(Liao Dynasty Imperial Palace)
The fifth year of Tianlu, 951 AD.
Daliao Imperial Palace.
The heavens and the earth are vast, and the four fields are quiet.
This silence was shattered by an urgent letter from the wind and dust of the northern plains.
The letters were sent several times, and finally sent by the guards outside the palace to the hands of the current emperor, Emperor Yelü Nguyen of Liao.
The emperor unfolded the letter, scribbled, and it was a stroke of urgency.
The person who wrote the letter was none other than Liu Chong, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.
The Northern Han Dynasty was close to the grasslands, relying on the Liao Dynasty, and had always been controlled by the Liao Dynasty, and there were naturally letters exchanged on weekdays.
But today's letter is extraordinary.
Although there were only a few big words on the letter, Yelü Nguyen stared at it for a long time.
What was written on the letter?
"After the surrounding city, please rush to the rescue."
Eight big words, revealing a lot of information.
Since the Northern Han Dynasty was, in a sense, nothing more than a puppet regime supported by the Liao, the major generals and widows naturally became the weakest existence in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
After the zhou dynasty, the country has been established for a long time, and the family has a big cause, and it is undoubtedly the big brother on the northern plain.
As the eldest brother, of course, from time to time to clean up the younger brother, and the Northern Han Dynasty, is the object of the later weeks.
No, the city was besieged by Hou Zhou again.
The siege of the city is a very interesting thing, people inside want to come out, people outside want to go in.
But the Liao Emperor Yelü Nguyen did not feel that this matter had any significance.
(Yelü Nguyen image)
For him, the Northern Han Dynasty was a regime painstakingly cultivated by the Liao Dynasty, an important pawn they planted on the northern plains.
If you want to unify the Central Plains, you must go south through the Northern Han Dynasty.
Therefore, the Northern Han Dynasty cannot perish, at least for now, absolutely cannot perish.
The emperor decided to personally lead tens of thousands of elite soldiers to support the old brothers of the Northern Han Dynasty.
The mighty team pulled out the Northern Han Dynasty, but just halfway through, something big happened.
What's the matter?
We know that in the past thirty or fifty years, the northern steppe has been very uneasy.
The Khitan was originally divided into eight parts, the eight departments attacked each other, the war was continuous, and it was difficult to turn out a Yelü Abaoji, unify the Khitan departments, and establish the Great Khitan State, the generals and the people just had two days of peace, and the emperor had to go out to fight again.
The Liao soldiers, who had been plagued by frequent struggles and internal friction, were exhausted, and they only wanted to live a carefree life on the grasslands, and they really did not want to leave their hometowns to fight for a regime that had nothing to do with them.
But unfortunately, in the era of feudal monarchy, soldiers were like ants, and they had no right to decide their own fate.
As courtiers, they had no choice but to put on their armor again and open the battlefield.
When the emperor personally marched, he brought two people with him.
One person's name is Jeroboam, and the other's name is Jeroboam.
In the same way, they are all the emperor's most trusted and important subjects, and they are the emperor's right and left arm.
The difference is that one of them is loyal and the other is hidden.
The hidden evil intentions of Yelü Chache often incited the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, intensified the resentment of the soldiers, and even secretly gathered a group of soldiers who had long been anti-emperor, and when the emperor was encamped on the way, he actually carried out a mutiny and directly killed the emperor.
Of course, in order to save the time of readers and friends, I will say it more simply and generally.
In fact, Yelücha did a lot of preparatory work before and after the murder of the emperor.
The killing of the king is a great thing, and if it does not succeed, it will become a benevolent, and Comrade Yelü Chacup must ensure that nothing is lost.
(Jeroboam image)
Anyway, the third emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Yelü Nguyen, died, and unnaturally.
To be honest, although Yelü Nguyen is not the protagonist of this article, as an author, I still feel some regret for his death.
Throughout his life, the emperor was determined to expand the territory of the Liao Dynasty, hoping to make meritorious achievements on the basis of his ancestors and fathers, and his behavior of exhausting military force may not have won the wide support of the soldiers, and may have harmed the interests of the people, but he did not die.
In essence, he is still a remarkable emperor.
With unpaid ambitions and broken souls, Yelü Nguyen ended his life of great sorrow.
Yerushalayim is done, and now it's time for Jeroboam to appear.
What the traitor does is, on the one hand, the most heinous crime, and the other is not worth mentioning.
But the deeds of the loyal servant Jeroboam are very impressive.
He once followed Emperor Taizu Yelü Abaoji to expand his territory, and he also vigorously defied public opinion, supported Emperor Taizong Yelü Deguang, and even acted as a peacemaker to mediate during the civil war between Emperor Yelü Ruan of Liao and Empress Dowager Shu Luping of The Great Liao.
If the Celestial Wizards are a bit exaggerated for Jeroboam, then the four words of the world's famous courtiers can be said to be well-deserved to be used on him.
Now, history has pushed him to the cusp of the storm.
The traitors rebelled, the emperor was killed, and the Liao Dynasty suddenly changed, and the future of the empire suddenly became confused.
The news of the emperor's death spread throughout the barracks, and at this time the crowds were crowded, the noise of shouting and killing was tremendous, and everything began to panic.
Jeroboam stood in the middle of the crowd, and for a moment he even felt a pang of confusion.
But he soon woke up, and he understood that at this critical moment, he had to act.
In the midst of the panic, Jeroboam found a man named Jeroboam.
(Jeroboam image)
Since the old emperor had died in the tent, the most urgent thing was to establish a new emperor.
And to establish a new emperor is equivalent to a 100-meter race.
Whoever embraces the first place will seize the opportunity, and whoever seizes the opportunity will be justified.
Yes, Jeroboam reacted more quickly than anyone else in this matter, and he immediately found Jeroboam, and pulled in a vote of the six gods and no masters in the mutiny, panicked and overwhelmed soldiers, and without saying a word, he pushed Jeroboam to the throne.
It can be seen that at that time, Yelü was indeed very flustered, so flustered that he did not see whether the young man he chose was suitable to be emperor or not, so he pushed him to the throne. (Liao Muzong)
Is Comrade Yerushalayim fit to be emperor?
Not quite suitable, but not completely unsuitable.
Friends, this is not me making fun of you, but a very serious evaluation that I have given after some research.
From the patriarchal inheritance system, the new emperor naturally had no problems.
He was the eldest son of Emperor Taizong of Liao, Yelü Deguang, and was the royal family of the Liao Dynasty.
(Yerushalayim image)
But when examined in terms of character, Jeroboam has many flaws.
According to the history books, Jeroboam was an extremely cruel man.
Notice that I didn't use being very cruel, or very cruel, but saying extremely cruel.
It is conceivable that this comrade must be brutal to the extent.
Before and after Yelü Jing became emperor, there were internal attendants, and these attendants could be regarded as suffering.
The young comrade Yelü Jing was unpredictable and moody in his daily life, and the guards around him were often punished by him.
The light is verbal admonition, the middle is dragged out to beat a board, and the heavy is directly unsafe, affecting the door.
From time to time, Shi Dong'er entered the dagger and stabbed it with his hand. - "History of Liao"
The attendant Dong'er was slow to take chopsticks and spoons for the emperor, and the emperor was furious and personally assassinated him.
He returned to his brother and killed his wife. - "History of Liao"
The attendant Xi Ge returned to his hometown without asking the emperor for leave, and the emperor was very angry and directly executed Xi Ge's wife.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of the emperor's indiscriminate killing of close attendants, interested friends, it is recommended to read the "Liao History , Volume VII , Benji Vii . Muzong Yelü Jingxia ", you will find that the narrative about this emperor, from top to bottom, is talking about who the emperor killed today, who to kill tomorrow, and who to kill the day after tomorrow.
(Part of the History of Liao)
A good book of dynastic history has become a murderous manual for the emperor himself.
Very few of the attendants around the emperor can work for a month, and basically they have to change a batch every month, either dead or disabled.
It is reasonable to say that Yerushalayim should be a proper tyrant in this way, but the emperor's behavior seems to be directed only at the attendants.
The history books evaluate him: he is inferior to the ministers, and inferior to the people.
This means that although the emperor himself is very tyrannical, he does not slaughter zhongliang or mutilate ministers, and downwards, he does not oppress the people, bring calamity to the country and the people, and even to a certain extent, Comrade Yelü Jing is still a person who knows the etiquette very well.
The emperor did not love women, did not love to splurge, and did not have any strange special habits, and there were only two pleasures in his life, one was drinking, and the other was sleeping.
The emperor is a very drinking person, interested in coming, get up in the morning to drink two bottles, drink two bottles after lunch, and at night, do not sleep all night, directly step on the box to drink.
The emperor drank regardless of the season, did not look at the occasion, sometimes led the army to fight, and before the battle began, the emperor was drunk.
Sometimes in the courtroom, the courtiers discussed the spit at the bottom, and the emperor was drunk on the top.
Drunk people, there are wandering skeletons, self-release, there are crying, venting emotions, and more than the state before drinking, the judgment of the two, completely exposed the true self.
And when Comrade Jeroboam got drunk, there were only two things to do.
One is to kill two unpleasant close attendants, and the other is to sleep.
It will rain, the mother will marry, and the emperor will sleep.
There are many things in this world that cannot be changed in the first place.
As soon as the emperor was sleepy, he fell asleep on his head, regardless of the occasion or the place.
Sleep in the morning, sleep in the afternoon, and sleep even more at night.
The next day the sun was shining three rods, and the emperor was still asleep.
At night, the stars and moons, the emperor is still snoring like thunder.
Because the emperor loved to sleep too much, historians even gave him the title of "Sleeping King".
As a result, Yelü Jing also became the most "sleeping" emperor in Chinese history.
(Neyono)
And it was in his sleep that the throne ended his life—in his sleep, the cook in the palace of the close attendant who had long been oppressed by Yerushalayim ended his life with a fast knife.
The emperor is dead.
Or rather, the emperor died again.
The repeated deaths of the emperors of the Liao Dynasty are a puzzling phenomenon.
But frequent civil unrest, mutinies, and seizures of power did not seem to have had much impact on the rising steppe dynasty.
After Yelü Jing's death, the Liao Dynasty was about to usher in a very different emperor.
What kind of place will this emperor lead the Khitan nation to?
Maybe it's glory, maybe it's loneliness, maybe it's the eternal presence of light.
History is happening, let's, wait and see.