Wan Yan Liang has been smart and studious since he was a child, and his Han culture is very profound, he sings Confucian clothes, can write poetry and literature, and loves to associate with the famous people of the Liao and Song dynasties who stayed in Jindi. Tasting tea and playing chess, talking about the past and the present, becoming a person who has both martial arts and strategies, and has a relaxed expression and a relaxed attitude.

Wanyan Liang is suave by nature, ambitious and talented, able to speak well, invisible, and very able to figure out people's psychology. Jin Xizong was deeply jealous of his talents, fearing that he would be troubled in the future, so he did not dare to use it greatly.

In the third year of Tianjuan (0 years), at the age of eighteen, he took Zongmuzi as the general of Fengguo, and went to the former envoy of the Liang King Wanyan Zongbi (Wushu) army, managed 10,000 people, and moved to the general of hussars.

In the fourth year of the emperor's reign (4 years), General Jialong Huwei stayed in Zhongjing of the Jin Dynasty (located in the area of present-day Beijing) and moved to Guanglu Doctor.

In May of the seventh year of the emperor's reign (7), Jin Xizong summoned Yan Liang to Shangjing, the capital of the Jin State at that time (now in Acheng, Heilongjiang Province), to judge the main matter of the same sect, and Jia Tejin. In November, he worshiped Shangshu Zuocheng, seized power, and installed his confidants in important positions, among which Xiao Yu became the squire of the Ministry of War (Vice Minister of National Defense). When talking to Kim Hee-jong one day in November, he talked about the difficulty of Kim Taejo's business, and Wan Yanliang cried bitterly, and Heejong thought he was very loyal. Later, the promotion accelerated. In June of the second year (8), Bai Pingzhang was in charge. In November, he paid homage to the right prime minister. In the first month of the 9th year, he was marshal of the capital. In March, he worshiped the Taibao and led the three provinces, and was more exquisite, and had close contacts with powerful families, and formed their hearts.

In the ninth year of the emperor's reign (9 years), Jin Xizong was already dissatisfied with Wan Yanliang's sudden expansion of power. In the first month, the Jin Xi sect sent the small bottom of the palace to give Yan Liang's birthday gift with the portrait of Song Sima Guang and other treasures, and the mourning queen Pei Manshi also gave gifts, which caused Jin Xizong to be displeased, and fined Xiao Di Daxingguo a hundred rods to recover his gifts, and Wan Yan Liang was uneasy after knowing it.

In April, Zhang Jun, a bachelor, made unauthorized changes to the edict when he drafted it, and the source was found. Jin Xizong asked who instructed him, and Prime Minister Zuo Wan Yan Zongxian replied that it was Taibao Wan Yan Liang. Jin Xizong was displeased, so he degraded Yan Liang and was demoted to Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan) to lead the Taishangshu Province. When Wan Yanliang passed through Zhongjing, he conspired with Xiao Yu, the squire of the military department there, to make an appointment and left. went to Liangxiang and was recalled by Xizong. Wan Yan Liang didn't know Xizong's intentions and was very frightened. After returning to Shangjing, it was restored to Pingzhang political affairs. But Wan Yanliang has made up his mind. After "Jin Shi" finished speaking, Yan Liang "is anxious, suspicious, and cruel." ”

When Jin Xizong ascended the throne as the grandson of Jin Taejo, Wan Yan Liang thought that he was the son of Kim Taejo's eldest son, Wan Yan Zonggan, and also the grandson of Jin Taejo, so he coveted the throne.

As early as the seventh year of the emperor's reign (7), Jin Xizong began to lose his temper and kill people indiscriminately, such as killing innocents indiscriminately because of some trivial matters during banquets, which caused dissatisfaction among the courtiers. In July of the eighth year of the emperor's reign (8), he was not careful to serve his duties and was roded. In August of the ninth year of the emperor's reign (9), the political affairs of Zhu Pingzhang were completed. Those who were dissatisfied with Jin Xizong had the idea of abolishing the establishment, and Tang Kuobi, Bingdexian and Dali Qing Wudai (Wan Yan Yan) plotted to abolish Xizong, and Wu Dai introduced Wan Yan Liang. Wan Yan Liang conspired with Tang Kuo to abolish the throne, and asked if Xizong was abolished, who could succeed him? Tang Kuobi and Bingde's original intention was not to finish the face.

Tang Kuo argued that it seemed that the king of the Xuan Dynasty Wanyan Changsheng (Wanyan Yuan) could. Wan Yan Liang asked who was next, and Tang Kuo argued that Wan Yan Ah Leng, the son of King Deng Wan Yan 奭 (shì), could. Wan Yanliang retorted that Ah Leng couldn't do it. Tang Kuo asked rhetorically: "Does the public have the will to be the emperor?" Wan Yanliang said: "This is a last resort, who else can I be!" Soon, Wan Yan Liang and Tang Kuobi conspired day and night, which aroused the suspicion of the guard general Wan Yan Tesi. Tess told the Empress of Mourning Ping, Pei Manji, so Kim Hee-jong learned. Jin Xizong angrily summoned Tang Kuo to argue and cane. Wan Yan Liang is very taboo about Wan Yan Yuan and Wan Yan Alen, and he hates Wan Yan Tesi very much.

It happened that at that time, there was a soldier in Henan who Sun Jin pretended to be the emperor's younger brother and the king of Chacha, and Jin Xizong's younger brother only Wanyan Yuan and Wanyan Chara. Jin Xizong suspected that it was Wan Yan Yuan, and sent Wan Yan Tesi to investigate, but there was no result. Wan Yan Liang took the opportunity to frame him, Jin Xizong thought so, and sent Tang Kuo to argue and Xiao Yu to torture Wan Yan Tesi, Wan Yan Tesi was forced to confess, and Wan Yan Yuan was convicted. In October, after killing Yan Yuan, he was killed together with Wanyan Chazhu, Wanyan Tesi, Wanyan Aleng and Aleng's brother Wanyan Tart. In this way, Kim Hee-jong killed all his own brothers and became even more isolated.

By December of the ninth year of the emperor's reign (9th year), the people who wanted to abolish Xizong had already formed a party and acted in a faction. In the past, Daxingguo, who was scolded by a hundred rods for giving gifts, was a relative of Wan Yan Liang's henchman Shangshu Provincial Commander Shi Li, so he formed a party with Wan Yan Liang, and was serving Xizong's living life in the dormitory, and always intentionally or unintentionally took the palace key home from the principal at night, and everyone was accustomed to it. The ten guards and servants scattered to repay Wan Yan Liang's father, Wan Yan Zonggan, for his old kindness, and Ali was Wan Yan Liang's in-law.

On December 9th, Ding Si, the night of the two on duty, Daxingguo used the palace key to open all the palace doors, and Wanyan Liang, Bingde, Tang Kuobi, Wu Dai, Tu Danzhen, and Li Lao Seng went to the dormitory. Jin Xizong used to put a saber on the bed, but that night Daxingguo took it and put it under the bed, and when the incident happened, Xizong begged for a saber and was killed. After everyone worshiped Yan Liang as the emperor, he was 27 years old at the time, and changed the ninth year of the emperor's reign to the first year of Tiande. and pretended that Jin Xizong wanted to negotiate and set up, summon all the ministers into the palace, and kill King Cao Wanyan Zongmin and Zuo Prime Minister Wanyan Zongxian.

During the time of Jin Xizong, a relatively generous policy was implemented for the clan, and the sons of Jin Taizong had their own greater power. When Wan Yanliang came to power, Jin Taizong's son served in Heshuo, Shandong, Zhending and other places, occupying key places, if there was a change, the consequences would be unimaginable. So Wan Yan Liang in the second year after coming to power to the descendants of Taizong, Wan Yan Bian, Wan Yan Zongzhe, Wan Yan Jing, Wan Yan Zongya, Wan Yan Zongyi and other descendants of Taizong were killed more than 70 people, Taizong descendants all died. For the same purpose, the veteran general who had been holding heavy troops for a long time was also killed.

After that, he used the excuse to kill the clan Wanyan Zongben, Wanyan Zongmei, Wanyan Zongyi, Wanyan Bingde and others, so that more than 30 descendants of Zonghan, more than 100 descendants of Xianye, more than 20 descendants of Mouliye and many other clan ministers were eliminated.

Wan Yan Liang not only killed the ministers of the clan, but also killed his mother-in-law, the disciple Shan clan. Tu Dan is Zonggan's wife, Wan Yan Liang's biological mother Da Shi is a concubine, in ordinary life you have to look at Tu Dan's eyes to act, Da Shi "is very cautious, very happy", through caution, in exchange for a superficial equal relationship. In this regard, Wan Yanliang saw it very clearly, and he was angry about the Tu Dan family. In 1161, Wanyan Liang wanted to mobilize a large army to attack the Song Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager Tushan tried her best to oppose it. Thinking about being angry with him when he was young, Wan Yanliang blurted out and scolded: "It's not my mother, it's the little wife of the king of Liang and Song." Then he sent Da Huaizhong, Xi Shi, Gao Fu and others to kill the Queen Mother in Ningde Palace, and killed more than ten of the Queen Mother's maids. After killing the Queen Mother, I didn't feel that it was enjoyable, and I threw my bones into the water, almost to the point of madness.

After Jin destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, it was bounded by the Southern Song Dynasty and occupied the territory of the Central Plains and northern China. The Dajin Kingdom was subdued by Goryeo, Western Xia and other countries, and the territory under its jurisdiction was vast, but the capital was located in the northeast corner, and there were many inconsistencies in the transportation of materials and official documents, and it was difficult for envoys to travel back and forth, so that the government decree could not reach the inside and outside in time. The more important reason is that the palaces, pavilions, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, and streets and alleys of Jinshangjing's Huining Mansion all leave traces of Jin Xizong's popular monarchy. Therefore, Wan Yan Liang wanted to move the capital, through the process of differentiation, partition, and dissolution, to completely remove the combination and resistance of the Jurchen royal family, so as to ensure his throne.

Although Wan Yanliang's intention to move the capital was revealed, it was immediately strongly opposed by the Jurchen nobles, but he still won the support of most of the courtiers, so he actively made preparations for moving the capital, and he ordered Lu Yanlun and others to expand and rebuild on the original basis of Yanjing, which lasted 3 years to complete the construction of the imperial city of Yanjing. In the fifth year of Tiande (1153), the Jurchen nobles were allowed to leave Shangjing between the white mountains and black waters to come to Yanjing, and Yanjing was changed to the central capital, and the government was called Daxing, which accelerated the feudalization of the Jurchens and the integration with the Han nationality.

In August of the second year of Zhenglong (1157), Wan Yanliang ordered the revocation of the Yamen of the Shangjing Left-behind Division, resigned the title of Shangjing, and only called Huining Mansion, and sent Xiao Yanliang of the Ministry of Officials to supervise Huining Mansion, destroyed the old palace, the temple, the mansion of the great clans and the royal temple Chuqing Temple, and then razed it to the ground, leaving no trace of cultivation.

Wanyan Liang is absurd and lustful, and once said to the minister Gao Huaizhen that his ambition: "I have three ambitions, national affairs, all of which are out of me, one also; ”

Brother Ding, the concubine, is beautiful and beautiful, and was originally the wife of the Chongyi Festival envoy, and had a personal affair with Wan Yanliang in her early years. Wudai guards the frontier, and every festival or Wanyan Liang's birthday, he sends the house slaves Ge Lu and Ge Wen Yi Que Shangshou, and Brother Ding also sends the maid and noble brother to greet him. Wan Yanliang said through your brother: "Since ancient times, the Son of Heaven has had two queens, can you kill your husband and follow me?" After your brother went back, he told Brother Ding what Yan Liang said. Brother Ding sighed: "When he was young, the king was too dishonest and did something shameful. Now that the children have grown up, how can they no longer mess around like they did when they were younger! ”

After Yan Liang found out, he had a plan and sent someone to say to Brother Ding: "You can't bear to kill your husband, I will destroy your whole family." Brother Ding was still unmoved. Once, Wu Dai was drunk, and Wan Yanliang instructed Gru and Gwen to hang him, but the cat cried and the mouse fake mercy. Soon after the burial of the black belt, he couldn't wait to accept Brother Dingding as his wife, and later became a noble concubine, and often rode with her to visit Yaochi, and the other concubines followed on foot.

Brother Li Fei Shi is Brother Ding's sister and the wife of the secretary Jianwen. When King Hailing saw that she was beautiful, he had long been unable to give up and wanted to take her into the palace. He said to Wen's mother-in-law, "You must divorce your daughter-in-law, otherwise I will take other actions." According to Dugua, he told Wen what King Hailing said, and Wen was very sad. He sighed and said, "Your Majesty said that he would take other actions, that is, to kill you, how can he incur the disaster of killing because of a wife?" The husband and wife hugged each other and wept bitterly. Wan Yanliang got his wish, but he was still not satisfied. He summoned Wen to the palace and sent Brother Shi to humiliate Wen by saying some foul language, which was a joke.

Concubine Zhao Alihu married Ah Hudie for the first time, gave birth to a daughter, and the heavy festival had the appearance of a shy flower and closed the moon, King Hailing couldn't help the inner turmoil, and followed her in the first day. After Alihu found out, he was extremely angry, and slapped the heavy festival, which made Wan Yan Liang very unhappy, and after killing the clan, Wan Yan Liang released the women, because many of them were beautiful: he wanted to include them in the palace, so he sent someone to the minister Xiao Yu and said: "There are not enough descendants of me, there are my relatives among these women, how about including them in the palace?" Xiao Yu replied: "Recently, the clan has been killed, and there have been many discussions inside and outside the court, why do you want to do such a thing," but he will not give up until he reaches his goal, and Xiao Yu has no choice but to agree.

In October of the sixth year of Zhenglong (1161), Wanyan Liang's troops were divided into four routes and launched a full-scale attack on the Southern Song Dynasty. all the way from the sea to attack Lin'an; All the way from Caizhou (now Runan, Henan) to attack Jingzhou (now Jiangling, Hubei); One route was Fengxiang to attack Dasanguan (now southwest of Baoji, Shaanxi) and stand by to enter Sichuan. He personally led the 32 commanders and marched to Shouchun (now Fengtai, Anhui). The Jin army "has 600,000 people, 1 million, felt tents facing each other, the sound of cymbals and drums is endless, and there is a great earthquake near and far. ”

At the beginning of the war, the Jin soldiers made good progress. Liu Cao's troops in Hannan Province captured the Song Naturalization Army, Jiangzhou, and Xinyang Army. Shan Zhen, a disciple of other departments, led 20,000 troops, defeated Song Jiankang, and unified the royal power in Xuyi, and entered Yangzhou. The vanguard army defeated the Song army in succession and captured Hezhou (present-day Hexian County, Anhui). He went to command the battle in the state. The Song army came to fight, and Yelu Yuanyi, the secretary of the military department, repelled the Song army, beheaded tens of thousands, and the Song army retreated to Jiangnan.

At this time, Wan Yan Liangzhi's younger brother Wan Yan Yong, taking advantage of his southern expedition and the emptiness of the Central Plains, became emperor in Tokyo (Liaoyang). The soldiers of the Southern Expedition also fled back from the front line to support Yan Yong. On November 2, the news of Wanyan Yong's ascension to the throne reached the front line, and the army's morale was shaken, and the three-way naval army was defeated by the Song army, so that the army had no fighting spirit.

As far as Wan Yan Liang's character is concerned, he will never return in vain when defeated, so he decided to cross the Yangtze River first with the Southern Song Dynasty or at least victory, and after regaining "face", he will go north to contend with Wan Yan Yong. So the Jin army crossed the river from Hezhou to attack the Song Dynasty, and the Song general Yu Yunwen defeated the Jin Dynasty's sailors in Quarry Rock, and all the warships were burned by the Song army. The Jin army suffered heavy casualties, and Hailing was forced to move to Guazhoudu. Wan Yan Yong called the emperor and the defeat of Quarry Rock, so that Wan Yan Liang felt even more faceless, he still had no intention of retreating, on November 26, Wan Yan Liang concentrated his troops, ordered the soldiers to say: "Three days to cross the river is not allowed, will be with the army ministers to behead." ”

This provoked a mutiny, the commander of the soldiers and horses, Yelu Yuanyi, his son Wang Xiang, and the chief of the capital, Shan Shousu, Meng'an, Tang Kuo Wuye, and other joint troops rebelled, conspired with the soldiers of Wanyan Liang's guards, and launched a mutiny at dawn the next day. Then an arrow was shot into the tent, and he picked it up, looked at it, and said in astonishment, "This is my weapon." As soon as he reached out for his bow, he fell to the ground with an arrow. The rebel general Nahelulu stepped forward to assassinate him, and after Yan Liang hit the sword, his hands and feet were still moving, and the rebel generals hanged him. Yelu Yuanyi acted as the deputy governor of the left leading army and led the army to return to the north. Wan Yanliang was buried with the rites of a concubine.

In April of the second year of Dading (1162), he was reduced to the king of Hailing County, and his nickname was Yang, so he was also called King Yang of Hailing, and was buried in the cemetery of the kings of Lumen Valley in Dafang Mountain. In the first month of the twenty-first year of Dading (1181), because Jin Xizong, who was killed by the king of Hailing, was offered to the Taimiao in the nineteenth year of Dading, Wanyan Liang was demoted to Hailing Shu again, and was buried in the southwest forty miles of Shanling. There is the tomb of King Hailing in Fangshan District, Beijing today.

After Yan Liang ascended the throne, the "three provinces and six ministries system" during the Jin Xizong period was changed to "one province and six ministries system". First of all, weaken the three divisions and the three princes and lead the three provincial affairs, and turn them into the highest honors, which are only given to Fenglu and not to power. In the early years of Zhenglong, the three divisions were finally abolished, and the three dukes were also led by the three provinces. Second, the implementation of a province system, in the first year of Zhenglong (1156), the abolition of Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, only the Shangshu Province remained. Shangshu Province was directly controlled by the emperor and served as the highest executive body of the central power. Third, cancel the province of Xingtai Shangshu. Fourth, the Marshal's Office was abolished and replaced by the Privy Council, so as to change the situation in which the Marshal was in charge of the heavy army and it was difficult for the central government to command. Through the reform of the official system, King Hailing established the central official system of "one province and six ministries", which streamlined the organization, multiplied the efficiency, coordinated and worked together, and constrained each other, which was more conducive to the centralized monarchy.

In addition, Wan Yanliang also restored the Liao system of the Dengwen Procuratorate so that the people could report the misconduct of Shangshu Province. The Dengwen Procuratorate was founded in the Tang Dynasty, and was reopened in the Tang Zhuang Dynasty five generations later, and continued to the Song and Liao periods, until the Jurchens entered the Central Plains. Wan Yanliang's restoration of the Dengwen Procuratorate this time, on the one hand, ensured that the power of Shangshu Province would not be excessively large, and on the other hand, gave the people a channel to communicate with the upper echelons of the government on political affairs, and helped King Hailing and Jin Zhangzong to reform the sinicization and ensure a clean government. Later Yuan and Ming people talked about it, sighing that the style of the Ming and ancient times of the Golden Inspection Institute was especially better than the Song Sixth Hospital.

Wan Yanliang continued to implement the policy of the Jurchens moving south, and rectified and merged many Meng'an Moke. He implemented land enclosure in the Central Plains, sent people to various places to detain the original invading official land and idle pastureland, granted the Jurchen Meng'an to Mok Kehu to cultivate, and actively supported the transformation of the Jurchen aristocracy into feudal landlords. The surplus land was allowed to be rented by the Han Chinese. This measure promoted the formation of feudal production relations within the Jurchen Meng'an Mouke, and at the same time expanded the feudal domain of the state and increased tax revenue.

Another of his major economic measures was to print money and mint money and reform the currency system. Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, it has been using the old money of the Liao and Song dynasties, and no currency has been minted. In the second year of Zhenyuan, he ordered Cai Songnian, the secretary of the household department, to preside over the printing of banknotes (banknotes), which were parallel to copper coins. There are 10 types of banknotes, large banknotes and small banknotes. The imperial court set up a banknote warehouse to manage printing and exchange affairs. In the second year of Zhenglong, he ordered the minting of copper coins "Zhenglong Tongbao", which was common with old money. Three coinage supervisors were set up in Zhongdu and Jingzhaofu (now Xi'an, Shaanxi) to take charge of their affairs. The imperial court produced banknotes and copper coins, thus mastering and controlling the circulation of money, further strengthening the centralized rule economically.

Wan Yan Liang did not look at the background of the family, and used a large number of Bohai, Khitan, and Han talents, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, in order to expand the foundation of the regime and consolidate the rule. In the third year of Tiande (1151), he resigned from the hereditary position of ten thousand households in order to change the situation of "successive descendants" of the nobles and monopolizing authoritarianism. In the third year of Tiande, Wan Yanliang imitated the system of the ancient Central Plains Dynasty, set up Guozi Jian to educate students, and restored and even reformed the imperial examination, and established the invigilator to supervise the imperial examination. Wan Yanliang also repeatedly personally supervised the palace examination, and came to the stage to solve the questions and even solve the questions, his thinking is quite wonderful, every time he talks about national events, he tastes sincere from his feelings, and he also spreads good news for a while.

Wan Yan Liang attached great importance to the reform of the law. From the spur of Taizu to the Central Plains of the Jin Dynasty to Taizong, the Xizong Dynasty mainly followed the customary law of its own nation, saying that "the legal system is simple, and there is no difference between the important and the low". It was not until the late Xizong Dynasty that the first written metric system of the Jin Dynasty was formulated, "Imperial System", but although it referred to the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Liao and Song dynasties, it was still essentially based on the old Jurchen tribal system, and the 26 laws were contradictory and even barbaric everywhere.

After experiencing the chaos of the Xizong Dynasty, Wan Yanliang read through the Northern Qi, Sui, and Tang Laws, and consulted the Northern Qi Laws, Tang Liudian, Dazhong Tong, Liao Chongxi, Xianxi Rules, etc., and finally promulgated and implemented the written public law in the true sense of the Jin Dynasty, that is, the "Continuation of the Surrender System". The Book of Continued Surrender completely discarded the tribal legal system and the cruel criminal law of the subordinates, as well as some complicated laws of the Liao Xianxi system, and pursued the ancient laws of the Qi and Tang dynasties, participated in their discussions, imitated the five criminal punishment system, and formed it in terms of practical significance. Yuan Shizu later commented on the golden law and commented that the criminal law was too harsh, but he was still merciful to slaves and farmers.

Most of the 30 volumes of Zhang Zongchao's "Taihe Law" and its "New Law Decree Format" were compiled from the continuation of the book, and the golden law was completed at this point.