Yelü Jing was the eldest son of Emperor Taizong of Liao.
If according to the system of primogeniture, he could easily become a successor emperor, but in ancient times, although the law of succession of the eldest son was established since the Zhou Dynasty, there were still very few strictly observed by various dynasties and generations.
Moreover, the Khitan people, who established the Liao state, were originally formed by the fusion of multiple nomadic tribes, and they did not want to abide by the law of succession of the eldest son, but were ruled by the best leaders among the tribes in turn.
To put it bluntly, it is who is strong and who is responsible.
Yelü Abaoji had a very powerful empress, called Shu Luping, who was called the first iron-blooded broken wrist queen of the Liao Kingdom, and when her husband died, she cut off an arm herself and put it into a coffin as a funeral object. Later, Empress Shulu came to the regency of the dynasty and made a wrong choice in choosing to succeed the emperor.
First of all, she did not like the eldest son, Yelü Be, preferring the youngest son, Yelü Lihu. This is also the common sentiment of people, generally fathers like eldest sons, and mothers prefer children. So this Shulu empress, through her iron fist operation, plundered the firstborn's imperial succession, and made the second son Deguang the emperor, and then the younger son Li Hu as the emperor's brother-in-law.
According to the rules of the Liao State, to be made the emperor's brother was to wait for the emperor to die, and the brother was the first heir to the throne, not the crown prince. Empress Shulu did this in order to support her beloved young son to ascend the throne in the future. Even so, he was always wary of the eldest son's reluctance.
Of course, the eldest son was not convinced, and was deeply hurt by his mother's obvious eccentricity and jealousy, so he defected to Later Tang and was killed when Later Tang perished, and he was also a very sad prince.
Although the second son, Yelü Deguang, became emperor, under the regency of his iron-fisted mother, that is, a puppet, when he understood that his mother's intention was to let his younger son ascend the throne, he was just a transitional person, and the resentment in his heart against her was deepening.
Although Empress Shulu died early, he lived for a long time, and the emperor did a good job. After reigning for more than 20 years, he not only defeated his brother Yelü Bei and unified all of the Khitans, but also adopted Shi Jingyao, the "son emperor", and after cutting off the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, he destroyed the Later Jin in one fell swoop, expanded the territory of the Khitan state to Tokyo, and promoted "one country, two systems", and also issued an edict changing the name of the country "Great Khitan State" to "Great Liao". This feat is also a heavy and bright stroke in the annals of the history of the Liao Kingdom.
In 947, Yelü Deguang died of illness, and Empress Shulu waited for 20 years to finally arrive, expecting that the emperor's brother Li Hu could succeed to the throne. Unexpectedly, the eldest son, who died early, had an even more powerful eldest son named Yelü Nguyen. He proclaimed himself emperor under the support of the generals of the Southern Expedition, that is, in Zhenzhou, to regain the throne that should have belonged to his father.
Empress Shulu was very unhappy, and this eldest grandson came to seize the throne of her beloved young son, so she took Li Hu and led her men and horses to fight her eldest grandson to the death. In the end, the eldest son won, reached the covenant of crossing, and officially became the emperor, known as Liao Shizong.
Soon, the excellent eldest grandson, Yelü Nguyen, was killed by the Yan king Yelü Cha in the fire god Dian, and reigned for only five years. However, after Yelü Jing, who was fighting with the army, killed Yelü Cha and officially took the throne, he became Emperor Muzong of Liao. He was originally the eldest son of Yelü Deguang, his father had been emperor for 20 years, he was the proper crown prince, but the nasty Shulu Empress Dowager had to add an "Imperial Brother" in front of him.
Angry at the incompetence and cowardice of this imperial brother, when the throne was flying all over the sky, he did not have the ability to grab it. In the end, Yelü Jing, who was still refrigerated, took back the throne belonging to his family from his cousin.
Yelü Jing knew in his heart: the throne was grabbed, but the emperor was not easy to do. Surrounded by hungry wolf-like royal children, everyone was coveting the throne, every minute someone wanted to put him to death, and in the first eight years of Muzong's succession, there was no moment.
However, Yelü Jing inherited the wise divine martial arts of his father Deguang, and Muzong, without exception, vigorously suppressed these evil opponents, which basically eliminated the signs of rebellion.
Tai Wei suddenly conspired against gu and rebelled. Uncle Guo's political affairs made Xiao Meigude and Li Wei want to defect south, but they were captured and killed.
His son Yelü Wan was still not convinced, and the rebellion was exposed, implicating a large number of Yelü people, and all those who had two hearts for themselves were arrested and killed by Yelü Jing. Later, Yelü Li's younger son, Yelü Xi, plotted a rebellion and confessed to involve Li Hu, who was arrested and died in prison. At this time, Li Hu finally stopped.
Perhaps after years of killing, day and night exhausted to prevent being killed, Yerushalayim suffered from severe insomnia and a nervous breakdown. He had to get asleep by drinking and getting drunk.
Long-term alcoholism has hurt his nerves, caused him to have conjecture, and feels that everyone around him is the murderer who wants to take his life. Therefore, he often kills the guards around him, does not ask questions, and kills violently almost every day, to see who is not pleasing to the eye, to kill, killing is not addictive, but also to chop the corpse.
What is even more frightening is that when he is drunk, he will kill whoever he wants, and he will casually promulgate his will, who kills his entire family, who destroys his entire clan. Some of the close attendants not only died inexplicably, but also harmed their families. The drunken Jeroboam casually said that he was going to kill whose wife and whose family.
When he was sober, he would also apologize: Oh, I was drunk and talked about it, not really trying to kill your whole family. But what's the use? People have been killed and cannot be revived. Such an emperor, everyone around him trembled, not knowing which day bad luck would come to him.
In February 969, when Jeroboam, who was drunk again, wanted to eat bear meat. But in the winter when the snow closes the mountain, the bears hibernate, where to get bear meat for him? Yelü Jing could not listen to the explanation, and he was about to eat bear meat, and gave the cook Singu an order to eat your meat tomorrow if he could not eat bear meat.
That night, the cook thought that he would not live tomorrow, so he simply did not take two breaks, united several guards around the emperor, and usually hated him. Six people, including the close attendant brother and the Kuren Xingu, stabbed Yelü Jing with a kitchen knife and unloaded him in eight pieces. The last six of them all ran.
Muzong regained the throne from his cousin Sejong, and after eighteen years on the throne, the Liao state declined. As a result, after he was killed, Sejong's second son Yelü Xian took the throne, and the power was once again transferred to Yelü Bei's side, and it continued until the end of the Liao Dynasty.
They all blamed the eccentric Empress Shulu, because because she, the liao throne among the descendants of the three heirs, competed for more than forty years, resulting in political turmoil, her sons and grandsons were killed, the clan rebellion was killed, hundreds of thousands, the blood flowed into the river, and the souls were really sinners of the Liao kingdom.