Speaking of which, since Qin Shi Huang determined that the emperor was the supreme number of the Ninth Five, in the past few thousand years, only 6 emperors with the temple number Renzong have appeared, and "Ren" is definitely praiseworthy, and is used as the best annotation after the death of Renyi in a qualified emperor's reigning career, indicating that he should be a good emperor who is benevolent and generous, and strict with himself.
Song Renzong
Among these 6 emperors, there are only two Han emperors, one is Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong, and the other is Emperor Mingrenzong Zhu Gaozhi. Compared with the two, Zhu Gaoji died after only 10 months of reign, so Zhao Zhen, who was emperor for nearly forty-two years, had a very high gold content, and was also very well evaluated by later generations and historians. During his reign, the Northern Song Dynasty prospered economically, and science and technology and culture also developed greatly. Among other things, the four great inventions of ancient times, movable type printing, gunpowder and the compass are closely related to him; There are six of the eight great coffees of the Tang and Song dynasties necessary for Chinese textbooks; Su Xun, Su Zhi, Su Shi, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong were all pillars selected by his dynasty; And after the Tang poems, the Song Ci that crowned the history also reached its peak under his rule.
Tang and Song eight everyone
The economy and culture are highly developed, the world is ruled together with scholars, the society is open, and the life of the common people is also the richest, the "History of Song" praised: "The "Biography" said: 'To be a prince, stop at benevolence. 'Di Cheng is worthy of it. History is called "Renzong Shengzhi". Therefore, some people say that if you are a person with cultural feelings and talents, travel back to the Song Dynasty, note that it is the Song Dynasty during the Renzong period, which is undoubtedly the best choice.
However, it is such a rare well-known Song Renzong who is loved by the people. No one would have expected that in the eighth year of the Qing calendar, late at night on the eighteenth day of the leap month in 1048 AD, Zhao Zhen, who was sleeping soundly in the Kunning Palace, never dreamed that he had been a Taiping Tianzi for 25 years, and he was almost assassinated in the deep palace.
Emperor Renzong of Song Empress Cao
This should be the most mysterious court change in history.
Kunning Palace is the residence of Empress Cao. Empress Cao is the famous Cao E, who is also a strange woman, who once pacified the "Qingli Palace Change", supported Song Yingzong to take the throne, assisted the three dynasties of Renzong, Shenzong, and Yingzong, and once rescued Su Shi, who was convicted, and has a high historical evaluation.
Speaking of Funing Hall, the moon and stars are dark and quiet. Suddenly, the incomparably harsh woman's screams and wails came in bursts, which were particularly harsh and woke up Zhao Zhen. Well? What's going on?
Kunning Palace
Zhao Zhen wanted to turn over and go out to see what was going on. But Empress Cao on the side hugged him and refused to let him go. The movement is a little big, and it is too strange to leave it in the palace. Empress Cao was alert, and subconsciously immediately ordered the slightly flustered palace maids and eunuchs who were sleeping to lock the door immediately
Renzong asked the surrounding eunuchs what was going on outside, and for peace of mind, the eunuch He Chengyong said that it was "the milk concubine beating the little woman".
Chongzheng Hall
However, Empress Cao was very alert, possibly related to her grandfather Cao Bin, the founding general of the Northern Song Dynasty, and she wondered from this voice that it was an assassination. She immediately reprimanded the eunuch: "It must be a thief who is killing people in His Highness, and the emperor is about to come out, dare to speak presumptuously?" ”
Things were indeed as Empress Cao judged, and at night, the Chongzheng Palace personally conspired with the officials Yan Xiu, Guo Kui, Wang Sheng, and Sun Li to "kill the military school, rob the soldiers, and enter the palace house". It was because he didn't know that there were too many palaces and didn't know which specific room Renzong lived in, so he cut off the arms of several palace people near the Funing Hall, in a vain attempt to cause confusion and locate Renzong's location.
Song Renzong
At this time, Empress Cao, after receiving the reward, there was indeed a palace change, and several assassins were looking for the emperor's residence one by one. Song Renzong was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, but Empress Cao was very calm, and personally cut off the hair of several selected eunuchs as a marker, saying: "The thief is rewarded, and Rufa should be used as a witness." "After the command,
He said to Emperor Renzong, Your Majesty, just now, I have arranged for the eunuchs to find Wang Shouzhong, a military attache subordinate to the former division of the palace, to lead troops into the palace to escort, please don't worry. Ling Ai, I also sent eunuchs to follow the assassins with water, and once they set fire, they would be quickly extinguished.
Qingming upper river map
Soon, Wang Shouzhong arrived with his troops, and Yan Xiu, Guo Kui, and Sun Li were killed on the spot. Wang Sheng was temporarily freed and hid in the north building of the palace city, "After the day, the catcher will be divided." The last one and the living mouth, did not remain, the blade was divided into corpses.
A dangerous assassination subsided. But the paradoxical thing is that the assassination of the emperor is not trivial, who is the mastermind, why is Song Renzong, who is still implicated, everything must be investigated clearly, this is a major crime of the Nine Races. Unexpectedly, the assassination target Zhao Zhen had a very, very ambiguous attitude towards this case.
Song Dynasty Imperial Palace
Everyone thought that the palace was heavily guarded, three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and that night, four assassins were able to break into the core area, which must not be simple. But strangely, Zhao Zhen treated several officials in charge of the Suwei court leniently. Ignoring the strong opposition of the minister, it is only to degrade the official.
Moreover, for a king of this level, this assassination can be regarded as a shocking case, but Zhao Zhen tried his best to exclude the public, believing that "paying the poor party henchmen in foreign Taiwan" is absolutely impossible.
On the contrary, it requires low-key treatment, "do not breed the spread, and make the opponent uneasy." "People are going to kill you, there must be a big conspiracy to endanger the Jiangshan community, you didn't check your henchmen at the first time, it's too abnormal!"
The Qingli Palace changed
Moreover, if Empress Cao had not been in danger that night, Zhao Zhen would have run out to see what was going on, and the assassination would have been, and there was such a great work, Zhao Zhen did not greatly reward Empress Cao, but said that that night, in the second half, Zhang Meiren, who suddenly appeared in his favor, "had the merit of stomping", and took the opportunity to make him a nobleman. It seems that the case is confusing. It was also because of Renzong's handling that the assassination case became an unexplained mystery.
So much so that many later generations said that it was a "palace scheme" carefully designed by Zhao Zhen's favor Zhang Meiren, and the target was not the emperor at all, but the empress, and wanted to frame the empress through such a play and let Zhang Meiren replace her. Some people even say that the mastermind, not someone else, is none other than Song Renzong himself.
Others say that the case is not solved, but it is due to Renzong's natural benevolence, loyalty with torture, and character, but telling the truth is not convincing enough.
Only by waiting for more evidence to emerge will we solve the mystery of the millennium.
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