After Zhao Kuangyin's death, what happened to his young and beautiful Empress Xiaozhang, who was only 24 years old, of the Song clan? In the history books, after the death of Zhao Kuangyin, Empress Song let the marriage of Zhao Defang, the fourth son of Zhao Kuangyin, the fourth son of Zhao Kuangyin, was still very harmonious, and after the death of Song Taizu, Zhao Guangyi succeeded him, and since then, Empress Song has never enjoyed the treatment and respect of being the mother of a country. At that time, he was only 17 years old, a year younger than Zhao Kuangyin's eldest son Zhao Dezhao, a typical old man and young wife, but the two people were still very affectionate. After Zhao Kuangyin's death, how did Zhao Guangyi treat the 24-year-old empress sister-in-law?
The 17-year-old Empress Song was a full 25 years younger than Song Taizu, and it is said that Zhao Dezhao, the eldest son of Song Taizu, was 1 year older than her. Although Empress Song was young, she was nurtured by her family since childhood, and Zhishu Dali governed the Song Dynasty very well, and he always had a wish in his heart, that is, to recover Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, but he has not been successful. Even if he personally led the soldiers, he could not realize this wish of his own. After Zhao Kuangyin's death, only empress Dowager Song and two sons, Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang, were left. The Song clan was of considerable origin, his birth mother was Princess Yongning of the Later Han Dynasty, and his father was the Left Wei general Song Wei. Therefore, from a young age, the Song clan knew the book Dali and had a degree of progress and retreat. After ascending to the throne, he not only broke the convention that the new monarch should change the year number in the following year, but also directly changed the ninth year of Kaibao to the first year of the rejuvenation of the country. Moreover, his honorable imperial concubine was not treated with the courtesy of the empress dowager. It was also forbidden for all the subjects to participate in the funeral, and the coffin was parked in the Puji Buddhist Temple, and then under various pressures, the imperial concubine was buried, and she was not allowed to be buried with Song Taizu, but only buried in the northwest of Song Taizu's mausoleum.
But after Empress Song died, Zhao Guangyi was another face, after her death, not only did she not mourn the emperor's sister-in-law, but also did not allow the ministers of the DPRK to mourn, and did not act in accordance with the empress's system at all, there was a minister who could not bear to see that Zhao Guangyi had always been known for his lust, whether he had done anything to this poor young sister-in-law, it was unknown, for why Zhao Guangyi treated Empress Song in this way, some people speculated that it was because when Song Taizu died, only Empress Song was also weak and pitiful, which was equivalent to acknowledging Zhao Guangyi's identity as an emperor. After Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, the widow Empress Song had no news. Zhao Guangyi has always been known for his lust, has he ever manipulated this poor young sister-in-law? It's all unknown.
Zhao Guangyi was cold and ruthless, and there was no trace of family affection to speak of, which caused the young Empress Song to be depressed and unhappy for many years, and spent 20 years alone in the cold wind and rain. Song Taizu's two sons, Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang, also died mysteriously during this period. Both people inherit the genes of the Zhao family in their bodies, so Zhao Guangyi is also a very politically minded person. But because of the haste of Zhao Kuangyin's death, many things did not have time to be arranged, especially his harem beauties. Perhaps because zhao Guangyi had some opinions about the imperial concubine, after Zhao Guangyi took the throne, because the Song empress was the imperial concubine who could not become the empress dowager, he named her "Kaibao Empress". Zhao Guangyi was so weak and widowed, he was worried that Zhao Kuangyin's descendants and Empress Song would jointly rebel, if it were not for the internal servants who betrayed Empress Song, the throne might not be Zhao Guangyi's, plus Empress Song's family power was very strong, these are the places where Zhao Guangyi was jealous.
You can't go too far. When Empress Song woke up in the early morning and saw that her husband was dead, he did not speak up, because this was a major event related to his future life. Empress Song's coffin was then parked in the palace of Princess Yan, the late sister of Song Taizu, and later in the Puji Buddha's House. It was not until 997 AD, under the pressure of various discussions, that Zhao Guangyi buried the imperial concubine in the northwest of the Yongchang Mausoleum of Song Taizu. It is said that zhao Guangyi's sister-in-law's age can be described as relatively small, of course, this is also according to our current vision, twenty-four years old is a relatively young woman now, but in ancient times, it may have been a little older. Moreover, Zhao Guangyi not only did not guard filial piety for the imperial concubine himself, but also forbade his courtiers to attend the funeral of the Song family, and what was even more excessive was that he also did not allow the Song family to be buried with the Song Taizu, and the tablet could not be enshrined in the ancestral temple.