Jing Kang shame, Ju Wei Xue, courtier hate, when will it be extinguished? ——Yue Fei, "Man Jiang Hong"
A song full of red has made countless people excited, and a shame of Jingkang has also made countless people sigh and sigh.
The head can be broken, the blood can be shed, the general can die, and the dynasty can die, but the emperor of the country is captured by the enemy, which is a great shame for the generals of any dynasty and the people.
Looking back, Jing Kang's shame is no accident.
In such a period, ruled by such a monarch, no matter how brave the generals were, it was impossible to avoid similar things.
What really makes people feel humiliated is the voluntary surrender of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong father and son and their performance after they were captured.
After Emperor Huizong of Song was captured, he gave birth to 14 children in the 9 years of the Jin Dynasty and recruited Jin Wushu as his son-in-law. All this must start from the time when Song Huizong sat on the throne of God.
01 Emperor Huizong of Song
As a prince, after birth, he can not only enjoy the golden clothes and jade food, but also enjoy a relatively good education.
The Four Books and Five Classics, horseback archery, court etiquette, etc., are all compulsory courses for being a prince.
Because they are all people who have the opportunity to ascend to the throne in the future and become the people who control the power of life and death of the people, but the study of Song Huizong is very "partial".
Horseback archery and Song Huizong were not interested; court etiquette, Song Huizong did not like.
He is only extremely fond of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and at the same time he is particularly talented.
This can be seen from the various poems he left behind, not to mention, he himself not only left countless classics in calligraphy and painting, but also created two kinds of calligraphy and painting techniques, thin gold body and "courtyard body", which have been passed down for thousands of years.
Song Huizong, who did not understand the major affairs of the military state, originally did not want to compete for the emperor's position, he only wanted to be a peaceful and stable prince who was intoxicated with art.
Everything is fate, half a point is not up to man.
When Emperor Huizong of Song was 18 years old, his brother Song Zhezong died of illness, and Song Zhezong had no heirs during his lifetime, so who would inherit the throne after his death was a big problem.
Originally, the chancellor at that time proposed that Song Zhezong's half-brother Zhao Xiang inherit the throne, but he was rejected by the empress dowager, who insisted on attaching Song Huizong to the throne.
In this way, Song Huizong, who originally had no intention of imperial power, sat on the throne that countless people dreamed of when he was 18 years old.
Since he was already a heavenly son, Emperor Huizong of Song could no longer "learn nothing" as before.
He began to engage with politics in an attempt to make up for his shortcomings in the shortest possible time, and also implemented several policies that were beneficial to the people's livelihood, but by the time Emperor Huizong of Song accepted the throne, the Northern Song Dynasty was already decaying.
Inside the imperial court, corrupt officials ran rampant and squeezed the people's fat and people's anointing; outside the imperial court, the people were miserable and wailed all over the field.
In such an environment, not to mention the latest calligraphy and painting, song huizong who had no intention of politics, even the wise and divine Kangxi Emperor could not put the Northern Song Dynasty on the right track in a short period of time.
Therefore, Song Huizong, who had worked in vain for a year, once again gave up ruling the country and rejuvenating the country, and instead threw himself into literature and art.
The major affairs and small affairs in the DPRK and China were controlled by corrupt officials headed by Cai Jing, and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty once again accelerated the pace.
02 The Shame of Jingkang
In 1125, after the Jin and Song dynasties jointly destroyed the Liao, the Jin state tore up the covenant and raised an army to fight the Song.
Because Zhao Kuangyin formulated a system of military power differentiation, which led to difficulties in army dispatch and insufficient coordination and unified combat effectiveness, the Song army was repeatedly bullied and oppressed by the Jin army in battle, and soon came to the city of Tokyo.
In the face of the menacing militaristic army, the 300,000 soldiers and civilians in the city rose up in resistance, and the enthusiasm for battle was high.
On the contrary, Emperor Huizong of Song was terrified in the face of the Jin army.
He was afraid of carrying the reputation of the king of the fallen country, so he could not wait to forcibly pass the throne to his son Song Qinzong.
Although Song Qinzong did not want to bear the insult, but the wood had become a boat, he had to accept the reality.
In the first year of Jing Kang, in the face of the fierce Jin army, Song Qinzong had no way to retreat from the enemy, and he was worried that the city would be destroyed and killed, and finally he cowardly announced that he had taken the initiative to surrender to the Jin state.
In the second year of Jing Kang, the Jin army escorted all the imperial family members in the capital, together with the hundreds of civil and military officials and their families, back to the Jin Kingdom, and moved all kinds of items and royal books in the city back to the Jin Kingdom.
The funny thing is that in the face of the destruction of the country and the death of the family, Song Huizong did not show any sadness, but when he heard that the royal collection of books had been looted by the Jin army, Song Huizong wept bitterly and cried out in sorrow.
Like all the captive emperors in history, Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Qinzong of Song were not treated well.
The monarch of the Jin Dynasty ordered them to put on filial piety and go to the Ancestral Temple of the Jin Dynasty to perform sacrifices, and then he made Emperor Huizong of Song the "Duke of Duande" and arranged for him and Song Qinzong to live in a room.
Although there are "official positions" in the body, but it is completely different from the life in the Northern Song Imperial Palace, the bored Song Huizong can only "create people behind closed doors".
In nine years, he had 6 sons and 8 daughters with his "imperial concubines", a total of 14 children.
However, the shameful thing is that 5 of them have daughters, not the flesh and bones of Emperor Huizong of Song, but the birth of his "concubines" and the Jin people, which is also a great shame for the former emperor.
It is worth mentioning that Jin Wushu also married a daughter of Emperor Huizong of Song and became the son-in-law of Emperor Huizong of Song.
03 Sad Emperor Huizong of Song
When Emperor Huizong of Song was in the Jin Dynasty, he suffered great grievances, not only treating him differently, but also wearing a "green hat" thoroughly, and even his precious daughter became the wife of his enemy.
He watched all this happen but was powerless to stop it, and could only use poetry to express his inner grief and indignation.
In fact, when Emperor Huizong of Song was in the Kingdom of Jin, he wanted to live lightly several times, but he was saved by Emperor Qinzong of Song.
Song Qinzong died of illness in jinguo at the age of 54, and for the next 24 years, Song Qinzong waited for the rescue of the Song Dynasty, but unfortunately, until his death, he did not see a single reinforcement from the Northern Song Dynasty.
Throughout the life of Emperor Huizong of Song, he was a man of great temperament, countless harems, and immersed in the creation of literature.
He was a talented literary scholar, but he was not a good monarch who was diligent in government and loved the people, and he left behind such a historical stain as the shame of Jingkang, which made people sigh.