kublai khan defeated the last song emperor of china.
kublai khan defeated the last song emperor of china.
who defeated the last song emperor of china?
kublai khan
in the eighth year of zhiyuan (1271), kublai officially created the yuan dynasty and proclaimed the capital as dadu (, lit. "great capital", known as khanbaliq or daidu to the mongols, at modern-day beijing) the following year. his summer capital was in shangdu (, "upper capital", also called xanadu, near what today is dolon nor). to unify china, kublai began a massive offensive against the remnants of the southern song in 1274 and finally destroyed the song in 1279, unifying the country at last at the battle of yamen where the last song emperor zhao bing committed suicide by jumping into the sea and ending the song dynasty.
kublai khan
in 960, the later zhou general zhao kuangyin overthrew guo rong's son and successor guo zongxun, establishing a new song dynasty as its emperor taizu. guo rong's cousin li chongjin rose at yang prefecture (揚州, i.e., jiangdu) but was quickly defeated by the song emperor — after he sought southern tang aid but was refused by li jing. still, after song forces quickly defeated li chongjin and li chongjin committed suicide, the song emperor postured that he might cross the yangtze and attack southern tang. li jing successively sent yan xu, and then feng yanlu (along with li jing's son li congyi (李從鎰) the duke of jiang) to pay homage to the song emperor to reaffirm his vassal status. when the song emperor, in speaking to feng, accused li jing of communicating with a rebel to song, feng, surprising the song emperor, responded, "your imperial majesty only knew of communications, but not that my lord was in fact participating in the treason planning." when the song emperor asked for elaboration, feng responded:
feng yanlu