The king of the fallen kingdom of the Jin Dynasty is in the eyes of many people, but this completed Yan Chenglin is just the successor of the Jin Aizong Completed Yan Shouxu. At the time of the fall of the Jin Kingdom, Emperor Aizong of Jin did not want to be the king of the fallen country, so he ceded the throne to Yan Chenglin. Therefore, for the demise of the Jin Kingdom, Yan Chenglin should not bear any responsibility, and the culprit who led to the demise of the Jin Kingdom was Jin Aizong's Complete Yan Shouxu.
In fact, the situation faced by Emperor Aizong at the beginning of his reign was similar to that of the Chongzhen Emperor, because the previous generations had dug too many pits for themselves. In order to avoid the fall of the country, they had to be hardened, but the ability of both of them was not very outstanding, especially in the matter of employing people, it can be said that Jin Aizong was the same as the Chongzhen Emperor.
At the beginning of his reign, when The Jin Dynasty faced the powerful Mongols, he also vigorously used capable people in order to protect himself. On the one hand, he appointed generals who were born as soldiers and had meritorious service in resisting Mongolia, such as Yang Yunyi, Zhao Bingwen, Wanyan Heda, Pu'a, and Qishi Lieyawuta. At the same time, the YizhengYuan was set up to recruit talents and pool wisdom in an effort to save the situation of the Jin Dynasty's peril; on the other hand, it used old ministers and co-opted the leaders of the late Jin rebels through the Hebei, Shandong, and Hedong regions, such as appointing Xu Ding, Guanyan Saibu, Hou Zhi, and Wu Xian to calm Hebei, Hedong, and Shandong, and strengthen the Jin Dynasty's anti-Mongolian forces. After this wave of employment operations by Emperor Aizong of Jin, the official rule of the Jin State was improved to a certain extent, and certain achievements were achieved in the early years of Zhengda's battle against the Mongol army, slowing down the decline and fall of the Jin Dynasty.
Just like Chongzhen employed people, Jin Aizong also succeeded to the throne, that is, the peak. After sitting firmly on the emperor's throne, Jin Aizong also began his "divine operation". First, it reused the close group such as the close attendant guard, and then reused Xu officials and cool officials.
With regard to the reuse of the close service guards and other cronies, in the four years from the fourth year of the Zhengda To the eighth year of the Chia Tai, on the one hand, Jin Aizong used the officials of the close attendant group to supervise the war, reused the guards' cronies to participate in the military, sent the officials of the Close Attendant Bureau to serve yu Liu'er to supervise the battle, and appointed his cronies to transfer Pu'a as military commanders to participate in important military affairs; on the other hand, he appointed officials to convey the emperor's will, intervene in the war in the northwest, and often changed the garrison of the generals he appointed. The reason why Jin Aizong changed the garrison of his generals so frequently was mainly because he was afraid that the generals below would rebel against him. According to the "Biography of Jin Shi Yan Heda", Yan Heda was born in the military, was familiar with the enemy's situation, was proficient in marching, and was promoted because of his repeated military achievements in the war.
Just as the so-called "wood shows in the forest, the wind will destroy it", such an excellent yan heda naturally aroused the suspicion of Jin Aizong and became the object of Jin Aizong's key suspicion and prevention. The frequent change of garrisons in itself was not conducive to the military generals strengthening the defense of Mongolia, and the Jin Aizong sent a large number of his own cronies to be placed next to these military generals, which inevitably caused the military generals to control the army, and the soldiers below would often fall into the dilemma of who to listen to.
Take the first month of the eighth year of Chia Tai, when the Mongol soldiers besieged Fengxiang Province, for example. At that time, Jin Aizong ostensibly said to the chancellor, "Heda and Pu'a will take the opportunity to go to the ear." If the governor makes the war, he will eventually be reluctant, afraid that it will be useless and will be harmful", let the border general decide whether to go to war or not, but privately sent Bai Hua to send two marshals: "Feng Xiang has been surrounded for a long time, and I am afraid that the defenders will not be able to support it." When the province led the army out of the Huayin Realm, the next day and Huayin, the next day and Huazhou, slightly before the Weibei soldiers fought... I have to keep an ear out of it. After the fall of Fengxiang Province, the two provinces abandoned Jingzhao Province and moved the local population to Henan.
Speaking of the matter of Jin Aizong's reuse of Xu officials and cool officials, after experiencing the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Sanfeng Mountain in the first year of Tianxing, many outstanding generals of the Jin Kingdom fell into the sand. On the one hand, Emperor Aizong of Jin promoted generals such as Pu Cha guannu, Liu Yi, and Gao Xian to guard Fenjing; on the other hand, he reused Xu and Ku officials. Emperor Aizong of Jin appointed The Close Attendant-born Yan Baisa as the governor of Pingzhang, and the old minister Chi Yan Hexi as the Privy Councillor's deputy envoy, both of whom were born as Xu officials.
According to the records of the "History of Jin", After Yan Bai was illiterate, Chi Yan he was happy to read "Chen Gan" as "Chen Shanke", which was shamefully laughed at. During Yan Baisa's tenure as the governor of Pingzhang, in order to prevent the Mongol army from seizing the gate, a short wall was built outside the gate to allow only two or three people to pass. Although this resisted the attack from the external Mongol army, it also caused inconvenience to the generals in the city to fight at night. In addition, after Yan Baisa said, "Recruit thousands of dead soldiers at night, cross the cave city by the trench path, burn its seat, respond with a red paper lamp, and set up a ferry trench", "put paper kites, put paper documents on it, and cut it off to the north camp to lure the captives", this kind of aether students put paper lamps and paper kites to retreat from the enemy's strategy is childish and ridiculous, like a child's play.
These unlearned xu officials also implemented a policy of bracketing tickets in the capital, resulting in a shortage of food in the capital, and Jin Aizong had to abandon the defense of The capital. Not only that, for the military operations arranged by Emperor Aizong of Jin, these Officials often did not complete the deployment on time, resulting in the defeat of the Jin army on the front line. It can be said that Jin Aizong was the same as Chongzhen in employing people, the early Qingming, the late fainting, self-destruction of the Great Wall, and eventually led to the demise of the Jin Kingdom.