And surprisingly, Wanyan Aguda was able to bring his old opponent, Yelu Abaoji, the founding monarch of the Liao Dynasty, to come out.

When Yelu Abaoji was born, the Khitan aristocracy was fighting for the position of leader of the alliance. Abaoji's grandfather, Yelu Yunde, was killed in the brutal political struggle, and his father and uncles fled and went into hiding. Grandmother Empress Jian Xian was very fond of Abaoji, who was born at this time, but she was worried that he would be harmed by the enemy.

Therefore they hid him in a tent elsewhere and blotted out his face, so that he would not see strangers. Jelu Abaoji was able to walk in three months, and he was able to speak in a hundred days, and he was not a prophet in everything. He claims to be guarded by gods on the left and right. Even in childhood, speaking out is a matter of national importance. At that time, his uncle was in charge of state affairs, and when he had any problems, he went to consult him.

Abaoji has been smart and intelligent since he was a child.

When he grew up, he was burly and strong, ambitious, and strong in martial arts, "Liao History" said that he was "nine feet long, plump and sharp, eyes shooting, three hundred catties of bows", when his uncle Yelu Shilu was in power, he won the trust, Yelu Yi served as the tart horse tamarin (Hu guard officer) of the Khan of the Yao Yuan clan, and formed a guard army. With this elite army, Abaoji rose rapidly. After Abaoji's uncle was killed, Abaoji inherited his uncle's position of Yu Yue (second only to Khan, known as "General Governor of Military and State Affairs", higher than Yili Sumire, mastering the military and administrative affairs of the alliance, equivalent to the prime minister of the Central Plains Dynasty), and defeated the tribal Haoqiang led by Pugu only Yelu Shilu. Successively descended to the small yellow room Wei, broke the Yue Wu, Wugu, and Liuxi tribes, and was praised by the Chinese people as "Azhu Shali" (Shali, Khitan "Langjun"),

In the first year of Tianfu (901), the Khan of Jindejin ascended the throne and served as the head of the headquarters Yili Jin (military chief), specializing in conquest, and Dapo Murowei, Yu Ju and Xi Shuai ruled over Brother Ra. Enter the Great Dielie Mansion and leave the Sumire.

In 902 (the second year of the end of the Tang Dynasty), Yelu Abaoji invaded Hedong and Daibei with 400,000 soldiers, captured nine counties, and obtained 95,000 livestock, including camels, horses, cattle and sheep. On the south bank of the Huang River, the city of Longhuazhou was built, and the captured Han people were relocated here.

In 903 (the third year of Tianfu), he attacked the Jurchens in the north and captured 300 households; In the south, he took the Hedong and Huaiyuan armies, and slightly dijibei (now the northern part of Hebei), captured the population and property and returned. Ascending to Yue, he was always aware of military and state affairs, and became the actual manipulator of the tribal alliance.

In the fourth year of Tianfu (904), he crusaded against Heichezi Murowei, ambushed Liu Rengong's tens of thousands of troops in the plain by Lulong Jiedu of the Tang Dynasty, captured the general and Liu Rengong's adopted son Zhao Ba alive, and took advantage of the victory to break Murowei. In the second year of Tianyou (905), the Tang Dynasty was dying, and he was invited by Li Keyong, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty's Hedong Jiedu, to lead 70,000 cavalry to Yunzhou (now Datong, Shanxi) to meet, and became brothers, and agreed to discuss the Liang King Zhu Wen and Lu Longjiedu to make Liu Rengong, but in the end he did not fulfill the contract because it was unprofitable.

Then, Yelu Abaoji marched into attack Liu Rengong, captured several states, and exiled all his people.

In February of the third year of Tianyou (906), Abaoji attacked Liu Rengong again, and on the way back to the army, he attacked the Xi people in Shanbei and broke it. Zhu Wen sent people across the sea to offer book coins, clothes and treasures. In November, he sent a division to attack the Xi and Jing tribes and the tribes that had not yet been annexed to the Jurchens in the northeast, and all of them were defeated and subjugated. In December, the Khan died, and Abaoji was elected as Khan.

Jeruhoru and others persuaded him to advance. Abaoji resigned several times and later accepted the request. According to the traditional system, the position of khan was re-elected every three years. Abaoji's goal was to establish a lifelong and hereditary system like the emperor of the Central Plains, so he refused to hand over power when he was the khan for three years, and continued to sit on the throne of the khan with his strength and prestige, working towards the emperor's goal.

In the first month of the first year of Kaiping (907), he was the great leader of the Khitan, that is, the emperor, and respected his mother Xiao as the queen mother, and established the queen Xiao. The northern prime minister Xiao Zhira, and the southern prime minister Yelu Oris led the ministers to the emperor of heaven, and the queen was called the queen of the earth. Abaoji took the nine accounts of the royal family Chengyao as the tenth account, and took the Diyelu Dieli Die Lidi as the Dielie Mansion and set up officials to lead the people. In February, he conquered the black car and surrendered his eight parts. In October, the black car was conquered and broken.

On the first day of the first month of the first month of the spring of the second year of Kaiping (908), Abaoji was congratulated by hundreds of officials and envoys from various countries in the main hall, and set up Tiyin officials for the first time to manage the affairs of the clan, and the emperor's younger brother Jeruzala was appointed as the Zongzheng. In May, he ordered Jeruzara to crusade against Karasuma and Heichezi Murowei.

In the third year of Kaiping (909), he ordered the emperor's younger brother Shelisu, Yili Jin Xiao Dilu and Cangzhou Jiedu to make Liu Shouwen break his brother Liu Shouguang together.

In the fourth year of Kaiping (910), the queen's brother Xiao Dilu was the prime minister of Beifu, and the descendants were the prime ministers. In October, the rebellion of the Xikuzhi and Chaladi and Hobode in the Uma Mountains was quelled.

In the fifth year of Kaiping (911), Abaoji personally conquered Xi in the west, Xi people were proud of the dangerous road, and the rebellion was not frequent. This battle was immediately ended, so the troops were divided to attack the eastern Xi, and it was also pacified. So there is a place for Xi and indigo. East to the sea, south and white sandalwood, west to the pine desert, north to Huangshui, a total of five, all included in the territory

Abaoji's refusal to hand over power caused dissatisfaction among other nobles in the family, because according to custom, the Khan implemented the family lineage election system, that is, after the Khan's position was transferred to the Yelu clan, the Khan would be held by the adults of the family, so Abaoji did not give way, and others had no chance to be elected. In order to fight for this right to be elected, the brothers of Abaoji's family first rose up against him, and thus the "Brothers' Rebellion" occurred in history. There were three rebellions of the brothers.

The first time was in 911 A.D., in May of this year, Abaoji's younger brother Yelu Lag, Yelu Diera, Yelu Yin Dishi, and Yelu Anduan plotted a rebellion, and Anduan's wife Sticky Mugu reported to Abaoji after learning about it, Abaoji couldn't bear to kill these brothers, so he swore to the sky with them to climb the mountain and kill animals, and then pardoned them, but degraded Yelu Lag as Dierabu Yili Jian, and sealed Sticky Mugu as the lady of the Jin Kingdom.

The brothers did not appreciate it, and the next year, under the leadership of Yue Yeludi, they rebelled again. In addition to the original few people, the newly appointed Tiyin Yelu Huago also participated.

In July of that year, Abaoji conquered the Shubu Department and let Yelu Lag lead his troops to attack Pingzhou (now Lulong, Hebei). By October, Yelu Rage had captured Pingzhou and led his troops to block Abaoji's return route in an attempt to force him to attend the Khan's re-election meeting. Abaoji did not fight hard, but led the troops south, and according to the traditional custom, he held a ceremony of burning firewood in front of them, that is, the "burnt wood ceremony", and once again served as the khan.

This proves that he has been legally re-elected, so that his brothers have no basis for rebellion. Abao's bloodless ability to quell a rebellion shows his superior resourcefulness. On the second day, the younger brothers sent people to ask Abaoji for their guilt, and Abaoji no longer pursued it, but only ordered them to repent and reform.

Yes, the temptation of the Khan's throne was much greater than brotherhood, and the brothers rebelled again less than half a year later, in March 913 AD. This time there was a larger armed conflict. They first discussed the establishment of Yelu Rag as the new Khan, and then sent Yelu Diera and Yelu Anduan to pretend to meet Abaoji, hoping to hijack Abaoji to attend the Khan re-election meeting that they had prepared. In addition to the own tribe, the nobles of the Otomuro tribe also participated.

Abaoji discovered their plot, solved Diera and Anduan, and collected their 1,000 cavalry, and then personally led his troops to pursue Rage. Another army of the Ragar faction, led by Yin Dishi, went straight to Abaoji's palace, burned down the baggage and the tent, and also took away the symbolic banner of the khan's power and the ancestral tent. Abaoji's wife, Shu Luping, guarded the big tent, led the troops to resist desperately, and when the reinforcements came, they sent people to chase after them, but they only recovered the banners. In April, Abaoji led his troops north to pursue Rage, and he first sent people to ambush and intercept them in front, and then attacked them in front and back.

This time, the guards played an important role and eventually defeated Ragar, who left the tent on the road. Abaoji did not pursue immediately, but rested his troops first, because he knew that Rage's subordinates would miss their hometown soon, and when they were demoralized and unwilling to fight, they would win without a fight. By May, Abaoji led his troops to attack and finally captured Rage. After three counterinsurgencys, Abaoji basically eliminated the opposition of his family, but caused great damage to the tribe's economy. The people used to have 10,000 horses on horseback, but now the people have to walk when they go out.

After the opposition of the tribe was eliminated, the opposition of the other seven Khitan tribes still existed, and they forced Abaoji to relinquish the position of Khan under the banner of restoring the old Khan election system. Abaoji had no choice but to hand over the banner first, promised to abdicate, and then set up a plan to retreat. He said to the people: "I have been in the position of Khan for nine years, and there are many Han people under me, and I want to lead a part to govern Seoul by myself, is it okay?" Everyone agreed.

When he got there, Abaoji led the Han people to farm, there was salt and iron in the local area, and the economy was also very developed, Abaoji adopted the strategy of his wife's law, and sent someone to tell the leaders of the tribes: "I have a salt pond, and I often supply it to the tribes, but everyone only knows that it is convenient to eat salt, but they don't know that the salt pond also has an owner, you should come to treat me and my subordinates." Everyone felt justified, so they came with cattle and wine, but they didn't expect to fall for Abaoji's trick. Abaoji set up an ambush, and when everyone was drunk, he killed all the leaders of the tribes.

In the second year of Zhenming (916), Abaoji established the Khitan State and became the emperor. The various ministries built the imperial city of the capital, that is, the later Shangjing, and built Confucius Temple, Buddhist Temple, Taoist Temple, etc. in Beijing. After he established the country, he gradually took the clan as the prime minister of the southern mansion.

Laws are enacted and official titles are awarded. The establishment of the north and south courtyards of the Diera Department was set up, which became a later custom. He also ordered people to make Khitan characters and promote national culture.

To this day, the Russian pronunciation of China is still called "Khitan", which shows its great influence. At the beginning of his reign, he set up palace guard cavalry and state and county tribal armies with his subordinates, which became the main form of Khitan army. He had great talent and strategy, constantly conquered the Khitan and Turkic tribes in order to develop, and actively participated in the political struggle in the Central Plains, invaded important places such as You, Ji, etc., and supported the Dongdan State as a subordinate.

"Taizu received the Zen of the Khan, then founded the country, and conquered the east and the west, such as withering and decaying." (History of Liao, vol. 2, Taizu Ji). The various systems he created and the scale of his creation laid the foundation for the development of the Khitan State later.

In the third year of the Divine Book (918), Abaoji built Xilou City as the imperial capital (later known as Shangjing Linhuang Mansion, now Inner Mongolia Bahrain Left Banner South Polo City). In the fifth year of the Divine Book, Tulu did not wait for others to refer to Chinese characters to create Khitan characters. Later, Abaoji's brother Dieli referred to the Uighur script and Chinese script to create Khitan small characters. Since then, the Khitan has written and its society has developed faster.

In the year (925 in the fourth year of Tianzan), Abaoji led the army to conquer the Bohai Kingdom. In the following year, he destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, renamed the Dongdan Kingdom, and ordered the eldest son Tu Yu (Yelu Bei) to be the king of Dongdan.

In the first year of Tianxian (926), in order to develop his power to the east, Abaoji conquered the Bohai Kingdom in the east. Bohai is a regional ethnic power in Northeast China, and its politics and culture are above all ethnic groups in the north, and it is known as the "prosperous country in the east of the sea", but its national strength has declined at that time. Abaoji concentrated all his forces to capture the western town of the Bohai State, Fuyu City (now Jilin Nong'an), and then besieged the capital Kuhan City (now Heilongjiang Mudanjiang Tokyo City), the king led hundreds of ministers to surrender the city, and soon unified the entire territory of the Bohai Sea, Abaoji changed the Bohai Sea to Dongdan State, which means the East Khitan State.

Let the crown prince Yelubei be the king of Dongdan and manage the affairs of Dongdan, so that Abaoji will expand his power to the coast of the Bohai Sea. At the same time, Abaoji also set up a wide range of government offices in the Heilongjiang and Ussuri River valleys to implement actual management, thus ending the division of the northeast region since the end of the Tang Dynasty and re-realizing reunification, which played an extremely important role in the development of the local economy and culture and in promoting exchanges between people of all nationalities. In the fifth year of Tianzan (926), Abaoji died of illness in Fuyu (now Sipingxi, Jilin) on the way to return to the imperial capital in the Bohai Sea, at the age of 55. Emperor Shen Shengtian (a great sage emperor), the temple name Taizu.

In the second year of Tianxian (927), he was buried in the ancestral mausoleum (now southwest of Inner Mongolia Bahrain Left Banner).

In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Tonghe (1008), he entered the Great Sage Emperor of Tomorrow.

In the twenty-first year of Chongxi (1052), he was crowned the Great Sage Emperor of the Great Ming God Lietian. The second son, Yelu Deguang, succeeded to the throne as Liao Taizong.

The evaluation of the Yuan Dynasty's official revision history "History of Liao" is: "The first of Liao, from Emperor Yan, the world is the country of Ji, and its knowable person is from Qi Shouyun." Qi Shousheng Du'an Mountain, on the shore of the Huang River. Passed to Yali, the system was established, the official subordinates were placed, the wood was carved as the deed, and the cave was the prison, so that the noon was blocked and refused to stand on its own. Yarisenvimu. Vimus has a chin collar. The chin collar is born of a sinister thought, generous and desireless, and the order is not strict and humanized, which is for the ancestors. Su Zu gave birth to Sarade, tried to challenge Huang Murowei, and ran through several times, which was for Yizu. Yi ancestor was born with virtue and truth, and began to teach the people to grow crops, be good at animal husbandry, and the country was rich and rich, which was for the ancestors. Xuanzu gave birth to Sala, benevolent people love things, began to place iron smelting, and taught the people to drum casting, which is for the ancestor of Dezu, that is, the father of the Taizu, and the world is the departure of the Khitan Yaoyuan clan, and holds its political authority. Shu Lan, the younger brother of Dezu, conquered in the north and Murowei, and in the south slightly Yi, Ding, Xi and Xi, built the Shixing board, placed the city, taught the people to plant mulberry hemp, and practiced the weaving group, and had the ambition of the people of the vast land. And Taizu received the Khan's Zen and founded the country. Crusade in the east and west, such as withering and decaying. From the sea in the east, as for the quicksand in the west, the desert in the north, the letter is thousands of miles, two hundred years over the years, how can it be a day! Zhou Gong and Cai, no one can do it. In the rebellion of Rage and Anduan, Taizu borrowed his death and reused it, which is not the degree of a human monarch? The changes in the old history are also different! ”