Of the eighteen emperors of the cursed Zhao and Song royal families, only four had queens, and the rest were all extinctThis embarrassing historical phenomenon is like a mysterious tragedy staged in the Zhao and Song royal families. Why did only four of the eighteen monarchs have heirs, while the rest of the emperors have lost their heirs in the long course of history?
Is the extinction of the heirs of the Zhao and Song royal families a curse, or the accumulation of historical coincidences? Did all the karma encounters encountered by these eighteen emperors in the harem achieve this incredible fate? Or, is there a deeper historical secret hidden behind it?
Back then, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was born out of thin air and became a blockbuster. He was originally a general of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but he ascended the throne in the Chenqiao Mutiny, opening up a three-hundred-year country. This emperor is heroic and eloquent, why did he encounter Waterloo in his heirs?
Zhao Kuangyin has been fighting for many years, and his temperament is different from ordinary people. He was stern and cold, seldom smiling. The sons were under tremendous pressure from an early age, and most of the princes did not live to be ten years old. The founder had four sons, none of whom died well.
The death of the eldest son made Zhao Kuangyin grief-stricken. The second son, Zhao Dezhao, had a weak personality and couldn't stand the emperor's scolding, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into a well during a reprimand. The third son, Zhao Defang, was twenty-three years old and lustful, contracted a strange disease, and finally the medicine stone was ineffective. Zhao Kuangyin also lost his beloved son, became ill from hard work, and finally returned to heaven suddenly.
When the emperor died, the clan had no descendants. Succeeded by his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, his brother died and his brother died, and he was still called normal. However, Emperor Guangyi's sons have come out in succession, and none of them have a long life!
Among Zhao Guangyi's nine sons, his heart, Zhao Yuanxi, went before him. In addition to deep mourning, the emperor did not say anything until his twilight years. The half-brother Zhao Heng was the most favored, so he ascended the throne as the true sect when Guangyi died. Later generations praised Zhenzong for his wisdom and good governance, but his fourteen sons, except for the sixth son Zhao Xu, all died in infancy! It seems that there is an invisible hand that is snuffing out the incense of the Song Chamber.
Zhao Heng had a total of six sons in his life, four of whom died in infancy. This dealt a great blow to the emperor, and he was depressed all day long, and political affairs were in turmoil. There was no more laughter in the harem, only sadness.
Finally, Zhao Heng's second son Zhao You was able to grow up. He was the most favored child of Zhenzong and was taken special care of by his father. When Zhao You was named the Duke of Xinguo, it was his eighth birthday. Zhenzong personally put on a crown for him and congratulated his ministers with joy. The vision of the Son of Heaven is so happy, but he didn't expect the good times to last long. Before he was ten years old, Zhao You died violently. When the imperial physician who had to report the news choked and knelt down, Zhenzong couldn't cry.
It is conceivable that Zhao Heng's heart is like a knife, and he only hopes to have flesh and blood with him. After many years, the emperor finally had a son. This is the later Renzong Zhao Zhen. Although he had experienced all the sadness, Zhao Heng still passed on the country to the bones and blood. But where will his sons go?
After Zhao Zhen succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did was to pay tribute to his father and brother. He was sentimental by nature, and he couldn't stop crying in the face of the fact that his siblings had died. The imperial physician tried his best to persuade him, and the emperor finally did not turn his grief into an illness.
This man had only three sons in his life, the eldest son died young, and the second son and three sons also died before his father. This was already a common experience for many emperors of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Zhen was worried, and he couldn't even have an heir, so he had to appoint his eight-year-old nephew Zhao Shu as his heir. The loss of the throne indicates the failure of the empire's foundation.
Zhao Shu is Yingzong, the grandson of Taizong of the Song Dynasty. He was slightly better than his ancestors, having four sons, but only one. Yingzong Zhao Shu was not happy when he passed on the throne, and just wanted to rely on his only son for his life. And the crown prince who did not succeed did not live up to his father's hopes, and finally lost his life due to the troubled times.
This survivor, Zhao Ji, will be the Divine Sect in the future and create a prosperous era. Shenzong was knowledgeable and governed the country well, but his fourteen sons, except for the sixth son Zhao Xu, all died in infancy! It seems that there is an invisible hand that is snuffing out the incense of the Song Chamber.
After Zhao Xu ascended the throne as Zhezong, he repeated the mistakes of the past again. He had only one son, and he lived only a few months before he died. Helpless, Zhezong had to pass on his younger brother Zhao Ji. This person is Huizong, who can be called the most prosperous emperor of his sons. He added a son almost every year, and gave birth to more than 30 princes! The government and the opposition were shocked, and they talked about Huizong's obsession with the harem and the abandonment of political affairs. However, once Jingkang's difficulties passed, there was only one son left in the end - Gaozong Zhao Gou.
It turned out that there was a saying in the Song Dynasty: the road of imperial power inheritance will never exceed three generations. From Taizu, Taizong to Zhenzong, it just confirms this statement. From Shenzong to Zhezong, the foundation of the Song Dynasty seems to be eternal. How do you know that the good times will not last long, and in Huizong's generation, disaster will come, and there will be a fault in the Song Dynasty. Is it providence, or is it the fulfillment of the words of our ancestors? In short, hopes for the revival of the Song dynasty were dashed.
Zhao Gou crossed to the south and established the Southern Song Dynasty. You can imagine the mood of a person whose country is ruined and his family is ruined. He had only one son, and he died at the age of two. The prosperous emperor has collapsed, and now he can't even keep his flesh and blood, how can this new emperor be embarrassed?
In desperation, Zhao Gou adopted his nephew Zhao Yan as his heir, which was for filial piety. Xiaozong gave birth to four sons, and he was still in the bloodline of the prosperous era. However, soon after the joy, the third son died before him, and every time he swept the tomb during the Qingming Festival, the kind old emperor burst into tears. In the end, two of the princes ascended the throne as Guangzong and Ningzong. However, the same bad luck struck again - Ning Zong's nine sons died unmaturely!
The clan withered, and the blood withered. As the last generation of Emperor Gong Zhao of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was only the heir of the royal family. At this point, the mysterious curse was fulfilled, and the foundation of the Song Dynasty perished.
Among the eighteen emperors of the Song Dynasty, there are many extinct heirs, which makes people have to think deeply, is this caused by fate or pathological genetics? In any case, when the Great Song Dynasty was at its peak, the heirs were exhausted, and the distant cause of the country's demise had been buried. Later generations said that when the Mongol army pressed the border at the end of the Song Dynasty, the Song Emperor was unable to return to the sky, which also came from this.
In fact, through the records of historical books, most of the emperors of the Zhao family had reproductive functions, but for some reason, none of their children survived. This ancient historical mystery is embarrassing, and it has led to two different interpretations of the phenomenon of the extinction of the Zhao and Song royal families.
One view is that the Zhao and Song royal families may have been mired in some mysterious curse. According to this theory, the Zhao emperor offended the gods for some reason, resulting in the inability of his heirs to inherit the throne and becoming a cursed generation in history. This thought-provoking historical proposition will lead us to find answers between science and mystery, and to examine this lamenting history from a more holistic perspective.