Chapter 31 Zhao Kuangyin: Fortunately, Zhao Gou is not my son!
"The following year, Zong Ze requested to march north again, but Zhao Gou did not allow it. In the end, Zong Ze, a famous general, became ill due to his unfulfilled ambitions. He died in July of the following year, still shouting "cross the river" before his death!"

Zhu Biao emphasized the word "cross the river" with a look of grief and anger on his face.

"In the end, Zhao Gou not only did not offer condolences, but instead appointed the incompetent general Du Chong as the garrison commander of Kaifeng. He then immediately abandoned the Hebei Volunteer Army, causing Hebei and Hedong in the Song Dynasty to fall into the hands of the Jin people. He completely abandoned General Zong Ze's efforts during his lifetime..."

"Every time I read this, I feel sorry for General Zong and the soldiers who defended the lost territory!"

Zhu Biao said: "There is also this mediocre general Du Chong."

"At that time, General Yue led Niu Gao, Wang Gui, Yang Zaixing and others to fight a bloody battle with the Jin army. This mediocre general Du Chong took the opportunity to dig up the Yellow River and tried to block the Jin army's iron pagoda in this idiotic way."

"Although his action temporarily blocked the Jin army's iron pagoda, it also caused heavy losses to Yue's army, and General Yue's carefully formulated blocking plan was instantly shattered!"

"What's worse is that the Yellow River flowed into the Huai River from the Si River, causing more than 200,000 local people to be drowned, and the death toll from displacement and plague was several times that. The most prosperous Lianghuai region in the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, and nearly 10 million people were left homeless and became refugees!"

As he spoke, Zhu Biao's voice became louder and heavier.

You can see that he is very angry.

Old Zhu glanced at the boy. Can't you bear it?

However, did Zhao Gou’s beastly behavior end there?
In the third year of Jianyan, 4500 Jin cavalrymen attacked Yangzhou where Zhao Gou was at the time.

Zhao Gou, who was having sex with his concubine, was frightened to the point of impotence when he heard that the Jin soldiers were coming!

Then this bastard didn't even think about resisting. He just rode his horse out of Yangzhou without looking back. In order to run faster, he only brought five or six people with him and didn't care about the lives of the people at all.

As a result, the defenseless people fled and trampled on each other. The city of Yangzhou was in chaos and thousands of women, children, the elderly and the weak were trampled to death!

That night, the vanguard of the Jin army, 500 cavalrymen, entered Yangzhou, burning, killing and looting!

The next day, the Jin soldiers chased to the Guazhou ferry, where there were still 200,000 refugees who had not yet crossed the river!

Two hundred thousand people!
One spit from each person can drown five hundred people!
So many people were killed or injured because of the court's incompetence and misjudgment, which prevented them from launching effective defense in time.

At that time, from Jiang'an to Guazhou Town, corpses were everywhere and blood flowed like a river. It was a horrible sight!

shame!

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Yongle period.

Zhu Di shook his head.

"This kind of useless emperor is the only one in thousands of years, right?"

"The Song Dynasty was so wealthy that it paid tribute to neighboring countries every year and its treasury was still extremely abundant. It was a pity that it could not support an unstoppable army despite being so wealthy."

Zhu Gaochi laughed and said, "Dad, it's not that they can't raise a capable army, it's just that these guys are too incompetent and are unwilling to give the military officers more power."

"Think about it, if the army is led by civilians, how can it be effective?"

"It's not easy to produce a few famous generals, but you are still on guard against them. You don't have the bearing of an emperor at all."

Zhu Gaoxu, who was also a military commander, nodded in agreement:

"Yue Fei won a great victory at Yancheng, and was about to defeat Huanglong and wash away the humiliation overnight, but Zhao Gou sent him twelve golden medals to recall him. My son was very angry when he saw this."

"If I were Yue Fei, and had such an emperor, I would quit my job and march straight to the capital, trying to dethrone the Zhao emperor even at the cost of my life!"

Zhu Gaochi was shocked. Is the second brother trying to kill himself?

Can you say such words in front of your father?
Zhu Gaosui, who had reacted, quickly pulled at his second brother's clothes.

Zhu Gaoxu realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly looked at the old man. Sure enough, he saw that the old man was looking at him with murderous intent, so he quickly knelt down.

"Dad, I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing!"

Zhu Di said coldly: "Put away your thoughts! You want to be Li Shimin, I don't want to be Li Yuan!"

In private, Zhu Gaoxu often compared himself to Li Shimin.

He compared himself to Li Shimin, so Zhu Di's counterpart was Li Yuan? Zhu Di knew this and was on guard against him.

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"This Zhao Gou is the Emperor of my Song Dynasty???"

"How could my children and grandchildren be so despicable? They live in mediocrity, seek pleasure, and disregard the safety of the country. How could I have such children and grandchildren?!"

Zhao Kuangyin was both angry and anxious.

Didn’t you see what the barrage said?

In order to negotiate peace, he took the initiative to submit to the Jin Dynasty, called it daddy, ceded land and paid tribute. He was one of the few weak and incompetent emperors in China in nearly a thousand years, even worse than the last emperor of Shu Han!

Such children and grandchildren have brought shame to him as the founding emperor!

"His own parents were humiliated by the Jin people, but Zhao Gou could still be emperor with a clear conscience?"

"When his mother, wife and daughter were humiliated, he had no desire to seek revenge. Is this weak bastard really a descendant of me, Zhao Kuangyin?"

"Besides, our Song Dynasty is not without the strength to fight. Yue Fei has won many battles in the Northern Expedition and recovered lost territories one after another. There is no chance that we won't be able to restore the Song Dynasty. What is Zhao Gou afraid of? What is he afraid of?"

Zhao Kuangyin's face turned black with anger.

They are servile and submissive. Where is the blood and spirit of the descendants of Yan and Huang?
For ordinary people, having such a king is a disaster!
Just when Zhao Kuangyin was extremely angry, the eunuch's voice came from outside the hall.

"Sir, the King of Jin wants to see you."

When Zhao Kuangyin heard the words "Prince of Jin", he reacted quickly.

"and many more!"

"This Zhao Gou may not be my son. After I die, the throne may be passed to the Prince of Jin!"

When he thought of the weak and incompetent Zhao Gou, he realized that the two emperors Huizong and Qinzong who were abducted by the Jin people were most likely not from his lineage.

Zhao Kuangyin's mood instantly improved a lot.

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

No wonder he has no heroic spirit at all!
Feelings are not your own!
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Another time and space.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song.

Zhao Guangyi also realized this: "If I am not mistaken, Zhao Gou's branch should be my descendants, right?"

At the same time, he also witnessed those humiliating events.

"Father and son, what is going on with your wife and daughter being humiliated under the crotch of a Jin man?"

"The mother and sister shared a husband and gave birth to a child? The brothers and nephews were sold into slavery. What's going on here?"

"Could this be something that happened during the Jingkang Incident?"

Zhao Guangyi remembered that the first video mentioned that in 1127 AD, the Jin army conquered Tokyo and abducted Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong to the north.

At that time, he was so preoccupied with the fact that the Song Dynasty had been repeatedly defeated in foreign wars that he did not have time to think about what a miserable fate the royal women would face if the capital was really conquered by the Hu people.

"Is this retribution?"

After his grief and indignation, Zhao Guangyi could not help but recall the experience of having sex with Concubine Xiao Zhou and even asking a painter to help him paint a picture for him, and he could not help feeling sad.

Perhaps, Li Yu felt the same humiliation in his heart at that time...

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(End of this chapter)