In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing (1162), Emperor Xiaozong of Song succeeded to the throne by Emperor Gaozong of Song.
Although Emperor Gaozong's harem concubines were like clouds, only zhao Xu, the prince of Yuanyi, had sons. In the autumn of the third year of Jianyan (1129), Zhao Xu, who was just three years old, died suddenly, which made Emperor Gaozong grief.
In addition, the five daughters of Emperor Gaozong of Song were all taken captive by Jin Bing during the Battle of Jingnan.
Zhao Shuo did not have a biological son, and because of this, Zhao Shuo was worried about his own affairs and was cautious about his heir to the throne.
At that time, there were three forces vying for the position of crown prince: Zhao Zhuo supported Zhao Boxuan, Zhao Shuo's mother, Empress Wei, supported Zhao Zhao, and the chancellor Qin Ju supported Zhao Bojiu. Zhao Zhuo was a weak emperor who accommodated the other two forces in every way, so the matter of making a prince was always delayed.
Later, until Empress Wei died of illness, Zhao Zhen lost his patron, and only Bo Qun and Bo Jiu were left to compete.
Bo Chun was made the King of Pu'an County, and Bo Jiu was made the King of Enping County. The two talents are on par, and Zhao Zhuo wants to set up Bo Chun in his heart, but there is not enough reason to convince everyone, especially not Qin Jun.
One day he actually came up with a "trick": testing the two sons with "virgins".
This trick really no one thought of. He sent 10 girls to serve Bo Chun and Bo Jiu, all of whom were yellow flower girls.
At that time, hymen repair was not invented, and which girl's right to the first night was lost, and it was known after a test.
The BoJiu who Qin Juniper supported could not withstand the test of beauty, and took 10 girls as Sydney pears to relieve hunger, eat one today, bite tomorrow, and within a month, all 10 virgins became women.
What about Bo Chun?
I don't know if I got any hints or if I didn't sit still, but I didn't make a destructive action, and the 10 girls returned to Zhao Shuo's side, all intact.
At this point, Zhao Zhuo had something to say: The ironclad facts have proved that Comrade Zhao Boqun can withstand the test of beauty, is a good cadre with strict self-requirements, is a real hero who has passed the beauty pass, and is naturally established as a prince.
In 1162, Zhao Zhuo officially made the 35-year-old Zhao Boqun crown prince and changed his name to Zhao Xuan.
Soon, Zhao Zhuo officially abdicated as Emperor Taishang, and Zhao Xuan ascended the throne to preside over the work of the whole country, which was Song Xiaozong.
As we all know, Emperor Gaozong of Song was the emperor who reused Qin Juniper and killed Yue Fei. Song Xiaozong did something that pleased future generations, that is, to rehabilitate Yue Fei and show off the unjust, false and wrongly decided cases created during the Qin Ju period.
Qin Ju used the support of Zhao Zhuo to persecute Marshal Yue Fei to death, and then arranged for his son to be in charge of propaganda secretarial work, recording history in black and white, if it were not for Song Xiaozong coming to power in time to correct the chaos, perhaps it was Qin Juniper and his wife who were commemorated as national heroes on the edge of the West Lake today, and it was Yue Fei's father and son who knelt at the head of the grave and were scolded.
Song Xiaozong Zhao Yun was grateful for The grace of Song Gaozong and was very filial to him. However, Song Xiaozong's own son Zhao Wei did not have a grateful heart like him, which was still his own child, not only that, but he was finally seriously ill by his son and daughter-in-law.
Zhao Wei was the third son of Emperor Xiaozong of Song, and it is reasonable to say that the status of the crown prince could not have been his turn, but Zhao Huan was too capable of pretending, and his example was Yang Guang in the Sui Dynasty, who showed great respect and diligence in front of his father.
His father occasionally had wind chills, and Zhao Wei was more anxious than he was sick, and after running around, he personally tasted the soup medicine. When Xiaozong was in a good mood, Zhao Huan was also happy, and if Xiaozong was depressed, Zhao Huan would sigh and look sad.
Zhao Huan also often praised his father's great deeds in his poems, all of which made Xiaozong very satisfied.
However, Song Xiaozong would never have thought that his son was a natural shadow emperor-level figure, and the reason for doing so was to win the appreciation of his father and become the third generation successor of the Southern Song Dynasty as soon as possible.
A series of successful performances by Zhao Huan deeply confused Xiaozong, who felt that his third son was most like himself, both heroic and handsome, and talented, so after the death of the prince, he directly bypassed the second eldest and established Zhao Laosan Zhao as the crown prince.
During the 27-year reign of Emperor Xiaozong, Zhao Huan served as the crown prince for 18 years, and after a long time, Zhao Huan could not hold back.
One day, Zhao Huan tentatively complained to Emperor Xiaozong: "Father Emperor, my beard has begun to turn white, and someone has sent me a medicine to dye my hair, but I did not dare to use it." "That subtext is clear, how long do you have to make me wait?" More than ten springs is not enough, and it is always more sad than happy for me.
Song Xiaozong heard his son's voice and said, "Having a white beard is good, it just shows that you are mature, why do you dye any hair with medicine?" If Emperor Xiaozong had seen through the disguise and lurking of his son Zhao Huan, there was still room for redemption, but unfortunately he was eventually blinded by his son.
The reason why Song Xiaozong was called filial piety was because he was not Gaozong's parent, but filial piety was the first, and he tried every means to meet Gaozong's requirements, even if he endured humiliation and burden, and he did have a deep sense of gratitude to Gaozong, after the death of Emperor Gaozong, Emperor Xiaozong was devastated and decided to keep filial piety for three years, coupled with the tiredness of political affairs, so he decided to give up the emperor as the crown prince.
Zhao Huan ascended the throne at the age of 42 and was known as Song Guangzong.
At the beginning, because his power was not yet stable, Guangzong followed the example of Emperor Xiaozong in serving Emperor Gaozong, asked for instructions early and reported late, asked his father for peace every four months according to etiquette, and occasionally accompanied his father to drink and listen to music, or invited his father to go out hunting and enjoy flowers.
Xiaozong was a very affectionate person, and according to his considerate and meticulous care for Gaozong, he could not imagine why his own son had changed so much, and his heart was very depressed.
Once, Emperor Guangzong led his ministers and concubines out on a tour, but did not invite the Emperor Taishang, the ministers could not see it, so they wrote that when Emperor Xiaozong was emperor, every time he went out, he would always invite Emperor Gaozong to accompany him, and now Your Majesty you enjoy the beautiful scenery exclusively, and leaving your father idle in the cold palace is very inconsistent with filial piety.
After Zhao Huan received the recital, he was very angry, and just at this moment, Emperor Xiaozong entrusted him with a jade cup, and Zhao Huan's hatred did not disappear, and he threw the jade cup on the ground and broke it in a hurry, and his father Xiaozong was very sad after learning about this.
Another time, Emperor Xiaozong was deeply bored in the middle of the idle house, so he ascended the platform to look out beyond the palace, and saw a group of children playing in the alley, and a child was bullied by a group of children, blurting out, Emperor Zhao came, Emperor Zhao came.
Emperor Xiaozong saw the scenery and was overwhelmed with sorrow, and said to himself, I am his old man, I called him not yet coming, you called him, it is even more wasted effort. Emperor Xiaozong was depressed in his son's filial piety.
Later, Guangzong did not see his father for a year, this kind of behavior, in the Song Dynasty where theory prevailed, seemed particularly rebellious, the society was talking about it, hundreds of courtiers gathered, and they wrote to guangzong for being too unkind, and guangzong did his own thing, not moved, at this time, emperor Xiaozong was discouraged, angry and painful, and filial piety that came first may only now see the true face of his son.
Guangzong's filial piety is related to his own illness, although Song Shi is unknown, it is undeniable that Guangzong suffered from intermittent psychosis, and his illness was half due to the depression when he was a prince, and half from the intimidation of his wife, the strong and aggressive, jealous, but vicious empress Li Fengniang.
As early as when Li Shi was a princess, he often spread things around Emperor Gaozong and Emperor Xiaozong, and was reprimanded by the two palaces, and after becoming an empress, he became even more intensely involved in power, and he took advantage of Guangzong's illness to ignore the government and government, and the power was in his hands, and he wantonly divided the mother's family, and the foreign relatives were temporarily prominent.
Guangzong once liked a Huang Guifei, and Li Fengniang, worried that her position was threatened, simply did not do anything, took advantage of Guangzong's outing to sacrifice, sent someone to kill Huang Guifei, and falsely claimed that Huang Guifei died of a violent illness.
Guangzong knew that there was deception in it, but he was intimidated by Li Fengniang's obscenity and swallowed his anger. When Shi Zai Zhao Once washed his hands, he found that a palace maid's hands were white and round, smooth and delicate, so he secretly looked at it a few times, and Li Fengniang looked at it in her eyes and remembered it in her heart.
Not long after, Li Fengniang sent someone to give Guangzong a box, and Guangzong opened it to see, and suddenly his soul flew away, and he was so frightened that he spat out white foam at that time, and it turned out that the box contained a pair of hands of the palace girl.
Li Fengniang, a humble woman, was often accused by Emperor Xiaozong when she was a princess, so she was deeply resentful and often adjusted the relationship between Guangzong's father and son. Once, when Emperor Xiaozong heard that his son was ill again, he personally went to the Tai Hospital to get a good medicine and wanted to send it to his son, worried that Li Fengniang would obstruct it, so he wanted to hand it to him when his son changed his mind to visit him.
The eunuch who was monitoring Emperor Xiaozong reported the incident to Li Fengniang, and Li Fengniang sent someone to investigate, and sure enough, he found that Emperor Xiaozong was hiding pills in his treasure, and Li Fengniang added oil and vinegar, and borrowed the title to play, saying that Emperor Xiaozong was going to poison Guangzong with poison and regain the throne.
After Guangzong heard this, he hated and feared his father. When Emperor Xiaozong saw his son alienating himself, his heart was even more miserable.
Emperor Guangzong's illness became more and more serious because he was subject to Li Fengniang's obscenity, and coupled with Li Fengniang's power in favor of the opposition, he was accustomed to manipulating things in front of Emperor Guangzong, which caused the relationship between Emperor Guangzong and Emperor Xiaozong to become more and more rigid, and his sons and daughters-in-law joined forces to deal with Emperor Xiaozong, and Emperor Xiaozong became angry.
Just at this time, seeing that Guangzong's mental illness was becoming more and more frequent, the courtiers requested Li Chu to calm the people's hearts, according to the Regulations of the Song Dynasty, Li Chu wanted to get the favor of emperor Taishang, on this major issue of principle, the faction dominated by Guangzong and Li Fengniang wanted to establish his own son, and Emperor Xiaozong, in view of his failure in choosing a successor, and the guilt of his second son, planned to establish the second son, the two sides did not give in to each other, did not think that this kind of thing eventually indirectly contributed to the death of Emperor Xiaozong.
In order to obtain Emperor Xiaozong's approval, Li Fengniang invited Emperor Xiaozong to force Emperor Xiaozong to agree to make his son King Jia crown prince on the grounds of a family banquet.
Emperor Xiaozong disagreed on the spot, and Li Fengniang was furious and immediately tore her face and asked angrily, "I am the empress you Zhao Jiaming is marrying, and I am also the empress, and King Jia is my own son, why can't I be made crown prince?"
The daughter-in-law was so fierce, sprinkled, Guangzong ignored it, and never said a word, Xiaozong felt that he had suffered a great shame, and under the rapid fire attack, his eyes were black, and he fell down at that time.
Emperor Xiaozong fell ill like a mountain, and in despair never ushered in the son's return to shore and hospice care, in shame and confusion, this father who valued filial piety all his life was under the double blow of his disobedient son and daughter-in-law, the evening scene was desolate, and it did not take long after this humiliation to die.
Shi Zai, after the death of his father Emperor Xiaozong, Emperor Guangzong behaved very indifferently, adhering to the policy of four noes, not presiding over funerals, not participating in memorial services, not wearing filial piety clothes, and not forbidding all entertainment activities and drinking and feasting as before.
Before Emperor Xiaozong's death, he did his filial piety to Emperor Gaozong, and raised Emperor Gaozong Wuhou who was not his own biological parent as a parent, but when he came to himself, he raised a contrarian son, and what a bitter irony was It to filial piety of Emperor Xiaozong?
At the last moment of Emperor Xiaozong's life and death, I don't know if he understood that the so-called true filial piety in the ancient imperial family was actually due to power, and once there was no power, filial piety would die out in due time and no longer exist.