The fact that he was able to give birth to six sons and eight daughters after being captured does not mean that Song Huizong was well treated in the Jin Kingdom, except that he could have children. In fact, Song Huizong's life in the Jin Kingdom was very humiliating, but because he was the emperor and had so many concubines by his side, he had the opportunity to have children.
Song Huizong, the eighth emperor in the history of the Song Dynasty, was the son of Song Shenzong and the younger brother of Song Zhezong. Song Zhezong had no sons when he died, so Song Huizong, who was still King Duan at the time, became emperor. Song Huizong was a genius, but not as an emperor, but as a genius in art. Song Huizong's calligraphy and painting achievements were very high, but he failed as an emperor. He did many bad things, amassed money, lived a luxurious life, had many wives and concubines, and had many children.
According to records, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty had more than 160 concubines, and Queen Guang only had five. When Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was captured, there were more than 140 titled concubines, and more than 500 untitled female officials. In fact, these are only some of the many women of Song Huizong, because when Song Huizong abdicated, more than 6,000 maids were released from the palace, and a large part of these people were favored by him.
In addition, Song Huizong often visited people to look for flowers and willows, and the story with Li Shishi is still passed down to this day. In order to better access the palace and the brothel, it is said that Song Huizong also ordered people to secretly dig a tunnel. Almost all the famous brothel girls in the capital had a very romantic story with Song Huizong, and Song Huizong also got The title of a brothel emperor.
The above is enough to show that Song Huizong was indeed an energetic person with amazing fighting ability. Judging from the results of Song Huizong's battles, Song Huizong's reputation for strong fertility was not in vain. According to records, before Song Huizong was captured, he had as many as 65 named descendants, including 31 sons and 34 daughters. Together with the 14 children he gave birth to in the Kingdom of Jin, the total number was close to 80. This is definitely a god-level existence in the history of our country.
So why was Song Huizong able to give birth to 14 children in the Jin Kingdom? What about his life in the Kingdom of Jin?
In the leap eleventh month of the first year of Jingkang, that is, 1126, the Jin State conquered Bianliang and deposed Song Huizong and Song Qinzong as common people; in March 1127, the Jin State captured Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, together with their concubines. Thousands of people, including clan officials and officials, as well as musicians, singers, and skilled craftsmen, went to the Kingdom of Jin. At the same time, the Bianliang Jin people were looted. The royal family's private treasury and state treasury money, as well as various books, treasures, handicrafts, clothing, and instruments were all taken away to the Jin Kingdom by the Jin people. This was the famous Jingkang Disaster in history.
On the way to the Kingdom of Jin, Song Huizong suffered a lot of humiliation. First, his beloved concubine Wang Wanrong was forced to go by the generals of the Kingdom of Jin. Then everyone followed suit. Dozens of Song Huizong’s concubines and daughters Being forcibly plundered
After Song Huizong arrived in the Kingdom of Jin, he was required to wear mourning clothes to visit the temple of Wanyan Aguda. He was later named Hundi Gong and was first sent to Hanzhou (today's Changtu County, Liaoning Province). ) and was imprisoned in Wuguocheng (now Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province).
In fact, Song Huizong was lucky because the person responsible for escorting him was Wanyan Zongwang, the marshal of the Jin Kingdom. Wanyan Zongwang was the second son of Jin Taizu. He was brave and good at fighting and had outstanding military exploits. He single-handedly conquered the Liao Dynasty and destroyed the Song Dynasty. Although Wanyan Zongwang was the marshal of the army, he believed deeply in Buddhism and was called the Bodhisattva Prince. Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang's attitude towards treating prisoners of the Song Dynasty was to treat them as favorably as possible without making them too difficult.
On the way to the Kingdom of Jin, although Song Huizong’s wife and daughter were kidnapped by the generals of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Zongwang still tried his best to protect Song Huizong, giving him food, drink and clothes along the way. This was also This prevented Song Huizong and some close family members from starving and suffering from cold.
Except for Song Huizong and the people around him, many people did not go to the Jin Kingdom alive. For example, the King of Yan starved to death because he had no food on the road. He did not even have a pair of shoes on his feet when he died. In the end, he was swept away by grass and cremated without even a burial ceremony. If a king is like this, let alone civil and military officials and other people with lower status.
According to records, when Song Huizong arrived at the Five Kingdoms City, there were only more than 140 male and female entourage left around him, which was a significant reduction from the thousands of people who accompanied him when he left the palace.
Of course, most of the people here died of cold, hunger and torture, and some women were robbed by the Jin and became playthings.
For example, many of Song Huizong’s concubines became the women of Jin generals. Although some concubines were not taken away, they were often called to serve as their bedchambers; many of Song Huizong’s daughters were married to Jin generals. The generals of the country, including Wanyan Zongwang, married Song Huizong's beloved daughter Maode Ji; the emperor of Jin was also a fan of Song Dynasty princesses, Jin Taizong married a Song Dynasty princess, and Jin Xizong was even more powerful, killing nine Song Huizongs in one breath The daughter was brought into the palace.
The reason why the Jin generals did this was that they felt that marrying the Song Dynasty princess would bring glory to their faces, and it was a kind of capital to show off as a victor. As the number of women in the Song Dynasty becoming playthings in the hands of the Jin people increased, the men in the Song Dynasty also received some benefits. For example, when Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were in Hanzhou, the Kingdom of Jin gave them forty or fifty hectares of land, so that they could enjoy the benefits of the land without cultivating it themselves; after Wanyan Zongwang became the son-in-law of Song Huizong, he also gave them The second emperor took special care of him and often gave him gifts. Jin Taizong and Jin Xizong also often gave the second emperor some rewards because they married Song Dynasty princesses.
In short, the two emperors had no worries about food, clothing, housing and transportation in the Kingdom of Jin. But if it weren't for the women of the Song Dynasty, the Second Emperor might have suffered some inhuman treatment. The ruler of a dynasty finally ended up in a situation where women had to sacrifice themselves to survive. This was the tragedy of the Song Dynasty.
Although he no longer had to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and he still had wives and concubines around to give birth to children for him, this does not mean that Song Huizong lived a good life. In fact, after the fall of the country, Song Huizong also fell into intense self-blame; although life in the Jin Kingdom was much better than ordinary people, it was humiliating for an emperor. Therefore, Song Huizong suffered a lot of mental torture, which was all-round torture from the national level to the personal level. Sometimes when he was anxious, he would write some poems, which read very miserable and sad. This also confirmed that he was actually not living a satisfactory life. .
Song Huizong was imprisoned in the Jin Kingdom for nine years, and finally died due to mental torture. He was only 54 years old when he died. Song Qinzong, the son of Song Huizong, was obviously different. He was not mentally tortured to death like his father, but died unexpectedly after being imprisoned for nearly thirty years.
What happened is this. In 1156, Wan Yanliang, King Hailing of the Jin Kingdom, asked Song Qinzong, who was weak and suffering from severe wind disease, to play polo. Song Qinzong was not good at equestrianism, so he accidentally fell off his horse. , was trampled to death by a horse.
After the death of Song Qinzong, the State of Jin was afraid that the Song Dynasty would condemn it if it knew the news, so it hid the news for five years until Song Gaozong Zhao Gou knew about it in 1161. On the surface Zhao Gou was very sad about Song Qinzong's death, but in his heart he was secretly happy because finally no one could threaten his throne.