Shortly after the attack on Youzhou City, Jin Taizu died after finishing Yan Akuta. After that, who should inherit the throne?
Theoretically, nature should be the son of Yan Akuta. But the problem is that although Yan Akuta is the emperor, there are many powerful factions under him.
In this context, it was more difficult for the sons of Yan Akuta to inherit the throne, so their final choice was brother and brother.
We always think that hereditary inheritance is the result of people's ideological and moral progress. In fact, if the old emperor laid out the situation, his son, even if he was a fool, could get the firm support of the people. Otherwise, his son, even if he was like a wolf, would still have to stand on the sidelines.
On the surface, the reason why jinguo did not choose successors according to the criteria of father and son was because jinguo did not accept Confucianism at this time. In fact, the succession of fathers and sons has little to do with Confucianism.
How many people will let their brothers or uncles inherit their own inheritance? Not to mention letting outsiders inherit.
The problem is that when it comes to property inheritance, ordinary people's families often get a dog's blood for three melons and two dates, and the imperial family faces the wealth and power of the sky, not to mention.
In this context, if anyone dares to say that when my father dies, I should inherit my father's wealth, power and status, he must first ask, and the people below agree to it? Otherwise, he dared to forcibly inherit his father's wealth, power, and status, and he must have died without knowing how he died.
The emergence of hereditary succession is the result of a high concentration of imperial power.
When imperial power was highly centralized, such a question need not be discussed. Because, when the emperor dies, it is natural that the emperor's son should have the relevant power.
Whoever dared to disagree with this must have wanted to lead the whole family to the execution ground. Because, you have published such a fallacious reasoning, do your families know?
On the other hand, there is no high degree of concentration of imperial power, not to say that the emperor is dead, that is, the emperor is alive, this kind of issue also needs to be discussed.
The imperial power of the Yan Akuta era was very limited, so after his death. Although his sons were all wolf-like figures, they could not inherit the throne.
Because, what father and son succeed? What virtue did the Liao people become when they played this set? What virtue did the Song people play this set of? How can we Daikin learn from them? Let me tell you, history will prove that this kind of father-to-son succession game is a decadent inheritance system!
In the face of this faint sound, although the sons of Yan Ah Bone were like wolves and tigers, they did not dare to forcibly ascend to the throne, otherwise, in case of any turmoil, who would be responsible for it?
The son with the greatest reputation is his fourth son, Completed Yan Zongbi, who is familiar with the history of Song and Jin, and naturally has heard of this name.
And another name of Yan Zongbi is even more cattle, that is, Jin Wushu. In the biography of Yue Quan, the protagonist is naturally Yue Fei, and the first villain is Jin Wushu.
However, at the time of The Death of Completed Yan A bone, The status of Completed Yan Zongbi in this department was still in the back, and in the front was his brothers.
During the first Song Dynasty of the Jin Dynasty, the commander of the large army besieging the city of Bieliang was Guanyan Zongwang, the second brother of Yan Zongbi.
Yan Zongwang died relatively early, so his reputation in history is relatively small. However, when Yan Zongwang was alive, Yan Zongbi could only give Yan Zongwang his deputy.
After the death of Yan Zongwang, the successor was not Yan Zongbi, because Yan Zongbi also had a third brother named Yan Zongfu, and after Yan Zongwang's death, Yan Zongbi continued to serve as an assistant to Yan Zongfu.
Although the two elders and the three are so powerful, don't forget, there is a boss above them. The name of the boss was Finished Yan Zonggan, and when Finished Yan A bone died, the ranking of Completed Yan Zonggan was naturally above the three younger brothers.
But even so, Guanyan Zonggan was not a person in this line, because their four brothers were all shuzi, and the eldest son of Guanyan Akuta was named Guanyan Zongjun, and he was the person who spoke in this lineage when Guanyan Akuta died.
However, less than a year after the death of Guanyan Akuta, Guanyan Zongjun also died, and in order to maintain power, this line let Yan Zongjun's widow marry Yan Zonggan. Therefore, After Finishing Yan Zonggan became the person who completed Yan A Bone's family.
People who are not familiar with the history of the Jin Dynasty often only heard of Completed Yan Zongbi, but rarely heard of Completed Yan Zonggan, Completed Yan Zongwang and Completed Yan Zongfu, let alone Completed Yan Zongjun, who died early.
The reason why Yan Zongbi is famous is about three reasons.
First, compared to his second and third brothers, Yan Zongbi lived the longest. So, his data is more preserved.
Second, compared to his eldest brother, Yan Zongbi participated in many wars against the Song Dynasty and fought two well-known battles: the first battle was
Search the mountains and inspect the sea to catch Zhao Zhao
The second battle was Huang Tiandang.
Third, the Song-Jin boundary was determined under the auspices of Yan Zongbi. Moreover, Yan Zongbi was the main warrior faction of the Jin Kingdom, so in the process, let the Jin State draw the Central Plains and the Northwest to its own territory, which naturally needed a big book in the history of Jin.
However, in terms of the status within the empire, Compared with his eldest brother, second brother and third brother, Yan Zongbi was really a little far behind.
When Yan Ah Bone died, his sons were all wolf-like figures. But because the imperial power has not yet been concentrated, no one dares to shout about the death of the father and the son.
Because, these few children who finished Yan Ah Bone were like wolves and tigers, and the other big guys were also like wolves and tigers.
Now, this is a critical moment to test the Golden State.
If everyone reads a sutra each, it is a bad thing, for this succession to the throne, it is estimated that the Golden Kingdom will be torn apart. In this context, the sons of Guanyan Akuta, after consultation, expressed their willingness to give up the right to inherit the throne.
Although he was the emperor, he had many big men under him; after his death, several big men looked like they were ambitious to seize power.
After a brief calculation, the sons of Yan Ah Bone found that if they wanted to inherit the throne, the price they would pay was probably either death or disability, and whether they could be repaid twice, and even if they could forcibly ascend to the throne, they would probably tear apart the newly established Jin Kingdom.
Based on similar considerations, the sons of Guanyan Akuta reached an agreement to elect their fourth uncle, Wanyan Wu Begmai, to inherit the throne.
After Yan Wu begged to listen to it, he wanted to make himself an emperor, and naturally he resolutely refused. Because, he was worried that there was deception, after all, none of the sons who had finished Yan Ah Bone's beating were vegetarians.
If the sons of Yan Ah Bone just gave in to him, he would dare to climb up the pole, and what would happen at that time, I am afraid that no one could predict it.
Seeing that Yan Wu begged for help, several sons of Yan Ah Bone joined forces with other big men of the imperial family to push him to the throne, and forcibly draped the imperial robe on him, and forcibly stuffed the jade seal into his arms.
The meaning of the Yan Zonggan brothers is very simple: although our father is the founding emperor, for the sake of the future of the Jin Kingdom, we are willing to give up the throne to the fourth uncle. Now that we've done that, believe us, we're never acting.
In this context, the fourth brother of The Completed Yan Ah Bone, Completed Yan Wu Begmai, ascended the throne and sat in the temple, known in history as Jin Taizong.
By the way, names like "Ah Kuan Da" and "Wu Begmai" are jurchen real names, so after they follow the central plains dynasty to establish a state, they usually change a Chinese name, after the completion of the Yan Akumai titled emperor, renamed to complete Yan Min, and after the completion of the Yan Wu begmai ascended the throne, it was renamed as the complete Yan Sheng.
After Yan Sheng ascended to the throne, the power ranking of the Empire was about this.
The first major force was naturally the Yan Sheng lineage, because he was the emperor.
The second largest force is the Completed Yan Gao lineage, who is the fifth brother of the Completed Yan Akuta, and his current official identity is the Imperial Brother.
The third major force was the Completed Yan A Bone Fighting Lineage, and at this time, the person who was the Completed Yan Zongjun was replaced by the Completed Yan Zonggan shortly after.
The fourth major force is the Completed Yan Zonghan lineage, which belongs to the collateral lineage, and his grandfather is the great uncle of the Completed Yan Akuta.
The first and third major forces have nothing to say, as analyzed above.
There are three main reasons why the second largest force, Yan Gao, can become the emperor's brother-in-law, one is to erase the struggle for the throne and show the world: I Dajin has its own national conditions here, and will not engage in any father's death and son succession, but will only adopt the brother and the elder brother and: the second brother Completed Yan Ah Bone died and was succeeded by the fourth brother Completed Yan Sheng, and after the death of the fourth brother Completed Yan Sheng, then the fifth brother Completed Yan Gao took over.
The second reason is that Guan Yan Gao is not just a façade, he also has a lot of power in this department. It was only because Yan Gao died too early, under the attack of the first and third major forces, the successor of his department was eventually unknown.
The third reason is that Yan Gao can become the emperor's brother, not necessarily because of how strong his strength is, but because the way the brother and the brother will make it difficult to consolidate the imperial power, which is more in line with the common interests of the nobles.
For example, if Yan A bone becomes emperor, his son cannot inherit the throne, and the power of the complete Yan A bone cannot continue to expand normally.
Of course, after Emperor Taizong of Jin completed Yan Sheng's death, his son could not inherit the throne, and the power of Yan Sheng's family could not continue to expand normally.
After the Emperor's brother ascended to the throne, he would definitely be greatly restrained. For example, After Yan Sheng became Jin Taizong, but the sons of Completed Yan Ah Bone were still powerful, which would drain yan Sheng's power.
After the death of Yan Sheng, if the emperor's brother Yan Gao succeeded to the throne, then the emperor's complete Yan Gao would also face the constraints of the two lineages of The Completed Yan Ah Bone and the Completed Yan Sheng, so that the imperial power of the Jin State would be difficult to consolidate.
After the Imperial Brother First Line ascends to the throne, if the Imperial Brother First Line cannot be cleaned up, it is bound to appear a two-headed pattern.
Later, due to the early death of Yan Gao, the imperial power finally returned to the Completed Yan A bone fight series. Through a series of bloody purges, the sons of Yan Akuta finally consolidated their imperial power.
In fact, later Song Jinhe talked about twists and turns, which is derived from this, this is the afterword, simply mentioned.
Although they are only a collateral family, the status of this line in the Completed Yan family has always been very strong.
In the era of The Completed Yan Akuta, The Father of The Completed Yan Zonghan was the Minister of State, a position similar to that of the Prime Minister of the Central Plains Dynasty, and after the death of the Completed Yan Saga, the Completed Yan Zonghan took over as the Minister of State.
In the early history of the Jin Dynasty, the status of Yan Zonghan was also very important. In fact, after the death of Emperor Taizong's brother Yan Gao, Emperor Yanzong was able to snatch the throne back from Emperor Taizong of Jin's yan sheng clan because of the support of Emperor Yan Zonghan.
Later, when the Jin Dynasty marched on the Song Dynasty, it was always two large armies advancing simultaneously.
The Eastern Route Army has always been led by the Completed Yan Akuta lineage, first by Completed Yan Zongwang and later by Completed Yan Zongfu (the second and third brothers of Completed Yan Zongbi), while the Western Route Army has always been led by Completed Yan Zonghan.
After the death of Yan Akuta, his lineage failed to inherit the throne, so it was temporarily suppressed.
Both Yan Zongjun and Yan Zonggan were people with great strategic vision, and under their leadership, the Guanyan Akuta family did not forcibly compete for the throne, ensuring the unification of the Jin Kingdom to the greatest extent.
After the death of emperor's brother-in-law, Emperor Yanzong did not choose to compete for the right to inherit the throne, but only accepted a compromise plan, that is, his adopted son, Guanyan Jun (the son of Emperor Yanzongjun) to obtain the right to inherit the throne.
This choice is actually the same as that of the Manchu Emperor Taiji, who embraced the six-year-old Fu Lin on the throne after his death.
The strength of the Qing Taizong lineage was too great, so the heir to the throne must be the son of Qing Taizong; however, the power of the nobles was also very large, so the strong son of the Emperor Taiji could never have the right to inherit the throne.
The Manchu Qing was able to get through that hurdle because Emperor Taizong's younger brother (represented by the Dorgon brothers) and his powerful son (represented by Hauge) reached a tacit agreement that no one should fight for the throne and ensure the unity of the regime.
Jin Guo was able to survive this hurdle because Jin Taizu's strong son reached a tacit understanding with Jin Taizong's strong son.
The early death of Yan Zongjun is not mentioned for the time being, and The completed Yan Zonggan should be the most critical figure in the early jin dynasty.
After Yan A bone was killed, Yan Zonggan had always been the trader of Jin Guo. In a sense, his influence on Jin Guo was greater than that of Jin Taizong.
The first hurdle of the Jin Kingdom (the death of Jin Taizu's completed Yan Akuta) could be successfully passed because Completed Yan Zonggan was willing to acknowledge the result of his brother and brother, and not to forcibly compete with his uncle for the right to inherit the throne.
The second hurdle of the Jin Kingdom (the death of the Emperor's brother-in-law Yan Gao) could be successfully crossed because Emperor Yan Zonggan had taken the imperial power back to the Completed Yan A Bone by taking a step back.
The third hurdle of the Jin Kingdom (the death of Emperor Taizong of Jin) could be successfully overcome because Emperor Yanzonggan joined forces with his fourth brother Emperor Yanzong to solve all of Yan Sheng's strong sons in one fell swoop, making the imperial power more concentrated.
When analyzing the Three Kingdoms and two Jin Dynasties, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, I have repeatedly stressed that in many key hurdles, which group has such a transcendent manipulator is more likely to survive, such as Murong Ke, a former Yan imperial family, who is such a person.
A person who has the opportunity to compete for the throne, but does not risk his own resources, but makes full use of these resources to ensure unity within the group, such a person is usually easy to obtain the approval of all parties, and can make it easier to resolve the contradictions between all parties.
This kind of transcendent trader is unattainable, so since there are many big guys, it is natural to avoid fire. And the result of the fire? If we do a good job, it is natural to game a strong big man, and if we don't play well, we will naturally break up an emerging interest group.
I have written so much, I just hope that everyone has some intuitive understanding of the history of jinguo. In fact, many people, when analyzing the history of Song Jin, often show astonishing ignorance about the history of the Jin Dynasty.
I write this in the hope that when you try to understand the history of the two Song Dynasties, you can also understand the history of Liaojin, because the three histories of Song, Jin, and Liao stand side by side, and the three histories are recorded in parallel.
Speaking of the four major forces, in the era of the Completion Yan A Bone Fight, the four giants of the Golden State were also composed of these four series, but after the Completion Yan Ah Bone was killed, their rankings changed.
In the era of The Completed Yan Akuta, the first major force was the Completed Yan Akuta lineage, he was the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty.
The second largest force was Guanyan Sheng, who was the strongest fourth brother of Guanyan Aku.
The third major force was the Completed Yan Sagae, who was the Minister of State of the Jin Dynasty and the father of the Completed Yan Zonghan.
The fourth major force is the fifth brother of The Completed Yan Gao, the Completed Yan A Bone.
After the death of Yan Akuta, the first major force became the third largest force, the original second largest force took a step forward and became the first major force; the fourth major force took two steps forward and became the representative of the crown prince; the original third force took a step back, but in terms of strength, it was not weakened much.