Chapter 224 Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty-Three

Shi Chonggui was not Shi Jingtang's son, his father Shi Jingru was Shi Jingtang's elder brother.Once a cavalry general in the later Tang Dynasty, after Shi Jingru died, Shi Chonggui was adopted by Shi Jingtang as his adopted son. Shi Chonggui liked horseback riding and archery since he was a child, and hated reading and reciting scriptures. Shi Jingtang once asked Wang Zhen, a famous Confucian at that time, to teach him "Book of Rites". : "This is really not something I want to learn." So he ran around the battlefield all day long and didn't study poetry.After Shi Jingtang proclaimed himself emperor, he appointed him as Liushou in Beijing (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), and later as Kaifeng Yin, Guangjin (now Hebei Daming) Yin, and became King of Qi.

In May of the seventh year of Tianfu (942 A.D.), Shi Jingtang was seriously ill. He asked Prime Minister Feng Dao to assist his youngest son Chongrui after his death.However, when Jing Tang died in June, Feng Dao discussed with Jing Yanguang, Marquis Jing Yanguang of Ma Budu, the governor of Tianping, that the world is full of troubles, and the elder should be appointed as the king.So the two and all the officials jointly supported Shi Chonggui, king of Yin and Qi in Guangjin, as emperor.On the day Shi Jingtang died of illness, Shi Chonggui ascended the throne as the emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty.

Jing Yanguang holds the military power in his hand, and thinks he has made great achievements. After the emperor ascended the throne, he began to specialize in government affairs.Although Shi Chonggui was in mourning, he still kept having fun, and almost all important government affairs were entrusted to Jing Yanguang and a few people. On the third day of Shi Chonggui's accession to the throne, he sent someone to welcome the widowed Mrs. Feng and accepted her as a concubine.This Mrs. Feng was originally the wife of Shi Jingtang's adopted son Shi Chongyin. When Shi Chongyin was staying in Yedu (Yedu is Guangjin Mansion), she married Feng Yangnv, the deputy staying behind, that is, Mrs. Feng.Mrs. Feng was quite attractive, and she lived in Yedu as a widow after Chongyin's death.

Mrs. Feng was favored, and her direct brother Feng Yu naturally also ascended to heaven.Feng Yu was originally a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, a judge of salt and iron, and was suddenly promoted to a bachelor of the Duanming Palace and a servant of the household department. With the help of Mrs. Feng's influence, he began to interfere in the government.For quite a long period of time afterward, he and Jing Yanguang held power equally and became key figures in the later Jin Dynasty. In the relationship between the Later Jin Dynasty and the Khitan, some suspicions appeared in Shi Jingtang's last years, and the ministers in the court and the central government were tired of professing the Khitan.Therefore, when the emperor first came to the throne, Jing Yanguang and others advocated that the letter of condolence to Khitan should only be called grandson, not minister.Because Shi Jingtang called the Lord of Khitan his father, and he was willing to be the son of the emperor, Yanguang advocated calling him grandson, using the etiquette of family members instead of the etiquette of courtiers.Shi Chonggui adopted Jing Yanguang's suggestion.

In fact, this title did not change the real master-slave relationship between the Later Jin Dynasty and the Khitan, but the Khitan Lord was still furious when he learned about it, and ordered all envoys from the Jin Kingdom to be locked up in Youzhou, and invaded by bandits year after year, causing the people on the border of the Later Jin Dynasty to suffer terribly. Word.Shi Chonggui sent Tianxiong Jiedu envoy Dewey to lead an army to fight against the enemy. Dewey was cowardly and turned his back on the battlefield. After Dewey surrendered, he followed the Khitan lord to march south, and he dispatched general Zhang Yanze to cross the river with 2000 cavalry.On the second day after Zhang Yanze crossed the river, Shi Chonggui heard the news of Dewey's surrender. That night, he also heard that Zhang Yanze had captured Huazhou (now southeast of Huaxian County, Henan).Shi Chonggui immediately called Feng Yu, Li Song and others to discuss, and Feng Yu suggested urgently calling Liu Zhiyuan, the Jiedu envoy of Hedong, to help.But it was too late. In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Yanze led his army into the city and lined up outside the south gate of the imperial city.

Shi Chonggui ordered people to set fire to the palace, and he personally drove more than 10 palace people to set themselves on fire with him, but was stopped by the pro-army general Xue Chao.After a while, Zhang Yanze sent someone to send a letter from the Khitan master, saying that Shi Chonggui would be saved from being killed if he bowed his head and surrendered.Shi Chonggui immediately ordered people to extinguish the fire, opened all the gates of the palace, and summoned Fan Zhi, a Hanlin scholar, to draft a surrender form, calling himself "Sun Nanchen Chonggui". On the first day of the first lunar month in the twelfth year of Tianfu (947 A.D.), the Khitan master entered Kaifeng, and all officials, civil and military, went out to welcome the outskirts.On the 5th, Khitan regarded Shi Chonggui as a righteous marquis and wanted to move him to Khitan territory.

A few days later, Khitan escorted Shi Chonggui and his party northward with 300 cavalry.In addition to the queen mother, the empress, the emperor's younger brother Chongrui, and the two princes, there were more than a hundred people including Feng Yu, palace servants, and eunuchs.There was no supply along the way, and the group had to pick wild fruits and kill livestock to satisfy their hunger.As far as Youzhou, people all over the city crowded the streets to watch, pointing and pointing without hesitation.Only then did Shi Chonggui truly realize that he had changed from an emperor to a prisoner.

After arriving in Khitan territory, Shi Chonggui first lived in Huanglong Mansion, and then moved to Huaimi Prefecture by the order of the Khitan State Mother, but before arriving, an order came from the newly-incumbent Khitan King Yongkang ordering them to return to Liaoyang.In February of the second year of Qianyou (949 A.D.), it was moved from Liaoyang to Jianzhou.Tens of miles to the north of the city, more than 50 hectares of land were set aside, where Shi Chonggui and his entourage built houses, cultivated the land, and lived in exile.In the second year of Qiande in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 946), Shi Chonggui died in Jianzhou and was known as the emperor in history.