After Zongze left Feng on his own, he managed Kaifeng in a good way, recruiting Zhang Yong and other big thieves, and his army once reached 200,000. It posed a huge threat to the Jin Army, but it was precisely this that caused Zhao Gou to spend many days in Shangqiu and Yangzhou.

Zongze has an inexplicable "father-son love" for Zhao Gou. After Zongze took over Kaifeng alone, he managed Kaifeng in a good way and recruited some big thieves such as Zhang Yongzi and others, and his military strength once reached 200,000. It posed a huge threat to the Jinjun , but it was precisely this that led Zhao Gou to spend many days in Shangqiu and Yangzhou . Zhao Gou was very shameless, and he was the kind of person who wouldn't shed tears until he saw the coffin. Zongze protected him from the wind and rain like a father, but he didn't know how to cherish it. From the time he took the throne, he looked like a subjugated king.

It wasn't until Zongze died and the golden man went south again. He jumped thousands of miles into southwest Zhejiang and drifted on the sea for several months. After the Miao and Liu rebellions and the imperial guards forcing the palace, he began to reflect on his own virtues as a king. With the subsequent series of rejuvenation works, all the beauties in the harem were sent away and the dynasty was seriously managed. But in the final analysis, his resurgence relied on Li Gang, Zhao Ding, Zhang Jun. By the time of Yue Fei's fourth Northern Expedition, the national strength of the Southern Song Dynasty had basically recovered, and the army The combat effectiveness has even surpassed and Jin Dynasty . As a result, when the great cause was decided, Qin Hui and Zhao Gou usurped the hard work of Zhongxing ministers and became ministers to the Jin people. This emperor is simply unreasonable. The explanation for some of his abilities boils down to one word: being clever.

When Zhao Gou came to the throne, not only most of Hebei was still in the hands of the Song army, but also Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and Jinghu were all under the control of the Song court. From the second year of Jingkang to the fourth year of Jianyan , after the Song Army's defeat in the Kaifeng area was rectified, it actually repelled the third attack of the main force of the Jin Army in the first year of Jianyan. The rebels in Hebei and Shanxi, despite the Southern Song Dynasty's imperial court's refusal to save them, actually held back the main force of the Jin army for more than a year, and were able to organize hundreds of thousands of rebels ten years after the fall. The Southern Song Dynasty from the second year of Jingkang to the final crossing to the south was completely done step by step by Zhao Gou himself.

Zhao Gou said it was Zhao Gou who welcomed back the Second Saint. This was simply a political slogan during the Jianyan period. Secondly, Yue Fei clearly talks about welcoming back the Heavenly Family, and the meaning of the expression is already obvious. The so-called two saints are just relatives of the emperor. The slogan of welcoming back the Heavenly Family is not even mentioned later, only the recovery of the two rivers is left. Retake lost ground. Yue Fei's death was because he was single-handedly supported and promoted by Zhao Gou. His political background was too weak, and he was not like Wu Jie who could support his troops and act as a self-respecting warlord for one side. He was just a pawn that could be discarded at will in political struggles.

Zhao Gou's crime does not lie in who he killed during the war, but in that he clearly had the opportunity and time to restore his homeland, or that he was at a stalemate with the Jin people and slowly plotted to restore his homeland. His so-called worry that his father and brother would take away his position when they came back was completely unfounded. Once he can welcome the living emperors of Huiqin and Huiqin back to his hometown, it means that under his leadership, the Jin people will be completely suppressed, and they will even have to use the excuse of returning the two emperors to promote peace talks. At the same time, it also means that because of the victory of the war, a large number of new military heroes have emerged around him, and he is the core of their new loyalty.

The interests of those people will be closely tied to his interests, so those people will never tolerate the loss of their homeland and the restoration of the second emperor who caused their wives and children to be separated. They will even take the initiative and considerately to help him cut off the consequences of those two people. uncertain threats. In short, no matter what, he will be the core leader in the new era who will be absolutely awed by everyone and possess absolute authority. However, he did not choose this most basic thing as an emperor, so that the northern homeland was lost and the people were massacred. This was his biggest crime.

I personally think that the reason why the Southern Song Dynasty was unable to break the situation was mainly because it lost the territory in the north. If the Northern Expedition successfully restored the territory like the Northern Song Dynasty period, at least it could use the depth of the country to block and resist layer by layer. At worst, it might be like the late Ming Dynasty. The north was beaten to pieces, but the south was still okay.But history has never been what-if. When Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei, the outcome of the Southern Song Dynasty was already doomed. Even if Li Shimin and other virtuous monarchs were alive, their demise would only be delayed for a few years at most.