After the jingkang rebellion, the northern song dynasty collapsed, the royal family in the capital was basically escorted to the five kingdoms city and taken prisoner, and the control of the northern territory of the Song dynasty also fell into the hands of the Jin people, and the Zhao royal family unanimously elected the ninth son of Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Zhao, to inherit the unification, known as the Southern Song Dynasty, thus forming a situation in which the Southern Song regime and the Jin regime faced off from the north and south.
The nine emperors of the Song Dynasty were Zhao Shuo of Song Gaozong, Zhao Xuan of Song Xiaozong, Zhao Chun of Song Guangzong, Zhao Kuo of Song Ningzong, Zhao Yun of Song Lizong, Zhao Yun of Song Duzong, Zhao Xian of Song Gong, Zhao Xuan of Song Duanzong, and Zhao Fu.
Among them, Guangzong, Emperor Gong, Ruizong, and Zhao Fu reigned for only three or five years, basically doing nothing, Ningzong, Lizong, Duzong, and Duanzong were mostly the princes of Shoucheng Anle, and the only hot-blooded young Emperor Xiaozong who was a little arrogant dared to go north, but in vain, he was clearly struck by the Jin people, and he could not leave a little meritorious deed, so it seems that the slightly more outstanding in the Southern Song Dynasty regime is the founder of the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong Zhao.
Although Zhao Zhuo did not have any merits, he was a little better in the Southern Song Dynasty, a bunch of inactive kings, at least his strategic tactics were in line with the national conditions at that time, and only then did he have the Southern Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years. Although everyone always feels that Zhao Shuo is a capitulation faction of the nest, don't forget that when he was young, Zhao Cuo was also a hot-blooded young man who actively resisted gold and defended his family and defended the country, but after experiencing the baptism of the vicissitudes of life, he truly understood the truth that he really could not defeat the nomads and had no money to fight.
War is not only a war of attrition, but also a contest of economy and national strength. During the Northern Song Dynasty, China's economic foundation was in the north, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, the economy and population of the north gradually moved south with the Southern Song Dynasty court, and the southern part of the Southern Song Dynasty was still depressed in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the problem faced by the imperial court was not simply the number of troops and the combat strength of the army, but whether it could organize a big war with unknown victory or defeat. In addition to raising taxes to the people to fill the deficit in military expenditure, Zhao Zhuo really couldn't think of any other way to raise military funds to support the war, so he decided to stop the war and discuss peace, abandon Yue Fei and other main station factions, reuse Qin Ju and other negotiators, and decide to stop the war and engage in economic development. Zhao Zhao's move was full of helplessness.
Because the war at this time, regardless of victory or defeat, it is of little significance, we can't hold on to the south and north of the Yellow River after winning the war, the front line is so long that supplies are a problem, and it will also cause crazy retaliation from the Jin people, the Southern Song Dynasty really can't afford to fight, it is better to take advantage of the conditions to negotiate, give the Southern Dynasty some time, the economic development is considering the recovery of lost land, Zhao Shuo's idea does have a certain rationality, and it is precisely because of the economic development of the future generations according to Zhao Shuo's strategy that there was a situation in which the Southern Song Dynasty was incompetent in the Northern Expedition and had more than enough to protect itself, for the entire Southern Song Dynasty regime. Zhao Zhuo has a great merit.