History can't bear to look at the complete collection

Chapter 35 Bedside Politics 8
The emperor who won the throne with ten women
The emperor is the most competitive profession in ancient times. This position has high salary, great power, and lifelong tenure, so it can be hereditary. To stand out from such brutal competition, it is impossible without some extraordinary means.

The means used by Song Xiaozong and Zhao Wei were ten beautiful virgins.As the second emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Wei was not a direct descendant. His original name was Bo Cong. He was not the biological son of the predecessor Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, but a descendant of Zhao Kuangyin, the sixth grandson of Zhao Kuangyin's second son Zhao Defang.

Since Zhao Guangyi became the emperor, the emperor of the Song Dynasty has not appeared among Zhao Kuangyin's descendants. Logically, Zhao Wei has no chance to ascend the throne.But from 1127, when Song Qinzong coerced Song Huizong to defend Bianliang in Tokyo, the situation changed.At that time, the Jin Kingdom, which had just wiped out the Liao Kingdom, attacked the capital of the Song Dynasty in one go, and captured the two emperors. At the same time, they also captured more than 3000 clansmen, ministers, and concubines in the harem. The disgrace of Jingkang".It was a shame for the Song Dynasty, but it was an opportunity for Zhao Yan.

At that time, Kang Wang Zhao Gou, who was lucky enough to escape the disaster, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Shangqiu, Henan, and founded the Southern Song Dynasty, which will be the Song Gaozong in the future.But within a few days of Song Gaozong's stable life, he was rebelled. His only son died in this rebellion. Then in the second year of Jianyan, Jin soldiers invaded Yangzhou City where Song Gaozong was located. At that time, he was living with a concubine. , Hearing this news, he was frightened immediately, and has since lost his fertility.

Seeing that the incense was unsustainable, in order to keep the incense of the Zhao family, Song Gaozong selected a candidate from thousands of descendants of the old Zhao family, and he was Zhao Yan.In order to cultivate a qualified successor, Song Gaozong arranged the best teacher for Zhao Yun, and then continued to seal Zhao Yun after he became an adult, but he just refused to make him a prince.Because Song Gaozong never gave up, he kept trying all kinds of folk remedies, trying to give birth to his own offspring, but after more than 20 years, there was no effect. Song Gaozong had to put his mind on Zhao Yun.

There is another reason for not making Zhao Zhuo the crown prince. Song Gaozong's mother, Empress Dowager Wei, liked a person named Zhao Zhuo very much. She was also raised in the palace since she was a child. To know more clearly which of these two people is the emperor's talent, Song Gaozong came up with a test method, he sent people to select twenty peerless beauties, and sent them to Zhao Zhuo and Zhao Yan respectively, in order to test the two people Quality and concentration.

As a result, after a while, when Song Gaozong recalled the twenty beauties, the result was unexpected. He found that the ten beauties given to Zhao Yun were genuine virgins, while the one given to Zhao Zhuo was no longer a virgin.Through this incident, Song Gaozong finally established Zhao Min as the prince.

In fact, it's not that Zhao Yan's concentration is good, but that he has a good teacher, Shi Hao, who knows the heart of an emperor. He told Zhao Yan not to touch these ten beauties, which may be related to his future in the future .After listening to the teacher's words, Zhao Yun naturally did not dare to act rashly, and finally Zhao Yun won Song Gaozong's favor in this way.

In September of the 31st year of Shaoxing (AD 1619), the Kingdom of Jin invaded the south again. After being resisted by the Southern Song Dynasty, the Kingdom of Jin withdrew. After finally giving up the throne, Zhao Yan officially boarded the dragon chair.

This man who exchanged ten women for the throne can be said to be the most accomplished emperor in the Southern Song Dynasty. He ascended the throne at the age of 36, vigorously reused the main combat faction, actively prepared for war, and wholeheartedly wanted to regain lost ground.But it was a pity that there was no one in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, and several campaigns failed one after another. Facing the cruel reality, Zhao Yan had to give up the idea of ​​​​recovering lost land, and instead focused on internal politics. The military and other aspects started at the same time, and a series of reforms were carried out, which made the Southern Song Dynasty glow with rare vitality.

Under Zhao Yun's active governance, the decadent atmosphere of the Southern Song Dynasty was wiped out, and later generations called the period of his governance "the governance of Qianchun".After the country became rich and the army was strong, Zhao Xuan still wanted to recover the lost land, but unfortunately, his wish was not fulfilled. The general Yu Yunwen he valued died of illness in Sichuan. Since then, he has no generals who can make the Northern Expedition, so Zhao Xuan has always devoted himself to internal affairs. until death.

(End of this chapter)