After the Chen Qiao Mutiny, Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, which blew a fresh atmosphere to the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. After that, the Song Dynasty existed for nearly three hundred and twenty years, through eighteen emperors. The course of these three hundred years can be described as ups and downs, ups and downs, and before and after the two major stages of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty.
During the one hundred and sixty-seven years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao, Western Xia, and Zhao and Song regimes in the north maintained a relatively balanced state. However, after the rise of the Jurchens in the north, they established the Jin Kingdom. The Jin Dynasty raised troops all the way south and attacked the capital city of Beijing, and after the Northern Song Dynasty collapsed, King Zhao of Kang established the Southern Song Dynasty.
Emperor Gaozong of Song pulled back the Great Song Dynasty on the edge of the precipice of the imminent demise of the Zhao and Song regimes. After experiencing a tug-of-war with Jin Bing, Zhao Zhuo lacked confidence and used the method of exchanging money for peace to sign a pact with Jin to achieve the rule of the river.
After Emperor Gaozong of Song, crown prince Zhao Xuan succeeded to the throne as Emperor Xiaozong of Song. Today we will talk about Zhao Yun's becoming emperor.
After the death of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding monarch of the Song Dynasty, his brother Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne. The future emperor has always been held by Zhao Guangyi, and so has Zhao Zhao.
Zhao Yun, on the other hand, belonged to Zhao Kuangyin's lineage, and on the basis of blood relations, even outside of Song Gaozong's "five clothes". Then, Zhao Xuan had all served five times, so why did Emperor Gaozong of Song choose him to be the crown prince?
The so-called "service" refers to the mourning clothes when paying homage to the deceased in ancient times, and "five" refers to five different kinds of mourning clothes, namely the five kinds of beheading, qi decay, great gong, small gong, and hemp. When someone dies, relatives will wear different mourning clothes according to the blood relatives, and the "five clothes" become a standard for measuring blood relations.
When we say that Zhao Yun "came out of five clothes", we actually mean that the relationship between him and Zhao Zhuo exceeded five generations. Although they are also surnamed Zhao, in fact, the relationship is already very far away.
Zhao Cuo's establishment of Zhao Yu as crown prince and his passing of the throne to him was actually a very helpless choice for Zhao Cuo.
Zhao Zhaowu became the biggest obstacle to his life choices. For him, the son became an uneven wound in his heart. In 1127 (the first year of Jianyan), the "Jingkang Rebellion" broke out, the Song Dynasty experienced great humiliation, and the Second Emperor Hui and Qin were captured by the Jin. The Jin army marched south, and Zhao Zhuo fled to Ying Tianfu, where he proclaimed himself emperor and established the Southern Song Dynasty.
At Ying Tianfu, Zhao Xu, Zhao Shuo's only son, fell to the ground. Zhao Shuo, who was only twenty years old, attached great importance to his children, gave him an official and a knighthood, and pinned almost all his hopes on the children.
Partiality often became an accelerator of destruction, because Zhao Zhuo favored the traitors and eunuchs, and the Jin soldiers once again marched south, and in 1129 (the third year of Jianyan), the Song generals Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan put him under house arrest and installed the three-year-old Zhao Xu as emperor. However, the "Miao-Liu Rebellion" soon subsided, and Miao Liu was ambushed, and Zhao Zhuo once again ascended to the emperor's position.
Although the phosphorescent-like Miao Liu rebellion was extinguished, Zhao Xu, who was only three years old, was greatly traumatized. According to the "History of Song", "The palace people mistakenly stomped on the golden furnace on the ground, and the prince was frightened, and the drama turned sharply. Zhao Xu died of fright, and after that, Zhao Shuo never gave birth to a prince again.
The throne must always be inherited by someone who shed the blood of the song dynasty royal family, and Zhao Zhuo fell into deep contemplation. He searched among the sons of the clan and finally chose Zhao Boqun and Zhao Bojiu as his adopted sons, and renamed them Zhao Xuan and Zhao Xuan respectively.
Compared with Zhao Xuan, Zhao Xuan is talented and intelligent, loyal and filial, and is deeply loved by Zhao Zhuo. In the second year of Shaoxing (1132), when the six-year-old Zhao Xuan entered the palace. After a good education in the palace, Zhao Yun grew up very quickly and has become an excellent prince, he "reads strongly and has special talents." "In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing (1161), the Jin soldiers attacked the south, and most of the ministers in the court advocated retreat in order to seek gouge.
Greed for life and fear of death is the worst quality, and the dilemma is the key moment to test a person's quality. Faced with this situation, Zhao Yun was very angry in his heart when he saw the situation, and he took the initiative to ask for help, saying that he would lead the army to recruit the Jin army.
Zhao Xuan had wisdom and courage, and Zhao Zhuo strengthened his belief in passing on to him. In 1162, Zhao Was made crown prince. Soon, Zhao Zhuo directly announced his abdication on the grounds that he was tired from ruling and needed recuperation, and pushed Zhao Xuan to the throne in advance.
Zhao Xuan's ability made Zhao Zhuo trust, and Zhao Xuan's loyalty and filial piety made him happy. Even though Zhao Xuan and Zhao Zhuo were far apart by blood, they eventually succeeded to the throne smoothly and became the most effective emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty in the eyes of many people.
History often has many coincidences, when Zhao Guangyi's pulse replaced Zhao Kuangyin's vein. Because of Zhao Guangyi's severe reprimand, Zhao Kuangyin's second son, Zhao Dezhao, committed suicide without a successor. More than one hundred and eighty years after Zhao Guangyi's descendants ascended the throne of the Great Song Dynasty, the regime returned to the hands of Zhao Kuangyin's descendants.