The ancient throne was the center of the whirlpool of power struggles, and those who fought for power and profit coveted this supreme throne. Since there is the joy of the new ascendant, there is correspondingly the loneliness of the king of the fallen kingdom.
However, if he loses to his opponent because of his own lack of ability, the king of the subjugated country will not be wronged. But before they could feel the power brought by the emperor, they had to experience the lonely existence of the king of the fallen country. He was Emperor Gong of Song.
The four-year-old Emperor Gong of Song inherited the throne from his father. In the eyes of many people, this may be a kind of luck, after all, at the age of four, he can be a person on the top, but he does not know that for Emperor Gong of Song, this is the beginning of suffering.
By the time he took the throne from his father, the country was on the verge of extinction, and he certainly didn't know it. Even when the Southern Song Dynasty was later captured by the Yuan army, and he was ordered to go to Dadu by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, as the king of the subjugated country, he still did not know anything. So, why, half a century after the death of the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Gong of Song became a high monk, but he still could not escape the fate of death?
Later, Kublai Khan made Emperor Gong of Song the Duke of Yingguo. In his old age, in order to show that he did not have a rebellious heart, the Duke of Yingguo asked the Buddha to become a monk, and Kublai Khan agreed to his request, so with kublai Khan's support, he went to the Sakya Monastery in Tibet to become a monk.
In the temple, he immersed himself in learning Tibetan, and within a few years, with his outstanding talent, he became familiar with Tibetan, and then translated the famous "Hundred Laws and Ming Gate Theory" and "Theory of Entering the Right In the Ming Dynasty" and other Tibetan languages, and his fame soared, and he later developed into an abbot.
I thought that Emperor Gong of Song spent the rest of his days chanting in the temple, but he did not expect that he would not be able to escape Kublai Khan's poisonous hands.
What was unexpected was Kublai Khan's reason for killing Emperor Gong of Song. It turned out to be because of a poem.
Emperor Gong of Song ascended the throne in 1274, when he ascended the throne at the age of 4. Two years later, Empress Xie of the Southern Song Dynasty surrendered at Kaesong, Lin'an, and since then, the Southern Song Dynasty has formally perished. At that time, Emperor Gong of Song was only 6 years old. That is to say, he actually had no impression of his career as emperor, and his impression of Lin'an and the Southern Song Dynasty was also vague.
When in 1323 AD, the quiet life of Emperor Gong of Song was broken, he understood his identity, remembered the past, recalled the vague memory of his homeland, not only sad from it, so he wrote a poem "In Yanjing" to express his heart, and his poem is:
Message to Lin Hejing, how many degrees of plum blossoms bloom?
The golden table should not return.
The last two sentences of this poem use the allusion that King Yan Zhao placed a lot of money on the golden platform to attract sages, comparing himself to a sage, indicating that he was treated by the Yuan Dynasty, that he was a "guest of the golden platform", and no longer wanted to return to Lin'an.
Throughout, it shows that he misses his hometown, but also shows that he has no intention of rebellion, in fact, even homesickness is expressed very implicitly.
It is also reasonable to say that Emperor Gong of Song suffered such a difficult period since he was a child, inheriting the throne at a young age, but what he got was aggression from the Yuan army and the oppression of changing dynasties. It was difficult to get rid of the identity of the monarch, to feel life in the temple, it is inevitable to have some feelings in the heart, and it is reasonable to write a poem, which is the common feeling of people.
To say that at this time, Emperor Song Gong still had any big plans and other ideas in his heart, I am afraid that the probability is not great, after all, what he realized from childhood is not the superiority of being a king, but the sinister rivers and lakes that he has to face as a king, and the terrible places in the center of power. Therefore, perhaps for Emperor Gong of Song, this imperial position really did not have much appeal.
However, because this poem fully expressed his longing for the Southern Song Dynasty and expressed Emperor Gong of Song's condemnation of the Yuan Dynasty government's unreasonable attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, he violated the literal prison.
However, when the poem "In Yanjing" by Emperor Gong of Song reached the ears of Emperor Yuan Yingzong of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, who did not think so, Yuan Yingzong was furious and ordered the death of Emperor Gong of Song, who died at the age of 53.
Regarding the ending of Emperor Gong of Song, the Chinese "Chronicles of the Buddha" has this sentence: "In April of the third year of zhizhi (1323), he died in the Golden Book collection of monks and monks in Hexi."
For this ending, it is clear that Yuan Yingzong believes that Emperor Song Gong still has the idea of rebellion, but in fact, it is only because Yuan Yingzong is worried that if Emperor Song Gong does not die for a day, the people under his original rule will still have a little thought, and wait for someone to revive the Great Song. And giving death to Emperor Gong of Song is equivalent to eliminating such a possibility, so Song Yingzong did not want his life because Emperor Gong of Song wrote a poem, this is just an excuse.
In this way, even if Emperor Gong of Song became a monk and recited the sutra all day and ignored the world's affairs, he still could not escape a death, which could only be blamed on his untimely birth.
What do you think about that?