At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to negotiate peace, Zhao Zhuo not only claimed to the Jin State as a vassal, but also cut off the land to pay compensation, and also took the initiative to frame Yue Fei, who made the Jin people feel frightened.
What was the result of Zhao Zhao's humble knees? Twenty years later, Jin Guo turned his face and did not admit it.
In 1161 AD, the lord of the Jin State, Yan Liang, marched south with an army and wanted to incorporate the Southern Song Dynasty into the territory of the Jin Kingdom in one fell swoop.
In 1161, the year 20th year after Zhao And Jin signed the Shaoxing Peace Agreement, the then Emperor of jin sent envoys to Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, to reprimand Zhao First.
After the envoys of the Jin Kingdom finished reprimanding, they also intimidated Zhao Shuo, saying that the 600,000 troops of the Jin Kingdom had already been followed by the former servants and could step on Jiangnan at any time!
That year, Zhao Zhuo was 54 years old. A person of this age was exactly the old and steady age, but after Zhao Zhao was reprimanded by the envoys of the Jin Kingdom, his tense mentality could not be carried, only to see him silently go to the screen behind him and hide, crying like a child.
This scene stunned the great inner guards who were present at the time.
At this time, a bodyguard named Liu Yan rushed to find Chen Kangbo, who was the prime minister at the time. When Chen Kangbo heard about it, he quickly ran to the back of the screen to comfort and explain to Zhao Shuo, and re-"invited" Zhao Shuo, who had a large amount of snot and tears, out.
Why did Zhao Zhuo cry so much? In the past few decades, the emperor has been too embarrassed and frustrated.
At the beginning, in order to negotiate peace, he claimed subjects, cut off land, paid reparations, and framed Zhongliang... Zhao Zhuo was not stupid, he knew that his actions would also be insulted by future generations, but in exchange for these were easily torn up by the Jin people, and he also led hundreds of thousands of troops to shout that they would go south in a big way.
The news that the Jin people were preparing to go south made Zhao Shuo start to feel worried, and his first thought was not resistance, but going to the sea - running away to save his life!
When Chancellor Chen Kangbo heard that Zhao Shuo was going to run away, he went into the palace overnight to do ideological work to dissuade him. Chen Kangbo said that our Great Song Dynasty has a population of 50 million and hundreds of thousands of troops, and this battle may not be able to be fought, and it is impossible to run without resistance.
However, Zhao Zhuo not only did not listen, but complained that Chen Kangbo could not understand his emotions and life security.
While accusing Chen Kangbo, he also sent someone to find the lieutenant Yang Yizhong. It was planned to have Yang Yizhong find him hundreds of large ships that could be sailed and escort him to the sea to avoid the Jin soldiers.
Before the lieutenant Yang Yizhong entered the palace, he did not know that Zhao Shuo was going to escape again, so after he entered the palace to see Zhao Shuo, he also like Chen Kangbo, and the great righteousness awe-inspiring advised Zhao Cuo to stay, and what made Zhao Cuo even more stunned was that he also said, You are the emperor, you also need to personally go to the front line to supervise the battle, I think that Song Zhenzong was also pushed by the chancellor to the forefront of resisting the Liao soldiers, and finally successfully resisted the liao soldiers' invasion.
Under the persuasion of many civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, Zhao Zhuo finally had the courage to really rush to the front line to do the work of supervising the battle.
At the same time, the Song army, led by the Confucian general Yu Yunwen, who was a scholar, won a great victory in the Battle of Quarry Rock, defeated the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Jin lord Guanyan Liang, and directly led to a coup d'état within the Jin state, and the Jin lord Guanyan Liang quickly fell into the political arena. The Southern Song Dynasty won the southern invasion war provoked by the Jin Dynasty in 1161.
Although the Southern Song Dynasty won the victory of the defensive war, Zhao Zhuo completely felt that the risk of becoming an emperor was too great in this incident, especially the panic in his heart when he was carried forward by hundreds of officials and no one could tell.
Therefore, in 1162, the year after Quarry Rock's defeat of the Jin army, when Zhao Shuo was 56 years old, he announced that he was going to abdicate, passed the throne to the crown prince Zhao Xiao, and became the Emperor taishang himself.
Zhao Zhao's abacus for abdicating the throne is very clear, after all, he has just fought with jin guo, and he is not sure that he will have to fight again in a few years, and if he fights again, then there will be a matter that requires the imperial conquest, which is the matter of Emperor Zhao, who is already too emperor.
In history, except for the abdication of King Wuling of Zhao in the Warring States period in order to dedicate himself wholeheartedly to the military activities of the Zhao state, no other dynasty has ever fought a war or gone to the emperor to go to the imperial conquest?
Zhao Zhao's move was actually under his father, Emperor Huizong of Song.
When Jin Bing first went south to the capital city, Emperor Huizong of Song ran directly, and before running away, he also thought of passing the throne to the crown prince, that is, Song Qinzong.
In Song Huizong's view, if he was an emperor, he would have to stay and coexist with the capital city, and when he passed the throne to Song Qinzong, he became the Emperor Taishang, then what should coexist and die was the matter of his son Song Qinzong.
Zhao Xuan was a descendant of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Shuo was a descendant of Zhao Guangyi, emperor Taizong of Song, so why did Zhao Cuo choose to pass the throne to Zhao Xiao?
One is that Zhao Zhuo has no sons, and the other is because this adopted son, Zhao Xuan, is easier to control.
Many people believe that Zhao Cuo passed the throne to Zhao Kuangyin's descendants because Zhao Guangyi's descendants were taken away by the Jin army in the Jing Kang Rebellion, resulting in Zhao Cuo having no choice.
In fact, in the Jingkang Revolution, Zhao Guangyi's descendants were taken away only in and around the capital city, and many of Zhao Guangyi's descendants scattered in other places fled to Jiangnan.
Zhao Cuo did not choose Zhao Guangyi's descendants to succeed to the throne, not because Zhao Guangyi's descendants were gone, but because the descendants of Zhao Guangyi who fled to the south at that time were still members of a relatively powerful imperial family, and if a contradiction occurred, Zhao Cuo would have the risk of being attacked by the enemy. He made Zhao Xi the crown prince, but he did not want to choose an heir from the imperial family. Of course, the imperial family also included some descendants of Zhao Kuangyin at that time.
Zhao Xi's grandfather was a duke of the state during the Northern Song Dynasty, which was also considered to be prominent, but because of the influence of the Jing Kang Change, Zhao Xi's biological father failed to obtain the title, and when he fled to Jiangnan, he only obtained a small eight-pin sesame official in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was a solid and powerless imperial family.
After Zhao Xiao succeeded to the throne, he was very filial and obedient to Zhao Shuo, the Emperor Taishang, and his later temple name was "Song Xiaozong", which also shows that his filial piety to Zhao Shuo was not pretended.
The supreme authority of the Southern Song Dynasty has always been in the hands of Emperor Zhao Zhao of Taishang. It was not until after Zhao Shuo's death that Emperor Xiaozong of Song truly gained full power from the emperor.