Chapter 304 Chapter 303 Taizong Wanyan Sheng

Jin Taizong, surnamed Wanyan, surnamed Sheng, was also known as Wu Qimai.He is the fourth son of Shizu, the younger brother of Taizu Aguda.His mother is Queen Nalan of Yijian.He was born in the first year of Liao Taikang and died in the thirteenth year of Jin Tianhui. In the first year of accepting the country (AD 1115), after Aguda proclaimed himself emperor, Wu Qimai was appointed to be a master of Banbo Jilie, to assist the government and become the legal heir to the throne.Every time Taizu sent troops to fight, Wu Qimai was ordered to stay in the capital and act as an agent of the government.

In August of the seventh year of Tianfu (1123 AD), Jin Taizu passed away.In September, Wanyan Gao, Yunwang Wanyanang, Zongjun, and Zonggan led clan relatives and officials to persuade them to come in. Wu Qimai was proclaimed emperor, and the seventh year of Tianfu was changed to the first year of Tianhui. When Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, the war against Liao Dynasty was coming to an end, the Jin army conquered Yanjing, and the remnant soldiers of Emperor Tianzuo fled to Jiashan (northwest of Saraqi, Inner Mongolia today).In July of the second year of Tianhui (AD 1124), the two sides fought fiercely again in Yanya Xiashui (now northwest of Datong, Shanxi). The Liao army was defeated, and the Liao generals surrendered gold one after another.In the first month of the third year of Tianhui, Emperor Tianzuo fled to Xixia.In February, Emperor Tianzuo fled to Yingzhou (now Yingxian, Shanxi), 60 miles east of Xincheng, where he was captured by Wanyan Loushi, commander of the Jin army.In this way, after two generations of emperors Taizu and Taizong fought bitterly, Jin finally destroyed Liao.

At the same time as the war against Liao Dynasty, Jin Taizong continued to implement Taizu's foreign policy of peace and friendship, and contacted Xixia and Koryo to negotiate a peace to show friendship.In the first month of the second year of Tianhui, Emperor Taizong ordered Zonghan and Zongwang to negotiate peace with Xixia.The north of Xiazhai under the Jin Dynasty and the south of Yinshan Mountain, the land west of Tulubo of Yishiyecibu was ceded to Xixia as a condition, and Xixia was required to call Jin Fengbiao a vassal according to the old system of Liao Dynasty.At the same time, it was stipulated that if Emperor Liao Tianzuo fled to Xixia again, Xixia must arrest him and send him to the Jin Dynasty.In March of the same year, Li Qianshun, the king of Xixia, sent an envoy to the court and submitted an oath to Emperor Taizong, expressing his professed ministers to Jin to form a permanent alliance.In March of the same year, Emperor Taizong of Jin bestowed an oath to the Xixia Kingdom, and the two sides became friendly neighbors.In the spring of the second year of Tianhui, the Goryeo Dynasty, located in the northeast of Jin, killed the Jin soldiers and took away the Jin boat for hunting. It was inappropriate to start a war, and he refused, saying: "From now on, without my order, no one should go to the territory of Koryo again." In July, Ushida wrote a letter saying: "Koryo accepts our defected subjects, strengthens the frontier, It must be a conspiracy." Taizong issued an edict and said: "Korea accepts our defectors and does not return them. The fault is on their side. You don't have to worry about it. If you invade them first, I will punish you even if you win a big victory. This kind of peaceful foreign policy reduced the border disturbances of the Jin Dynasty, so that the Jin soldiers had no distractions, and soon won the victory of the Liao War, and established a solid rear for the southward attack on the Song Dynasty.

The rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty tried their best to reclaim the land occupied by Liao.In order to achieve this goal, the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty negotiated with Jin Taizu, and the two sides formed a "maritime alliance" to attack the north and the south and jointly destroy the Liao Dynasty.At the beginning of Jin Taizong's succession to the throne, the Northern Song Dynasty government came to claim the land of Datong Mansion in Xijing and the eight prefectures including Wu and Ying according to the agreement. The "Alliance on the Sea" recruited defectors, and Emperor Tianzuo had not been completely wiped out. If Xijing was assigned to the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin army would lose its place of residence.Jin Taizong agreed to his proposal and rejected Song Dynasty. The Northern Song ruler's attempt to recover Xijing and the eight states failed.

In May of the seventh year of Tianfu (1123 A.D.), Zhang Jue, the former deputy envoy of the Xingjun Jiedu of the Liao Kingdom, first surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, and then surrendered to the Song Dynasty to oppose the Jin Dynasty.The commanders-in-chief of the Jin army led by Zong Han and Zong Wang took the opportunity to write to Jin Taizong, requesting to use the Zhang Jue incident as an excuse to go south to attack the Song Dynasty. In the third year of Tianhui, after the Jin army captured Emperor Tianzuo, in August, Jin Taizong ordered Yousi to select soldiers to train and rectify in preparation for going south.In October, Emperor Taizong formally issued an edict to send troops to attack the Northern Song Dynasty.Since then, the Jin-Song war has continued continuously.

The eighth year of Tianhui was an important turning point in the history of Jin and Song wars.The Jin Dynasty's war of aggression against the Song Dynasty reached its peak, and its strength gradually weakened, and the Song Dynasty was powerless to perish.War weariness also arose within the Jin army. Jin Taizong judged the situation and decided to strike a peace with the Southern Song Dynasty.The establishment of Jin Fuli's puppet Qi regime marked the beginning of the North-South confrontation. After the confrontation between the North and the South was formed, Jin Taizong adjusted the focus of his work and began to reform and rectify the internal affairs.After Taizong came to power, he followed the system of Taizu, and all political affairs, no matter how big or small, were based on the principles of the old system.First of all, he inherited Taizu’s policy of relocating people to the “inland” and moved a large number of Zhao and Song royal families, ministers, concubines, and craftsmen to the “inland” of Jurchen to serve as official slaves after Bianjing was captured. In April of the ninth year of Tianhui (1131 A.D.), an imperial edict was issued stating that if each household in Meng'an Mouke had less than four slaves and maidservants, the official servants and maidservants would make up the number, and those lacking farming cattle would be allocated official cattle by the government to ensure agricultural production. recovery and development.

Secondly, implement the north-south official system.Jin originally wanted to promote Meng'anmou restraint in the areas it occupied. Later, because Han people in various places were dissatisfied with this slavery, Zhang Jue's rebellion occurred again. Therefore, Jin Taizong stopped the implementation of Meng'anmou restraint in these areas and decided to use it in Han areas. The original Han official system is still used. However, Taizong's reform was opposed by the stubborn forces of the old slave owners headed by Zong Han, who had great military exploits.After Jin Taizong came to the throne, he named his younger brother Wanyan Gao (real name Xieye, the fifth son of impeachment Libo) as the heir to the throne.In the eighth year of Tianhui, Gao died of illness, and there was a vacancy for Ban Boji.In April of the tenth year of Tianhui, after Zong Han's class teacher returned to the court, he colluded with Wan Yan Xiyi and Zong Qian to prevent Jin Taizong from passing the throne to his son Zong Pan on the grounds of Taizu's legacy, and forced Taizong to issue an edict that Taizu's grandson Wan Wan Yan Quan is very knowledgeable about Ban Bo, who regards Zongpan as the country, discusses Hulu Bo as extremely fierce, Zong Qian as the country, discusses Zuo Bo as extremely fierce, Zong Han as the country, discusses You Bo as extremely fierce as the capital marshal, and right deputy marshal Zong Fu as the The left deputy marshal, Zong Han, became the supreme military marshal.At the same time, it was stipulated that all major military affairs must be reported to the Marshal's Office, and the Marshal's decision should be made by the Marshal.Zong Han's power reached its peak.Zong Han opposed Taizong's reform and the implementation of the Han official system.

Jin Taizong issued edicts many times to strictly prohibit the Jurchen soldiers from harassing the Han people to misuse the farmers, strictly prohibiting the private service of the people, and prohibiting the Han people from being turned into slaves;Jin Taizong paid special attention to the development of agricultural production, sent envoys to various places to persuade farmers many times, and ordered local officials to persuade people to make agricultural contributions.Give a powerful counterattack to Zong Han and other old nobles who stubbornly insisted on slavery. In the first month of the thirteenth year of Tianhui, Jin Taizong died of illness in Mingde Palace at the age of 61.The posthumous title is "Emperor Wenlie", and the temple title is "Taizong".The remains were buried in Heling.During the Huangtong period, Xizong added the posthumous title of "Emperor Ti Yuan Ying Yun Shi De Zhao Gong Zhe Hui Ren Sheng Wen Lie Emperor", and reburied Dafangshan Gongling Mausoleum.