Chapter 57 Chapter 11 Moving the Capital to Yanjing

Wan Yanliang vigorously promoted this series of reforms, in fact, to firmly hold the imperial power in his own hands, but before these reforms were completely completed, Wan Yanliang suddenly ordered the capital to be moved, and even for the purpose of moving the capital, he still He did not hesitate to destroy the Huining Mansion in Shangjing, which his ancestors had painstakingly managed for generations.Why is this? At this time, Wan Yanliang decided to completely complete Sinicization and cut off the old customs of Jurchen. The best way is to move the capital city to the Han area in the Central Plains.The capital of the Jin Dynasty was originally the Huining Mansion in Shangjing. Now the Jin Empire has a vast territory. It reaches the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River in the south, bordering the Song Dynasty. The Huining Mansion in Shangjing is located in a remote area, with inconvenient transportation, especially the backward economy. It is really impossible to build a big empire here. Wan Yanliang intends to move the capital.

Wan Yanliang wanted to move the capital from Shangjing to Yanjing, which is today's Beijing.Beijing was originally Nanjing of the Liao Dynasty. The Liao Kingdom had some construction in this place, but the scale was not large enough to become the official capital of an empire.Strictly speaking, the five capitals of the Liao Dynasty are not very much like the capital, but just an administrative center.The emperor of the Liao Kingdom was an authentic nomadic emperor.The Khitan people pressed their bowls all the time, especially the last emperor Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, who stayed away from the house all day and hunted everywhere, so the place where he pressed his bowl was the real political center.The emperor lived in a tent, and the tent was the real political center.If you want to move the capital to Yanjing, you need a large-scale construction. Wan Yanliang used 800,000 civilians and 400,000 soldiers to start building Yanjing City and renamed it Zhongdu.

Before moving the capital, they did a fortune-telling, asked about good and bad luck, and after analyzing the hexagrams, some ministers told Wan Yanliang that the virtues in Yanjing were not in line with our Dajin, and after moving there, it would be unfavorable for the country.Wan Yanliang said a word, whether this place is good or not has nothing to do with the five elements, but only with the people who live here.If Jie and Zhou lived here, no matter how good the virtues were, the country would perish. If Yao and Shun lived here, no matter how bad the virtues were, they would turn into good ones.Wan Yanliang felt that he was comparable to Yao and Shun, so he decided to move the capital.Before the capital was moved, many Jurchen ministers were reluctant to leave, so they started working abroad.The emperor asked me to move and go to Zhongdu with him. I don't want to go, but I don't dare to defy the order openly. What should I do?I'm just working hard here, our house hasn't been tidied up yet, please allow me a few more days.Wan Yanliang has a trick, you guys come with me?He decreed to move the mausoleum of Taizu Taizong to Zhongdu. In today's Fangshan District of Beijing, there are two emperor mausoleums in Greater Beijing within 16,800 square kilometers. Moreover, Wan Yanliang dug up all the tombs of the ten generations below Hanpu, the first ancestor of Jurchen, and moved them to Fangshan.Zuling is here, are you still a descendant of the Wanyan clan?Are you going to follow?If you don't come with me, the emperor will have to force the house to be demolished.Then, the emperor ordered to demolish all the temples, government offices and even the city walls in Shangjing, and plant crops on them.This time, Wan Yanliang destroyed Shangjing City.Originally, in Xizong's era, Shangjing City was vigorously built, and palaces, temples, government offices, and mansions were all in place. After Wan Yanliang's destruction, Shangjing became what it was before the rise of Jurchen, and became a barren and bitter place.The ministers had no choice but to follow Wan Yanliang to the central capital reluctantly. During the day, they had to forcefully smile, beat gongs and drums, and cry in their arms at night. The foundation of their ancestors was destroyed.

Wan Yanliang moved the capital, making Zhongdu the ruling center of the Jin Kingdom.