Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 239 The Eighteen Emperors of the Song Dynasty Gather
If all the emperors of the two dynasties of the Song Dynasty really got together, what would happen?
Maybe he will be severely reprimanded by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, and he will breathe out the fragrance!
After all, the emperors of the old Zhao family did not say that one generation is not as good as the previous generation, but they did not give birth to an emperor of the Song Dynasty with outstanding abilities, great talents, and full of domineering arrogance!
Sitting opposite each other in pavilions under the faint star river, the host Lin Feng from more than 1000 years later confirmed:

"Senior, are you sure you want to gather all the other eighteen Song emperors here?"

Zhao Kuangyin said, "Xiao Lin, can you do it?"

"can."

Zhao Kuangyin said again, "Let's get started! I also want to take this opportunity to see what the future Zhao family emperors are like."

When he spoke, his expression was cold, with a hostile expression that was about to kill him.

When Long Yan got angry, he was not joking.

Don't think about it, if the eighteen Song emperors really came, there would definitely be no good end.

Lin Feng nodded and said, "Senior, wait a moment..."

immediately.

The retrospective system skill on him was activated, and he traveled to different time and space of the Song Dynasty and brought the emperors.

The history of the Song Dynasty is actually not complicated.

960 A.D. 1279 A.D. is a dynasty in the history of China that inherited the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the Yuan Dynasty. It is divided into two historical stages, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty.

In 960 A.D., General Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao rebelled in the Later Zhou Dynasty and established the Song Dynasty.In order to avoid the phenomenon of separatism and eunuch chaos since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty adopted a policy of emphasizing culture and restraining military power. On the one hand, it strengthened the centralization of power, and on the other hand, its economy and culture flourished unprecedentedly.The period of Song Zhenzong and Song Renzong entered a prosperous age.

In 1127, Jin soldiers invaded the south on a large scale, which caused the shame of Jingkang and the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Yingtianfu Nanjing and established the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the later period, the anti-Mongolian war continued for years. By 1276, the Yuan Dynasty army captured Lin'an. In 1279, Lu Xiufu carried the 8-year-old little emperor Zhao Bing on his back and jumped into the sea to die. After the Yashan sea battle, the Southern Song Dynasty fell.

The Song Dynasty was an era of high prosperity in economy, culture, education and scientific innovation in our ancient Chinese history.

For example, in the third year of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, in 1000 A.D., the total economic GDP of the Northern Song Dynasty was 265.5 billion US dollars, accounting for 22.7% of the world's total economic output, and the per capita GDP was 450 US dollars. The GDP was US$600, and the per capita GDP of the country on which the sun never sets after the first industrial revolution in the eighteenth century was US$427.

During the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism emerged, and Confucianism was revived. The society was filled with the spirit of respecting teachers and morality. The development of science and technology also advanced by leaps and bounds. It is also relatively rare in history.

还有人口从公元980年的3250万增至1110年的1亿1275万。

Our ancient Eastern China is also the first big country with a population of over [-] million.

A famous historian Chen Yinke said:
''The culture of the Chinese nation has evolved for thousands of years, and it was created in the Zhao and Song Dynasties. ''
Today, there are not a few people in the Western and Japanese historians who believe that the Song Dynasty is the Renaissance and economic revolution in Chinese history.

……

"Are you here?" Zhao Kuangyin's eyes suddenly lit up.

In the back garden of the imperial palace, there was a very abnormal wind blowing at this time. There was faint thunder and flickering in the high sky. There were no dark clouds rolling in the sky, and many stars could be seen, but lightning was running across. This phenomenon is extremely abnormal.

"Unexpectedly, a thousand years later, a young man with the skills of a legendary god will be born..."

Zhao Kuangyin looked at Lin Feng who closed his eyes and "did it", and muttered with emotion.

"Holding—"

A strange sound resounded, like an overturned pavilion, a man with a dazed face appeared in the audience's sight and fell half a foot behind Zhao Kuangyin.

This is Taizu's younger brother Zhao Guangyi, later Song Taizong.

His original name was Kuang Yi, later changed to Guang Yi, and changed his name to Jiong after he ascended the throne.He once participated in the Chenqiaoyi mutiny and supported his brother as emperor.Inheriting Taizu's policy of defeating the separatist regimes, King Wuyue surrendered in 978 and King Northern Han surrendered in 979, but after two failed campaigns against Liao, he adopted a policy of passive defense.

In general, Zhao Guangyi is neither a wise king nor a faint one, but a middle-level emperor.

Soon.

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi raised their heads at the same time, looking at the boundless sky, the dark star field, a white light flashed thousands of feet, and then a figure appeared, coming from the sky, and slowly falling.

These people vary in age, some have white hair, and some are ten-year-old children.

The only thing the same.

That is, they all wore dragon robes, the emperor's costumes of the Song Dynasty.

Among them are a few heroic figures, at a glance, they can be regarded as the handsome image of a dragon among men.

"This……"

"Who are they..."

"Why are you all wearing the dragon robes of my Great Song Emperor..."

Zhao Guangyi said in amazement, with a particularly shocked expression. He still doesn't know what happened?

A few minutes ago, he was drinking and watching singing and dancing in the palace. Without any warning, he was forcibly "brought" into the depths of the palace, and "brought" in front of the emperor.

But Zhao Kuangyin said with a calm expression, "Be safe and don't be impatient. Those who come from the sky are all the descendants of my old Zhao family. There are 310 emperors in the two dynasties of the Song Dynasty and the 18th year of the National Oak. , it was my request that allowed this young master with the power of a god to travel through time and space and receive..."

At this time, Zhao Guangyi noticed Lin Feng on the VIP seat.

It's just that he looked left and right, and his face became even more bewildered.

Where did you come from, son?
Zhao Guangyi said that he had never heard of such a strange face.

Zhao Kuangyin said again, "This Young Master Lin comes from a descendant 1000 years later, Guangyi, and when the other sixteen emperors are seated, you should inform them of the situation one by one, so as not to cause panic."

"From the hereafter..."

"From after 1000?"

"Is there a fairy ability?"

Zhao Guangyi looked straight, but when he looked up, he could indeed see a dreamlike scene beyond imagination. A dozen emperors in dragon robes, one in front and one behind, all came down from the sky.

This is definitely not something that ordinary people can do!
Zhao Guangyi murmured in his heart, could it be that a "fairy" really came to the palace tonight?
Future fairy?
For Zhao Guangyi's shock and confusion, Lin Feng didn't bother to explain, and sat quietly, waiting for a good show.

What about modern audiences?
They even moved out of the small benches one by one, eating melons, waiting for a wonderful show to start.

"The Eighteen Brothers of the Song Dynasty gathered together, and I really don't know what will happen."

"Don't think about it, there will definitely be many bloody incidents."

"Song Weizong, who was taken away, is probably the most aggrieved. How can he have the face to meet his ancestors?"

"The state owns the laws of the country, and the family has its own rules. The Taizu will not draw out the Taizu's long stick, and teach them a lesson one by one, right?"

"If Taizu heard that Zhao Gou killed General Yue who was loyal to the country with trumped-up charges, I don't know how Taizu would feel."

"I reckon, I want to beat Zhao Gou to death."

"This scene, isn't it just the eighteen generations of grandparents and grandchildren running together, staring at each other?"

"I didn't expect that the eighteen generations of grandparents and grandchildren I saw for the first time in my life were actually on the show."

……

Just as the modern audience was discussing, on the live broadcast screen, the emperors in dragon robes had already settled down.

in a row.

Standing behind Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.

Every emperor looked dazed, with an expression of bewilderment, and some emperors showed panic and despair, perhaps in their hearts, thinking that they had died and were about to be taken to the underworld!

At this time, Zhao Guangyi turned around and explained to the other sixteen emperors.

It's okay not to say this, but as soon as he explained it, the scene suddenly became chaotic.

"Taizu? Taizong? Is it really you?"

"The ancestors of my old Zhao family!"

"It's really our great ancestor. There is no mistake. The paintings handed down from the court are almost exactly the same."

"What's going on? Why am I here?"

"Father, are you there?"

"Son, why are you wearing a dragon robe? I'm dead? But you don't have to worry too much, do you?"

The scene immediately became chaotic.

Can it be messy?

Among the dozen or so emperors, all of them are mutual successors, and they have been in contact with each other before and after their lives.

And for the later successors, the previous emperors were, logically speaking, all dead.

The dead emperor stood beside him abruptly, could he not doubt life?
"Quiet!!!"

Taizu Zhao Kuangyin scolded, like thunder on the ground, no one dared to make a mistake, and the scene was instantly quiet.

Then Zhao Kuangyin looked at Lin Feng, and said politely, "I need to trouble you to help introduce the lives of the emperors of the Zhao family."

He is Taizu.

But they all died before many emperors, except for his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, he didn't know any of them.

Even Zhao Guangyi only knew his son.

Lin Feng nodded, stood up, and walked to more than a dozen emperors of the Song Dynasty, ready to give a live commentary.

just.

It is extremely disrespectful for a later generation to comment on the ancients!
So when Lin Feng passed by, he respectfully bowed to every emperor, and said that he is a descendant of the future generations, so please don't take the blame for the offense.

The emperors did not express much.

Everyone is still dumbfounded!
And from what their great-grandfather said personally, this handsome young man actually possessed the abilities of a descendant comparable to a god, and 1 reasons came to his mind.

……

(End of this chapter)