When Yelu Deguang entered the city gate, the residents of Bianzhou were frightened and ran around shouting. The situation was once out of control. Yelu Deguang climbed up to the high building and asked the translator to help him shout to the people: "We are also people's work, not ghosts' work. You people, don't be afraid. The imperial army will bring you a happy life. Besides, Yes, we don’t have to come, it’s obviously you Han people who brought me here.”
When he reached the south gate of the palace, Yelu Deguang dismounted and saluted the palace first, then entered and walked around. In the evening, he left the palace and set up his imperial tent outside the city.
The next day, the second day of the first lunar month, Yelu Deguang arrested Yang Guangyuan's eldest son Yang Chengxun, sentenced him to death for "killing his father and rebelling against the Liao Dynasty", chopped him into minced meat, and then gave it to the soldiers to eat raw. Later, Yang Chengxin, Yang Guangyuan's second son, was appointed as the military governor of Pinglu Army in Qingzhou, and Yang Guangyuan's old army was allocated to him.
After Yelu Deguang entered Bianzhou, he immediately set up a special task force to investigate Sang Weihan's death. The case was solved in just one day because the strangulation marks on the body's neck clearly showed that he had not hanged himself.
At this time, Gao Xun, whose uncle and brother were brutally killed by Zhang Yanze, ran to Yelu Deguang and cried out about Zhang Yanze's atrocities. Zhang Yanze's despicable acts in Bianzhou came to light.
Yelu Deguang ordered the arrest of Zhang Yanze, and then asked all civil and military officials whether this person should die?
Everyone said in unison, "Damn it!"
On the third day of the first lunar month, Zhang Yanze was taken to the north city of Bianzhou and beheaded in public display. Yelu Deguang specially ordered Gao Xun to supervise the execution. The descendants of the victims killed by Zhang Yanze, dressed in heavy mourning and holding spiritual tablets, cried and howled bitterly at the execution ground, cursed the heinous devil with the most vicious prophecies, and knocked him to the ground with sticks.
Gao Xun ordered his men to cut off his hands, remove the handcuffs, and then disembowel his body and dig out his heart to pay homage to all the souls he had mutilated. The people beat him on the head until the skull was broken into pieces, and then cut and ate his flesh.
If Yelu Deguang wants to rule the Central Plains, he must win the favor of the Han people in the Central Plains. Therefore, on the way south, he has always put on a generous and benevolent posture to appease the officials, the army and the people. When choosing the pioneer officer of Bianzhou, he also spent a lot of time. After much thought, he wanted to find a highly respected person in the later Jin Dynasty to accurately convey this signal of peace and lay the foundation for his future rule of the Central Plains.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yanze did the opposite, bringing killing and terror to Bianzhou and intensifying ethnic conflicts. Yelu Deguang had to sacrifice Zhang Yanze, make amends after the situation was lost, and barely rebuild the Khitan people's image of being glorious, correct, generous and caring for the people.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Yelv Deguang sealed Shi Chonggui as the "Marquis of Yiyi" and moved to Huanglong Mansion.
Huanglong Mansion is located in today's Nong'an County, Gaoguanchun City, Jilin Province. It was originally Fuyu Mansion of the Bohai Kingdom. Yelu Abaoji annexed the Bohai Kingdom. He died of illness here on the way to the army. It is said that a yellow dragon appeared in the sky, so the Khitan people renamed Fuyu Mansion. Huanglong Mansion. Tell people that Yelu Abaoji transformed into a dragon and ascended to heaven.
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the second emperor Huiqin was captured by the Jin people and went north, and was also imprisoned here.
Yelu Deguang sent someone to tell the Queen Mother of the Later Jin Dynasty, saying that I heard that Shi Chonggui did not listen to you, which is why the troubles have reached this stage. You don't need to go to the north.
The Queen Mother replied: "Shi Chonggui was very filial to me. His mistake was to disobey the late emperor's will and sever the friendly relations between the two countries. Today, I am grateful to Emperor Aweng (the exclusive honorific title for Yelu Deguang) to show mercy and spare his life. The mother does not follow the son. , where do you want to go?"
As a result, the Queen Mother, Shi Chonggui, Queen Feng, the emperor's brother Shi Chongrui, the princes Shi Yanxu, Shi Yanbao and other families moved.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Shi Chonggui and all members of the royal family were transferred to Fengchan Temple for detention. Fengchan Temple was heavily guarded and no one was allowed to approach. Yelu Deguang often sent people to express condolences. Whenever they heard that Yelu Deguang had sent an envoy, Shi Chonggui's family was filled with fear, fearing that they would be silenced.
He was detained like this for more than ten days, during which it snowed continuously. Although Yelv Deguang expressed condolences, he did not provide any food or drink. In Fengchan Temple, apart from the snow on the ground and the snowflakes flying in the sky, there was only the biting northwest wind. Shi Chonggui's family suffered a double blow, both physical and mental.
The Queen Mother sent someone to find the abbot of the temple, the great monk, and wanted to ask for some food, but the monk refused. The Queen Mother was sad and angry, and questioned them, saying that the Ai family often come to you to give alms, and each time they have to provide tens of thousands of monks. Now that we are in trouble, don't you monks who are compassionate and don't know how to repay?
"Homo Amitabha, that's good, that's good," the great monk said as he rushed to the door. "Who knows what the Khitan people's temper is like? If someone blames you, we can't bear it. Please forgive me, the donor. It's a sin."
Shi Chonggui secretly prayed to the guards and barely got a little food.
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, 300 Khitan cavalry escorted Shi Chonggui and others and set off northward, ordering Zhao Ying, Feng Yu, and Li Yantao to accompany them. Along the way, the Khitans still did not provide any food. Officials from counties along the way wanted to provide meals, but the Khitans refused.
Along the way, the palace maids were responsible for picking wild grass and wild fruits. Shi Chonggui and the Queen Mother were so hungry that they could only kill the livestock and swallow them half-cooked to satisfy their hunger.
Shi Chonggui walked alone in his own country. None of the officials who used to sing praises around him dared to see him off. Only Li Hub knelt on the roadside to greet him, weeping opposite Shi Chonggui, blaming himself that it was his incompetence that had brought His Majesty to dust, and presented all the things he brought with him.
Pull them down, my Jin Dynasty is dead, what's the use of saying this.
When Shi Chonggui passed by the Zhongdu Bridge, he saw the dilapidated military camp left by Du Chongwei. He had mixed feelings and looked up to the sky and wailed: "How did our Shi family mistreat you? You caused our family to be destroyed. Oh my God!" He cried loudly and left. .
Walking to Ji County (today's Jizhou District of Jin City), which is the border between the Later Jin Dynasty and the Khitan, when passing a bridge, Shi Chonggui looked back and knew that he would never return to his homeland alive. He was despairing, so he named the bridge I gave it a name - Returning Home Bridge.
More than a hundred years later, the Second Emperor Huiqin of the Northern Song Dynasty also went north here. The locals told them that this was the Returning Home Bridge and was named after Shi Chonggui, the Young Emperor of the Jin Dynasty. Emperor Huiqin also had all kinds of feelings in his heart.
When they arrived at Youzhou, the people in the city all ran to both sides of the road, scrambling to see the appearance of the king who had subjugated his country. When they saw the emperor's miserable state, they all shook their heads and sighed.
After a short stop for rest, they continued on their way to Jinzhou (today's Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province). The Khitan people forced Shi Chonggui and others to kneel down and worship the portrait of Yelu Abaoji. For Shi Chonggui, this was an unbearable shame and humiliation.
Shi Chonggui cried and shouted: "Xue Chao, you have made me suffer! Why are you stopping me? It would be better if you let me die in the first place to avoid the humiliation today."
If you want to die, it's not too late.
