Zhao Guangyi, emperor of the Song Dynasty, was really the most insidious and deepest emperor in history. This big brother seems to have been born with a mind of intrigue and trickery. He is not good at fighting, he is good at making small moves behind his back.
His elder brother Zhao Kuangyin defeated the Great Song Dynasty, and he came with an axe candle shadow, so he sent his brother to fight with the King of Yan for the landlord
He sat on the throne without saying a word, despite the opposition of the people.
After that, Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was imprisoned in the attic and sullen,
Wrote a poem "Yu Meiren", Zhao Guangyi looked at it, this is clearly the intention to restore the country, so he killed him.
Wu Yueguo's Qian Li was originally called Qian Hongli, because he had a word with Zhao Kuangyin's father Zhao Hongyin, so he erased Hong.
He was very well-behaved, and he had already accepted the soil and returned to song. On the tenth anniversary of his surrender to the Song Dynasty, it coincided with his 60th birthday. Zhao Guangyi sent several emissaries to accompany Qian Li to drink until midnight, and the next day he hung up.
Only Meng Chang's death had nothing to do with Zhao Guangyi. Meng Chang was the last emperor of Later Shu, in 965, Zhao Kuangyin laid the shu land, Meng Chang was twisted to Beijing, and died mysteriously 7 days later. He was only 47 years old when he died, and Zhao Guangyi had not yet come to power.
Zhao Kuangyin was good to Li Yu, and Zhao Guangyi was too hateful.
Zhao Kuangyin can be regarded as a benevolent prince, and after this eldest brother seized the world, a hero did not kill, only deprived them of military power, and let them go home and become rich men, which was rare in all dynasties.
He was actually good to Li Yu, and after Li Yu's Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed by him, Li Yu had to drag his family to the capital city and became a prisoner of the Song Dynasty.
Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, and he first disobeyed the marquis, Gat Jin, and was made the Duke of Longxi County. In the second year of the Taiping Revival, Yu said that he was poor, and he gave Yue Feng an increase, but still gave three million yuan. Emperor Taizong tasted the honor of reading books in chongwenyuan, summoned Yu yu and Liu Xun, and Ling Guan, saying: "Wen Qing is good at reading in Jiangnan, and this old thing of Jian Ce Duoqing is quite well read when he returns to the dynasty?" Yu Dun thanked him. Died in July of the third year, at the age of forty-two. On the third day of the abolition of the dynasty, he was given the title of Taishi and posthumously awarded the title of King of Wu. --- History of the Song Dynasty
Zhao Kuangyin made him the Marquis of Disobedience, meaning that he had fought against the Song Dynasty and belonged to the rebellious people. But because he was also an emperor in the past, he was still given a knighthood.
During Zhao Kuangyin's reign, although Li Yu was imprisoned for a long time, he was served with good food and drink. During this time, he also wrote a lot of poems, which spread to the streets and alleys.
It can be seen that Zhao Kuangyin is quite good to Li Yu, at least giving him relative freedom. After Zhao Guangyi came to power, the situation completely changed. According to some historical records, Zhao Guangyi had long coveted Li Yu's daughter-in-law Xiao Zhouhou.
For this reason, as soon as Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to summon Xiao Zhouhou into the palace. Li Yu could only weep at Gong'e, and there was bitterness that could not be said. To this end, he worked even harder to write a number of sad lyrics.
After Li Yu finished creating the famous "Yu Meiren", Zhao Guangyi was furious, thinking that Li Yu did not know how to lift up, and was actually suspected of rebellion, so he gave Li Yu a cup of poisoned wine and gave Li Yu to death. After Li Yu died, Xiao Zhouhou also committed suicide.
No matter how well Qian Hongli betrayed him, he could not escape the fate of being killed.
Qian Hongli, the king of Wuyue, did not have any backbone at all. When Later Zhou was there, Qian Hongli paid tribute to Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, and when Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, Qian Hongli came to follow Zhao Kuangyin again.
In the first year of Yongxi, he was renamed the King of Hannan. In the spring of the fourth year, he was created the King of Nanyang by Wushengjun Jiedu. He was ill for a long time and was dismissed from resignation. Will hair, give jade belts, golden spit pots, bowls and so on. Qiu Si made the king on the table and changed the title to King Xu. In the spring of the first year of duangong, he was enfeoffed as King Deng. The imperial court sent envoys to give birthday coins, and feasted and drank with the messengers to the curtain, and there was a large meteor before falling to bed, and the candle was in a court, which was a night storm, sixty years old. --- History of the Song Dynasty
Comparatively speaking, Li Yu has a lot more backbone than Qian Hongli. At least when Li Yu faced the destruction of the country and the death of his family, he had resisted, while Qian Hongli did nothing, just blindly flattered the other party.
When Zhao Kuangyin's army went south, Li Yu
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Invite Qian Hongli to rise up and resist together, but Qian Hong
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He actually helped Zhao Kuangyin to deal with Li Yu.
As a result, after Li Yu's Southern Tang dynasty was destroyed, Qian Hongli could only give Wu Yueguo to Zhao Kuangyin.
To put it nicely, he did this for the people of Wu Yueguo, and to put it ugly, he did it without backbone.
Qian Hongli had planned to stay behind in his wu yue state, but when he went to pay tribute to the capital, he was detained by Zhao Guangyi.
In order to survive, Qian Hongli had to give the entire territory of Wuyue to the Song Dynasty.
After that, Qian Hongli never returned to his fiefdom, but lived in the capital city.
When he was 60 years old, it had been 10 years since he had returned to Song. At the banquet that night, Zhao Guangyi sent several emissaries to celebrate the birthday, and these people accompanied Qian Hongli to drink wine for a long time, and when the lanterns first came on, Qian Hongli died.
The idiots all knew that this matter had nothing to do with Zhao Guangyi, and he did this to eliminate all those who threatened his throne.
Zhao Guangyi's targets include his relatives.
This throne was not originally Zhao Guangyi's, because Zhao Kuangyin still had two sons alive in the world, and they were both adults, namely Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang.
However, Zhao Guangyi knew that the qualifications of his two nephews were too shallow to compete with him completely, so he snatched the throne and used the Alliance of The Golden Dagger as a cover.
According to the requirements of the Golden Alliance, after a hundred years of Zhao Guangyi, the throne should be passed back to Zhao Defang or Zhao Dezhao, so the two nephews were temporarily stabilized. On this point, Zhao Guangyi also thought about it for a long time, and he certainly hoped to pass the throne to his son.
For this reason, Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang were forced to commit suicide by Zhao Guangyi, and one died mysteriously.
In this way, he would sit back and relax, at least his brother's line he did not have to worry about for the time being.
However, he also had a younger brother, Zhao Tingmei, and it should be known that Empress Dowager Du of the Golden Alliance made it clear that the country must have a long king
, that is, the old and heavy monarch.
Obviously, compared with Zhao Tingmei, Zhao Guangyi's son is too young.
For this reason, Zhao Tingmei was also belittled by Zhao Guangyi in various ways, and eventually died inexplicably.
In this way, all the obstacles of Zhao Guangyi were cleared, and he could only pass the throne to his son, later Zhao Heng of Song Zhenzong.
The deaths of the brother, brother, and nephew all have an unclear relationship with Zhao Guangyi, and it can be basically concluded that these people were killed by Zhao Guangyi. How could he let go of outsiders such as Li Yu and Qian Hongli?
Summary: The existence of Zhao Guangyi has no meaning at all.
Zhao Guangyi worked hard to grab the throne, but he really wouldn't be emperor. Perhaps the greatest achievement of this guy's life is to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty. After that, he planned to retake Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, but he was beaten by the Liao people without any ability to fight back.
After experiencing the failure of the Yongxi Northern Expedition, Zhao Guangyi no longer dared to carry out the Northern Expedition. This also led to the emperors after the Song Dynasty becoming passive and afraid of war. Therefore, the military strength of the entire Song Dynasty is very poor, which is a good start for Zhao Guangyi.
Reference: History of the Song Dynasty