For the Celestial Kingdom, the Khitan was not afraid of it at all, and it was even too small. Therefore, in many cases, the Tang Dynasty did not take this small nation seriously and was indifferent to the rapid development of its economy, military, system and other aspects. However, it was this laissez-faire and contempt that caused the Tang Dynasty to suffer a lot of losses, and even the fate of the Tang Dynasty changed its direction because of this inconspicuous nation.

At that time, famines occurred in Yingzhou for several consecutive years, no farming and animal husbandry harvest, no place for the people's lives, poor and poor, and the people were living in poverty. In desperation, Li Jinzhong, the chief of the Khitan king and the governor of Songmo Prefecture, reported the disaster to the Tang Dynasty, hoping that the Tang Dynasty could open warehouses to provide relief and solve the survival problems of the people. However, once, twice, three times... several requests, the Tang Dynasty did not respond for a long time, which made Li Jinzhong very anxious.

After some understanding, Li Jinzhong found out that his letter was submitted. Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou, threw it into the trash can without even reading it. Then he turned around and drank and had fun with his concubine and beauty at home, living a drunken and dreaming, as if the life and death of the Khitan people had nothing to do with him.

This made Li Jinzhong very angry. Originally, Zhao Wenhui did not regard the chiefs of all races in his jurisdiction as human beings, and cursed, punched, and insulted wantonly, which made Li Jinzhong very dissatisfied. Now that life is at stake, he still regards his own pleasure, and does not care about starving people outside. No matter how good Li Jinzhong has a good temper, he cannot bear it. After some struggle, Li Jinzhong found his brother-in-law, Sun Wanrong, the governor of Chengzhou, and persuaded him to raise an army to rebel against the Tang Dynasty with him.

What surprised Li Jinzhong was that as soon as the banner of the uprising started to fight, the local people surrendered to the rebel army, and indignantly expressed their intention to oust the rulers at that time and replace them. While Li Jinzhong was surprised, he quickly dispatched troops to prepare for the battle. Under his leadership, the rebel army conquered the cities and territories, with unstoppable momentum.

Looking at the blockbusters he won, Li Jinzhong was excited. He felt an inexplicable enthusiasm in his chest, and the ambitions of the grassland men were spreading their wings and flying. The Khitans no longer had to rely on the fences, and the fearful dream was realizing bit by bit.

The joy of victory gave Li Jinzhong courage and gave him enough courage. He bravely stood up and clearly stated that he would draw a clear line with the Tang Dynasty, no longer be a slave to the Tang Dynasty, but instead turn over as a master, and call himself the "Supreme Khan".

At this time, the ruler of the Tang Dynasty was Wu Zetian. She abolished Li Xian, who had just inherited the throne a few years ago, proclaimed herself to the emperor, changed the country's name to Zhou, and established the capital of Luoyang. Li Xian was demoted by her to King Luling and exiled to the outside world.

Wu Zetian wanted his mother's family to inherit the throne, but she had always struggled to find a legitimate reason. After all, Li was the orthodox recognized by the world. It was natural for her to pass the throne to her son. It seemed that it was incorrect to pass it to the Wu family's children, and it was not right to be followed, and she did not get the support of the officials and the people of the court.

Therefore, when the news of the Khitan's rebellion reached Luoyang, Wu Zetian was ecstatic. This was a good opportunity. The Khitan was almost a small place. Not to mention its influence, it was difficult to compete with the Tang Dynasty. It was naturally easy to quell the rebellion. Therefore, Wu Zetian, who was blinded by joy, did not know the situation in detail at all, so he immediately arranged for the Wu family's children to lead troops to attack, hoping to create an opportunity for them to make achievements and pass the throne to their parents' family legitimately.

However, what disappointed Wu Zetian was that the Wu family's children performed extremely poorly in the process of quelling the rebellion, either escaping or hiding, and some even killed innocent people everywhere. As a result, under the blind command of these incompetent Wu children, the Khitan army was unstoppable and won victory after victory. Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong even took the banner of "Why not return to my King Luling" and clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with the Wu family.

Wu Zetian was so angry that she hurriedly sent someone to contact Mochu Khan of the Turkic Khan, hoping to join forces to suppress Li Jinzhong's Khitan army.

The Turks had long been resentful of the rebellion of the Khitan. After receiving a letter from Wu Zetian, Mochu Khan was very happy and the two hit it off. So, the Turkic army took advantage of Sun Wanrong's troops to lead the south to sneak attack the rear of the Khitan and occupied the new city. Li Jinzhong, Sun Wanrong's wife and children, and other left-behind people all became captives of the Turks.

When the news reached the front line, the Khitan army was shaken and its momentum plummeted. At this time, Li Jinzhong had already passed away due to illness. Sun Wanrong was unable to control his own hands. Seeing that the morale of the army was disintegrating, he was worried. But the Wu Zhou army did not give him a chance to breathe, and took the opportunity to launch an attack. The Khitan army was forced to retreat while fighting. Seeing that the Khitan was about to be defeated, the Xi people under Sun Wanrong immediately surrendered to the Wu Zhou army and helped the Wu Zhou army attack from behind. The Khitan army was defeated in the end.

Sun Wanrong led the remaining subordinates to break out of the siege and fled in a hurry to the east of Lushui, which is east of the North Canal near Tongzhou, Beijing today. After fighting hard, and escaping all the way, Sun Wanrong was exhausted. As soon as he stopped, he felt like his body was about to fall apart, so he had to order everyone to rest in the woods.

The slave who escaped from Sun Wanrong looked at the defeated generals who followed Sun Wanrong and knew that the situation was hopeless, so he took advantage of Sun Wanrong's rest to kill Sun Wanrong. In this way, the Khitan's war against Wu Zhou ended in failure.

But in Luoyang, things were far from over. The war allowed the ministers in the court to see the incompetence of the Wu family's children, so they took the opportunity to stand up and support Li Tang. Wu Zetian had long been disappointed with the Wu family, and now she saw that the Li Tang royal family was the Li Tang royal family, not the Wu family. She knew that if she continued to do her own thing, the matter would be difficult to end, so she had to follow the public's wishes and recalled Luling King Li Xian, and told the people of the world with practical actions that she decided to make the Li family's children the heir.

Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong, who died in hatred, probably would never have imagined that although they were defined as "rebels" by Wu Zetian, they became heroes of the Tang Dynasty to some extent, helping the Li Tang royal family to "take back" their throne and change the fate of the Tang Dynasty!

(This rebellion of the Khitan not only influenced the fate of the Tang Dynasty, but also laid a heavy touch on the literary history of China. Among the Wu clans who Wu Zetian sent to suppress the rebellion of the Khitan, there was a prince named Wu Youyi. This prince himself was not very talented, and was even beaten to pieces like other Wu clans. However, in the process of attacking the Khitan, the prince's men produced a famous aide-Chen Zi'ang.

At that time, Chen Zi'ang saw the Wu Zhou army retreating one after another, so he suggested that Wu Youyi send tens of thousands of people as a front-lift to attack the enemy, but Wu Youyi ignored him at all. Later, Chen Zi'ang made suggestions to Wu Youyi again, and Wu Youyi became angry and demoted him to the sergeant in anger. For this reason, Chen Zi'ang was extremely depressed and had to run to nearby attractions to relax. As a result, he felt moved by the scene and was full of poetry, and wrote the famous "Song of Climbing the Youzhou Platform".)

For more than a hundred years, Khans from the eight Khitan tribes have been selecting from the Dahe clan. A tribe with weak strength like the Yaonian clan never hoped to reach the Dabao one day.

However, the feng shui changed and sooner or later arrived at my house. When the Yaonian clan had been following the Khan of the Dahe clan in obscurity, good luck actually came to visit. The Khan's crown accidentally fell into the tent of the Yaonian clan. A child named Qu Lie in this tribe was elected as Khan.

Qu Liezhan took the hot potato tremblingly, looking around, wanting to find someone to help him with an idea, but the response he received was only dead silent. At this time, no one dared to stand up and oppose, not because he was afraid of the Yaonian tribe, nor did he fully agree with the abolition of the Dahe clan and the establishment of the Yaonian clan, but because he was afraid of taking over military power, being able to kill and kill at will and deposed the Khan.

But at the beginning, Tuo Yu was just a yamen official in the Khitan tribe. Because of his bravery and good fighting, he made many military achievements, and he gradually became a new star in the Khitan tribe. His reputation among the clan became higher and higher, and even showed signs of surpassing the Khan Li Dehuo at that time. However, before the two had time to become opponents, Li Dehuo died. Li Dehuo's younger brother Li Sogu inherited Li Dehuo's position.

Li Sogu was very clear about the situation he was facing. He obviously didn't want to be a puppet, but the military power was in the hands of Kuoyu, which was equivalent to putting a time bomb beside the pillow. If you want to sleep well, you can only remove Kuoyu. After understanding this, Li Sogu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and decided to get rid of Kuoyu first, otherwise he would never have a chance to make a comeback in his life.

So, Li Sogu began to gather his confidants to secretly discuss the "major plan to fight against traitors", and at the same time, he kept recruiting troops and prepared to fight to the death with the Kanji. Li Sogu was very serious. After all, this was a big event, and it was a big event worth fighting against the enemy. As long as you take the first step, there was no room for turning back. It would be either you die or I died.

Just when Li Sogu was secretly happy about his precise plan, dreaming that he had killed Ke Tuoyu with his own hands, and he woke up from the fact that he monopolized the power of the Khitan, reality gave him a blow - the precision plan he had made over countless nights with his subordinates was leaked.

When he learned that Li Sogu was conspiring, Ke Tuyu was naturally furious and immediately rushed to counterattack Li Sogu and his subordinates. At the moment, the army was in front of the army, but the dust raised by the army was everywhere. There was no sight of the people, and he could only see a piece of yellow sand coming from far to near, with murderous aura and magnificent momentum. Li Sogu was shocked suddenly.

This war was won without any suspense. Li Sogu and his defeated generals fled to Yingzhou in a panic, seeking the help of the governor of Yingzhou Xu Qindan. Xu Qindan learned the whole story and was filled with righteous indignation. He immediately expressed his desire to avenge Li Sogu, regain power, and eliminate Ke Tuyu.

So, Xu Qindan ordered his general Xue Tai to lead 500 elite troops, joining the army of Xi King Li Dafu and Li Sogu, and heading towards the Ketuyu army with great courage. As a result, he was beaten to the point of falling flowers and flowing water. Not only that, Ketuyu also killed Li Sogu and Li Dafu in the face of battle, and captured Xue Tai alive.

But suddenly, he became the boss of the Khitan tribe. Just when everyone thought he would become a Khan, he made an unexpected decision - to elect Li Yuyu, another younger brother of Li Wuhua, to be a Khan.

But Tu Yu was very clear about the situation at that time. Although his war with Li Sogu was a civil war, on the one hand, Xu Qindan, an official of the Tang Dynasty, got involved. On the other hand, after Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Li Longji ascended the throne, Li Fuhuo, who was still relying on the big tree of the Turks, immediately led his troops to return to the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was happy and reestablished the Songmo Governor's Office and appointed Li Fuhuo as the governor. Later Khans also inherited the position of Songmo Governor's Office. It can be said that the Khitan Khan was not only the Khitan Khan, but also the official of the Tang Dynasty.

Now, not only did he let the Tang Dynasty suffer a defeat, but he also killed officials of the Tang Dynasty. I believe the emperor must have been so angry that he had long been so angry that he had stared at him. You must know that if the Tang Dynasty was in a big army, it would not be as simple as he could not bear it. I am afraid that the entire Khitan would have to be buried with him. After thinking about it, he immediately asked Li Yuyu to send an envoy to the Tang Dynasty to apologize, and at the same time asked the Tang Dynasty for approval.

After hearing the envoy's words, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was very happy, so he followed the opportunity to give Li Yuyu a title and married a princess in Yan County to him.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Not long after, Li Yuyu died of illness. His younger brother Li Tuyu succeeded to the throne. Li Tuyu and Ketuyu continued to fight openly and secretly, trying to regain power, but ended up losing and fleeing to the Tang Dynasty with the Princess of Yan County.

But Tu Yu made Li Jinzhong's younger brother Li Shaogu the Khan again. But Li Shaogu was an obvious "pro-Tang faction", which made Ke Tu Yu unable to bear it and finally killed Li Shaogu in anger.

In this way, those who hold military power can suddenly abolish their leaders again and again, looking for the obedient "puppet Khan". Although the Tang Dynasty was dissatisfied with this, it was too late to reach and had to let it go.

However, this time I was suddenly confused. It seemed that no matter which one of the Dahe family was Khan, they would try their best to get rid of him and monopolize the power. His interests would never be guaranteed. So, what should we do?

After several days of sleepless thinking, he suddenly came up with a solution that was the best of both worlds - to choose Khan from other weak families. Therefore, Qu Lie, who was born in the Yaonian clan, became this lucky one and was pushed to the position of Khan.

Qu Lie and the entire Yao Nian clan were frightened by this, always walking on thin ice, fearing that he would follow the footsteps of the previous khans at any time. Therefore, Qu Lie would ask Ke Tu Yu about all the big and small matters in the clan before making a decision. This made Ke Tu Yu very happy. He felt that he had finally chosen the right person this time.

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But But Tuo was determined to fight against the Tang Dynasty to the end. He brought rescue troops from the Turks and invaded the northern border of the Tang Dynasty to declare that he was not afraid of the Tang Dynasty! Xue Chuyu, the chief of Youzhou who was responsible for guarding the border in the Tang Dynasty, led tens of cavalry to counterattack, but suffered heavy losses due to underestimating the enemy. The news reached Chang'an, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was furious and wanted to cut Xue Chuyu into pieces. After finally calming down, he immediately sent General Zhang Shougui as the chief of Youzhou to attack Ke Tuyu.

Zhang Shougui was a smart man. He knew that although the army of the Tang Dynasty was powerful, he fought head-on with ethnic groups such as the Khitan and the Turks, even if he won by chance, he would suffer heavy losses. Therefore, after thinking about it, he decided to start from within the Khitan.

He knew that the Dahe clan had been a Khan for more than a hundred years, and his emphasis on power and the Khan position must be deeply rooted, and the Yaonian clan was just an inconspicuous weak tribe. If the Dahe clan willingly gave up the Khan position and let the Yaonian clan rise to the top from now on, it would definitely be more difficult than climbing to the sky.

So he found a man named Li Guozhe, who was a person from the overthrown Dahe clan and was working as a yamen officer in the Songmo Governor's Office. Zhang Shougui knew that he was very dissatisfied with Ke Tuyu's monopoly of power, so he secretly sent someone to contact him, hoping to join forces to get rid of Ke Tuyu.

Li Guozhe was extremely happy. He had long disliked him, but he had no strength to fight against him, and he was not sure that he could defeat him in one fell swoop. If he could steal chickens and lose rice, it would be too much of a loss, so he had to keep his troops still, wait for an opportunity to move.

The arrival of Zhang Shougui's envoy was exactly what he wanted, and the two hit it off. So, Zhang Shougui led his troops to attack Ketuyu head-on, while Li Guozhe secretly ambushed according to the plan. In the end, Zhang Shougui was defeated Ketuyu, and Ketuyu saw that his subordinates were disintegrated, so he had to lead his troops to retreat. At night, Li Guozhe took advantage of the night to kill Ketuyu and Qurekhan and sat on the throne of the Khitan Khan.

However, it may be that the Dahe clan had really been exhausted. After a sudden struggle, the strength and prestige of the Dahe clan had already declined. Although Qu Lie had only been a Khan for a few days, the emerging Yaonian clan was a popular expectation in the Khitan clan. After Li Guozhe became a Khan, the Khitan clan was unwilling to buy his account. Gradually, even his subordinates had a rebellious intention. In the end, Li Guozhe's subordinate Yelu Neri killed Li Guozhe's family and elected Li Huaixiu of Yaonian clan as the Khan, which is the "Khan of Wu" in history.

In this way, the leadership of the Khitan was eventually settled in the hands of the Yaonian clan, which was unexpectedly selected by fate. Khans of all dynasties were also selected from the Yaonian clan and were in charge of all affairs within the clan. Yelu Niri took over military power for generations until his descendant Yelu Abaoji founded the country and posthumously named him the "ancestor of Liao".

The leader of the Yaonian clan alliance is called Khan. The leader of each tribe is called Yilijin, who is elected from the tribal nobles. They have very great power. They can not only participate in the decision on major affairs within the alliance, but also appoint and remove the leader of the alliance.

The military leader of the Yaonian clan alliance is also called Yilijin, and Nili is the first Yilijin in the alliance. Later, Yilijin's position was gradually controlled by the noble families in the tribe, and Yilijin of the Diela tribe served as the other party. They not only held the military power of the alliance, but also decided the alliance's external conquest power, and then controlled all the judgment powers of the entire alliance. In the later period of the Yaonian clan, the leaders of the Diela tribe could even hold the Chaicao ceremony. The so-called Chaicao ceremony was to accumulate firewood as an altar, and the Khan was given a jade book by his ministers, and then burned firewood to worship the sky, which was a symbol of royal power. This means that Yilijin's power was no longer under the Khan during this period! ()
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