The "magical operation" of Emperor Huizong of Song's self-destruction
"Jing Kang shame, Ju Wei Xue, courtier hate, when to extinguish", Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong", the Tao does not exhaust the hatred of the Jin people, then do you know how shameful the "Jing Kang shame" in the poem is?
The world knows that after the destruction of the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties, they entered the Yuan Dynasty period, but several people know that after the northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, the people once experienced a period like hell.
The Jin Dynasty attacked the Northern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop, and they abducted the imperial clans, the ministers of the Imperial Family, the concubines of the harem, including the two emperors, to the north.
The empress dowager was reduced to a slave, the concubines and ministers were performed with a "sheep-leading ceremony", and the princesses and female relatives were wantonly humiliated.
In Chinese history, there are not a few northern nomads who defeated the Central Plains Dynasty, but to say that even the royal clans were packed and captured together, the Northern Song Dynasty was the first.
After the two emperors of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were captured by the Jin people, although they were humiliated, they did not prevent them from taking time to give birth to a bunch of children, which once became a joke in history.
Song Huizong was a very literary and artistic person, proficient in calligraphy, painting and poetry, calligraphy and painting were deeply accomplished, and his pen and ink were worth thousands of dollars in the market.
It is reasonable to say that such a talent should also be famous for eternity, but he is not a literati and inker, he is a monarch of a country.
As an emperor, such a Song Huizong was particularly incompetent.
Pictured: Song Huizong calligraphy and painting
When Emperor Huizong of Song reigned separately from the empress dowager, this led to an extremely fierce contest between the two sides, and Emperor Huizong of Song was eager to cultivate his own forces, but the dynasty was full of conservative factions that followed the empress, and Emperor Huizong of Song had no one to use.
Normal emperors may immediately conduct imperial examinations to select talents, or appoint meritocracy and vigorously promote new people, but Emperor Huizong of Song did not do so.
After being attacked by the Empress Dowager, Emperor Huizong of Song actually ran out of the palace to participate in the exhibition of calligraphy and paintings, and it was among these literati and inkers that Song Huizong noticed a person.
This person's name was Cai Jing, because he was good at calligraphy and painting, he was appreciated by Emperor Huizong of Song, and then Cai Jing was promoted all the way, first to the right and then to the left, and then directly in charge of the government.
This wave of operations by Emperor Huizong of Song directly made Cai Jing's henchmen all over the world, and at this time Cai Jing was almost invincible, and he did nothing evil under the guise of "reform".
He first blatantly accepted bribes, then betrayed officials and knights, and finally arbitrarily levied taxes and plundered the people's fat and people's ointment, at this time Cai Jing's influence in the dynasty was intertwined, and even Song Huizong himself had no way to take him.
Objectively speaking, the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty also has a "credit" from Cai Jing.
At this time, the people were not happy, and many people really could not pay heavy taxes, so the imperial court would be treated as bandits, and in such a corrupt environment, the peasant uprising was almost uninterrupted.
The Song dynasty royal family was crumbling.
In the first year of Zhenghe, there was a eunuch named Tong Guan in Cai Jing's party, who gave Emperor Huizong of Song a policy that he could unite with Jurchen to destroy the Liao and replace Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.
Where did Song Huizong think that this trip was not an alliance with Jurchen at all, but a proper introduction of wolves into the room.
At this time, the Liao people were also unhappy, their court was extremely unstable, the people were chaotic, and corrupt officials were rampant, but despite this, Song Huizong, who could only write poetry and songs, was not his opponent.
In the conquest of the Liao and Song dynasties, it was easy to see that "the clams competed with each other, and the fisherman won", and the current Jin Kingdom was the fisherman.
After the Jin Kingdom defeated the Liao State, it set its sights on the Song Kingdom, whose combat effectiveness was comparable to that of a small chicken boy, and at this time, Song Huizong did not know that they were about to usher in the humiliation of life or death.
Let the Daoist priests repel the Golden Man
At this time, Emperor Huizong of Song saw that he was about to perish, he did not want to clean up this mess, and he also knew that he was no longer capable of saving the suffering people, so he passed the throne to the crown prince, that is, the later Song Qinzong.
Song Qinzong's behavior was even more exaggerated than his father's, he did not like poetry and songs, but he was extremely faithful to the Tao, the Jurchens had already come to the city, Song Qinzong did not know how to resist, and even found a Taoist priest to do in the city, trying to repel the Jurchens.
This act simply made the golden man laugh out of his teeth.
Seeing that he could not repel the Jin people, Song Qinzong sent people to ask for peace in a panic, saying that he could negotiate terms with the Jin people, and as long as they did not attack, they could agree to anything.
So the gold people proposed an unusually heavy gold and silver compensation, which was so large that the hollowing out of the treasury and the pockets of the ministers was not enough to make up for one of them.
Song Qinzong saw that he really couldn't afford to pay so much money, and he actually came up with a way to use women's mortgages.
He first paid tribute to the jin people continuously, and after seeing that they did not buy much, he sold the women at a clear price in the city to make up the money demanded by the jin people.
However, in the end, after the Jin people got the money, they did not give up at all, but after seeing that the Song Room was indeed hollowed out, they directly attacked on a large scale.
The Jin Dynasty effortlessly invaded the Central Plains, and the Jurchens stayed in the capital for a full month, they burned and looted in the city, did no evil, and after venting, they directly abducted the two emperors, plus the ministers and female relatives of the court, the harem concubines, princesses and horses, etc., a total of more than 3,000 people.
They coerced the captives of the Song Dynasty to follow them to Harbin, knowing that it was the coldest day of the first month, and these captives walked in single clothes in the ice and snow.
Many of these concubines and children were repeatedly insulted by the soldiers of the Golden Kingdom, and the former princesses and nobles were now reduced to prostitutes, and the formerly prominent ministers were even worse than pigs and dogs.
There was a Cao Gui in the harem of Emperor Huizong of Song, who was humiliated by soldiers during the Xiao Xie, and the empress of Song Qinzong, who was only 22 years old, committed suicide on the way because she could not stand the humiliation and anger.
These soldiers played with the female dependents recklessly, and many of the female dependents did not even have a corpse after their deaths, and some ministers who insisted on disobeying tried their best to insult the Jin people on the road, and all of them were cut and killed.
Of the more than 3,000 captives taken by the Jin people, Heilongjiang has not yet arrived, and only half of them are left, among which many people have committed suicide in addition to those who died of illness, frostbite, and humiliation.
And everything that seems miserable enough is only the beginning of humiliation.
When they arrived in Jindu, the captives were taken to the Jongmyo Temple to bow down, where they suffered unprecedented humiliation.
There is a very special surrender ceremony in the Golden Kingdom, called the "Sheep Lead Ceremony", as the name suggests, the "Sheep Lead Ceremony" is to make the captives strip naked, naked on the upper body, while the lower body is wrapped in freshly ripped sheepskin, and the neck is wrapped in a knot and wanders the street.
The Jin people at that time considered sheep to be the most useless animal, so they named it "sheep-leading ceremony" to show humiliation of captives.
After the ceremony, the two emperors, Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Qinzong of Song, were given the humiliating titles of "Duke of Duande" and "Marquis of Chongxiao" respectively, and the rest of the concubines and family members were distributed to the soldiers and ministers for pleasure.
Sacrifice Yue Fei and welcome back Empress Wei
To say that the person with the best ending here may be empress Wei who survived humiliation and finally escaped to heaven.
Empress Wei of Emperor Huizong of Song was still a concubine at the time, and she went with the other concubines to meet Jin Taizong, who, in order to humiliate Zhongyuan, assigned her to the Huan Clothing Bureau and became the most inferior palace girl.
After that, In order to meet Song Huizong, Wei Shi could only work diligently and earnestly every day, but Song Huizong did not get to the end, and Wei Shi only hurriedly met him, and within two months Song Huizong died of illness.
Although Wei Shi has been a maid in the palace for a long time, compared to those female relatives who died after being humiliated, or committed suicide on the way, she was already very lucky to be able to endure humiliation and survive.
The turning point in Webster's fate was on her son, Zhao Shuo.
At that time, after the shame of Jing Kang occurred, all the princes were killed, and only Zhao Shuo, who was the Grand Marshal of the Terracotta Army at that time, escaped the disaster because he led his troops to rescue the Beijing Division.
After this, Zhao Zhuo fled to Shangqiu with a small number of clan royalty and re-ascended the throne as emperor, because the geographical location of the place was far souther than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, so it was called the Southern Song Dynasty.
At this time, although Zhao Shuo regained the throne, his strength was simply not enough to avenge the Song Room, so he could only posthumously crown his birth mother Wei Shi as empress in the Central Plains, and then secretly wait for the opportunity.
In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, the relationship between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin State improved slightly, and in order to show his sincerity to the Jin State in exchange for peace, Zhao Zhuo relieved Yue Fei of his military powers and conspired with Qin Ju to kill Yue Fei.
It was also because of Zhao Shuo's "loyalty" that Jin Guo was quite satisfied, so after signing the humiliating Shaoxing Peace Agreement, Zhao Shuo finally welcomed back the bodies of his birth mother Empress Wei and his father Song Huizong.
At this point, Empress Wei's life as a maid who was worse than dead finally came to an end.
Although Empress Wei finally escaped from the swamp, Song Qinzong was not so good, and Song Qinzong lived for more than 20 years after becoming a prisoner.
At first, he was locked up in a dry well with Emperor Huizong of Song, and later assigned by the Jin people to a bitter cold place, and in his later years he moved to Yanjing City, and at the age of 56, he was forced to play polo by a prince of the Jin Kingdom, and finally died because he fell from his horse and was trampled by the horse's hooves.
The occurrence of Jing Kang's shame made the royal family left behind in the Southern Song Dynasty grit their teeth against the Jin people, and looked forward to riping their skins and cramping them day by day, but unfortunately, Zhao Zhuo could not avenge his parents and the Song family with his own hands until his death.
Although after more than a hundred years, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongols destroyed the Jin Dynasty, they still could not return to the Central Plains.
After understanding the causes and consequences of Jing Kang's shame, we look back at the Song Dynasty at that time, in fact, the destruction of the country has long been the inevitable development of history, once the emperor began to be incompetent, then the country is not far from extinction.
Today, we should correctly view the development process of history, from ancient times to the present, there is a truth that has not changed for eternity, that is, backwardness will be beaten, the past is over, we keep firmly in mind the lessons of history, so that our nation can endure for a long time.