In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing of the Southern Song Dynasty (1162 AD), the fifty-six-year-old emperor Gaozong Zhao Shuo of Song was tired of the government, so he ceded the throne to his adopted son, Crown Prince Zhao Yun [shèn], for Emperor Xiaozong of Song, and Zhao Shuo himself became the Emperor Taishang of Youzha Youya.
Emperor Gaozong of Song reigned for a total of thirty-six years, and then served as emperor for another twenty-five years, and only at the age of eighty-one did he sail the crane to the west. Although Emperor Gaozong of Song claimed that he would no longer take care of the affairs of the dynasty, in fact he retired and still firmly controlled the military and political power of the Southern Song Empire, and Song Xiaozong became a puppet who only gave orders.
Song Xiaozong Zhao Was rich and powerful, and at the age of flesh and blood, he was not willing to be restrained internally and humiliated externally, and he was determined to recover the great rivers and mountains and bid farewell to the years of gou and stealing peace. Every time he asked Emperor Taishang for peace, Emperor Xiaozong could not forget the topic of the Northern Expedition and hoped to get the support of Emperor Taishang.
At first, Emperor Taishang felt that the emperor was young and vigorous, but it was just a matter of talking, who thought that this child was stubborn, and he had an iron heart to fight with the Jin people to the end, reactivating the ministers of the main war faction, and actively planning the Northern Expedition.
These practices were very different from the principles and policies implemented by Emperor Taishang during his reign, and he always advocated external peacemaking, and was very annoyed with the internal emperor. Once, the Emperor Taishang was provoked, and said in a gamble: "If you want the Northern Expedition, you can also wait until I die, and then you will consider this issue!" ”
Between father and son, when it comes to this, Song Xiaozong has no choice but to maintain the situation of paying tribute to jin guo and being in a corner of peace. Big things can't do the Lord, what about the small daily things? The answer is that small things don't count.
One year, emperor Taishang celebrated his birthday, and ministers and local officials paid tribute to treasures and souvenirs less than in previous years, which made Emperor Taishang angry. While looking at the list, he pointed at Sang And scolded Huai, which made Song Xiaozong feel overwhelmed.
Song Xiaozong hurriedly invited the prime minister Yu Yunwen to put out the fire, and the Emperor Taishang was angry, and the seven meats and eight vegetarians scolded Yu Yunwen with a gray head and a dirty face, and at the end of the acid slipped a sentence: "I am not dead, why am I not dead, I will not be resented when I die!" ”
Wait until the Emperor Taishang scolded enough, said tired, poor Yu Yunwen, bitterly comforted the Emperor Taishang, said a good word, the Emperor Taishang was not troublesome. Yu Yunwen also had to give Song Xiaozong a round field, find a step, and then slip a cigarette to find a place where no one was crying and wiping his tears.
Once, the Emperor Taishang found a monk at the Lingyin Temple who did not look like a monk, so he asked him, and the monk said that he was originally a county keeper, offended his superiors, was deposed as a commoner, and became a monk without a way to live.
The Emperor Taishang was moved by compassion and asked the emperor to arrange work for the former sheriff. After some time, the Emperor Taishang saw this person again at the Lingyin Temple and was very angry. The next day, the son invited his father to play in the garden, and the emperor deliberately did not say a word, and Song Xiaozong did not know how to be good.
The empress dowager comforted the old man: "The son is so filial, why are you sullen and unhappy?" The Emperor Taishang repeated the old trick: "It seems that I am really old, and no one listens to me!" Song Xiaozong was so frightened that his face was like earth, and he hurriedly inquired, only to learn that it was a matter of arranging work for the monk.
In order to make Emperor Taishang happy, Song Xiaozong had to reactivate a corrupt official who had committed the most heinous crimes, several levels higher than the original official position. Finally, when Emperor Taishang was driving, Song Xiaozong was already old, and he had long lost the vigor of the Northern Expedition.
Two years later, the disheartened Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended the throne as Crown Prince Zhao, known as Song Guangzong. Eight years later, Song Xiaozong died at the age of sixty-eight, he reigned for twenty-seven years, and his father interfered in the affairs of the dynasty for twenty-five years.