Wanyan Liang

Timeline

1. 1138–1148Huining Prefecture, Shangjing · Jin ShangjingAfter Xizong ascended, Wanyan Liang, as Taizu's direct grandson, was enfeoffed as Prince of Qi, later changed to Prince of Hailing, rising to Chancellor and participating in court politics. Talented and ambitious, he gradually cultivated a private faction at court, opposing the conservative imperial kinsmen.
2. 1141–1149Huining Prefecture, Shangjing · Jin ShangjingAfter the Shaoxing peace Xizong neglected government; Wanyan Liang took the opportunity to win over ministers Wanyan Bingde, Tangkuo Bian and inner-court consort Tangkuo Dingge, forming a coup group. In 1149, punished by Xizong over an affair, he was further resolved to seize the throne and intensified plans for regicide.
3. 1150Huining Prefecture, Shangjing · Jin ShangjingIn the first month of 1150, Wanyan Liang led Bingde, Tangkuo Bian and others into the inner palace, assassinated Xizong (Wanyan Hela), and immediately proclaimed himself emperor, changing the era name to Tiande. After the coup he ruthlessly purged the Taizong line of imperial kinsmen, posthumously named Xizong Emperor Daoping, and transferred the Jin throne to Taizu's direct line under Prince Hailing.
4. 1150Yanjing · YanjingIn the year of accession Wanyan Liang began sinicizing reforms, abolishing the boljie system, strengthening central authority, and preparing to relocate the capital to Yanjing (later renamed Zhongdu). In 1150 he executed inner-court figures involved in the coup, including consort Tangkuo Dingge, to consolidate the new regime's rule.