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Is it going to rain heavily?
When the light in Golden Palace suddenly dimmed, a low vibration like thunder came from a distance. Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng's first reaction was this sentence.
It was clear just now, and thunderstorms are coming in a blink of an eye. The weather is changing constantly, but it is not strange. Zhao Heng looked at the ministers beside him and signaled them to continue reporting on politics with his eyes. Something is wrong with
.
The vibration became louder and louder, and the sound was getting closer and closer to the palace. Zhao Heng frowned and called the eunuch who was serving him, asking him to open the door of the palace to see what was going on outside.
"creak" and the door of the hall slowly opened. The scene outside
The scene outside is enough to make everyone's eyes widen.
I saw a large cloud surging from the sky, gradually swallowing the entire sun like a celestial dog's food sun. The sky suddenly darkened, and the black cloud flew straight from the horizon, accompanied by a strange tremor.
There was a sharp-eyed palace maid and eunuch shouted out at that time!
Where is this black cloud? It is clearly a large group of locusts !
What I just heard was not the thunder, but the thousands of hungry locusts flapping their wings at the same time, making waves of buzzing.
As the group of locusts were about to rush to the Golden Palace, Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng's face turned pale, and then he soon became ashamed and red. He was angry and annoyed and asked the ministers beside him:
"What's going on? Has the locust plague been destroyed? Did you intentionally make me laughed at the world?"
It can be said that the appearance of these locusts at this moment completely tore through the "auspicious" dream that Zhao Heng had carefully woven for himself.
What's going on?
Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. Today, we will continue to bring you the 45th Lecture of the Funny Talks about the Emperor's History Series , let's see how Song Zhenzong was "socially dead" by a group of locusts.
01
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Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng was not particularly famous among the emperors of the Song Dynasty.
But you must hear the two sentences he wrote, and that is "There is Yan Ruyu in the book", "There is a golden house in the book" . The two sentences of
come from his " Poems of Encouraging Learning ".
Don’t look at these two sentences so widely and highly recognized, Zhao Heng’s historical reputation is particularly poor.
It can be said that looking at all the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, his number of black fans is probably second only to Song Huizong .
You should know that the latter is the king of the country who is greedy for pleasure and leads to the " Jingkang Incident ".
In fact, Zhao Hengyi was an ordinary prince who was invincible in the world.
He is the third son of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, and there are two older brothers in front of him. Among them, the eldest son Zhao Yuanwu is Taizong's most complacent and favorite son. He has been smart since childhood and is very favored.
second brother Zhao Yuanyou , also has a good personality and outstanding ability.
Everyone, including Zhao Heng, thought that the future throne would be passed to the eldest son Zhao Yuanwu or to the second son Zhao Yuanyou, and it would not be his turn to Zhao Heng.
However, fate is so bizarre that his elder brother got mad and almost burned the palace with a fire, which made Taizong furious and demoted him to a commoner.
The second brother, he suffered from the pain of love. His wife and her concubine were jealous. The concubine poisoned her to kill her wife. Unexpectedly, the glass of wine was just drunk by the unlucky second brother, and there was one less competitor to the throne.
In short, the throne suddenly fell on Zhao Heng's head.
Three years after the Dao, Emperor Taizong died and Zhao Hengjun led the world.
This kid is not lucky. After two generations of accumulation, this family business is quite rich. It is not too difficult to be an active and promising emperor.
However, Zhao Heng soon discovered that life is not that can keep going smoothly with a good start.
02
Fengchan
In the early days of his succession, Zhao Heng did go to work seriously. He is a young man, but as he works, he finds that he doesn't seem to be the emperor.
To put it bluntly, his ability is just not good. No matter how hard he works, he is just a living capital of his father.
so in the late period of his reign, the entire Song Dynasty had a comprehensive crisis from border defense to the mainland, from politics to economy, from heaven to personnel.
Later, something even happened.
Because the Liao Kingdom in the north always came to harass him, Zhao Heng didn't want to fight anymore, so he simply signed a treaty with them, which is the famous " The Alliance of Chanyuan " in history. The content of this treaty is also very simple and crude: we will become good brothers in the future, and I will give you some money, don’t hit me.
In fact, everyone understands the nature of this treaty, and the people began to mutter, is this a bad treaty, right? To put it bluntly, Emperor Zhenzong of Song, who signed this treaty, was simply half a king of a country that was destroyed.
plus his political achievements are not very good anymore, Zhao Heng's rule is a bit precarious.
At this time, Prime Minister Wang Qinruo stood up.
He held the tablet , and his sleeves swayed, and said to Zhao Heng:
"Official family, our Song Dynasty is a great country, China is orthodox, so what is the Northern Barbarian of Liao?
But we can't beat them now. After signing this treaty, if you want to live a favorable life, there is only one way now."
Song Zhenzong's eyes lit up: What way?
Wang Qinruo slowly uttered four words:
" Mount Tai Fengshan ."
What is Mount Tai Fengshan?
The so-called seal means sacrifice to the sky; Zen means sacrifice to the earth. In ancient China, Fengshan was a sacrificial activity that symbolized the ruler's orders to be ordered by heaven, which could strengthen the ruler's authority.
Fengshan is usually in Mount Tai , because in our historical view there is a concept of Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors . Fuxi, the leader of the Three Sovereigns, set up a temple in Mount Tai, so Mount Tai is the place that best emphasizes the orthodox identity of the ruler.
But this Fengchan is not a trip to Mount Tai. Just lead the group to burn incense and kowtow. It has its own complete process. The main bathing and fasting can be said to be quite cumbersome.
This is all right. The most difficult thing is that auspiciousness must come from the sky before Fengshan.
In other words, first of all, we must have a name to prove to the people of the country:
This year is a good year, without any disaster, so our emperor is fully qualified to go to Mount Tai for the Fengshan Mountain this year.
Otherwise, why would you waste such a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to conduct sacrifices?
Zhao Heng was very happy and clapped his hands and said, "This is really a good idea, but as he thought about it, his smile gradually disappeared."
is the same. Does this auspicious thing mean there is something?
03
Locust plague
Wang Qinruo is worthy of being a personal spirit. He saw Zhao Heng’s concerns, smiled secretly, pinched his beard and said to Zhao Heng:
"The official auspicious people have their own celestial phenomena, so don't worry too much about auspicious things."
At this moment, Wang Qinruo had already made a plan to flatter and flatter -
God does not bring good luck, can't he make it up by himself?
So, under his secret force, the court officials began to spread news about auspiciousness.
They said auspicious stars suddenly appeared in the sky, and then said, "It's amazing, a pair of cranes appeared in our capital Kaifeng Prefecture." However, in the ninth year of the Great Zhongxiangfu , the tenth year of Zhao Heng's reign, a rare and major locust plague broke out in the Northern Song Dynasty.
This locust plague first occurred in Hebei. Swarms of locusts ate all the food in the northern fields, but they still didn't eat enough. So they flapped their wings and spread all the way to the southern part of .
This is a huge locust plague, with so many locusts that it can cross three rivers: Yellow River , Huaihe and Yangtze River . It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a huge black storm. The grain in the field is gone, and the grain prices naturally soar. According to historical records, the prices of millet, soybeans and wheat in Hedong increased by seven or eight times that year, and ordinary people could not afford to eat.
Groups of victims were forced to leave their homes and embark on the road to escape famine.
In this case, how can you still play auspicious?
didn't expect that local officials would report to the court shamelessly: Although we are plague of locusts, the locust seems to know that you are the Holy Emperor. I am embarrassed to eat food and starve to death!
also officials also fancy adaptation of the way of death of locusts, saying that they collectively jumped into Taihu and committed suicide.
What a clumsy lie, but at this moment, Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Zhao Heng, still just like this one.
Maybe there are too many flatteries about auspiciousness, and Zhao Heng himself was also lost in the so-called auspiciousness. He really thought that his divine power defeated this locust plague, so he did not make any move to control the locust plague.
Unexpectedly, the overwhelming locusts flew to the palace, and Zhao Heng seemed to be slapped in the face on the spot. It was really , a large-scale "society death" scene .
Later, Zhao Heng spent a lot of effort to eliminate the locust plague, but he didn't have much emperor majesty, and now it disappeared.
