Roufu Diji

Chapter 18 Prologue: A Sorrowful Elegy
Oriental Dragon
China's feudal society, which lasted thousands of years, was always in a similar vortex - one of the "cool" rounds occurred within 190 years after the tenth century AD.

In 937 A.D., Xu Zhigao, a conspirator who was as docile as a sheep at first, but as fierce as a tiger after gaining power, used the military power he gained after years of hard work to abolish Yang Pu, the young master of the state of Wu who ruled the south of the Yangtze River, and then declared himself the son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. The descendant, named Li Min, continued the "Datang" incense in Jinling, which is the "Southern Tang" in history.After Li Min ascended the throne, he actively reformed the bad government, delayed the collection of taxes, promoted profits and eliminated harms, and recuperated. In a few years, the Jianghuai land appeared a relatively stable situation, and then the country showed the prosperity of "exhausted land and full of mulberry trees" scene.But there is no holiday, and after seven years, he became terminally ill.What made him most distressed was that his son, who was able to fight well, had died in battle, so he could only pass on Guozuo to his literary son Li Jing.The latter has been in power for nineteen years, and the biggest political move is to bow down to the rapidly rising Hou Zhou regime in the north, give up the title of emperor, and call himself "Tang Lord", but his phrase "Xiaolou blows through Yushenghan", With his prime minister Feng Yansi's "the wind suddenly blows, it wrinkles a pool of spring water" laughs proudly and becomes popular for a while.Unexpectedly, several promising sons also died before him, and the position of "lord" can only be passed on to the sixth son Li Yu who was born in the year when his grandfather won the country, but hangs out in the gentle village all day long, and is good at writing obscene and chattering words. .At this time, Zhao Kuangyin had just finished performing the farce in the yellow robe that resembled Li Min. He used the banner of "Great Song Dynasty" to shield the young emperor Chai of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and then sent the general Cao Cao on the grounds that "the side of the couch is not allowed to sleep soundly". Bin broke through Jinling, destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, and captured Empress Li, who was sleeping drowsy among the women, to Bianjing, and named him "Marquis of Disobedience", trying his best to humiliate him.Li Yu is in "Hao Lai", and Fang hates the "greed for joy" in the first half of his life. A little bit of his grandfather's "ambition" is slightly revealed in his body, and the "golden sword" that is "buried" is shown in his poems.Seeing this situation, Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty mixed the "drug for pulling the machine" into the wine and gave it to the "Houfu"—poor Li Yu, who was originally a romantic poet and stepped on the throne of the monarch by mistake, twitched his hands and feet like a loom. He died tragically in front of the strong lord of the Northern Kingdom.

In 997 A.D., just one of the Jiazi after Li Min won the country, Song Taizong, who was brave, shady and self-proclaimed "lustful", died in the "Long Live Hall".Zhao Kuangyi violated the vows he had made to his elder brother that "brothers will last forever" and "the elders should be established" and passed on the throne to his seemingly Yingwei son.However, Zhao Kuangyi never even dreamed that his unworthy descendants would abandon the bravery and blood of their ancestors like Queen Li, and only the "lusty" gene was inherited and viciously expanded by them.Finally, a talented "Dragon Seed" named Zhao Ji received the pie that fell from the sky, and inherited Guo Zuo in a daze.His outstanding literary talent, superb calligraphy, and painting genius are no less than Li Houzhu, and his extravagance and lust, appointment of courtiers, and stupidity are even worse.At this time, iron cavalry who also came from the north came all the way from the pool of blood of the people.Zhao Ji's greatest ability is to bury his head in Wenrouxiang and the nest of flowers and birds like an ostrich, and hand over his exposed buttocks and ancestral tablet to his son Zhao Huan, who is also stupid, and let the golden man whip him.

In 1127 A.D., 130 years after the death of Song Taizong, the year of Dingwei was the Year of the Goat.At the turn of the spring and summer of this year, General Wulibu (Wanyan Zongwang) of the Jin Kingdom escorted more than 14000 "Ding" weak "sheep" from Bianjing to the North Kingdom. The leader of this group of "weak sheep" was 46 years old. Song Huizong Zhao Ji and 28-year-old Song Qinzong Zhao Huan.After they were taken captive to Jinting, the Supreme Emperor was named "Duke of Hunde" and the emperor was "Marquis of Chonghun". The father and son shared the same treatment that Li Yu had in those days. Far away, thousands of rivers and mountains, know where the Forbidden City is" desolate.The sad thing is that Li Yu's thoughts of "the golden sword has been buried, and the ambition is smoldering" were not seen in the words of the descendants of the Zhao family. drowned.

In the long "flock" eight years ago in 970, the weakest and most deserving of people's pity were those weak women who were pampered and well-clothed in the palace of the Song Dynasty.In "Continued Song Dynasty Chronicle Zizhi Tongjian", there was such a shocking record:

The Jin people took the second palace and went to the army with their close clan.There were 200 concubines in Kaifeng Prefecture, 25 princes, 49 concubines and concubines, and officials from the south of the clan lined up for tens of miles.

The daughter of the emperor in the Song Dynasty has always been called a princess as in the previous dynasty.In April of the third year of Huizong Zhenghe in Song Dynasty, in order to cover up their ignorant and inexperienced and poor diction, Cai Jing and others had a whim and proposed to change the name of the princess to "Emperor Ji", which is said to be the restoration of the Zhou Dynasty. The ancient system of "Zhu Nu Yan Ji".Song Huizong had a total of 34 daughters, and they were all called "Emperor Ji" without exception since then. For example, Princess Yanqing, who married Cai Jing's son Cai Wei, was changed to Maode Emperor Ji.

In the Song Dynasty, there was an unknown family who kept a detailed list of the princes, concubines, concubines, concubines, and noble ladies who were taken captive to the north. There were 23 princes traveling north (Kang Zhao Gou was not in the capital at the time), 7 Jinzhi County kings, 15 grandsons of the emperor, and the queens, concubines, nobles of the two emperors Hui and Qin, and Zhao Gou, who later became Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty. Including mother Wei, wife Xing, concubine Tian, ​​Jiang, etc., there are 83 concubines, 24 concubines, 22 emperors and princesses, 98 concubines, 52 concubines, and 78 royal daughters. , there were 195 clan concubines, 1241 clan concubines, 479 court ladies, 604 Cai girls, 2091 clan wives, 2007 clan wives, 1314 singing girls, 3319 daughters of noble relatives, officials and people, and the total number of above-mentioned women was as many as 11607. People, accounted for more than 14000% of the total of more than 83 captives!There was another reason why the Jin people kidnapped them and went to the North Kingdom: the Song Dynasty could not afford the money rewarded to the troops of the Jin Kingdom in the surrender agreement, so these women were clearly marked with a price to cover the amount of gold and silver rewards.In this way, the sinner who betrayed them was the incompetent Song monarch—no wonder Emperor Hui, Emperor Qin and his subjects saw their wives and daughters being ravaged at will, so they could only swallow their anger and submit to it.

Speaking of this, it is unavoidable to remind people of the "Poems on the Fall of the Country" written by Mrs. Huarui, who was favored by Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, when the "Great Song" destroyed Western Shu: How do you know? 14 people are all disarmed, and none of them is a man." More than 100 years later, after a slight modification of this poem, it can be properly placed on Song Ting's body: "The flag is lowered on the city of Bianjing, and Ji is in the deep palace. Got it? Tens of thousands of prisoners have gone to the north, and none of them is a man!"

Indeed, when the Song court held the court as captives and went northward in panic, few of the courtiers who usually advertised their loyalty showed their blood and died for the country. On the contrary, there were many people who betrayed their masters for glory. Falsely accusing Huizong of rebellion in exchange for the favor of the Jin people, but in the end, another captive son-in-law, Cai Wei, did not mention the fact that his wife Maode Di Ji was captured and executed by the Jin people in "Beishu Xinglu", but talked about it. His "achievements" in defending the Supreme Emperor...

Only because there were no men in the dead Song Dynasty, Fang called the heroine to overwhelm the eyebrows.It is these weak women who are unwilling to endure the humiliation and ravages of the Jin people, and resist the power of tigers and wolves with their weak bodies. According to the records of Jin Li Tianmin's "Nanzhengluhui", after Wanyan Zonghan forced the concubine of the Song Dynasty to drink wine At that time, the following scene of blood splattered in the dome appeared:

It was the night when the prime minister of the country had a banquet for the generals, and ordered the concubines and other court ladies to change their outer and inner clothes, and sit down and drink together.Zheng, Xu, and Lv's wives resisted the order and were killed by beheading; behind the scenes, a woman died with an arrowhead piercing her throat; the martyred women Zhang, Lu, and Cao resisted the second prince's will, stabbed them with iron rods, and bleed for three days in front of the tent. ...

The Zheng family, Xu family, Lu family; Zhang family, Xu family, Cao family, and the court lady whose surname was ignored are just some ordinary concubines and palace people.When they arrived in the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin, the concubines, concubines, and princesses of the Song Dynasty, who were assigned to be concubines by the emperors and generals of the Kingdom of Jin, also began a desperate resistance.Empress Zhu of Song Qinzong committed suicide in shame and indignation. Song Gaozong's original wife Xing Bingyi first fell from a horse and damaged her fetus, and then fought against each other by suicide because of the pressure of King Gaitian Wanyan Zongxian; In the Kingdom of Jin, "the queen hanged herself to death in anger", and then murdered another favorite concubine of the gold master, and "adjusted the brain fat with snow water, so the gold master also fell ill", and finally failed, and was "killed by the gold master" Kill it!" ("Nandulu", Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House, 1998 edition)

Past historical miscellaneous records, barnyard tales and anecdotes, and even novel romances, when talking about the history of Jingkang’s difficulties, they always focus on Kang Wang’s muddy horse crossing the river, Yue Fei’s determination to go straight to Huanglong, Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu’s couple struggling to kill the enemy, and Qin Hui’s betrayal of the country. Qiurong, Zhang Jun helped the tyrant to abuse, and Li Qingzhao's family was broken and miserable. Few people paid attention to how those weak women who were caught in the jaws of tigers and wolves suffered and how to deal with them. The book "Rou Fu Di Ji" starts from what people have forgotten, and uses the story of Rou Fu Di Ji as a clue to fully show that in that time of suffering, a group of sheep-like weak women supported and fought for their own dignity. The history of wrestling.

What "Rou Fu Di Ji" shows is such a sad, stubborn, and heartbreaking history of blood and tears.

Regarding Emperor Roufu, "The Biography of Empresses and Concubines in the History of the Song Dynasty" said that she was born to the noble concubine Huizong. Before that, the Wang family had given birth to Zhao Kai, King of Yun, Zhao Zhi, King of Xin, Zhao Ji, King of Chen, and Emperor Huishu, Emperor Kangshu, and Shunde. Emperor Ji, under the soft blessing, there is Chongyi Emperor Ji (that is, Xianfu Emperor Ji). "Song History Princess Biography" listed Rou Fu in the [-]th place, and there was only one sentence in the record:
Roufu Emperor Ji, first named Roufu Princess, later changed to Emperor Ji.

The "Kaifeng Mansion Letter" provides supplementary information:
Roufu Diji, 17 years old, is Duofu Huanhuan.

The name of Roufu in this book adopts the sayings in "Three Dynasties Beimenghuibian" and "Song People's Anecdotes Collection":
Han Shiqing defeated Liu Zhong and got a woman who claimed to be the Empress of Roufu, nicknamed Yuan Yuan.

According to the "Kaifeng Mansion Statement", we know that Rou Fu was born in the first year of Zhenghe (1111 AD), 4 years younger than Song Gaozong Zhao Gou.However, there are different records in "Miscellaneous Records of the Government and the Field since Jianyan":

And the princess of the country, the No.20 daughter of Huizong.His mother was the noble concubine Yisu. In the summer of the third year of Zhenghe, she was named Princess Roufu, and she sought to change the emperor concubine.In the spring of the second year of Jingkang, he drove north to hunt.In the 12th year of Shaoxing, Tai Mu returned from the north, and Yan Diji died in Wuguo City last summer at the age of 29.

Based on this calculation, Rou Fu may also have been born in the second or third year of Zhenghe.In this book, the author takes Rou Fu and Ji's plot into consideration, and sets Rou Fu's birth year as the second year of Zhenghe (1112 A.D.).

Among other records about Roufu during the Jingkang period, the most detailed one is a passage in "Nandulu":
(December of the first year of Jingkang) On the [-]th, the snow in the capital was several feet deep, and a bucket of rice was worth a thousand dollars.The Jin people plundered and plundered again. There was a general who set up armor on the Tianjin Bridge, and there were more than a thousand soldiers. No one dared to pass.At that time, more than [-] attendants of Roufu Emperor and Ji wanted to enter, but the thief stopped them and ordered them to get out of the sedan chair.The emperor cried and said: "My son, the emperor is my brother, how can I go out to see the golden soldiers?" The golden soldiers were dragged out, and the former walked in vain. "Do you have a husband?" Emperor Ji said: "Now that the two countries have made peace, how can you be so rude?" The man said: "My brother is a minister of the Northern Kingdom. He is very rich and honorable. If he can be his wife, he will be no different from the Southern Dynasty. Rich and noble. I have a fragrant tassel, which can be used as a bride for my brother." Then he took the pearl sachet from his bosom and held it in his hand to offer it.Emperor Ji refused to accept it, but the golden man held Di Ji's warrant to accept it, and the golden man laughed and retreated.Later, it was acquired by brother Jin Jiang, the second younger brother of Gai Nianhan.There were three Nianhan brothers: Chang Nianhan, Marshal of the Jin Kingdom; Ci Zeli, the chief of the northern part of the Jin Kingdom;

In addition to reminding people of the exact time, events, and people, this historical material also reveals two important information. The second is that Roufu was forced to marry Zeli, a general of the Jin Kingdom.

As for the sachet, the records in "Nanzheng Luhui" are slightly different. Among them, the person who gave the sachet was Jin Jiangyeli. The author chose this content and rewritten it into the novel:
Yeli hired Duofu Diji (Roufu) on behalf of him, and when he returned to the commander's mansion, he asked for release.The second marshal was surprised and asked Emperor Ji, saying: "When the sedan chair is broken when you go out of the city, you will be threatened to enter the houses. Xiaofan sent a message: "Brother is the king of the North Kingdom, just like the wealth and honor of the Southern Dynasty." The sachet was not understood. "The second commander was angry, and he cut the wild to benefit Nanxun's family.

Subsequent historical materials are all lacking.On the contrary, the incident about "pseudo soft fortune" has been brought up again and again.Luo Dajing said in "Helin Yulu B Series Volume Five":
During the Jingkang Rebellion, Emperor Roufu followed Beishun.In the fourth year of Jianyan, there was a woman named Yuque, named Roufu, who sneaked back from captivity.The imperial edict sent the old palace people to look at it, and it was good-looking. When asked about the old things of the palace ban, it was a little bit like, but it was enough to grow up to doubt it.The woman frowned and said: "Golden people are driven like cattle and sheep, and they can travel thousands of miles with bare feet. Would you rather return to their old ways?"Wang Longxi's line of poetry goes: "Pengcheng is in a hurry, and Lu Yuan is trapped in the face; Jiangzuo is prosperous, and longevity should be used for the forbidden."In the 12th year of Shaoxing, Empress Dowager Xianren returned to Luan, and Yan Roufu died in captivity for a long time before she realized her deceit.It is a witch who executes the imperial edict.When I met a servant girl in the palace, she said: "Your appearance is very soft and blessed." Because I told him that the palace banned things, it was a fraud to teach him.Then he was executed.Please give Xilai a total of 47 coins before and after.

This text indicates in detail the year and month of "Roufu"'s return to the south, as well as the words and words of the Ci officials at that time, and the number of rewards, which is quite credible.There are similar historical materials in the "Song History" and "Eunuch" biographies as proof:

First of all, the fake Roufu Emperor Ji came and claimed to be the concubine and concubine's concubine. Yi said that she was in the concubine's concubine, and the emperor sent him to inspect it. (Feng) Yi was deceived, so he told the truth.When it came to his senses, (Feng) Yi sat on the inspection and regarded it as false, so he sent it to Zhaozhou to manage it, so as to avoid marriage with the empress dowager. (Shaoxing) 19 years, died at home.

It seems that the incident about the "return of Roufu" was indeed quite a sensation in the early Southern Song Dynasty.The problem is that Song Gaozong was suspicious of his sister who was only four or five years younger than him and had only been separated for four years. Why did the old eunuch Feng Yi, who was the "old man of King Kang's residence", Will it be easily concealed?
Ye Shaoweng's "Four Dynasties Wen Jian Lu Ji Ji" "Rou Fu Di Ji" is even more thought-provoking:

Roufu Emperor Ji, first ran back from Jinxian Road, said to herself, cried and remembered what happened, and then ordered Gao Shirong to honor the Lord.Temporary favor, never before.Gai Huizong only had one daughter, so she couldn't bear to treat her poorly.And Empress Dowager Wei returned from the north, holding Gaozong's coat of arms and weeping, and said suddenly: "Brother was laughed at by the fans and said that he bought Yan Zi Di Ji by mistake. Rou Fu has been dead for a long time, and I will lie down with me in life. I regard her Hold back, and put the bones." Shangyi ordered Ji to be rationalized.Prison equipment, punish the East City.Or it is said that the Queen Mother and Roufu are both in the north, fearing that they will criticize her, and the text will be false; if she is ordered by her mother, she must not argue with her.However, Roufu heard that the Queen Mother would return Luan Yu, and immediately complained of illness.It is said that the nuns follow themselves, or it is said that this nun used to be the real emperor and concubine, so it is well known that all the emperors and concubines were in the palace in the past.When the false emperor concubine introduced her, she called out small characters, which was the teaching of the nun.The painted utensils in Yanjia Lane in the capital are not solid, so it is called "Yanzi's life" until now.

That is to say, the so-called "pseudo soft blessing" incident is all based on the words of Empress Dowager Wei, the biological mother of Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty.Ye Shaoweng's "Maybe it is said that the Empress Dowager and Roufu are both in the north, and I am afraid that she will criticize her, so she will pretend to be false; if she is ordered by her mother, she will not argue with her", it is by no means groundless.As long as we connect the above two paragraphs, it is not difficult to see that the reason why Feng Yi later admitted that he "inspected the truth" at the time was because he had already received a promise of compensation in the future.Sure enough, not long after, he "connected" with the Empress Dowager Webster.An eunuch who was relegated so painfully was able to marry the empress dowager, and from then on he easily entered the ranks of the relatives of the state. Not only was he exonerated from his crimes, but he also enjoyed the wealth and splendor that ordinary eunuchs could never dream of. Secret?
"Song History Princess Biography" after Huizong's daughters, specifically recorded the origin of the so-called "pseudo soft fortune", which should be based on the closed text of the year:

There is also Li Jingshan, a nun in Kaifeng, whose wife said that he looks soft and blessed, and Jingshan calls himself Roufu.Han Shizhong, under the jurisdiction of Qizhou soldiers and horses, was sent to Xingzai, and Feng Yi and others were sent to test, and then he was named the princess of Fuguo, suitable for Gao Shirong, the defense envoy of Yongzhou.Later, the wife returned from the Empress Dowager Xianren, said it was false, and sent it to the Fa Temple to rule it.Li □, the servant, returned from the north, and said that Roufu was in Wuguo City, and he died when Xu returned.Jingshan was put to death.In the 11th year of Roufu's death in Shaoxing, those who came from Zigong brought his bones to him, buried him, and named him Princess He Guozhang.

As long as you compare this text with "Nandulu", you will find many doubts.Since Empress Roufu was owned by Jin Jiang Zeli, how could she marry Xu Huan, a Han Chinese? The "return" of "Empress Xianren" (Gaozong's mother Webster) and the "come" of Huizong's "Zi Palace" are related at the same time, so why separate arguments?The official conclusion does not talk about the entanglement between Roufu and Queen Mother Wei, but uses the evidence of "wife" and "wife" as evidence, which is even more suspected of covering up.

In addition, "Suiguo Essays" also bluntly stated the reason for the empress dowager Wei's killing of Roufu:
Roufu is actually a princess, and Empress Dowager Wei ordered her to be punished urgently because of her evil words to hide things from the captives.

This further proves that the so-called "pseudo soft blessing" incident is clearly an unconvincing and confusing case.

The artificial cover-up has clouded history, and the lack of historical materials is even more embarrassing.

Because of this, novelists have a very broad space for imagination and inference.

(End of this chapter)