On June 4, 1135, the 8th emperor of the Song Dynasty Huizong Zhao Ji died. As the emperor, he had no grand funerals or luxurious coffins when he died.
The only one used to bury his body was the mud walls " cellar " built for him by Jinren in the Five Kingdoms City, the far north.
In fact, since becoming a prisoner of the Jin people, Song Huizong has never lived a life of luxury. After all, "living under someone's roof" always requires some enlightenment.
Song Huizong
It is amazing that he lived in prison for several years in the extreme north. This emperor, who has always been known for his "lustfulness", actually acted as a "father" intermittently under the nose of the Jin people.
This makes people wonder. As an emperor, he has become a prisoner, but he can still "sing and sing every night" and so that his descendants can broadcast it. Is this "sexual and unchanging" by Emperor Huizong of Song? Or is it the intentional indulgence of the Jin people or even treat each other differently?
Because the Song people were ashamed to talk about this history, there were very few records of official history. However, from the word-of-mouth and words of the Jin people at that time, it is not difficult to see what kind of insults the Emperor of the Song Dynasty suffered.
In order to figure out the history of " Jingkang Shame ", we have to start with the invasion of the Jin people!
The shame of Jingkang;
In the first year of Jianyan in the Song Dynasty (1127 AD), the Jin Kingdom sent 100,000 troops to surround Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty had almost no ability to resist at that time, the Jin soldiers soon took the initiative.
Seeing that the country was about to be destroyed, in order to shirk responsibility, Song Huizong actually wanted to escape at the last minute. But as the emperor, he enjoyed all his glory and wealth in peace in the country; now that the country is in trouble, he does not want to contribute to the country.
However, the emperor's name is glory and shackles. Although Song Huizong did not want to face the Jin soldiers, he could not restrain himself like ordinary people and then spit on his own.
Therefore, in order to minimize his guilt, Song Huizong finally accepted the advice of Minister Li Gang. That is to abdicate the throne to his son Zhao Huan , let him negotiate with the Jin soldiers, and he was the Supreme Emperor who shrank his head in the palace.
However, even so, the Jin Kingdom did not seem to be planning to let Song Huizong go, the Supreme Emperor. Because the army of the Song Dynasty was unable to fight again, they could only seek peace like the Jin Dynasty.
However, news came out of the Jin Dynasty that it is not impossible to negotiate peace, but the Supreme Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty must come in person. However, Zhao Huan had ascended the throne at that time, and he was worried that his father would go to the Jin Dynasty camp.
If you can't resist the pressure and are scared by the Jin people, then the throne that you finally got will become a "cooked duck".
You should know that it was a coincidence that you could become emperor. Huizong was not willing to abdicate, and he liked him was not himself.
Song Qinzong Zhao Huan
On the contrary, now he is the legitimate emperor and has already established the crown prince. So even if you seek peace and surrender, as long as the Jin Kingdom can continue to be the emperor, the conditions are not unacceptable at all!
Thinking of this, Zhao Huan hoped that the Jin Kingdom would agree to let himself, the current emperor, go to the peace talks in person on the grounds that his father was in poor health. The Jin Kingdom quickly agreed to this proposal.
The news came, and some ministers in Bianjing were even happy about it, thinking that the Jin people were not barbarians who were unkind, but were quite honest!
So after some cleaning up, Zhao Huan and secretary-general Li Ruoshui came to the Jin Dynasty camp. Because it was a peace talk, Zhao Huanman, the emperor, thought that the Jin people would treat each other with courtesy, but the result surprised him.
After the two arrived at the Jin camp, not only did no one greet him, but they were ignored. The Jin soldiers pushed Zhao Huan and Li Ruoshui into a small adobe hut like a prisoner, and then locked the door.
Then he said "waiting for reception" and no one cares about it anymore. It was winter, and the hut was like an ice cellar, and the only thing that could keep the cold was two felts the size of a diaper.
Finally got to the morning of the next morning, and after they were released, they did not see the commanders of the Jin people, Zong Han and Zong Wang. After waiting for a long time, only a commander with a comradeship came.
After the arrival of this thousand-man commander, he only threw it to Zhao Huan and Li Ruoshui in paper and pen, and then said: " is ordered by the two generals to ask the Emperor of Song to personally write a surrender statement. "
Jin general
Zhao Huan heard this and petrified the spot. You should know that what they said before came was a peace talk, but now they have asked the emperor to write a surrender form. If it was really written, wouldn’t the Song Dynasty admit that the country was destroyed?
is not written, and you will definitely not be able to pass this level at the moment. At this moment, Zhao Huan regretted taking over the emperor's errand from his father.
But as the saying goes, "Why don't you bow your head under the eaves?" Zhao Huan said it orally, let Li Ruoshui hold the pen. But after the two of them racked their brains and wrote down the table and submitted it in a low voice, they were thrown back like toilet paper by the golden man.
It turns out that the commander of the Jin people, Zong Han and Zong Wang, believed that Zhao Huan's surrender did not recognize his current situation at all. He was asked to acknowledge and review Huizong's crime of invoking surrender and accepting treason in the surrender form.
In addition, Zhao Huan must also admit that Zhao Huan secretly instructed the military and civilians to stick to the three towns and deceive Yelu Yu into seeing . Moreover, the Song State has fallen, and the Zhao family’s royal family should follow the suburbs and follow the missions of the Jin commander!
Although Li Ruoshui was unwilling to admit the fact that the Jin Dynasty said that "Song State has perished", his arms could not resist his thighs. Zhao Huan sighed deeply and said, "
" is all based on him. Since ancient times, softness is the foundation of one's own life, and strength is the root of trouble. ." After saying that, he continued to study how to write down the preface so that the Jin people can satisfy them.
Finally, under Zhao Huan's tone of constantly lowering his figure, almost flattering and begging, he lowered his statement and changed his draft five times, and was finally recognized by the commander of the Jin Dynasty.
However, for everyone, this is by no means the end of bad luck and shame, but rather the beginning of the nightmare...
The two emperors were captured;
Since the Jin Dynasty was a newly prosperous northern nomadic tribe, the country was poor and deserted. Apart from the strong combat power of the Jin soldiers, there was almost no supplies.
Now that we arrived at the Song Kingdom, which was rich in resources, the Jin people were so happy. After robbing them, they decided to take away all the things that Song State could take away, and burn them away if they couldn't take them away!
In order to control this " Southern 's money bag" for a long time, the Jin people decided to take away the two emperors of the Song Dynasty. In this way, as long as there is an emperor as a qualifier, they will not be afraid that the Song Dynasty will be disobedient.
In this way, under the arrogant force of the Jin people, Song Huizong Zhao Ji and his son Song Qinzong Zhao Huan got on the ox cart that the Jin people went north.
Because the Song Dynasty’s surrender was clearly stated, the female members of the Song Dynasty’s royal family had to wait for the arrangements of the Jin commander. The Jin people not only lack supplies, but of course they also lack women.
Zhao Gou
So except for Kang Zhao Gou who was not in Bian Jing at that time, the other Song Dynasty royal family , the two palace queens and all concubines were captured by Jin soldiers. Among the more than 14,000 people who followed the Jin people north, there were more than 3,400 women.
Although these women were nominally Huizong and Qinzong, there were countless ravages and invasions by the Jin soldiers along the way.
Since the Jin soldiers are mostly nomadic cavalry, they almost did not prepare military funds when they marched and fought, and basically fought and robbed them all the way. On the way north, the territory of the Song Dynasty was in a mess. In order to avoid the war, the people basically fled in scattered areas.
Even the Jin soldiers have nothing to grab. In desperation, we could only continuously reduce the daily food supply of soldiers and prisoners.
After a period of time, Huizong's grain was almost eaten. But at this moment, the Jin soldiers also fell into a food crisis. In order to survive, Huizong only ordered people to cook a pot of corn porridge every day.
Due to shortage of grain, corn porridge has more water and less food. Cao, a talented man from Huizong, wanted to urinate not long after drinking a bowl of porridge in the morning.
But the team is constantly crowded, and she, a female family, cannot leave the team and solve it alone.But I couldn't hold it in my urgency. In desperation, Cao Cairen quietly left the team to the big tree to solve the problem while the person was not paying attention.
Song Dynasty women
But before Xiao Jie could lift her pants, he heard the nearby Jin soldiers shouting loudly: " Song Guomei woman. ". So a group of Jin soldiers rushed under her like tigers.
Cao Cairen could call for help at first, but after the struggle was ineffective, he was left with helpless moans in the Jin soldiers' lewd smile!
When the Jin soldiers finished their venting, Cao Cairen, who was dressed in dishevel, returned to the team again. Although she accused Huizong of the rain, Huizong was helpless except being silent.
But in order to prevent such a thing from happening again, Huizong could only issue an edict: female family members should not leave the team, and would rather pee in their crotch than walk out of everyone's sight.
After that, the team continued to go north and the scene became more and more desolate. There was almost no grass growing wherever we went, and the supply of food became increasingly tight.
In order to prevent these prisoners from starving to death, the Jin soldiers issued some chaff at any time, but the amount was pitifully small. In addition, some livestock feed such as wheat straw, sorghum straw, bean straw, etc.
This is even more uncomfortable for Huizong and the royal family members who had been frugal in their previous wealth of clothes and food, letting them eat these things is simply more uncomfortable than killing them.
But they all understand that it is better to live without dying. Fortunately, the eunuch , , Ding Fu, who is by Huizong, is from a poor family and knows some local methods to deal with food.
So under the leadership of Ding Fu, the so-called grain pounded and sifted, and finally got some things that looked like noodles but were not noodles. After
, they added water to stir the things, pinched them into cake shapes and pasted them on the edge of the pot, and baked them into several cakes. Although it is difficult to swallow, Huizong also knew that this was not the time to pay attention to it.
so he endured eating, but soon he realized that this was not possible. Because these things are almost impossible to digest, in the days that followed, except for not having to eat, the most painful thing that made Huizong feel was shit.
After going through a lot of hardships, Huizong and his entourage finally arrived at the capital of the Jin Kingdom. Although they knew that they were not treated well as prisoners, they did not know that they were no different from animals in the eyes of the Jin people!
In order to demonstrate to the prisoners and to Baojie to the ancestors, the Jin people decided to hold a "sheep-heading ceremony" after captive Huizong and his group. In the yard of the Jin Dynasty's ancestral temple, a white flag is planted.
says " Captures the Two Emperors of Song State", " Captures the Two Empresses of Song State", " Captures the Mother and Wife of the Residents of the Slave Zhao Gou", " Captures the Prince Consorts of Song State", " Captures the Two Palaces of Song State "...
And outside the Jin people's ancestral temple, Huizong and Qinzong were forced to take off their shirts by Jin soldiers. After that, each of them held a white felt strip with his breasts exposed and held a letter to his chest, and wrote "Repentance and the great evil"!
Sheep Leadership
When the people of Jin Kingdom saw enough, the Jin soldiers forced a sheep to each person and asked them to lead them into the ancestral temple. It would be fine if only men participated in the whole process, but in fact, no matter whether men or women, they were all shirtless.
was forced to perform the so-called "sheep-heading ceremony" by the Jin people. The entire process of the whole process, the royal family women of the Song Dynasty and the concubines of Huizong's harem were all ashamed, but they did not dare to resist in order to survive.
After the sheep-heading ceremony, the Jin people thought that they had achieved their goals, so they dispersed Huizong and others to settle them. Because there were many female relatives from the Jin Kingdom who came with Huizong, their fate was even more miserable!
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On the second day of September in the fourth year of Jianyan in the Song Dynasty (1130), Huizong and Qinzong were escorted to Hulijilu in the Jin Dynasty, which is Wuguocheng in Yilan.
The so-called Five Kingdoms City is actually the alliance place of the 5 tribes before the establishment of the Jurchens. But the tribes are all nomadic peoples. Although they are cities, they have not built walls.
However, since Huizong and others moved here, the Jin Dynasty enclosed land and rammed earth here and built walls to surround the city. In the city, the Jin people built a small fenced yard for Huizong and built several dry-built dirt houses.
Because the north is bitter and cold, in order to keep warm, the buildings at that time were basically semi-underground, which is what we often call "cellar".
Therefore, it can be imagined that Huizong and others, who had been used to living in spacious and bright palaces, would suffer a lot of hardship. But in fact, compared with the accommodation conditions, there is much more pain to them.
Since the Jin Dynasty did not raise idle people, all the prisoners had to earn their own food. Although some of Huizong's concubines served him by his side, many of them were requisitioned by the Jin Dynasty.
Song Dynasty concubines
Huizong's concubines and Zhao Gou's biological mother Wei Xianfei was sent to the " Laundry House" by the Jin people. This so-called laundry house is not what we think of as laundry bureau in the palace.
is a place similar to "official prostitutes". To put it bluntly, it is a place where the princes and nobles who pass by are arrogant and extravagant. According to records, after Concubine Wei Xian was captured by the Jin Kingdom, he was at forty years old!
In that era, the Song Dynasty women of this grade were basically considered old women! But even so, Concubine Wei was forced to pick up customers every day!
At the most, Concubine Wei Xian had to endure as many as 105 times a day. The princess of Huizong Zhao Fujin was repeatedly raped by Jin soldiers on the way to escort, and later became a laundry yard and was humiliated.
Perhaps because of his pretty appearance, he was taken by the prime minister of the Jin Kingdom and kidnapped him as a slave. He was tortured to death the following year.
Later, Concubine Wei Xian was attracted by the King of Gai Tian Wanyan Zongxian , and then took her out of the laundry yard as her concubine. What is even more incredible is that Wei and Wanyan Zongxian had two more children.
During his life in prison in Wuguocheng, although Huizong lived a better life than other Song people, he was unable to protect his own women.
Over the past few years, the women of Huizong gave birth to 18 children for him, but in fact, who these children are probably from, even those concubines themselves cannot tell clearly.
After all, under the threat of the Jin people, the women of Huizong are simply animals and can be used by anyone. In this case, even if you are pregnant, it may not be Huizong's own.
You should know that according to later research, among the 18 children, at least 4 are not children of Huizong. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to see that Huizong was a prisoner at that time and was bored in daily life.
Although he is an emperor with outstanding literary talent, in addition to poetry and painting, he may have more time to get entangled with his concubines in daily life. This can be said to be his lustfulness and can be regarded as the last bit of decency left to him by the emperor!
The Emperor Star fell;
Because the life in prison was too painful, in order to flatter the Jin people, he received better treatment. In June 1133, Huizong's thirteenth son, King Yi, and Huizong's son-in-law, Liu Wenyan, conspired to falsely accuse the people around Huizong and the rebellion of the Jin people. After investigation by the Jin people, the lawsuits made by King Yi and Liu Wenyan were all false, so they were all executed. Only then did Huizong understand what "betrayal of relatives" means!
Since then, as he grows older, Huizong's health has deteriorated. Because the Jin people did not have any good doctors and medicines, and the extreme north of the land was extremely bitter and cold, Huizong soon became seriously ill.
Wuguocheng Relics
1135, 54-year-old Song Huizong died of illness in Wuguocheng. The fall of Emperor Star not only did not have a solemn funeral, but also a decent coffin.
7 years later, Southern Song and the Jin Kingdom reached the " Shaoxing Peace Agreement ", using Huai River as the boundary, and it was not invaded. The Song Dynasty paid 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 pieces of silk to the Jin Kingdom every year.
At the same time, the Jin Dynasty appointed Zhao Gou as the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and released Huizong's body and Concubine Wei Xian (Zhao Gou's biological mother) back to the Southern Song Dynasty. Empress Wei Before leaving Jin, Qinzong begged hard, hoping that the Jin Kingdom could let him go back.
But in fact, as the emperor, even if the Jin Kingdom was willing to let him go back at this time, Zhao Gou, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, would not be willing. Although the day Wei Xianfei left, Qin Zong held the wheel and said:
" If he could return, he would never be greedy for the throne, but only wanted a place to live! "
But looking at the rolling dust and smoke brought by the wheels from the south, Qin Zong was unable to return to his hometown again. For more than 20 years since then, Qinzong was trapped in the Jin Kingdom and lived a life of no human or ghost.
1161, 61-year-old Song Qinzong Zhao Huan died in the Jin Dynasty. The news of his death did not reach the Southern Song Dynasty five years later. As a monarch of a generation, Zhao Huan's life was as cowardly and humiliated as his father Zhao Ji!
Conclusion:
Yue Fei
Yue Fei once wrote in his book "Manjianghong" that "the shame of Jingkang has not yet been eliminated, and when will the hatred of the ministers be destroyed?" Although he spent his whole life working hard to welcome the two emperors and continue his reign, he ignored Zhao Gou's existence.
In fact, no matter what kind of hardships Huizong and Qinzong endured in the Jin Dynasty, they were all just blamed. As the saying goes, "The emperor guards the country's gates, and the king dies in the country." Since they cannot take responsibility, they will inevitably suffer!
References:
1. "Song Huizong" - Xiaojian
2. "Song Huizong: The Emperor with the Most Children in History" - Qiaobao
