The tragedy of Song Ningzong Zhao Kuo is that he can never live himself.
Shao Xi's fifth year (1195) was an important life division for Zhao Kuo. Previously, this second son of Song Guangzong had never thought that one day he would come to the throne, but fate pushed him to the throne, and like his ancestor Zhao Kuangyin, he experienced the process of "yellow robe plus body". Of course, the two "yellow robes plus bodies" in the history of the Song Dynasty still have essential differences, 230 years ago, Zhao Kuangyin stood in the smoke of Chen Qiaoyi, and was draped in dazzling yellow robes by the generals, which was actually a premeditated operation, and 230 years later, when his descendants Zhao Kuo was forcibly promoted to the throne by Han Nongxu and Zhao Ruyu and others, wearing yellow robes, this heir who had no intention of claiming the title of emperor repeatedly said only five words - "fear of not filial piety" . If Zhao Kuangyin's "yellow robe plus body" opened a dynasty, then the "yellow robe plus body" that happened to the Southern Song Emperor Zhao Kuo actually brought about the imprisonment of his own life and the haze of a dynasty.
From the very beginning of his reign, a haze hung over the young emperor. Because of his self-esteem, Han Nongxu wanted to monopolize power from the very beginning and overshadow Song Ningzong. In order to squeeze out the imperial court, the chancellor Zhao Ruyu, who also had meritorious service, Han Nongxin took advantage of the System of Consultation, which was highly valued by the Emperors of the Song Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty, the imperial court has set up a Taiwan counselor with the power to correct the emperor's negligence and impeach hundred officials, and Song Ningzong, who has just ascended the throne, also believes that "the Taiwan counselors are self-righteous and fearful." However, this seemingly spotless pure land has never really been clean, especially when Han Nongxin inserted his own confidants and ears into it, and it was even more smoky, reversing black and white. When the hoodwinked Song Ningzong received a letter of praise from Zhao Ruyu for corruption and perverting the law, this unfortunate courtier had nowhere to go, and finally died of depression on the road of several times of depreciation.
If it is still a trivial matter that Song Ningzong could not keep a courtier under the hoodluation of Han Nongxuan, then the involvement of a courtier in a cultural catastrophe has already made Song Ningzong very sad. Because Zhao Ruyu respected the science of science, Han Nongxu "hated Wu and Wu", he first expelled the master of science Zhu Xi from the court, and then declared the science of science as pseudo-science under the false mouth of the emperor, and all those who supported Zhu Zi's science were regarded as anti-party, and many cultural celebrities at that time were tragically purged, either by cutting officials and exiled, or being brutalized to death, and the once prosperous science grandeur withered to death, and some of the people who were disciples of Zhu Xi were also blocked from the door of the keju scholars, and spent many years of hard reading. This cultural catastrophe, known as the "Qingyuan Party Ban", was initiated by the powerful minister Han Nongxu, but Song Ningzong, who had no right to speak, was saddled with the insult of trampling on culture.
Offending the readers, Song Ningzong became a lonely man, and the subsequent offense of Li Shu Cangsheng made Song Ningzong unable to argue. When Han Nongxin saw that the "Qingyuan Party Ban" had made him lose popularity, he decided to take a desperate risk and use the north to cut gold to add points to his political career. In order to conceal his ambitions, he proposed to Song Ningzong that Yue Fei be rehabilitated, pursue Wu Mu, and then remove qin juniper's prince and change his name to false ugliness, at the same time, he began to prepare for the Northern Expedition. This series of actions by Han Nongxin soon boosted the morale of the main warrior faction of the Song court, and the image of Song Ningzong began to become cute in people's eyes. However, Song Ningzong knew that from the day he ascended the throne, he was already destined to be a pawn in the hands of Han Nongxu, not a powerful maker of strategic decisions. Taking into account the situation of the confrontation between Song and Jin at that time, many people of insight already had a premonition that Han Nongxu's Northern Expedition would surely return in vain; Ye Shi not only refused to draft an edict declaring war, but also wrote to Song Ningzong, believing that the rash Northern Expedition was "extremely dangerous and dangerous"; Hua Yue, a martial arts student, wrote to the Book, believing that at that time, the Southern Song Dynasty "would be handsome and stupid, the army and the people would be resentful, Ma Zheng would not speak, the knights would not be familiar, the Haojie would not be out, the heroes would not receive, the grain would not be abundant, the situation would not be solid, the mountains would not be repaired, and the fortress would not be set up", and that the Northern Expedition would "have no merit in the division and defeat itself without fighting." However, these insightful voices were soon suppressed by Han Nongxin, and when he waved the battle flag in a majestic manner and commanded the three armies, Song Ningzong had lost an emperor's judgment of the situation in the shouts of death.
Facts proved the correctness of Ye Shi and others, and this Northern Expeditionary Army, which had been formed by Han Nongcang, was in a passive beating from the very beginning due to its lack of effective training and lack of decent commanders. When they were forced to turn from attack to defense, the Jin soldiers took advantage of the situation to occupy Zhenzhou, Yangzhou, the western military towns of Shangyuan and The Shuchuan Gateway Dashanguan, and the northern expedition that had been hastily provoked came to an end the following year.
However, with the defeat of the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty's arrogance rose again, and they arrogantly proposed to the Song court five conditions, such as reparations for the cession of land and the transfer of the first plot. At that time, Emperor Ningzong of Song had no opinion at all, and Shi Miyuan, who was then a rebbe attendant, and Empress Yang took the opportunity to collude to kill Han Nongxin, who was about to ascend to the court, in the Yujin Garden, and quickly sent his head to the Jin Kingdom. When Song Ningzong was overwhelmed with grief, he said, "It is not a beautiful thing to recover, but it is not a measure of strength." The weak emperor had actually changed from a puppet in the hands of Han Nongxu to a puppet in the hands of Shi Miyuan. In the first year of Jiading (1208), the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty signed the humiliating "Jiading Peace Agreement", and the terms of the peace agreement were: the border between the two countries remained the same as before; the Song dynasty used the nephew and uncle to pay tribute; the increase in the age was 300,000 yuan each; and the Song Nashi silver was 3 million taels and gold. For this humiliating "Jiading Peace Proposal", Liu Kezhuang's seven-word poem was full of sorrow and indignation in ridicule: The poet Ande has a green shirt? This year and a million. Since then, the West Lake has been planted with willows, and the remaining mulberry trees have been planted to raise Silkworms.
After that, the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty was actually the rule of Shi Miyuan, under the control of Shi Miyuan, Song Ningzong was still an emperor who could not live out of his nest, and when he died of illness at the age of 57, he could not change such a period of history: his crown prince did not become emperor, but was replaced by Emperor Zhao Yun, who was established by Shi Miyuan, and in the late Ningzong to the early Lizong period, the Zhao Song Dynasty was actually not surnamed Zhao, but surnamed Shi.
Song Ningzong, who chanted soft words, was not actually an emperor with a sound and color, Shi Zai, he was "silent and colored, no entertainment, no pleasure in drinking, no extravagance, no profit, no tyranny." In life, he is more frugal, it is said that whenever he eats, he always orders two small yellow doors to carry two small screens of "eat less wine, afraid of vomiting" and "eat less raw cold, afraid of illness" as a precursor. However, Song Ningzong may not know that the real Hero, in addition to these, the key point is to have the heroism to judge the situation and the royal spirit to turn the tide, and these are obviously not possessed by Song Ningzong, who has been a puppet all his life.