Feng Zhou closed his eyes slightly, and recalled the historical evaluation of Song Xiaozong from the "Yongle Canon".

According to Feng Zhou's memory, Zhao Yan is a good person who is very sympathetic and lives a very hard life, an unlucky emperor who has done well in internal affairs, but has great ambitions and talents in foreign wars, plus the opponent is too strong, and his teammates are too piggy, and finally leads to unpaid ambitions and lifelong hatred, an embarrassing filial son and a failed father.

If you score it, you can score about 70 points. The British lord of the Chinese dynasties, Ming Jun, is not ranked in the ranks, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is definitely Nanbo Bay. Considering that he has such a perverted adoptive father, Zhao Gou, and has been the crown prince of ten thousand years in the shadow of Zhao Gou and Qin Hui for too long, it is actually quite rare.

But unfortunately, most of the time in this world is to talk about the results, there are not so many reasons and not so many ifs. Especially in a country like China with a long history and any extreme state, all capable people have come out~

said that he is a good person because he has really sincerely believed in and yearned for those bright and beautiful things in the subset of scriptures and history since he was a child. His idol was not his own Emperor Taizu, but Li Shimin, the model of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the minister he remembered the most and probably respected the most in his heart, was Yue Fei, who he had only had face-to-face contact with once when he was a child. If it is said that rehabilitating Yue Fei is still the trend of the times, then changing the name of Yue Fei's youngest son, repeatedly appeasing Yue Lin, and even choosing Li Fengniang, the daughter of Yue Fei's general Li Dao, when choosing the crown princess for his son, I am afraid that it is somewhat of an expression of personal feelings.

But after all, Yue Fei was killed more than ten years before he ascended the throne. Moreover, the entire Yuejia army and even the entire Southern Song Dynasty army were purged under the auspices of Qin Hui, and their combat effectiveness declined seriously. At the beginning of Nandu, a cadre of important ministers, such as Zhao Ding, Li Guang, Han Shizhong, Liu Kuan, Wang De, etc., also died, and the old and sick were also dead, and there was only one Wu Luan, but he was far away in the west, which was not enough to improve the overall situation. In other words, the Southern Song Dynasty that he took over in the thirty-second year of Shaoxing is no longer the Southern Song Dynasty whose military strength far exceeds that of the Jin State in the twelfth year of Shaoxing, and the recovery of Yanyun in the Central Plains is actually not a problem, and there are not so many good cards to play.

But Zhao Yankong has his ambitions, but he has no vision, his strategic vision is not unique, and he can't recognize people. So soon after ascending the throne, when he resisted the pressure of Emperor Zhao Gou and finally launched the Longxing Northern Expedition, he handed over the burden of the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition to Zhang Jun, the middle of the people.

Of course, there is an element of Zhang Jun, who has just returned from exile, who has not lived much time and constantly fools him, but there are also ministers like his teacher Shi Hao who are persuading him: The minister is afraid that once the Northern Expedition fails, His Majesty will not be able to look back at the Central Plains for the rest of his life.

So in the end, it's still his own lack of ability. In the seventh year of Shaoxing, he broke through the painstaking persuasion of Yue Fei, Zhang Zongyuan, Ye Mengde, and a large number of civil and military elites, and successfully promoted the Huaixi Mutiny and destroyed the excellent situation of the Northern Expedition. In such a situation, such a commander, and encountering a British lord like Jin Shizong Wanyan Yong, it is strange that the Longxing Northern Expedition does not play smashed.

And the time after that, it should have been the process of Song Xiaozong lying down and trying to sum up the lessons and lessons in order to do it again. Unfortunately, the failure of the Longxing Northern Expedition, which he advocated wholeheartedly, led to the Emperor Zhao Gou having more energy to control him, and also led to the resurgence of Qin Hui's henchmen. At the same time, his own vision is still a problem, neither can identify real talents nor can he do the use of people, and he is quite impatient and always in a hurry, so he is particularly unable to withstand failure and attrition. These factors led to the change of prime ministers in the years he was in power. finally entrusted a Yu Yunwen, and after a few years of meeting, the monarch and the ministers went hand in hand and sprinkled a lot of dog blood, but Yu Yunwen hung up early.

At the same time, his adoptive father Zhao Gouhuo lived healthy and nourishing, and lived until he was over 80 years old; his opponent Jin Shizong Wanyan Yong also lived a very healthy and energetic life, and the Jin State, which had been stormy when Wanyan Liang invaded the Song Dynasty and the Han Khitans revolted one after another, stabilized again, and produced a small-scale and low-level "prosperous era".

The second half of Zhao Yan's life was spent in this kind of grievance. Of course, during this time, he still tried to be a good emperor.

For example, even after the failure of the Longxing Northern Expedition, he had to negotiate peace with the Jin State, but he always refused to repatriate the "reformed people" - this is really much better than his godfather.

For example, he still inspected the army from time to time, exercised martial arts, and never forgot the ambition of the Northern Expedition; for example, his internal politics were very good, the rule of law was clear, and the political style was relaxed, and historians now generally believe that this was the period when the political atmosphere of the Southern Song Dynasty was the best and the country was relatively prosperous, the so-called "rule of Qianchun."

It's just that all these achievements are not something that Song Xiaozong can satisfy himself. His greatest hope was always the Northern Expedition to recover the Central Plains. However, compared to his grand goal, he was not stoic enough personally, so that after the death of Song Gaozong, his own heart was also exhausted, and he hurriedly abdicated the throne to his son as the emperor within two years. It's just unfortunate that his personal life is not as lucky as his father, and his daughter-in-law is too BH, not to mention provoking the father-son relationship between her husband and father-in-law, and Song Xiaozong's evening is bleak, and he couldn't even look at his son when he died.

So in Feng Zhou's opinion, especially when the emperor appeared in front of him alive and eagerly asked him to preside over the Northern Expedition, Feng Zhou was full of sympathy for him.

If you carefully examine the military failures and political turmoil during the Longxing period, you will find that there are many factors that led to the failure, and he really cannot be entirely responsible for them: he himself was suppressed and constrained by Song Gaozong for too long, and he did not have the opportunity to contact and learn high-level imperial techniques in the early stage, and he could not freely control the government in the later stage; at the same time, the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing held all kinds of abundant resources twelve years ago - from national strength, military combat power to the morale of the civil and military generals - was also ruined by his adoptive father and Qin Hui. The so-called "Gaozong Dynasty has restored ministers, but there is no restored king; Xiaozong Dynasty has restored kings and no restored ministers" is indeed a painful word.

Heroes and heroes may live hard and even painful, but fortunately, they understand that they are happy, not to mention the great evil, killing people and setting fire to the gold belt. Therefore, the most unlucky in the tide of history, especially in the troubled times, may always be a person like Song Xiaozong who has talent and is not ambitious enough, but he still has good thoughts, obsessions, and a little bit of unwilling mediocrity.

Thinking of this, Feng Zhou opened his eyes, saw that Zhao Yan was still bowing and saluting, and a trace of warmth was born in his heart, gently helped him up, and sighed: "Your Majesty has great ambitions and extraordinary bearing, and you can actually entrust me with the important affairs of the military family. ”

Zhao Yan was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Did Feng Zhenren promise me?"

"Your Majesty ascended the throne at the age of grace, there are ministers who govern the world, but there is no united front general in his hands, so he seeks talent in the wilderness, and the poor road is emotional, and he is willing to go all out to lead the army to the Northern Expedition, expel Hu Lu, restore China, establish Chen Ji, and relieve the people. After the great event has been accomplished, he will only live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, recite the "Liang Father's Yin", and continue to build the Quanzhen Sect. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Yan's pride rose again, and he only felt a sense of pride rushing to his heart, and couldn't help but say: "Gong is like a pine and cypress, I am a green mountain, and I will never be disappointed!"

Feng Zhou laughed: "Your Majesty, it's not so exaggerated, it's just a Northern Expedition, as long as Your Majesty is entrusted with military power, the whole army is single-minded, and the Northern Expedition is determined, the minister expects that next year and today, Your Majesty can return to the old capital, and even patrol Youyan to realize the ambition of Taizu Taizong, at that time, I am afraid that Your Majesty will be called the first emperor of the ages by future generations, and stand side by side with Tang Taizong." ”