Song Guangzong was a relatively special emperor in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the only emperor in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty who was over 40 years old to ascend the throne; He was the only emperor in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty who was afraid of his wife; The only emperor in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty to be deposed by his ministers. Why was you deposed by your courtiers as the Son of Heaven? Why was Song Guangzong forced to abdicate again? And look at the following analysis:
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The first sin: Song Guangzong did not filial piety to Song Xiaozong
There was a deep rift between Song Guangzong and Song Xiaozong's father and son, and Song Guangzong was very covetous of the throne when he was still the crown prince. Unfortunately, he was weak and sickly, his body was relatively weak, but his age was already over 40 years old, but unfortunately his father Song Xiaozong did not pass the throne to himself, Song Guangzong also hinted to his father, his hair and beard have been gray, it is also time to make himself an emperor, but Song Xiaozong feels that his son Song Guangzong still needs to be honed, and it is not this material. So he extended the throne for another 3 years, until Song Guangzong was 43 years old, and he was not called emperor, which made Song Guangzong have a deep prejudice against Song Xiaozong and felt that his father was completely deliberate.
Song Guangzong, who claimed to be the empress, paid no attention to his father Song Xiaozong, and also connived at his daughter-in-law's abuse of his in-laws, and was impolite and filial to Song Xiaozong, and then the gap between father and son was even deeper, and later, the two fathers and sons died and did not interact with each other. And this unfilial act of Song Guangzong made the ministers of the DPRK and China talk about it a lot, and Gui wei was the example of the Son of Heaven, but he was so unfilial, how could he submit to the people of the world?
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Second crime: Song Guangzong refused to visit his father, who was seriously ill, and did not attend his father's funeral
Moreover, in his later years, Song Xiaozong was seriously ill in bed and his body was very weak. However, in the face of his seriously ill father, Song Guangzong never visited once. During the song xiaozong period, although Song Xiaozong was not the biological son of Song Gaozong, Song Gaozong was seriously ill in bed, and Song Xiaozong served by his side every day, and took proper care of Song Gaozong, which made people moved. On the contrary, it came to himself, and his own son did not come to visit when he was seriously ill, which was really infuriating!
Before his death, Song Xiaozong especially wanted to see Song Guangzong's side, but when he saw the people surrounding his hospital bed, but there was no son's voice, he couldn't help but feel sad and couldn't help but shed tears, this scene made many ministers who came to visit feel desolate and cold. The emperor was the leader of the world, but in the history of the Great Song Dynasty, there had never been such an unfilial son, and he would not even send his father to the end, until after the death of Song Xiaozong. As the son of Song Xiaozong, Song Guangzong actually refused to preside over the funeral, and even refused to attend his father's funeral, allowing his son to take his place.
It was for this reason that many ministers were chilled, how could such an unfilial emperor raise up the Great Song Dynasty? How can the Great Song be restored to its former glory? Therefore, after the funeral, the courtiers discussed and decided to depose Song Guangzong, who had been hiding in the palace and refused to come out to see people, and make the grandson who presided over the funeral emperor. Song Guangzong did not expect that he would hide from the chancellor, but before long he would already be honored as the "Emperor Taishang" and lose his throne.
The third crime: Song Guangzong was suspected of being mentally ill and connived at the empress's misdeeds
According to the "Song Shi Guangzong Benji", Song Guangzong was cowardly by nature, and his empress Li Fengniang had a cruel and jealous personality, and she obeyed Song Guangzong's tidying up. Empress Li not only persecuted Song Guangzong's concubines and children, but also did not obey Song Xiaozong. Moreover, Song Guangzong was suspected of suffering from mental illness, and it was after the murder of his pet concubine that the stimulation he suffered was not cured for a long time, becoming more and more serious, not only would he lose control and cry uncontrollably on the night of the thunderstorm, but also sometimes talk to himself and talk nonsense in the palace. Occasionally sluggish, mentally disturbed, sometimes conscious. It was impossible for such an emperor with mental illness to control the country steadily, so this was also a reason why Song Guangzong was forced to abdicate.