釋氏稽古略 4.383

4.383

金八月起紇石烈執中為右副元帥。將武藝軍三千迎敵大軍。二十日發燕京至紫金關。執中開關延敵。聞大軍過關一時潰走。執中還京見帝言。大軍勢盛難敵。完顏綱亦敗而回。密奏執中故放大軍入關。執中聞之懼誅。先是左副元帥南平沮格軍賞眾共怨之。執中因人心之憤欲廢主。遂回軍以誅南平為名。二十四日軍至東華門外。召南平計事手刃之。宮中聞變門皆不開。執中欲縱火燒門。守門將軍合住啟其門。執中引兵入宮。侍衛皆散走。執中遣兵執帝并其后囚於舊府。甲午（二十六日）夜執中遣內侍李監成弑國主於其府。國主為人仁厚。居兄弟中最賢。在位五年。宣宗立降封為東海郡侯。宣宗諱珣。世宗之孫也。顯宗允恭之長子。九月丙午即位。改至寧元年為貞祐元年。拜紇石烈執中太師都元帥領三省事封澤王。大軍至紫金關。距燕京二百里。遣左監軍高乞以糺軍五千拒之。失期不至。執中欲斬之。國王以高有功諭令免死。執中益其兵令出曰。勝則贖罪。敗則殺無赦。出戰軍大潰。自度必為執中所殺。遂引糺軍圍執中府突入其臥內殺之。退詣應天門待罪。十月辛亥國主以高乞掌兵不欲加罪。盡收執中弑逆之人殺之。拜高乞平章軍國加樞密大使。時大軍圍燕京。又約宋夾攻（金志）。

In the eighth month, the Jin appointed Heshelie Zhizhong as Right Vice Marshal, commanding three thousand Martial Arts troops to meet the enemy's Great Army. On the twentieth day, he departed from Yanjing for Zijin Pass. Zhizhong opened the pass to welcome the enemy; hearing that the Great Army had crossed the pass, his troops immediately collapsed and fled. Zhizhong returned to the capital and, seeing the Emperor, reported that the Great Army's force was overwhelming and hard to resist. Wanyan Gang was also defeated and returned; he secretly memorialized that Zhizhong had intentionally let the Great Army enter the pass. Zhizhong heard of this and feared execution. Previously, the Left Vice Marshal, the Prince of Nanping, had curtailed the troops' rewards, incurring common resentment. Taking advantage of the people's anger, Zhizhong wished to depose the ruler. He then turned his army back under the pretext of punishing Nanping. On the twenty-fourth day, his army reached the outside of the Donghua Gate; he summoned Nanping to deliberate on matters and stabbed him to death with his own hands. Hearing of the uprising within the palace, all the gates were kept closed. Zhizhong wished to set fire to the gates, but the gate-guarding general Hezhu opened them. Zhizhong led his troops into the palace, and the attendants and guards all scattered and fled. Zhizhong dispatched soldiers to seize the Emperor along with his Empress, imprisoning them in his old residence. On the night of the jiawu day (the twenty-sixth day), Zhizhong dispatched the palace attendant Li Jiancheng to assassinate the ruler of the state in his mansion. The ruler was of a benevolent and generous nature, the most worthy among his brothers; he had reigned for five years. When Xuanzong was enthroned, he demoted him post-mortem to Marquis of Donghai Commandery. Xuanzong's taboo name was Xun; he was a grandson of Shizong and the eldest son of Xianzong Yungong. On the bingwu day of the ninth month, he ascended the throne and changed the first year of Zhining to the first year of Zhenyou. He appointed Heshelie Zhizhong as Grand Preceptor and Grand Marshal, concurrently overseeing the affairs of the Three Departments, and enfeoffed him as Prince of Ze. The Great Army reached Zijin Pass, two hundred li from Yanjing. The Left Army Supervisor Gao Qi was dispatched with five thousand Jiu troops to repel them; failing to arrive at the appointed time, Zhizhong wished to behead him. The King of the State, on account of Gao's prior merits, issued an order sparing him from death. Zhizhong reinforced his troops and ordered him out, saying, 'If you are victorious, your offense will be redeemed; if you are defeated, you will be executed without pardon.' Going out to battle, the army suffered a great rout. Gauging that he would certainly be executed by Zhizhong, Gao then led his Jiu troops to surround Zhizhong's mansion, burst into his bedchamber, and killed him. He then withdrew to Yingtian Gate to await his punishment. On the xinhai day of the tenth month, because Gao Qi held military authority, the ruler of the state was unwilling to inflict punishment on him. He arrested all of Zhizhong's treacherous confederates and executed them, appointing Gao Qi as Manager of Governmental Affairs and concurrently Grand Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs. At that time, the Great Army was besieging Yanjing and had also agreed with the Song to launch a pincer attack (Record of Jin).