When we tell a historical figure or a historical story, most of us choose famous people, but today we are talking about a figure who was not famous in the Han Dynasty, but at that time, he was a big figure with unlimited power in a high position, and he was Ren Dejing.
Ren Dejing was a defending general of the Southern Song Dynasty, and when the Western Xia attacked, Ren Dejing did not put up the slightest resistance, but directly surrendered. And in order to show his determination to surrender, Ren Dejing also dedicated his 17-year-old daughter to Li Qianshun, the emperor of Western Xia at the time.
Li Qianshun was already 54 years old, and after empress Xian's death, he was so distressed that he was delayed in standing up, and the moment he saw Ren Dejing's daughter, it seemed to awaken his heart again. Li Qianshun was very fond of Ren and it didn't take long for him to make her a noble concubine.
And Li Qianshun did not know that all this was just a ploy by Ren Dejing. He knew very well that although his daughter was favored at the moment, the emperor was old and could leave at any time, and the safest thing to do was to let the emperor make his daughter empress. Therefore, Ren Dejing did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to win over the officials of the imperial court and let them advise the emperor.
In the end, Ren succeeded in becoming an empress, and Ren Dejing was also "a father and a daughter", and was given the title of commander of the Jingzhou Capital. Sure enough, less than a year after Ren became empress, Li Qian died by the way, and Li Renxiao, who was only 16 years old, took the throne, and Ren also became the empress dowager because he was respected by the people of Western Xia.
At the beginning of Li Renxiao's reign, Ren Dejing repeatedly led troops to suppress rebellions, and his official position became higher and higher, but he was not satisfied with this, but wanted to replace Li Renxiao and establish himself as king, but in the end he failed miserably, which was inseparable from his own reasons.
Ren Dejing was extremely ambitious, but he did not know how to win the hearts and minds of the people, and only threatened Li Renxiao, forcing him to give way to himself, and then using the emperor's rules to squeeze the people, causing the people's dissatisfaction. And he also re-established the imperial palace in Lingwu, Ningxia, and wanted to create a new dynasty, but in this way, he was completely accused of being an anti-thief.
Ren had dissuaded his father many times, but he had gone so far as to listen to anything. Soon after, Ren died of day and night sorrow, and Ren Dejing never received real support, and his plan to become emperor was doomed to failure.
At that time, Western Xia was not an independent state, it was administered by Dajin, so the monarch of Western Xia had to be approved by Dajin. After Jin Guo heard about this incident, he also sent someone to understand the situation, and after knowing this, he resolutely refused to recognize Ren Dejing's position. Without the approval of the suzerainty, the emperor who was respected was also in vain.
Ren Dejing was very upset after knowing Jin Guo's attitude, and he wanted to defect to the Southern Song Dynasty again. He wanted to use the strength of the Song army to attack the Jin Kingdom in order to achieve his goal of establishing himself as king. However, this matter was known to Jin Guo because there was no careful chance, so he took the initiative to attack Ren Dejing's army.
The unprepared Ren Dejing and his subordinate families were annihilated in one fell swoop, the crisis of the division of Western Xia was resolved, and the power of Western Xia was once again returned to the hands of the Li family, only four months after the death of Empress Ren.