Written by/Ri Yao Ju
A generation of emperors from ancient times to the present generation have ascended the throne, all of them have put on yellow robes and sat on the dragon chair, which is very powerful, especially holding a jade seal in their hands to accept the worship of the people of the world, this is the real king's landing in the world, so it is not mighty!
Throughout the dynasties, there are many ways for emperors to ascend the throne, for example, inheriting the throne from the hands of their ancestors, this way is relatively stable, and after being recognized by their subordinates and the people of the world, they will ascend to the throne steadily.
Another way is to resemble Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, who is relying on his true ability to fight a piece of the world and conquer the north in the south.
Such an emperor ascends to the throne, and the hardships involved are not something that ordinary people can appreciate.
There is another way to ascend to the throne, that is, "robbery", this way of means is extremely despicable, do everything to the extreme, or pretend or kill people to destroy the mouth, it is not their own throne, using hard robbery means, and skillfully seizing the throne.
The one mentioned below, it is ridiculous to say, he himself does not want to be an emperor, and finally ascended to the emperor's throne was also forced out, it sounds very ridiculous, this is the Southern Song Dynasty's Ningzong Zhao Kuo.
Zhao Kuo
In 1194 AD, (July of the fifth year of Shaoxi' fifth year), at that time, the Southern Song Dynasty was in Ducheng, lin'an (present-day Hangzhou), in this imperial palace, the fourth emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ningzong Zhao Kuo, was forced to die and ascended to the throne.
<h1>First, the form of the Southern Song Dynasty</h1>
The fourth emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuo, was born on November 9, the fourth year of Qiandao (1168), and his father was the famous mad emperor song Guangzong in history, and his mother was Empress Li.
At the beginning of Zhao Kuo's reign, he paid homage to Shaobao and Wuning Junjiedushi, and this year was the sixteenth year of The Great Xi (1189), and then he was made the prince of Jin, and in the following year, he was made crown prince.
His father, Emperor Guangzong, was suspicious and cowardly by nature, and his empress Li Shi was fierce, and under this major mental blow, he suffered from mental illness.
Faced with a political crisis in the face of inability to govern, his father Guangzong and his grandfather Xiaozong had always been at odds, and not long after, his grandfather Xiaozong died.
However, this Guangzong actually refused to guard his filial piety, and the imperial court was in an uproar, and the death of the Emperor Taishang was in the mourning of the whole country. However, Guangzong, the head of a country, as a son, refused to preside over the funeral, which made the royal face of the Southern Song Dynasty disappear.
In this extremely embarrassing situation, if no one came forward, the development of the matter can be imagined, at this time, a courtier named Zhao Ruyu stood up, with his identity as a member of the Zhao family, he had a sense of responsibility for saving the country from water and fire, so he immediately decided to ask the empress dowager Wu Shi to come forward to hold an internal meditation.
Song Guangzong
<h1>Second, the soulless emperor Zhao Kuo</h1>
Empress Dowager Wu's inner Zen was to let Zhao Kuo, the King of Jia, succeed to the throne, and the ultimate purpose was also to stabilize the situation, and no one could have imagined that there would be a bloodless coup d'état in the world.
Under the persuasion of Zhao Ruyu, the empress dowager Wu Shi came forward to preside over the internal Zen ceremony, everything was ready, everything was ready to stop, and in the solemn and solemn spiritual hall, the coffin of Emperor Xiaozong of Taishang was parked, and the ministers of the imperial court fell to their knees, just waiting for "Zhao Kuo" to put on the dragon robe, which was justified.
However, at the moment of this thousand gunshots, a farce was staged on Zhao Kuo's body, and the reason was that Zhao Kuo shouted in his mouth: I can't do it, I can't do it! Can't do it, can't do it! This is the name of filial piety. It turned out that this Zhao Kuo did not want to be this emperor.
But he could inherit the throne with the consent of the Empress Dowager Wu and the approval of a group of ministers kneeling below, so this enthronement ceremony had to go on.
Looking at this Zhao Ruyu again, holding the dragon robe in his hand, he draped it over Zhao Kuo's body, but this Zhao Kuo hid around the coffin of Emperor Xiaozong.
Zhao Ruyu shouted emotionally: "The son of heaven should take the security of the society and the stability of the country as filial piety", this sentence is Zhao Ruyu in order to eliminate Zhao Kuo's fear of "the name of filial piety".
Empress Dowager Wu looked at this indisputable Zhao Kuo, and her heart was really angry and anxious, so she was in tears, and she was angry and corrupt, and she took the yellow robe around, and this old woman had to personally put it on for Zhao Kuo, which staged the second "yellow robe plus body" in the history of the Song Dynasty.
Helpless, Zhao Kuo, only then put on a yellow robe, in fear, he repeatedly knelt down to the empress dowager, as a generation of emperors, for the position of an emperor, he made a look of loss of soul.
However, this Zhao Kuo had become the de facto emperor, and in the case of the ministers, long live the mountain, he hastily succeeded to the throne.
<h1>Third, Emperor Ningzong Zhao Kuo did not want to be the sour behind the emperor</h1>
Emperor Ningzong Zhao Kuo was forced to ascend to the throne, and for a while it became a joke, and most people thought that there were people in the world who did not want to be emperors, whether they were mentally ill like his father Emperor Guangzong, but this was not the case.
Zhao Kuo felt great shame and helplessness about the death of his own grandfather Emperor Xiaozong of Taishang and the failure of his father, Emperor Guangzong, to fulfill his filial piety on his deathbed.
The shame is that filial piety is the first major event in the world, as a son can not give filial piety to his parents, how can he be the lord of the world? However, what was helpless was that his father, Emperor Guangzong, was mentally ill, and the government affairs of the imperial court could not be handled, so how could he talk about the emotional entanglement between him and Emperor Xiaozong.
Let the people of the world who do not understand the situation laugh in shame, so that he fell into pain, today, the position of the emperor who symbolizes the highest peak of power, although he sits up, he knows that he is facing infinite darkness and pain.
At the beginning of Emperor Guangzong's succession in the first year of Shaoxi (1190), Zhao Kuo was established as the crown prince, so he thought that it was sooner or later to become emperor.
But now he was forced to ascend to the emperor's throne, because Zhao Kuo knew that his father Emperor Guangzong's chair was not yet hot, and he had only been on the throne for less than five years, so he let himself be driven down.
Although it was his father Emperor Guangzong who suffered from mental illness, it was also too fast and too hasty, compared to his father Emperor Guangzong's life as a prince for more than ten years, he had only been a few years.
He really wasn't ready to be emperor, so Zhao Kuo kept saying on the day he ascended the throne: "Sons and daughters can't do it, for fear of being unfilial." This is undoubtedly Zhao Kuo's heart.
For the "yellow robe plus body" is not so much a symbol of power and status, but rather a net that firmly binds itself.
It is very likely that Ningzong Zhao Kuo thought in his heart that he was different from Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's "Chen Qiao Mutiny", that is because Taizu Zhao Kuangyin worked hard in his life and was self-directed and self-acting", while Ningzong Zhao Kuo's own "yellow robe plus body" was imposed on him.
From here we can see that Ningzong Zhao Kuo is afraid that it is too late to avoid it, he is not interested in this uninvited throne, historical records: "Ningzong is not wise" Through the record of these four words, we can consider it as an objective and fair evaluation.
From a historical point of view, we can understand the various signs before Emperor Ningzong Zhao Kuo succeeded to the throne, and it is true that he is not a suitable candidate to become emperor.
After this Emperor Ningzong Zhao Kuo was forced to succeed to the throne, he even showed ignorance and incompetence, and was even swayed by eunuchs, causing the imperial power to fall, and it was impossible to compare Emperor Ningzong Zhao Kuo with Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.
Map of the Southern Song Dynasty
Even if he did not have intelligence and wisdom, and appeared to be so plain in the position of monarch, the courtiers at the time had different opinions, because according to the traditional saying that "the country cannot be without a monarch for a day", Ningzong Zhao Kuo's title of emperor played a crucial role in stabilizing the political situation of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time.
Here we also want to talk about Zhao Ruyu's meticulous planning, which is indispensable, because it was Zhao Ruyu's plan that achieved the smooth handover of the Southern Song Dynasty regime, allowing the Zhao family's Song family to temporarily survive a political crisis.
However, forcing a man with no ability to govern the country to rule a great country for more than thirty years was not out of helplessness, and at this point, the regime of the Southern Song Dynasty fell into a storm.
I am not a historian, according to the plot of historical data to make conjectures, welcome netizens to complain! Please pay attention to the headline number: RiYaoju! Stick to the original.
2019.9.10YujiaShi