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Chapter 49 Jingkang's Disgrace!

[Although Zhao Ji has some similarities with Li Yu, there are still essential differences between the two of them. 】

[When Li Yu came to the throne, the Southern Tang Kingdom was already on the verge of collapse. Although Li Yu had been working hard to govern the country and wanted to restore the vitality of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the foundation of the Southern Tang Dynasty had been destroyed, and there was no chance of turning over. 】

[However, Zhao Ji's situation is very different. It can even be said that he single-handedly destroyed the best future of the Song Dynasty. 】

[When Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, the economy of the Song Dynasty was still very good, but Zhao Ji himself was not interested in politics and knew nothing about it, so he made many government orders based on his intuition and preferences. 】

[For example, Gao Qiu, a treacherous minister, was promoted to a high position, even the official rank of Taiwei, just because he played Cuju well and just satisfied Zhao Ji's hobbies.

He had no military exploits, relied on favors for personal gain, invaded the barracks, and occupied more of the Forbidden Army with his private interests, which led to the "abolition of discipline" and "non-repair of military administration" of the Forbidden Army. 】

"My God, this brother's employment is really human, it really depends on personal preference!"

"Even if this kind of emperor does not perish, he is not far from subjugation."

[Zhao Ji also re-introduced the "rice field affairs". 】

[The organization "Rice Field Affairs" was first established in the Five Dynasties, and it was established in the Later Tang Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty. It is a government-run organization specializing in rice production.

It was also done in Ruzhou in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The specific method was that the government set up an organization to recruit farmers to farm, and set up a "team leader" to manage these farmers.

In essence, this thing is equivalent to a government-run farm, and the farmers in it are equivalent to the laborers recruited by the government-run farm.

But later, because the economic benefits of government-run farms were too low, it was far less cost-effective to hand over the land to farmers for free cultivation and then collect taxes, so the "rice field service" in Ruzhou was canceled around the time of Song Renzong. 】

[Then here comes the question: Now that the old rice field affairs have been cancelled, and the fields under its management have already been allocated to the common people, where will the official land needed to rebuild the "rice field affairs" come from? 】

[Answer: People! 】

[The implementation of the rice field service has allowed many people to live in poverty again.

Because those public lands that have been confiscated, farmers who want to grow crops here must first pay taxes.

And often after paying taxes, farmers don't have much grain left. 】

[What's even more frightening is that those low-level officials and bullies also began to exploit the people at the same time, forcing them to collect more taxes, which eventually led to peasant uprisings. 】

[Suppressing this uprising took Song State a long time. He originally thought that Zhao Ji would recognize his mistakes after this incident, and then reflect on it. But in the end, he didn't have the slightest regret, and he still He only thought about decorating the palace and collecting paintings and calligraphy. 】

Ying Zheng shook his head and sighed, "I can see that this Zhao Ji has no awareness of being the king of a country at all."

Li Shimin said very sadly: "It is the misfortune of the people to hand over the country to such people."

Zhao Kuangyin said in a tone of hating iron but not steel: "If you can't be the emperor, why don't you let someone who can be the emperor?"

Zhu Di: "This kind of emperor doesn't care about the life and death of the people except for his own enjoyment. I don't think there will be such an emperor in the Ming Dynasty?"

[Zhao Ji himself has no intention of governing the country, and he does whatever he likes.

He didn't listen to the advice of his loyal ministers, but was dazzled by the advice of those villains.

A powerful empire was destroyed in his hands like this, which was a great shame to the Song Dynasty. 】

"No! No!, I am the king of sages! My Great Song Dynasty surpasses all previous dynasties, Cai Jing and Gao Qiu both said so!"

Zhao Ji still doesn't want to believe it, his mood is broken now.

But the video ignored Zhao Ji's collapse and continued to play.

[At the end of the seventh year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, a strange scene suddenly appeared in the Bianliang Palace. 】

[The official family of the Great Song Dynasty, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, who was sitting on the dragon chair, suddenly fell from the throne without any warning, and then fell heavily to the ground. I saw that the emperor, who was still alive just now, had his mouth and eyes crooked and his whole body twitching. Soon he fell into a coma amid painful groans. 】

[The emperor suddenly suffered from a strange disease, and there was a sudden panic in the hall. The ministers were at a loss for what to do about it. The eunuchs and maids took turns rubbing their backs and rubbing their chests, serving tea and water. , emergency feeding. 】

【After a long period of busy work by everyone, the unconscious emperor finally woke up slowly.

He opened his mouth to speak, but only a few indistinct syllables came out from his throat.

He struggled to gesture for a pen and paper, and then wrote a line of small characters crookedly with his left hand - I have no half left, what a big deal! ".】

【Seeing this situation, the entire hall also fell into silence, and the surrounding civil and military officials looked at each other in blank dismay.

Until then, everyone suddenly understood the emperor's intentions. It turned out that Zhao Ji's sudden onset of strange disease was just a premeditated performance. 】

[Later, another scene that seemed extremely absurd and bizarre throughout the history of the feudal dynasty took place in this imperial palace:
Under the eyes of everyone in the Chuigong Palace, as the emperor and father, Zhao Ji, with a stern voice, insisted on giving the throne to his son Zhao Heng!

But Zhao Ji's son, Zhao Huan, cried bitterly, unwilling to obey his orders, and determined not to be the emperor! 】

[In people's hearts, it represents the supreme throne, the supreme power that once caused countless brothers to turn against each other, and now, in the eyes of this father and son, it has become a deadly poison!

But in the end, his arm couldn't twist his thigh, so Zhao Heng was almost forced to change into a crown and a dragon robe, and then he was held hostage to go to Funing Hall, where he became the new master of the Northern Song Dynasty. 】

Li Shimin had mixed feelings in his heart, he thought if his father could be so "enlightened", why would he do such a spine-tingling thing?
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, is it?"

Of course, some emperors could see the strangeness here at a glance.

[For Zhao Ji and Zhao Heng to stage such a farce? 】

[It turned out that when they were pushing each other, the Jurchen cavalry was moving southward from the east and west! 】

[There are only less than two years left before that shameful event, and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty has entered the final countdown! 】

"Northern Song Dynasty? Perish?"

"Jurchen iron cavalry going south?!!"

"My Da Song is going to die??"

Zhao Ji's capital was in chaos in an instant!
Zhao Ji's son, Zhao Heng, even thought of packing his luggage and running away.

【Jingkang, a year name that makes all the Han people the most indignant, sad and heartbroken! 】

[In the first year of Jingkang, a large number of Jin troops rushed to the open Bianliang Xuanhua City Gate! 】

[The outer city fell, and the Jurchens began to burn, kill, and loot wantonly. Nearly a million innocent people in Kaifeng began to crowd and trample in the flames of war, crying, wailing, or running around with the crowd in a daze, not knowing where to go. 】

The video showed scenes of people being massacred wantonly by the Jurchens after the city was broken.

Seeing this familiar city being so ruined by foreigners, Zhao Kuangyin's eyes were tearing apart, his nails sank deep into his flesh and blood, "Bastards! I'm going to kill you!!!"

His words were aimed not only at the Jurchens, but also at the two ineffective emperors—Song Huizong and Song Qinzong.

(End of this chapter)