If the empire is a dream, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi is the most domineering dreamer, and Xiao Zhouhou is the first and last crack in his dream.
In 976 AD, on the night of "the sound of axes and candle shadows", Zhao Kuangyin died mysteriously, and his younger brother Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne. Overnight, he changed from a prince to an official, and from an admirer to a conqueror - he took possession of the little Zhou Empress who was famous in Jiangnan and had already lost her country.
From then on, his life, like this empire, moved forward in contradiction between extreme elegance and deep humiliation. He wanted to surpass his brother's achievements, but he was hit by two arrows in the battle of Gaoliang River and ran for his life in a donkey cart, laying the root of the "Liaophobia" in the Song Dynasty.
And after Xiao Zhou, this peerless beauty who witnessed the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, her hatred and sorrow, like her dazzling smile when she was forced to attend the palace banquet, became a sharp sword hanging in Taizong's heart and the fate of the entire Northern Song Dynasty.
We will follow this man and woman, who are full of love and hate entanglements, through:
· The ambition and failure of the Qingli New Deal, see how Fan Zhongyan "worried about the world's worries first";
· The thunder and tear of Wang Anshi's reform, and feel the ten years when Sima Guang and Wang Anshi "fell in love and killed each other";
· The ultimate art of Song Huizong and the extreme humiliation of the Jingkang Incident, see how the landscapes, flowers and birds were trampled to pieces by iron hoofs;
· In the end, follow Wen Tianxiang's back and listen to the tragic and final sound of a dynasty in the stormy waves of Yashan Mountain.
This is not a serious history book, but a conversation spanning thousands of years. Here is the grand narrative of the country, the country, and the country, as well as the human side of the emperors and generals. Let us
