Death of Emperor Huizong of Song at Wuguocheng in Jin

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1. 1130Wuguocheng · HeilongjiangTo prevent contact between the two emperors and the Southern Song, the Jin moved them after several years of transfers to Wuguocheng on the Huligai Circuit in the ninth month of 1130. On arrival only about a hundred men and women accompanied them; almost cut off from the outside world, their long captivity began.
2. 1131–1134Wuguocheng · HeilongjiangDuring confinement at Wuguocheng, Huizong remained devoted to poetry and was moved reading the Tang biography of Li Bi. He sent the official Cao Xun secretly back to the Southern Song with his padded vest and the message "Come quickly and rescue your parents," weeping as he urged him not to forget the suffering of the northward journey. Yet Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou, for political reasons, did not actively rescue him.
3. 1135Wuguocheng · HeilongjiangIn the thirteenth year of Tianhui (Southern Song Shaoxing five), Huizong died of illness at Wuguocheng after years of mental torment and harsh exile, aged 54. The Jin posthumously titled him Prince of Tianshuang and he was buried at Guangning, Henan. Nine years later Emperor Qinzong was still imprisoned at Wuguocheng, dying only in the twenty-sixth year of Shaoxing.