Chapter 310: Emperor Tianzuo
Qin Shi Huang came to this life, he assumed the name Jin Wuxuan, was the general of the Jin State, and later Xu Fu became Yue Fei's rival, Jin Wuxuan He followed Jin Taizu Wanyan Agu to fight against Liao.
In the anti-Liao war, Wanyan Xiyin learned that Emperor Tianzuo of Liao was operating in the area of Yuanyang Luo, so Wanyan Zongwang led the Jin Wuzuo division of troops to attack, in the battle, Jin Wuzhuo's bow and arrow were exhausted, so he snatched the weapons of the Liao soldiers, killed eight soldiers, and captured five people alive, and learned that the Tianzuo Emperor was hunting in Yuanyang Luo. After this battle, Jin Wushu became famous.
Fan Zhongxiong of the Song Dynasty once said: "Emperor Liao Tianzuo refused to admonish and pretend, was poor and extravagant, was entrenched in the strategy, was greedy for credit, Jigang was galloping, and people were angry, so the Jin people took advantage of their disadvantages to attack him." The meaning of this passage is that the various bad deeds of Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Dynasty after ascending the throne led to the ruin of the country and the death of the family.
The Tianzuo Emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Yanxi, was the grandson of Yelu Hongji and the last emperor of the Liao Dynasty, who reigned for a total of twenty-five years before being captured and killed by the Jin. Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi's parents died in his early years, but fortunately he was blessed by Yelu Hongji and was later established as the heir to the throne.
After the death of Liao Daozong, Yelu Yanxi was enthroned. But this emperor seems to have no interest in politics, favoring traitorous ministers, absurd and extravagant, the Liao people are originally a country on horseback, so they like to hunt on horseback, and this Tianzuo Emperor is even more fond of it. Almost every day of his time is spent in enjoyment, every time Emperor Tianzuo hunts, he always follows a large number of entourage, galloping on horseback on the grassland, hunting at will, and Emperor Tianzuo likes this feeling.
From Fan Zhongxiong's account, the demise of the Liao State can be attributed to two reasons, one is the corruption of the rulers, and the other is the attack of the Jin. For the Liao State, the ancestors laid down the iron bucket-like country, and the Jurchen tribe, the predecessor of Jin, was much weaker, so the corruption of the ruler was the main reason.
Emperor Tianzuo's hunting is only one aspect of his greed for enjoyment, which is used to summarize his hedonistic life, just imagine, if he is diligent in court politics, he will never give Jin people such a chance.
Emperor Tianzuo had six daughters, namely Yelu Guyu, Yelu Yuliyan, Yelu Liyan, Yelu Da Oeye, Yelu Ci Oye, and a name unknown, these six princesses were finally captured after the Jin State broke through the Liao State, which is also the so-called Tianzuo Emperor threw six daughters.
After Emperor Tianzuo ascended the throne, he did not think about the government and blindly indulged, which led to the abandonment of the government and government, the intensification of internal contradictions, and the power of various tribes ready to move. Emperor Tianzuo's actions led to the loss of the people's hearts, and all ethnic groups had a heart of resistance, which gave the Jurchen people an opportunity to take advantage of, Wanyan Aguta led a large army to invade, broke through the capital of Liao, and occupied many cities in Liao, Emperor Tianzuo left the capital and began to flee in all directions, leaving behind the cities of Liao, leaving behind the people of Liao, and also leaving behind his own close relatives.
Emperor Tianzuo only gave a daughter the title of princess and died in the country, this princess was born to Concubine Wen, named Yelu Yu Liyan. Yelu Yu Liyan was named the princess of Shu by Emperor Tianzuo, she was the last princess of the Liao Dynasty to be crowned, she and the other five sisters were not titled, the Liao Kingdom completely disappeared in the hands of their father, and withdrew from the stage of history, and they were also captured by the Jin army when they were destroyed as the descendants of Emperor Tianzuo.
Born in the emperor's family, he can no longer control his own fate, not to mention the emperor's family who was born in the emperor's family, as a captive, life will probably not be easy, not to mention that the Jin people hate the Liao people, and they must not treat them favorably. lived the kind of life of people for swords and I for fish and meat, and most of them died at a young age.
Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yelu Yanxi, the last emperor of the Liao Dynasty, was captured by Jin Bing after reigning for twenty-five years, and died at the age of fifty-four, so why did Tianzuo Emperor call Tianzuo?
Why is it called Tianzuo? What does Tianzuo mean? Zuo has several meanings, good fortune and imperial throne. This should be the meaning of good luck, Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi's imperial road is not so smooth sailing, so after becoming the emperor, he must hope for good luck, so it is reasonable to use the title of Tianzuo.
Yelu Yanxi's parents died when he was a child, although he was born in the emperor's family, but he still had a bad fate, but fortunately he was protected by Yelu Hongji of Liaodao Sect, and he grew up smoothly. It wasn't until the fifth year of Taikang that Yelu Yanxi encountered the first catastrophe in his life, Yelu Yixin wanted to take advantage of Yelu Hongji's hunting opportunity to murder Yelu Yanxi, but fortunately, the Xuanhui of the Northern Court at that time rescued Xiao Wuna and avoided this assassination.
After Yelu Hongji sent people to Yelu Yanxi to teach carefully, and established himself as the heir to the throne, Liao Daozong died, Yelu Yanxi was enthroned by the edict, and the ministers all respected him as Emperor Tianzuo. Yelu Yanxi finally ascended the throne as the emperor, and the word Tianzuo just fits, which is one of the reasons why he is called Tianzuo.
Tianzuo is the honorific name of Liao Yelu Yanxi, which is neither a temple name nor a nickname. After the death of Liao Daozong, before his death, Yelu Yanxi was appointed as the heir, and Yelu Yanxi was enthroned as emperor before Yelu Hongji's coffin, and Emperor Tianzuo was only Yelu Yanxi's honorific title. This faint gentleman dug his own grave and ended up miserable, which was also self-inflicted.
Emperor Tianzuo and Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty were both emperors, one was the last emperor of the Liao Dynasty, the other was the last emperor of the Song Dynasty, and the two emperors of the dead country, what kind of connection did they have?
First of all, Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi was the son of Liao Shunzong, after the death of Liao Daozong, Yelu Yanxi succeeded to the throne by the edict, reigned for 25 years, and finally the country was ruined, and was captured by the Jin army and killed. Song Huizong Zhao Ji is the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Zhezong did not have a prince before his death, and Zhao Ji, who was the emperor's younger brother, was established as the new monarch, Song Huizong reigned for twenty-six years, and was also captured by the Jin soldiers after the death of the country, tortured and died, at the age of fifty-four, Song Huizong and Emperor Tianzuo were strikingly similar in both experience and cause of death.
After Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi ascended the throne, he favored traitorous ministers, but he only knew how to blindly hunt, be arrogant and lascivious, and ignore state affairs, and the struggle between clans within the imperial court became more and more intense, and the people's uprisings also rose one after another, and the society was in turmoil. Speaking of the grievances between Emperor Tianzuo and the Jin State, we must start with the Jurchen tribe, the predecessor of the Jin State, at that time, the Liao State was strong, the Jurchen tribe was weak, and Wanyan Aguda was humiliated by Emperor Tianzuo when he worshipped the Great Liao, which also laid the groundwork for being destroyed by Jin later.
During the reign of Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, he pursued a luxurious life excessively, built garden palaces on a large scale, believed in Taoism, appointed corrupt officials and eunuchs, and the people were not able to make a living, and peasant uprisings often occurred in China. Then he made an alliance with Jin Ding, attacked the Liao State, passed the throne and his son Zhao Huan, and later the Jin army went south to attack the Song Dynasty, Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were captured by the Jin State, which is the famous Jingkang Change in history, and later Song Huizong was tortured and died in the city of the Five Kingdoms, at the age of fifty-four.
Emperor Tianzuo and Song Huizong should have met after being captured by the Jin army, the fate of the two fallen kings is so similar, if it weren't for the greed for pleasure and the abandonment of the government, I'm afraid the end would not be like this.
Wanyan Agu has a straightforward personality, and has long been dissatisfied with the Liao Dynasty nobles bullying the Jurchen people. After he succeeded as the leader of the Yan tribe, he built castles, built weapons, trained men and horses, gradually unified the Jurchen tribes, and actively prepared to oppose Liao. Wanyan Aguta summoned the surrounding Jurchen tribes and captured Ningjiang Prefecture of Liao in one fell swoop with 2,500 soldiers and horses.
Soon the Jurchens broke the Liao army in Chuhedian, and Emperor Tianzuo was shocked and angry, and personally led an army of 700,000 to conquer in person. There were only 20,000 soldiers at that time, but the Jurchens were less than 10,000, and they were invincible. Emperor Liao Tianzuo fled overnight to save his life.
The remnants of the defeated army who had fled from the battlefield in Ningjiang Prefecture plundered everywhere, and the imperial court refused to punish them for fear of getting together. At that time, there was a saying in the army that if you fight, you will die without success, and if you retreat, you will live without guilt. The warriors were greedy for life and afraid of death, and the military attaché saw that the emperor was incompetent, so he became apostated.
Soon the Liao army eunuch Yelu Zhangnu rebelled in Shangjing, although the rebellion was quickly put down, but the tide of rebellion and division became stronger and stronger within the Liao Dynasty, and soon the Bohai State also rebelled. For a while, the Liao Dynasty was in a difficult situation both internally and externally.
When the great Liao monarchs and ministers wantonly destroyed the inheritance left by their ancestors little by little, the groups oppressed and enslaved by them launched the war of exterminating Liao in different ways. The growing strength and ambition of Aguta, coupled with the lingering complex of the Northern Song Dynasty for the sixteen states of Youyun, prompted them to never give up the use of troops against the Liao, and the fate of the Liao Dynasty's demise seemed to be inevitable.
In order to satisfy their own arrogant and lascivious life, the Liao rulers imposed heavy political burdens on the people, rewarded them with obscene punishments and miserliness, and exploited the broad masses of the people day by day, causing the people to suffer misery, and the grassroots people were full of complaints, and the rebellion was widely spread. In order to ensure tax revenue and prevent the displaced people from making trouble, the government adopted more stringent preventive and crackdown measures, and at the same time apportioned the taxes of the fugitive peasants to the peasants who did not flee, which further aggravated the bankruptcy of the peasants and the exile on a larger scale.
Gao Yongchang, a Bohai man, killed Xiao Baoxian, who was left behind in Tokyo, proclaimed himself the Emperor of the Great Bohai Sea, and unveiled the uprising.
At the same time, the Jurchen tribe, who were unwilling to endure persecution, under the leadership of Aguta, greatly advanced the cause of anti-Liao statehood. At this time, most of the Liao Dynasty's military strength was lost, and the northern people, who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Liao Dynasty's aristocracy, actively cooperated and launched a more extensive and large-scale uprising.
At this time, the Northern Song Dynasty also took advantage of the decline of the Liao State to actively regain the lost territory, and someone proposed to Song Huizong that the Liao Dynasty was about to perish, and the opportunity to recover the lost land of Yanyun in the north should not be lost. Song Hui sect sent people from Shandong to cross the sea, to the Jin Dynasty to meet Aguta, expressed willingness to attack the Liao Dynasty, the two sides agreed to destroy the Liao Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty to recover the Later Jin Dynasty ceded to the Liao Dynasty Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures lost land, the Northern Song Dynasty to the Liao Dynasty every year to the silver, silk, all transferred to the Jin Dynasty, history called this matter the sea alliance.
After the defeat of the Liao army, Emperor Tianzuo had to flee into Jiashan, and on the way to the defeat and escape, Emperor Tianzuo still did not change his bad habits in the past, and still often took his entourage to hunt and drink. Emperor Tianzuo's concubine Xiao Sese saw that the state affairs were at the head, but the emperor was carefree, and the loyal ministers and good generals were widely reprimanded, so she made a poem sarcastically: "The prime minister came to the court and the sword sounded, and the thousand palaces were silent." What is the extent of cultivating external troubles, and the punishment of loyal ministers is unknown. Relatives live side by side, and private minions are hidden. Pity the emperor of Qin in the past, and still look forward to peace in the palace. ”
After reading this poem, Emperor Tianzuo thought that Concubine Wen was sarcastic about her weakness and incompetence, and was at the mercy of her powerful ministers, and in anger, he ordered Concubine Wen to be killed.
The Jin army started its army for less than ten years, and its momentum was like a bamboo, and it won successive battles, successively capturing the Liao State Shangjing Linhuang Mansion, Zhongjing Dading Mansion, Xijing Datong Mansion, and Nanjing Xijin Mansion. Although Wanyan Agu died of illness, the momentum of Jin's annihilation of Liao did not weaken in the slightest, and the enthroned Jin Taizong united with Western Xia to pursue Emperor Tianzuo.
Emperor Tianzuo did not listen to the dissuasion of the minister Yelu Dashi and others, and led the remnants of the army out of Jiashan and south to Wuzhou, trying to recover Shanxi Prefecture, but was defeated by the Jin army, and many of his subordinates surrendered to the Jin army. Emperor Tianzuo crossed the desert through the Tiande military city and fled westward, cutting off food and water on the way, so he could only swallow ice and snow to quench his hunger and thirst.
He fled to the east of Yingzhou Xincheng, where he was caught up and captured by the Jin soldiers. Jin Taizong demoted him to the title of King of the Sea, and soon changed his title to King Yu, and not long after, the Jin killed him again, and drove the horses to trample his body into a mess of flesh.