Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only failed to ask for immortals, but Yu Xiao's life was unscathed.

But what about Tang Taizong?

Tang Taizong died because he took the so-called medicine that can live forever.

Is the ending of Tang Taizong tragic??

Don't believe that Tang Taizong died of illness.

After all, Tang Taizong is a figure with martial arts, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Tang Taizong is a martial arts master.

It is not easy for a martial arts master to die, of course he will die if he is killed, and it is also simple to be poisoned, but the possibility of dying of illness is the lowest.

Therefore, the statement that Tang Taizong died of illness is just to confuse the public.

If Tang Taizong is the saddest emperor in the pursuit of immortality, then Song Huizong is the craziest emperor in the pursuit of immortality.

Huizong of Song, named Zhao Ji (5 ~ June 4, 1135 A.D. 1082), the 11th son of Song Shenzong, the younger brother of Song Zhezong, was the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Ji was successively named the king of Suining and the king of Duan. Song Zhezong died of illness in the first month of 1100 A.D. without children, and Empress Xiang made him emperor in the same month. The following year, the name was changed to "Yasukuni in the Founding of China". Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty reigned for 25 years (February 23, 1100 - January 18, 1126), and was captured and tortured to death at the age of 54 and buried in Yongyou Mausoleum (now 35 miles southeast of Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province). He created his own calligraphy font, which was called "thin gold body" by later generations. It was rated by later generations as "Song Huizong can do everything, but he can't be a king!"

Huizong of Song was the 11th son of Shenzong of Song, the younger brother of Zhezong of Song, and the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty. During the reign of him[1]. Reused Cai Jing, Gao Yu, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Wang Boyan, Zhu Mian, Li Bangyan and other traitorous ministers, wantonly looted people's wealth, was extremely poor and extravagant, and established a bureau of articles for the enjoyment of the royal family, and searched for exotic flowers and stones everywhere, and transported them to Kaifeng by ship, called "Huashi Gang", in order to build Yanfu Palace and Genyue. This led to the further intensification of social contradictions, and peasant uprisings such as Fang La and Song Jiang broke out. Zhao Ji may not have a chance to inherit the unification. However, Song Zhezong died young at the age of 23. Childless. Therefore, the Song family was left to his younger brother to find an heir. Originally, Zhezong's younger brother was the longest in Daning County, but unfortunately he suffered from eye disease and could not succeed to the throne, so Zhao Ji, who was named the king of Duan at that time, inherited the unification. Prime Minister Zhang Dian opposed Zhao Ji's succession to the throne at that time, and instead suggested that Li Zhezong have the same brother as Cai Wang Zhao. But Empress Dowager Xiang supported Zhao Ji's succession. Therefore, Zhao Ji successfully became the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty. During the reign of Zhao Ji. "Wasteful and innumerable", excessive pursuit of luxury life. In the south, he procured the "Flower Stone Gang", collected strange flowers and stones and transported them to Kaifeng Mansion in Bianjing, built a garden palace, believed in Taoism, honored the title of "Daojun Emperor", and appointed corrupt officials and eunuchs to expropriate and extort [3], which provoked civil uprisings in various places. Among them, the problems caused by Cai Jing of the New Party as prime minister and the eunuch Tong Guan as the general are the most serious. When Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, he was opposed by the ministers of the court, thinking that he could not govern the country because of his frivolity, but he strongly recommended it to the queen mother, and refuted the opposition in the language of Song Shenzong: "The first emperor tasted the words: King Duan has a blessed life, and benevolence and filial piety, and should stand." In the second year of Zhao Ji's accession to the throne, the Empress Dowager Xiang died and changed the name to "Jianzhong Yasukuo". This was the beginning of Zhao Ji's reign, which lasted for a total of twenty-five years. He believed in Taoism, proclaimed himself "the Taoist Emperor", built a large palace, and set up 26 ranks of Taoist officials, and issued them to Taoist priests. Sent an envoy to sign an alliance with the Jin Dynasty and attack the Liao State. The Jin army marched south to attack the Song. He passed on the throne to Zhao Huan (Qinzong) and proclaimed himself Emperor Taishang.

In August of the first year of Jingkang (1126), Jin Taizong once again ordered the eastern and western armies to march southward, and Sun Fu, the secretary of the Song Army, put his hope on the soldier Guo Jing, who lied that he had the magic of Buddhism and Taoism, and vainly used the Taoist "Liujia Law" and the Buddhist "Bishamen Heavenly King Law" to break the enemy. However, the divine soldiers were defeated, and the Jin soldiers took the opportunity to attack the city in four ways, and the Jin army captured Bianjing. Song Qinzong sent an envoy to Jinying to ask for peace, but Zong Han and Zong Wang did not allow it. At the end of the leap month of 1126 AD, the Jin soldiers went south again. On December 15, Bianjing was attacked, and Emperor Jin deposed Song Huizong and his son Zhao Huan as concubines. At the end of March 1127, Emperor Jin escorted Emperor Hui and Emperor Qin, together with concubines, clansmen, thousands of officials, as well as musicians, craftsmen, drivers, honor guards, crown clothes, ritual instruments, astronomical instruments, treasures, royal collections, and maps of the state capitals of the world. Because of this, it happened in the Jingkang period, and it is known as the "Jingkang Change" in history. It is said that Song Huizong didn't care when he heard that the treasures were looted, and when he heard that the royal collection of books had also been robbed, he looked up to the sky and sighed a few times. Song Huizong was humiliated on the way to be escorted. First, the concubine Wang Wanrong and others were forcibly taken away by General Jin. Then, after arriving at the capital of the Jin Kingdom, he was ordered to wear mourning clothes with Zhao Huan and go to the temple where Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta was borne, which means that Emperor Jin offered prisoners to Taizu. Later, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was humiliated by Emperor Jin and confined in Hanzhou (present-day Changtu County, Liaoning Province), and later moved to Wuguocheng (present-day Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province) and imprisoned. During his captivity, Song Huizong suffered mental torture and wrote many remorseful, lamenting, and desolate poems, such as: "The west wind shook the door all night, and the depressed lonely hall was faint." Looking back at three thousand miles, there are no geese flying in the south of the mountain. In July 1127, Cao Xun, a courtier of the Song Hui sect, secretly fled from Jin to the Southern Song Dynasty, and before leaving, he handed him a vest that he was wearing, with the words "Come and rescue your parents." Song Huizong showed these words to the surrounding courtiers, and the ministers wept sadly. Song Huizong cried and told Cao Xun, remember to tell Gaozong, "Don't forget the pain of my northward journey", said and took out a white gauze handkerchief to wipe his tears, and then handed the handkerchief to Cao Xun and said: "Let the emperor (Gaozong) know that I miss my homeland and grieve and cry." In July of the eighth year of Tianhui (1130), Jin moved the second emperor to Wuguocheng (now the old ancient city north of Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province) under house arrest. When they arrived at the Five Kingdoms City, there were only more than 140 men and women in the entourage. During his exile, Huizong was still good at writing poems, and he was deeply touched by reading the biography of Li Mi in the Tang Dynasty.

Song Huizong was imprisoned for 9 years. On April Jiazi Day in 1135 AD, he finally died in the city of the Five Kingdoms due to unbearable mental torture at the age of 54. Jin Xizong buried him in Guangning, Henan Province (near present-day Luoyang City, Henan Province). On August 1142, Song Jin transported the remains of Song Huizong back to Lin'an (now Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province) according to the agreement, and Song Gaozong buried him in Yongyou Mausoleum, and the temple number was Huizong. In February of the first year of the emperor's reign (1141), in order to improve relations with the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Xizong posthumously crowned the dead Huizong as the king of Tianshui County, and Qinzong as the prince of Tianshui County. The first is to improve the level, the original seal Huizong for the second grade of the Duke of Dude, posthumously named the king of Tianshui County, promoted to the first grade, the original Feng Qinzong for the third grade of the heavy dusk marquis, now named Tianshui County Gong, promoted to the second grade. The second is to remove the insulting meaning from the original title. The third is to use the county surnamed Zhao Tianshui Clan Wangzhi as a title to show respect. In March of the twelfth year of Shaoxing (1142), Song Jin's "Shaoxing Peace Conference" completely completed all formalities. On May 1, 1142, Gaozong's biological mother, Concubine Wei Xian, returned to the Song Dynasty with Huizong's coffin. In August of the same year, more than ten ox carts arrived in Lin'an, and in October, the Southern Song Dynasty temporarily buried Huizong in Huiji (now Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province), named Yonggu Mausoleum (later renamed Yongyou Mausoleum).

Huizong believed in Taoism, built a palace, proclaimed himself the Taoist emperor, and often asked Taoist priests to see fortunes. His birthday was May 5th, which the Taoist priest considered unlucky, so he changed the name to October 10th, and his zodiac sign was a dog, for which he ordered a ban on the slaughter of dogs in Bianjing. He issued many edicts to search for Taoist books, set up a bureau, sorted out and collated Taoist books, and compiled the "Zhenghe Wanshou Daozang" compiled during the Zhenghe period, which was the first "Daozang" published in China in its country. The "History of Taoism" and "History of Immortals" that he ordered to compile are also the largest history of Taoism and biographies of Taoist deified figures in the history of our country. Song Huizong also personally wrote books such as "The Tao Te Ching of the Imperial Note", "The True Scripture of the Imperial Commentary on the Void to the Virtue" and "The Wandering Guide of the Nanhua True Scripture", which provided complete information for the study of Taoist books in China. As the saying goes, Taoism has played the role of a local medical institution for a long time. Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty built a large palace in the local area, and one of his ideas was to bring the advanced medical treatment of the time to the grassroots - one of his benevolent policies as Emperor Daojun. (To be continued......)