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By mistake, he was lucky to ascend the throne Zhao Gou, the word Deji, was born in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the ninth son of Song Huizong. Zhao Gou has been gifted and intelligent since childhood, erudite and strong, and can recite a thousand words a day.
In the third year of Xuanhe, Zhao Gou was named King Kang. The following year, Zhao Gou left the palace to live in his palace. In the seventh year of Xuanhe, the Jin soldiers invaded the south on a large scale.
Song Huizong, who was addicted to wine all day long, saw that the Jin soldiers drove straight in, and he was already frightened that the six gods had no master, and hurriedly ceded the imperial throne to the crown prince Zhao Huan, and led the harem concubines and favored ministers to flee south by boat.
1. I only know how to escape, but I don't know how to resist the enemy
In the first month of the lunar calendar of Jingkangyuan, the Jin soldiers launched an attack on the city of Tokyo. Song Qinzong adopted the opinion of the peace faction headed by Li Bangyan, the right man of Shangshu, and ordered Zheng Wangzhi and Gao Shi to go to Jinying to seek peace.
General Kim refused to agree to negotiate peace, but the conditions were harsh. Qin Zong ordered Zhao Gou to be the pre-military envoy and go to Jinying to negotiate. After Zhao Gou generously agreed, he took Zhang Bangchang to Jinying.
General Jin couldn't see that the capital could not be attacked for a long time, so he wanted to give the Song envoys who came to negotiate a disadvantage, so as to get some unexpected benefits at the negotiation table.
After Zhao Gou arrived at the Jin camp, the Jin soldiers were armed with swords and guns, and they were murderous. After Zhang Bangchang saw such a formation, he was already frightened. Zhao Gou knew that this was the dismount that General Jin gave him, and he would not hurt himself, so he calmly entered the Jin camp.
After Zhao Gou and the Jin people made peace conditions, the Jin soldiers who had achieved their goal retreated north. After Zhao Gouyi returned to the capital, Qinzong named him Taifu.
During the period of Zhao Gou's peace, the division of the Qin Wang, such as Chongshi Dao, Yao Pingzhong, Fan Qiong, Ma Zhong, etc., led 200,000 reinforcements to the Beijing Division, and the morale of the Song Dynasty army and people was greatly boosted.
Qinzong dismissed the lord and minister Li Bangyan and others, and issued an edict to the troops of the kings of all walks of life to hold the three towns. In October, the Jin army led troops to capture Taiyuan. In November, the Jin army successively captured the important towns of the northern passes.
In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Jin army, the Song court's inner lord and faction gained the upper hand. Song Qinzong was forced to send envoys to Jinying to sue for peace. Qin Zong ordered Zhao Gou to lead Geng Yanxi and Gao Shi to send an envoy to Jinying again.
When Zhao Gou and his entourage rushed to Zhending Mansion to ask for peace, they had already led their army to the city of Tokyo. Soon news came that the Jin general Sticky Han led his army to the city of Tokyo, and the Beijing division was surrounded by the Jin army.
When Zhao Gou and his entourage arrived in Cizhou, Zong Ze, the guard general of Cizhou, immediately stepped forward and said to Zhao Gou, who went to the Jin State to negotiate peace: "After King Su arrived at the Jin army, he was taken hostage and never returned.
Now the Jin army has bad intentions and deceived the king to send an envoy. The king might as well stay in Cizhou and think long-term. When Zhao was hesitating, a soldier brought Wang Boyan's wax book.
Soon, Geng Nanzhong begged to see Zhao Gou and said that the emperor ordered him to lead the soldiers and horses of the Hebei counties to support the capital quickly. Zhao Gou and Geng Nanzhong recruited troops in Xiangzhou and established the Generalissimo's Mansion in Xiangzhou.
One day, Zhao Gou received an edict, which read: "The Jin soldiers have not captured the capital, and the two sides are negotiating peace." King Kang and the marshals stood by in place. ”
After Zhao Gou arrived in Dongping, he had no intention of rescuing the Jingshi. Soon, he led 80,000 officers and troops to garrison the state capitals of Ji and Pu. Zhao Gou not only did not move his own troops, but also ordered the division of the king of Qin from all walks of life not to approach the Beijing division.
After the Jin soldiers retreated, King Kang Zhao Gou inherited the throne by luck with the support of his ministers, that is, Gaozong, and the Southern Song Dynasty was established. I only knew how to escape, but I didn't know that although the anti-enemy Jin soldiers withdrew from the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Tokyo, they still controlled Hedong, Hebei and other places.
After Zhao Gou ascended the throne, in order to comply with public opinion, he had to express his determination to resist the enemy and take revenge. She ordered Li Gang, a general who actively resisted Jin, to serve as the right servant of Shangshu and the servant of Zhongshu.
At the same time, he also ordered Huang Qianshan, who advocated peace, to serve as the Zhongshu squire, and Wang Boyan to serve as a member of the Privy Council. Soon, the Jin people led their army south again.
After Li Gang became the prime minister, he ordered Ma Zhong and Zhang Huan to lead 10,000 horses to launch an attack on the Jin army in Hejian and won the victory. At the same time, Li Gang recruited the Hebei and Hedong rebels to resist Jin.
Since the birth of the Southern Song Dynasty, the ministers of the court and the central government have been arguing about wars and issues. Zhao Gou himself was very conflicted about the question of whether Jin was war or peace. He wanted to boost his morale and resist the Jin, but he also wanted to bow his knees to the Jin Dynasty.
Deep down, he didn't want to welcome back Huizong and Qinzong, but he had to send someone to test the attitude of the Jin Dynasty under the guise of visiting and welcoming the second emperor.
After the Jin soldiers evacuated Tokyo, Zhao Gou was worried about becoming a prisoner of the Jin people like the second emperor, so he never lived in the luxurious former residence, but ordered Zong Ze to stay and clean up the mess and go to Yingtianfu to be the emperor himself.
Zhao Gou had plans to flee south at the beginning of his accession to the throne, and on the second day of his accession, he ordered Weng Yanguo to repair the palace for him in Jiangning Mansion. Regarding Zhao Gou's preparation to flee south, Li Gang and other anti-Jin generals were very dissatisfied.
Soon, Yue Fei, a famous anti-Jin general, wrote to Zhao Gou, accusing Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and other traitors of misleading the country, and suggested that Zhao Gou take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Jin people and personally lead the army to recover the lost territory.
Li Gang saw Zhao Go's various performances after becoming emperor, and thought that he could not make a difference in the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, so he asked for his resignation.
After Li Gang dismissed the prime minister, Chen Dong, Ouyang Che and others wrote to Zhao Gou, praising Li Gang for being loyal and brave, while Huang and Wang were mediocre and incompetent, and earnestly asked Zhao Gou to lead the army to fight gold.
Zhao Gou ordered the two to be beheaded for public display, and the people saw Chen Dong and Ouyang Che beheaded, and felt bitterly that they had lost hope of recovering the northern territories.
Just when Zhao Gou decided to flee south, the military and civilians in the north were in full swing to carry out the struggle against Jin. In Tokyo, the veteran general Zong Ze led his troops to defend the town, and in the vast areas east and north of the Yellow River, the rebel army organized by the people spontaneously engaged in anti-Jin activities.
Faced with such an active resistance in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty decided to attack the Song Dynasty again. Under the excellent situation of the military and the people resisting Jin, Zhao Gou not only did not actively prepare for war, but led the harem concubines and some royal families to flee south by boat.
After learning the news of Zhao Gou's flight to the south, the soldiers and civilians of the Beijing Division deeply felt that there was no hope of restoring the old land of the Central Plains. In December of the same year, the Jin army marched south, and Henan, Shandong, Huainan, Shaanxi and other places were lost one after another.
In the spring of the second year of Jianyan, Zhao Gou and others arrived in Yangzhou. When the Jin army went south, Zhao Gou disregarded the life and death of the people, and lived a drunken life with his favored ministers in Yangzhou.
On February 3, the Tianchang army made an urgent report: the Jin soldiers would be able to reach Yangzhou on the same day. Kuang Xun, the chamberlain, hurriedly reported to Zhao Gou, who was sleeping with his wife and concubine in his arms, and Zhao Gou fled on horseback under the escort of Wang Yuan, Zhang Jun, and several soldiers.
On February 4, Zhao ordered Zhu Shengfei to guard Zhenjiang, Liu Guangshi to guard the riverside, and Yang Weizhong to guard Jiangning Mansion. At the same time, Zhao issued an "edict for his own crimes", granted amnesty to the world, and then fled in the direction of Lin'an.
Both the government and the opposition were dissatisfied with Huang and Wang's behavior of controlling the government and envying Zhongliang, and even more hated them for not repairing armaments, which made it easy for the Jin people to go south. The imperial envoy Zhang Hui mentioned the 20 major crimes of Huang and Wang in his report to Zhao Gou.
Under pressure, Zhao Gou ordered the removal of Huang and Wang. Soon, Chen Yan led his army to defeat the Jin army heading south, Yangzhou was recovered, and the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was able to temporarily settle in Hangzhou.
After framing Zhongliang and Gan Dang'er Huangjin soldiers occupied Yangzhou, they did not continue to cross the Yangtze River to commit crimes, but withdrew their troops to the north.
Therefore, after the restoration of Zhao Gou, Jiangning Mansion was changed to Jiankang Mansion, and under the pressure of public opinion, he was forced to go north to Jiankang Mansion and make a gesture of returning the capital to Jiankang Mansion.
Just when Zhao Gou repeatedly wrote to the rulers of the Jin Dynasty to beg for peace, the Jin Dynasty once again dispatched troops and horses to the south, preparing to capture Zhao Gou alive and wipe out the Zhao Dynasty in one fell swoop.
Zhao Gou and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty finally decided to defend only the river and not the Huai. Zhao Gou arranged the river defense on the one hand, and secretly prepared to return to Hangzhou on the other hand.
Just after all the preparations were in place, Lin'an fell, and Zhao Gou led his concubines and royal family to flee to Mingzhou, then to Changguo County, and finally forced to drift at sea.
2. Frame Zhongliang and be willing to be the emperor
The Jin army went deep alone, all the way like a bamboo, and the coach Jin Wushu was worried that it would be bad for him to delay too long in the south, so he claimed that "the search of the mountains and seas has been completed" and led the troops to retreat north.
When the Jin army retreated to Zhenjiang, it was stubbornly resisted by the troops led by Han Shizhong. Jin Wushu, the commander of the Jin Army, was almost captured at the Dragon King Temple in Jinshan.
Han Shizhong's wife, Liang Hongyu, personally beat the drum to help her husband in this battle, and Jin Wushu's son-in-law, King Longhu, was captured in this battle. Jin Wushu attacked the Song warships with fire, and was able to take the opportunity to escape to Jiangbei.
After the Jin soldiers retreated, Zhao Goucai staggered back to Yuezhou from Wenzhou, and renamed Yuezhou Shaoxing Mansion, which became the temporary capital of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Jin soldiers went south again in May of the tenth year of Shaoxing, and the prefectures of Henan and Shaanxi were occupied by the Jin army. When the news of the Jin army's occupation of Tokyo reached Lin'an, Zhao Goucai woke up from his dream of stealing his life and hurriedly dispatched troops to resist the Jin army's southward advance.
Zhao Gou ordered Yue Fei to attack from Xiangyang to contain the Jin soldiers who were attacking Huainan and Shaanxi. Yue Fei successively captured Yingchang, Caizhou, Luoyang and other places, and personally led 50,000 light cavalry to defeat the elite troops of Wushu in Yuncheng, and achieved a great victory in Yuncheng.
At the same time, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun successively recovered Yuzhou and Bozhou occupied by the Jin army; the rebel armies in various places also recovered many cities occupied by the Jin army.
The Song army formed an encirclement of the Jin army, and the Jin army's return route was cut off. At this time, Zhao Gou not only did not take advantage of the victory to restore the old frontier, but colluded with Qin Hui, took the initiative to give up the great opportunity of the military counteroffensive, and stepped up peace with Jin.
Qin Hui ordered Zhang Jun and Yang Yi to withdraw their troops, and then Zhao Gou ordered Yue Fei to return to the dynasty with 12 gold medals in a row. After Yue Fei's class returned to the court, the recovered city fell into the hands of the Jin people again.
In order to please the Jin people, Zhao Gou conspired with Qin Hui to arrest and imprison Yue Fei, a famous anti-Jin general, and his son Yue Yun. Qin Hui executed Yue Fei, a 39-year-old famous anti-gold general, on the charge of "rebellion" by Yue Fei's father and son.
As a result of the peace negotiation between the Song and Jin dynasties in the 11th year of Shaoxing, the Song Dynasty was reduced from an equal brotherly relationship with the Jin Dynasty to a relationship between monarchs and ministers, and the Southern Song Dynasty became a vassal state of the Jin Dynasty.
Zhao Gou was grateful to the Jin Dynasty for recognizing his throne, and was content to pay tribute to the Jin Dynasty, not only handing over the annual coins to the Jin Dynasty every year, but also constantly collecting gold and silver coins and silks from the people as gifts to the Jin Dynasty.
Not only that, Zhao Gou's mother Wei also gave tens of thousands of gifts to the empress of the Jin Dynasty every year. The emperor of the Jin Dynasty also asked the Southern Song court for all kinds of playthings at any time, and Zhao Gojun religiously complied with them one by one.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the people were burned and plundered by the Jin soldiers in the war, and a large area of farmland was barren, and the life of the people was miserable. After the peace was negotiated, Zhao Gou transferred the money paid to the Jin Dynasty to the people.
Regardless of the lives and deaths of the people, he built a large number of buildings and luxurious palaces, and the people could not bear the suffering and revolted one after another. Just when Zhao Gou was indulging in the beautiful dream of Emperor Yu'er, Wan Yan Liang of the Jin State staged a coup d'état, killed Jin Xizong, and ascended the throne of the emperor.
After Yan Liang became emperor, he actively rectified internal affairs, wanting the world to be one family and destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. Some far-sighted people in the Southern Song Dynasty had already been aware of Wanyan Liang's attempt to invade the south.
3. Summary
In the twenty-sixth year of Shaoxing, Liang Xun, a Jinshi of Dongping, said that the Jin people had signs of raising troops again, and asked Zhao Gou to get ready. Zhao Gou not only did not adopt it, but exiled Liang Xun.
Wan Yan Liang personally led an army of 600,000 to the south in September of the 31st year of Shaoxing, preparing to destroy the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. It was only at this time that Zhao Gou panicked and hurriedly ordered Liu Cheng and Wang Quan to lead the army to resist the attack of the Jin army.
Wang Quan fled without a fight, and Zhao Gou learned that Wang Quan was defeated, and on the one hand, he was preparing to dissolve the official government, and on the other hand, he was preparing to sail again for refuge. However, due to the resolute dissuasion of Prime Minister Chen Kangbo, Zhao Gou was forced to issue an edict to levy in person.
Soon, the Jin army occupied the Lianghuai region. In October of the same year, a fire broke out in the backyard of the Jin Kingdom, and Wan Yanyong staged a coup d'état and established himself as emperor. After hearing the news, Yan Liang prepared to return to China to quell the chaos, not wanting to be defeated by the Song army commanded by the Song general Yu Yunwen in one fell swoop.
Annoyed and angry, Wan Yan Liang ignored the lives of the soldiers and forced the Jin army to cross the river, and some Jin army generals staged a mutiny, killed Yan Liang and retreated north. The Southern Song army took advantage of the situation to recover the Lianghuai region.
The Southern Song Dynasty military and civilian anti-Jin enthusiasm soared, and Zhao Gou was very embarrassed in the face of the turbulent anti-Jin situation, so he reluctantly abdicated the following year, giving way to his adopted son, Zhao Fen, the seventh grandson of Song Taizu, and retired to Deshou Palace and became the emperor.
In the fourteenth year of Chunxi, Zhao Gou, who had lived a lifetime, died in Deshou Hall at the age of 81.