"When pink dai, where was the sheng zhen?" - "Folding Gui Ling, Asking Qin Huai"
In the Chinese dynasties, Emperor Renzong of Song was not a particularly powerful emperor. In terms of merit, he did not expand the territory, and as much land as his ancestors handed down, he passed on as much land as he passed on to his descendants. In terms of economic development, he is not commendable, even if he once supported the New Deal of the Qingli Calendar, but in the end it ended in failure.
However, even so, Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong was unexpectedly regarded by later generations as one of the rare Ming Emperors in history. The reason for this is that the greatest advantage of his life is that he knows the "way of self-preservation" and can advance into the "advice" of others. Emperors who hold the power of life and death usually become arrogant, but Song Renzong is not like this, he has been extremely kind to others all his life, and he can stick to the "bottom line" of his heart, which makes people very admirable. This can be seen from his emotional entanglement with Cao's.
Empress Cao
Cao Bin, who has the reputation of "the first good general of the Song Dynasty", is the grandfather of Empress Cao, and her family frequently produces civilian generals. Born in such a family, Empress Cao naturally received a good education from an early age. Therefore, she not only has poetry and ritual music and historical classics, but also has the wind and bones of a martial artist inside.
Moreover, unexpectedly, Empress Cao was not a lady raised in a deep boudoir, but a "female man" who had personally worked with Nongsang Nuhong and experienced the hardships of Harvesting. Of course, she is naturally different from the "female man" in people's impressions now, although her temperament is eclectic, she knows the virtue of thrift and thrift.
Therefore, after Emperor Renzong of Song deposed Empress Guo, cao, who was only 17 years old, was recruited into the palace by Empress Yang, and in September of the following year, she was made empress. What is different from ordinary women is that Empress Cao's temperament has not changed after "motherly world", but has paid more attention to her own self-cultivation. Under her advocacy, the atmosphere of thriftiness and honesty in the palace was great, and more attention was paid to the livelihood of the people and the well-being of the people.
So, is there a love between Empress Cao and Song Renzong? Maybe there is, maybe not, and it's a rather complex issue. Song Renzong treated people with kindness, and naturally liked Empress Cao, who had both good looks, and Empress Cao was naturally extremely considerate of Song Renzong, the emperor.
However, perhaps due to their respective personalities, or perhaps various inconvenience factors, the love between them looks a little "deformed". If you look at the intersection of their lives, there may be no feelings between them, or perhaps the feelings between them are too "plain" to be elusive.
Emotional entanglement
Did Emperor Renzong of Song love Empress Cao? Presumably there should be some. After all, compared with Empress Guo, Empress Cao was so perfect no matter how she looked at it. In terms of dealing with people, he is not only lenient and treats others, but also never competes with other concubines for jealousy, which is simply a perfect sage.
However, Song Renzong's feelings for Empress Cao were extremely complicated. Because Empress Cao was after Cao Bin, as the daughter of the Shogun family, the reason why she entered the palace to become an empress was actually mostly the meaning of Empress Yang. For this kind of political marriage, Song Renzong was more or less dissatisfied.
In addition, an incident occurred on the eighteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of the Qing calendar, which may have made Song Renzong even more concerned. On that day, Yan Xiu, a pro-military military attaché, and others rebelled, slashing and killing the military academy and then killing all the way to the emperor's residence. Song Renzong heard the change of voice and wanted to flee outside. However, at this time, Empress Cao, who had always been quiet, after stopping Song Renzong, as if commanding Ruoding's army general, first anticipated that the rebels would set fire and let people prepare buckets of water in advance to wait for work, and then personally encouraged the eunuch guards, and finally completely destroyed the rebels.
The reason why the rebels can be solved this time is that Empress Cao has the wind of a general to be perfectly solved. However, Song Renzong felt that this incident was arranged by Empress Cao in order to show her strength. Even if he had no evidence to prove that this was true, he was even more wary of Empress Cao and the family behind her.
Because of this, Song Renzong's feelings for Empress Cao were quite complicated. In the face of such a perfect sage, who doesn't like it? But Empress Cao was so perfect that when Song Renzong favored Zhang Meiren, he never fought for the wind, so that he could not get positive feedback from Empress Cao. As a result, between Song Renzong and Empress Cao, it seemed too "plain".
There is a clear distinction between public and private
If you deeply understand the life of Empress Cao, you will find that she is really a virtuous empress, and later even a virtuous empress, the empress dowager. But the emotional entanglement between her and Song Renzong is not so obvious.
In short, as a "mother of the nation" who became an empress at the age of 18, the role played by Empress Cao is perfect. Whether it was assisting Song Renzong or teaching Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu, they all performed perfectly. Before she died, she was even more worshipped as a beautiful talk for eternity because she rescued Su Shi.
But it was precisely because she behaved so perfectly throughout her life that she became a highly faced figure in history. This in turn makes her not play a "good wife" image. The obvious example is that she never competes for the wind.
Zhang Meiren was pampered and proud, and Song Renzong himself knew it, but he was very fond of Zhang Meiren. Obviously, as the emperor of a country, Song Renzong is also a man in the end, and he knows that Zhang Meiren's actions are all because of himself, then he will naturally steal pleasure in secret.
And Empress Cao knew that she was jealous of Song Renzong's struggle for the wind but was indifferent, saying that it was good for the harmony of the harem, but it was not good to say that she had no feelings for Song Renzong, so it didn't matter? Obviously, Song Renzong, who did not get positive feedback, may not have thought so.
In his later years, Emperor Renzong of Song was sometimes delirious, and it is said that he shouted that Empress Cao and Zhang Mao were plotting rebellion, frightening Empress Cao not lightly. Under the palpitations of the heart, naturally there was some alienation from him. In this way, Song Renzong understood even more that Empress Cao "did not like" him.
Therefore, until the time of Song Renzong's death, the couple had lived for 30 years, but they were still more like a "superficial couple" between them.
epilogue:
Of course, no matter what the feelings between Song Renzong and Empress Cao are, the evaluation of both in history is not bad. From another point of view, if you change to other emperors, when you meet such an empress who you don't like, will you try to abolish it? But Song Renzong did not, which is a major advantage of his adherence to the "self-preservation way" and listening to the "advice".
As for Empress Cao, she has scrupulously abided by the rules of "motherhood" all her life, and the three dynasties of Emperor Renzong, Emperor Yingzong, and Emperor Shenzong can be said to have truly achieved the High Wind and Bright Festival and the Hundred Ages. In this way, the decades of their husband and wife's life, how the feelings are, it is not very important.
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