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Ten facts about the Jin Dynasty, the last one is surprising

1, the Golden Kingdom was just founded, the materials were poor, relatively poor, and the whole country was very frugal. During his lifetime, Jin Tae-tae made a rule with his ministers: the money in the treasury could only be used in war, and if there was any violation, he would hit twenty boards. After Jin Taizu's death, his younger brother Yan Sheng succeeded to the throne. One day, Yan Sheng couldn't help it, and secretly stole a sum of money from the national treasury to buy wine and drink.

Ten facts about the Jin Dynasty, the last one is surprising

Afterwards, Jin Guoxiang took stock of the warehouse and found that Yan Sheng's deeds of stealing money were exposed. After consultation with their subordinates, they invited Yan Sheng to the throne and beat twenty sticks. After the fight, he returned to the dragon chair, and a group of ministers all knelt down to plead guilty. After getting Yan Sheng, not only could not complain, but praised the ministers for playing right.

2. Before the fall of the Jin Dynasty, a minister named Cui Li suddenly defected, arrested more than 500 members of the Jin royal family, harem concubines, and more than 500 other people and sent them to the Mongol camp. This scene is similar to the shame of Jing Kang in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Ten facts about the Jin Dynasty, the last one is surprising

3. The last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Yan Shouxu, hanged himself in Youlanxuan after the city of Caizhou was jointly attacked by the Mongols and the Southern Song army, and he did not want his body to be obtained by the Mongols and Song dynasties, and asked to cremate his body. It was extinguished before it was finished. Therefore, one divided into two halves, and the Mongols and the Southern Song Dynasty each got half and brought them back to ask for credit. This half brought back from the Southern Song Dynasty was buried in the Dali Temple Prison Vault!

4, the famous Lugou Bridge was built in June 1189 AD, took three years to complete, at that time was listed as one of the "Eight Views of Yanjing", Lugou Bridge was built 80 years after the completion of the Lugou Bridge, the Italian Marco Polo came to the Yuan Dynasty, in the travelogue praised it as "the best and unique bridge in the world".

Ten facts about the Jin Dynasty, the last one is surprising

5. Yue Fei never forgot, remembered the Northern Expedition, and directly pounded the Huanglong Mansion. The geographical location of Huanglong Province was in the county seat of Nong'an County, Changchun City, Jilin Province, but Huanglong Province was never the capital of the Jin Dynasty. At that time, the capital of the Jin Dynasty was called Shangjing Huining Province, modeled on the Song capital Fenliang, located 2 kilometers south of Acheng District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.

Ten facts about the Jin Dynasty, the last one is surprising

6. "Ask what is the world's situation, and the Zhijiao people live and die together" this ancient word was created in the fifth year of Jin Zhangzong Taihe, and its author is Yuan Haoqing, who is known as the Northern Wenxiong, and the author was only 16 years old when he created this word.

7. At the height of the Jin Dynasty, the population exceeded 50 million, the territory area occupied most of China, the northeast reached today's Sea of Japan, and the vast Siberian region and Sakhalin Island were also within its territory.

Ten facts about the Jin Dynasty, the last one is surprising

8. Yan Chenglin was the shortest reigning emperor in history, and he was killed by the rebels less than an hour after he ascended the throne. He has an era name called Shengchang, which has naturally become the shortest used era name in history.

9. The "Cheng'an Treasure Goods" used in the late Jin Dynasty is the first time in the history of China's currency since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the legal tender was officially minted with silver as a coin, and the shape of the currency is linear plate-like, with oval ends, a central corset waist, and a honeycomb-shaped hole at the bottom.

Ten facts about the Jin Dynasty, the last one is surprising

10. Distilled liquor, that is, the liquor we drink now, was invented by a Taoist monk named Xiao Baozhen during the reign of Emperor Jin Xizong of the Jin Dynasty, who, in order to repay the emperor's kindness, presented the secret method of distilled liquor that was not passed down to the public to the imperial court, and only then did he have today's distilled liquor.

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