was deeply moved by future generations, not to mention the young Zhao Yuanzuo.

With the growth of Zhao Yuanzuo, the strong family affection of the Zhao family is getting weaker and weaker; The contradictions and struggles that have formed around the supreme power have intensified.

As the founding monarch of the People's Republic of China, Zhao Kuangyin died young at the age of 50, leaving a mystery of the inexplicable "axe sound and candle shadow".

Zhao Guangyi, who was suspected of being a "brother killer", ascended the throne as emperor, and in just a few years; Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Defang, and Zhao Tingmei, the three potential heirs to the throne, died or were demoted one by one for unknown reasons.

All this made the pimple in Zhao Yuanzuo's heart, who had just become an adult, bigger and bigger, with his intelligence, it was impossible not to know his father's painstaking efforts to seize the throne; It is also impossible not to understand the dissatisfaction of the ministers with his father's seizure of power after the sudden death of his uncle.

At first, Zhao Yuanzuo's actions towards his father should have been in awe; At least in thought and action, there is no resistance.

But when his last uncle is also to be cleared of trumped-up charges, his conscience is finally awakened.

In May of the seventh year of Taiping Xingguo (982 AD), Zhao Tingmei, the only surviving brother of Song Taizong, and Prime Minister Lu Duoxun and others were accused of plotting rebellion by former Prime Minister Zhao Pu.

As a result, Lu Duoxun and his family were exiled to Yazhou (present-day Sanya, Hainan), and Zhao Tingmei was also demoted to a concubine and moved to Fuling (present-day Chongqing).

Zhao Tingmei's case allowed the Manchu Dynasty civil and military to once again understand the great power of the emperor of the current dynasty, and also made most of them "know the times" clearly realize the intention of Song Taizong to pass on his parents.

So, their mouths are tightly closed this time; At this moment, Zhao Yuanzuo, who is most likely to get the most out of this matter, spoke up.

Zhao Yuanzuo publicly asked his father for his uncle's charges and demanded that the case be re-verified in accordance with legal principles.

Song Taizong knew that those confessions, which were mostly false accusations and tortured confessions, could not withstand scrutiny at all, so he sacrificed the magic weapon of parental authority; directly accused Zhao Yuanzuo of being "rebellious", and forcibly rejected the reasonable appeal.

Zhao Yuanzuo never expected that his father, whom he loved so much, could even abandon the most precious family affection, which made his blood condense suddenly.

Ruthless, why bother to live in the world? But the cold reality is so cruel, he seems to hear the criticism of the people of the world; The sound was loud enough to destroy his spirit.

So, Zhao Yuanzuo fell ill as his father wished; In fact, he gave up the position of potential prince.

More than a year later, the news of Zhao Tingmei's death in Fangzhou Prison reached the capital; Zhao Yuanzuo's "madness", which was already tormented in his heart, was even more serious, not only could he not even adhere to the way of being a minister on the pilgrimage to see his father; He also made a violent move of killing and injuring the waiter with a sharp knife because of a small mistake.

According to modern psychology, this kind of behavior is actually caused by neurological disorders; As long as the cause is found out and targeted psychological counseling is carried out, it is not difficult to cure.

However, Song Taizong, the direct inducer of Zhao Yuanzuo's illness, did not want his once favorite son to be "cured".

Since the eldest son is disobedient, let's change the second son! Song Taizong began to pay special attention to his second son, and appointed him as the governor of Kaifeng and carefully cultivated him.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and a few years later, the second son actually died of poisoned wine by mistake.

Helplessly, Song Taizong had no choice but to choose the third son of Lide and Talent as the crown prince, which is now Song Zhenzong.

Song Zhenzong thought that he had picked up a leak and ascended to the emperor's throne, and he often had a sense of fear in a cold sweat; But he persevered, and he had been on the throne for six years and less than seven years.

In his career as an emperor for more than six years and less than seven years, Zhao Heng completely abandoned his father Zhao Guangyi's cannibalistic and violent acts during his lifetime; often warns myself with Cao Zhi's seven-step poem of the Three Kingdoms:

boiled beans and burned beans,

Beans weep in the kettle,

This is born from the same root,

Why is he too anxious to fry each other.

Zhao Heng no longer engaged in cannibalism, and naturally imprinted the image of his brother Zhao Yuanzuo in his mind.

Zhao Guangyi can be said to have worked his heir to the throne a hundred years later, and the only status that has not changed is that his eldest son Zhao Yuanzuo was demoted to the status of a concubine.

Zhao Yuanzuo is unofficial and light, living in the cold and lonely environment of Nangong; let him block all kinds of sensitive information that may cause mental stimulation, so that the once extreme and persistent prince calmed down; I started a new way of thinking about the world and life.

Zhao Yuanzuo knows that it is difficult to change the whole world by himself; In that case, why don't you let go of your own madness that the whole world is turbid and only sober?

When Song Taizong was critically ill, Zhao Yuanzuo was remembered again; Wang Jien and Empress Li conspired to enthrone Zhao Yuanzuo, who had lived in seclusion for many years, as a puppet emperor, so that they could monopolize power.

However, Prime Minister Lu Duan brought the situation under control in time; successfully put Song Zhenzong on the throne.

In fact, even without Lu Duan's tenacious persistence; Zhao Yuanzuo will no longer be obsessed with fighting for power.

Zhao Yuanzuo is destined to be a tragic figure, and the warm family affection in his childhood memories has drifted away without a trace; Now all that is left is the deceit and ruthless bloodshed between relatives, isn't it all because of the word "power"? Since he has been regarded as a madman by the world, why should he wade into that troubled water?

Three months after Song Zhenzong ascended the throne, he restored the prince for his late uncle Zhao Tingmei, cousins Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang, and also restored Zhao Yuanzuo as the king of Chu.

Song Zhenzong no longer implements his father's killing strategy, he is merciful to the emperor; focuses on family affection, which is actually to set things right for his father's behavior of ignoring family affection.

Song Zhenzong, out of deep affection for his brother, also offered to visit Zhao Yuanzuo; However, Zhao Yuanzuo didn't get excited, his heart was like the water of the ancient well, and he was not shocked at all.

Zhao Yuanzuo understood his younger brother's intentions, and he understood the situation in the court; Therefore, he politely refused Zhenzong's visit on the grounds of physical illness, and left a rather heartless sentence: "Even if you come, I will not see you." ”

After such twists and turns, although the family affection is there, the embarrassment still exists; Still not necessarily good.

Later, Song Zhenzong kept giving Zhao Yuanzuo an official promotion; gave him the treatment of bringing a sword to the palace, but Zhao Yuanzuo actually didn't even go out of the door of the palace once, and he didn't want to enjoy this kind of scenery of a very human minister at all.

Once there was a fire in the palace, Zhao Yuanzuo, who was named General Tiance, applied to stop receiving his own money to fund the palace; These historical facts have repeatedly shown that Zhao Yuanzuo is actually not really crazy!

In the fifth year of Song Renzong's Tiansheng (1027), Zhao Yuanzuo, who had a rough life, passed away; He was 62 years old.

Zhao Yuanzuo, a down-and-out prince who was judged by his father to be a madman, actually lived 7 years longer than his emperor's younger brother Zhao Heng; It's a miracle indeed.

At the time of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, almost all the descendants of Song Taizong were captured by the Jurchens and escorted to the north; Zhao Yuanzuo's descendants were unscathed, I don't know if it was God's mercy or a historical coincidence.

Although Zhao Yuanzuo did not have the highest power during his lifetime, his actions were much more noble than that of his father Song Taizong, who had the highest power; Because he at least did it to his heart.

Of course, Song Zhenzong will not know about Zhao Yuanzuo's final ending, because he was 5 years earlier than his eldest brother; As for the eldest brother's descendants to escape the "Jingkang difficulty", I am afraid that it can only be read in the wild histories of "Chronicles of the Underworld".

But Song Zhenzong's concern for his eldest brother when he was alive was real.

Song Zhenzong couldn't help but care about his eldest brother, and of course he also cared about his uncle's grandson; Especially for the two cousins Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang, they are even more guilty.

According to common sense, his uncle Zhao Kuangyin's age of 50 should not be Bintian; Even the heir to the throne of Bintian should be Zhao Dezhao or Zhao Defang, but his father Zhao Guangyi and Prime Minister Zhao Pu inserted a lever from it, and Zhao Pu even took the trouble to make a "Golden Kui Alliance", saying that it was the brother's last brother and the last words left by his grandmother, Mrs. Du; Justify my father's succession to the throne.

Speaking from the heart, in the mind of Zhao Heng of Song Zhenzong, this Zhao Pu, who also thinks about Zhao but is not from his own family, is not a good bird; This guy has always been unscrupulous in order to climb to a high position, and the deaths of his uncle Zhao Tingmei and Prime Minister Lu Duoxun were planned by Zhao Pu.

Song Zhenzong sympathized with his uncle Zhao Tingmei as much as his eldest brother Zhao Yuanzuo, and sympathized more with his cousins Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang, who died in vain; So he brought Zhao Dezhao's son Zhao Weizhong and Zhao Defang's son Zhao Weixian to his side as the left and right guard generals.

The two brothers, Zhao Weizhong and Zhao Weixian, guarded on both sides of the uncle's four-ride sedan chair, and walked out of Yishu Garden to the vertical arch hall of the inner city palace......