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In June 1162, the people of Lin'an City learned a happy news: the imperial court defeated the Jin army in the quarry area and beheaded more than 10,000 people!
But then, a holy decree issued from the palace confused everyone: Emperor Gaozong of Song announced his abdication and was succeeded by the crown prince Zhao Xuan (shèn)!
What's going on? The emperor was not sick or disaster-stricken, and he fought a great victory, so why did he suddenly announce his abdication?
Things have to start from the first month of 1127, that year, when the Jin army was near the city of Bieliang, and the situation in the Northern Song Dynasty was very dangerous. According to Yan Zonghan's request, the Northern Song Dynasty must send a prince-level person to the Jin Kingdom for peace talks - yes, the person chosen is The Kang King Zhao Shuo!
Zhao Was the ninth son of Emperor Huizong of Song, and long before Jin Bing crossed the Yellow River, Emperor Huizong of Song had already made clear his will for his eldest son Zhao Huan to inherit the throne. Therefore, if there is no subsequent "Jing kang change", Zhao Shuo will live a leisurely life as a prince.
However, before Zhao Zhuo could enter the territory of the Jin Dynasty, Bieliang fell. Emperor Huizong, Emperor Qinzong, and other Zhao and Song royal families all became prisoners and were forcibly taken to the north. In the blink of an eye, the insignificant prince became the only bloodline, and naturally became the target of the Golden Man. Under the protection of the scattered soldiers, Zhao Zhuo fled all the way to Shangqiu, where he ascended the throne, continuing the state of the Song Dynasty.
This is probably the last emperor in history who wants to be an emperor. Not long after the scrawled enthronement ceremony ended, Jin Bing heard the news. Helpless Zhao Shuo could only set off again, from Yangzhou to Zhenjiang to Dingzhou, Zhao Shuo had never spared his foot strength, as long as he could hide, he would never be tough.
But when the road was always over, in December 1129, Zhao Zhuo was in a desperate situation—he and his subjects had been forced into the sea, and even the basic pilgrimage was carried out on fishing boats. But even so, the Jin Army still had no intention of letting him go, and the desperate Zhao Zhuo could only be forced to take up arms to fight. Fortunately, the Jin people were not familiar with water, and under the desperate resistance of Zhang Gongyu, the defender of Hezhou, Zhao Zhuo saved his last vitality!
Back in Lin'an, it was 6 months later, with the failure of Jin Wushu's plan to invade the south, the situation of confrontation between Song and Jin along the Yangtze River gradually took shape, and Zhao Shuo, who had been running for 3 years, finally breathed a sigh of relief, but at this time, he never expected that the next few decades would be his real nightmare...
Zhao Zhuo had thought about restoring the rivers and mountains, at least in the early days of his reign. But the current situation was too difficult for an unprepared prince—the debts owed by his father and brother for two generations had to be repaid by him, but he knew very well that he was just a prince with mediocre ability, and compared with the old ancestor Zhao Kuangyin, he was simply a waste.
In addition to his personal ability problems, there is another very important practical reason in front of him, that is, no money.
A large part of the Song Dynasty's finances came from commercial trade, however, the southern invasion of the Jin people directly interrupted the development of commerce, and a large number of Han Chinese followed the royal family to the south, and agricultural production also suffered a huge blow. As a result, the fiscal crisis is clearly inevitable.
What to do? The only way left for Zhao Shuo was to make peace.
This, of course, will be opposed by the courtiers. Since ancient times, the Han feudal regime in the Central Plains has had a deep "Yixia concept", but now, they want these great Confucians to submit to the barbarian nation, and only they can appreciate the taste. As a result, many people of the main war faction constantly proposed to Zhao Shuo that they should restore the rivers and mountains, but Zhao Shuo never had enough confidence to make this determination.
God knows, he really can't help it! This emperor's throne was not at all won by him on his own initiative, but was forced by the times! After being hunted down and killed by the Jin people for 3 years, and even losing his fertility for this, Zhao Zhuo has developed a great fear of the Jin people, and he does not want to live a life of upheaval and displacement anymore!
He's tired!
Song Xiaozong
Under the threat of the Northern Jin people and under the gaze of the courtiers and the public, Zhao Zhuo had to fight with a strong spirit of 120,000 points and try to control the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty. For 36 years, Zhao Zhuo had been in a state of high mental tension. Whenever he wanted to relax, someone would bring out the argument of "Zhao's only bloodline" to give him chicken blood.
But what can Zhao Zhuo do? Retake the rivers and mountains? He thought too! But I really can't beat it! Zhao Shuo's bedside always contained a lot of classics about the Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Zong Song Zu ruling the country and the world, and he hoped to find a way to break the situation from these accomplished predecessors, but even if he turned the pages of the book, he could not find the answer.
Finally, after the victory in the quarry war, he had an account for himself, to the country, and to his subjects - abdication!
Well, this throne loves who sits, I'm tired.
After announcing his resignation, Zhao Zhuo immediately moved to the "Deoksugung Palace", which was a paradise he had painstakingly built. Deoksugung Palace is located in the deepest part of the palace, and Zhao Zhao's palace is in the deepest part of Deoksugung Palace - he wants to do everything possible to stay away from the hustle and bustle, he hates politics, he hates ministers, and he hates the Golden People even more!
Here, Zhao Zhuo immersed himself in worshipping the Buddha, and in addition to burning incense and chanting, his most common thing to do was to swim in the lake. There is a hand-dug "West Lake" in Deokshou Palace - according to legend, Zhao Shuo likes the West Lake very much, but every time he swims in the lake, he has to make a big pomp, although the people and the courtiers seem to love him very much, but in Zhao Shuo's heart, he is unwilling to contact the outside world again. Therefore, with the support of Emperor Xiaozong, Zhao ordered people to build a small West Lake in Deoksugung Palace for him to visit alone.
Deoksugung Palace
On March 15, 1179, Zhao Zhuo visited the West Lake for the last time, and near noon, the boat arrived near the Qiantang Gate and randomly found a restaurant to eat. This is a restaurant specializing in fish soup, the owner of the restaurant is named Song Wujie, he saw the people who came down from the boat, knew that these people are not rich or expensive, and immediately personally cooked a signature fish soup and sent it upstairs. Zhao Zhuo tasted a bite, felt that the taste was extremely delicious, and asked about the preparation method of fish soup, and Song Wujie did not shy away from it, and generously said her own cooking method.
Zhao Zhuo praised the fish soup made by Song Wujie as comparable to the court fish soup he ate in Bieliang City, but unexpectedly, Song Wujie said with sad eyes: "This fish soup must separate the fish bones from the fish meat, just like today's people are separated from the north and south, the reason why I created this dish is that I hope that the people of the Great Song Dynasty will not forget the hatred of the family and the country!" ”
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhuo suddenly lost all appetite, and he ordered someone to give Song Wujie 100 yuan and silver coins, and then turned around and left.
Fish soup is naturally delicious, and family hatred and hatred must not be forgotten. But for Zhao Shuo, who has been in power for more than 30 years, even if he eats a dish, he must undergo such mental torture, which is really unacceptable to him - the heavy responsibility of home and country is like a thorn in the door of his head, and the slightest movement will cause a headache that is unbearable.
The West Lake is no longer going, Zhao Shuo decided to live in simplicity from now on, the way to use for recreation is to let people bring some poetry and paintings from outside the palace, although he does not have any artistic cells, he also wants to see how much magic this thing that makes his father and brother addicted to the subjugation of the country.
One day, a huge painting was presented outside the palace, and the author's name was Zhang Zeduan. Zhao Zhuo suddenly felt as if he had heard this name somewhere, and he opened the scroll of painting - Oh my God! It's "Qingming On the River Map"! At that time, the painting was dedicated to his father Emperor Huizong of Song, was warmly praised by his father, and then hid it in the Inner Palace until the city of Bieliang was breached, and the whereabouts of the painting were unknown, but now it appeared in front of his eyes.
What a familiar scene! That city, that river, that shop, that liquor store... More than 40 years! Everything seems to have changed in my memory! Zhao Zhuo felt as if the scenes in the painting had only happened yesterday.
Along with the "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty", there is also the "Water Dragon Yin" created by Xin Shuyi:
Chu Tian is thousands of miles in autumn, and the water goes with the sky to autumn. Haruka is far away, offering sorrow and offering hate, jade hairpin and screw bun. Sunset building head, broken hong sound, Jiangnan wanderer. Look at the Wu hook, shoot the railing all over, no one will, board the intention.
Hugh said that the perch can be drunk, the west wind is exhausted, and the season eagle is not returned? Asking Tian to ask for a house, afraid that he should be ashamed to see, Liu Lang was angry. It is a pity that the years flow, the sorrows of the wind and rain, and the trees are like this! Qian He people call, red scarf green sleeves, tears of heroes!
Zhao Shuo, who was immersed in the illusions of the past, instantly woke up—he remembered Xin Zhiyi, the young general who had passed through The Pass from Shandong and led more than 10,000 people to the imperial court, and he had personally met him.
However, the youthful spirit and the dying court are always so out of place. Zhao Zhuo knew what these two people wanted to express, but he was really tired, now he was just a dying old man, he didn't understand, why did he hide in the deep palace, these people still refused to let him go?
Enraged, Zhao Zhuo returned all the paintings and poems, and then ordered: No one is allowed to bring any works to him again!
The elderly Zhao Shuo had already shown a decadent temperament that was about to die, and he tried his last bit of energy to pour all the knotted qi in his chest onto the winemaking - "how about using wine to dispel sorrow and worry more"? The old man is just going to get drunk!
He sat alone in the back garden of Deoksugung Palace, milling fine Hye-san rice while scooping up a few spoonfuls of fine mountain spring water. He had learned all this from the winemakers in the palace, but he never let the masters do it themselves, but he had to do it himself.
The newly brewed wine is packed into the urn, sealed and printed with the words "Shangpin" and sealed.
In the first month of 1184 AD, Zhao Shuo called out to his son Emperor Xiaozong to drink together, and Zhao Shuo drank cup after cup, and Emperor Xiaozong on the side was a little unbearable, so he advised: "This thing should not be eaten more!" ”
Zhao Zhao's face was drunk, and a little smile appeared on his face, and he murmured in his mouth: "Don't worry!" Might as well! It's cool to eat! ”
That night, Zhao Zhuo finally got his wish and got drunk, and at that moment, he seemed to understand the words that Li Yu wrote in the "Order of the Waves and Sands": In the dream, he did not know that he was a guest, and he was greedy. It's good to be able to absorb a moment of joy, this damn life!