Shi Jingyao must have known everyone, right?
He was the son emperor who ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the Khitans, and recognized Emperor Taizong of Liao, Who was more than ten years younger than himself, as his father and established the Later Jin Dynasty.
Who is Shi Zhonggui and how is he? I'm afraid not many people can say it clearly.
If you don't read the history books, you only know that he was the second emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty and the last one.
Let's talk about the events recorded in the history books, which are recorded in the Old Book of Jin:
In 934, the Later Tang general Hedong Jiedu had Li Congke launch the Qiyang Mutiny, and the Later Tang Min Emperor Li Conghou, who had fled from Luoyang Cangjiao, collided with the general Shi Jingyao.
Shi Jingyao captured Li Conghou and offered it to Li Congke for merit, but did not exchange Li Congke's trust.
Finally, two years later, in 936, Li Congke took the lead and besieged Shi Jingyao in Taiyuan, who was forced to ask the Liao state for help, declaring himself emperor and ceding Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.
Six years later, in 942, Shi Jingyao died, and his nephew (also adopted son) Shi Chonggui succeeded to the throne, the emperor reigned for five years, dared to say "no" to the Khitan who wanted to be at peace, but eventually destroyed the city and was captured in Fan state.
After this, I am afraid that not many people will know until the excavation of this object.
It is not easy to preserve the tombstone of Shi Chonggui, which was unearthed in the village of Huangdaoyingzi in Wulan and Shuo Township, Chaoyang County, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, which is more than 1,100 kilometers away from The Tokyo Bieliang where Shi Chonggui has lived for a long time.
Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, was called Jianzhou in ancient times, and the epitaph records the story of the Shi Jin family before and after they arrived in Jianzhou.
The amount of information in this epitaph is very large, so let's temporarily stand in the perspective of the Liao people and examine Shi Jingtang and Shi Chonggui's father and son.
The epitaph inscription roughly means as follows:
Lu Longjun jiedu had a pusher named Niu Zangyong ordered to write this epitaph. Shi Chonggui, the King of Jin, was a descendant of Later Zhao (in fact, it should not be), and his father was Shi Jingyao, the ancestor of The Jin Dynasty, who died seven years after Gaozu Tianfu, and Chonggui succeeded him in front of the coffin, with the national name "Kaiyun". Thinking that year, Gaozu Shi Jingyao sat in a distressed city, and almost encountered an accident, the Great Khitan Emperor Taizong rushed to the rescue, and Shi Jingyao promised to pretend to be a son. Clinker, Shi Zhonggui listened to the rumors of the traitorous courtiers, and did not call him a vassal or pay tribute. Emperor Taizong had no choice but to use his troops again, capture him in Liaoyang Province, Tokyo, and later move to Jianzhou to build "Anjin City" for it. On June 18, the sixth year of Boryeong (974), when Shi Chonggui died at the age of sixty-one, the emperor attached great importance to this matter and sent the writer Lang Feng Kan to be responsible for matters such as sacrifices, and to handle the affairs of the posthumous affairs with the etiquette of the king. Buried in Kunyuan near Anjin City in October of that year, Gao Xun was also a Han courtier who surrendered to the Liao state, and he was impressed by the old lord, and ordered the official Niu Zang to write this epitaph, directly describing the affairs of the first lord and the first country.
By interpreting the inscriptions, we can think about it and get a lot of historical information at our fingertips.
1. This epitaph was ordered by Gao Xun of the Han Dynasty, and only a word has been said about the Liao-Jin war that has been repeatedly tug-of-war for several years, is that history too difficult to look back on.
2. The epitaph rarely records the life and deeds of the tomb owner, so that we do not know what kind of person Shi Chonggui is, but it is very detailed about how he betrayed his faith before and how he was placed later, whether the Khitan people only paid attention to their own reputation.
3. Shi Chonggui did not receive the treatment of the King of Jin at all during his lifetime, at best he was a high-ranking prisoner, and after his death, he was indeed buried with the etiquette of the king, which was not a kind of appeasement to the Han courtiers in the Liao Dynasty.
All in all, this is an overly informative epitaph, but it is unconventional, and it feels like an official statement telling us a history of treachery in the Later Jin Dynasty, but it does not say what kind of person Shi Chonggui is.
Nowadays, the epitaph of the King of Jin is lying quietly in the exhibition room on the first floor of the Liaoning Provincial Museum, which may not be so brilliant compared with national treasures such as "Lady You Chuntu of the State of Yu" and "Ruihe Tu", and it is also eclipsed compared with the epitaph of The Liao Daozong.
However, the historical events recorded in it are of great significance, and on the basis of the historical records, a "hat" is added to make history more full.
If you have time, go to the museum to see it, it is much more meaningful than playing mahjong.