Hong Kong singer Miriam Yeung has a song "Weird", which contains the lyrics: "If you don't hint, it was once sweet and supernatural, but something happened anyway." Whether the strange events have any hints or signs for the future cannot be verified by modern science, and therefore it is not recognized. However, based on the logic of "existence is reasonable", I believe that the occurrence of any strange event means that "something is happening". The reign name of Xuanhe (1119--1125) in the Northern Song Dynasty was used by Emperor Xuanhe for seven years. In the autumn of the seventh year of Xuanhe, the reign name was changed to Jingkang, and the Northern Song Dynasty immediately entered the countdown to death. According to historical records, in the past seven years, the so-called peace was not "harmony" at all. Some very suspenseful, coincidental, surprising, strange and confusing things happened every year, and in the seven years All were later confirmed. If it is said that these are purely coincidences or baseless rumors, which are not reliable, then Zhao Yan can only understand that "weird things happen every year, and there are especially many peace talks." Otherwise, what else can he do? In the autumn of the first year of Xuanhe, the Taoist Academy (the institution responsible for religious affairs) played Jin Zhisheng. The driver of the car was lucky to have a look, because Cai Jing's family was lucky enough to buy wine in the Mingluan Hall. There was a poem in the capital at that time, and Huizong gave an impromptu peace and said: "Morality is now flourishing, and all nations will be transformed by nature. I will definitely know that the Jin Emperor will come to dominate, and it will happen without waiting for the spring breeze." Later, Jurchen invaded the capital in the winter of the seventh year of Xuanhe, and The city fell on December 25th. Taishi was preparing for the beginning of spring and unearthed cattle to welcome the new year, but it was of no use ("Xingying Zalu"). Song Huizong was not a prophet, but he did write a lot of prophetic poems. As for some premonitions in his mind, there seemed to be traces to follow. For example, he gave an imperial poem to Wang Anzhong, Commander-in-Chief of Yan State (General Manager of Youzhou): "His Royal Highness Baohe Li Zhi Dan, civil and military clothes are worn by hundreds of barbarians. If you want to share this taste with your neighbors, the red dust flies over Yanshan Mountain." This poem also One sentence became a prophecy; on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the sixth year of Xuanhe, he also wrote a sentence: "The sun hits the golden world at sunset, and the moon touches the sky and the jade universe." In the second year, it really turned into a "golden world." If later generations misinterpret it and crown it, I may not be able to justify it. In fact, as early as Tong Guan went to Liao as an envoy and brought back Guanglu Qing Ma Zhi (also known as Zhao Liangsi) from Liao, and Song Huizong consulted him in detail about the strategy of uniting Jin to destroy Liao, he had already thought about the rise of Jin. The vigilance and fear were repeated many times, wavering, and spent many years in doubt. It was not until the second year of Xuanhe that he made up his mind to send people to contact the Jin people about the extermination of the Liao Dynasty. It is said that there are thoughts in the day and dreams in the night, or suspicions give rise to ghosts. Many prophetic poems written by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty have psychological reasons, that is, they have a premonition that something is going to happen, and it must be related to the rise of the Jin people. In addition, that Taishi Ling was also a fool. Since he had a premonition that the Jin people would take over the Central Plains, why didn't he stab a few small Jin people and burn them with fire? Didn't he know the principle of "fire defeats metal"? When an ox is unearthed, spring is ushered in, and when gold is born from the soil, doesn’t it help the gold people? Maybe this guy has been an undercover agent of the Jinren for a long time. In the second year of Xuanhe, there was Jiao De (an artist) in the Juntian Music Club. He was met with jokes, and he used it as a sarcastic remonstrance. One day I came from Xingjin Garden and pointed out the flowers, bamboos, plants and trees to ask their names. De said: "They are all banana trees." He interrogated him and he said: "The flowers and bamboos in Jinyuan are all taken from all directions. They are far away on the way, and when I reach Shanglin, they are already there. "It's scorched." It's like the play of pouring scorch with a shovel. It's scorched and scorched. Later, Gen Yue was destroyed and the people were allowed to take flowers and trees for salary. It is also a prophecy ("Qingbo Magazine"). Zhou Mi's phrase "It's also a prophecy" means that Huizong of Song Dynasty was really burned by fire and doused with water after his death, turning into a "charred corpse". This matter is very suspenseful. Zhao Yan can't give a reasonable explanation. He can only say it is a coincidence. Of course, there may be reasons for the cycle of retribution. Buddhism believes that plants and trees are all alive. Song Huizong's play of "watering with spades and scorching" flowers, bamboos and plants was sowing the "cause", and the "scorched corpses" were the corresponding "results" ”, it is still unknown whether there will be such retribution. In the fourth year of Xuanhe's reign, there was something called "犭□" (the word cannot be typed) in the forbidden area. It was just a lump, with no head, eyes, hands and feet, hair like paint, and a sound like thunder at night. Everyone in the ban said that the thunder was coming, and everyone raided their homes, and the Huimiao temple also avoided it. Or he would go to sleep on the couch of his concubine, and touch it with his hands, which would feel warm. At dawn, he would roll off the couch without knowing where he was. Or the palace concubine may dream of sleeping with Zhu Wen, which is a sign of thunder. Or it can be said that it was transformed by Zhu Wen's Li ("Gui'er Collection"). This unfamiliar guest who accidentally entered the harem was probably a wild cat or a black fox. The "headless, eyes and limbs" should be an exaggeration of fear, but it is worth pondering to compare it with Zhu Wen's ghost. We can divide and analyze it. The first is that no one in the prison knows this animal, just like no one knows the golden man, so they are afraid; the second is that "the dream of a palace concubine sleeping with Zhu Wen" can be understood as women's worry about the nightmare of the fate of prisoners of war. According to history, Zhu Wen was "brave, powerful, fierce" and incestuous; thirdly, most people at that time believed that the Jin people were capricious and uninvited guests, and were worried that joining the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty would "lead wolves into the house", so they subconsciously compared the Jin people with Zhu Wen. He rebelled against Huangchao and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and then usurped the Tang Dynasty and established the Later Liang Dynasty. This concern also spread to the harem. In the fifth year of Xuanhe's reign, Zhu Meng took a stone from Taihu Lake, which was several feet high and wide, and carried it in a large boat, carrying thousands of men for several months. When the land of Yanshan was acquired at the beginning of the meeting, it was given the name "Fuqing Shen Lun Stone." Two junipers (gui juniper) were planted next to the stone. They are all written with gold medals and gold letters. The imperial title says: "Pull out the Cuiqi forest, and plant double cypress trees. The branches are slightly curled up, and the dragon's beard is luxuriant below. It supports half of the sky, and even curls up the rainbow to bear down. It is a building and a beam, and it supports my emperor's structure. ." Sigh! The cypress was used as a sign of peace, and it could not be restored. It was already a sign of half a loss and two losses, and the first knot was the imperial name of Emperor Gaozong, and everything was determined by heaven. The author's "sigh" at the end of the article is quite reasonable.
Not to mention whether Qin Hui's emergence and prosperity was really God's will, just talking about Song Huizong's "imperial title" can already reflect some of his plans for the future destiny of the court, or it can be said that he was already planning for the world. If something happens, where will I go? The situation at that time was that the agreement with the Jin people had been concluded and the war was about to begin. No one could tell what would happen in the future. Judging from his decisive abdication and flight south in the autumn of the seventh year of Xuanhe, he should have already planned to "hold half of the sky". He would leave the mess in the north to his eldest son, and in the future, half of the country in the south would be left to his ninth son, Zhao Gou. That's why he There is a sentence: "Assist me with the emperor's help". Historical data shows that Song Huizong liked the third son Zhao Kai and the ninth son Zhao Gou the most, but he did not like the eldest son Zhao Huan very much. On the Shangyuan Festival in the sixth year of Xuanhe, the emperor was watching the lanterns in the imperial tower. Suddenly, among the thousands of people below, a man jumped out, dressed in cloth, like a boy in a monk or temple. He pointed his finger in front of the curtain and said, "What god do you have that you dare to destroy?" I teach you. The retribution is about to come. If I am not afraid of you, how can you harm the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?" When everyone heard this, they were stunned and frightened, and they said: "How can I run away? What are you saying? I am telling you this so that you can understand, but what can I teach you? Listen, you have troubled me, and I have no words to say." Then I handed him over, fired the gun, and said nothing. Painful. Shang Yi was so angry that he summoned a Taoist priest named Song Chongmiao, who was regarded as a Master of the Song Dynasty. The memorial said: "The evil ghost I am curing is a person I cannot recognize." Because he also cut off his tendons and used a knife to kill him, his flesh and blood were in disarray. At the end of the day, I don't know who I am, and I will be sentenced to death in prison. Alas! There are real people in the Futu clan. ("Tiewei Shan Cong Tan") This is a true story, mentioned in many notes. The reason why it is said to be strange is because Song Huizong, who claimed to be Taojun, was so cruel to the dead! "The monk was plundered and handed over, and then burned with a cannon, without saying a word and showing no signs of pain." This shows that the monk is dead, and it is impossible for a normal person to remain silent. So why did Song Huizong not let go of the monk's body? The usual understanding is that there was a sectarian dispute, and Huizong believed in Taoism but despised Buddhism. In fact, there should be a deeper interpretation, that is, his fear of the golden people who believe in Buddhism has penetrated deeply into his heart. The monk's words, "Retribution is coming," went straight to the depths of his heart and touched the most sensitive nerves. He probably scared his courage out of his wits, so he took extreme measures to retaliate and vent. The most strange things happened in the seventh year of Xuanhe. First, the forbidden rumors came out. In a deep place, there is a water palace, which cannot be reached by luck. One day, it was reported that lotus flowers were in full bloom in the pond, which was very unusual for the year. Dozens of people from Youling (Huizong's mausoleum, here referring to himself) brought his concubines, eunuchs, and officials to watch. When he arrived, there was a woman who bowed her head in silence as if she was asleep. Shangyun said: "I must have been here first, but it was too early and I couldn't sleep." He told the left and right not to be afraid. I saw that his hair was as fine as clouds, and his neck was as bright as jade. He ignored the call and was surprised. When he touched it with the jade piece he held, he stood up in astonishment. Looking back, I saw a man with a beard and beard like thorns, a face more than a foot long, and eyes like lightning, which was extremely terrifying. Everyone who followed was frightened by Yi Yi, and the superiors were also at a loss. He disappeared while patrolling, so he hurriedly ordered him to return to his chariot, but soon the capital was lost ("Yuzhao Xinzhi"). As incredible as a dream. Look at how beautiful this woman is, with "hair as fine as clouds and a bare neck as bright as jade." She suddenly transforms into a rough and formidable foreign man, almost a monster. This matter can also be explained by psychological reasons. You must know that at this time, the Jin's cavalry had already appeared in the north of the Yellow River, and the city of Bianjing was filled with rumblings, three surprises a day, and even the slightest strange things would be exaggerated infinitely. First of all, the lotus bloomed out of season, which is not weird. The beautiful sleeping woman was probably an ordinary palace maid. When she saw the emperor coming, she probably quickly escaped. Everyone was afraid and didn't see clearly. Secondly, the man with a "face that was more than a foot long and eyes as bright as lightning" was probably a donkey-faced eunuch in Huizong's entourage. Huizong himself said "don't be afraid", but in fact he was more frightened than anyone else, which led to " The variation of visual appearance of "Looking Back". It can also be understood as the huge psychological gap between the Song people and the Jurchens at that time. This year Tongguan regained Yanjing and other places, and the Song people were still grateful to the Jurchens for destroying the Liao Dynasty, so they subconsciously believed that the Jurchens were "beautiful"; when the Jin soldiers came to the fore, they showed their ferocious appearance, and the beautiful women turned into fierce men. Therefore, it is "extremely formidable". At the end of this year, another strange thing happened. It was said that there was a fish seller in Chuzhou named Sun. He was well aware of human disasters and would always call Sun to sell fish. The Emperor (the title given to Huizong after he abdicated and fled south to the capital) heard about it and announced it to the capital, where he kept it in the Baolu Palace Taoist Courtyard. One day I carried a steamed cake and sat in a small hall. The sun was high, and he had knelt down for a long time. He was getting tired of it. When Sun saw it, he took out steamed cakes from his arms and said, "You can have some snacks." Although he was surprised, he refused to accept it. Sun Yun said, "Then this happened as well." It's hard to eat." Mo understood what he said, and next year he will go on a desert trip ("Chicken Ribs"). Zhao Yan thought that Zhuang Chuo was a well-versed in history and would not make up random things. Looking at it today, what the fishmonger surnamed Sun said and did was not necessarily brilliant. At best, he was just a second-rate commentator who was good at analyzing current affairs, because he only analyzed that the Northern Song Dynasty would definitely be replaced by the Jin Dynasty, and did not predict the Second World War. The Northern Song Dynasty perished. And everyone knows that once the country dies, everyone will become a slave of the country, and it is normal to have "hard food". But in the minds of people at that time, the man named Sun was already very remarkable. The strange thing was that when he went to meet the emperor, he carried steamed buns instead of fish in his arms. The starting point may be to use steamed buns to talk things out and do some admonition work. Steamed buns are a food for the common people to satisfy their hunger, while fish are a luxurious food for the nobles to enjoy. This is obviously telling Song Huizong: If you want to eat fish, you must first let the people eat. At this time, it may not be too late to make efforts.
Zhuang Chuo's comment that "there is no time to realize his words" goes to the root. The reason why Sun Maiyu's prophecy came true was largely due to the unconscious fulfillment of Song Huizong and his son. In the seventh year of Xuanhe, there were many strange things that happened. Due to the limited space of this article, I cannot list and analyze them one by one. I just want to make it clear that being weird doesn’t mean it’s unreliable. Everything is possible, and everything “does happen anyway.” As literary critic Yin Qian said: "No one knows where it is if it is invisible and intangible, but no one says it does not exist. Human evolution cannot get rid of the mind, but the theory of evolution cannot explain the mind. This weird thing.
"The mind is weird. Can you say that your mind is unreliable? (Zhao Yan)