The old Zhang family finally came up with an emperor, but the result was not only a pseudo emperor,

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-03-01

The surname Zhang is a big surname. According to the results of the sixth national population census, as of 2011, the surname Zhang is the third largest surname in the country after the surname Li and Wang, accounting for about 10,000 people of the total population.

At the same time, the surname Zhang is an ancient surname. The ancestor of the surname Zhang, Zhang Hui, was the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor and is said to be the inventor of the bow and arrow, and once held the official position of "Gong Zheng". Therefore, he took the meaning of the bow chief, and was given the surname Zhang Yu Puyang (fief Qinghe, so there is a saying that the surname Zhang is out of Qinghe in the world), which belongs to the official title as the clan. At the same time, Zhang is the fifth of the seven stars of the southern Vermilion Bird, and the arrangement of the six stars of Zhang is also like an open bow and arrow, so "Zhang" is the primitive celestial totem of the clan worship who is good at making bows and arrows, and then becomes the clan name and surname.

Zhang Hui is the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, surnamed Zhang, and is the ancestor of the surname Zhang.

There are countless names of Zhang in history, and people are familiar with Zhang Yi, Zhang Liang, Zhang Qian, Zhang Heng, Zhang Zhongjing, Zhang Fei, Zhang Xu, Zhang Zeduan, Zhang Sanfeng, Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Tingyu and so on. Even Zhang Daoling, who is now a niche celebrity, thought that he was very angry back then:

"The Confucian family said: 'There are only three families in the world: my family and Jiangxi Zhang (the descendants of Zhang Daoling live in Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi, and are the ancestral court) and Fengyang Zhu. Jiangxi Zhang, Taoist morale; Fengyang Zhu, an upstart, a small family. '"Tao'an Dream Memory, Volume 2, Confucian Temple Juniper, Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasty, Zhang Dai).

However, after looking around it over and over again, the elites of the old Zhang family are only good at working for people, engaging in academics or cultivating immortals, and they don't seem to be so domineering. You see that the surname Liu, which is also one of the four major surnames, was once the surname of the Seven Dynasties (Han, Shu Han, Former Zhao, Liu Song, Later Han, Southern Han, Northern Han), and the surname Li was also the emperor in the six dynasties (Tang, Cheng Han, Xiliang, Later Tang, Southern Tang, and Western Xia). Even if it seems that the surname Wang, who has the same disease as the surname Zhang, although the two dynasties of Xinmang and Qianshu were short-lived, Wang Mang and Wang Jian were also Zheng'er Bajing who built the country and called the emperor, and were recognized by later generations.

The closest professional distance between the ancestors surnamed Zhang and the emperor appeared in the Two Jin Dynasty - Zhang Yu, who served as the assassin of Liangzhou, refused to recognize the orthodox status of Sima Rui, the emperor of the Jin Yuan Dynasty who was the emperor in Jiankang and founded the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Liangzhou Zhang was loyal to the Zhengshuo of the Jin Dynasty, and sent troops several times to try to rescue the captured Jin Huai Emperor Sima Chi and Jin Emperor Sima Ye), which in fact formed a separation, known as Qianliang in history, and became a rare Han regime in the north at that time. In the 59th year of the former Liang Cun Kingdom and the 8 lords of the calendar, most of the lords expressed their allegiance to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, such as the third generation of the state advocate Jun in order to contact Jiangnan through the road, and did not hesitate to call Li Xiong, the emperor of the Cheng Han Dynasty, who occupied the necessary place; For another example, after Qianliang was destroyed by Qianqin, Tianxi, the last advocate of the state, took the opportunity of the battle of Weishui and defected to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The former Liang Zhang family is Zhengshuo, so he only calls the king and not the emperor.

Therefore, the successive lords of the former Liang only called the king of Liang and did not call the emperor.

In this way, if the old Zhang family wants to have something to do with the "Son of Heaven", they have to take Zhang Bangchang and Zhang Xianzhong to make up the numbers.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about him first, and today let's talk about Zhang Bangchang.

I remember when I was in elementary school, the book "The Biography of Yue Fei" was broadcast on TV every night, and in that era, it could almost reach the effect of thousands of empty alleys. It was at that time that I knew the name Zhang Bangchang, and I decided that this was a big traitor and a thief who had been with Qin Hui all the way.

We used to adhere to a black-and-white view of history, so our judgments about certain histories and personalities are not simplistic and crude.

It turned out later that the truth was not so simple.

It is rumored that Emperor Zhao and Song Dynasty had the ancestral precept of "not killing scholars and doctors and writing people", so it was very rare to be an official in the Song Dynasty as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there was a risk of being spanked or even beheaded at every turn, and life was very good. However, the corresponding bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were also accustomed to a bunch of stinky problems, such as political disputes without a bottom line, personal attacks at every turn, and it was very common to call each other "traitors". This leads to the fact that when we open the historical materials or notes of the Song Dynasty, we will find that there were almost few good people in the big people at that time.

For example, at that time, not only Wang Qinruo, Ding Wei, Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Zhang Bangchang, and Qin Hui were recognized as big villains, but even Kou Ling, Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi, Wang Anshi, Zhang Dan, Li Gang and other ministers with good reputations were also infamous.

Although the History of the Song Dynasty, which was written at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, was rough and sloppy, it was detailed and fair, and basically restored the original appearance of the history of the two Song Dynasty. In the "History of the Song Dynasty", the traitors of the two Song Dynasty were specially listed, and according to their different evil natures, they were divided into three categories: "lucky", "traitorous ministers" and "traitors" - Wang Huang and Zhu Mian among the "six thieves" in the Northern Song Dynasty were listed as fortunate ministers, Cai Jing, Qin Hui, and Wan Qiyu were listed on the list of traitorous ministers, and Zhang Bangchang and Liu Yu and Liu Quan were classified as traitors.

The list of traitors listed in the History of the Song Dynasty is actually far inferior to the "Geng Zhi" from the "Biography of the Second Minister" made by Emperor Qianlong

The list of "History of the Song Dynasty" may not be comprehensive enough, but in general, it still makes people unable to find too many faults.

Take Zhang Bangchang as an example, although his career has gone through the three dynasties of Huizong, Qinzong, and Gaozong, he has never been particularly favored by any emperor, and he is often not entertained to meet, even if he wants to be "lucky", he can't find a way; If you want to say that he is not loyal to his superiors, forming a party for personal gain, and misleading the country, this kind of thing must not be said to be none, but compared with Wang Huang, Cai Jing, and Qin Hui, it is obviously not an order of magnitude. Moreover, this product has never had the experience of monopolizing power in either the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty, and it can't find any opportunity to harm people and mislead the country.

No matter how many grievances and unwillingness he had, the fact that Zhang Bangchang was the puppet emperor of Chu cannot be erased, so there is nothing to say about classifying him as a traitor.

Because of his bad reputation, Zhang Bangchang did not even have a portrait of Zhang Bangchang.

Zhang Bangchang, a native of Yongjingjun (now Dongguang, Hebei), was born as a Jinshi. In his early years, Lao Zhang had a rough career in office, and he went in and out of ** and the place. It was not until the first year of Xuanhe (1119 AD) that Zhang Bangchang was able to "move to the right side of Shangshu, change to the left side, and move to the middle of the book." (Dajin Guozhi, Volume 30, Chu State Zhang Bangchang Lu) - Zhongshu Shilang was called the governor of the government before the reform of Yuanfeng, which was equivalent to the deputy minister.

Wang Huang was in collusion with Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng, and others, and was the main peace faction in the policy toward Jin, and had sharp contradictions with the main battle faction headed by Li Gang. Zhang Bangchang, as Wang Huang's henchman, although he could not find evidence that he was a tiger, but the Lord and the faction were all notorious in later generations, so he deserved to be scolded.

However, Zhang Bangchang was prosperous because of Wang Hao, and naturally he was implicated with the latter's bad luck - it is said that Wang Hao had a very bad relationship with the then prince Zhao Huan, and secretly plotted to help Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, plot to seize the crown prince. As a result, in the first year of Jingkang (1126 AD), when the Jin soldiers went south to attack the Song Dynasty for the first time, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong panicked and was located in Zhao Huan, and Wang Huang was dumbfounded.

Zhao Huan was helpless to take the southern invasion of the Jurchens, but it didn't take much effort to clean up a Wang Hao. He first demoted Lao Wang to other places, and then connived at Yin Nieshan of Kaifeng Mansion to kill him on the way.

Tong Guan and Zhang Bangchang are both important henchmen of Wang Huang, but Zhang is not included in the six thieves, which does not mean that he has not done evil, but it can be considered that his evil deeds are not good.

killed a Wang Huang and didn't get rid of his hatred, Zhao Huan immediately killed his number one henchman Tong Guan, and then even Zhang Bangchang didn't want to let go. However, although Lao Zhang was not a good person at that time, he had not done any great evil, and Zhao Huan couldn't find an excuse to kill him for a while, so he found an errand that could kill him - to go to Jinying to negotiate peace.

Zhao Huan seems to be afraid that Zhang Bangchang's fate will be big - as soon as Lao Zhang's front foot entered the gold camp, he secretly ordered Yao Pingzhong, the general of the Western Army, to attack the gold camp at night. However, General Yao's skills in fighting were very fashionable, but his ability to escape was invincible, and after the defeat, he "rode a green mule to die, galloping seven hundred and fifty miles in one day and night" ("Weinan Anthology, Volume 23", Southern Song Dynasty Lu You), so that the angry Jurchens could not catch the culprit, so they wanted to kill the envoy of the Song people to vent their anger.

By the way, those who were ordered to go to Jinying with Zhang Bangchang were also King Kang at the time and Zhao Gou of Song Gaozong later. I can't figure it out, Zhao Huan is planning to give him a spoonful of stew that he doesn't like and fears.

However, Zhang Bangchang is worthy of being an outstanding representative of the Great Song Dynasty, and his kung fu is more than 100 times stronger than Yao Pingzhong's ability to fight, and he actually made the Jurchens believe that the night attack incident was not the original intention of the imperial court......I can't understand this matter, anyway, the final result is that Zhang Bangchang was released unscathed.

After that, because the reinforcements of the Western Army arrived one after another, the Jurchens gave up the siege and retreated. However, there are also conditions for withdrawing troops, in addition to the deposition of Li Gang and other main battle factions, land cession compensation is still indispensable, so the two countries still have to negotiate.

Peace talks between China and foreign countries, both ancient and modern, are a chore. Especially for the weaker side, no matter what the result is, it is light to be scolded, and it is not uncommon to be stabbed.

So Zhang Bangchang, who had just escaped by luck, was first fed a sweet date by Zhao Huan - he was added to the official as Dazai and his subordinate servant (prime minister), and then he was given a fatal errand of "Hebei Road Land Cutting Envoy", and continued to deal with the Jurchens.

However, compared with the misery of living in the north for 30 years later, Zhao Huan at this time was still quite "hardcore" - he ostensibly promised the Jurchens to cede land and pay compensation, but in fact he was insincere. Therefore, after the failure of the Song-Jin peace talks, he skillfully buckled a black pot on Zhang Bangchang's head, so "**This big hat has been firmly worn on Lao Zhang's head since then:

"At the beginning, Bangchang advocated peace and discussion, and did not intend to be hostage. and to do it, it is necessary to ask the royal approval of the Qinzong Department to discuss the non-change of the land, and it is not allowed; Please also pay Hebei with a seal book, and it is not allowed. When the sticky Han soldiers invaded again, the person who wrote the book attacked Bangchang's private enemy, and the thief of Sheji also. Then Bangchang was deposed as a scholar of the Guanwen Palace and an envoy of the first palace of the Central Tai, and he dismissed the land. (History of the Song Dynasty, Vol. 475, Biography No. 234).

Zhao Huan's scheming methods are more than enough to clean up Zhang Bangchang, but it is useless in the face of the fierce Jurchens. So he soon ushered in the second southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom, and the result was the Jingkang Change.

When we go back and study this period of history, in fact, there is only a difference between the main war and the main peace, and there is no absolute right or wrong. If the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty went all out to prepare for war and fight to the death with the Jurchens, with their national strength and military strength, they might still end in a fiasco, and the compensation for the cession of land was still inevitable, but it would never be as miserable and humiliating as the Jingkang Change; If you do your best to make peace from the beginning, Hebei and even Hedong may not be guaranteed, but the situation is still much better than when the Southern Song Dynasty opened the country - after all, the Southern Song Dynasty still survived the Jin State with half of the Jiangnan River.

It is better to make a wrong decision that is resolutely implemented than not to make a decision and wait for perdition.

The worst choice is no war or no peace, and whether it is Zhao Ji or Zhao Huan, it is this route that he chooses. After all, what Emperor Zhao Song is best at is not making decisions, but fighting with the ministers and playing balance, to put it bluntly, it is to make peace with the mud.

In this process, the "six thieves" such as Wang Hao and Cai Jing flattered the emperor, formed parties for personal gain, and excluded dissidents, and objectively pushed the Northern Song Dynasty into the abyss of the country's demise, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a great traitor and a great evil. Although Zhang Bangchang has been criticized for his mastery and harmony, his evil deeds are actually inadequate, and he can be called "mediocre", but it is not to the level of a traitor.

After all, this goods are about to be difficult to protect themselves, how can they have the time and mood to harm others?

The change in Jingkang was actually an accident for both the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom.

Since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, the experience of being beaten has been very rich, and the ability to resist beatings is super strong, so Zhao Huan still has time to play with the Jurchen soldiers when they come to the city. But who would have thought that the Northern Song Dynasty, which had been beaten by the Khitans and the party for more than 100 years and still standing, would suddenly be beaten by the Jurchen KO? It is estimated that Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan were still puzzled after being exiled to the north.

The Jurchens are probably more confused than the Song people. They were still hunted by the Khitans as wild beasts in the white mountains and black waters 20 years ago, and only destroyed the sworn enemy Liao State 3 years ago, and in the blink of an eye, they killed the Northern Song Dynasty and became the co-masters of the world? Who can stand such a huge contrast?

For the Jurchens, talking about the destruction of the Song Dynasty before the southern invasion was really too "bold idea".

Therefore, the Jurchens have no intention or ability to occupy the huge Central Plains, and the most important thing for them is to stabilize the old frontier and the old nest, and at the same time scavenge money and population from the Central Plains. In this case, the return of the Jurchens to the north is inevitable, and in the occupied areas of the Central Plains, it is necessary to support a ** regime.

It's all about who you support. Sun Fu, who was originally with the Privy Council of the Northern Song Dynasty and left behind in Kaifeng after the Jingkang Revolution, proposed to set up another Zhao family clan, but was angrily vetoed by Jin Taizong Wanyan Wu Qimai - although the Jurchens were temporarily unable to annex the Central Plains, they would never allow their previous achievements to be wasted and let the Zhao and Song dynasties revivenation. Therefore, after Zhao Gou became the emperor, Jin Guo did not hesitate to enter the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River and "search the mountains and pick up the sea" to kill the "remnants" of Zhao and Song.

At the same time, the rise of the Jurchens was too rapid, and the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the country too quickly, so that they did not have time to carefully select and cultivate pro-Jin forces in the Han Dynasty, so they could only choose one from the old ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty to make do.

The Jurchens chose Zhang Bangchang as the ** person for three reasons:

First of all, Zhang Bangchang once entered the gold camp twice as Shaozai (deputy prime minister) and Dazai (prime minister) to preside over peace talks, which was probably the largest Han official that the Jurchens had come into contact with before the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the country, and he must have been impressed and understood. So even if Lao Zhang has been dismissed by Zhao Huan at this time, in line with the principle of using practice instead of birth, the Jurchens still plan to cooperate with him again.

The Zhao and Song clans could not be used, and the warriors who led the troops were not easy to control, and the Jurchens had no other choice than the civil officials of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Secondly, at that time, the Qinzong Dynasty was the prime minister, Bai Shizhong and Xu Churen were dead, and Li Bangyan and Wu Min were deposed, leaving Zhang Bangchang, Tang Ke and Ouyang Xun. Ouyang Xun is the hardcore main battle faction, which can be ruled out first, Tang Ke is the opposite, his lord and he have reached the point of "surrendering to the lord", so that when he followed Zhao Huan to patrol the city, he was spurned and beaten by the Kaifeng army and civilians, and was forced to resign. This disgraced guy is obviously difficult to take on the responsibility of the ** people of the Jin Kingdom (I'm afraid the Jurchens also look down on him), so the only suitable candidate is Zhang Bangchang.

In the end, the Jurchens began to let the old ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty nominate themselves. As a result, these people are not stupid, and no one is willing to take the initiative to carry this black cauldron: "Everyone dare not speak out, they look at each other for a long time, and there is nothing to do." (History of the Song Dynasty, Volume 475, Biography 234) As a result, a scholar named Song Qiyu may have been instructed by the Jurchens to nominate Zhang Bangchang, so he was warmly supported by ......the big guys

Anyway, you have a big stack of black pots on your back, so it's not bad - I guess everyone thinks so......

In this regard, Zhang Bangchang resolutely refused, and even went on a hunger strike for 4 days to Mingzhi, and when he was forced to be in a hurry, he swore that he would rather commit suicide than be the unlucky emperor. However, people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, and the fate of those who have lost the country can only be decided by the victors, and even death has become a luxury:

"The Jin country text comes, and it is limited to three days to establish Bangchang, otherwise the people will be shocked and slaughtered in the city. On the third day, the golden envoy came to promote the persuasion of ......Bangchang swore to cut himself, or said: 'Xianggong will not die outside the city, but now he wants to die, and he will destroy the evil of the city?' 'Stopped. (Dajin Guozhi, Volume 30, Chu State Zhang Bangchang Lu).

Since ancient times, the throne of the emperor can be beaten, usurped, snatched back, and inherited. But no matter how urgent the mood is to succeed and ascend the throne in either way, it is inevitable that you will first pretend to play a drama of "three resignations and three concessions" - whoever doesn't do this will be scolded if you don't do it well.

When the emperor ascends the throne, he usually has to stage a drama of "persuasion" to be perfect, but someone like Zhang Bangchang who is "persuaded to advance" may be considered unprecedented.

But if I say that about Zhang Bangchang, I really can't say it in my conscience.

After Zhang Bangchang became the emperor of the "Great Chu State", he chose to work in the Wende Hall (the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty was in the vertical arch hall), sit facing west (the emperor sat in the north and faced south), and at the same time resolutely prevented the ministers from worshipping him - if there was a sycophant who had to worship, he quickly stood up and "arched in the east"; When talking to people, he is not called "I" but "Yu", and the correspondence is not called "edict" and "decree" but "handwriting", and the number one big dog-legged king Shiyong once called him "Your Majesty", but was scolded mercilessly by Zhang Bangchang.

Like the emperor of the Zhao family, he sat in the north and faced the south, and called himself a lonely widow, Zhang Bangchang did not have a day.

After that, the Jurchens returned to the north, and more than 14,000 people, including the second emperor of Huiqin and the royal family, the royal family, nobles, close ministers, and craftsmen, were escorted to the Jin State. (History of the Song Dynasty, Vol. 475, Biography No. 234).

As soon as the Jurchens withdrew, Cheng Lu Hao asked in the imperial history and suggested that he still govern in Zhao, and the candidate was Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, who was hiding in the east and evading the Jurchens. Zhang Bangchang immediately agreed, and while sending someone to find Zhao Gou, he affirmed to him that "so he reluctantly follows the Jin people to recommend the wearer, and wants to be expedient for a while to relieve the country's difficulties, and dares to have other concerns" (quoted above), while welcoming the deposed Meng clan of Zhao Xu of Song Zhezong into the palace to weigh the system.

On March 7 of the second year of Jingkang (1127 AD), the Jin State canonized Zhang Bangchang as the emperor.

On April 9, Meng entered the palace, and Zhang Bangchang respected him as Empress Yuanyou.

The next day, Zhang Bangchang officially announced his abdication, still called Dazai, and Empress Yuanyou was in charge of the dynasty. The "Great Chu State" was only 33 days from the founding of the country to its demise.

Shortly thereafter, Empress Meng issued an edict proclaiming Zhao Gou as emperor. On the first day of the fifth month, Zhao Gou was enthroned as emperor in Nanjing Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan), and changed to Yuan Jianyan for the Southern Song Dynasty.

If Zhang Bangchang hadn't taken the initiative to return to power, Zhao Gou would have become an emperor, and whether he could escape the joint strangulation of Jin Guo and Pseudo Chu would have depended on luck.

This was Zhang Bangchang's short and humble career as emperor.

Zhao Gooneng became the emperor, and Zhang Bangchang, who "sacrificed himself for others", was of course the number one hero, so it was natural that he would be promoted to Taibao, Feng** Jiedu envoy, and knighted as the king of Tong'an County. However, Lao Zhang's self-proclaimed Dazai was masturbated by Zhao Gou and handed over to Li Gang, the leader of the main battle faction.

Zhao Gou's worship of Li Gang was just to attract people's hearts and stabilize the throne, and after more than two months, he deposed him again.

Li Gang is jealous and hateful, so he naturally looks down on Zhang Bangchang, so the first thing he did after his comeback was to impeach him. However, Zhao Gou was not good at killing the donkey as soon as he unloaded the mill, so he said a few fair words for Lao Zhang, but he still demoted him and drove him out of the center:

"Bangchang is rebellious, rational and punishable, the original intention, out of coercion, can be special and exempt from loans, and the deputy envoy of the Zhaohua Army and the resettlement of Tanzhou. (Ibid.).

Soon, Zhao Gou beheaded Song Qiyu, who had originally elected Zhang Bangchang as emperor. Song Qiyu really deserves to die, but this move has already shown a noticeable change in Zhao Gou's attitude towards Zhang.

As early as when Zhang Bangchang decided to return to the Zhao family, his number one dog-legged king Shiyong reminded him to beware of possible retaliation in the future:

"Wang Shiyong said: 'The man who rides the tiger is invincible, so he should be careful, he devours the umbilicus day by day, and he has no regrets. Xu Bingzhe praised it from the side, and Bang Changfu listened. (Ibid.).

Zhao Gou, as the ninth son of Zhao Ji, originally had no chance to be on the throne. Even if he became the only fish in the Zhao Song royal family after the Jingkang Change, Zhao Gou was fortunate enough to survive his life, **Would he think that an emperor's big hat fell from the sky and happened to fall on his head? At that time, Zhang Bangchang could decide his life and death, or he could make him the emperor, and finally Lao Zhang chose the latter, presumably Zhao Gou at that time must have been grateful to him.

Zhang Bangchang is the main peace faction, and his political ideas are quite in line with Zhao Gou's appetite, if it weren't for that pseudo-imperial history, there might not be anything about Qin Hui later.

But when Zhao constituted the emperor and could decide Zhang Bangchang's life and death, this experience was not only no longer beautiful, but made him feel embarrassed and jealous. Especially when Zhao Gou was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, reused Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and other surrender factions, and Li Gang and other loyal and upright people were quickly deposed and expelled, and the government and the opposition were extremely dissatisfied with this, his suspicion of Zhang Bangchang also reached its peak.

Zhao Gou was one of the emperors who killed the most ministers in the history of the two Song Dynasty (second only to Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty), whenever he was criticized and opposed by his subjects because he was afraid of the enemy and avoided war or sought peace and compromise, he would not hesitate to pick up the butcher's knife, kill chickens and monkeys, and deter the government and the opposition.

Zhang Bangchang is the chicken that Zhao Gou needs to slaughter at this time, and the excuse is also easy to find - Lao Zhang once made a "mistake that men will make".

It is said that when Lao Zhang was the emperor, in order to reward him, the Jurchens once gave him some female dependents, including a concubine of Zhao Ji, Jinggong's wife Li, and also canonized her as Zhang Bangchang's empress. It is said that at that time, the concubines and princesses of the Zhao Song royal family were treated as ** and prostitutes, and there were 143 concubines with titles in Zhao Ji's harem, and there were as many as 504 people without titles.

In the shame of Jingkang, the daughters of the Zhao family were almost all in trouble, but he still groveled to the Jurchens, and replacing him with Zhang Bangchang became the way to die.

But apparently, Zhang Bangchang and the Li family still had a lingering and sympathetic "troubled children's relationship", so much so that after returning to power, he still had private dealings with his former queen. This can make Zhao Gole bad, and immediately secretly arrested his little mother Li, and got a confession after torture, so Zhang Bangchang was killed.

Zhao Gou originally thought that if he killed Zhang Bangchang, first, he could stabilize his orthodox position, second, he could deter the government and the opposition, and third, he could also show goodwill to the main battle faction, which could be described as a hundred benefits and no harm. When the news of Zhang Bangchang's death came out, the Jurchens knew that the "Great Chu" was gone, and the remnants of Zhao Song had revived. So the army of the Jin State brazenly went south, chasing Zhao Gou all the way to the sea, not to mention, but also supporting Liu Yu, who really worked for the Jurchens, and created a pseudo-Qi regime:

"Bangchang died, (Jin) Taizong heard it, he was furious, Zhao Marshal's Mansion cut down the Song Dynasty, the Song Lord went to Yangzhou, and the matter was passed on by Zonghan and others. Subsequently, Taizong re-established Liu Yu to succeed Bangchang, and the number was Daqi. (Jin Shi, Vol. 77, Biography 15).

From then on, the frequent southern invasions of the Jin State and the puppet Qi made Zhao Gou no longer at peace, and it was not until 15 years later that the Song and Jin reached the Shaoxing Peace Conference, which came to an end temporarily. And this peace agreement can also be said to have been exchanged for Yue Fei's life.

After killing Zhang Bangchang, Zhao Gou was driven by the Jurchens from Yingtianfu to Yangzhou, and then rushed to Hangzhou, and finally escaped to the sea.

Back to Zhang Bangchang. According to the record of Song Renyu Wen Maozhao in the "Chronicles of the Dajin Kingdom", his performance before his death is quite metaphorical:

"Bangchang depreciates the place, and lives in Tianning Temple in Tanzhou. The temple has a flat Chu building, and the sentence of Tang Shen Chuanshi's "eye injury Ping Chu Yu Emperor's soul" is also. Emperor Song gave him an edict of death, wandered and retreated, the deacon was forced to climb the building, Bangchang looked up, suddenly saw the word 'Pingchu', and sighed. (Dajin Guozhi, Volume 30, Chu State Zhang Bangchang Lu).

I don't know if his "long sigh" is a sigh for Zhao Gou's ruthlessness, or regrets that he didn't continue to be the emperor in the first place?

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