Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 431 The Oath of Gongyi Imperial Mausoleum
Zhao Huan walked towards the Mausoleum of Emperor Gongyi with the extremely mighty courtiers.

The Gongyi Imperial Mausoleum does not only bury the emperor of the Song Dynasty. In fact, there is no imperial tomb, only the emperor is buried. Most of the famous officials in history will be buried in the mausoleum.

Gongyi Imperial Mausoleum is the cemetery of thousands of courtiers since the founding of the Song Dynasty 160 years ago.

The expressions of the courtiers this year are extremely serious, and even the hustle and bustle of the motorcade is much smaller.

When Zhao Huan got off the car with Zhu Lian, all he could see was desolation.

After Liu Yu, the criminal officer of Hebei West Road, rebelled against the enemy, he led the Jin people to smash up the buildings on the surface of the place, leaving devastation everywhere.

Since Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he has been busy. After he knew about the imperial tomb, he just ordered people to seal it up and never paid attention to it again.

It's not that he doesn't want to think of this place, all the shame is engraved here, it's just that the timing is not perfect.

An old man walked slowly in front of Zhao Huan, led a dozen people to salute the emperor, and said, "Fang Tingshuo, Xuanfu envoy of Sanjing Huaibei, pays his respects to the official family."

The shrill sound of the fox's cry continued to be heard in the imperial mausoleum's forbidden area, making people break out in cold sweat unbearably.

In the past, the majestic forbidden area of ​​the royal mausoleum has grown overgrown with weeds and has become a paradise for wild animals, buried under the snow. The only buildings on the ground are ruins.

The exquisite sculptures were all smashed and scattered all over the place, and graves that had been dug up could be seen everywhere.

"There are only a few people left in the army guarding the mausoleum." Fang Tingshuo said with sorrowful eyes: "Everyone below the Yongchang Mausoleum was shocked, and the Tai Mausoleum was exposed. Ting Shuo took off his clothes and covered them. The clothes of one minister cannot wrap up thousands of bones. ! Officials!"

Zhao Huan helped Fang Tingshuo up and sighed.

The Yongchang Mausoleum buried Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin's mausoleum was not destroyed, but all the imperial tombs and courtiers' mausoleums below Yongchang Mausoleum were disturbed.

This is not to say that Liu Yu, who led the way, showed great mercy, nor is it that the golden man is afraid of Zhao Kuangyin who died. Zhao Kuangyin has already been buried in the soil, and his deterrent power has become a historical symbol.

It's because Zhao Kuangyin's mausoleum is too shabby, and the ground buildings built by later generations were all smashed.

"I led the soldiers to resist to the death, and it was the righteous soldier Yue Fei who came to Gongyi with a lot of rebels, and Liu Yu retreated. Otherwise, the imperial tomb would still be uneasy." Fang Tingshuo said with a sigh.

Zhao Huan nodded and stepped into the imperial tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty.

As soon as he entered the imperial tomb, he seemed to see the golden man breaking into the imperial tomb, laughing wildly and smashing everything.

Dig up the coffins of the courtiers, smash open their coffins with a hammer, and take the few burial objects from the dead bodies.

"Chen'er, the emperors of the Song Dynasty did not build mausoleums during their lifetime. They were buried after digging three months after death. The burial was very shallow. It was not built on the mountain, so it was very easy to be stolen."

"Everyone is dead, and the burial objects are determined by future generations, so there are actually not many things in these coffins." Zhao Huan pulled Zhao Chen forward step by step.

He continued: "This is a shame, a shame that I, Da Song, cannot wash away in my life, do you understand?"

Zhao Huan led Zhao Chen to move forward. Zhao Huan saw the casually discarded bones. It was impossible to tell who belonged to them. Because of Zhao Huan's order, Fang Tingshuo did not put them away.

"Chong Shaobao, Li Dazai, Sun Shaozai, these courtiers thought that I had just ascended the throne and they were all protecting me, and they didn't want me to see this. Today I saw it, Chen'er, did you see it?"

"My son saw it, Daddy." Zhao Chen didn't quite understand the sadness in his father's eyes, he clenched his fists vigorously, he was already filled with anger.

Zhao Huan was still walking, he saw a huge bonfire, and unburned coffins were scattered all over the place, he seemed to see the Jin people singing and dancing around the huge bonfire, they were laughing, humble Haner Signing Jun handed drinks to the side.

Zhao Huan's eyes wandered around, as if countless figures flashed past Zhao Huan.

Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Pu, Pan Mei, Cao Bin, Kou Zhun, Di Qing, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Bao Zheng and other historical figures that Zhao Huan knew, or these people Zhao Huan did not know, were floating around him .

And in the long river of bright Chinese history, during the Song Dynasty, the people who left their names seemed to have come to life. They seemed to be floating by their side, wandering around, as if they were still whispering.

The whispering voice was a little weak, and Zhao Huan couldn't hear it clearly, but his shoulders were shaking constantly, which meant that his mood was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.

Zhao Huan walked forward step by step, and said to Zhao Chen, "Do you know why the Jin people came to rob the tomb? In fact, it's quite shabby and poor here."

"My child doesn't know." Zhao Chen answered honestly, with two tear marks on his face. He was only nine years old, but he still felt his beating heart.

Zhu Lian also thought about covering her child's eyes, but she held back because Zhao Huan was educating Zhao Chen after all.This is a father's duty.

The crown prince and the crown prince are also responsible.

Zhao Huan wanted to go on a personal expedition again, so he left Bianjing, the center of the Song Dynasty, and went to the unfamiliar Yanjing.

As the crown prince, Zhao Chen must understand the significance of his father's actions.

"Chen'er, it's because the Jin people are ignorant. They believe that dead people can break limbs intermittently, and stiff corpses can be used as medicine. They believe in weird legends." Zhao Huan continued to walk forward and came to Yongchang Mausoleum. before the inscription.

Half of the inscription engraving Zhao Kuangyin's life achievements was buried in the soil, and the other half fell to the ground.

"It's also to break my Da Song's back!"

"Emperor Taizu, I just came today, a bit late." Zhao Huan took out a pot of Su Hexiang wine, and sat on the floor with Zhao Chen, sitting in front of the half-upside down inscription of Taizu.

Zhao Ying quickly put out three sea bowls and put them on the ground.

"I came so late, not because I didn't know the sufferings that happened here. The reason why I came so late was because I was afraid of coming here." Zhao Huan said, filling Zhao Kuangyin with a glass of wine.

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid I can't help it. All aspects of the Song Dynasty are constantly moving towards the good side. I'm afraid that my temporary decision based on anger will make the ZTE fire that has just risen in the Song Dynasty , suddenly went out."

"It wasn't until this fireball got bigger and bigger that my heart became more and more stable. I have already made a decision. I will go to Yanjing in a few days, and the item-by-item agenda is going on steadily. I will use the second hand to kill Wanyan Sheng." The letter is already on its way."

"Wang Ting, you don't know him. He's a ruthless man, he's much more unafraid than your Shi Shouxin."

"Using 3000 people in Taiyuan City, they stopped Jin's tens of thousands of troops for more than 200 days. As soon as his injury recovered, he went to Linhuang, and finally smashed Huanglong Mansion and captured Jin's boss Wanyan."

"It is also because of this that I have the confidence to come to the Gongyi Emperor's Mausoleum."

"It's not just the emperor of the Song Dynasty who is buried here, the tombs of thousands of courtiers have all been dug up."

"The bones of Zhe Zong in Yongtai Mausoleum were exposed in broad daylight, and Fang Tingshuo could only take off his own clothes and wrap up the bones. He only had one piece of clothing, and there were only a dozen people. The bones of other people were all mixed together. I can't tell who belongs to who."

"The courtiers of the Song Dynasty always mentioned the law of the ancestors. Now that the land of the ancestors has been digged up, the number of people mentioning it is much less."

Zhao Huan spilled the wine in the sea bowl on the ground, with an uncertain expression on his face.Everyone was looking at the official with trembling hands.

"I swear! One day! I will bring the heads of the Wanyan family, the whole family! Come to sacrifice to the ancestors! I swear! I will let the blood of the Jin people spill over the entire Liaodong! Come and sacrifice to those who died under the iron hooves of the border bandits! people!"

Zhao Huan growled with a ferocious expression.

The courtiers of the Song Dynasty who came this time quietly followed the emperor around the Gongyi Mausoleum, Yongan Mausoleum, Yongchang Mausoleum, Yongxi Mausoleum, Yongding Mausoleum, Yongzhao Mausoleum, Yonghou Mausoleum, Yongyu Mausoleum, Yongtai Mausoleum, Walked through these mausoleums step by step.

The mausoleums of the courtiers around the emperor were full of potholes on the ground. Just after passing through the Yongchang Mausoleum, some people began to cry softly, and the crying became louder and louder.

After the team circled around the Imperial Tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan returned to his car.

Li Gang had a letter saying that he would relocate the powerful to guard the imperial tomb. Zhao Huan agreed, but he never agreed to rebuild the imperial tomb from the beginning to the end.

He is waiting, this hatred, he will always remember it.

Zhao Huan said to Zhao Chen: "If I am incompetent, Chen'er, help me fulfill my oath, and then repair the imperial mausoleum well, and then put these innocent souls who have nowhere to rest in the tomb. Before that, the worship will be held in Zhaoxun Pavilion."

Zhao Chen nodded vigorously, clutching the corner of Zhao Huan's clothes vigorously, he is still young, but it's not that he doesn't understand hatred.

Zhao Huan pulled Zhu Lian into the carriage and looked at the courtiers behind him, some were angry and some were sad.

Many people here are descendants of the owners of these tombs. For example, Liu Chengqing is a distant relative of Liu Zongyuan.

Zhao Huan said to Li Gang: "Take the time to discuss and decide Yanjing as a matter of course. I am not afraid of suffering. Isn't it just that the palace is not done well? There are thousands of fertile fields, and there is no more than a day's food, and there are thousands of luxurious houses, and there is no night to sleep. Five feet. I don’t pay that much attention, so don’t worry about me.”

"The minister leads the decree." Li Gang bowed his head and said.

In fact, there have always been voices of people discussing peace in the court hall of the Song Dynasty. This kind of voice for peace is very normal. There are examples of the Chanyuan Alliance. Some people must have hoped for compromise in exchange for peace.

War will lead to the emergence of new interest groups, such as the honorable soldiers that have appeared in the Song Dynasty, such as Wang Ting's Jiedushi is a ready-made example.

There are also a large number of retired veterans who are rumored among the people and are also a new interest group among the people.

Change represents a conflict of interest, and some conservative ministers always feel that appeasement can bring peace.

"I hope they can understand the thoughts of the officials." Li Gang said with a sigh.

The official family is a benevolent official family, and this has not changed from beginning to end. If it is more cruel, expelling all the ministers who negotiated peace from Beijing can also achieve the effect of unifying the voice of the court.

If you can't accept that your opinion is to the left, then you can't be called a Mingjun, and you can't lead Song Dynasty to move forward.

Obviously the official family is still an official family, firmly controlling the heart, cautious but with enough courage and self-confidence.

(End of this chapter)