[In 979, during the Battle of Gaoliang River, Zhao Guangyi was shot by an arrow and fled, and was separated from the main force. The troops planned to elect Zhao Dezhao, who had joined the expedition, as their leader, but soon they got in touch with Zhao Jiong and gave up the plan. Not long after returning from the battle, Zhao Dezhao committed suicide.]

【Two years later, Zhao Defang died young.】

[In 982, Zhao Guangyi used the excuse that Zhao Tingmei was plotting something illegal and demoted him to the governor of Xijing. He then demoted Zhao Tingmei to the Duke of Fuling County and exiled him to Fangzhou. Two years later, Zhao Tingmei died there.]

The Song court was once again filled with suffocating silence, and all the ministers wished they could disappear from the court immediately.

Zhao Kuangyin tried hard to control himself and did not pick up the knife to kill Zhao Guangyi. All those who threatened his throne were dead, so why was there anything unclear about his death?

He looked at Empress Dowager Du who had her eyes closed, and felt a chill in his heart: "Why don't you open your eyes and look at the sky? Why don't you look at how your grandson died?"

Zhao Kuangyin's words made Empress Dowager Du tremble violently. She opened her eyes and tears streamed down her face the instant she opened them. Her lips trembled and she couldn't utter a word.

Queen Song did not go up to help her, but her heart was filled with coldness: Defang had lost her child, so her fate could be imagined.

[After the failure of the Yongxi Northern Expedition, the strategic relationship between Song and Liao changed from offensive to defensive, and the relationship between Song and Liao eventually declined.]

The Song Dynasty never recovered! Zhao Kuangyin was furious, which meant that until the end of the Song Dynasty, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were never recovered!

"Someone come!" he shouted sternly, "Strip off your title of King of Jin! Degrade him to a commoner!"

Empress Dowager Du kept her mouth tightly shut and said nothing.

Zhou Jinyu felt really depressed reading the history of the Song Dynasty, so he jumped directly to the Jingkang Shame.

In the first year of the Jingkang period, due to Guo Jing's mischief, Wanyan Zongmou, Wanyan Zonghan and other generals broke into the city and captured Emperors Huizong and Qinzong of Song.

In the second year of the Jing Kang period, the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed. Emperor Taizong of Jin issued an edict to depose Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong of Song, demoted them to commoners, and forcibly stripped them of their dragon robes.

The Jin people looted Kaifeng and seized a large amount of property: 54 million pieces of silk, 15 million pieces of large silk, 3 million ingots of gold, 8 million ingots of silver, and countless treasures.

The city was destroyed! The emperor was captured! Kaifeng was looted and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed!

Every word and every sentence made Zhao Kuangyin almost vomit blood and die! Not only did he fail to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, but even the capital was looted!

What kind of people are Huizong and Qinzong! Why didn't they die for their country?

If they died for their country, he would still look up to them!

Zhao Kuangyin was so heartbroken by the sight of the looted items that he tightly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, his eyes were filled with coldness: "Pass the order, Zhao Guangyi will be tortured to death!"

The ministers looked up in shock. Empress Dowager Du staggered and seemed to have aged by more than ten years.

[In March, after the Jin army looted extensively, they retreated in two groups. One group was led by Zong Wang, including Huizong, Empress Zheng, princes, grandsons, consorts, princesses, concubines, etc., and went north along Huazhou. The other group was led by Zong Han, including Qinzong, Empress Zhu, the crown prince, clan members, grandson tutors, Zhang Shuye, Qin Hui, etc., and went north along Zhengzhou. The Jin army also took away various court ritual vessels, antiques, books, palace maids, eunuchs, entertainers, craftsmen, etc. There were no less than 10 people, both men and women, and the treasury of the Northern Song Dynasty was emptied. Wherever the Jin soldiers went, people suffered.

This event is called the "Jingkang Incident" in history. Because the first year of the Jingkang Incident was the Bingwu Year, this event is also called the "Bingwu Shame".

[Within a month, nearly half of the women, 1500, died. Of the 1900 who survived, some were sent to Shangjing to be exiled by Emperor Taizong of Jin. Thousands of women were given to the Jin garrison, and another were kept in the laundry house. These people were forced to follow the Jurchen customs, "exposing their upper bodies and wearing sheepskin coats", the so-called "sheep-leading ceremony". Empress Zheng of Huizong and Empress Zhu of Qinzong were also treated in the same way. Empress Zhu could not bear the humiliation and hanged herself in her room. After being rescued, she drowned herself. Another part stayed in Yanjing and was rewarded to the Jin soldiers who attacked the Song Dynasty. Many women were sold into brothels, and some were even exchanged for one horse for ten women by Wanyan Zonghan. Some were sold to Goryeo and Mongolia as slaves. ]

If it was Zhao Guangyi's usurpation of the throne that was fine, but now all the royal family members were captured, and there was also the sheep-leading ceremony, Queen Song was almost going crazy.

She knelt in front of Zhao Kuangyin and cried: "Your Majesty! Look, look! This is what happened to the queen of the Song Dynasty! The queen of a country!!!" She cried and kowtowed until blood was dripping.

Gao Huaide and other generals had red eyes and wished they could send troops to destroy the Jin Kingdom immediately.

The ministers were so shocked by the tragedy of the Jingkang Incident that they all knelt down and said, "Please execute Zhao Guangyi immediately!"

Zhao Kuangyin finally vomited blood. This was his Song Dynasty! His Song Dynasty was ravaged by the Jin people!

Zhao Guangyi!!!!

Zhao Kuangyin’s eyes went dark and he fell down!

"The Emperor!" The ministers exclaimed, the Emperor must not die, he absolutely must not die!

Queen Mother Du stood up with a pale face: "Call the imperial physician!"

Zhao Kuangyin was hurriedly carried to the bed, and someone quietly squeezed next to Empress Dowager Du and said, "Empress Dowager, His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin wants to see you."

Empress Dowager Du raised her eyelids and glanced at the palace servant coldly: "There is no King Jin in the Song Dynasty. Who are you to dare to speak nonsense? Come! Drag him away and beat him to death!"

The palace maid was startled and before she could say anything, the armored guards covered her mouth and dragged her away.

Empress Dowager Du half-closed her eyes, her face cold and indifferent.

Queen Song glanced at her and turned her head.

Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng gasped: This Song Ruo is too much! The two emperors were captured, and the queen and others were humiliated like this, why haven't they died to apologize?

How can you still be so shameless and alive?

Li Si was speechless. This... was really...

Wang Jian looked at the sky coldly. If it were him, he would destroy the Jin Kingdom even at the cost of his life!

Meng Yi clenched the sword in his hand, wanting to rush into the sky and kill all the Jin people without leaving a single piece of armor!

Han Dynasty.

Liu Bang, who had always been carefree, was speechless for the first time.

He pointed at the sky with a shaking hand: "This... is this the emperor?"

Zhang Liang was silent. He thought of the Han State that was destroyed by the First Emperor, but there had never been such atrocities there.

Xiao He just drank without saying a word.

Liu Che was furious: "What bastards! How can these people be worthy of being a ruler?" He stood up and walked around angrily: "Where is the ancestor of this Jin man? I'm going to kill his ancestors first!"

Wei Qing stepped forward hastily: "I am willing to share your worries!"

Huo Qubing also stood up and said, "I am willing to do the same."

Sang Hongyang, who had always been very tight-lipped about finances, also stepped forward to express his support.

The Three Kingdoms people.

Liu Bei slammed the table and stood up: "This Jin man is worse than a beast! How could there be such a person?"

Zhuge Liang sighed solemnly: "This is the price of being weak."

Cao Cao watched coldly: "This is the result of being a fish on the chopping board! I will never allow such a thing to happen in my Wei Kingdom!"

Sun Quan was so angry that he drew his sword: "This Jin people are going too far!"

Zhou Yu hurriedly stopped him and said, "My lord, calm down. This is the dynasty of the future!"

The Jin and Sui dynasties were stunned by the cruelty of the Song Dynasty.

Sima Yan muttered to himself: "Is this the end of the country?"

Yang Jian looked at Yang Yong with a cold face: Will he also destroy my great Sui Dynasty?

When Empress Dugu saw the empress and the royal women being forced to perform the sheep-leading ceremony, she could no longer sit still. She absolutely could not let such a thing happen to the royal family of her Sui Dynasty!

Yong'er cannot succeed to the throne!

Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin opened his mouth wide: This... this...

After realizing what was happening, he immediately became furious: "Kaifeng? Kaifeng City? Are all the generals of Song Dynasty dead? There is not even a single useful general?"

Zhang Sun Wuji guessed: "Perhaps the court is suppressing the generals?"

Yuchi Jingde cursed: "What a rotten imperial court! If it were me, I would kill all those spineless people!"

Yuan Dynasty.

Kublai Khan sneered: "The Song people are spineless!"

tomorrow.

Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly: "These barbarians! They have no sense of propriety or shame!"

Qing Dynasty.

Neither Kangxi nor Qianlong said anything. The Jin Dynasty had a close relationship with their ancestors.

Kangxi had a headache. Although most educated people knew the history of the Song Dynasty, after the Tianmu was released, the remnants of the anti-Qing and pro-Ming movement had a reason to incite the people to rebel.

Not to mention the people of other dynasties, the people of the Song Dynasty all had red eyes when they saw the devastation caused by the Jingkang Shame on the sky.

One scholar was so angry that he threw down his pen and ink: "What's the point of reading this book! Can the words of the sages help the people and save the world?!"

Wang Anshi's eyes were red, the incident with the sky curtain made him more determined to reform. He was determined to change the poor and weak state of the Song Dynasty!

Su Shi, who was still in Huizhou, was feeling torn: Is the new law right?

Can the new law really solve the Song Dynasty’s deep-rooted problems?

The headmen of some large villages were far-sighted. Considering that their superiors might not be reliable and they would have to rely on themselves in the end, they gathered the villagers together to start practicing martial arts.

The men responded positively one by one, and the women also actively provided logistics support.

I just hope I can survive as much as possible when war comes.

For a time, the entire Song Dynasty was filled with a depressed yet powerful atmosphere.

Many scholars took up arms, hoping to protect their country.

Zhao Xiaoya has never been to school, but she knows that war is not a good thing, and she doesn't like watching anything about war.

This would make her feel depressed and uncomfortable, so Miss Zhou should not post these things, she thought to herself.

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