Chapter 996: Trade-offs

Zhao Gou's life trajectory can be divided into "Huang Jieqian" and "Huang Jiehou" for now!

"Huang Jieqian" is also "before Huang Jie disturbed time and space", at that time his life trajectory was: born in the first year of Song Daguan on the first day of May (June 12, 1107), in August of the same year, he was given the name Zhao Gou, and was awarded the military festival envoy, the inspector of the school, and the Duke of Shu.

In the second year of Daguan (1108), on the first month of Gengshen Day, he was named the king of Guangping County.

In the third year of Xuanhe (1121), on the day of December Renzi, he was crowned King Kang.

In the fourth year of Xuanhe (1122), Zhao Gou performed a coming-of-age ceremony and moved to a mansion outside the palace.

In the spring of the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty (1126), when the Jin soldiers besieged Kaifeng Mansion for the first time, he was a short-term hostage in the Jin camp as a prince. In the winter of that year, the Jin soldiers invaded the south again, and he was ordered to send an envoy to the Jin camp to sue for peace, but was dissuaded by the retainer Zong Ze to stay in Cizhou, Hebei (now Hebei), so as not to be captured by the Jin soldiers. When the Jin soldiers besieged Kaifeng again, he was appointed as the generalissimo of Hebei soldiers and horses ("Song History Benji" called Zhao Gou the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses), and the Song court ordered him to lead the Hebei soldiers and horses to rescue the Beijing division, but he moved to Beijing Daimyofu (now Hebei Daimyo), and then transferred to Dongping Mansion (now Shandong) to avoid the enemy.

On the first day of the fifth month of the second year of Jingkang (1127), after the Jin soldiers captured Hui and Qin Erzong went north, Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Nanjing Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan), changed the Yuan Jianyan, and became the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was forced to use Li Gang as the prime minister of the Anti-Japanese War faction, but soon drove Li Gang away, and abandoned the Central Plains with his favorite ministers Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and other traitorous villains, and fled from Nanjing Yingtianfu to Yangzhou.

In February of the old calendar in the third year of Jianyan (1129), the Jin soldiers attacked Yangzhou, and he crossed the river in embarrassment and went to Hangzhou through Zhenjiang Mansion. Under the pressure of public opinion, he had to dismiss Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and others. Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan took advantage of the soldiers' dissatisfaction with the government to launch a mutiny, killing Wang Yuan, a member of the Privy Council of Song Gaozong, and a group of eunuchs, forcing Zhao Gou to abdicate, known in history as the Miao-Liu Mutiny. Wenchen Lu Yihao, Zhang Jun and military generals Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun raised troops to "King Qin", and Song Gaozong was able to "restore".

He continued to send envoys to beg for surrender to the Jin Dynasty, complaining that after he fled to the south, "what he has done is poor, and what he has done is narrow", "there is no one by the code, and there is no land if he runs", and asked the rulers of the Jin Dynasty to "forgive themselves when they see sorrow" and not to march to the south again. However, he did not make any strong arrangements for the war against Jin. In September, the Jin soldiers crossed the Yangtze River and invaded the south, and Zhao Gou led his ministers to flee south. In October, he went to Yuezhou (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang), then fled to Mingzhou (present-day Ningbo, Zhejiang), and from Mingzhou to Dinghai (present-day Zhoushan, Zhejiang), wandered at sea, and fled to Wenzhou (present-day Zhejiang).

In the summer of the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), after the Jin soldiers evacuated from Jiangnan, Zhao Goucai returned to Shaoxing Mansion (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), Lin'an Mansion (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) and other places, and later set Lin'an Mansion as the residence of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Jin soldiers suspended their southern invasion, and Song Gaozong dispatched elite troops to suppress the peasant rebels and bandits in Jinghu, Jiangxi, Fujian and other roads, consolidating his rule. Although he made some arrangements for the defense of the Jin troops, and appointed Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and others to be in charge of the defense of the Jiang and Huai rivers, he only used military arrangements as a bargaining chip for peace negotiations. He reused the Lord and faction Qin Hui, appointed him as the prime minister, and tried his best to suppress the demands of Yue Fei and other main battle factions.

And in the time and space of "Huang Jiehou", his life trajectory has changed dramatically:

In the first year of Xingchang (1126) after Huang Jie, the Jin army still came to attack as promised, and Zhao Gou was also forced by Zhao Huan to send him to the Jin camp as a hostage, but because the Jin army was intercepted by Huang Jie in Linqing, he was finally snatched back.

As a result, in the first year of the dry road (1128) of the month of Layue, he was taken away by the Jin army because he followed Zhao Huan to Mount Tai to watch the ceremony and seal the Zen, this time the Song army was not in a hurry to rescue, so it was smoothly taken to the hinterland of the Jin country, it is said that it was first sent to Dading Mansion, and then to Huanglong Mansion, and later went to Huining Mansion and Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and his son stayed together for a period of time, eating and living together, working together, raising horses and grazing together.

It wasn't until the autumn of the second year of Gandao (1129) that he was caught by the Jin people, shaved his hair, hid in the envoy procession, and quietly smuggled into the city of Tokyo.

It's a pity that when Jin Envoy Wan Yan Zongjian took him to officially launch trouble, he was rescued by Yan Qingyan Xiaoyi.

Therefore, if Zhao Gou's experience in "Before Huang Jie" is glorious and magnificent, then the experience in "After Huang Jie" is aggrieved and suffering!

But it is also said that although Zhao Gou does not know what has happened to his life trajectory in "before Huang Jie" and "after Huang Jie", his knowledge, insight and experience, as well as his status, vision and IQ are clearly placed in the clear place after all, and he has naturally analyzed all the favorable and unfavorable factors thoroughly and openly.

There is no doubt that just by virtue of Yan Xiaoyi's ambush in front of the Vermilion Bird Gate, it is also known that the Great Song Dynasty or the Empress Dowager Zheng and Zhao Fujin have long known about his existence, as well as the intention of the Jin envoy Wanyan Zongjian to hide him in the team, but both sides have been forbearance with each other, and it was not until Wanyan Zongjian took the initiative to rescue him, which shows how careful the Empress Dowager Zheng and Zhao Fujin are here.

The hotel in Honglu Temple is not a Longtan tiger's den, don't say anything Yan Xiaoyi, these wrestlers are strong in martial arts, if you really want to rescue him Zhao Gou as soon as possible, is it possible that the 800,000 forbidden troops in Tokyo are all decorations?

Even if you say that you are afraid that you will send the forbidden army to the hotel to provoke the Jin people and threaten Zhao Gou's life, can't you find a few martial arts strong people in the 800,000 forbidden army who quietly go in to save people?

Therefore, there is no doubt that Empress Dowager Zheng, Zhao Fujin and the people in the court are not unaware of his existence Zhao Gou, but they don't want to save him with great fanfare, and they don't want his existence to be made public, so that the people know that he, the King Kang of the Great Song Dynasty, has returned.

Of course, Zhao Gou himself is not stupid, he naturally understands the purpose of the Jin people to let him back, and the Jin people still clearly told him, and even in retrospect, he simply couldn't bear to follow his father Zhao Ji and brother Zhao Huan in Huining Mansion like serfs to get up early and sleep late every day to herd cattle and horses, so he agreed to follow Jin Guo's arrangement and come back to make trouble.

At that time, the Jin State gave him the advantage of sending him back to inherit the throne of the Great Song Dynasty, and the price he had to pay was not big, that is, to remove the military power of the seed master Dao and Huang Jie, and negotiate peace with the Jin State. And Jin Guo promised not to ask the Great Song for land again, and as long as the Great Song gave enough money, food and property, he was willing to release all the hostages.

Of course, Zhao Gou himself didn't believe it, but it was enough for him to be able to return to the Great Song Dynasty, so he naturally agreed to it all and took the initiative to shave his hair.

It's just that now, he has figured it out, knows what the trade-off is, and knows that today's Da Song obviously can't tolerate people like himself, so he also took the initiative to retreat and put on a posture of being willing to give up everything.

But he also said, but after Zhao Gou said that he was willing to give up everything, what incognito, and what was the remnant of his life, he also saw that after Zhao Fujin and Empress Dowager Zheng glanced at each other, it was Empress Dowager Zheng who spoke: "Goo'er, don't blame Zheng Niang for being ruthless, it's not the right time for you to come back!" ”

Zhao Gou was shocked when he heard this, and his back immediately sweated like rain.