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丁未年春正月。遼兵至大梁。晉帝與太后已下上表乞降。迎於封丘門外。遼主辭不見。封晉帝為負義侯。置於黃龍府。即慕容燕之和龍城也。遼主改服中國衣冠。百官起居皆如舊制。遷晉帝李太后憑后北行。後宮左右從者百餘人。契丹三百騎援送之。二月遼主還國。以蕭翰為大梁節度使。翰述律太后兄之子。其妹復為遼主后。翰始以蕭為姓。自是契丹后族皆稱蕭氏。述律太祖阿保機之后也。夏四月遼主回至臨城得疾。及欒城病甚。丙子至殺胡林而卒。國人為剖其腹實鹽數斗載之北去。晉人謂之帝羓。初河東節度使劉知遠。聞遼主入汴。分兵守四境以防侵軼。於是將佐勸知遠正尊號號令四方。知遠不許。軍士皆曰。今契丹執天子天下無主。番漢孔目官郭威都押牙楊邠勸進。知遠從之。二月辛未即皇帝位。乃更稱天福十二年。改國號曰漢。契丹蕭翰聞漢帝擁兵南來。遂欲北歸。恐中國無主。時有唐明宗子李從益。與母王淑妃在洛陽。翰迎而立之。以為帝。帥諸酉長拜之。百官謁見。淑妃泣曰。吾母子卑弱如此。而諸公所立是禍吾家也。翰留燕兵千人守諸門為從益宿衛。翰乃辭行。漢帝至洛陽。命鄭州防禦使郭從義。先入大梁清官殺李從益及王淑妃。漢帝至大梁。復以汴州為陳京。國號漢。

In the dingwei year, in the spring, the first month, the Liao troops reached Daliang. The Jin emperor, together with the Empress Dowager and those beneath them, submitted a memorial begging to surrender, going out to greet them outside the Fengqiu Gate. The Liao ruler declined to grant an audience. He enfeoffed the Jin emperor as the Marquis of Spurned Duty and stationed him in Huanglong Commandery, which was Helong City of the Murong Yan. The Liao ruler adopted Chinese garments and headgear, and the daily court protocol of the civil and military officials was entirely conducted according to the old system. He relocated the Jin emperor, Empress Dowager Li, and Empress Feng to travel north; more than a hundred palace ladies and attendants accompanied them, escorted by three hundred Khitan horsemen. In the second month, the Liao ruler set out to return to his kingdom, appointing Xiao Han as military commissioner of Daliang. Han was the son of the elder brother of Empress Dowager Shulü, and his younger sister had become the empress of the Liao ruler. Han was the first to take Xiao as his surname, and from then on the Khitan consort clan was all called the Xiao clan. Shulü was the empress of Taizu Abaoji. In the summer, the fourth month, on his way back, the Liao ruler fell ill upon reaching Lincheng; when he reached Luancheng, his illness worsened. On the bingzi day, he reached the Shahu Forest and died. His countrymen cut open his belly, filled it with several pecks of salt, and conveyed him north; the people of Jin called him the “Imperial Jerky.” Earlier, Liu Zhiyuan, the military commissioner of Hedong, hearing that the Liao ruler had entered Bian, divided his troops to guard the four borders to prevent incursions. Thereupon his generals and aides urged Zhiyuan to adopt the imperial title and issue orders to the four quarters. Zhiyuan did not grant permission. The soldiers all said, “Now the Khitans have seized the Son of Heaven, and the realm is without a master.” The tribal and Han staff officer Guo Wei and the chief military officer Yang Bin urged him to ascend the throne, and Zhiyuan complied. In the second month, on the xinwei day, he ascended the throne of the Emperor. He then redesignated the year as Tianfu 12 and changed the state title to Han. When the Khitan Xiao Han heard that the Han emperor was gathering troops and coming south, he wished to return north; yet fearing that the Central Realm would have no ruler, at that time there was Li Congyi, a son of Emperor Mingzong of the Tang, who was in Luoyang with his mother, Noble Consort Wang. Han welcomed him and enthroned him as emperor, leading the tribal chieftains to pay him homage, and the officials all had audience. The Noble Consort wept and said, “We mother and son are so base and weak, yet you gentlemen enthrone him—this will bring ruin to our family.” Han left a thousand troops of Yan to guard the various gates as Congyi’s night guard, and then took his leave. When the Han emperor reached Luoyang, he commanded Guo Congyi, defense commissioner of Zhengzhou, to enter Daliang first to cleanse the palace, killing Li Congyi and Noble Consort Wang. The Han emperor arrived at Daliang and once again made Bianzhou the capital of Chen, with the state title of Han.