Why did the Southern Song regime prefer to throw itself into the sea rather than go to Taiwan Province Province to establish a new regime?

There are many reasons why the Southern Song regime would rather go to sea than go to Taiwan Province Province to establish a new regime. Taiwan Province Province, for example, was just a wild land before its development, and could not support so many soldiers and civilians in the Southern Song Dynasty. In addition, in the eyes of scholars in the Southern Song Dynasty, Taiwan Province Province lived in a remote place and has been a place of exile since ancient times. For many literati, this is a more terrible thing than death, so those talents of the Southern Song regime chose to throw themselves into the sea.

When it comes to the demise of the Southern Song regime, we have to mention the battle that decided the life and death of the Southern Song Dynasty. This is also the last hope of the Southern Song Dynasty imperial court. But the reality is cruel. In the end, Wen Tianxiang, one of the three outstanding men in the late Song Dynasty, was captured, Lu Xiufu committed suicide by jumping into the sea with the emperor Zhao Min, who was only a few years old, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea.

As a rare naval battle in the ancient history of China, the Yashan naval battle was also the last large-scale naval battle between Mongolia in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the face of the pressing Yuan Army, the Southern Song army that fled to Yashan was surrounded by the Yuan Army on three sides before it was ready to fight. At this time, Zhang Shijie, one of the three outstanding men at the end of the Song Dynasty and the last teacher of hope in the Southern Song Dynasty, worried that the troops would easily shake their morale if they stayed at sea for a long time, and decided to fight to the death with the coming Yuan Army. Directly burned the emperor's temporary residence, connected the remaining more than 1000 large ships together, and forced the Yuan army to take the lead in attacking by holding its ground.

The Yuan Army, opposite Zhang Shijie, was menacing and stayed in Song Jun near the cliff mountain. At this time, it was in a state of extreme drowsiness. Even if you have the determination to fight to the death, it is hard to resist. In the end, he was defeated and fled. Many Song Jun military commanders chose to surrender, which was also a great blow to the precarious Southern Song Dynasty.

Because the little emperor Zhao Min's boat was among these Song Jun, it was impossible to break through. The tide was gone, and Lu Xiufu, as the left prime minister, knew that there was no way out and chose to throw himself into the sea with the little emperor who was only eight years old at that time. When the civil and military officials and ordinary soldiers who followed the emperor saw such a scene, they suddenly lost their last hope, and most people chose to jump into the sea to follow.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea, and hundreds of thousands of bodies appeared on the sea at one time. The scene looks very tragic, which may be the last dignity of the Southern Song Dynasty. After learning the news, Yang Guifei also chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea. Zhang Shijie, who was beside her, chose to bury her at the seaside, and then continued her great cause of resisting Yuan. Unfortunately, she was drowned in a heavy wind and rain.

It is said that the local people found Lu Xiufu's body and buried it the day after the naval battle in Yamen. As for the body of the little emperor Zhao Min, it may have been buried in Shenzhen, Guangdong, but this is just a guess. But in any case, it was a helpless choice for the Southern Song regime to choose to go to sea. In that case, even if we can run to Taiwan Province Province, it is still difficult to resist the attack of the Yuan Army. What's more, it is better to go to Taiwan Province Province, a wild place in everyone's eyes, and die directly, so as not to lead a more bleak life.