In the spring of the first year of Jing Kang (1126), Zhao Shuo, who was still the King of Kang, was sent by the Song Qin Sect to cross the Yellow River by the Song Jin army, and was later detained by the Marshal of the Jin Army, and the Jin people treated the Song Dynasty royal family unceremoniously, although Zhao Shuo did not show fear in the Jin camp, making the Jin people think that Zhao Zhuo was not a real prince, but Zhao Shuo was deeply impressed by this matter in his heart.
In the winter of the same year, Zhao Shuo appointed a marshal of the Terracotta Army, who was supposed to lead his soldiers and horses to rescue the Jing Division, but Zhao Shuo first moved to DamingFu in Beijing (present-day Daming City, Hebei Province), and then to Dongping Province (now part of Shandong Province), and the following year the Jingkang Rebellion occurred, and Zhao Shuo took the throne at Yingtianfu in Nanjing, as Emperor Gaozong of Song.
This emperor was not very good, and some ministers frantically proposed the main battle, but Zhao Didn't want to fight, so he knew himself, and those courtiers who knew how to read the emperor's mind knew. In the third year of Jianyan (1129), the Jin army invaded Yangzhou, and Zhao Zhuo had to cross the river to take refuge.
However, a wave of unrest arose again, the Southern Song Generals Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan launched a coup d'état, killing Wang Yuan, a member of the Privy Council who was trusted by Emperor Gaozong of Song, and a group of eunuchs, and Zhao Zhuo also lost his throne, fleeing for his life all the way, like a bird of fright, once Song Gaozong escaped by boat, a fish jumped into the boat that Zhao Shuo was sitting on.
Zhao Zhuo was so frightened that his face was white, his heart beat faster, and he almost thought that he was going to die huangquan, and at this time, a Wu palace girl said in time: "This is the auspicious omen of the Zhou ren white fish." According to the "Chronicle of History", when King Wu of Zhou crossed the river, the boat sailed to the middle of the river, and suddenly a white fish jumped on the boat, and then King Wu of Zhou sacrificed the fish to the sky, and as a result, two years later, King Wu of Zhou officially cut down the river, and the Shang Dynasty collapsed.
Wu's words made Zhao Shuo instantly settle down, and Wu's armor made Zhao Shuo feel particularly secure, although Wu was just a weak woman, but Zhao Shuo needed this layer of comfort too much, not to mention that Wu was smart, and several times Wu could speak kindly, so that Zhao Shuo was spared a disaster.
Wu's time with Zhao Shuo was not short, but he basically acted as a guard, but the experience of common suffering made Zhao Shuo look at Wu differently, so he made Wu a talented person, and soon after he was given the title of "Wanyi".
And Zhao Zhuo "restored" with the help of a group of civilian ministers and military generals, and re-became the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and then moved the capital to Hangzhou, and the heel of the Southern Song Court was firmly established, in 1142, Jin Bing released Back Tonying Empress Xianren, the mother of Emperor Gaozong of Song, and Empress Xing, the wife of Emperor Gaozong of Song, had long since passed away.
Therefore, the selection of empress of Emperor Gaozong of Song became a hot topic of discussion in the imperial court, and Wu was naturally on the list, so Wu was appointed as an empress, and Wu was clever and clever, sympathetic, and did not make any major incidents in the harem, and received a lot of praise.
As we all know, among the many emperors of the past dynasties, although Song Gaozong experienced ups and downs, and then feared the military generals, blindly seeking peace, but he was a rare longevity emperor, living to the age of 81, and Empress Wu of Zhao Zhuo was also a long-lived person, who went through the four dynasties of Song Gaozong, Song Xiaozong, Song Guangzong and Song Ningzong.
It may also be because Empress Wu did not like to participate in the government, so she lived so long and was able to die well, and who could have imagined that at first she was just a "bodyguard" around Song Gaozong, only because of her meritorious escort, she was looked at differently by Song Gaozong and was directly crowned empress.