Many people regretted the early death of Emperor Yuanyingzong Shuode Bada, who was young and promising and had great ambitions, so he was given high hopes by Confucians that he could change various maladministrations since Emperor Renzong.
Can this young man, who was full of passionate ideals and fell from the assassination at the age of twenty-one, really change the national fortunes of the Yuan Dynasty?
Emperor Yuanyingzong Shuode Bada (1303-1323) was the only concubine of Emperor Yuanrenzong's Ayuli Bali Bada, and his biological mother was Empress Xuanci Huisheng(陳吉剌安那失里).
In February of the seventh year of Dade (1303), Shuode Bala was born in the capital, and his father, Aiyu Li Bali Bada, was only 18 years old and made a living under his uncle Yuanchengzong Timur and his aunt Empress Buluhan.
When Shuo De was three years old, he was demoted to Huaizhou with his father. When he was five years old, his father returned to the capital to stage a coup d'état, and his uncle Wuzong Haishan succeeded to the throne and was made crown prince. When Shuode was nine years old, his father succeeded him to the throne as Emperor Yuanrenzong, and he also became a noble concubine.
Shuode Bala had a deep affection for his father, and also accepted his father's influence and was close to Hanfa, And Emperor Renzong taught him by example and cultivated him carefully, and in order to make his son an heir, Emperor Renzong did not hesitate to betray the covenant granted by Wu Ren and exiled his brother Emperor Wuzong's son and Shi Zhen.
In December of the third year of Yanyou (1316), the fourteen-year-old Shuode Bala was made crown prince, awarded the golden treasure, opened the government and set up an official office, surrounded by famous scholars, such as Wang Ji, Zhou Yingji, Ke Jiusi, Guan Yunshi, etc., therefore, Shuode Bala grew up under the influence of Han culture, had a high level of sinology, and could write poetry and good books.
Emperor Renzong also allocated his own Yulin pro-army to his son, and then changed the Right Guard's government to the Eastern Palace, and even wanted to abdicate the throne as Emperor Taishang to his son, which was really a piece of fatherly heart.
Shuode Bala was also full of admiration for his father, and in the first month of the seventh year of Yanyou (1320), Emperor Renzong fell ill, and Shuode Bala was worried, burning incense and praying, begging heaven to let him get sick for his father and let his father get better quickly.
It is a pity that the heavens did not hear the prayer of Shuode Bala, and Renzong died on the twenty-first day of the first month, only 36 years old, and the 18-year-old Shuode Bala was sad, "mourning the rituals, sleeping on the ground in plain clothes, and eating a porridge every day." While Shuo De Ba La was grieving over the early death of his father, the old grandmother in the Xingsheng Palace replied that the empress dowager had come out again to stir up trouble.
Empress Dowager Shuo's grandmother, Empress Dowager, was a very restless woman, and she installed her cronies to the government, and just three days after her son's death, she reappointed her confidant, Temu di'er, who had previously been deposed, as the right minister.
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Temudian attacked his ministers, purged the imperial court, and then installed his henchmen everywhere, leaving the unseen Shotoku Indochina alone.
On March 11, Shuode Bala succeeded to the throne for Emperor Yingzong, and changed the next year to the first year of zhizhi. Emperor Yingzong was the only emperor of the Yuan Dynasty who succeeded to the throne without going through the Kuriletai Assembly under the Han Dynasty's primogeniture system.
The 18-year-old young emperor was isolated in the court because he did not have a trusted old courtier and a team, and he was even more alone in the harem, and could only be subject to his grandmother and her cronies.
However, the young and stubborn Yingzong was not willing to become a puppet, and while he was patient with Temudier, he promoted the envoys of the Taichang Ceremonial Academy to worship and cultivate his own power.
After several months of temptation, Timur Found that Emperor Yingzong was not weak, he said that empress dowager yingzong deposed emperor and set up his younger brother Wudu of An.
When Emperor Yingzong learned of the news, he arrested this group of rebels who were trying to abolish the rebellion with lightning speed, and without waiting for the bow, he ordered him to be punished, and the emperor's brother King An denounced him as the King of Shunyang and executed him a few months later.
Although the power of the empress dowager was severely damaged, Emperor Yingzong still could not get rid of his grandmother's constraints, there were not many close associates available, and the edict was perfunctory.
Fortunately, youth is also an advantage, Andijong finally survived the death of Temudier and his grandmother, and could carry out drastic reforms, but in the following year, he encountered a change on the southern slope, which was frustrating.
The history books evaluate Yingzong's personality as "strict," "rigid," "clear," and "fruitful in torture," which shows that he was a resolute and decisive young man. At the same time, he also possessed the impulsiveness and stubbornness of a young man, as well as the paranoia and ruthlessness of the emperor.
Seventeen or eighteen is the age of daring to express oneself, but it is indeed indignant that he has been constrained by his grandmother, and no one has taken his edict seriously. Moreover, before he succeeded to the throne, he had never experienced hardships, and it was easier to be hit by difficulties, and Yingzong, who encountered setbacks, had nowhere to vent, so he reduced the pressure by indulging himself.
He drank heavily, killed people after drinking, and smoked opium, and in July of the seventh year (1320), he returned to the Taiyi to offer his teeth and rewarded him with 150,000 yuan.
Tarega is a Persian word meaning opium, and although opium can be used as a medicine, Emperor Yingzong, who had been on the throne for four months at the time, had no record of illness, and moreover, it was impossible to reward such money as a medicine, and there was only one possibility, that is, the young emperor smoked opium himself.
He was even unable to control his behavior in a fit of rage, and once advised Yushi to kill Guanyin Bao and others in anger at the Shushou Anshan Buddhist Temple. Through his series of behaviors, it can be seen that Yingzong, who was overly suppressed by his grandmother, was prone to excessive behavior and often condemned the minister.
Emperor Yingzong succeeded to the throne without going through the Kuriletai Assembly, which was himself criticized by the nobles, and had lost the basis of the support of the nobles, who believed that not convening the Kuriletai was to abandon the state ceremony and violate the ancestral family law!
In addition, he abolished the annual gift of kings, changed the practice of the previous generations of flooding the king, increased the binding force on the kings, and adopted the Han law that the guilty descendants of the kings were not allowed to inherit the titles, etc., which offended the Mongol relatives and nobles. Destroyed the Hui temple and changed it into the Imperial Master Hall, and then deposed the Hui Hui Zi Jian, abolished the tax exemption treatment of the Hui Hui scattered counties and counties, and let the Semu nobles respect him.
He drank heavily, smoked opium, and was also fanatical about Western Buddhism, paying homage to the monks, building Buddhist temples, molding Buddha statues, rewarding monks with a lot of money, and practicing the secret Buddhist things that prevailed in Xibo, the so-called secret Buddhist things are men, women, and cultivation.
Yingzong did not have many ministers to rely on, in addition to worshiping, that is, the brother-in-law Iron Loss, his resolute and violent personality pushed more and more people away from him, such as after the death of Empress Dowager Yingzong, Yingzong did not ease the relationship with his grandmother's henchmen, waiting for stability and then settling accounts after the autumn, but instead reckoned with it again and again, which finally caused the fear and uneasiness of Iron Loss to lead to the change of the southern slope.
Yingzong's encounter with Nanpo was largely caused by his own personality, after his assassination, the two henchmen of the Iron Lost Faction rushed to Dadu, and they were able to gather hundreds of officials and collect the seal to control the capital, which shows how indifferent the nobles at that time were to the death of Yingzong.
Only one of the kings, the slave buyer, "fled to the submerged mansion and was willing to die", and the other nobles were indifferent to the death of Emperor Yingzong, which was because their interests were violated by the Reform of the New Deal.
Turning aside the Idealization of the Image of Yuan Yingzong by the Confucians, we can see a real young man: young, impulsive, suspicious, cold, excessive self-esteem, easy to indulge himself when he encounters setbacks, addicted to alcoholic women, and also smokes opium, and has poor self-control.
Even without the change of the southern slope, it is difficult for Yuan Yingzong to go far, his personality and health will be fatal defects, too rigid and easy to bend, good and gentle can not be defeated.
Because of the premature fall of Emperor Yingzong, the flaws in his personality were not exposed too much, which gave the Han Confucians a space for tragic imagination, believing that if Emperor Yingzong did not die, he would inevitably be able to change the national fortunes of the Yuan Dynasty, lead Mongolia to implement Han law, and integrate into Han civilization like the Northern Wei, ignoring the fact that Emperor Yingzong was actually a castle in the air without a foundation.
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