To say who the most politically incompetent emperor in ancient Chinese history is, it must be counted as the Song Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty. The historical Song Huizong did not know anything about the affairs of the court, and devoted himself to art, which led to the political darkness and corruption of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the military ability was even more vulnerable, and finally the Jin Army launched the Jing kang change, which led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Emperor Huizong of Song was a cowardly emperor, and after the Jing Kang Rebellion, he and many of his imperial relatives and nobles were captured by the Jin army, and during the days when they were taken captive by the Jin army, Zhao Tuo was physically and mentally tortured. When facing the wolf-like Jin Jun, he was deeply frightened, and even secretly drunk his beloved daughter, and personally sent her into the tiger's mouth, so that Zhao Fujin, who was originally a princess, was tortured and hated, and became a victim of Jing Kang's change.
1. Zhao Fujin, Emperor Maode
Emperor Huizong of Song was the younger brother of Emperor Zhezong of Song, and originally he had nothing to do with the throne, but Emperor Zhezong of Song had no heirs and had no way to pass on the throne, so the empress dowager ordered zhao to be made emperor. Zhao Tuo was crowned king very early, has been living an idle life as a prince, after sitting on the throne, he did not know anything about the affairs of the court, but had a lot of research on the art of calligraphy and painting, so he started to do art.
Although Zhao Tuo was politically incompetent, he had many children, and there were dozens of daughters alone. Among the many daughters, the fourth ranked Zhao Fujin was the most loved by Zhao Tuo, Zhao Fujin was the daughter born to Zhao Tuo and his favorite concubine, and Zhao Fujin was outstanding in appearance and gentle personality, like the most colorful flower in the flower bush, so Zhao Fujin was very fond of this daughter, giving her the title of Princess of Yanqing, and later changing her name to Maode Emperor Ji.
When Zhao Fujin reached the age of leaving the cabinet, Zhao Tuo personally selected a husband for her and married her to Cai Xia. Cai Tan is a young man with literary talent and positive values, and Zhao Fujin is also very satisfied with his husband. The two are very well matched, and their lives are happy and harmonious. Just when Zhao Fujin and his wife were planning a blueprint for a happy life, a change broke their beautiful fantasy. The occurrence of the "Jingkang Revolution" led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, and all the royal families of the Northern Song Dynasty were reduced to prisoners of the Jin Army.
Second, the introduction of wolves into the house triggered the "jingkang change"
When Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, he drew on the experience of the demise of the previous dynasty and implemented the political concept of emphasizing literature over military force, and the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty implemented this concept to the end, so in Zhao Yao's generation, it was natural that the country would still be rejuvenated by literature. The result of rejuvenating the country with culture is rapid economic development, but military construction is backward. In the eyes of other nomadic peoples, the Northern Song Dynasty was a piece of fat meat without the power to fight back, and everyone was looking at it.
After Zhao Tuo ascended to the throne, he reused the traitor Cai Jing only because Zhao Tuo and Cai Jing had resonance in the art of calligraphy and painting. On the one hand, Cai Jing courted Zhao Tuo, but on the other hand, he scourged the court behind his back, causing the court to smoke and miasma, and the national economy also plummeted, and the people revolted continuously. In this way, the Northern Song Dynasty became the target of attacks from many neighboring countries, and Zhao Tuo sent people across the sea to ask for help from the Jurchen Jinguo, attacked the Liao together, and promised to transfer the coins originally given to the Liao to the Jin Dynasty after repelling the Liao army, thus forming an "alliance on the sea".
When the Song-Jin coalition attacked Liao, because the Song army was scattered, the Song army attacked Liao nanjing several times without success, and later it was the Jin army that captured Liao nanjing. In this joint war against the Liao, the Jin State saw the vulnerable side of the Song State, so after the anti-Liao War, it launched a war against the Song State. The Jin army marched south twice and attacked Fenjing. Zhao Tuo hurriedly passed the throne to the crown prince Zhao Huan, but he still could not change the destruction of the country and the death of the family, and was taken away as a prisoner of the order, which is the "change of Jing Kang" in history.
Third, Zhao Fujin, who was regarded as a victim
After the Jin army captured Beijing, it took all the Northern Song imperial families captive, and also took away many rare treasures, calligraphy and painting playthings. The Northern Song dynasty royal family was insulted and tortured on the road to captivity, and the concubines of zhao yao's harem were taken away and tortured to death, and the Jin army treated them as beasts. Zhao Was forced to wear mourning clothes and was shown off in front of the Emperor of Jin as a trophy of war, after which he began a long life of imprisonment.
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Fujin and her husband Cai Tan were not spared and were captured by the Jin army. Cai Jing was originally the son of the traitor Cai Jing, but he was different from his father's nature, he was loyal to the country and devoted himself to protecting the Lord, but he did not end up well. After Zhao Fujin was taken captive, the yakuza around him was forcibly occupied by the Jin army, because of the physical and mental torture, the yakuza revealed to the Jin army that the Maode Emperor Ji was like a fairy face, and the flowers could not be reached, this sentence was learned by Yan Zongxian, and he came to Zhao Tuo and asked him to hand over the Maode Emperor Ji Zhao Fujin.
Zhao Tuo had been tortured to the point of near collapse at this time, but he still obeyed Yan Zongxian, joined forces with the others, drunk Zhao Fujin, and sent her to Yan Zongxian's military tent. Poor Zhao Fujin, when he was drunk and unconscious, had been personally sent into the tiger's mouth by his father, and the former noble princess had now become the plaything of the Jin Army, tortured every day, and ended up with hatred in less than a year.
epilogue:
The politically incompetent Zhao Tuo led the Northern Song Dynasty to its demise, and the "Jing kang change" became the shameful history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and even after being captured, Zhao Tuo also sent his daughter to the tiger's mouth, cutting off her life, making Zhao Fujin a victim and tortured to death. Perhaps Zhao Tuo is a genius in the art world, but for a country, Zhao Tuo is not worthy of being a monarch, and for Zhao Fujin, Zhao Tuo is not worthy of being a father.