In 1127 A.D., the Jin Kingdom went south to break through the Northern Song Dynasty Bianliang City, the Northern Song Dynasty declared its destruction, and the two emperors of Song Huizong, Song Qinzong and a large number of clan ladies were taken away by the Jin people, which was known as "the difficulty of Jingkang" in history.
After becoming captives, including the Hui and Qin Emperors and the people of the Northern Song Dynasty, they suffered unprecedented hardships, and more than 3,400 female dependents taken by the Jin people from Kaifeng Mansion were tortured to death on the road alone.
Finally arrived at the capital of the Jin Kingdom, but unexpectedly it became the beginning of the nightmare of Song Huizong and others, most of the female dependents became the playthings of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, and in order to humiliate Song Huizong, the people of the Jin Kingdom also gave him the title of "Duke".
As the king of the fallen country and still a captive, how did Song Huizong live when he was imprisoned? According to historical records, after he was captured and before he died of illness, he gave birth to six sons and eight daughters, a total of 14 children.
In other words, counting the more than 60 children he gave birth to before he was captured, Song Huizong had more than 80 children in his life, and such a "high yield" could it be that Song Huizong was treated well in the Jin Kingdom? In fact, this is not the case, and being able to have children has nothing to do with whether they are treated well or not, and Song Huizong himself knows best what is going on with these children.
There are many dynasties in history that have lost their country, but in terms of the degree of shame, Jingkang is the worst, and there is no one.
In the first year of Jingkang, Huizong of the Song Dynasty deprived Li Gang, Chongshidao and other main battle factions of military power, and granted all the powers of battle, defense and peace to Prime Minister He Li of Bianliang City.
In the following year, the general of the Jin State Wan Yan Zongwang led a large army to the city of Bianliang, and the prime minister He Li did not think of a strategy to retreat from the enemy, but superstitious the demon Guo Jing, in a vain attempt to repel the Jin army with the "Liujia Divine Soldier", Guo Jing also took great care to take thousands of ruffians, holding paper people to meet the enemy.
As a result, Bianliang City was unsurprisingly broken by Wanyan Zongwang, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.
As early as a year before the death of the country, Song Huizong, who had been frightened by the people of the Jin Kingdom, forcibly passed the throne to him despite the fierce opposition of his son Zhao Huan.
Song Huizong's plan is very simple, that is, to see that the situation is not right, so he wants to pass the throne to his son and settle at ease, which is a typical ostrich mentality.
But his wishful thinking did not work, and in 1127, the year after his abdication, the Jin invaded again, and the city of Bianliang was broken, and Song Huizong and his son Song Qinzong all became prisoners of the Jin.
After becoming a prisoner, Song Huizong was forced to start the long road to the north, from Bianliang City to Shangjing, thousands of miles away, this way, Song Huizong experienced hardships.
Of course, compared with the female dependents of the Northern Song Dynasty who were captured together, Song Huizong was just a little tired from walking, almost eating, and was often scolded by the Jin people, and those female dependents could be called tortured.
When they set out from Bianliang City, the Jin people took away more than 3,400 queens, concubines, princesses, and all kinds of female dependents, including the queen of Song Huizong, as well as his favorite concubine and his favorite daughter.
But at this time, these former golden branches and jade leaves no longer have the nobility of the past, but have become the object of the Jin people's wanton venting, whether it is the imperial concubine or the princess, in short, as long as they are favored by the Jin people, they will be ravaged immediately.
During this period, Zhao Fujin, the daughter of Song Huizong, was also set up by the eldest son of Wanyan Zonghan, the general of the Jin State, to take a horse and wanted to accept him as a concubine, and Zhao Fujin had already married and was the daughter-in-law of Cai Jing, the imperial master of the dynasty, but he also set up a horse to care at all, even if Song Huizong begged many times, he was still unmoved, and on the way back to Beijing, he also set up a horse to forcibly defile Zhao Fujin.
Also, Concubine Zhu Shen of Song Huizong, who was convenient on the side of the road on the way north due to internal urgency, was also rudely molested by the Jin people, and was finally insulted to death because of resistance.
After arriving in Beijing, less than 2,000 of the more than 3,000 female dependents remained, and the rest died in a foreign land.
But for all this that happened in front of him, Song Huizong didn't know whether he was scared or other reasons, in short, he didn't react, maybe what he thought about the most at that time was how to live, as for what kind of torture these female dependents were subjected to, it was not in his scope of consideration at all.
On the way north, the Jin people naturally did not have a good face for Song Huizong, let alone give him any good treatment, including in terms of food supply, the Jin people deliberately made things difficult and often withheld rations, causing Song Huizong to often go hungry and have a full meal.
In order to satisfy his hunger, the emperor, who once wrote thin gold calligraphy like a flowing stream, had to pick mulberries along the road to help satisfy hunger, and even so, it was inevitable to starve.
When he walked to the capital store of Qingyuan Prefecture (present-day Neiqiu County, Hebei), Song Huizong's younger brother Zhao Yu was starved to death, but the Jin people not only did not agree to collect the body, but also forcibly cremated Zhao Yu on the spot.
During that time, Song Huizong was able to live and not be thrown into the wilderness, which was the best treatment given to him by the Jin people.
On the way, in addition to making things difficult for Song Huizong, the Jin people also "made the best use of everything" and used his identity as the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty to persuade those cities to surrender.
For example, when they walked to Zhending Mansion (now Zhengding, Hebei), the Jin people made a huge banner and wrote "Emperor Taishang of the Song Dynasty", which was carried into the city by Song Huizong, and the people in the city wept bitterly after seeing it.
In order to take the city, the generals of the Jin State tied Song Huizong's hands and sent them to the front of the city, and asked him to shout to the generals defending the city and ask him to open the city gate and surrender.
However, the soldiers and civilians of Zhongshan Mansion, although they also cried bitterly after seeing Song Huizong, refused to surrender, and finally all died in battle.
In this way, with the number of "captive army" getting smaller and smaller, Song Huizong and his party finally arrived in Yanjing, and before they could stabilize their spirits, Song Huizong was moved to Zhongjing (now Inner Mongolia Ningcheng West Daming City), and finally, the group was temporarily stabilized in Shangjing (now Inner Mongolia Bahrain Zuoqi South).
It was here that the people of the Jin Kingdom held a humiliating "Sacrifice Ceremony", and Song Huizong, Song Qinzong and many prisoners, both men and women, were all stripped of their shirts, put on sheep furs and felt strips around their waists, and were forced to kneel and bow in front of the temple where Jin Taizu finished his face and bones.
Empress Zhu of Song Huizong, that is, after holding the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners, she was humiliated, and committed suicide on the spot after returning to the house, as for the other female dependents, most of them were divided by the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, and Jin Taizong alone took seven or eight daughters of Song Huizong into the harem.
Since then, the Duke of Dude and the Marquis of Dude have become the titles of the two emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Song Huizong's nine-year captive career officially began at this moment, in order not to go hungry, he had to support himself, that is, during this time, Song Huizong successively "gave birth" to 14 children.
In October 1128, the Jin people relocated Song Huizong and his son again, this time to the more remote Hanzhou (now north of Changtu County, Liaoning).
The reason why they moved farther and farther away was not that the Jin people had nothing to do, but that the Southern Song Dynasty government had been established at that time, and gradually gained the upper hand in the struggle against the Jin State, so the Jin people were afraid that Song Huizong's father and son would be robbed by the Southern Song Dynasty, and in order to ensure their "safety", they had to move the two to remote Hanzhou.
After arriving in Hanzhou, the Jin people rewarded Song Huizong with 45 hectares of farmland, which meant that they were allowed to solve the problem of clothing, food, housing and transportation by themselves, which made Song Huizong suffer.
You must know that he used to be the Ninety-Five Emperor, where would he plant what land? Although he brought him with him, he also died a lot along the way, and after arriving in Hanzhou, there were only a few hundred people left, including the kings of the Song royal family, concubines, and other powerful people.
But the Jin people don't care about these, everything has to rely on Song Huizong and others themselves, in order to have a shelter from the wind and rain, they have to build thatched houses in an open place, as for farming, they can only do it themselves.
Although the Jin people did not kill them, this treatment is indeed miserable enough, but this is also what Song Huizong deserves.
One day, due to some leakage of the thatched house, Song Qinzong and a few subordinates were climbing up and down to repair, at this time, several Jin people hurried over, and the frightened Song Qinzong jumped down from the ladder at that time, and smiled at the Jin people again and again.
It turned out that Song Huizong and others were going to "move" again, and this time they were even farther away, in Wuguo City (now Yilan, Heilongjiang).
On the way from Hanzhou to Wuguo City, the number of people under Song Huizong decreased again, like a lost dog, and after rushing all the way to the destination, there were only more than 100 people left.
In addition to the remoteness, the biggest feature of the Five Kingdoms City is that it is cold and the conditions are very difficult, but here, it is the "peak period" for Song Huizong to have children.
In Cai Jing's son Cai Ying's book "Northern Hunting Travels", it is mentioned that Song Huizong and others can at least eat every day here, although it is not a delicacy, but it is no problem to fill their stomachs, and the place where they live is not as rumored, they live in the well.
There is food and shelter, after worry-free food and clothing, Song Huizong has more energy, on weekdays, he recites poems and paints, "Jiashan looks back three thousand miles, and there are no geese flying in the south of the mountain", which was written at that time.
Since they all have leisure to compose poems, it naturally shows that Song Huizong's basic treatment at that time was not bad, so he also had the time and energy to "have children".
But there is also a folk saying, that Song Huizong was captured after the children, during the period of birth, it seems that he has little to do with him, it may be that the Jin people imposed on him, and he just got a "cheap", however, this statement is not supported by historical data, so the authenticity remains to be verified, what is going on with these children, I am afraid only Song Huizong himself is the most clear.
As for Song Huizong's treatment in the Jin Kingdom, anyone can see that it is not good, and it is also very poor, the reason why he was able to eat enough and have a place to live in the later period was due to two factors, one is that the Jin people forcibly accepted many daughters and concubines of Song Huizong as concubines, so they increased part of his treatment with the nature of charity, and the other is that because of the successive victories of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, the Jin people were a little jealous and did not dare to abuse Song Huizong too much.
But after all, he was the king of the fallen country and a captive, even if the people of the Jin Kingdom improved his treatment, but what could he do? The Great Song Dynasty still died in his hands, and countless people of the Northern Song Dynasty were also humiliated and allowed to be trampled on by the Jin people.
In 1135 A.D., Song Huizong, who was suffering in such a hard life, finally failed to survive that winter, and died of illness on the earthen kang in the city of the Five Kingdoms.