Beizhen was one of the royal cemeteries of the Liao Dynasty, for which a special Xianzhou was also set up to protect the mausoleum, but in the Jin, Yuan dynasty did not pay attention to this area, and when the Ming Dynasty took precautions against Jurchen, Mongolian and other foreign tribes, Beizhen once again became a border defense town, known as one of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.
In the thousand-year history of Beizhen, there are two most famous figures, one is Empress Xiao and the other is Li Chengliang.
After the death of her husband Emperor Jingzong of Liao, Empress Xiao succeeded to the throne by her 12-year-old son Yelü Longxu, who was regent by Empress Xiao, and four years later, Emperor Taizong of Song believed that Emperor Shengzong of Liao was young and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the Liao state, so the army divided into three ways and launched a large-scale northern expedition, but the whole line collapsed, and the main general Yang Ye was captured by the Liao army. Eighteen years later, the Liao state went south to attack the Song Dynasty, forcing the Song Dynasty to reach an "alliance with liaoyuan", and empress Xiao was indispensable behind this series of military, political, and diplomatic victories.
After Empress Xiao's death, she and Emperor Jingzong of Liao were buried at the foot of Lu Mountain in Beizhen. And set up the north town as Xianzhou, its purpose is to protect the imperial tomb, this ancient city gate is the south gate of Xianzhou City at that time.
There is also a stone square on the south side of the ancient city gate of Beizhen, which was built by Zhu Yijun, the Ming God Sect in the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty, in recognition of the merits of Li Chengliang, a great general of Liaodong.
So what great merits did this Li Chengliang have that would cause the imperial court to set up an office for this?
Li Chengliang is a native of Tieling, Liaodong Province, whose ancestral home is Korea. The Ming Dynasty gave his family hereditary command of Tieling Wei, but Li Chengliang was not very mixed, because his family was poor, he did not have money to go to Beijing to inherit the official position of commanding Youshi, and only forty years old did he enter Beijing with the support of others to inherit the official position, and later promoted to the general of Liaodong Dangerous Mountain, and began his glorious military history of defending Liaodong.
Liaodong was the most troublesome place for the imperial court, because it was originally the homeland of the northern nomadic Jurchens, and there were often big fights between large and small tribes, and the Han people were also in constant strife, plus the Mongols and Koreans often came to stir up, almost every day to fight, it was simply a big battlefield.
In the twenty-two years before Li Chengliang defended Liaodong, he made more than 15,000 meritorious contributions, and he was sure to succeed in his career, which had not been seen in two hundred years, and solved the problem of the imperial court being disturbed by foreign tribes. His military merits accumulated to the highest among the people, and the imperial court crowned him as Ning Yuanbo. This Xianzhou City Gate became Li Chengliang's point general platform.
Noble and proud, this word is also reflected in Li Chengliang,
From then on, Li Chengliang, who was an extremely popular subject, was extravagant, took the people under his own name, made friends with the officials of power and the imperial court, and was impeached by Yan Guan in the nineteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, and Li Chengliang was dismissed from his post as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. In the ten years that Li Chengliang left Liaodong, eight managers were changed, but there was no way to balance the situation in Liaodong, and there was no way to use Li Chengliang to guard Liaodong again in the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, when Li Chengliang was 76 years old, and he guarded the town in Liaodong for another eight years. He became a famous general of the Ming Dynasty who had been in Liaodong for 30 years.
At that time, Nurhaci was captured by Li Chengliang as his subordinate, and later because the Ming army accidentally killed Nurhaci's grandfather and father, Nurhaci held a grudge, perhaps out of guilt, Li Chengliang opened one eye to Nurhaci's expanding power.
As a result, in 1616, the year after Li Chengliang's death in 1615, Nurhaci was proclaimed Khan in Hetuala, established Houjin, and divided Liaodong, which also shows that When Li Chengliang was alive, Nurhaci never dared to be called Khan, which shows Li Chengliang's prestige.
Some people say that Li Chengliang was both a hero of the Ming Dynasty and a sinner of the Ming Dynasty, because he did not curb Nurhaci in time to make his power grow, and as a result, after his death, Nurhaci rose up, waved his division south, and finally replaced the Ming Dynasty into the Central Plains.
In fact, it does not matter whether it is or not, everything is a number of days.