China has a long history, occupying the main body of history is the centralized feudal dynasty, these dynasties are stronger than the founding emperors and the lord of Zhongxing's efforts to rule, and ended in the corruption and poverty of the rulers, in the Jin Dynasty from 1115 to 1234, also committed such an old problem.
Jin originated from the Jurchen clan of Yan Akuta, who defeated the Liao state and seized the land of the Northern Song Dynasty, forming a huge empire, but in the later period, the rulers of Jin were incompetent and arrogant, and after the eighth emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Jin Xuanzong, succeeded to the throne, the Jin Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, he asked the Mongol Khan for peace, and then broke diplomatic relations with the Western Xia, and also launched a war against the Southern Song Dynasty, resulting in the Jin kingdom being attacked by the enemy. In 1234, Jin perished under the northern and southern attacks of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongols.
And what we are talking about is the story of Yan Chenglin, the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty. Yan Chenglin could not have imagined that he would be the emperor of the Jin Dynasty in the future. Although he was a descendant of the father of the Jin Dynasty ancestor, Yan Akuta, he did not know how far the difference between the bloodline and the Jin Dynasty royal family was passed down to him.
Initially, Yan Chenglin relied on his ancestral descendants to mix with a small official in the Jin Dynasty troops, and in the army he was brave and good at war, and he had a slightly more capable, so he was quickly promoted, and was valued by the Jin Aizong, and the loyalty of the Completed Yan Chenglin made the Jin Aizong appreciate him.
On the other hand, this Jin Aizong is also an interesting person. At this time, the Jin Dynasty had reached a relatively critical juncture. In 1232, the Mongol army led the army to invade the south, but Jin Aizong actually left the capital Beijing with oil on his feet in the name of "leading the army to go out", slipped away, at that time, many ministers of culture and military affairs saw through Jin Aizong's careful thinking, and fled for their lives, but Yan Chenglin did not abandon along the way, although the Mongol army followed closely behind, Yan Chenglin still led his men to guard Emperor Aizong's side, and after the troops arrived in Caizhou, Yan Chenglin suggested that Emperor Aizong organize central rule and actively defend against the Mongol invasion.
However, Jin Aizong was only a second lord who did not learn any techniques, where did he understand these things? Three years after Tianxing, the Mongol army was in the cooperation of the Southern Song Dynasty, attacking the city and plundering the land along the way, and soon surrounded Caizhou, seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, Jin Aizong knew that the day of the fall of the country was not far away, and he did not want to be the king of the subjugated country, he decided to give Yan Chenglin the throne under the first month, which also caught Yan Chenglin by surprise, he hurriedly resigned, but Jin Aizong pleaded bitterly and gave a very fresh reason:
"Whoever pays the secretary of state, how can he already be?" With the body hypertrophy, it is inconvenient for the saddle horse to protrude. Qing Usually has a strategy for quick and easy, in case he is spared, Zuo Yin is endless, and this is also a matter of resignation. ”
It means that I am too fat, and it will be difficult to escape when the city is destroyed, but you are brave and strategic, and if you can escape, you can continue the Jin Dynasty. And Yan Chenglin was speechless and had to agree. Now it seems that Jin Aizong's decision is still relatively wise.
However, what makes people helpless is that just after the ceremony of passing the throne, the Mongols attacked the city, and then received a war report, the Song and Mongolian coalition forces have invaded the city, Emperor Aizong immediately fled to Youlanxuan, hanged himself, Yan Chenglin led the Wenwu hundred officials to this place to cry bitterly, and then led the troops to meet the enemy troops entering the city, the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty finally died in the rebellion, and the Jin kingdom was destroyed. At this time, it was less than an hour before Yan Chenglin inherited the orthodox throne. Yan Chenglin became the shortest-lived emperor in Chinese history.