For this founding leader of the Song Dynasty, his merits have their own history to comment, this article will not discuss it for the time being, but there is a person who has a close relationship with him, and even some people suspect that it is his murderer - Song Taizu's younger brother Song Taizong Zhao Kuangyi.
Speaking of Zhao Kuangyi may not be as familiar to everyone as Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyi is Zhao Kuangyin's brother, later renamed Zhao Guangyi, this person also has a certain military talent, otherwise how can he follow his brother to participate in the Chen Qiao Mutiny?
When his brother died, he became the second emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is reasonable to say that the throne will generally be inherited by the emperor's son, the emperor's descendant, and the emperor's child at that time was already an adult, which can't help but make people suspicious... Is this really a simple brotherhood? Many people speculate that Taizu's death and Taizong are inseparable, in fact, this speculation still has a certain degree of credibility, aside from other things, it can be seen from Zhao Guangyi's treatment of his sister-in-law.
Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, had three wives and three empresses, namely He, Wang, and Song. What we want to talk about today is what Zhao Guangyi, as a younger brother, did to his sister-in-law Song After Taizu's death... After Taizu's death, the Song clan did not receive special treatment because she was the wife of Emperor Xian, on the contrary, she held the title of "Empress Kaibao" and lived alone in the Cold Palace for nearly 20 years, until she died, no one cared about it, which was in stark contrast with the happy life of Taizu when she was alive.
After her death, it was even more miserable, and the royal ministers of the whole dynasty, under the instruction of Emperor Taizong of Song, no one took the funeral and no one mourned. Even someone wrote a letter praising her and was severely punished. Not only that, according to the custom, the empress should be buried with the former emperor, but Song Taizong forbade her to go to the Taimiao Temple and did not allow the two to be buried together. It was not until Emperor Shenzong succeeded to the throne that the main tablet of Empress Song was moved to the Taimiao Temple.
It is reasonable to say that in order to maintain the dignity and glorious image of the king of a country, he should be kind to his sister-in-law, even if it is a show, but he does not, but let her die blindly... So this deepened the previous understanding, maybe Taizong really killed his brother to succeed to the throne, will have such hatred? However, history has passed, and we can't comment too much on it here.
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