Han Derang listened to Empress Dowager Xiao say such majestic words, and raised his arms excitedly and said: "Yan Xiaomei's great talent and ambition are also the wish of Weichen, and Weichen and Yan Xiaomei have been like-minded and inseparable since they became friends; Dare to go to the soup for Yan Xiaomei's long-cherished wish! ”

Empress Dowager Xiao was excited, and the little birds hugged Han Derang like a human; snuggled in his arms and said coquettishly: "It's better to let my brother be understanding, Yan'er and Brother Jean have been childhood sweethearts since childhood; Now they are sleeping in the same bed again, and they have asked their brother to assist Yanyan; It is only a matter of time before the Great Liao Khitan Kingdom unifies China! ”

Empress Dowager Xiao said excitedly, and kissed lightly on Han Derang's thick lips: "If Huaxia can be unified in the hands of Yan Yan, let my brother and Yan Yan be the second Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin, and Wu Zetian, and we can only close our eyes when we enter the mausoleum together; And to be worshiped forever by future generations! ”

How lofty are Empress Dowager Xiao's aspirations? How grandiose? Haven't their lofty ambitions been honed over the years from the intricacies of the situation?

Empress Dowager Xiao's real husband Liao Jingzong Yeluxian is a sick jar to put it bluntly, and Empress Dowager Xiao came into contact with national affairs after entering the palace at the age of 17; This is something that other women can't think of at all, and Empress Dowager Xiao has to face it.

The throne of the crater is a melting pot to test Xiao Yanyan; If you don't pay attention, you risk falling into the furnace and turning to ashes, but Xiao Yanyan cautiously moves forward; After reading the difficulties, what you see in front of you is the sea and the sky.

The name Xiao Xuan is probably the one she went through when she entered the palace!

Xiao Xuan, what a rigid feminine name? The Chinese meaning of the nickname is: the silk lady's clothing that can be mopped on the floor, which is extended to be wide, soothing and rich, and inexhaustible; There are more idioms than enough to follow, and it is really the right time, place and people.

The nickname is a summary and summary of Xiao Xuan's achievements in assisting the government and ruling for 40 years, and a woman has handed in an excellent answer sheet in the ever-changing grim situation.

Under the leadership of Empress Dowager Xiao, it is not too much to describe the Great Liao Khitan Kingdom as rich and strong.

Empress Dowager Xiao is a Khitan, but she yearns for the practice of sinicization of ethnic groups, because the excellent culture of the Han nationality is difficult to compare with other ethnic groups; The harmonious coexistence of various ethnic groups in the Liao State shows Xiao Xuan's excellent political means.

During the reign of Empress Dowager Xiao, she quelled the civil strife carried out by the domestic kings to compete for the throne, and adhered to the basic national policy of "one country, two systems" formulated by the ancestors, which was governed by the Han people and the Liao people. Strengthening military construction has given the military personnel of the Liao State a completely new look.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, which was a fierce rival in the south, it was literati politics, and the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty was all literati; The Privy Council of the Liao Dynasty was a military man.

The Liao army and the Song army must arrive in every battle against the Empress Dowager Xiao, which greatly boosted the morale of the army.

On the other hand, in the Song Dynasty, the emperor did not go to the front line, but drew a formation diagram to command the army remotely.

When a front-line commander opens a new battlefield, he has to send it back to Bianjing by 800 miles of expedited horses for the emperor to review and approve.

Such an army and mechanical command can win battles, but Song Taizong never tired of it.

Song Taizong was the initiator of the demise of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, after this guy ascended to the throne by unscrupulous means; went to the battlefield twice, but both ended in failure; In the battle of the Gaoliang River, he rode a donkey and luckily picked up his life; From then on, when they heard it, the Liao army was terrified.

Several emperors after Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty even mentioned it, and did not exceed his ancestors; Song Huizong Zhao Ji and Song Qinzong Zhao Huan surpassed their ancestors, but that was after being captured by the Jurchens.

Empress Dowager Xiao is different, she must be on the front line in every battle; Empress Dowager Xiao was not a blind command like Song Taizong, but gave full play to the role of soldiers.

There are many generals under the Empress Dowager Xiao, such as Han Derang, Yelu Xianzhen, Yelu Xiuge, and Yelu Tart, who are brave and good at fighting, and put life and death aside for Empress Dowager Xiao.

There is no doubt that the Song State faced by Empress Dowager Xiao was a formidable rival; The Song state was weak militarily but its economy was booming.

During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, he implemented the strategic national policy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and signed the "Xiongzhou Alliance" with the Liao State, and the Song-Liao border was pacified for more than ten years.

However, after Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, ascended the throne, he repeatedly launched attacks on the border of Liao, focusing on demanding the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Song Taizu said that the sixteen states of Yanyun were the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, and Shi Jingjiao dedicated it to the Great Liao Khitan Kingdom in order to be the emperor; The Liao State must be returned to the Song State.

This is really a pain in standing and talking without bending over, who stipulates that the sixteen states of Yanyun are the territory of the Song Kingdom? Empress Dowager Xiao also said that Bianjing City is the capital of the Great Liao Khitan Kingdom.

In the eleventh year of Tianxian (936), Shi Jingjiao made Shi Jingjiao of the eastern section of the Tang River let Liao State be his father and cede the sixteen states of Yanyun; begged Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang to send troops to help him oppose the Later Tang Dynasty.

Yelude Guangqin led 50,000 cavalry to defeat the Later Tang army under the city of Jinyang, and established Shi Jingtang as the emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty.

Later Tang generals Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing led their troops to call for battle, and Yelu Deguang pretended to retreat; Zhang Jingda and Yang Guangyuan lined up in the west again, but before they could form a column, Yelu Deguang approached them with troops.

Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing were cut off for the ambush, and they couldn't take care of each other; Zhang Jingda and Yang Guangyuan were defeated, and the discarded soldiers were piled up, and tens of thousands of beheadings were beheaded.

Subsequently, Yelu Deguang led the army south to Shangdang to help Shi Jingtang destroy the Later Tang Dynasty; Cut the sixteen states of Yanyun.

After the Great Liao Khitan Kingdom obtained the sixteen states of Yanyun, Yelu Deguang adopted the ruling method of "governing according to customs" and implemented the two-sided official system in the north and south, which was called "one country and two systems" in later generations.

The specific content of one country, two systems is that the Han people govern the Han and the Liao people govern the Liao; The national policy of dividing the clan and ruling greatly prospered the sixteen states of Yanyun, all the way to the Empress Dowager Xiao and the Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu; There has been no change in the policy of "one country, two systems".

From this point of view, the Liao State is the country and tribe with the most sensitive political sense; In the eighth century A.D., they knew the strategy of dividing the tribe and treating them differently; Build the sixteen states of Yanyun into a base for going south.

In the fourth year of the meeting (942), the emperor Shi was enthroned and refused to be a minister; Yelu Deguang led the army south to ask for the guilt, and Du Chongwei, Li Shouzhen, Zhang Yanze and others led 200,000 people to surrender.

In the ninth year of the meeting (947), Yelu Deguang led his army to attack the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty, Tokyo Bianliang, captured the Emperor Shi of the Later Jin Dynasty, and destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty.

On the first day of the first month of the tenth year of the meeting (January 25, 947), Yelu Deguang entered Bianliang, Tokyo with the honor guard of the Central Plains Emperor; Accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials in the Chongyuan Palace.

On the first day of the second month of the first year of Datong (February 24, 947), Yelu Deguang issued an edict in the Tokyo Imperial Palace to change the name of the country from "Great Khitan Kingdom" to "Great Liao".

This also shows that the Great Liao preceded the Northern Song Dynasty in Bianliang as the imperial capital.

The Great Liao Khitan Kingdom originated in the Huang River (now Xilamulun River and Xiliao River) basin at the beginning of the fifth dynasty

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In 907 A.D. (the first year of Later Liang Kaiping), Yelu Abaoji was the Khitan lord on behalf of the Yaoran clan, and eight departments were a country, and in 916 (the second year of Later Liang Zhenming) was called emperor.

After Taizu Yelu Abaoji ascended the throne, he successively conquered the surrounding Xi, Xi, Heichezi, Murowei, Jurchen, Wugu, Murowei, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, Tatar, Shatuo and other departments, captured Yingzhou, Pingzhou, Liaodong, and destroyed the Bohai State in the fifth year of Tianzan (the first month of 926 AD, and the eleventh year of Tianxian (936 AD, the first year of Tianfu of the Later Jin Dynasty) obtained the sixteen states of Yanyun, becoming a vast empire in northern China.

The stable territory of the Liao Dynasty stretched from Jinshan (present-day Altai Mountains) in the west to the northern edge of the Mongolian Plateau and the Outer Khing'an Mountains in the north. East to Sakhalin Island (present-day Sakhalin).

The western section of its southern boundary was bordered by the Western Uighurs and Western Xia, and the eastern section was bounded by the Northern Song Dynasty in present-day Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, and Hebei.

After the Liao destroyed the Bohai Sea, it still owned a piece of land in the northeast of the Korean Peninsula that originally belonged to the Bohai Kingdom, so the border between Liao and Goryeo was roughly on the line from Hamheung to the south bank of the Yalu River estuary in present-day North Korea.

Taizu Yelu Abaoji selected the location of the capital on the shore of the Wolf River (now the Urijilin River), and the Divine Book was completed in the third year (918 AD); It is called the imperial capital (the site is in the south of the left banner of Inner Mongolia Bahrain).

In the thirteenth year of Tianxian (938 AD), it was changed to Shangjing Linhuang Mansion.

In the twenty-fifth year of Tonghe (1007 AD), Zhongjing Dading Mansion (now West Daming City, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia) was added.

The official capital of Liao was always in Shangjing, but the actual capital of the later period had been moved to Dadingfu in Zhongjing (present-day Daming City, southwest of Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia).

The Great Liao Khitan Kingdom was founded in 916 AD, when the Song Dynasty was still nowhere to be seen, and the Later Zhou Dynasty was not established.

In 960 AD, Zhao Kuangyin planned the Chenqiao Mutiny to snatch power from the orphans and widows of Chai Zongxun in the Later Zhou Dynasty, half a century later than the Great Liao Khitan State; What is the face of Song Taizong asking for the sixteen states of Yanyun?

This is the mantra of Empress Dowager Xiao, and it is also the ear voice she often instills in Han Derang.

Han Derang listened to Empress Dowager Xiao's speech, and praised her with infinite emotion as a peerless hero; hug the wild kiss and lick it hard; Then put it on the bed for a while.

The two of them did a good job, and Han Derang said excitedly: "If Yan Xiaomei wants to realize the Lingyun ambition of the unification of China, she has to seriously analyze the wars between the Great Liao and the Song State over the years; and the current state policy, military, politics, and the mental process and mental calculations of those in power in the Song State......"