Chapter 63: Royal Shame
After more than 250 days of besieged by the 50,000 Jin troops of Wanyan Lou, this part of the army of Wanyan Lou crossed the Yellow River in the south, moved west to Luoyang, blocked Tongguan, and locked the most elite western army of the Song Dynasty in Tongguan, cutting off the road to King Qinwang from the east.
On January 9, 1127, because of Guo Jing's troubles, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan and the generals broke the city. After capturing the outer city of Kaifeng, the generals of the Jin army did not immediately attack the city, but only occupied the four walls of the outer city, and pretended to announce the peace and retreat. Song Qinzong actually believed it and ordered He Li and Zhao Xu, the king of Qi, to go to Jinying to sue for peace. Zong Han said: "Since ancient times, there has been a distinction between north and south, and what is discussed today is just cutting the land. He also "requested" the Emperor Taishang to negotiate with Jinying. Song Huizong did not dare to go, and Song Qinzong had no choice but to go on his behalf on the grounds that the emperor was too frightened and riddled with chronic diseases.
At dawn on the 30th day of the 11th month of the leap month, Song Qinzong led many ministers to the Jin camp, which happened to fall into the trap of the Jin people. After Song Qinzong arrived at the Jin camp, the commander of the Jin army did not meet him, but only sent people to ask for a surrender. Song Qinzong didn't dare to disobey, so he hurriedly asked people to write a table of surrender. However, the Jin people were not satisfied, and ordered that the table should be written in four or six couplets. Song Qinzong was forced to be helpless, saying that the matter had come to this point, and there was no need to worry about anything else. The minister Sun Mo repeatedly considered and changed it four times before he was satisfied with the Jin people. The gist of the surrender is nothing more than bowing down to Kim, begging for forgiveness, and doing his best to be servile. After presenting the table, the Jin people proposed to ask the Emperor Taishang to come, and Song Qinzong pleaded bitterly, but the Jin people no longer insisted. Then, the Jin people set up an incense case to the north in the Zhai Palace, so that the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty faced the north and worshipped, and read out the surrender table with the courtesy. At that time, the wind and snow were blowing, and the monarchs and ministers of Song Qinzong were humiliated by this, and they all secretly wept. After the surrender ceremony was completed, the Jin people were satisfied, and Song Qinzong was allowed to return.
Song Qinzong since entering the gold camp, feel humiliated, in desperation to do the Jin courtiers, in retrospect, grief is irrepressible, unconsciously tears have been wet wipes, to the south of the smoke, Song Qinzong saw the ministers and people who came to greet him, he cried. After all, there are still many subjects who are worried about their own safety. When he walked to the palace, he still cried incessantly, and the crying inside and outside the palace was even more shocking. Song Qinzong went to Jinying at the beginning, went through all the calamities, and returned three days later, as if he was in another world. As soon as Song Qinzong returned to the imperial court, the Jin people came to ask for 10 million gold ingots, 20 million silver ingots, and 10 million silk horses. However, Song Qinzong insisted on humiliating and retreating, and ordered a large amount of gold and silver. The Jin people asked for mules and horses, and the Kaifeng Mansion used heavy rewards to expose them, and only then did they find more than 7,000 horses, and the horses in the capital were empty, and the bureaucrats actually had people who went to the court on foot. The Jin people asked for 1,500 girls, Song Qinzong did not dare to slack off, and even let his concubines reach the number, the girls were unwilling to be humiliated, and there were many dead. Regarding the gold and silver cloth, Song Qinzong felt that the treasury was insufficient, so he ordered the powerful, wealthy families, and merchants to contribute to the army. The so-called contribution is actually snatching. For those who resisted, they were often in a flail, and even Empress Zheng's family was not spared. Even so, there was still not enough gold and silver, and the four ministers including Mei Zhili, who was responsible for looting the gold and silver, were also executed, and other officials who were reprimanded with rods abounded, and the people were forced to commit suicide in many places, and the city of Kaifeng was in a state of chaos and depression.
Although the Northern Song Dynasty court headed by Song Qinzong welcomed the Jin people in this way, the Jin people's demands were still not met, and the Jin people threatened to enter the city to rob and ask Song Qinzong to come to the Jin camp again to negotiate. Song Qinzong was frightened into a cold sweat, the shadow of being in the golden camp last time had not yet dissipated, and a new fear hit his heart again, this time I am afraid that it will be more than lucky. At this time, Li Ruoshui and others also instigated Song Qinzong to go, but Song Qinzong did not dare to disobey the will of the Jin people after all, so he had to go to the Jin camp again.
After Song Qinzong arrived at Jinying, he was treated very coldly, Zong Wang and Zong Han did not meet him at all, and placed him in three huts in the west wing of the military camp Zhai Palace. The furnishings in the house are extremely simple, except for the tables and chairs, there is only an earthen kang for sleeping, and two seats of felt. The outside of the house was closely guarded by the Jin soldiers, and the door of the house was also locked with iron chains by the Jin soldiers at dusk, and the monarchs and ministers of Song Qinzong completely lost their freedom of movement. At this time, it is the cold winter wax moon, and the rain and snow in Kaifeng are continuous, and the weather is surprisingly cold. In addition to enduring the torture of hunger during the day, Song Qinzong also had to endure the biting cold wind at night, tossing and turning, and could not sleep.
Song Qinzong, who was in captivity, lived like a year, and his feelings of homesickness were overflowing. Song Dynasty officials repeatedly begged the Jin people to release Song Qinzong, but the Jin people ignored them. On February 5 of the second year of Jingkang, Song Qinzong had to accept the invitation of the Jin people to watch the ball game with a smile. After the game, Song Qinzong begged Jin Shuai to let him go back, but was reprimanded by Zong Han, and Song Qinzong was too frightened to mention the matter again.
After the Jin people detained Song Qinzong, they claimed that the number of gold and silver cloth was not even for a day, so they would not let go of Song Qinzong for a day. When Song Ting heard the news, he stepped up his search. Kaifeng Prefecture sent officials to directly break into residents' homes to search, and they were unscrupulous, such as arresting rebellions. The five families of the people are safeguarded, supervise each other, and if there is concealment, they can denounce it. Even the poor people, monks, workers, and advocates of Futian Temple were also looted. At the end of the first month, Kaifeng Mansion collected 160,000 taels of gold, 2 million taels of silver, and 1 million pieces of clothing and satin, but it was still far from the amount demanded by the Jinren. When the officials of the Song Dynasty went to the gold camp to deliver gold and silver, the Jin people were arrogant and rude, and humiliated in every way. Since Song Qinzong went to Jinying, the wind and snow did not stop, the people of Bianjing had nothing to eat, and after eating all the leaves, cats and dogs in the city, they cut and starved for food, coupled with the epidemic epidemic, starvation and death of countless people.
However, the gold man did not give up, and plundered other things for gold and silver. All the ritual vessels for worshipping the heavens, the Dharma of the Son of Heaven, various books and classics, Dacheng musical instruments and even the costumes and props used in the hundred operas are all searched. Doctors, labourers, and craftsmen of all kinds were also plundered. and frantically plundered women, as long as they had a little appearance, they were captured by Kaifeng Mansion for the fun of the gold people. At that time, Shi Yong, the king of Shangshu, was the hardest at plundering women, and was known as "the grandfather of the golden man". Kaifeng Mansion Yin Xu Bingzhe was not far behind, in order to please the Jin people, he smeared the already unkempt and sick woman with grease and powder, dressed up in disguise, and sent the whole car to the gold camp
On February 6 of the second year of Jingkang, on March 20, 1127, Jin Taizong issued an edict that Song Qinzong was deposed as a concubine. On the 7th, Song Huizong and others were forced to go to Jinying. When the Jin people forced Emperor Hui and Emperor Qin to take off their dragon robes, Li Ruoshui, who accompanied him, hugged Song Qinzong and prevented him from taking off his imperial clothes, and scolded Jin people for being dogs. After Yan Zonghan wanted to recruit Li Ruoshui at the beginning, he saw that it didn't work after a few days, so he casually let his subordinates deal with him. Li Ruoshui scolded endlessly, and was cut throat by Zong Han's subordinates and died
On April 20, 1127, the Jin people canonized Zhang Bangchang, who had always been the lord of peace, as the emperor, with the country name "Da Chu", and established a puppet regime. Kaifeng Mansion was worried that there would not be enough gold and silver, and the gold people provoked for no reason, so they set up markets around Kaifeng City and exchanged grain for gold and silver. Because the capital had been besieged for a long time, food was scarce, and the gold and silver in the hands of the people were useless, so they took it out one after another to exchange it for rice. In this way, Kaifeng Mansion got tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver. However, Kaifeng City has been looted several times, and the gold and silver have been exhausted, and it is impossible to make up the amount demanded by the gold people.
At this time, the commander of the Jin army learned that King Kang Zhao Gou was actively deploying troops in Hebei, wanting to cut off the retreat of the Jin people, and was worried that the troops were insufficient to exercise effective rule over the vast areas of the Central Plains, so he prepared to withdraw his troops after establishing a puppet regime. During the retreat, the Jin people also burned countless houses on the outskirts of Kaifeng. "From Liuzi in the east, to Xijing in the west, to Hanshang in the south, and to Heshuo in the north", in such a vast area, the Jin soldiers "killed people like mowing hemp, and smelled for hundreds of miles." This has brought profound disasters to the broad masses of the people, and the crimes are heinous and heinous.
After plundering a large amount of gold and silver treasures, the Jin army began to retreat in two directions. One route was detained by Zongwang, including Song Huizong, Empress Zheng and her princes, imperial grandchildren, concubines, princesses, concubines, etc., who had gone north along Huazhou three days earlier; The other route was detained by Zong Han, including Song Qinzong, Empress Zhu, the crown prince Zhao Chen, the clan and several officials who refused to give in, such as Sun Fu, Zhang Shuye, and Qin Hui, and traveled north along Zhengzhou. There are also various ritual vessels, antique cultural relics, picture books, palace people, chamberlains, advocates, craftsmen, etc., and the people who were exiled are no less than 100,000 men and women, and the treasury of the Northern Song Dynasty is empty. Everywhere the golden soldiers went, lives were devastated. Such a tragic disaster left the Song people with incurable wounds.
The two emperors of Huizong and Qinzong and the two empresses of Zheng and Zhu were very thin, and they often couldn't sleep at night, so they had to find some firewood and thatch to burn for warmth. Empress Zhu of Song Qinzong was 26 years old at the time, gorgeous and colorful, and was often teased by Jin Bing.
When Song Qinzong set out, he was forced to wear a felt hat on his head, wear a green cloth coat, ride a black horse, and be escorted by the Jin people, looking lost and depressed, not only suffering from the wind and frost of the journey, but also being insulted by the Jin army. Song Qinzong cried from time to time, was stopped, crossed the Yellow River from Gongxian County, and the driver said to Zhang Shuye, the accompanying Privy Councillor, that he would cross the boundary river, Zhang Shuye was sad and indignant, shouted to the sky, and died of strangulation. In late May, when crossing the Taihe Mountains, Qinzong and others were tied to horses. On July 20, Huizong and Qinzong met in Yanjing, and the father and son hugged their heads and cried, grief and indignation.
When the captives arrived at Huining, the capital division of the Jin Dynasty, the Jin people held a ceremony to sacrifice prisoners, ordering the second emperor and his concubines, the clan, the kings, the horses, and the princesses to wear the clothes worn by the Jin people, wrap their heads around their heads, wear sheep furs, and expose their upper bodies, and go to the Aguta Temple of the Jin Dynasty to perform the "sheep holding ceremony", and ordered the queen mother and queen to enter the Jin Palace to "give baths". Empress Zhu couldn't bear such a shameful humiliation, and committed suicide by throwing herself into the water that day, compared to Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, Zhao Heng of Song Qinzong and other women in Huangshi, Empress Zhu Lian of Huairen preserved her innocence with death, and left a woman's voice in the humiliating history of the Northern Song Dynasty.