China's five-thousand-year history is long and wonderful, including the Han Dynasty of "one Han when five Hu", the Tang Dynasty of all states, and the Ming Dynasty, which does not pay tribute and does not cut land and does not pay compensation, all of which are amazing dynasties in China's history. But when it comes to the Song Dynasty, many people sneer, although it is the richest dynasty in ancient times, and even the per capita GDP is not comparable to many modern countries, but the Song Dynasty is too weak, the foreign military is powerless, and diplomacy is either indemnity or land cutting.
Indeed, during the Song Dynasty, the loss of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and therefore the loss of the land to raise horses, without cavalry, it was impossible to confront the nomadic regime head-on. The Song Dynasty's policy of attaching great importance to literature and light force also made the country's combat effectiveness very weak, resulting in the failure of many battles. Even the Song Emperor Hui Qin Erzong was taken prisoner by the Jin and humiliated.
However, when it comes to the most miserable emperors, it is not the two of them, the Song Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty is worse than them, and after death, he was not let go, and his head was made into a wine glass by the Mongols and played with for nearly a hundred years, until Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition was not found, and then Zhu Yuanzhang's approach made everyone admire.
Zhao Yun of Song Lizong, the fourteenth emperor of the Song Dynasty and the fifth emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was the longest-reigning emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his reign of 41 years allowed him to enjoy glory and wealth. In the early days of Song Lizong, he was also able to exert great efforts to govern, reform the maladministration, and unite with the Mongol army to destroy the Jin State, avenging the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, in his later years, he was addicted to drunken dreams and could not extricate himself, and the imperial court was controlled by the traitorous minister Jia Xiangdao, and finally died in 1264, and 15 years after his death, the Southern Song Dynasty fell.
After Song Lizong's death, his body was soaked with mercury, so it did not decay for decades after burial. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty by the Yuan Dynasty, a demon monk named Yang Lian Zhenjia was sent to Jiangnan as a general manager, and Yang Lian Zhenjia learned that song Lizong had a large number of burial items after his death, so he dug up the cemetery of Song Lizong. After seeing Song Lizong's corpse, he was amazed and hung the body on a large tree outside the mausoleum and drained the mercury.
When Yang Zhenjia saw Song Lizong's head, he was very interested, and then cut off his head to make a wine vessel. It turned out that Song Lizong was born with a large head, especially a forehead much larger than ordinary people, so he was valued by Yang Zhenjia, made into a wine cup, and then handed over to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, becoming a treasure played by the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. Poor Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, after his death, was not only whipped and beheaded, but even his head became a wine cup in the hands of the enemy.
It was not until 1367 that Zhu Yuanzhang swept away the southern princes and ordered Xu Da to often encounter the Spring Northern Expedition and overthrow the Yuan Dynasty in one fell swoop. After Xu Da captured the Yuan capital, he found a wine glass made by Song Lizong's head in the imperial palace. After being reminded by the historian Wei Su, who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, he learned that it was the head of Emperor Lizong of Song, so he handed it over to Zhu Yuanzhang.
After Zhu Yuanzhang learned of this, he hurriedly buried the head of Song Lizong in Nanjing as an emperor, and the following year moved to the Yongmu Mausoleum of Emperor Lizong of Shaoxing for burial, Zhu Yuanzhang's practice was admired by many Han people, and many literati who claimed to be descendants of the Song Dynasty had a great affection for Zhu Yuanzhang, so many readers came to the imperial court to seek officials and solved the problem of lack of manpower at the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's founding.
It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang's wisdom is indeed extraordinary, and by handling the head of Song Lizong, he not only bought people's hearts and showed a different style from that of the Northern Yuan, but also took advantage of this to attract a large wave of talents and solve the urgent need for the country's lack of manpower. If Song Lizong's Spirit in Heaven knew about it, he would be blinded when he thought about it.