All the ministers in the court clapped their hands to Zhao Siwen in secret, waiting to see Shu Luping being speechless and embarrassed, but Shu Luping remained calm and immediately replied: "The children are young, but the country cannot be unowned for a day, so I cannot follow the late emperor for the time being!" As he said that, he waved his sword, cut off his right hand without hesitation, and ordered people to send this hand to A Baoji's tomb to bury him for his own burial.

This time, Shu Luping originally used this ruthless move when he was forced to do so, but unexpectedly he received an unexpected effect. Her ruthless spirit of cutting off her wrists allowed all the civil and military officials in the court to experience the lethality of the empress dowager. From then on, no one dared to sing a rebellion with her again.

Shuluping was very satisfied with this situation. She felt that the time was ripe and it was time to make her next plan - to push her second son Yelu Deguang to the throne.

At this time, the Liao ancestral tomb was just completed. After choosing a good day to bring Abaoji into the burial tomb, the prince Yelu Bei, who had already known his mother's mind, decided to resign voluntarily. So he led his ministers to ask Shuluping to ask his younger brother Yelu Deguang to inherit the throne.

This made Shuluping very happy, but in order to show her fairness and justice, she asked her two sons to stand together on horseback, and then said to the civil and military officials and nobles in the court: "They are both my sons, and I like them as much as they do, so it is really difficult to let me choose one of them to inherit the throne. So, let's choose who to be your new emperor, and take his horse's reins."

Although Shuluping was very polite and serious, the ministers knew that they could not take it seriously. The sixteen months of killing had scared them to their neurasthenia. Who would dare to fight against her? So they took the reins of the second prince Yelu Deguang, and the prince Yelu Bei was left alone.

Shuluping was overjoyed when he looked at the election results, so he "according to public opinion" and asked Yelu Deguang to inherit the throne. That is, Emperor Taizong of Liao, who respected Luping as "Empress Dowager Yingtian" and appointed Xiao Wen as the empress.

(When Abaoji returned to Fuyu, Yao Kun, the envoy of the Later Tang Dynasty, came to meet him. Yao Kun told Abaoji that Li Cunxu had been killed, and Li Keyong's adopted son Li Siyuan inherited the throne and expressed to Abaoji that Li Siyuan was willing to communicate with the Khitan. So Abaoji took the opportunity to force Yao Kun to agree to give Youzhou to the Khitan, but after all, Yao Kun disagreed. Abaoji was furious and wanted to kill Yao Kun. After everyone's persuasion, he reluctantly agreed to lock him up first and then talk.

At this time, news came that Abaoji's younger brother Yelu Diela was assassinated and died. Abaoji's remaining energy had not yet subsided, and he was immediately angry and fainted on the bed. After several days and nights of treatment, Abaoji's condition did not improve, and it became worse and worse. At the same time, someone saw a smoke-like object coiled over Abaoji's tent, which was like a yellow dragon. After a while, he entered the tent. Then the sky was filled with purple and black air, and it gradually disappeared after a day. The next day, another meteorite landed in front of the tent. Not long after, Abaoji drove away.)

When Yelu Deguang ascended the throne, the Khitan had basically completed the great cause of grassland unification. Therefore, after dealing with his brother Yelube and quelling several small rebellions, he focused most of his energy on economic development.

After a few years like this, Yelu Deguang looked at the prosperous and prosperous empire and felt that it was time to consider the next development strategy of the empire. At this moment, a man named Sang Weihan came from the south, saying that he was here to recognize his relatives for his master Shi Jingtang and wanted to recognize Yelu Deguang's father.

Yelu Deguang was speechless. Shi Jingtang was more than ten years older than him, but he came to recognize him as his father. Isn't it a joke? But he thought again, if he counted, Shi Jingtang did have such a little relationship with him.

When Shi Jingtang was young, he had been following Li Siyuan, the adopted son of Li Keyong. At that time, Li Keyong and Li Cunxu and Zhu Wen of the Later Liang Dynasty fought fiercely. Shi Jingtang seized the opportunity, charged forward and made many contributions. He even saved Li Cunxu from danger many times, so he was quickly valued and gradually became Li Siyuan's confidant. Later, Li Siyuan married his daughter to him and ordered his personal soldiers.

In this way, Shi Jingtang was Li Keyong's grandson-in-law, and Li Keyong once fought with Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, who in other words, Shi Jingtang was indeed Yelu Deguang's son and nephew.

However, the alliance between the Later Tang and the Khitan had long been broken, so the so-called brotherhood was naturally unavailable. At this time, Shi Jingtang came to recognize his relatives. What was the purpose of? Yelu Deguang couldn't help but carefully analyze the situation in the Central Plains.

After Li Cunxu became emperor, he was incompetent and cruel, and gradually lost the hearts of the people, leading to the mutiny in Weizhou. After Li Cunxu learned about it, he was furious and immediately ordered Li Siyuan to lead his troops to suppress the rebellion. As a result, after arriving in Weizhou, Li Siyuan's army also rebelled, united with the rebels in Weizhou to support Li Siyuan as the emperor.

Li Siyuan was shocked and naturally refused, but Shi Jingtang refused. He tried his best to persuade Li Siyuan to become king. In the end, Li Siyuan led his troops to capture Luoyang and killed Li Cunxu, and became emperor naturally. In this incident, Shi Jingtang made great contributions, so he rose to prominence and sat in the position of Hedong Jiedushi.

At this time, Li Siyuan was already dead, and his son Li Conghou ascended the throne. Li Conghou was suspicious and always felt that his father's godson, Fengxiang Jiedushi Li Congke and Hedong Jiedushi Shi Jingtang, would definitely have bad intentions and always be prepared to kill himself and replace him. This made him very confused. He couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep well, thinking day and night about how to weaken their power.

The people around Li Conghou naturally soon discovered his thoughts, so someone gave him an idea to let Li Congke and Shi Jingtang change their positions.

Of course, Li Congke and Shi Jingtang were unwilling, especially Li Congke. After hearing this, he was furious and rebelled in Fengxiang and led his troops to attack Luoyang. Shi Jingtang judged the situation, so he also rebelled, imprisoned Li Conghou, and then went to ask for credit from Li Congke. In the end, Li Congke sent people to kill Li Conghou and became the emperor himself.

However, Li Congke was just the adopted son of the Li family, and the throne was not legitimate. He had few soldiers and was very cowardly, so he was regarded as a emperor and even took out the queen's jewelry to reward the soldiers.

Shi Jingtang was not only the true son-in-law of the Li family, but also guarded Hedong, one of the largest vassal states. He was many times stronger than Li Congke, which made Li Congke very uneasy. Shi Jingtang naturally knew that he was suspicious, so after attending Li Siyuan's funeral, he did not dare to ask to return to Hedong. He was frowning and depressed all day long. In the end, he was so thin that he was skinny and unbearable. In the end, his wife pleaded with Empress Dowager Cao and was able to return to Hedong.

After returning to Hedong, Shi Jingtang was worried all day long, cautious, as if walking on thin ice. In the end, he decided to test Li Congke, so he pretended to write a letter to resign from his position as the chief officer of the horse and infantry and requested to be a governor elsewhere. If Li Congke agreed, it means he was still doubting himself. Unfortunately, Li Congke did not understand Shi Jingtang's profound meaning at all. With a big stroke, he approved Shi Jingtang's request and asked him to be a governor elsewhere.

This really stimulated Shi Jingtang. He pretended to be sick and refused to leave, and then said that Li Congke was just Li Siyuan's adopted son and should give up the throne to Li Siyuan's biological son Li Congyi.

Li Congke was already worried about his bad reputation and dissatisfaction. After Shi Jingtang made such a fuss, he was immediately angry and ordered the removal of all Shi Jingtang's official positions, and sent Zhang Jingda to lead troops to attack Shi Jingtang, and killed Shi Jingtang's two sons and a younger brother who lived in Luoyang.

Shi Jingtang quit and decided to completely break up with Li Congke, and to fight to the death. But he also knew very well that his military strength was not as strong as Zhang Jingda, and it was difficult to win, so he could only find a helper among his neighbors. After some thought, he finally chose the relative of Khitan. So he ordered Sang Weihan to come to Khitan to recognize his relatives and ask for help.

After learning about Shi Jingtang's situation, Yelu Deguang found that Shi Jingtang was indeed bullied very badly, and he couldn't help but feel compassion. But more importantly, he felt that after several years of hiding his strength and maintaining a low profile, the Khitan's national strength increased greatly, and it was time to go out and show his skills to boost the Khitan's heroic spirit. So he readily agreed to Shi Jingtang's request and decided to go south to save this distant relative. However, before the rescue plan began to be implemented, an accident occurred.

It turned out that after Shi Jingtang surrounded the Later Tang army, Li Congke immediately sent Zhao Dejun, Fan Yanguang and Fu Yanrao to divide the troops into three groups and quickly went to rescue Zhang Jingda, and asked Zhao Yanshou to lead people to support him.

Among these three troops, Zhao Dejun is the strongest, but when he was in a panic, he made the conditions. Li Congke had no choice but to let him lead the three armies according to his requirements. However, Zhao Dejun was not satisfied and made various requests with greater urgency. Finally, he asked Li Congke to allow him to mix his army with Fan Yanguang's army, and he had the final say. This was clearly to swallow Fan Yanguang's army.

Li Congke was furious and immediately sent someone to notify Fan Yanguang, asking him to be careful of Zhao Dejun, and completely ignored Zhao Dejun's various requests, and even cursed the Zhao father and son in front of the ministers, despicable and shameless.

Seeing that Li Congke "don't eat toast, he was punished for wine", Zhao Dejun was also angry. In anger, he decided to rebel against the Later Tang and instead surrender to the Khitan. So he sent someone to send a large number of valuable gifts to Yelu Deguang, asking Yelu Deguang to support him in seizing the Later Tang Dynasty, and promised that as long as he became the emperor, he would definitely become a brotherly ally with the Khitan and be well-built forever.

On one hand, he was a distant relative who had been with him, and on the other hand, he was a brotherly ally. Yelu Deguang fell into deep thought. He would not forget his father Yelu Abaoji failed to go south, so he deeply understood that in this case, he must carefully choose the partner he supported, otherwise he would only steal the chicken but not lose the rice. More importantly, he had to consider clearly which side he bet, the benefits he gained were the greatest and the "future" was the brightest.

Shi Jingtang was certainly very clear about what Yelu Deguang thought, so he immediately sent Sang Weihan to ask for Yelu Deguang. This time, he not only brought Sang Weihan generous gifts, but also offered three eye-catching conditions: to submit to the Khitan schedule and treat the Khitan with etiquette to treat his father; after success, he gave all the sixteen prefectures north of Yanmen Pass, that is, the sixteen prefectures in Youyun, to the Khitan; and from then on, he paid a large amount of money and property every year.

These three conditions deeply moved Yelu Deguang. Long Yan was very happy. He immediately expressed his support for Shi Jingtang and pointed to a stone in front of the tent and said to Sang Weihan, "I have agreed to Shi Lang until the stone rots," I will change my decision."

Shi Jingtang, who received the confirmed reply, was ecstatic and immediately proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan and established the Later Jin regime.

At the same time, Yelu Deguang sent 5,000 elite troops to help Shi Jingtang invade Luoyang, and sent Han Yanhui and others to the Jin capital to enthrone Shi Jingtang as the "Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty".

Shi Jingtang was so grateful to Yelu Deguang that after he became emperor, he immediately sent someone to send pictures of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. He also promised to respect 300,000 pieces of cloth and silk every year, and obey Yelu Deguang. He used a table every time he wrote a letter to indicate the difference between the king and the minister. He called Yelu Deguang the "father emperor", called himself "subject" and "child emperor". Moreover, during the Chinese New Year and holidays, he would respect a large number of rare treasures to Yelu Deguang.

In this way, Yelu Deguang not only recognized an "old son", but also received a special gift package from the "old son" - Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.

From then on, the Khitan army stationed in the Youyun area, and its forces entered Hebei and Shanxi. Yelu Deguang changed the imperial capital to Shangjing, the original Nanjing was changed to Tokyo, and Youzhou was changed to Nanjing, and the ruling center of the Khitan Empire was officially moved south.

(Zhao Dejun lost his territory because he broke up with the Later Tang Dynasty, so he had to capture Luzhou as a temporary place to stay. However, the actions of their father and son caused dissatisfaction among his subordinates. Many generals took their subordinates away, but the city of Luzhou was unable to be defended and was captured by Yelu Deguang on the way back to the court and brought back to the Khitan.

When they arrived at the Khitan Capital, the father and son of Zhao saw Shu Luping and wanted to exchange their property and land for freedom. After Shu Luping learned about it, he asked Zhao Dejun: "The treasure you want to offer me is here, but where is the land?" Zhao Dejun said: "In Youzhou." Shu Luping smiled: "Whose territory is Youzhou now?" Zhao Dejun sweated coldly: "It's the empress dowager." Shu Luping nodded and asked back: "Since Youzhou is already my territory, do you need to offer it to me?" Zhao Dejun was speechless and died of depression a year later in Youzhou.

In addition to the Khitan surname "Yelu", the Khitan royal family also had a Han surname "Liu". The Shulu family, who intermarried with the Yelu family, also had a Han surname "Xiao". This is all thanks to Yelu Abaoji.

Yelu Abaoji admired Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of Han, very much, so he recognized Liu Bang's ancestor Tang Yao as his ancestor and named himself "Liu Yi". Later, he gave the surname "Xiao" to the Prime Minister of the Northern Palace, which is to compare them to the Prime Minister of Liu Bang's Prime Minister Xiao He. The Prime Minister of the Northern Palace, which is his wife Shuluping's mother's home.

Seeing that Abaoji was so keen on surnames, many other tribes also followed suit. Some designated their surnames as Yelu, while others borrowed the surname Xiao, so the Khitan formed the two major surnames Yelu and Xiao. Therefore, in the Khitan, the surname Yelu is not necessarily a royal family. In order to distinguish them from the royal family, these ordinary Yelu clans are called "Shuyelu".

Since she married Yelu Abaoji, Shuluping has followed Abaoji to fight many times. Although she is a woman, she is not as good as a woman. She always charges forward and fights the enemy bravely, and has won a large number of prisoners. She found that many of her prisoners have a skill. With a flash of inspiration, she decided to select them to form a private army, which is the name of the Coral Army, which means the treasure of Gaby Coral.

The stone house, also known as the stone house, was built to store the corpse of Yelu Abaoji. After Yelu Abaoji died, his tomb had not been repaired yet. The Khitans saw that it could not be repaired for a while, so they built a stone house to temporarily store Yelu Abaoji's corpse so that Yelu Abaoji's corpse could be preserved as well as possible.

Oludo, that is, palace guards and palace tents, are actually the emperor's private political and economic entities. It has its own institutions, army, and can independently engage in production and service. Most of the members of Oludo are prisoners captured in the war and dowry of the concubines, mainly responsible for the emperor's daily life, work and safety. In the Khitan, each emperor has his own Oludo. After the emperor's death, Oludo was inherited by his descendants, and some of them were sent to guard the tomb. In the entire Khitan, in addition to the emperor, four people also have their own Oludo, namely Shuluping, Xiao Chuo (also known as Xiao Yanyan, this woman is almost named after history), Yelu Longqing and Han Derang.

In 922 AD, in order to weaken the power of the Diela tribe, Yelu Abaoji transformed the Diela part into the Five Courtyards and the Six Courtyards, also known as the Northern Courtyard and the Southern Courtyard, each with Yilijin. In 938 AD, Yelu Deguang changed the two courts to the North and South Courtyards. The heads of the two courts were called the North Courtyard King and the South Courtyard King. There were officials such as the Governor of the Dawang Courtyard, the Taishi of the Yuan, the Taibao of the Yuan, the Situ of the Yuan, and the Sikong of the Yuan.

After the founding of the Khitan Kingdom, the emperor set up a tent to become a "Nabo", and also formed a "Nabo" system in the four seasons. The "Nabo" migrated with the four seasons, divided into four tents in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In summer, winter, political affairs meetings were held at the tents and handled government affairs. At the end of each meeting, the emperor would go to the hunting site of Chunshui and Qiushan, and most Han officials returned to the Central Plains to guard the affairs of the Han people. In this way, the emperor could ensure that the emperor could handle government affairs anytime and anywhere. Aguda had avoided his death at "Nabo". I have already written it before, so I will not explain it in detail here.
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