Dynasties of ChinaSouthern SongSouthern Song lineage
Jingyan · Reign 1276—1278
The young emperor who was supported in Fuzhou after the fall of Lin'an drifted to the southeast coast under the pursuit of the Yuan army and died of illness in Suizhou.
Zhao Shi is the eldest son of Duzong's concubine. His mother is Yang Shufei, who is named King Yi. He is the half-brother of Emperor Gong. In 1276, when the Yuan army approached Lin'an, he and his brother Guang Wang Zhao Bing fled south from the city under the escort of Yang Liangjie and others, passing through Wenzhou to Fuzhou. After Lin'an surrendered, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, and Chen Yizhong supported him in Fuzhou in May of that year and replaced him with Jingyan. In the same year, the Yuan army invaded Fujian in winter, and he was forced to float to the sea by boat. Pu Shougeng of Quanzhou refused to accept him and demoted him to the Yuan Dynasty. The exiled court had to go south along the coast and wandered along the coasts of Chaozhou, Huizhou and Guangzhou. At the end of 1277, he was frightened by a hurricane and fell into the water in Jing'ao. He died of illness in Tuizhou in April of the following year.
PoliticsFuzhou ascended the throne
On the first day of May, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie and others supported Zhao Shi to ascend the throne in Fuzhou, changed the Yuan Dynasty to Jingyan, honored his biological mother Yang Shufei as the empress dowager and listened to the government, and made Chen Yizhong the left prime minister, calling on all parts of the southeast to continue to fight against the Yuan Dynasty.
PoliticsQuanzhou refuses to accept
In the winter, the Yuan army invaded Fujian, and the exiled imperial court moved to Quanzhou. Pu Shougeng, who was in charge of overseas trade, turned against the Song court because his ships and property were expropriated by Zhang Shijie. He closed the city and demoted the Yuan Dynasty, and killed the Song Dynasty clan members in the city.
SocietyWandering in the Guangdong Sea
The exiled imperial court headed south along the coast, once stationed in Guanfuchang, Guangzhou (today's Kowloon area of Hong Kong), and then moved to Xiushan and Jing'ao. At the end of the year, there was a hurricane in Tseng O. Duanzong fell into the water and was frightened, and has been seriously ill ever since.
Lasting legacyThere is now Song Wong Terrace Park in Kowloon City, Hong Kong. The "Song King Terrace" giant stone in the park is said to be inscribed to commemorate the Song Emperor's stay there. The MTR also has Song Wong Terrace station.
PoliticsDied of illness
In March, he fled to Guizhou (one said it was Naozhou Island in present-day Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and one said it was present-day Lantau Island in Hong Kong). He died of illness in April. The officials wanted to disperse for a while, but Lu Xiufu supported his younger brother Zhao Bing to succeed him on the grounds that Duzong still had a son.
A northerner, he surrendered to the Song Dynasty and served under Lu Wende. When the Yuan army went south, he led troops to serve the king, refused to surrender after the fall of Lin'an, and escorted Duanzong and Di Bing to fight in Fujian and Guangdong. He was the military pillar of the exiled court.
Emperor Gong was the right prime minister at that time, and he was undecided between war and war. Fuzhou supported Duanzong and later served as Prime Minister Zuo. Later, he went to sea in the name of liaising with Champa and never returned.
His ancestors were Muslims who came to China for business. They lived in Quanzhou for a long time. They were in charge of overseas trade for a long time and owned a large number of ships. In 1276, he was demoted to the Yuan Dynasty, provided ships for the Yuan army, and reached a high position in the Yuan dynasty.