How did Song Taizu die?

Song Taizu asked his brother to drink, and after drinking, he died strangely.

On the evening of October 19th, the 9th year of Kaibao (976), Zhao Kuangyin called his brother Zhao Guangyi to drink and stayed in the palace. The next morning, Zhao Kuangyin died suddenly at the age of 50. Emperor Wensheng Shende of Wu Ying City, posthumous title, with the temple name Taizu.

In the second year of Taiping Xingguo (977), he was buried in Yongchang Mausoleum (now Gongyi, Zhengzhou, Henan) on April 25th. [26]? In the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008), he was honored as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Regarding the death of Zhao Kuangyin, there is a popular saying in Hunan's Records of Shan Ye that Zhao Kuangyin was killed by Zhao Guangyi who attempted to usurp the throne.

In order to prove the rationality of his accession to the throne, Zhao Guangyi put forward an unprecedented theory of "Golden Chamber Alliance", saying that Zhao Kuangyin promised his mother Du Taihou before his death that he would pass the throne to Guangyi in the future.

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Zhao Kuangyin (March 2, 9271-June165438+1October14,976) was born in Jiamaying, Luoyang (now Dongguan, Chanhe District, Luoyang City, Henan Province).

Military strategist and martial artist from the Five Dynasties to the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty (960-976 February 4, 165438+ 10/4). The second son of Zhao (Song Xuanzu), the garrison commander of the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, was Du (Queen Zhao Xian).

During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, according to Prime Minister Zhao Pu's strategy of "South first, then North, first easy and then difficult", he devoted himself to unifying the whole country, and successively eliminated the southern separatist regimes such as Jingnan, Wuping, Houshu, Nanhan and Nantang, and completed the unification of most parts of the country.

In the ninth year of Kaibao (976), Zhao Kuangyin died at the age of 50. In the 16th year of his reign, posthumous title was buried in Yongchang Mausoleum. In the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008), Jia Ji set out to establish a great hero, a great warrior, a literary god, a virtuous saint and a filial piety. There is a poem "Forever Early Day" handed down from generation to generation.

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