Speaking of the Jin dynasty, most of everyone's understanding of him comes from these stories of Jin Wushu searching the mountains and inspecting the sea to catch Zhao Shuo and Yue Fei resisting Jin. However, the Jin Dynasty, which had once destroyed the Liao and Song Dynasties, reached the generation of Jin Aizong and also reached the point of turmoil. And how can he save himself from the face of a dying empire?
He ascended the throne in chaos and tried to revitalize
Guanyan Shouxu was born on September 25, 1198, and his original name was Guanyan Shouli. After his father Emperor Xuanzong of Jin ascended the throne, he was crowned King Sui and was appointed as a privy councillor, overseeing the military and political power of the Jin dynasty, and then died because of the crown prince and the emperor's grandson. Reluctantly, Emperor Xuanzong of Jin made Guanyan Shouli crown prince and changed his name to Guanyan Shouxu. In December 1223, Jin Xuanzong died at the age of 62. The eldest brother of Yan Shouxu, The King of England, Completed Yan Shouchun, preemptively entered the palace and was about to seize the throne. After receiving the news, Guanyan Shouxu in the field rushed back to the imperial capital the next day, and immediately ordered the Privy Council officials and 30,000 pro-army of the Eastern Palace to guard Donghuamen Avenue, and sent four bodyguards to imprison Guanyan Shouchun in the near attendant bureau, and then took the throne in front of his father's coffin, at the age of twenty-five.
And behind the ascension to the throne, facing the Western Mountains of The Twilight, the embattled empire, Yan Shouxu immediately launched a rectification. First of all, after Emperor Aizong of Jin succeeded to the throne, he changed the decadent government of Jin Xuanzong and adjusted the direction of the country to actively resist the Invasion of Mongolia. Diplomatically, Emperor Aizong of Jin stopped his previous policy of expanding the north and the south, made peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, avoided a two-front war with the country, and reconciled with the Western Xia against the old enemy Mongolia. Militarily, he promoted and appointed generals who had made meritorious contributions to the anti-Mongol campaign, Completed Yan Heda, completed the Yan Chen monks, and summoned the generals who had previously surrendered to the Mongols, achieving a series of partial tactical victories and recovering some of the lost land north of the Yellow River. Politically, after appointing Yan Saibu, Akatsuki became the prime minister and encouraged production, recuperation, and unity of the subjects, so that the national strength could be gradually restored!
After adjusting his internal and foreign affairs, Guanyan Shouxu began to deal with the Mongol Khanate with all his might. In 1226, when Genghis Khan was concentrating his forces on attacking Western Xia, Guanyan Shouxu successively recovered the important towns of Pingyang and Taiyuan and achieved certain victories. At a time when the situation of the anti-Mongol war had improved, Western Xia was destroyed in 1227.
Relieved of their worries, the Mongol army began to concentrate on attacking the Jin Dynasty with all its might. In the face of the large-scale invasion of the Mongol army, although Jin Aizong tried his best, he was still unable to support himself and could not return to heaven. Under the military attack of the Mongols, the northern cities fell one after another. In 1232 AD, the Mongol army, which had experienced the Battle of Fengshan and the victory of the Battle of Junzhou, did not give the Jin Dynasty a chance to breathe, and quickly surrounded the capital of the dynasty, Fenjing, and Yan Shouxu led the soldiers to hold out for more than a year, but there was an unexpected storm, and at this time when the road was at the end of the road, there was a plague in the city, which made the original lack of grain more tense. Helpless, he had to flee From Beijing, cross the Yellow River north, and come to Guide.
But after coming to Guide, he made a fatal mistake. Because of his blind trust in his close subjects, the power ministers Pu Chaguan slaves abused their power, and the internal centers fought each other in the struggle for the Division of Guide, causing the Already stormy Jin Dynasty to be even more shaky, so that the last glimmer of hope was also drowned in this infighting! Just when they were fighting among themselves, the news of the loss of Luoyang came, so that Guanyan Shouxu, who was deeply unsafe in Guide, once again chose to flee, and this time he came to Cai Prefecture, which was deep in the city and had a large number of soldiers and food.
Unable to return to heaven, guard the city for help
In this way, caizhou remained calm for 6 months, and during this 6 months, officials large and small thought that the Mongols would let them go, and they were relieved. Feeling that the situation was slightly at ease, yan Shouxu completely relaxed, he actually had the heart to build a palace, and planned to send people around to find beautiful women as his concubines, but his idea did not succeed later, and the Jin Dynasty generals in Caizhou City dissuaded his behavior, so that Jin Aizong dispelled this idea.
However, at the end of the year, the Mongol army once again arrived at the city of Caizhou, and in the face of the situation that the main force was lost and the good generals were dying, Jin Aizong, who was trapped in the isolated city, thought of sending envoys to borrow grain from the old enemy Song Dynasty, in fact, to plead for convenience and send envoys to seek peace. However, before the envoys left, Yan Shouxu learned the news that the Mongols were going to unite with the Song Dynasty to jointly attack the Jin Dynasty, so he repeatedly asked the emissaries to work hard to win the support of the Southern Song Dynasty, and tried their best to state the truth of lips and teeth. However, the enmity between Song and Jin, Yan Shou continued, was obviously underestimated. The short-sighted Song Dynasty monarchs, who harbored a feud with the world, chose to unite with the Mongols to avenge the shame of Jing kang.
In order to induce the Song Dynasty to agree to the conditions for jointly destroying the Jin, the Mongol side promised to return Henan to the Song Dynasty after the destruction of the Jin, but the cunning Mongols did not reach a written agreement with the Song Dynasty, but only a verbal agreement, which also left a huge trouble for the Song Dynasty.
The city was destroyed and the country died, and the sadness came to an end
At this time, The complete Yan Shouxu was already embattled, and there was no chance to turn over. At this time, the loyal and filial army became the last force that the dynasty could rely on. This army was complex in composition, with Jurchens, Han Chinese, and people of other nationalities. However, although the composition of the army is mixed, military discipline is strict and its combat effectiveness is very strong. However, this army was small in number, only 10,000 people, and it was impossible to resist the joint attack of the Mongols and the Southern Song Dynasty.
In February 1234, the Song Dynasty army invaded the southern gate of Caizhou, and the Mongol army broke through the west gate of Caizhou, and the two sides began a street battle, which washed the city of Caizhou in blood for a time. Caizhou, from the military and civilians to the common people, was slaughtered by the Mongol army and the Song army. Seeing that caizhou city was about to fall, Guanyan Shouxu called his most trusted general, Guanyan Chenglin, to his side, and bitterly begged this clan general to let him inherit the throne and strive to break through in order to complete the revitalization of the Yan clan. Yan Chenglin looked at the fat and clumsy Jin Aizong and had to listen to the persuasion of Jin Aizong to become the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty. Just as Yan Chenglin and the Mongol soldiers were engaged in a fierce street battle, the indignant Yan Shou continued to hang himself in Youlanxuan, at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve seven, and when Yan Chenglin heard the news of Jin Aizong's death, he led the ministers to cry bitterly, and drew up a nickname for him at the scene.
However, before the weeping was over, the Mongol army captured CaiZhou, which was just an hour after he ascended the throne, and Yan Chenglin also died in the rebellion. The Jin Dynasty, which had enjoyed 120 years of national life, died under the attack of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongol alliance. The body of the Jin Emperor was split in half, half taken away by the Song army and half taken away by the Mongol army. The courtiers of the Jin Dynasty were slaughtered, and the women were plundered back to Mongolia. This scene is very similar to how they treated the Zhao and Song royal families a hundred years ago. It was only more tragic than the Song Dynasty at that time, because the Mongols were more brutal than the Jurchens.
It was his sorrow that Emperor Jin Aizong was facing Mongolia at a time when its national strength was on the rise, because the Mongol army of that era was basically no opponent in the world, and when he ascended the throne, Jin Aizong was facing the end of the dynasty that was in turmoil and embattled. He had already made an effort to save the dynasty from decline, and even though he had the ambition to make a mid-rise and forge ahead, his lack of personal ability also made him a sad emperor in that cruel situation.