Northern Song: Starting as Emperor Renzong's Son

Emperor Renzong of Song could be called a benevolent ruler, but he was far from being a wise one. He was terrible at martial arts, and the practice of buying peace with money was started by him and his father, which led to the entire country losing its fighting spirit from top to bottom. Li Shimin spent money to buy peace, but he would destroy you in a few years.

Should I really marry Gao Taotao? Gao Taotao was not only jealous and strong-willed, but she also interfered in politics, abolishing Wang Anshi's New Policies and supporting Sima Guang in ceding four prefectures near Western Xia. She also played a part in the endless factional struggles of the Northern Song Dynasty. Author, please don't marry her!

The pace of the little kid part should be faster, otherwise the reader won't feel immersed in it.

The Song Dynasty could have been saved before the end of the Southern Song Dynasty! The key was that it had money and people, but I don't know why it just couldn't be saved.

The kid's writing is quite interesting, but there's not enough of it.

To be honest, in the history books of the Northern Song Dynasty, when writing about the reigns of Emperor Renzong and Emperor Shenzong, Han Qi is always an unavoidable topic. He served as the advisor to two emperors and the chancellor to three emperors, demonstrating extremely outstanding political talent. I saw comments in the comment section about Han Qi's military affairs.

You want to be Emperor Taizong of Tang, but we don't want to be Wei Zheng. We'd better bribe the palace maids and poison you while you're still young, so you don't cause any trouble. What if the military forces rise again? Zhao Zhen's son died of old age, and one more of you won't make a difference.

When the Jurchen people of the Jin Dynasty first rose up and established their state, they numbered only 2,500. These strong men, who had spent years fighting wild beasts in the primeval jungles of Northeast Asia and were capable of personally wrestling bears and tigers, quickly assembled a heavy cavalry legion after luckily seizing the Liao Dynasty's arsenal, which had been accumulated over a…

The claim that peasant uprisings occurred during the Song Dynasty is largely a myth. This is because the era is relatively recent, there are more historical records available, and most of these uprisings were merely minor disturbances involving large groups of people, unlike the Yellow Turban Rebellion or the rebellion of Li Zicheng. In terms of sheer numbers, there were hundreds of uprisings during the later Hongwu era alone, though none were particularly severe.

The Northern Song Dynasty fell after the Jin Dynasty besieged Bianjing (Kaifeng) twice. During the second siege, Emperor Huizong and others surrendered, marking the end of the Northern Song. Frankly, the fall of the Northern Song is quite ridiculous. The soldiers and civilians fought desperately, repelling the Jin army, yet the emperor led the surrender.