Chapter 38 Section 4 The Six Capitals and Six Mansions of the Jin Dynasty

The Jin Dynasty rose in the northeast and was established by the Wanyan tribe of the Jurchen tribe.The Jurchens were originally ruled by the Bohai Kingdom, and the Bohai Sea was destroyed by the Liao Dynasty. Some of them were moved into the present-day Liaoning area, and changed from nomadic to farming. The Liao people called them mature Jurchen.The Wanyan tribe belonged to the Shengjurchen who had not moved, and their original residence was in the area of ​​Yachuhushui (now the Ash River near Harbin).Under the leadership of the leader Aguda, he resisted the independence of the Liao Dynasty, established the Kingdom of Jin, successively captured Tokyo and Shangjing in the Liao Dynasty, and entered into a "Sea Alliance" with the Song Dynasty. Liao Nanjing) and Xijing both belonged to the Song Dynasty.Later, when the Jin soldiers went south, although they returned some prefectures and counties in You and Yun to the Song Dynasty, they had already plundered them beforehand.When Hailing King Wan Yanliang was in power, Yanjing was renamed Zhongdu and became the capital of Jin.Before that, Jin also set up five capitals, namely Huining Mansion in Shangjing (now Acheng in the southeast of Harbin), Liaoyang Mansion in Nanjing (now Liaoyang City in Liaoning), Dading Mansion in Zhongjing (Zhongjing in Liao Dynasty), Datong Mansion in Xijing, Beijing Linhuang Mansion (that is, Liao's Shangjing), after moving the capital to Yanjing, expanded the city wall and renamed it Zhongdu Daxing Mansion. In addition, Kaifeng Mansion was changed to Nanjing, Liaoyang Mansion's Nanjing was changed to Tokyo, and Dading Mansion's Zhongjing was changed to Beijing , Xijing Datong Mansion remains unchanged.Later, King Hailing invaded the Song Dynasty and once moved his capital to Kaifeng, but failed to cross the river and died in Yangzhou.The throne was replaced by Wan Yanyong, who was called Sejong.When Sejong was in power, he restored the title of Huining Mansion as Shangjing, and there were actually six capitals at that time.It should be noted that the prefectures where the six capitals of the Jin Dynasty were located were all subordinate to Lu, for example, Daxing Prefecture in Zhongdu belonged to Zhongdu Road, Kaifeng Prefecture in Nanjing belonged to Nanjing Road, and so on.In the Jin Dynasty, all the capitals had police inspection institutes, which had been upgraded to an independent administrative system of the city, and belonged to the prefecture in parallel with Guozhijing County attached to the capitals.Because Zhongdu is the largest city, with 62 squares in the city, there are two police patrol yards on the left and right.In the second year of Xuanzong Zhenyou (AD 1214), the capital was moved to Nanjing (Kaifeng Prefecture) due to Mongolia’s southern invasion, and Luoyang was named Jinchang Prefecture, which was called Zhongjing. However, the Jin Dynasty soon perished in 1234 under the attack of Mongolia and Song Dynasty .