Continuing Khitan Resistance in the Northeast (1176)

Timeline

1. 1174–1176Shangjing Circuit and Xianping Circuit · NortheastShizong enrolled Khitans who had joined the rebellion into Jurchen meng'an mou-ke units for intermixing, forcing them to abandon herding for farming and changing the surname Yelü to Yila. Unequal taxes and corvée and declining status bred resentment among Khitan tribes in the northeast, with small-scale gatherings defying orders occurring in various places in the 1170s.
2. 1176–1178Northeastern Manchuria · NortheastThe Jin court dispatched the Northeastern Circuit Pacification Commissioner and meng'an mou-ke forces from various circuits to suppress scattered resistance, continuing to break up rebel groups and relocate them southward. By the 1180s, before Emperor Zhangzong's accession, large-scale Khitan uprisings in the northeast were unlikely to recur, but tribal dispersal and identity suppression planted hidden dangers for later rebellions under Zhangzong.