The history dates back to the blood-stained spring of 1644, Li Zicheng led the Dashun peasant army to capture the outer city of Beijing, the Ming Dynasty that lasted for 276 years has run out of strength, seeing that the building handed down by the ancestors will fall, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, with pain and despair, decided to end the last integrity and face of the whole Ming Dynasty on his own.
However, before hanging himself, he personally beheaded his wife and daughter and several concubines in the harem with a blade. Why did Chongzhen do this? Looking at the tragic situation of the empress and princess in the shame of Jing kang in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is not difficult to understand.
In the second year of Jing Kang, the Jin people attacked the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, abducted Hui and the Second Emperor of Qin, and announced the annihilation of the Northern Song dynasty. According to the "Groaning Language", the Jin army plundered on a large scale, the national treasury was emptied, countless jewels changed hands, and no less than 100,000 men and women returned to the north. More than 3,000 people, including Hui, the Second Emperor of Qin, and his concubines, crown princesses, clansmen, and noble relatives, who were captured by the Jin army, were captured.
In just over a month, there are less than two thousand left. Du Mu has clouds in the poem "Chibi", "The East Wind does not cooperate with Zhou Lang, and the Copper Bird Spring locks Erqiao." This means that if the Battle of Chibi had not taken advantage of the East Wind at that time, burned the camp, and lost to the Eastern Wu side, then Zhou Yu's wife and her sister Qiao qiao would have been taken captive by Cao Cao and imprisoned in the harem.
From the bumpy fate of women, he writes about the tragic consequences of the country's defeat. At the time of Jing Kang's shame, even if you were emperors (i.e., princesses), they could not escape the fate of being slaves and prostitutes, and nine of the twenty-one emperors were forcibly occupied by the generals of the Jin army, and three of these nine emperors were soon tortured to death;
Eight of them were sent to the Jinguo Huan Courtyard and did all kinds of humble and despicable things, after which their lives and deaths are unknown; the other three died tragically in a prisoner-of-war camp.
In the history books, there are three or four small words, only a few words, but behind them are the bloody and painful lives of dozens of women. At that time, the Song Dynasty was captured in the Jin Dynasty, and a surrender ceremony called the "Sheep Rite" was to be held. The so-called "sheep-leading ceremony", as the name suggests, requires the captives to wear golden costumes, naked upper bodies, wearing sheep fur, with a rope around their necks, and to go to the Golden Temple for luggage.
Empress Zhu, the empress dowager of the Song Dynasty, was insulted by the public appearance of her breasts and breasts, and in order to maintain her chastity and integrity, she died at the age of twenty-six, sadly and weeping. The emperor fainted and incompetent, humiliated his wife and daughter, and degraded the country, but he himself did not live in the world with dignity.
After the jing kang rebellion, the kang king Zhao Zhuo luckily escaped the fate of being captured, and moved the capital south to Yingtianfu in Nanjing, known as the Southern Song Dynasty. A new regime was opened, but the people of the time were still blinded by the shadow brought about by the fall of half of the country and the northern hunting of the emperor. At the same time, a future immortal loyalist named Yue Fei, after the shame of Jing Kang, strengthened his political ambition to resist jin.
The old humiliation has not been forgotten with the washing of time, it is accompanied by the fear of defeat in the war to affect the entire Southern Dynasty and later generations, after the Battle of Jingkang, the high-level rulers retained by the Southern Song Dynasty are almost single-handed, and they no longer have the confidence and bloodiness to take up arms and fight against people. This also laid the groundwork for the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Analyzing the shame of Jing Kang and the cause of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, tracing back to its roots, lies in the concept of heavy literature and suppression of martial arts handed down from the Song Taizu period, the transfer of power to the central government, and the lack of attention to military subjects, which really prevented internal interference, but Zhao Kuangyin ignored the threat of foreign enemies.
Coupled with the last two emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, faint and cowardly, inactive, chaotic government, and strong enemies, they indeed constituted all the elements that should be possessed in the subjugation of the country.
From the shame of Jing Kang, the fate of the empress and princess can be glimpsed from the tragic situation of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, and the relatives of the emperor and the state are still like this, not to mention the common people. I am afraid that human life is as despicable as a weed, the country is broken, and the people who have survived are difficult to find relatives and friends. The country has been in danger and lives have been ruined. Taking history as a mirror, we must be equipped with strong military strength to deter others in order to concentrate on development, to ensure that the country's prosperity and prosperity are not invaded by foreign enemies, and then to benefit the people.