Since ancient times, the red face has a thin life, tired of being speechless against the East Wind.
Each dynasty has several strange emperors, and each dynasty may have a Ming Emperor or an affair.
It is precisely these things that constitute the glory and disgrace and rise and fall of each dynasty, and there is a good side, and naturally there is a bad side. History has also become colorful and mysterious because of these good and bad things.
We are going to talk about the second emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi, who was a rare Ming Emperor among the many emperors of the Song Dynasty, but he always had more superiority on the positive pole, and he could not escape the arrangement of wild history.
Young couple, red face and thin life
To talk about This affair of Zhao Guangyi, we must start from his brother Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Because this story is related to his sister-in-law.
Zhao Kuangyin had taken three wives, and when he was a general, he married his first wife, He Shi.
When he had not yet become emperor, he did not abandon Zhao Kuangyin, because Zhao Kuangyin had to fight everywhere, often did not go home, and always worried about his life.
He Shi is a virtuous wife, she understands her husband's hardships, keeps herself at home, and never does transgressions.
As the standard daughter-in-law of feudal society, He Shi was also very filial to her in-laws, but unfortunately, such a beautiful and virtuous and understanding wife did not accompany him for too long and died before he could ascend to the treasure.
Later, Zhao Kuangyin launched a coup d'état and sat on the throne, and after becoming emperor, he did not forget the kindness of his late wife, and He Shi was posthumously named empress, and he often missed her.
However, after becoming emperor, there were too many factors to consider, even if he missed his deceased wife, he could not withstand the voice of the court, and in the consideration of political marriage, Zhao Kuangyin married a second wife in order to stabilize the situation, that is, Empress Xiaoming.
Although this empress was the best candidate for the throne, and she was gentle in nature and respected Zhao Kuangyin, it was a pity that she did not survive for three years before she died, nor did she leave a son and a half daughter for Zhao Kuangyin.
Yearless love, can not end well
After Empress Xiaoming's death, zhao kuangyin also married a third wife, that is, Empress Xiaozhang, in order to stabilize the dynasty. The third empress is different from the previous two, and it is very detailed in the History of Song, but we will not elaborate on it today.
Because she was from a noble family, and when she married Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin was already fifty years old, and the two of them were a yearless love.
Empress Xiaozhang knew that Dali did not look at anyone because of her family arrogance, and although her union with Zhao Kuangyin was said to be pear blossom begonia, it was a praiseworthy empress love. This situation was really rare in ancient times.
However, the hard-won happiness of his later years was not long, and Zhao Kuangyin died a few years after marriage, leaving the young Empress Xiaozhang to be widowed for him.
In his youth, he had a virtuous wife who did not abandon him but could not stay with him for a long time, and in his later years, he had to meet a person he liked and his time was short, and heaven was really very good at teasing people.
It can really be said that "I was not born when I was born, but I am old when I was born." ”
But the more dramatic is not here, but in the aftermath of Zhao Kuangyin's death, and the historical records of Zhao Kuangyin's real cause of death are also endless, and the ending of Empress Xiaozhang is also lamentable.
How much do you know about the past
On the night of Zhao Kuangyin's death, there were also many mysteries. It is said that late that night, Zhao Kuangyin wanted to invite his younger brother Zhao Guangyi to the palace to drink together on a whim.
He also let him stay in the palace, and coincidentally, zhao Kuangyin died violently the next morning, and Zhao Guangyi, as the only one who stayed by the emperor's side, naturally became the first object of suspicion.
However, in the face of gossip, Zhao Guangyi only came up with a "Golden Alliance" that had never appeared before, saying that Taizu had already decided to pass the throne to him after death, so the matter of usurping power and usurping the throne was not established.
However, whether this matter is true or false, and whether the "Golden Alliance" exists or not, it is impossible to verify it now.
We all know that later Zhao Guangyi married his brother Zhao Kuangyin and became Emperor Taizong, and since then, the Song Dynasty has opened a new chapter.
However, after Zhao Guangyi became emperor, he did not treat his eldest sister-in-law kindly, although Empress Xiaozhang was only twenty-four years old at this time, much younger than him, but after all, she was the sister-in-law left by her brother and his elder.
But Zhao Guangyi still ignored her.
Human indifference to this is really lamentable. With such an act, it is no wonder that later historians believe that Zhao Guangyi killed his brother and seized his throne.
Looking back on Zhao Kuangyin's life, in addition to his contribution to the Song Dynasty, there seems to be no period of time in married life that makes him feel at ease.
Heaven always wanted to joke with him, and it was hard to have a favorite person, but he went early. After his death, the throne was taken away by his own brother, and the widow he left behind was not treated well.
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