Chapter 255 Chapter 254 Yingwu Emperor Liu Jiyuan

Liu Jiyuan is the younger brother of Ji En, who was adopted by Liu Jun as an adopted son when he was young.After adulthood, he looks dignified, good at talking, good at communicating with monks, and quite familiar with Zen.When he was the young master, he was promoted to Taishi and Taiyuan Yin.After Jien's death, Prime Minister Zhang Zhaomin suggested that Liu Chong's grandson be made emperor, but Guo Wuwei insisted on establishing Jiyuan.In this way, in September of the twelfth year of Tianhui (968 AD), Jiyuan was established as emperor. After Yuan became emperor, he changed from his gentle and elegant demeanor of talking about Zen and reading scriptures in the past, and became violent and impermanent, killing a lot.

At that time, the Northern Han Dynasty looked up to Khitan everywhere, and there was no money or food inside, and the treasury was empty.The powerful Northern Song Dynasty threatened its survival from time to time. Guo Wuwei, who was in power, saw clearly that the situation was irreversible, and secretly prepared to surrender to the Song Dynasty. In March of the second year of Guangyun in the Northern Han Dynasty (AD 975), Liao and the Northern Song Dynasty had a good relationship with each other. An envoy was sent to tell Jiyuan that he should also have a good relationship with the Song Dynasty and not to fight the Song army casually.However, the relationship between the Liao Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty was not stable, and the relationship between the two sides soon became tense again.In February of the sixth year of Guangyun, Song Taizong led his army into Hedong. In April, the Song army surrounded Jinyang City. Taizong promised Jiyuan: "If you surrender, you can keep your wealth forever." In early May, Jiyuan surrendered.Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty conferred on him the Grand Master of the School, the General of the Right Guard, and the title of Duke of Pengcheng.Jiyuan and more than a hundred relatives of the Liu family were all moved to Kaifeng.In the sixth year of Song Taiping Xingguo (AD 981), Jiyuan was added as the third division of Kaifu Yitong, and in the third year of Yongxi (AD 986), he was granted the title of Baokang Army Jiedushi.In 992 AD, Jiyuan died of illness in Kaifeng. He was given the "Zhongshu Ling" and posthumously named "Pengcheng County King".