Everyone knows that the Song Dynasty was divided into the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, in fact, when the north and south alternated, there was another regime. Although this regime only existed for 3 months, it has a very important significance, which is Zhang Bangchang's Zhang Chu regime. After the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin Chen Qiao mutiny and the addition of yellow robes, the Song Dynasty finally unified the whole country after the efforts of two generations of emperors. However, after reunification, in order to prevent other generals from launching mutinies like Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin carried out large-scale reforms of the military and government. However, the reform also brought side effects, that is, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty was greatly affected, and it was taken up by the Liao state in the northwest, which led to the alliance of Tanyuan in the back.
After the Tanyuan Alliance, the Song Dynasty buried its head in development for many years, and finally found an opportunity to unite with the newly rising Jin State to defeat the Khitans. But in this process, the power is basically the Jin State, the Song Dynasty not only did not play a role, but lost to the Khitan many times, which also allowed the Jin State to have a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty, so after defeating the Khitans, turned around and began to attack the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was still very backbone at the beginning, and under the advice of the main war faction, it insisted on resisting, so that the Jin State agreed to negotiate peace. But the second time there was no such good luck, Jin Guo went all the way south, directly hit the capital of the Song Dynasty Kaifeng, and directly packed Hui, Qin Erzong, palace women, concubines, and countless palace treasures home, which is the famous "Jingkang Difficulty" in history.
General Kim Kwok-bong
After the Jin Dynasty defeated the Northern Song Dynasty, because of its lack of manpower, it wanted to find someone to establish a court and help him manage the territory in the south. They fell in love with Zhang Bangchang, the former lord and faction, and Zhang Bangchang thus became the "emperor" with the national name "Chu".
Although Zhang Bangchang advocated peace, in fact, he himself did not dare to risk the world's great disobedience to become this emperor. Later, the reason why he became this puppet emperor was also forced to be helpless, because jin Guoren told him that if he was not the emperor, it would be a bloodbath in Tokyo, and Zhang Bangchang finally helplessly ascended to the "emperor" throne and became this puppet emperor.
Zhang Bangchang
But Zhang Bangchang understood that although he was nominally an emperor, the ministers and the princes of the song dynasty could not listen to their own words, in order to leave a way back for themselves, they were careful everywhere in their daily lives, not wearing dragon robes, not sitting on the throne. Zhang Bangchang also set up his office in the Wende Hall (because the emperor's office was the Zichen Hall and the Hanging Arch Hall, deliberately not going to the emperor's office), and placed the desk and chair in the west direction (the emperor's seat was placed in the south direction, which could be different from the emperor). When some officials bowed down to them in order to curry favor, he hurriedly "arched to the east" and said that he could not accept the bowing ceremony; when he held meetings with officials, he called himself "giving" instead of "朕", and used "handwriting" instead of "holy will" when exchanging official documents. In short, Zhang Bangchang was very careful and did not dare to think of himself as an emperor.
Moreover, after Jin Jun left, Zhang Bangchang immediately announced his abdication, handed over the country and mountain to the Zhao family, and became a minister again in peace and stability. From this point of view, Zhang Bangchang is still very smart and knowledgeable about current affairs (although he was killed in the end).
Zhang Bangchang's Zhang Chu regime existed for only one month. Although the time was short, it played a very important role: on the one hand, it stabilized the situation in the north at that time, so that the inside and outside of the imperial court were relatively orderly, and the continuation of the Zhao dynasty and other related matters were also carried out in an orderly manner; on the other hand, because of the existence of the Zhang Chu regime, the Jin state did not kill in the north and did not rapidly move south, so that Zhao Zhuo could ascend to the throne smoothly and continue the Song Dynasty.