Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, Shidebala

Timeline

1. 1311–1315Huaizhou · HenanYingzong was born in Huaizhou and received a Confucian education from childhood, mastering Han culture. Renzong intended to make him heir; Yingzong once modestly declined, saying that with an elder brother alive, Heshili should be made heir and he should serve as assistant, but Empress Dowager Daji refused. He grew up in his Huaizhou fief during this period, laying the intellectual foundation for his later Confucian reforms.
2. 1316Dadu · BeijingAt the urging of his grandmother Daji, Renzong designated Shidebala as crown prince on dinghai day of the twelfth month of the third Yanyou year, granting him the golden seal and establishing his household. Censor Duan Fu and others requested the selection of worthy tutors, which Renzong approved. Chancellor Tuotuo was appointed tutor to the crown prince, and Daji used this to consolidate the Hongjila faction's power.
3. 1317–1320Dadu · BeijingIn the tenth month of the sixth Yanyou year Yingzong received the jade tally, with an edict that all offices report to the crown prince first before memorializing the throne, nominally overseeing both the Central Secretariat and the Bureau of Military Affairs. He was reverent and diligent daily in state affairs, preparing for accession. After Renzong's death in 1320, Yingzong ascended the throne on the eleventh day of March with the support of Daji and Tuotuo.