Zhao Kuangyin was a great emperor, and his efforts allowed the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to be quelled and the Song Dynasty was established, named Song Taizu. During his reign, he exterminated the rebels everywhere and brought to justice those who disturbed the peace. He also used the "cup of wine to release military power" twice, and the military power was properly maintained, so that the Northern Song Dynasty could maintain peace and stability for a long time, and the society was very stable.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, suddenly fell ill and returned to the West at the age of 50. After Zhao Kuangyin died, the throne was passed to his younger brother Zhao Guangyi. Zhao Guangyi is Song Taizong, why didn't he pass it on to his son. Generally speaking, according to common sense, emperors follow a hereditary system, passing the throne to their descendants rather than their peers. At that time, the rumors were all the meaning of the Empress Dowager Du.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin passed the throne to his younger brother, and the two sons died mysteriously, is there anything strange in the middle?
After Zhao Kuangyin passed the throne to his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, the two young sons Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang successively "had to die", which is a historical fact. As for whether there is anything strange about this matter, it depends on how the monarchs think of whether Zhao Guangyi is a normal enthronement. However, regardless of whether Zhao Guangyi ascends the throne normally or not, Zhao Tingmei, Zhao Dezhao, and Zhao Defang will definitely die.
First of all, if everyone believes in the "Golden Kui Alliance", then Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne normally in accordance with the will of Empress Dowager Du and Song Taizu. In this case, the deaths of Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang cannot be said to be strange - because they basically have no way to live. In a previous article, Guoshi Jun (General Theory of National History) once said that some emperors who passed on the throne to their younger brothers and nephews but did not pass on the throne to their sons in history, most of their countries will fall into turmoil because they violate the traditional way of succession, and the most important factor is that the sons of these emperors or other brothers and nephews feel that they are more qualified to inherit the throne. Therefore, after Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, quickly eradicating Zhao Tingmei, Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Defang and other people who threatened his throne was the only choice to maintain the stability of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Secondly, if everyone believes in the "axe sound and candle shadow", that is, they believe that Zhao Guangyi inherited the throne by killing his brother, then he will have to get rid of Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang even more - cut the grass to get rid of the roots, in case one day the East Window incident happens, Zhao Guangyi is betrayed by the people, then, as long as Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang have been removed, Zhao Guangyi has nothing to worry about.
The Golden Cabinet Alliance, also known as the "Golden Cabinet Alliance", refers to the fact that Zhao Kuangyin's mother, Empress Dowager Du, summoned Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu to the bed before her death, and explained the future succession to the throne. Empress Dowager Du wanted to let the Zhao family and the Great Song Dynasty be passed on for thousands of generations and forever, so she persuaded Zhao Kuangyin to pass the throne to his younger brother Zhao Guangyi in the future, and then Zhao Guangyi to Dezhao. This last word was recorded by Zhao Pu and hidden in the Golden Kui, which is the so-called "Golden Kui Alliance".
Although, few people in history have seen the true face of the covenant, but the vast majority of people still believe in the existence of the covenant, because Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is more concerned about the cultivation of his younger brother than the cultivation of his son, even if the second son Zhao Dezhao grows up, but Zhao Kuangyin did not make him king, and rarely let him contact government affairs, as for Defang, he is younger and knows nothing about state affairs, but he is to his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, the king of Jin, and appoint Kaifeng Mansion Yin, before the prime minister, it seems that his younger brother has been designated as the actual heir to the throne.
After Zhao Kuangyin died suddenly, Queen Song originally asked the eunuch Wang Jien to summon Defang into the palace to inherit the unification, but Wang Jien went straight to the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion to find Zhao Guangyi, the king of Jin, and then Zhao Guangyi and Wang Jien entered the palace.