Chapter 52 want to kill without any reason

The reason why Jin Xizong was killed by the usurper has a lot to do with his indiscriminate killing after drinking.Moreover, he killed for no reason, making everyone around him feel insecure, and finally gave Wan Yanliang an opportunity to take advantage of.However, when Wan Yanliang succeeded his cousin as the emperor, he killed people even worse, and most of them were from Jin's clan, that is to say, they were all his own relatives. In doing so, Wan Yanliang certainly had the consideration of consolidating his rule: after all, the clan of the Jin Dynasty was powerful, and his own throne was not so legitimate.However, he seems to regard killing as a hobby, and "clan punishes" "Yiqi clan" at every turn, killing others without children and grandchildren.In the second year after he became emperor, he went on a killing spree, first killing more than 70 descendants of Taizong, and then killing the descendants of important ministers Wanyan Zonghan (Nianhan) and Wanyan Zongbi (Wushu) Also killed together, a total of hundreds of people.Later, he also felt worried about those "heroes" who helped him usurp the throne. Wanyan Bingde, Tang Kuobian and others were all killed by him on charges of treason.After killing the offshoot clans, he was not satisfied yet, and he killed the Taizu clan from which he belonged.One of his half-brothers said a few gossips about him, and the other was afraid of his suspicion, so he found a fortune teller to show him a fortune teller; when he found out, he killed them all.Taizu's eldest daughter, his aunt Ulu Grand Princess, complained to him a few words, but was also killed by him.His concubine, Li Shi, was always abusive when he was a child, so he arrested and killed her and several children and grandchildren, and threw their remains into Haoshui.His aunt Tu Shan, after learning that he had usurped the throne, once said: "Although the emperor (Xizong) has lost his virtue, his ministers cannot kill him." Wan Yanliang therefore held a grudge against her.But his biological mother Da Shi respected Tu Shan very much, and advised Wanyan Liang to take good care of Tu Shan before she died.So Wan Yanliang also had to pretend to be a filial son, and was quite respectful to Tu Shan.But when he wanted to invade the Southern Song Dynasty, Tu Shan once expressed his opposition, so he couldn't help it anymore and sent someone to kill her.When he was preparing to invade the south, he also ordered to kill more than 130 men of the Song and Liao royal families who were still alive at that time, so as to kill the grass and roots.

Wan Yanliang's massacre, of course, got rid of potential heirs to the throne for himself, and the attack on the clan was also conducive to consolidating the imperial power, but this bloody practice made him repeat the mistakes of Jin Xizong and put himself in the The opposite of the vast clan.Although these people refrained from expressing themselves due to his lust, but once they had the chance, they would give Wan Yanliang a hundred times the reward. After Wan Yanliang killed a large number of clans, he began to reform the system of the Jin Dynasty.He was also deeply influenced by Sinicization, and he also imitated the Central Plains dynasty in system design: the establishment of officials, the advocacy of imperial examinations, and the issuance of banknotes. The main point was to weaken the power of the nobility and concentrate more power in the hands of the emperor.He originally had the ambition of "unifying the world", so he wanted to move the capital from the then Shangjing Huining (now Acheng, Heilongjiang) to Yanjing (now Beijing).But those clan nobles had families, businesses and ancestral graves in Shangjing, so they were naturally reluctant, but they were afraid of being killed by Wan Yanliang, so there was nothing they could do.But Wan Yanliang ordered people to move all the "Ten Tombs of Emperors Below the First Ancestor" of the Jin Dynasty, including Jin Taizu, to Dafang Mountain Camp in Yanjing, and sent people to destroy all the palaces and mansions of the rich in Shangjing. Simply set fire to burn Shangjing to nothing.In this way, the idea of ​​those clan nobles returning to their hometowns was completely cut off, and they had to follow him to Yanjing City crying.This is the first time in history that Beijing has become the capital of a dynasty, and it also shifts the center of gravity of the Jin Dynasty.After all, Shangjing is located in a corner, which is not conducive to the rule of the central government. Moving to Yanjing in the south will allow you to know the politics of the four parties, avoid the loss of the past, and solve the problem of material transportation with convenient water and land transportation.Moreover, for Wan Yanliang, he must have been haunted by ghosts after killing so many clans in Shangjing. Although he is not superstitious, he probably won't be in a good mood when he lives in an old palace that has been slaughtered many times and is full of blood. it is good.Getting rid of the old capital of Shangjing happened to be able to get rid of the shadow of those old things.And a large number of Jurchen population moved south along with it, and they also changed from slave owners in the past to large and small landlords who dictated their land, and the officials collected their rent. This changed from a slave society to a feudal society at once, which can be regarded as a step towards "civilization". .

Although Wan Yanliang likes to kill people, he can't kill everyone just because someone can do things for him.Therefore, he carried forward the unique court system of spanking in the hall of the Jin Dynasty. He was very proud of it, thinking that this was his own benevolent government, unlike the previous relegation ministers who let them run back and forth for thousands of miles. will die on the road.This court stick is just a few spankings in court, and after the spankings, you can still continue to be an official when you get up.Moreover, hitting the courtier's ass can hurt the king's heart, and it is also conducive to communicating feelings from top to bottom.So up to the Zaizhi, down to the slaves, and the concubines, they were all spanked by him.In the past, there were also back-beating with the court stick, but because Wan Yanliang loved this sport so much, he was afraid that the back-beating would break his spine, and he would not be able to beat the next time, so he changed to spanking all buttocks.Afterwards, this hobby of spanking in court was also learned by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and there was an even more shocking performance of weeping ghosts and gods, but this is for a later story.

Although Wan Yanliang is cruel, he is very "face-saving" and likes to use some pretentious behaviors to show his "sageness".Sometimes when he travels, he sees the people's cars stuck in the mud, so he orders the accompanying guards to help, and must be pushed out before leaving.When I went to inspect the officers and soldiers in the barracks, I rushed to eat the old rice of the soldiers, and ate it faster than others.It's all right to say it, but he didn't do it out of his heart at all, he just wanted others to see and praise him.He also deliberately wore a patched dress to the court for all the ministers to see, and he also wrote it in the daily life note recording the emperor's daily words and deeds.This can't help but remind people that Emperor Daoguang also wore patched trousers to court in order to advocate frugality. The Manchus were originally descendants of Jurchen.However, it is precisely this pretentiousness that makes Wan Yanliang's advertised act of loving the people often bring a lot of trouble to the common people.In order to show that he advocates frugality, he said that he would not eat any delicacies from mountains and seas, but only goose.But when he was out hunting, he still wanted this, and maybe when he wanted it.The people along the way had no choice but to look for geese for him everywhere, which caused the price of geese to soar.And probably because he always pretends like this, he can't help but make the fake come true psychologically.When talking with ministers, he likes to compare himself to those wise monarchs in ancient times, and he also takes advantage of the situation to blame the ministers for not giving him active advice.But if there is really a stupid minister who takes this statement seriously and makes him angry by admonishing him, then he has no choice but to prepare his head to drop.

It's just that what you pretend can't last long after all, and sooner or later it will be exposed.When he was preparing to invade the south, he first sent people to rebuild Bianjing and build palaces, which were extremely luxurious. "It costs 20 million yuan to transport a tree, and 500 people to pull a car. The decoration of the palace is covered with gold, and then colorful, and the gold chips fly into the air like falling snow. The cost of a palace is hundreds of millions. "After the completion of the project, if there was a slight dissatisfaction, they immediately ordered people to demolish and rebuild it, and put aside the "frugal" face.When the warships for the Southern Expedition came to be built, in order to finish it earlier, people's houses were demolished as materials, and even dead people's ointment was used as lubricant.It made the people unbearable, and there were many civil upheavals.In this way, Wanyan Liang still insisted on invading the Southern Song Dynasty regardless of the unstable domestic situation. I am afraid that he was more or less confused by the "wise and powerful" he imagined.