Sky Curtain: The Overlord Charges into Battle, Shocking Emperors of All Dynasties

The emperors, officials, scholars, and common people of the Song Dynasty all became interested in this matter.

Why is it that a barbarian tribe from beyond the borders, who once invaded the Song Dynasty, could have their descendants bear the surname Zhao?

Even though they knew that later generations would still make fun of them,

You're just a barbarian, how dare you bear the surname Zhao?

"Wanyan Liang's actions...it seems that it's actually possible that he was surnamed Zhao."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked puzzled, recalling the historical materials he had read about Wanyan Liang. It seemed that something was indeed amiss.

His relationship with Zhao Gou was truly peculiar, making one wonder...

[Wanyan Liang was simply amazing, a combination of a wise ruler and a tyrant.]

Follow-up comment: Wanyan Liang's measures in the early stages were quite wise, but later he became far too brutal!

Follow-up comment: This guy was quite a character; he openly and brazenly killed the Empress Dowager.

Follow-up comment: Although she wasn't his biological mother, she was still considered his legal mother.

Follow-up comment: Wanyan Liang: Guangxu, did you see that? Did you learn it?

What am I supposed to learn?!

Emperor Guangxu seemed a bit disoriented. Did later generations think he was ignorant of history?

What was Wanyan Liang's final fate?

And how is he going to do it?

Just thinking about the cold, indifferent figure behind him every time he went to court, the figure's eyes piercing his back like knives, sent chills down his spine.

He had no soldiers, no army.

They couldn't just hide a knife in the fish's belly and deliver a direct attack on Empress Dowager Cixi, like a white rainbow piercing the sun.

Let this old woman see the emperors of the Qing Dynasty; they are all tough and unyielding, true men!

With such lofty ambitions rising in his mind, Emperor Guangxu felt his blood rush to his head.

But this passion came quickly and went quickly too!

Emperor Guangxu was not a person with a firm will or perseverance.

Let's forget about it. There's nothing wrong with it this way.

I am still young, I can still endure!

Let's outlive this old woman!

"Barbarians are barbarians!!!"

"He even dared to lay a hand on his own mother! Does he have no sense of ethics or respect at all?!"

"And yet Tianmu still calls him a wise ruler? Where is the wisdom in that?"

Countless people cursed Wanyan Liang's behavior, saying, "How can such behavior be allowed?"

In any other dynasty in the Central Plains, the ministers would have overthrown this emperor long ago; they could have drowned him in their spittle!

Killing the Empress Dowager was truly a trivial matter in Wanyan Liang's illustrious life!

Follow-up comment: That's true. So what if I kill an empress dowager? Watch me kill the emperor first, then the imperial family, and then the ministers.

Follow-up comment: Wanyan Liang: I'll kill! kill! kill! kill! kill!

Who would have thought that Wanyan Liang, because he was too handsome, received a gift from Emperor Xizong's empress on his birthday? Emperor Xizong became extremely jealous, suspecting that he was being cuckolded, and targeted Wanyan Liang. Unable to bear it, Wanyan Liang simply rebelled, killed Emperor Xizong, and became emperor himself.

Follow-up comment: Is being too handsome a crime?

Follow-up comment: Haha, as a descendant of Emperor Taizu, Wanyan Liang wiped out the entire imperial clan of Emperor Taizong.

Follow-up comment: They even killed members of the Taizu lineage, they killed everyone!!!

Follow-up comment: Wanyan Liang: Great Song Dynasty, I have avenged you!

[Zhao Gou may have killed fewer Jurchens than Wanyan Liang alone.]

Follow-up comment: I knew it, these two must have been switched at birth.

Follow-up comment: The issue of both sides sending spies to each other

Follow-up comment: I've already become emperor, when will I be able to close the net?

[The people Wanyan Liang killed were all from the lineage of Emperor Taizong, and most of Emperor Taizong's lineage were direct participants in the Jingkang Incident. How can this not be considered revenge for the Song Dynasty?]

Follow-up comment: The Southern Song Dynasty actually avenged the Jin Dynasty with the help of the Mongols.

Follow-up comment: Jin Dynasty: Southern Song, you don't need to lift a finger, I'll do it myself this time!

Follow-up comment: I still wear the Hu clothing, but my heart remains that of the Southern Song Dynasty!

"So murderous! Wanyan Liang is so murderous!!"

"What tyrant? He's clearly a wise ruler!"

During the Song Dynasty, taxi drivers and ordinary people praised them loudly.

Who says Wanyan Liang was cruel? As long as he killed the Jurchens, he was a wise ruler!

"I approve of the 'Zhao' in Zhao Liang's name!!"

Zhao Kuangyin spoke without hesitation and quite readily.

It's just bestowing a surname upon Wanyan Gou; such things aren't uncommon.

During the Tang Dynasty, many people of different ethnicities eventually acquired the imperial surname of the Tang Dynasty.

Take Li Keyong, for example. He was originally from the Shatuo tribe. His father was granted the surname Li by Emperor Yizong of Tang and was also included in the imperial clan register.

If Wanyan Liang really wanted to, as the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, he could reluctantly bestow upon him the surname.

After all, Wanyan Liang had done so much for the Song Dynasty, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to bestow a surname upon him.

During the Zhenguan period,

"Kill the entire lineage of Emperor Taizong—where have I heard that phrase before?"

Li Shimin unconsciously raised his eyes, lost in memories.

Li Zhi quietly retreated a few steps, shielding everyone in front of him.

He was deeply impressed by this. The reason why Wu Zetian wasn't purged later was because she had wiped out all of Emperor Taizong's bloodlines except for herself.

And now, her two older brothers are still alive and well.

Given Li Tai's size, if he really wanted to take him down, a single ramming motion would send him flying!

[It's not over yet. Wanyan Liang disregarded the Empress Dowager's objections, even killing her, and insisted on breaking the treaty, launching a southern invasion. Then, tens of thousands of his men were annihilated by Yu Yunwen's 18,000 men.]

Follow-up comment: In the Battle of Caishiji, Wanyan Liang gave the Song Dynasty a big gift!

Follow-up comment: If Yu Yunwen hadn't won at Caishiji, Zhao Gou would have turned into "Zhao the Runner" and gone to sea again.

Follow-up comment: Thanks to this, the Southern Song Dynasty successfully achieved independence after the Northern Expedition and peace negotiations, no longer remaining a vassal state of the Jin Dynasty.

Follow-up comment: The key point is that Yu Yunwen was only ordered to Caishiji to reward the troops and gather the defeated soldiers before using the hastily assembled army to fight this battle against Wanyan Liang.

Follow-up comment: Wanyan Liang: Great Song Dynasty, this is my last ripple. Accept this commander I have discovered for you.

[Wanyan Liang, is that the Wanyan Liang who played Emperor Hailing? I knew his Emperor Card Destiny was really fun when I played Emperor Cheng!]

Follow-up comment: So, he's taking a minister's wife as a concubine? How pathetic!!

Follow-up comment: Wanyan Liang: Guess what will happen to your wives after I kill you?

Follow-up comment: It's okay, I won't kill you, but I'll still rob you!

Follow-up comment: Wanyan Liang also did things like having his ministers send their wives to the palace themselves, and then having them "attend to his orders" outside.

Follow-up comment: The minister's wife? Not enough!! His relatives' wives, his cousins, and his sisters all ended up in his harem, didn't they?

Those who gave me life are unacceptable, those I gave life for life are unacceptable, but anything else is acceptable!

Follow-up comment: This is a very accurate summary. Wanyan Liang was indeed such a cruel and licentious emperor.

Follow-up comment: This sentence was originally from "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" about Emperor Yang of Sui, but it is also very fitting to apply it to Wanyan Liang!

Commentary: Wanyan Liang once said: "I have three ambitions... Regardless of kinship, I want to marry all the most beautiful women in the world."

Despicable!!!

The ancient people who knew about Wanyan Liang spat.

Do they still think this is ancient times, a time when people can freely engage in sexual intercourse?

If you do that, how are you any different from a beast?

Whenever Wanyan Liang spoke of his ambitions, if those four words were removed, people in ancient times would find his ambitions quite reasonable.

Awake, he wields power over the world; drunk, he rests on the lap of a beautiful woman.

Who wouldn't want to do that?

And the ministers of different times, after witnessing Wanyan Liang's actions towards his subjects...

A sense of shared empathy and immense humiliation gripped their hearts.

This is outrageous!