The sound of candles, the sound of shadows and axes, and the alliance of golden chambers?

The alliance of the golden chamber and the sound of axe and candle are two explanations that Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin passed the throne to their younger brothers Song Taizong and Zhao Guangyi, but not to their sons Zhao Dezhao or Zhao. The Alliance of the Golden Chamber said that Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne normally, while the axe and candle said that Zhao Guangyi was a usurper.

All official or reliable records focus on believing in the alliance of the golden chamber, that is, passing the throne to the younger brother before his death according to the agreement with his mother, Empress Dowager Du, in order to prevent the Song Dynasty from being usurped by the powerful ministers like the Zhou Dynasty after their death.

But this statement is untenable. First of all, Zhao Dezhao, the eldest son, was 26 years old, and Zhao 17, the second son, were not small business owners. Secondly, shortly after Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, two sons of Zhao Kuangyin died abnormally, and Queen Song of Zhao Kuangyin suffered very unfair treatment. These things are naturally closely related to Zhao Guangyi, so many people think that Zhao Guangyi's throne was not obtained through normal channels.

The statement that "the sound of an axe is like a candle shadow" in unofficial history is an explanation of the injustice suffered by Zhao Dezhao, Zhao, Song Empress and others. However, this explanation is also untenable. Most importantly, this statement is isolated evidence, but also hearsay, and its reliability is not strong.

However, the secret of Gong Wei has always been talked about, and Zhao Guangyi's children also have similar karma (for example, his first two sons were crazy and dead, and they were never seen again in the Southern Song Dynasty). So? Axes and candles? More popular than. Golden Chamber Alliance? A little wider.

Two years later, in the third year of Daoguang (997), Zhao Guangyi, who was emperor for 2 1 year, finally died. After his death, the throne of the Northern Song Dynasty has been passed down in his blood. Unexpectedly, after the change of Jingkang, the royal family in the Northern Song Dynasty was almost plundered by nomadic people, and the descendants of Zhao Guangyi were almost swept away.

In this case, Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Song Huizong and the younger brother of Song Qinzong, ascended the throne for Song Gaozong in panic. In the troubled times in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong's own son Zhao Fu, who was only 3 years old, died of shock after the mutiny of Miao and Liu. Since then, Song Gaozong has never given birth to a child.

Maybe it's an act of god. In the end, the seventh-generation grandson specially selected, that is, the sixth-generation grandson of Zhao, the king of Qin who died inexplicably, came to raise him and made him a prince. This is the second emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty: Song Xiaozong.

From then on, from Song Xiaozong until the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the throne of the Southern Song Dynasty was inherited by the descendants of Zhao Kuangyin. In the dark, history reversed the cycle.

Is everything an act of God?