Zi Zhi Tong Jian

Chapter 61 The Later Han Dynasty: Bloodbath on the Great Liang (1)
[Original text]

King Qi of the Later Jin Dynasty was lucky for three years

In Guiyou, it was not yet clear, Yan Ze sealed the Qiumen and broke in. Li Yantao commanded five hundred forbidden soldiers to go there, and he could not be stopped.Yan Ze Dun sent troops outside the gate of Mingde, causing great disturbance in the city.

The emperor caught fire in the palace, and drove more than ten people from the harem to the fire with his sword, which was held by Xue Chao, a pro-army general.Eer Yanze sent a message from the Kuanren Gate to the Lord Khitan and the Empress Dowager to comfort him, and summoned Sang Weihan and Jing Yanguang, and the emperor ordered him to put out the fire, and opened the gate of the palace.Sitting in the garden, the emperor gathered with his empress and concubine and wept. He summoned Fan Zhicao, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, to surrender, claiming that "Sun Nanchen is a noble man, and his misfortune is to the delusion of the gods, and his fate is destined to perish. Today, with the empress dowager and his wife Feng, the family lives in the countryside Face-to-face to deal with crimes. Send male Zhenning Jiedu envoy Yanxu and prestige Jiedu envoy Yanbao to greet him with one national treasure and three golden seals." The Queen Mother also listed on the table as "the new wife Li's concubine".Fu Zhu'er entered Xuanqidan's command. The emperor took off his yellow robe and put on a plain shirt.The emperor's envoy summoned Zhang Yanze to make plans.Yan Ze said: "I have no face to see Your Majesty." The emperor called him back, but Yan Ze smiled and said no.

Or persuade Sanweihan to flee.Wei Han said: "My minister, the fugitive will be safe!" Sit down and wait for your life.Yanze summoned Weihan by the emperor's order.When Weihan went to Tianjie, he met Li Song. Before he could finish speaking in the horse, some military officials bowed to Weihan in front of the horse and went to the bodyguard department.Weihan knew it, so Gu Weisong said: "Serving China is the country, and today the country is dead, so why not make Weihan die instead?" Song felt ashamed.Yanze sat down to see Weihan, and Weihan reprimanded him and said: "Last year, the Duke was taken out of the sinners, the town was restored, and he was given military power. Why should he be so grateful!" Yanze couldn't respond, so he sent troops to guard it.

【Translation】

The third year of Qi Wang Kaiyun in the later Jin Dynasty (946 A.D.)
On December [-]th, before dawn, Zhang Yanze had already led his army to break through the Fengqiu Gate and enter the city. Li Yantao led five hundred forbidden troops to meet the enemy, but failed to stop them.Zhang Yanze then stationed his army outside the Mingde Gate, and chaos ensued in the city.

Later Jin emperor started to set fire in the palace, and personally held the sword to drive away more than a dozen people in the harem who were about to jump into the flames, but was held hostage by the pro-army general Xue Chao.Not long after, Zhang Yanze passed the letter from the Khitan Lord to the Empress Dowager from outside the Kuanren Gate to express his comfort, and called Sang Weihan and Jing Yanguang to come. The Emperor of Later Jin immediately ordered the fire to be extinguished and all the palace gates to be closed. all open.The emperor of the later Jin Dynasty sat in the royal garden, hugged and wept with his concubines, and summoned Fan Zhi, a Hanlin scholar, to ask him to draw up a surrender form, saying: "Sun Nanchen is noble, catastrophe is imminent, bewitched by gods and ghosts, luck has come, and destiny perishes. Now, with the Empress Dowager and his wife, Feng Shi, the whole family lined up in the countryside with their hands behind their backs and waited for their crimes to be committed. The sons of Zhenning Jiedushi Shi Yanxu and Weixin Jiedushi Shi Yanbao specially sent a national treasure and three gold seals out of the city Greeting." The Queen Mother also declared herself "Bride Li's Concubine".Fu Zhu'er then entered the palace to read out the edict of the Khitan Lord. Later Jin Emperor hurriedly took off his yellow robe, put on plain clothes, kowtowed to accept the edict, all the attendants in the palace covered their faces and wept.Later, Emperor Jin sent someone to summon Zhang Yanze to discuss matters with him.Zhang Yanze said: "I don't have the face to see Your Majesty." The emperor sent someone to summon him again, but he just smiled but didn't respond.

Someone persuaded Sanweihan to flee.But he said: "I am a minister, where else can I escape?" Then he sat quietly and waited for orders.Zhang Yanze summoned Sang Weihan into the palace under the guise of the emperor's order. When Sang Weihan walked to Tianjie, he met Li Song, so he stopped his horse and talked to him. Before he finished speaking, he saw a military officer in front of the horse.揖Please ask Sang Weihan to go to the Department of Guards as soon as possible. Sang Weihan knew that he would not be spared, so he turned his head and said to Li Song: "Your servant is in charge of the government. Now that the country is destroyed, you let me die instead. This is why Huh?" A look of shame suddenly appeared on Li Song's face.Zhang Yanze sat down arrogantly to meet Sang Weihan, and Sang Weihan scolded him: "Last year, you were promoted from the sinners, and you were given command of a large town and military power. How can you be so ungrateful?" !" Zhang Yanze couldn't deal with it, but sent troops to guard Sang Weihan strictly.

[Original text]

Yanze launched a large-scale plunder, and the poor took advantage of it, and also fought to enter the rich house, killing people to take their goods, and within two days, the capital was completely empty.Yanze lived in a mountain of treasures, and he claimed to have contributed to the Khitan. He entertained himself with wine and entertainment day and night, and there were often hundreds of riders coming and going. His banners were all inscribed with "Heart is the main thing", and everyone who saw it laughed.The sergeant came forward to arrest the criminal, Yan Ze didn't ask what the criminal was doing, but he glared at him and pointed three fingers, and immediately drove him out and cut off his waist collar.Yan Zesu disagreed with Gao Xun, the envoy of the Gemen, and went to his home while drunk, killed his uncle and younger brother, and killed the heads of all the sects.Shimin shuddered.

Li Tao, a member of Zhongshushe, said to the man, "I can't help but go to see him instead of fleeing in the ditch." Nai cast a stab at Yan Ze and said, "Please kill Li Tao, the Taiwei man, and come here to ask for death." Ze Xin readily took it, saying to Tao, "Is she afraid today?" Tao said, "Tao's fear today is the same as the fear of the past. Let Gaozu use Tao's words, and everything will be safe!" Yan Ze laughed loudly. , Order wine to drink.Tao led away, as if there was no one else around.

In Jiaxu, Zhang Yanze moved the emperor to the Kaifeng mansion, and he was not allowed to stay for a while, and the palace wept bitterly.The emperor, the empress dowager, and the queen rode shoulder to shoulder, and more than ten palace officials and eunuchs followed, and everyone who saw them shed tears.The emperor knows that the gold and pearls in the inner treasury are with him.Yanze made people sarcastically said: "The Lord of Khitan has arrived, this thing cannot be hidden."

【Translation】

Zhang Yanze allowed the soldiers to plunder wantonly, and the poor also took advantage of the chaos to break into the rich's homes to kill and rob. It lasted for two full days before they stopped, and at this time the capital had been completely looted.Gold, silver and treasures piled up in Zhang Yanze's residence. He thought he had done something to the Khitan, so he drank and had fun day and night; Lord" four words, everyone who saw him laughed at him.The sergeant captured the criminal and escorted him to him. He didn't ask the responsibility for the crime at all, but just raised his middle finger with his eyes wide open, as a signal to his subordinates to pull him out and cut him in half.Zhang Yanze had always been at odds with the envoy Gao Xun, so he went to his house while drunk, beheaded his uncle and younger brother, and threw the corpses in front of the door.The scholars and civilians shuddered after seeing it.

Li Tao, a member of Zhongshushe, said to others: "Instead of fleeing to the ditch and avoiding death, I might as well go to see him." Then he asked someone to hand over a famous assassin to ask for an audience with Zhang Yanze and said: "Please die Li Tao, the Taiwei, now. I came here specially to ask you to die." Zhang Yanze received him without hesitation, and asked Li Tao, "Are you scared today?" Li Tao said, "My fear today is just like your fear back then. If Gaozu had followed my advice, Li Tao, Why did the matter come to this point today!" Zhang Yanze couldn't stop laughing when he heard this, and asked someone to bring wine to Li Tao, and Li Tao filled his glass and drank it all, and then left as if no one else was there.

On the [-]th, Zhang Yanze moved the Later Jin Emperor to Kaifeng Mansion, and he was not allowed to stay for a while, so the palace cried.The emperor of the later Jin Dynasty, the queen mother and the empress rode on the shoulder car, followed by more than a dozen people including palace officials and eunuchs on foot.Everyone I met on the road wept bitterly.Later, the emperor of Jin took all the gold, silver and jewels in the inner treasury with him, and Zhang Yanze sent someone to mock him: "After the Khitan Lord comes, these things can't be hidden at all."

[Original text]

After the emperor returned it, he also divided it into Yanze, who chose to take his rare goods, and granted the rest to Khitan.Yanze sent Li Yun, the commander of the crane control, to guard the emperor with soldiers, and he was unable to understand the inside and outside.Princess Digu Wushi bribed the gatekeepers to enter into the Dijue, holding each other and weeping.Return to the first place and die.The Khitan master seals that the emperor and the empress dowager presented were first shown to Yanze, and then dared to issue them.

That evening, Yanze killed Sang Weihan.With the belt to add the neck, Bai Khitan Lord, said that it has its own scriptures.The Khitan Lord said: "I have no intention of killing Weihan, what is the reason for this!" He ordered him to caress his family generously.Both Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing surrendered under the Khitan Ya tent.The Lord of Khitan claimed that Yanqing was defeated in the battle of Yangcheng, so he asked him.Yanqing said: "At that time, I only knew that I would do my best for the Lord of Jin, and today I must die." Lord Khitan laughed and explained.

In the 12th year of Tianfu, Gao Xun sued Zhang Yanze for killing his family in the Khitan Lord, and the Khitan Lord was also angry with Yanze for plundering the capital, and Fu Zhuer locked him up.Proclaimed the crime of Yanze to all the officials, and asked: "Should I die?" They all said: "Should I die."

(End of this chapter)