After broadcasting the ancient times live, I handed the system over to the state.

[Okay, I already know the script. Qin Hui and Zhao Gou are dragging things down again.]

[Pretty much. The Zhao family probably saved up for a long time and finally pulled out Yue Fei, an SSR card, but alas, their descendants are not human!]

[Stop talking, it's making me so frustrated! If I traveled back in time, I'd be itching to rebel!]

Every time I read Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong," I feel a surge of patriotic fervor, especially the lines: "With lofty ambitions, I'll feast on the flesh of the barbarians when hungry, and laughingly drink their blood when thirsty. I'll wait to reclaim our lost lands and return to the imperial palace."

"Excellent! Such fine poetry!" Gao Shi was also a man of strong emotions. Hearing these poems, he thought of the weak Song Dynasty, the humiliation of Jingkang, and the fact that there were still people resisting. He was filled with patriotic fervor.

Du Fu sighed, "The rise and fall of dynasties are all the suffering of the people. We are looking at the imperial tombs, but aren't we also looking at the people? We must know that when the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact."

"Zimei, there's no need to worry too much. Now that the Heavenly Canopy has arrived, and so many dynasties have been able to witness it, this is a turning point!" Li Bai smiled faintly, but he didn't seem as cheerful as usual; instead, he was somewhat worried. "I wonder how magnificent and splendid the future will be. Thinking of how difficult it was for them to establish their nations, why is it that our land of China has always faced so many hardships?"

"Perhaps it is precisely because of the difficulty of establishing a nation that later generations cherish such days even more and desire a stronger country. If possible, we would also like to go to the future to see the changes in the landscape between the present and the future." Du Fu was also filled with curiosity.

In fact, many people guessed that Qin Hui would sabotage them, and they hated him to the core!

As expected.

Zhu Qinggu said, "Yue Fei drove away the Jin soldiers and repaired the imperial mausoleum, but the Southern Song court was not truly committed to resisting the Jin. Qin Hui and other pro-surrender factions frequently made things difficult for Yue Fei. In Gongyi, a tug-of-war ensued between the Song and Jin sides."

"When the Song Dynasty drove the Jurchens away a little, the Jurchens retreated, and the Song army withdrew, the Jurchens would often retaliate fiercely out of hatred when they returned, even destroying the newly restored imperial tombs."

"At this point, it was no longer tomb raiding, but burning houses and robbing tombs, which left the Song Dynasty imperial tombs riddled with holes."

"But the calamities that befell the Song imperial tombs were far from over."

Zhao Kuangyin closed his eyes tightly, seemingly prepared for anything that had no bottom line.

But he still wanted to kill.

Not only did they want to kill the Jurchen people, but they also wanted to strangle these brainless descendants!

Is it really because the Zhao Song dynasty obtained the throne illegitimately that Heaven is punishing the Zhao Song dynasty in this way?

Not only are they punishing the Zhao Song dynasty, but they also want Tianmu to expose them and then come to torment me ahead of time?!

Zhao Kuangyin had a splitting headache and no longer wanted to seek medical treatment.

When will the calamities and floggings of the Song Dynasty finally end?

Both the common people and the emperor of the Song Dynasty felt that they were doomed.

"The calamity of the Song Dynasty tombs is also related to Liu Yu, the later emperor of the Great Qi Dynasty." Zhu Qinggu sighed and said that he felt quite tired when talking about the Song Dynasty tombs. "Liu Yu was originally a subject of the Song Dynasty. Later, he surrendered and was made emperor of the Great Qi Dynasty by the Jin people. Liu Yu's son formed a tomb-digging team called the 'Sand-Digging Team'."

"They thoroughly excavated the Song Dynasty tombs again. Historical records state that this officially licensed tomb raiding team numbered as many as 100,000 people!"

“They didn’t care whether the Jin soldiers had dug up the tombs or not, whether they were the tombs of emperors or ordinary people. As long as it was within their jurisdiction, they didn’t let it go.”

"But logically speaking, there shouldn't be no trace at all."

"The most important thing was the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan, the Yuan emperor at the time, was very troubled by the strong anti-Yuan sentiment among the Song people. Yang Lianzhenjia, the 'General Director of Buddhism in Jiangnan,' suggested that the tombs of the Song emperors be destroyed so that they would not be able to worship them and would forget their identity as Song people."

"Kublai Khan did not express his opinion at the time, which was actually tacit approval. Thus, a massive campaign to plow the tombs began. All the above-ground buildings of the Song Dynasty tombs in Gongyi were destroyed and turned into ruins."

"That's why nothing has been left of the Northern Song Dynasty imperial tombs today, only a wasteland."

"The Yuan Dynasty forbade the people to graze their livestock and grow crops here, which to some extent protected the ruins of the Northern Song imperial tombs, allowing these stone statues to survive."

Zhu Qinggu posted a picture.

The stone statues, weathered by a thousand years, are damaged in many places, yet they still stand here, witnessing the changes of history. They have watched one dynasty rise and fall after another, and their bodies are covered with moss.

Many things in the world change, but these things remain unchanged because they have been forever stuck in the past.

But what kind of protection is this? It's more like charity...

How ridiculous it is to forbid grazing and planting crops!

What Zhu Qinggu said earlier was not as memorable as the fact that their graves had been robbed.

At that time, it was not only the imperial tombs that suffered the catastrophe, but also the tombs of many ordinary people.

Zhao family, how much more blood feud will you have to bear?

"I saw comments saying that Emperor Renzong's Yongzhao Mausoleum was not looted, but it actually was."

"When a Southern Song official surnamed Li passed by Yongzhao Mausoleum, it was already in a state of disrepair. Except for the mausoleum platform, which had not been looted, the underground cultural relics were severely damaged. It was said to be quite well preserved, only better than other mausoleums. The stone statues on the ground were still there."

"For a long time, Yongzhao Mausoleum was abandoned in a vegetable field."

"Our country has included Yongzhao Mausoleum in the list of cultural relics protection and restoration projects. The current Yongzhao Mausoleum was rebuilt on the site according to the Song Dynasty style."

[Several pictures, including an aerial view of Yongzhao Mausoleum and some detailed tour maps.]

The red walls shone brightly in the sunlight, and the antique-style architecture recreated the former grandeur and prosperity of Yongzhao Mausoleum.

The once solitary stone statues now seem to have gained a bit more charm with the company of tourists.

Yongzhao Mausoleum is no longer desolate.

A nation's strength is not merely a matter of cultural power; without military strength, there is no voice.

Having a knife and not using it are two different things.

[The Song Dynasty was both a prosperous and tragic era. The emperors and officials looked upon the Central Plains and saw a flourishing landscape, while the people below still struggled to feed themselves and remained landless.]

[It seems that Song Dynasty imperial tombs were built after death, not during the emperor's lifetime? Therefore, they are not large in scale, but they didn't prioritize anti-theft measures. They were built from top to bottom, making the tomb entrances easy to find. Ming Dynasty imperial tombs, on the other hand, were built halfway up mountains, with the tomb entrances more than twenty meters above the ground, making them difficult to find.]

[Look at the reigns of Emperor Zhenzong or Emperor Renzong. When they wanted to expand the palace, they asked the surrounding people for their consent. If they didn't agree, they wouldn't expand. They weren't willing to expend manpower and resources. They were too soft. Their rule was illegitimate, they lacked backbone and strength.]