It is said that zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, did one thing, a cup of wine to release the military power, although it is said to be "rabbit dead dog cooking", Song Taizu dismissed all the military generals who helped him to open the country in the past, and easily withdrew the military power in their hands, but the whole thing from the beginning to the end, there was no bloodshed, and it was the emperor's seizure of power is a model of benevolence. But Zhao Kuangyin did not do this thing perfectly, he calculated everything, thinking that he had taken back the military power in the hands of the officer with a different surname and strengthened the centralization of power, but unfortunately he missed a person, and as a result, his Jiangshan was taken away by this person.
This person is Zhao Kuangyin's own brother, Zhao Guangyi, and it is no wonder that Zhao Kuangyin did not count him, who would have thought that his brother would plot against his throne? After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he used his younger brother Zhao Guangyi very much, and made Zhao Guangyi the capital of the palace, Zhao Guangyi's ability was not weak, and he made great contributions in the two battles of conquest of Li Chongjin and Taiyuan, so Zhao Guangyi was again named the King of Jin, ranking above the prime minister. One night in the ninth year of Kaibao, Zhao Kuangyin summoned Zhao Guangyi into the palace to drink, and stayed in the palace that night, and as a result, the bad news of the emperor's sudden violent death came from the palace the next morning, at the age of fifty, and then Zhao Guangyi took the throne for Song Taizong.
In fact, there are many theories in history about Zhao Guangyi's becoming emperor, that is, six years after he became emperor, Zhao Guangyi took out a suicide note hidden in the golden treasury, according to him, it was a suicide note that Zhao Kuangyin once wrote in front of Empress Du to pass the throne to his brother, in order to prove the rationality of his succession to the throne. However, in the wild history, it is speculated that Zhao Kuangyin was murdered by Zhao Guangyi, who intended to usurp the throne, which is not impossible, not to mention whether this alliance of gold is really Zhao Kuangyin's suicide note, let's say that Zhao Kuangyin suddenly died violently, which made everyone full of suspicion.
And according to Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Kuangyin passed on the throne to him, only temporarily, not to give the throne to Zhao Guangyi permanently, after all, no one will give up his throne to others, he made Zhao Guangyi promise that when Zhao Kuangyin's son is older, he should let Zhao Kuangyin's son take the throne. Unfortunately, after Zhao Guangyi took the throne, he only cared about his own son and drove Zhao Kuangyin's son to death.
As a result, several emperors after the Song Dynasty were zhao guangyi, and the Song Dynasty was gradually declining, after all, the national policy of "emphasizing literature and light weapons" was too extreme, especially in the case of strong external enemies. When it reached the generation of Emperor Huizong of Song, traitors in the DPRK and China were prevalent, controlling the government, and the entire ruling class only cared about their own pleasures, corruption and degeneration, and the attack of the Jin people was gradually approaching.
Soon the Song Dynasty had the Jing Kang Disaster, which was a famous event in ancient history, for the Central Plains Dynasty, it was really a great shame, the Jin army attacked Tokyo, captured Song Huizong, Song Qinzong father and son, a large number of Zhao royal family, harem concubines and guiqing, courtiers and other more than 3,000 people, escorted north, The city of Tokyo public and private savings were empty. The two emperors were forced to put on mourning clothes and accept the title of "Duke of Xiade", of which the royal family members of Zhao Shuo's lineage were basically taken captive, but Zhao Shuo had to avoid being captured by Jin Bing, and then fled to Nanjing to establish the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Constituted the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was for Emperor Gaozong of Song.
It is said that Emperor Gaozong of Song was frightened and lost his fertility on the way to flee south, and it is also rumored that Zhao Shuo was frightened by the enemy troops who rushed in when he was in the palace and the woman was warm, in fact, he had a son before, but unfortunately died at a young age. So Zhao Kuangyin had the opportunity to inherit the throne, Zhao Shuo said that his empress often had some dreams, in the dream there was the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Shuo planned to return the throne to Emperor Taizu's direct descendants, at that time this decision did make him a good reputation, who could have thought that he himself did not have the ability to have fertility to make this decision?
Zhao Shuo also left an eye in the matter of selecting an heir, if he let a powerful person inherit the throne, I am afraid that his future life will be difficult, so Zhao Shuo chose an heir among the young, still ignorant children, and finally he selected two eligible children, one of whom became the future Song Xiaozong, named Zhao Yun, he was the seventh grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Shuo regarded these two children as adopted sons, but did not declare them as princes, let alone the prince, Because Zhao Zhuo was still delusional that he could give birth to his own son, as a result, more than twenty years had passed, and he still had no son, so he planned to make Zhao Xuan crown prince. However, the chancellor and the empress dowager felt that another child, Zhao Zhen, was more suitable to be the crown prince, so Zhao Zhuo planned to test these two people again.
Zhao Zhuo found some beautiful women to reward the two separately, but did not explain his true intentions, Zhao Zhuo believed that the two children were already adults, but they did not know how they would deal with the temptations of the outside world, so he used the beauty plan to test the two. These beauties were all virgins when they were rewarded, and after a while, Zhao Zhuo sent people to check and found that the women who were rewarded to Zhao Xuan were not virgins, only the women around Zhao Xuan, or the complete body, Zhao Zhuo was very satisfied with Zhao Xuan, and decided to make him the prince, Shaoxing thirty-two years, Song Gaozong gave way to Zhao Xuan, so that the throne of the Song Dynasty returned to the Song Taizu line again.
During his reign, Emperor Xiaozong of Song was widely regarded by later generations as the most accomplished emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty; during his reign, he rehabilitated the unjust, false and wrongly decided cases of Yue Fei and others, no longer humiliated and sought peace, and used people of the main war faction to struggle against the main peace faction, and was determined to recover the Central Plains; in internal affairs, he strengthened the centralization of power, actively straightened out the rule of officials, eliminated redundant officials, punished corruption, attached importance to agricultural production, and the people's well-being, which was called "the rule of Qianchun" in history, and later generations called him "the head of the Emperors of Nandu." Sure enough, he was a descendant of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, and such a demeanor was really not inferior to that of ordinary emperors, so that the country he ruled was the strongest in the Southern Song Dynasty.