In the third year of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jizhou Zhizhou found a woman from the bandit's nest in the process of suppressing bandits, who called herself Emperor Ji of Roufu (Princess). Zhen Cai was very surprised, wasn't Princess Roufu already taken captive to the Jin Dynasty with the Second Emperor? How did it end up in the bandits' den?
Unexpectedly, Zhen Cai did not dare to neglect this golden branch and jade leaf at all, and hurriedly reported this situation to the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty. When Emperor Gaozong heard that his sister had appeared, he acted unusually indifferent. Hundreds of officials of Wen and Wu went up one after another, saying that Emperor Gaozong should welcome back the princess, and Zhao Zhuo reluctantly sent the grand eunuch Feng Yi to handle the matter.
As early as Zhao Shuo's meeting as King Kang, Feng Yi was a red person around Zhao Shuo, plus he had served Princess Ruofu's birth mother, Wang Guifei, and had seen the appearance of the princess, so he took the initiative to take over the task of distinguishing the authenticity of Roufu. Feng Yi had a long conversation with the Princess Of Joofu who had been rescued from the bandits' den, and Feng Yi asked him about some old things in the palace, and the Johor Princess replied fluently.
Since he had not seen Roufu for a long time, Feng Yi's impression of Roufu's image was blurred, but he felt that this woman and Princess Johor's appearance were quite similar, and the appearance of Roufu who had not seen Roufu for many years would inevitably change, but he did not pay attention to it. Feng Yi was more careful, he found that this woman did not wrap her feet, the foot plate was very large, so he asked the reason. The reason given by this woman is that when the Jin people escorted herself, they let her walk tens of thousands of miles on foot like a cattle and sheep, so her feet could not remain as they were. Feng Yi believed this statement and decided that this woman was Princess Roufu.
Subsequently, Feng Yi reported the situation to Zhao Shuo, who sent a team to welcome his sister back to the palace. Remembering the suffering that Roufu had suffered in the Jin Kingdom for so many years, Zhao Zhuo named her princess of the Fuguo Princess.
As a half-brother with Roufu, why did Zhao Zhuo behave so coldly to Nangui's sister?
First of all, Zhao Zhuo at that time could not have foreseen that this Joofu was an "impostor", so his indifference to Joofu was entirely due to Joofu's encounter in the Jin Dynasty. Due to the prevalence of "Cheng Zhu Lixue", the concept of "Privet" became more and more important in the eyes of the Song people, and for the imperial daughter, Privet was even more important. When a princess who had lost her virginity and was humiliated by animals and beasts returned to China, Zhao Zhuo naturally felt that there was no need to celebrate.
Secondly, for Zhao Zhao himself, he had little contact with this sister, and the two rarely saw each other when they were children, so the brother-sister friendship was very weak.
But in the final analysis, Roufu is his sister after all, and Zhao Zhuo always has to arrange a good home for her. Therefore, shortly after Roufu returned to the palace, Zhao Zhuo promised her to Gao Shirong, the defensive envoy of Yongzhou.
Judging from the economic situation of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, the dowry prepared by Zhao Shuo for his sister was still decent, and Lin Lin finally came down to about 18,000 taels, and in the following ten years, Zhao Shuo would reward money and goods every year to ensure his sister's material life.
According to the rules of the Song Dynasty, after the princess got married, she should live in the Horse Mansion, and there would not be many opportunities to attack the face saint in the future. We know that Zhao Zhuo is content with the status quo, he has no intention of playing with Jin Guo's life, and he does not want to take back the Second Saint and let these two emperors take away their imperial power.
Under the influence of this kind of thinking, Zhao Zhuo did not want to see his sister Roufu. When the two met, it was inevitable that they would talk about the father and emperor and the imperial brother who had been caught in the Jin Kingdom, and this topic was the topic that Zhao Zhuo was most afraid of. Therefore, Zhao Zhuo married his sister out not long after The return of Joo Fu, gave her a stable life, and then stayed away.
Although Zhao Zhuo was not concerned about his sister, the common people regarded the "Joofu Return Palace" as a legend, and the miracle of princess Joofu's return to the south was spread everywhere. In the second year of Shaoxing, the merchant's wife Yi Shi, posing as Song Qinzong's sister, that is, Empress Wang's princess Rongde, ran to the imperial court to confess to Zhao.
Yi Shi once met a bodyguard who had been on an errand next to Princess Rongde, so he smiled at Princess Rongde's voice. After Yi Shi heard the legend of Princess Johor's return to the palace, he had a crooked mind and wanted to pretend to be a princess to enter the palace. Therefore, Yi Shi lied that she was Princess Rongde who fled south, and came to the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty to ask for the recognition of her ancestors and return to the sect.
Although Zhao Zhuo was extremely sensitive to everything that happened in the north, he still drew a gourd and sent someone to pick up Yi Shi and identify him. Yi Shi had only heard some rumors, did not understand the life of the palace at all, and her appearance was very different from the real Princess Rongde, and it didn't take long to reveal the stuffing.
Zhao Zhao was furious and handed over Yi to the Dali Temple, where he was interrogated by officials overnight. After learning the ins and outs of the matter, Zhao Zhuo immediately ordered someone to beat Yi Shi, who was pretending to be a princess, to death.
The fake Rongde incident does not mean that the Roufu that has been properly placed by Zhao Zhuo at this time is real. Because Yi Shi was too stupid, she pretended to be the eldest princess who had already married a human wife, and many people had seen Princess Rongde, unlike Roufu Jiuju who lived in the deep palace and was unknown. What's more, how many palace secrets could the guards around Rongde know? Yi Shi was more unlucky and picked the most difficult target to impersonate.
In the twelfth year of Shaoxing, Zhao Zhuo finally signed an agreement with Jin Guo to betray the country and seek peace. The Southern Song Dynasty, after paying the price of a large amount of land and countless gold and silver, exchanged the legal status of the small imperial court from Jin Xizong. Since the Southern Song Dynasty had already sent money and the two sides reached a peace agreement, there was no need for the Jin State to continue to detain the Song Dynasty clan and hand over the remains of Empress Wei, Zhao Tuo, Empress Zheng and others in order to show sincerity.
What everyone did not expect was that the real Princess Zhao Huanhuan had already died in the Five Kingdoms City in misery. When welcoming back the bones of Empress Wei, Zhao Tuo, Empress Zheng and others, the emissaries also brought the bones of Princess Ruofu back to the south. Compared with those clan daughters who died in the wilderness after being abducted by the Jin people, the clan daughters who were used as servants by the nobles of the Jin kingdom, and the clan daughters who fell into the brothels of the Jin kingdom, Princess Joofu was able to "fall leaves and return to the roots", which was already a rare luck.
When Zhao Zhuo heard that the bones of his birth mother Empress Wei and his father Zhao Tuo had been brought back, they were very heavy and had mixed feelings in their hearts. Seeing that there were several coffins next to his parents' coffins, Zhao Shuo asked the emissaries one by one who the bones in the coffins were, and when he heard the name of "Emperor Ji of Ruofu", Zhao Shuo was shocked: Was the sister who was welcomed back to the palace in the early years a ghost? Thinking about it, Zhao Zhuo even had his lungs blow up, and the Rofu who returned with him was a "fake", and he had treated her well for so many years!
After posthumously naming the real Joo-fu as the "Princess of Heguo", Zhao Zhuo immediately began to investigate the origin of the "counterfeit" Joo-fu.
It turned out that this woman, who had deceived Zhao For twelve years as Princess Roufu, was a nun named Fa Jing. Fa Jing was born in Fenjing, and his posture was good, and after the fall of Fenjing, he was taken captive by the rebel army to the north. In the process of going north, Fa Jing met a palace girl named Zhang Xi'er, who was a close palace maid of Wang Guifei and was quite familiar with the major events and small affairs in the palace. As a captured woman, the two have the same disease, Zhang Xi'er tells Fa Jing as a story of her early experience, and Fa Jing's appearance is a bit like Princess Johor.
Fa Jing is a person with a heart, she remembers the secret of the palace that Zhang Xi'er told her, and also imitates the Princess Roufu she has never met according to Zhang Xi'er. From then on, Fa Jing called herself Princess Joofu. In the midst of the war, Fa Jing was like a duckweed, and was abducted and sold many times, and finally robbed by bandits into the bandits' nest and forced to marry a small bandit. During Zhen Cai's suppression of bandits, Fa Jing was caught in the bandits' nest. Originally, at this time, Fa Jing was already married to a bandit, and Zhen Cai should get rid of it in the name of the bandit. However, in order to save her life, Fa Jing claimed that she was the Princess Of Joofu who had been taken captive to the north, and deceived the officers and soldiers who came to suppress the bandits.
Since Fa Jing has been deliberately imitating Joo-fu these days and presenting herself as Princess Joo-fu in front of people, the bandits really think that she is a golden branch and jade leaf. In the bandits' confessions, the bandits all called this woman Princess Joofu, so Zhen Cai became more and more convinced of this. Even Fa Jing himself did not expect that his disguise not only deceived Zhen Cai, but even the great eunuch Feng Yi, who examined his identity, was concealed. Emulating Joofu's inadvertent behavior not only allowed her to escape from the bandits' den, but also made her a princess. If it were not for the fact that Jin Guo later returned the bones of Empress Wei and Princess Roufu, it is estimated that Fa Jing could hide the sky and cross the sea and become a princess for a lifetime.
Speaking of which, Fa Jing estimated that even she had deceived herself, after all, she had already begun to think of herself as Roufu before entering the palace, and perhaps in the subtle, she had completed self-hypnosis, so she could deceive everyone later.
After the truth came out, everyone in the government and the public were shocked. Fa Jing committed the crime of deceiving the king, and was naturally escorted to the execution ground and "clicked" the matter. In this incident, the most unfortunate person was Gao Shirong, the horse master. Gao Shirong did not recruit anyone and did not provoke anyone, a fake princess appeared out of thin air in his life, and what was even more frightening was that this fake princess also accompanied him for twelve years. Overnight, Gao Shirong fell from a horse master to a laughingstock of the world, and his face was lost. Even the fake princess who had been sleeping with him for twelve years had her head cut off. In the end, Gao Shirong's life became a joke and he got nothing.
The eunuch Feng Yi, who was patting his chest and packing tickets, was also dumbfounded, because he "referred to the deer as a horse" and mistook the princess, and Zhao Zhuo sent him to Zhaozhou. To be fair, this matter is really no wonder to Feng Yi, there are so many little princes and little princesses in the harem running all over the place, can a small eunuch remember clearly? For the sake of his future, Feng Yi had to mobilize all relations and contact the empress dowager Meng Shi, which was pardoned.
At this point, the case of impersonating a princess ends dramatically with the return of Princess Johor. On the surface, Fa Jing, who pretended to be a princess, was very pitiful and ended up in a different place. If she did not covet vanity and withdraw in time, instead of continuing to deceive the world as a princess, how could she incur the calamity of killing herself?
Resources:
[Compilation of the Northern League of the Three Dynasties", "Kaifeng Fuzhi", "Record of Song Prisoners", "History of Song"]