The life of Wanyan Yongji

Wanyan Yongji was cowardly, mediocre and incompetent since he was a child. He had no insight and weak ability to recognize people and manage politics. However, in front of Shizong, Zhangzong and the courtiers, he showed a prudent, mature and indifferent attitude. look like.

In the eleventh year of Dading (1171), Wanyan Yongji was named King Xue. In the same year, he was granted the title of King Xi.

In the seventeenth year of Dading (1177), hereditary Meng'an was granted. In the twenty-fifth year of Dading (1185), the third division of Yitong was added.

In the twenty-sixth year of Dading (1186), he was the Secretary Supervisor.

In the twenty-seventh year of Dading (1187), he was transferred to the Ministry of Punishment. In the twenty-eighth year of Dading (1188), inspections were made in front of the palace.

In the twenty-ninth year of Dading (1189), Wanyan Yongji's father Jin Shizong passed away, and his nephew Jin Zhangzong Wanyan Jing came to the throne and named him King Lu.

In the second year of Mingchang (1191), he was granted the title of King of Han. In the second year of Cheng'an (1197), he was granted the title of King of Wei. In the winter of the eighth year of Taihe (1208), Jin Zhangzong, who had many doubts about the kings, decided to let Yongji concurrently serve as the military governor of Wuding Army to control the military power. Soon after, he ordered Yongji to join the court and named him a lieutenant in the Fufu Palace. Check and control the clan. Yongji also became the closest person to Jin Zhangzong. When Zhang Zong was selecting a successor to the throne, he noticed that his prince had not yet been born, so he secretly summoned Yong Ji and said: If there is a boy among the two unborn princes in the future, they should be established as heirs; if they are both boys, Those who can be established must be selected to ensure that Zhang Zong's descendants will always hold the imperial power. Yongji understood the idea and agreed firmly. So Yongji succeeded to the throne by luck.

Jin Zhangzong died of illness in November of the eighth year of Taihe (1208). At that time, Zhangzong had no children and Concubine Jia and Concubine Fan were still pregnant. Concubine Li of Yuan Dynasty, eunuch Li Xinxi, political minister Wanyan Kuang of Pingzhang and others planned to make Wanyan Yongji emperor in the same month. The following year the name was changed to "Da'an".

After Wanyan Yongji ascended the throne, in order to keep the throne, he immediately poisoned Concubine Jia, ordered Concubine Fan to have an abortion, and cut her hair into a nun.

In August of the second year of Da'an (1210), Wanyan Yongji established his son, King Wanyan Ke, as the crown prince. While the Jin Dynasty was experiencing constant chaos, the Mongols were already fully fledged. In the sixth year of Taihe (1206), Temujin unified all Mongolian tribes and established the Great Mongolian Kingdom, called Genghis Khan. Initially, Genghis Khan still paid tribute to Jin and once met Yongji, King of Wei Shao. After the death of Jin Zhangzong, Genghis Khan heard that Yongji had succeeded to the throne and was extremely contemptuous, claiming: "I used to think that the emperor of the Central Plains was a messenger sent from heaven, but how could there be such a cowardly person?"

< p> Genghis Khan intended to attack the Jin Kingdom, and first sent troops to attack Xixia, which was a vassal of the Jin Kingdom. Xixia asked Jin for help, but Wanyan Yongji sat idly by and did nothing to save him. Xixia surrendered to Mongolia, Genghis Khan's army became increasingly powerful, and the Jin Dynasty was in danger and desperately counterattacked.

In the spring of the third year of Da'an (1211), Mongolia paid tribute. After Wanyan Yongji sent heavy troops to the mountains, he wanted to attack and kill the Mongols when they entered. However, some of the Yi troops of the Jin Dynasty went to report the news to the Mongols, and the Mongols were skeptical at first. However, the messengers kept coming, and the Mongols sent people to spy on them before they believed it was true, so they delayed their advance. The Yi army was the armed force of the Khitan and other northern tribes. Although it was controlled by the Jin Dynasty, it was at odds with the Jurchen rulers. At this time, it was more clearly inclined to the emerging Mongolian aristocracy. Wanyan Yongji's plan to harm Genghis Khan failed to materialize. Genghis Khan not only stopped paying tribute to Jin, but also preemptively attacked Jin. Facing the powerful offensive of the Mongolian army, Wanyan Yongji was helpless and could only cry with his ministers. In September of the same year, the Mongolian army approached Zhongdu. Because the city defense was strong and heavily defended, Wanyan Yongji adopted the suggestion of fighting to the death and defended tenaciously. He defeated the Mongolian army and saved Zhongdu.

In the fourth year of Da'an (1212), Genghis Khan once again personally conquered the Kingdom of Jin and once surrounded Datong Prefecture in Xijing, Jin Dynasty. In the same year, Yelvliu Ge, a Khitan man, launched an army against the Jin in present-day Jilin Province. Within a few months, the number grew to more than 100,000. Yeluliuge attached himself to Mongolia and defeated the Jin soldiers at Dijinao'er (near today's Changtu, Liaoning). The situation of the Jin Dynasty became even worse. In August of the first year of Zhining (1213), Genghis Khan once again led his army to approach Zhongdu. At this time, the right deputy marshal Hu Shahu, who was responsible for defending the north of Zhongdu, had fled when the Mongolian army went south two years ago, abandoning Xijing (today's Datong City, Shanxi Province) and fled back to Zhongdu. Wanyan Yongji not only did not punish him, but he still reused him as a general. When the Mongolian army approached, he still went hunting and ignored defense. Wanyan Yongji sent envoys to the military camp to urge him sternly. Hu Shahu became so angry that in the early morning of August 25, he contacted Wanyan Chounu, Pucha Liujin, Wugu Lunpi and others to rebel and stormed into the east side of the central capital through Tongxuanmen. Huamen, occupied the palace. The next day, Wanyan Yongji was kidnapped and left the palace. Soon, the eunuch Li Sizhong was sent to poison Wanyan Yongji with poisonous wine.

In September, Wanyan Xun was welcomed as emperor, namely Jin Xuanzong. Hu Shahu asked Fei Yunji to be made a commoner, and ordered more than 300 officials to discuss it in the court. The prince's young master Aotun Zhongxiao and the bachelor's student Pucha Sizhong supported Hu Shahu, but 30 people, including Wudu, the minister of household affairs, and Tian Tingfang, Shiyi, asked Yunji to surrender and become a prince. Hu Shahu insisted on the previous proposal, so Jin Xuanzong had no choice but to demote Yunji and grant him the title of Marquis of Donghai County. In October, Marshal Shuhu Gaoqi, the right supervisor of the army, killed Hu Shahu.

In the fourth year of Zhenyou (1216), Emperor Xuanzong of the Jin Dynasty issued an imperial edict to resurrect Yunji as King of Wei, with the posthumous title Shao, and later generations called him King Shao of Wei.