The name "Khitan" began in the "Book of Wei" that appeared during the Tianbao period of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and there is the earliest record in the "Zizhi Tongjian", at the beginning of the first year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Yan Wangxi attacked the Khitan", indicating that the Khitan tribe had appeared at this time.

Some scholars believe that the word Khitan originated from the evolution of the name of the Yuwen chieftain, about the end of the Western Jin Dynasty and the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, its different name has been revealed, which means "iron" perseverance and strength.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan formed a unified alliance of the Dahe clan. After Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty placed the Governor's Mansion of Songmo and gave him the surname Li. After the collapse of the Oga Alliance, the Khitans established the Yaoran Tribal Alliance, which was attached to the Later Turkic Khanate. In the fourth year of Tianbao, the Turks were destroyed by the Hui, and for the next hundred years, the Khitans have been ruled by the Hui.

In the thirteenth century, the Khitan was defeated by the Jin Dynasty and fled to the Western Regions and Central Asia to establish the Golden Horde, a part of which fled to Europe and became the overlord of the time.

The Khitan is divided into eight ancient departments, divided into the Xiwandan Department, He Dahe Department, Fufuyu Department, Yuling Department, Rilian Department, Pi Ji Department, Li Department, Tuliu Yu Department and other eight departments, before and after Tang Tianbao, the Khan of the Yao Yuan clan reorganized the original Khitan Ancient Eight Divisions, divided into new eight departments, called the Diera Department, the B Room Department, the Product Department, the Te Department, the Wukui Department, the Tulu Bu Department, the Nirvana Department, and the Tuju Department. It was at this time that the Diethorn Department took the opportunity to rise up, first mastered the military power, and gradually replaced the Yaoran clan, and finally Yelu Abaoji completely unified the Khitan and established the Liao State, which of course is still a later story.

The March sun shines on the land of the Governor's Mansion in the Song Desert, everything revives, the young grass sprouts from the snow-covered land in winter, the endless grassland seems to be covered with a green carpet, countless cattle and sheep bow their heads to gnaw on the tender grass, and the vigorous herdsmen wave their whips and gallop on the grassland like the wind.

There is also a beautiful legend that blows through this grassland like the wind, and it is said that a goddess who has lived in the heavenly palace for a long time feels the boredom and loneliness of the heavenly palace, and drives a green ox cart down the river from the flat pine forest along the river. Coincidentally, an immortal rode a snow-white BMW from Mayu Mountain to the east along the Tuhe River. The green cow and the white horse, the goddess and the fairy met at the confluence of the Huangshui and the Earth River at Mt. Konoha. The goddess and the fairy walked away the green ox, loosened the reins of the horse, and walked opposite each other. The two fell in love and combined, and had eight sons, and then the clan gradually ......flourished.

The Khitan people are very fond of such legends, and whoever takes this beautiful legend to distant places will be treated with the warmest hospitality.

Some people say that the news on the grassland is spread along the wind, which is true, but it is the people themselves who spread the news, when a caravan entered the Songmo Governor's Mansion from Monan, it was welcomed by the local herdsmen, this caravan not only brought salt, cloth and tea to the Khitan tribe, but also spread all kinds of news they heard along the road.

Usually the herders' sources are very closed, and during the year, if there is no fighting, the herders only gather in the winter to find camp, and the source of the news is word of mouth.

This caravan rejoiced the Khitans who had just survived a cold winter, and the beautiful legend made their hearts feel like a clear river flowing through a dry land, and the feeling of inferiority immediately dissipated without a trace, and they were the descendants of immortals, what could be more inspiring than this legend?

The Khitan grassland is full of laughter, the haze and humiliation of many years have been swept away, this is a bright spring, the grass is greener, the cattle and sheep are stronger, the cheerful herdsmen happily spread this legend to any place that their horse's hooves can reach, every grassland, every tent, no matter where this beautiful legend arrives, there is a joy.

The young herdsman asked the old man where the Huang River was and where the Lao Ha River was again, and the excited herdsmen wanted to see these two places to see where their ancestors lived.

At the beginning, the head of the tribe did not care about this legend, the beautiful legend could not become a group of cattle and sheep, there are many legends on the grassland, there are tribes that worship the wolf, worship the eagle in the sky, but as the head of the tribe is very clear, as long as it is the herdsmen on the grassland, the real ancestors should be thousands of years ago Beirong, or the descendants of the Huns, as for those legends are just a means of cohesion of herdsmen.

However, after this legend was accepted by countless herdsmen, things seemed to be a little wrong, in any case, there was an immortal ancestor who was irreplaceable for the herdsmen who had been bullied in all aspects for a long time, at least in terms of tribal identity.

When countless herdsmen think of the Huang River and the Laoha River, the conflict with the Murwei people is inevitable, the grassland has been getting colder, the grazing pastures have been going south, the Xi people are close to the Tang Dynasty in the south, the Khitan people will encroach on the grasslands of the Xi people, and the Murwei people will also fill the vacancy left by the Khitans.

However, when the Khitan herdsmen found that the Huang River and the Laoha River where their ancestors lived were occupied by the Murwei people, the anger in their chests could no longer be suppressed, and at first only one or two herdsmen drove their cattle and sheep to the riverside of the Huang River and the Laoha River to graze.

The stubborn Murwei people believe that the place where the Khitan people don't want is their own, and there has never been a piece of grassland on the grassland that belongs to a certain person and a certain tribe, and this tribe grazes here today, and tomorrow it may migrate to a more lush place with water and grass, and the Xi people can come, and the Khitan people can also come, why can't the Murwei people come to .......

Wang Peng had already visited many tribes along the way, and trading on the grassland tribes had to abide by the rules of the grassland, and the caravan could not trade with the herdsmen without the consent of the tribal leader, otherwise it would be regarded as a contempt for the tribal leader.

The consequence of contempt is not to lose the opportunity to trade, but to be hunted down by the tribe, the herdsmen on the grassland are very simple, but the tribal leaders are as cunning as foxes, they do not want to see other foxes mixed in.

After Wang Peng's caravan entered the Songmo Governor's Mansion, he visited the Pinbu, the Te and the Wukui Tribe, and now came to the Diera Tribe, which is a very powerful tribe, and the Yelu clan is in charge of the army of the entire Khitan tribe, of course, this army is more of a loose alliance level.

Before entering the Songmo Governor's Mansion, Wang Peng divided the caravan into two teams, one team led by himself to trade with the Khitans, and the other team had 200 guards escorting a hundred craftsmen to quietly enter the Great Xing'an Mountains, avoid the Khitan pastures along the edge of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and enter the Muro-Wuluo Guard, which was a plan deduced after countless sand tables.

Wang Peng played the caravan to enter the Songmo Governor's Mansion, taking advantage of the process of trading with the Khitans, spreading the legend of the ancestors of the Khitans, and provoking a conflict between the Khitans and the Murwei people, this conflict must not be too big, not to cause a large-scale war between the two ethnic groups, and the scale and intensity of the conflict must be within a controllable range.

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