One time, in the war between the Khitan tribe and the Liu family father and son of Youzhou, Hendejin Khan's son was captured. After Hendejin Khan learned the news, he was stunned for a long time and came back to his senses until the people around him urged him to come back. Just as everyone was waiting for him to swear passionately with Liu family father and son, he retreated silently. Not only did he not send troops to save his son, but he chose five thousand good horses and begged the Liu family father and son to allow him to exchange the horse for his son.

The Liu family and his son were surprised, and at the same time they also felt that Hendejin Khan was a soft persimmon, so they had to pinch it well if they could. So they rejected Hendejin Khan's request and hinted that he showed more "sincerity".

After hearing this, the Khitans were extremely angry and felt that the Liu family and his son were too bullying, and they all expressed their desire to fight to the death with them. However, Hendejin Khan ignored the righteous indignation of the tribe members, but respectfully begged for an alliance from the Liu family and promised to accept bribes regularly from then on. At the same time, he took his tribe members back to the north overnight and did not dare to move south again rashly.

All of this made the competitive Khitans very unhappy. They tried their best to inspire Hendejin Khan to "get out", but they were always futile.

Finally, someone came up with a good idea, so he told Hendejin Khan that Liu Rengong set fire to the Khitan pastures after autumn frost every year, causing a large number of livestock in the tribe to starve to death due to lack of forage, and even the tribesmen were often starved to death due to hunger, hoping that Hendejin Khan would seek justice for his tribe.

What surprised the Khitans was that after a few days of contemplation, Hendejin Khan held a tribal meeting and said that he should give Liu Rengong more BMW horses and ask him to sell them to Khitan some pastures.

Abaoji knew very well that these weak styles of Hendejin Khan made his tribe very dissatisfied. So he took advantage of this great opportunity to propose to elect Khan in accordance with the legitimate traditional system.

According to the customs of the Khitans, those who become Khan must have virtue and achievements, otherwise they should abdicate and give way to the wise. During the reign of the weak and incompetent Khan, he not only did not help the tribe members accumulate wealth, but also did not strengthen the Khitans, and even put shame on the Khitans. Therefore, as soon as A Baoji's suggestion was put forward, it received strong support from the tribe members.

As a result, Abaoji won the support of most of his tribe without any suspense and became the new Khan of the Khitan Alliance.

After becoming the Khitan Khan, Abaoji still led his troops to fight everywhere, expanding the territory of the Khitan to most areas north of the current Great Wall, and joining with Li Keyong, exchanging war robes, war horses, etc., and defeating Liu Rengong together, gaining a lot of wealth.

On the other hand, Abaoji continued to cultivate his own personal forces, established his own personal guards, and established a Zong Zhengguan who specialized in managing the affairs of the royal family, namely Tiyin, and prepared for the future founding of the country and becoming emperor.

(Abaoji's uncle Yelu Shilu had a wife, Xiao, who loved each other and became a traitor with Yelu Shilu's youngest son Yelu Huage. Yelu Huage was worried that his father would punish him in the future when he knew that his mother would punish him, so he joined forces with Yelu Sugu and Xiao's brother to design and kill his father. The news came out that Yilijin Yelu, the Diela tribe who was supported by Shilu, escaped overnight. The Diela tribe was in danger overnight, and civil strife would happen at any time.

At this time, Abaoji was just a small tarma Shengshali, but he was not afraid of hardships and stood up and volunteered to Khan Hendejin to take on the important task of solving the case. Surprisingly, he quickly solved the case, brought Yelu Yanguzhi, Xiao and his brothers to justice, and stabilized the situation of the Dila tribe. It was this incident that made Abaoji successfully sit in the position of Yilijin of the Dila tribe.)

As the Khan throne continued to consolidate, Yelu Abaoji focused more on conquering other grassland ethnic groups, in an attempt to build a new grassland empire. After conquering Shiwei, Wugu, Jurchen and other tribes, Abaoji turned his attention to the tribes in the west, and the first ones were the Xi tribe and the Black Chezishiwei.

The black carriage Wei was a small ethnic group. He quickly surrendered under the continuous conquests of the Khitan cavalry. However, the Xi tribe still struggled with the Khitan tenaciously, which gave Abaoji a headache, but also inspired his courage and determination to conquer the Xi tribe.

The Xi tribe was originally called Kumoxi, and was simply called Xi tribe during the Sui Dynasty. Before the Khitan took the stage of history independently, it was just an unknown small tribe, hiding under the wings of the Kumoxi tribe alliance.

Later, as the Khitans gradually grew, the two ethnic groups parted ways on the basis of peaceful negotiations and developed independently: the Khitans were nomad in the Huangshui and Tuhe Basins east of Lengjing Mountain, while the Xi people lived in the upper reaches of the Tuhe area west of Lengjing Mountain.

After hundreds of years like this, the two families are sometimes as close as one family: when this family is in trouble, the other family will also help, and when that family is in crisis, this family will also lend a helping hand. Sometimes they fight and fight together, and they want to kill you and die, and from then on, they will monopolize the things in Lengjing Mountain. However, after fighting, neither of the two ethnic groups has the tendency of one to rise or fall, but will prosper and become stronger together.

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. After two tigers fight for a long time, one will definitely have the upper hand and the other will have the lower hand. In the process of long-term unity and struggle, the Khitan gradually mastered the laws of grassland survival and continued to improve itself, becoming a tiger, steadily gaining the upper hand.

Especially when Abaoji's grandfather served as Yilijin, the Khitan had become the best among the surrounding tribes. When the powerful Khitan thought of the entanglement for hundreds of years, he was so angry that he couldn't sleep at night and couldn't eat. They felt that the time for the winner had come, so they began to use large-scale troops against their former companions and enemies, the Xi tribe. The result was obvious that the Xi tribe was defeated and some tribes were forced to surrender to the Khitan.

Afterwards, under the continuous conquest of the Khitan, the Xi tribe gradually divided into three parts: part of it became the captives of the Khitan, that is, the conquered Xi; part of it was nomadic in the north of the middle and eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains and the Pipachuan area, which was the eastern Xi; the other part moved west to the western section of the Yanshan Mountains and was the western Xi.

When Abaoji was serving as Yilijin, the Khitan persuaded the Eastern Xi to surrender and continuously strengthened the control of the Eastern Xi, which made some people in the Eastern Xi who were unwilling to be enslaved by the Khitan to escape to the Western Xi. After Abaoji became the Khan, some people in the Khitan who opposed Abaoji also defected to the Western Xi. Western Xi suddenly became a thorn in Abaoji's side, and Abaoji wanted to get rid of it quickly at all times.

At this moment, a rebellion broke out among the conquered Xi Zhong tribes placed in Wuma Mountain. A Baoji was furious. After quelling the rebellion, he took his anger on Xi in the west and personally led the army to advance towards Xi in the west with a proud and proud spirit.

The terrain of Xi in the western region is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, the Khitan army is new and unfamiliar with the terrain. After several rounds of attacks, the Khitan army did not gain any advantage.

This made Abaoji angry and angry. He remembered the war between his ancestors and the Xi tribe in the last few hundred years, but they were still equal. He hated the kind of battle that only bloodshed and died, charges but no victory. At the same time, he was very clear that once the war fell into a protracted war, it would be very unfavorable to him. Not to mention that the soldiers would miss their hometown, their morale was low, and their delay in seeing victory would also hit the soldiers' confidence, not to mention that they came from afar, and once the food was not collected, they would lose terrible.

Thinking of this, Abaoji gradually calmed down and began to think about a new way to conquer Xi from the West. Finally, he had a flash of inspiration and decided to take a two-pronged approach: while constantly urging troops to conquer Xi from the West, he knew the power of the Khitan and sent people to persuade him to surrender.

However, what surprised Abaoji was that the effect of persuading surrender was not obvious. Since there were both anti-Khitan elements in the Xi tribe in the western Xi tribe who interfered in, and the Khitan nobles who opposed Yelu Abaoji's rule continued to lobby. As a result, there were very few Xi tribes who surrendered. Even if a few surrendered today, they might change their minds tomorrow and leave.

This annoyed A Baoji. So he reorganized his troops, re-formulated combat plans, and made emergency deployments, and began to kill the Western Xi on a large scale. For a time, the Khitan soldiers and horses were so powerful that the fighting sounded throughout the sky, and the whole way was unstoppable. Not long after, he completely captured most of the Western Xi, and the remaining small part retreated in a hurry to the puppet states. It was not until Emperor Taizong of Liao Yelu Deguang acquired the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun that he completely surrendered to the Khitan.

All of this was seen by the Eastern Xi. They had joined the Khitan without taking a single shot, so they did not expect that the Khitan was so fierce that they almost destroyed the entire Western Xi. Looking at the tragic experience of their fellow tribes, their hearts were surging, as if they had seen the future of their own tribe. Some people could no longer bear it and began to openly oppose the Khitan rule.

Seeing that the wave had just settled, the waves were rising again and again, he felt that he had let the Xi tribe go for too long and it was time to teach them a lesson. So he immediately rushed to advance eastward and divided his troops to fight against the Xi tribe in the eastern part. The result was naturally a great victory.

In this way, Xi in the west and Xi in the east were conquered by the Khitan one after another, and the land where the Xi tribe lived was also owned by the Khitan. The territory of the Khitan Empire was further expanded, reaching the Yanshan Mountains in the south (that is, the Great Wall line) and to Yinshan in the west.

(After Xi in the west and Xi in the east became subordinates of the Khitan, new problems arose again. The Xi tribe and the Khitan tribe alliance have the same management system. It is obviously unrealistic to force the Xi tribe into the management of the Khitan tribe and abolish their original regime. But, otherwise how should we manage the Xi tribe?

A Baoji was not stumped by this problem. He decided to learn from the Central Plains dynasty, reorganize the Xi tribe, retain the five tents of the original Xi royal family, and allow them to continue to enjoy the treatment of the original Xi royal family, all under the jurisdiction of the Xi royal family. In addition, the Xi royal family still has relatively independent tribal freedom and sovereignty, so the Xi tribe became a veritable "national autonomous region" under the "one country, two systems". By the time of Emperor Shengzong of Liao, King Xi offered his tent land and began to be completely managed by the Khitan tribe.)

After Abaoji became Khan, he was in great success. He continued to fight against the outside world and adjust to the inside, making Khan's power increasingly greater and gradually become a supreme symbol. However, just as Abaoji was proud of his great achievements, all kinds of envy and jealousy followed one after another, and more and more jealous people began to dream of Khan silently.

At that time, according to the Khitan tradition, the position of Khan was a world-selected system, which means that as long as the adult men of the Yelu family had the ability and achievements, they had the opportunity to become the next Khan. However, Abaoji became addicted to being a Khan and did not want to give up the position of Khan according to the tradition. In this way, his adult uncles and younger brothers were unhappy and secretly sharpened their knives, trying to solve the problem of Khan's change of leadership by force.

The first ones who could not bear it were Lage, Dila, Yindishi and Anrui. After they colluded, they closed the door and discussed how to get rid of Abaoji and seize the position of Khan. After a long time, Anrui's wife discovered it. After she learned that Anrui and the other four were going to plot to rebel, she was frightened all day long and restless, and finally made up her mind to inform Abaoji.

A Baoji was furious and decided to take the initiative first, so he immediately sent someone to arrest the four younger brothers who had rebelled. However, after all, they were their own brothers. A Baoji really couldn't bear to kill them, so he had a deep conversation with them "opened up" and said that he did not want to occupy the Khan's position, but he would have to wait for the next time to re-election.

Seeing that A Baoji not only did not punish them, he also talked to him so sincerely, he was deeply moved and expressed his willingness to believe A Baoji. In order to give them peace of mind, A Baoji took them to climb the mountain and kill the animals, and swore to the sky that he would hand over the Khan position at the next re-election meeting.

The next term change meeting will come soon, which made A Baoji so angry that he was so angry that even if others didn't know, he knew very well that he had just used a delaying strategy before. He had not sat in the position of Khan enough, so how could he let it go? But what should I do? At this time, A Baoji was leading troops to attack the surrounding tribes. With a sudden inspiration, he sent someone to tell his younger brother that he was busy with military affairs and really couldn't take time to attend the term change meeting.

When the younger brothers saw that A Baoji had a pigeon again, they were very upset, so they got together to discuss what to do. After discussing, they came to the same conclusion as before: they could only use force to force A Baoji to abdicate and give in to the virtuous. This time, in addition to the four people last time, the new Tiyin Yelu Huage also joined the rebel team.

After some conspiracy, they decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Abaoji to lead troops to conquer Shubugu's troops to hijack Abaoji to attend the election conference. So they led their troops to attack the triumphant Lage in Pingzhou, and turned the spearhead on the way, blocking Abaoji's return, attempting to force Abaoji to convene the election conference of Khan and hand over the war drums and flags that symbolize Khan's power - "drums".

A Baoji never expected that his brother would attack him when he was triumphant. For a moment, he was shocked and angry. But after all, he had been through the battlefield for a long time and had extraordinary concentration. He quickly calmed down and began to think about how to deal with this trouble.
Chapter completed!