釋氏稽古略 4.286

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遼春三月。金人破中京（奚國也）。天祚在燕京聞報甚懼。即日出居庸關。率騎兵五千西奔雲中府。留宰相張琳李處溫與燕王淳守燕。淳居燕二十年得人心。天祚趨漁陽入夾山。李處溫等三月十七日會百官父老。立燕王曰天錫皇帝。改元建福。下詔廢天祚為湘陰王。天錫以燕雲平中京上京遼西六路奄為己有。沙漠以北西南面西北路招討府諸番部族。天祚主之。稱保大二年。遼國自此分矣。八月燕帝淳病薨。諡曰宣帝。無嗣。越王蕭幹會百官父老。議立燕帝妻蕭氏為皇太后。權主軍國事。奉迎天祚次子秦王為帝。蕭氏即位於柩。前改元德興。天祚聞淳死。下詔削淳官爵。并妻蕭氏降為庶人。賜姓虺氏。金主趨中京。天祚走及夏國。十二月金人抵居庸關（遼志）。

In the Liao, in the spring, the third month, the Jurchens broke through Zhongjing (the Xi kingdom). Tianzuo was in Yanjing and was terrified upon hearing the report. That very day, he left Juyong Pass, leading five thousand cavalry to flee westward to Yunzhong Prefecture. He left Chancellors Zhang Lin and Li Chuwen to defend Yan together with Chun, the Prince of Yan. Chun had resided in Yan for twenty years and had won the hearts of the people. Tianzuo headed towards Yuyang and entered Mount Jia. On the seventeenth day of the third month, Li Chuwen and others convened the hundred civil officials and elder notables, enthroning the Prince of Yan as Emperor Tianxi, changing the reign era to Jianfu, and issuing an imperial edict demoting Tianzuo to Prince of Xiangyin. Tianxi annexed the six circuits of Yan, Yun, Ping, Zhongjing, Shangjing, and Liaoxi as his own possession. Tianzuo governed north of the desert, as well as the southwestern front, the Pacification Offices of the Northwestern Circuit, and the various barbarian tribes, calling it the second year of Baoda. From this point, the Liao state was divided. In the eighth month, the Yan Emperor Chun fell ill and died; he was given the posthumous title Emperor Xuan. He had no heir. Prince Yue, Xiao Gan, convened the hundred civil officials and elder notables, and they deliberated to establish the Yan Emperor's wife, Lady Xiao, as Empress Dowager to temporarily oversee military and state affairs, while preparing to welcome Tianzuo's second son, the Prince of Qin, as emperor. Lady Xiao ascended the throne before the coffin and changed the reign era to Dexing. When Tianzuo heard of Chun's death, he issued an imperial edict stripping Chun of his official titles and nobility, and demoted him and his wife, Lady Xiao, to commoners, conferring upon them the surname Hui. The Jurchen ruler advanced towards Zhongjing. Tianzuo fled as far as the Xia state. In the twelfth month, the Jurchens reached Juyong Pass (Liaozhi).