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Chapter 309 Chapter 308 Wei Shao Wang Wanyan Yongji

King Wei Shao, surnamed Wanyan, given name Yongji, was also called Yunji, and his small character was Xingsheng.He is the seventh son of Sejong, and his mother is the concubine Li.Jin Dading was born in the eighth year and was killed in the first year of Ning.46 years old.Reigned from 1208 to 1213 AD. In the eleventh year of Dading (AD 1171), Yongji was named King Xue.In the same year, he became King Teng.In the seventeenth year, he was awarded hereditary Meng'an.Twenty-five years later, the third division of Fuyitong was added.For twenty-six years, he served as secretary and supervisor.In the twenty-seventh year, he was transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of punishment.In the twenty-eighth year, inspections were carried out in front of the palace.In the twenty-ninth year, Sejong died, Zhang Zong came to the throne, and Zhang Zong made Yongji King Lu.In the second year of Cheng'an (1197 AD), he was renamed King Wei.

In the winter and November of the eighth year of Taihe (AD 1208), Zhangzong died of illness, and Wanyan Kuang and others passed on the imperial edict, making King Wei the emperor.Change next year to the first year of Da'an. At the beginning of the 13th century, the various ministries of Mongolia that were subject to the Jin flourished, and gradually became restless as a vassal of the Jin Dynasty.In the sixth year of Taihe (1206 A.D.), Temujin established the name Genghis Khan, established the Mongolian Khanate, and publicly set up an anti-flag.In the second year of Da'an (1210 A.D.), Emperor Yongji sent an edict to Mongolia, but Genghis Khan refused to follow it.In this year, Genghis Khan attacked Xixia Zhongxing Mansion (Yinchuan City, Ningxia) with troops, and returned with plunder.In February of the following year, Genghis Khan gathered people to swear an oath, and went down from the Kelulun River to launch a large-scale war of invading the Jin Dynasty in the south.

In April, Emperor Yongji of the Jin Dynasty heard the news that the Mongolian soldiers had invaded the Jin Dynasty. Frontier, command to resist. However, the Golden Army has been defeated repeatedly.In the first year of Ning (AD 1213), Jin Shangshu Zuo Cheng Wanyan led a hundred thousand troops to fight Genghis Khan in Jinshan (now Yanqing, Beijing), and the Jin army was defeated.After this battle, almost all the elite of the Jin army were defeated and suffered a heavy blow. The military failure caused division and turmoil within the court, and Yongji's throne was seriously threatened.

In the first year of Da'an (1209 A.D.), after Hu Shahu who gave up Xijing and fled back to Zhongdu, Yongji did not punish him, but dismissed him from office.In the first year of Ning (1213 A.D.), Yongji will use Hu Shahu to fight against Mongolia again.Prime Minister Tu Shanyi, Shenzhi Zhengshi Liang Wangtang, Zuo Jianyi doctor Zhang Xingxin and others all objected, but Emperor Yongji refused to listen, and made Hu Shahu Quan You, deputy marshal, and 5,000 military guards stationed in the north of Zhongdu. In August, Hu Shahu, along with Wanyan Chounu, the head of the Bureau of Wenxiu, prosecuted General Pucha Liujin of Suzhi, and Wugu Lunbola under the jurisdiction of the Wuwei Army, pretended to know Tudan Nanping and his son in Daxing Mansion (now Beijing) If there is no strong rebellion, the rebels will be punished by imperial edict.First killed Fuhai who was loyal to Yongji and stationed in the north of Zhongdu, and captured the army led by Fuhai.Then at dawn on August 25, the troops were led in the capital city, creating chaos.He shouted that the Mongolian army had arrived at Beiguan, trapped and killed Dan Nanping and his son who knew Daxing Prefecture.Fu Baozhi waited for Shanyang, and Wanyan Shigunai, the head of 10 guards, heard about the chaos and called 500 Han troops to resist. As a result, Shanyang and Shigunai were defeated and killed.Hu Shahu marched into the palace with troops, killed the guards in the palace, replaced his own army, and claimed to be the Marshal of the Supervisory Capital.He hijacked Yongji from the palace, and made Wanyan Xun, the grandson of Shizong and the eldest son of Xianzong, the emperor.Wanyan Xun is Xuanzong.

After Xuanzong ascended the throne, Hu Shahu claimed to be the Grand Master, Shang Shuling, and Marshal of the capital, and he became prominent for a while. He asked Xuanzong to abolish Emperor Yongji as a commoner. Xuanzong wanted to restore the title of King Yongji, but Hu Shahu refused, so Xuanzong had to descend Yongji is the Marquis of Donghai County.Therefore, Emperor Jin Yongji has no temple name.In the fourth year of Xuanzong Zhenyou (1216 A.D.), he issued an imperial edict to restore King Wei, posthumously named "Shao", and was known as King Wei Shao in history.
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