Regarding Dengzhou, Xiao Nan talked to you before, which was once the political, economic and cultural center of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and also the "Xuanhua Army Festival" in the Five Dynasties period, and its status was equivalent to that of a provincial administrative agency, which can be described as a flourishing moment.
Not only that, during the Northern Wei to Jin dynasty, the six emperors of Northern Wei, Xiaowu Emperor, Tang Gaozu, Tang Zhaozong, Song Qinzong, Song Gaozong, and Jin Aizong, all intended to move the capital to Dengzhou.
However, unlike the ancient capitals of Luoyang and Kaifeng in Henan, these emperors planned to move the capital to Dengzhou, not from the factors of transportation, water source, population, economy, geographical location and strategic relations, to consider whether Dengzhou is suitable for long-term capital construction, but instead they were helpless at the time of the country's life and death.
In the end, Dengzhou did not become the ancient capital of several dynasties like Luoyang and Kaifeng. These several proposals to move the capital to Dengzhou were finally settled.
Recently, Xiao Nan sorted out the information, and today I will talk to you about the six times in history to move the capital to Dengzhou.
The first time: Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei wanted to move the capital to Dengzhou in order to avoid the power of gao huan
In the second year of Zhongxing (532 CE), Gao Huan defeated the Erzhu clan and established Yuan Xiu (Emperor Xiaowu), the grandson of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, as emperor.
In the second year of Yongxi (533 CE), Gao Huan controlled the Northern Wei dynasty as the chancellor, and Yuan Xiu, dissatisfied with Gao Huan's dictatorship, broke with him, and Gao Huan led his troops south from Jinyang and would enter Luoyang.
Yuan Xiu avoided Gao Huan and approached Jingzhou to assassinate Shi He Andsheng, considering moving the capital to Dengzhou Yongcheng. However, Liu Qing, a squire of the Scattered Horse, persuaded Yuan Xiu to move the capital to Chang'an, and after weighing the pros and cons, Emperor Xiaowu finally decided to move the capital to Chang'an and attach himself to Yuwen Tai.
On October 17 of the third year of Yongxi, Gao Huan entered Luoyang, and on the grounds that Yuan Xiu had abandoned the country and fled, deposed his emperor and established Yuan Shanjian as emperor, and moved the capital to Yi ten days later.
On December 15 of the same year, Yuwen Tai killed Yuan Xiu and his favorite mistress Yuan Mingyue on the grounds that Yuan Xiu and his sister were injured, and established Yuan Baoju as emperor. Since then, the Northern Wei Dynasty has officially split into the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties.
The second time: Tang Gaozu wanted to move the capital to Dengzhou to avoid the Turkic invasion
In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, its territory was limited to Guanzhong and Hedong, and it had not yet fully ruled the country.
The Turkic Jieli and Tuli Two Khans, in order to repay the Favor of the Sui Dynasty (in the past, the Qimin Khan brothers fought for the country, relying on the Sui Dynasty to restore the throne, and the descendants had a country), wanted to support Yang Zhengdao, the grandson of the Sui Emperor, as the son of heaven, so they came to harass the Tang Dynasty every year.
In the seventh year of Wude (624 AD), Jieli Khan and the Turks entered the country and marched south from Wonju to the south, and everywhere they went, they were extremely frightened. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was worried that he would not be able to hold Chang'an, so he had the plan to move the capital to Deng Prefecture, and all the ministers were in favor of moving the capital.
However, this time the proposal to move the capital was only dissuaded by Li Shimin, the King of Qin.
In Li Shimin's view, Yidi has been a border problem in China since ancient times, and he has never heard of zhou and Han moving their capitals because of this. If there were a few years, the Turkic Khan would have been captured. This dispelled Tang Gaozu's idea of moving the capital.
In the fourth year of Zhenguan (630 AD), Li Shimin, who had become emperor, defeated Jieli at Yinshan, Jieli was captured and sent to Chang'an, and the former Khanate of the Eastern Turks fell.
The third time: Tang Zhaozong wanted to move the capital to Dengzhou to avoid the war in the Central Plains
When Tang Zhaozong succeeded to the throne, the Tang Empire tended to fall apart under the blows of the peasant uprising.
Tang Zhaozong was trapped in Chang'an City, and many warlords wanted Tang Zhaozong to move to his own territory.
However, Tang Zhaozong had his own ideas and wanted to move the capital to Xiangyang and Dengzhou. Because this place is far away from the war in the Central Plains, and it is close to the princes, there is a large room for turning. However, considering relying on Zhao Kuangning for self-improvement, and due to Zhu Wen's containment, it could not be achieved.
At that time, Zhu Wen, who first served as an envoy to Xuanwu Army and then as the King of Liang, tried his best to expand his power and became the largest divided force at the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of Emperor Zhaozong's reign (901 AD), Zhu Wen led an army into Guanzhong and took control of the central government of the Tang Dynasty.
In the first year of Tianyou (904 AD), Zhu Wen forced Tang Zhaozong to move to Luoyang by force, and in the same year he killed Tang Zhaozong and made Tang Zhaozong's son Li Li emperor, that is, The Tang Emperor (the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty).
In the fourth year of Tianyou (907 AD), Zhu Wen seized the throne of the Tang Emperor through the form of Zen Rang, and the founding name of Liang, known in history as "Later Liang".
Fourth time: Song Qinzong wanted to move the capital to Dengzhou in order to avoid the attack of the Jin people
In October of the seventh year of Xuanhe (1125 AD), after destroying the Liao state, the Jin state divided its troops into two ways and attacked the Song Dynasty southward, directly approaching the Song capital Kaifeng, and Zhao Huan took the throne in danger.
In January of the first year of Jing Kang (1126 AD), the Jin army approached, and Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan, and others, who were then the prime ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty, set up a decision to divide the land and negotiate peace, and at the same time plotted to flee xiang and Deng on the orders of the emperor to avoid the Jin offensive, but Li Gang, who was strongly advocating resistance to Jin, tried his best to stop it.
Because of Li Gang's presence, the Jin commander Yan Zongwang saw that he was powerless to attack Kaifeng, and after the Song court promised to cede the three towns in Hebei, he withdrew his troops in February of the first year of Jing Kang.
However, soon after the withdrawal of the Jin soldiers, Li Gang was ostracized and framed by the surrender faction of the Song court. However, Zhao Huan, because he listened to the rumors of the traitorous courtiers, deposed li Gang, a famous anti-Jin general. So much so that when the Jin soldiers besieged Kaifeng again in October of the first year of Jing Kang's reign, they were unable to resist.
In the second year of Jing Kang (during the jing kang revolution), Song Qinzong was captured by the Jin people and went north, and the Northern Song Dynasty fell.
Fifth time: In order to counterattack the Jin soldiers, Li Gang persuaded Emperor Gaozong of Song to move the capital to Dengzhou
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, King Zhao of Kang (Emperor Gaozong of Song) established the Southern Song Dynasty at Yingtianfu, and due to the situation, he once appointed Li Gang, who had been degraded, as the right servant of Shangshu and Zhongshulang Li Gang.
When the Jin soldiers approached Ying Tianfu, Emperor Gaozong wanted to move the capital to avoid the Jin army, and Li Gang urged Emperor Gaozong of Song to move the capital to the area around Dengzhou.
In Li Gang's view, Kaifeng has been lost, and the best choice to move the capital is Guanzhong, followed by the Xiang and Deng areas. On the one hand, because Dengzhou is close to the Central Plains, it is very convenient to carry out counter-offensives. On the other hand, it is because it shows that it does not forget the old capital, so as to tie the heart of the world.
However, Li Gang's proposal was strongly opposed by Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, and others with different political views, and when the Jin soldiers went south, Huang Qianshan and others blindly surrendered on their knees and instigated Emperor Gaozong of Song to flee to Yangzhou, and Emperor Gaozong finally adopted the suggestions of Huang Qianshan and others, and later moved the capital to Lin'an in the fourth year of Jianyan (1130 AD).
The sixth time: Jin Aizong was trapped in Caizhou and wanted to move the capital to Dengzhou
In the first year of Tianxing (1232 AD), the Mongol army besieged the capital of the Jin Kingdom, Kaifeng, and the Jin army held out for nearly a year, and the plague in the capital city was great, and the food was tight.
Marshal Yan Pig'er advocated moving the capital to Germany, but Xiang Xiangsai and Right Shilang Zhongbaihua and others advocated entering Dengzhou, because Although Dengzhou was close to the Southern Song Dynasty, it was far from Mongolia.
In December of the same year, Emperor Aizong of Jin fled Kaifeng and moved the capital to Germany. In June of the following year, due to the deterioration of the situation in Guide, Jin Aizong fled to Caizhou.
However, Caizhou was easy to attack and difficult to defend, and Jin Aizong felt that it was good to move the capital to Dengzhou, but the opportunity had been missed. After being besieged by the combined Mongol and Song armies and besieged caizhou for several months. Emperor Aizong of Jin knew that the day of the fall of the country was coming, and did not want to be the king of the fallen country, so he issued a zen throne to the clan to complete Yan Chenglin.
However, before the succession ceremony was completed, the Song and Mongol forces had already invaded the city. After Yan Chenglin only hastily completed the ceremony and immediately led the troops out to greet him, he died in the rebellion in less than an hour, becoming the shortest reigning emperor in the history of our country.