The book continues above, Zhao Kuangyin Ping Jingnan, Ke hou Shu, the destruction of the Southern Han Dynasty, the collection of Wu Yue, and the surrender of the Southern Tang Basically ended the situation of the division of princes from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and promoted the exchange of north-south exchanges and social and economic development.
In September of the second year of Jianlong, that is, in 961 AD, Empress Du was seriously ill, and Zhao Kuangyin served around. On the deathbed of Empress Dowager Zaidu, Zhao Pu, the chancellor of Xuancheng, entered the palace to record her last words. Empress Dowager Du persuaded Zhao Kuangyin to pass on zhao Guangyi after his death for the sake of the stability of Jiangshan Sheji. Zhao Kuangyin was very filial to his mother and agreed to her request. Because the last words are hidden in the Golden Cabinet (that is, the Cabinet), it is also the "Alliance of the Golden Horde". This is also the reason why after Zhao Kuangyin's death, his brother Zhao Guangyi, the King of Jin, succeeded to the throne. However, to this day, there are still objections to this agreement, because Zhao Kuangyin himself still has a son. The imperial family pays attention to the father's inheritance, the son's grandson, and the children's descendants. It is also rare for an imperial brother to be passed on to an imperial brother, and it may also be due to the fact that Zhao Guangyi has always accompanied Zhao Kuangyin and made a contribution to the southern conquest and northern warfare.
Empress Dowager Du's true face
In 976, Zhao Kuangyin was in his prime and spent his life on horseback. In the north, there was still a trend of confrontation between the Northern Han Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty. Originally, the Northern Han Dynasty regime was biased in a corner,
The people of the barren land and the poor people of the country were only one-eighth of the population in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The original strength was far from being able to compete with the Great Song Dynasty, but the support of the Khitan people caused Zhao Kuangyin to fail in his second conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty. This is also a serious illness in his heart. In the control of the Khitans because of the place where the warriors had to fight, the Song Dynasty had been looking at the south. In addition, since the later Jinshi Jingyao ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Khitans, if they did not take them back, the Khitans could approach the city of Bieliang in Tokyo within three days, and there was no danger to defend. Zhao Kuangyin was engaged in the third conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty, hoping to succeed. If you can subdue the Northern Han, the next step is Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures. Finally, there was also a big war with the Khitans. At this time, Zhao Kuangyin was also full of ambition and confidence. On the evening of October 19, Zhao Kuangyin invited Zhao Guangyi, the King of Jin, to drink in the palace, but just a few hours later, Zhao Kuangyin died. And in the "History of Song. There are nine words in the Taizu Benji that are discussed: "The emperor collapsed in the Taishi Hall, the year is fifty". Fifty years old is not a very old age for Zhao Kuangyin, who was born as a soldier in the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, and according to the "Old Records of Taizu Shilu", Zhao Kuangyin did not have any records of illness, and just fourteen days before his death, he also "lucky to teach the west and watch the Flying Mountain Sergeant Hair Stone". During this time, he traveled frequently and did not have any records of illness or summons to the imperial doctor. So why did Zhao Kuangyin suddenly die?
Song Taizu is really beautiful
Now, one of the more popular versions is the "Candle Shadow Axe Sound", which is based on the "Xiangye Shilu". Because of the wine he drank with Zhao Guangyi, after Taizu was drunk, he killed Zhao Kuangyin with a jade axe and succeeded to the throne smoothly. Later, after Zhao Guangyi took the throne, he took out the "Alliance of the Golden Plateau" to correct the situation, indicating that he was the established successor and not a usurpation of the throne. If Zhao Kuangyin was hacked to death by an axe, there must have been trauma that could be seen by others, but after the empress and others looked at it, it was found that Zhao Kuangyin's body was "jade-colored warm and warm like a tang mu" from the surface.
Candle shadow axe sound
There is also a saying that there is a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, in a painting called "Taizu Keju Tu" to see, Zhao Kuangyin is relatively obese, there is a potential possibility of cerebral hemorrhage, but also because of the night of the drink. In 1953, the former Soviet leader Stalin drank a lot of alcohol the night before his death, and it was determined that he died of a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage caused by drinking alcohol.
In any case, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is also a regretful life without a career. Also due to his sudden death, the third conquest of the Northern Han failed. As he said, "Life is like a white colt crossing the gap, and there must be a place to return." After Zhao Kuangyin's death, he was known as Emperor Yingwu Shengwen Shende and the temple name Taizu. Buried in the "Yongchang Mausoleum".
After Zhao Kuangyin's death, the coffin stopped at the Hall of Ten Thousand Years, and was sacrificed by the imperial brother, the empress dowager, the crown prince, and the minister of culture and martial arts every day. The following year, in April, the coffin was transported to the imperial tomb, Zhitian Township, present-day Gongyi City, Henan Province, for burial. There were more than 3,000 officials, guards, honor guards and concubines of the palace who escorted the hearse. According to local legend, when the burial is noon, you will overhear the "boring chirping"! With a sound, a white rabbit flew over and was bumping into the tong. Listening to the sound of "thumping" again, a large carp fell from the air to the drum. At this time, a stone man popped up on the east side of the mountain, facing the coffin as if in silence, these signs seem to indicate that Zhao Kuangyin's death has been known to God, so some people say that this is "a sign from heaven, the gods and men to hang", so later, the annual sacrifice of the Song Tombs was indispensable to carp and whole rabbits. The mountain to the east was also renamed "Stone Man Mountain", and the saying that "the jade rabbit beats the gong and the fish and drums, and the stone people on the mountain lay the monarch" spread in the mausoleum area.
A corner of Song Yongchang Mausoleum
People go to leave names, swallows go to leave sounds. As Zhu Yuanzhang said: Only emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty responded to the people, unified Haiyu, three hundred, and the civilization of the world. Those who have the virtue of the king and the merits of the world are also.
This is exactly "The Qin Emperor Han, Wu Luo lost the literary cai; Tang Zong Song Zu, slightly inferior, a heavenly pride, Genghis Khan, only know how to bend the bow and shoot the big eagle."