Chapter 292 Chapter 291 Mu Zong Yelvjing

Muzong of Liao Dynasty, surnamed Yelu, named Jing, was renamed Ming, and described the law in small characters.He is the eldest son of Emperor Taizong, and his mother is Empress Xiao of Jing'an.Born in the sixth year of Liao Tianxian (931 AD), he was killed in the 19th year of Yingli (969 AD).He reigned from 951 to 969 AD. In September of the fifth year of Liao Tianlu (951 A.D.), Chagao killed Sejong Yeluruan in a palace coup and proclaimed himself emperor.Just when he was triumphant, Tai'an Wang Yelujing led troops to surround his mansion.Yelujing sent a young bodyguard to the front of the battle and shouted loudly: "Listen, soldiers, King Shou'an ordered you to be coerced by traitors, go astray, and commit the crime of regicide. As long as you return as soon as possible, you will forget all the past, and if you attack with swords, there will only be a dead end." As soon as the messenger guard's voice fell, Yi Lijin, one of the guards, took his subordinates and threw away their weapons and ran to the front of Yelvjing's formation Surrendered, and then, the remaining soldiers also ran over one after another, and the chage had been routed.Chagua threatened Yelvjing that if he did not retreat immediately, he would kill all the hostages.Yelvjing and Yeluwuzhi lost their minds for a moment.When the two sides were at a stalemate, Lin Yayelu Dilie, the county shepherd who was tied up in the Chagao army, shouted loudly: "King Taining, I have a way to get the best of both worlds. How could he, King Shouan, be the emperor? Please send someone to explain this truth to King Shouan, and let him be the emperor, and he will thank you." After listening to it, Chagao felt that it made sense, as long as he could In the past and today's hurdle, there will be more opportunities to be emperor in the future.So he asked Yelv Dilie to be the envoy.

Yelu Dilie and Yan Sage came to the front of King Shouan and conveyed the meaning of Chage, and King Shouan agreed very happily, and ordered them to go back and call Taining King Chage over. Then he ordered his team to withdraw. In Yelujing's tooth tent, only Yelvjing and his uncle Lou Guo are waiting to be cut off.According to their seniority, Chagou was older than both of them, so Chagou pretended to be an elder and sat down swaggeringly. Just as he was about to speak, Lou Guo had already pulled out his sword and stabbed him in the chest. With the assistance of Yelv Wuzhi and others, Yelvjing easily quelled the chaos of Chagao. This decisive move won over the kings of various ministries and all the civil servants and military generals. They knelt down in front of him again and asked him to ascend the throne. , into the ruling system.Yelujing was no longer modest, and in this way, the 21-year-old Shouan Wang Yelujing became the fourth emperor of Liao.The honorary title of the ministers was Emperor Tianshun, which was changed to Yuan Yingli.

Yelujing was originally a person with no ambitions. After becoming emperor, he had no long-term plans for how to govern the country.He appointed Yelu Wuzhi as the King of the North Court and Yelu Talie as the King of the South Court. Except for holding the political conference in Nabo (the emperor's palace) twice in winter and summer, the rest of the major affairs were entrusted to the two kings of the North and the South. dealt with.The administrative organization of the Liao Dynasty was divided into two parts. The North Court was set up according to the laws of the Liao Dynasty and was in charge of military affairs. The South Court was set up according to the system of the Central Plains and was in charge of civil affairs. Yelvjing handed over the power to Yelvwuzhi and Yelvta After being strong, he would get out of his body and do what he wanted to do.

Yelvjing was not interested in female sex. When he was still King Shouan, he had already married Xiao Shi, the daughter of Xiao Zhifan, who was enshrined in Hanlin Chengzhi, and had no son or daughter.This matter made his grandmother, Taizu Empress Shulu, very anxious.The old lady chose many girls from among the noble girls of Khitan, and offered Yelujing a concubine, but he flatly rejected them all on the grounds of illness.After becoming the emperor, he hastily made Xiao Shi the queen.In the end, in order to silence everyone, he retrieved the second son Yelu Mingyan (later Jingzong) who had fallen into the common people when Sejong was killed, and raised him in Yongxing Palace. Concubine matter.

Yelvjing has three hobbies.One is hunting, the other is drinking, and the third is sleeping. This is the whole content of his life.Every spring, Yelvjing leads thousands of guards. He holds a rare falcon called Haidongqing and stands on a high place.After discovering the swan, they raised the flag as a sign, and all the guards immediately beat the war drums, startling the geese, and everyone shouted to support the flag, and the sound shook the sky. The swans fought, and when Hai Dongqing bit a swan and fell to the ground, the guards rushed over from all sides, grabbed the swan, and offered it to Yelvjing.Then Yelvjing and the guards put goose feathers on their heads, drank and danced all day long.In autumn, Yelvjing will go hunting in the mountains again.In the northeast of Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing (now in the south of Bahrain Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia), there is a mountain called Heishan, with herds of elk, which is a good place for hunting. Every year after the white dew, he leads his people to the mountain to set up camp.The two methods of shooting licking salty deer and whistle deer invented by him are widely spread among the masses.Every time you get something, you have to drink and have fun, feast all the officials, and get drunk.Sometimes, Yelvjing could live in the mountains for several months, hunting and drinking, and never tired of it.

Yelvjing loves to drink.Wherever he was, there was a drinking scene.As long as Yelujing heard that a minister had good wine at home, he would visit him personally, and when he was happy with the drink, he would reward him indiscriminately.After a long time, Yelvjing felt that drinking in the palace and at the minister's house was really meaningless, so she secretly changed into common people's clothes at night, and took one or two entourages to a private restaurant in the downtown area to buy wine and have fun.On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month in the eighteenth year of Yingli (968 A.D.), a lantern fair was held in Shangjing. After Yelujing knew about it, he disguised himself as ordinary people and led a group of ministers to the night market to watch the lights.When I visited a hotel, I drank for three days before giving up.For a long time, because Yelvjing always drank at night and began to sleep at dawn, the ministers secretly nicknamed him "Sleeping King".Afterwards, this nickname slowly spread in the palace, and the people all over the country knew that there was an emperor who could only sleep in his country.

Because Yelujing was immersed in hunting and drinking all day long, he didn't even want to ask about the affairs of his own country, let alone think about the relationship with neighboring countries.Therefore, during Yelvjing's reign, contrary to the views of previous emperors, he stopped his southward invasion of the Central Plains and adopted a conservative policy on the grasslands. Even the few occasions when he invaded the Central Plains, they were all predatory harassment.At this time, on the land of the Central Plains, a short but accomplished dynasty - Hou Zhou rose.Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was an aspiring emperor. In order to restore the unity and stability of the country, he carried out economic, political, and military reforms, and the national power was greatly enhanced.In the ninth year of Liao Yingli (959 A.D.), Zhou Shizong personally led his troops to attack Liao. Later, Zhou's army was divided into two groups, water and land, and quickly marched northward. The Liao army guards surrendered the city one after another. It only took more than 40 days. It occupied the three states of Ying, Mo, and Yi in the Liao Kingdom and the three passes of Waqiao, Yukou, and Yijin.Xiao Siwen, the general manager of the military and horse capital of the Liao Kingdom, stayed in Nanjing and was defeated, so he hurriedly sent someone back to Shangjing to report to Yelujing.At this time, Yelujing was drinking and having fun. After hearing the news of the loss of the third pass, Yelujing said indifferently: "The third pass was originally a place for the Han people. Today it is just returned to others. How can it be said that it is lost?" What?" After finishing speaking, he continued to drink his wine.It was only at this time that Chai Rong became seriously ill and was forced to stop his northward march, so that the Liao Kingdom did not lose more land.

Because Yelvjing only cares about fun and does not care about political affairs, Yeluwuzhi, the king of the North Court, and Yelu Talie, the king of the South Court, who were in charge of the military and political affairs of the Liao Kingdom at that time, were able to maximize their talents. The policy encourages the various tribes of Khitan to actively develop agricultural production. For a time, the Liao Kingdom has a great situation of "the tribes are transformed, the household registration is abundant, the people are unnamed, and the annual grain is repeatedly harvested". Both agriculture and handicrafts have achieved great results. develop.The lives of Chinese people have improved, and Yelu Talie and Yelu Wuzhi have been praised by both the ruling and opposition parties as "the kings who enrich the people".

During the first 10 years of Yelvjing's reign, struggles for the throne among the Khitan nobles occurred almost every year, and there were as many as three rebellions in one year. Yelujing was in poor health, in order to save his life and continue his rule, he issued an imperial edict, asking for a prescription to prolong life.In the fourth month of the seventh year of Yingli (957 A.D.), a witch named Xiao Gu claimed to have the best way to prolong life and improve health, which was to take men's guts.In this way, every time Mu Zong took a dose of medicine, he would kill a person and take a set of courage. In a few years, hundreds of slaves died in his hands.However, after eating these hundreds of human guts, not only did his illness not get better, but he became weaker.Slowly, Yelvjing felt the emptiness of Xiao Gu's prescription, so he ordered someone to find Xiao Gu, and asked the guards to shoot at Xiao Gu with a sounding arrow. When Xiao Gu ran away, he rode on the Immediately chased him, and trampled Xiao Gu to death with his horseshoe.

After this incident, Yelvjing issued an edict to all the ministers: "The guilty will be punished according to the law. I may be angry, abuse the innocent, and you will remonstrate, but there is no way to follow." However, the ink on the imperial edict was not dry. He put it behind him and continued to kill for no reason, especially when he was drunk. Killing has almost become a game for him to have fun.In June of the seventeenth year of Yingli, one day, someone reported how many deer in the deer farm had escaped. Yelvjing led the palace guards straight to the deer farm without saying a word, ordered all 65 deer keepers to be tied up, and swung their swords. That is cut.Hearing the news, Prince Bishe and other ministers tried their best to dissuade them, but all were ineffective. After a while, 44 deer people became the ghosts of his sword.Prince Bishe and other ministers all knelt down on the ground, admonishing each other with death, Yelujing stopped his murderous intentions, and before leaving, he ordered to beat each of the remaining deer men with 40 sticks, and then left in resentment .According to historical records, there are more than 100 slaves who were killed by Yelujing with names and surnames.

Yelujing's cruelty aroused the strong hatred of the slaves.On February 12th in the 19th year of the Yingli calendar, Yelujing led his ministers and attendants to go hunting in Heishan, Huaizhou.On that day, he caught a lot of prey, and what made him particularly happy was that he caught a big black bear. Yelujing set up a banquet on the spot, and took out the fine grape wine given to him in the next week, and drank wildly with his officials. After drinking until late at night, Yelujing, who was so drunk, returned to the palace with the help of the guards.In his sleep, he suddenly remembered that he needed something to eat, so he ordered the waiter who was waiting by his side to bring him something to eat.After waiting for a while, the little brother still hadn't brought the food, so Yelvjing shouted angrily: "Slaves, bring me the food quickly, or I'll kill you all." It turned out that the little brother went to the kitchen to see , Xin Gu who was cooking, Brother Hua who was boiling water, and others were all asleep. When they heard that Yelvjing wanted to eat, they hurriedly got up to cook for him, but Yelvjing got impatient and yelled to kill them.All of a sudden, old and new grudges surged into their hearts. The little brother, Xin Gu, Hua brother and the other three slaves decided to kill Yelujing. Anyway, if he didn't kill him, he would kill us too. It's a death, killing this evil spirit, even death is worth it.The little brother walked forward slowly, calling softly to the sleepy Yelvjing: "Your Majesty, the food is here, please have a meal." Yelvjing sat up angrily, before he opened his eyes, two The short knives had pierced into his chest at the same time.Just like that, Yelujing, the arrogant and murderous emperor of the Daliao Kingdom, was sent to the west before he could even hum.After the little brother and the others finished this earth-shattering event, they walked out of the palace safely, rode on the fast horses that had been prepared, and rushed to a distant place. Yelujing died at the age of 39 and reigned for 19 years.The posthumous title is "Xiao'an Jingzheng Emperor", and the temple name is "Mu Zong".Buried with Huai Ling.