Subsequently, Abaoji accelerated the pace of nation-building. In the winter of 913, Abaoji once again convened a meeting of the elders of the clan and held a solemn traditional Khan election ceremony at Lotus Po Yaochai, once again establishing his authority.

Throughout Chinese history, it is rare for Abaoji to value brotherhood so much, and still not kill a killer in many power struggles between brothers.

Perhaps this is really the case: the more powerful the dynasty, the more tolerant it is of its enemies, which is the self-confidence of a dynasty; When it comes to the individual, it is personal self-confidence, he does not worry that others will threaten him, and believes that he can make them "surrender" to his feet.

The Dierabu finally returned to calm and loyalty in the midst of a bloody storm. However, this only settled one of the eight Khitan tribes, and the nobles of the other seven were still secretly preparing to move.

In 915, they finally waited for an opportunity, and on the way back from Abaoji's campaign against Huangtou Murowei, the seven nobles rose up and forced Abaoji to relinquish the Khan's position under the banner of restoring the old Khan election system. Abaoji had no choice but to hand over his strength, 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?" The crowd readily agreed.

Therefore, Abaoji migrated to the Luanhe River with other ethnic groups from the Diera tribe and the Khitan tribe that had been captured or annexed.

It was here that Abaoji adopted the advice of the Han strategists, built a city in imitation of the Han land, and vigorously developed agriculture salt and iron.

Soon, the military strength and population of the Diera tribe ranked first among the eight Khitan tribes, and the other seven tribes had to be provided with salt and iron by him.

Shu Luping seized this opportunity and proposed to Abaoji the idea of cutting down the roots of those who stand in the way and making a comeback. The idea was immediately put into action.

Abaoji sent someone to tell the tribal leaders: "I have a salt pond, which is often supplied 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 and reward me and my men. ”

And the princes felt justified, and brought wine and meat. When everyone was drunk, the ambush soldiers laid out in advance by Abaoji rushed forward and killed all the leaders of the tribes.

After this Khitan version of the Hongmen Banquet, all the opponents of Abaoji in the tribal alliance were almost gone, and Abaoji successfully unified the eight Khitan tribes.

In fact, the same history happened more than a hundred years ago, it's just that barbarians don't read history. That's why I suffered a big loss.

Legend has it that in order to destroy the other five edicts, the fourth king of Nanzhao, Pi Luo Ge, set up a banquet in Songming Tower, and invited the five edicts to come to worship their ancestors, wanting to take the opportunity to kill them all. Mrs. Bai Jie, the wife of Lord Deng Yun, was shrewd and intelligent, and had a premonition that this was a conspiracy, and persuaded her husband not to participate.

When persuasion failed, she had to put her iron bracelet on her husband's hand.

Later, Pi Luo Ge burned the five edicts to death in Songming Tower. Mrs. Bai Jie was shocked to hear that her husband had died, and she eagerly brought her soldiers and horses. Starry night rushed to Monsche.

She used her hands to remove the ashes of the fire, and it was only when the blood flowed that she found the iron bracelet and identified her husband's body. Pi Luo Ge saw that Mrs. Bai Jie was beautiful and witty. tried to take her as a concubine.

After Mrs. Bai Jie buried her husband, she jumped into Erhai Lake and maintained her honor. Burning down Songming Tower. It happened on the 25th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, so after that. This day has become a commemorative "Torch Festival". Someone once said, "A fire on the Songming floor won the Nanzhao Qianqiu industry."

In the second year of Liang Zhenming (916), Abaoji established the Khitan State. Calling himself emperor. He led his troops to build the imperial city of the capital, which was later Shangjing. After the founding of the country, the clan gradually became the prime minister of the southern province, formulated laws, and awarded official titles.

In view of the fact that the Diera Department is "strong and difficult to control", Abaoji divided it into two parts: the Sixth Courtyard (South Courtyard) and the Fifth Courtyard (North Courtyard).

In the first year of the Liao Taizong meeting (938), the two courtyards were changed to two royal courtyards, called the Northern Imperial Courtyard and the Southern Imperial Courtyard, and later Qiao Feng served as the king of the Southern Courtyard. To this day, the Russian pronunciation of China is still called "Khitan", which shows its great influence.

The strength of the Khitan is inseparable from two people, one is Shu Luping and the other is Han Yanhui. Abaoji was called the emperor, and his wife Shu Luping was the queen. Shu Luping is brave and decisive, can deal with affairs improvised, Abaoji sends troops to fight and dominate the troops, and Shu Luping often helps his husband to give advice.

Abaoji had crossed the desert to attack the party, Shu Luping stayed to guard the rear, at this time, Huangtou, Stinky Bo two Murowei tribes took the opportunity to unite to invade, Shu Luping found out the news in advance, deployed men and horses to wait for the rabbit, after the battle, bravely killed the enemy, defeated the other party, and then shocked the grassland.

Shu Luping had a mother and a mother-in-law, and she sat on the couch to receive their visits, and said, "I only worship the heavens, not people." ”

Han Yanhui, the word Zangming, Youzhou Anci people. There are few talents, Liu Ren Gongzhao joined the army for Youdu Literature and Pingzhou Records, and was awarded the Youzhou Observation Degree Envoy, and later became an important staff member of Liu Shouguang.

When Liu Shouguang's power was poor in his last years, he sent Han Yanhui to the Khitan for help, but Abaoji was very angry at Han Yanhui's refusal to bow down, so he punished him to graze horses in the suburbs.

If nothing else, Han Yanhui may really be like Su Wu herding sheep in the wild for a lifetime. At this moment, Shu Luping said to Abaoji: "Han Yanhui can observe the festival without giving in, this is exactly the contemporary sage, why let him herd horses to insult him?"

On the contrary, you should be respectful and applied to him. Abaoji then called Han Yanhui to talk, and after the exchange, they talked very happily, so they regarded him as a think tank.

But it didn't take long for the homesick Han Yanhui to flee to Jinyang. Li Cunmiao wanted to place him in the shogunate to work, but the secretary Wang Lu was very jealous of him, and Han Yanhui secretly felt uneasy, so he asked to go home to visit his mother.

After Zhending, he stayed at the house of fellow villager Wang Langming, Wang Langming asked him where he was going, Han Yanhui said: "Now all parts of Hebei are owned by the Jin State, I think I can only go back to Khitan." Wang Langming said: "You betrayed them, and now you want to go back, aren't you afraid of being killed?" ”

Han Yanhui said: "Since I left, they seem to have lost their hands and eyes, and now I will go back." They are equal to getting hands and eyes again, how can they harm me? So after visiting my mother. It's back to the Khitan.

When Abaoji heard that he had arrived, he was overjoyed. He stroked his back and said, "Where were you a while ago?" Han Yanhui said: "It is unfilial piety to forget relatives, and it is disloyal to abandon the king." Although I fled back, I thought of Your Majesty. So I'm back again. ”

Abaoji was very happy and gave him the name of the box, the box, which means "again" in Khitan language. When Abaoji was proclaimed emperor, he appointed Han Yanhui as the prime minister, and later promoted to Zhongshu Ling.

Many political matters, especially those related to the rule of the Han Chinese. Abaoji had to consult Han Yanhui's opinion.

After Abaoji became emperor, he established various systems for Liao, corrected the monarch and ministers, and set names, which accelerated the process of feudalization of Liao.

At that time, the Han rulers in Youzhou and Zhuozhou were very tyrannical, and many Han people fled to the Khitan territory. Han Yanhui proposed to Abaoji, asking him to establish an official organization similar to that of the Han dynasty to manage the Han people in the territory, and Abaoji accepted.

As a result, there was a situation of Hu and Han partition in the Khitan. That is, to manage the Khitans with institutions and institutions suitable for nomadic life, economic conditions, and clan traditions; For the Han people, there is another set of systems and institutions suitable for agricultural life and Han culture and customs.

By the time of Yelu Deguang, he expanded the north and south courts set up by Abaoji, and set up two officials. North Officer. using the state system, that is, using the traditional system of the Khitan to rule the Khitan and other ethnic minorities; The southern officials imitated the Han system and were used to rule the Han and Bohai people.

Afterward. Deng Xiaoping's grandfather's idea of one country, two systems was largely borrowed from this system of Liao. At that time, Han Yanhui also suggested recruiting fleeing Han people to cultivate the wasteland. The resumption of agricultural production, Abaoji also accepted.

The Han people who fled to the Khitan settled down one after another. After the resumption of production development. The government has rental income, and the economic strength of Yelu Abaoji has also increased. This method of partition and rule played a great role in the development of the Khitan.

Li Cunmiao sent an envoy to the Khitan, and Han Yanhui asked him to bring a letter to Li Cunmiao, explaining the reason why he went to the north again, and said: "It's not that I don't miss the wise lord, it's not that I don't want to miss my hometown, so I don't dare to stay, it's because I'm afraid of being persecuted by Wang Mian's slander!" ”

He also asked Li Cunmiao to take care of his mother, and said: "Yanhui is here, and I guarantee that the Khitan will not invade south." "Actually, even Qiao Feng and Qiao are heroes who can't guarantee that the Khitan will not invade the Central Plains in the south, so how can Han Yanhui guarantee it?

In August 916, Abaoji led 300,000 troops, attacked Ulzhou of the Jin State from Linzhou and Shengzhou, captured Li Siben, the envoy of Zhenwu Jiedu, and sent a messenger with a wooden book to Li Cunzhang, the envoy of Datong Jiedu, to ask for goods, Li Cunzhang angrily slashed the envoy, and the Khitan then attacked Yunzhou, and Li Cunzhang defended with all his might. Soon, Li Cunmiao personally led the troops to rescue, and when he arrived in Daizhou, Abaoji heard about it and led the army to retreat, so Li Cunmiao also went home.

Do you still remember Li Cunqing's younger brother Li Cunju mentioned earlier? Li Cunqiao ordered him to be in charge of Xinzhou, but he was arrogant and slack, did not conscientiously study the mass line education and practice activities, and did not thoroughly implement the mass line, and as a result, his servants and maids came out to interfere in political affairs.

Li Cunqiao ordered him to recruit brave and warlike soldiers in the north and Liu Shouguang's fugitive sergeants to strengthen the troops of the southern expedition, and also levied war horses from the people, and the people had to sell ten cows in exchange for a war horse, and the deadline was very urgent, and the common people on the border were full of complaints.

Li Cunju collected 500 war horses, personally escorted them, and appointed Shouzhou Assassin Shi Lu Wenjin as his lieutenant general, and the people who should accompany him were afraid to go on a long journey, and there was a trace of restlessness in the team.

On February 15, 917, when the troops arrived at Qigou Pass, the junior colonel Gong Yanzhang discussed with the soldiers: "I heard that the King of Jin and the Liang Dynasty were fighting hard, and there were many casualties among the cavalry. ”

Everyone said: "Kill the envoy, and then support General Lu to return to Xinzhou, occupy the city to defend, and see what they can do with us!" So everyone grabbed their weapons and hurried to the post house.

Early the next morning, when Li Cunju was still asleep, the rebels rushed in and slaughtered him, Lu Wenjin had no way to stop the rebels, so he had to beat his chest and stroke his corpse and cry: "The minions have killed Lang Jun, teach me what face to see King Jin!" So he simply accepted the support of the crowd and returned to NSW.

Yang Lingzhang, the defender of Xinzhou, resisted them and did not let them enter the city, so he turned to attack Wuzhou, and was defeated by Li Siqiu, the commander of the defense north of Yanmen, and Zhou Dewei also sent troops to pursue them, and Lu Wenjin had to lead everyone to defect to the Khitan.

When Li Cunmiao heard that it was Li Cunju's tyranny and unreasonableness that caused the chaos, he ordered his maidservants and staff members to be beheaded.

At first, there is Yuguan in the north of Youzhou for 700 miles, there is Yushui under the pass that leads directly to the sea, there is a trail along the seaside from the northeast of Yuguan to the north, the narrowest place is only a few feet, there are rocky mountains on both sides, it stands tall and towering, and it cannot be crossed.

From here to the north to the area of Jinniukou, there were eight defense armies set up in the past, recruiting soldiers to defend, the local land rent was supplied with military rations, not sent to Jicheng, and Youzhou supplied cloth for the soldiers' clothes every year.

Every year, the city is harvested very early, clear the suburbs, fortify the camp to guard against the Khitan, as soon as the Khitan soldiers arrive, they close the camp and refuse to fight, and when the Khitan army retreats, then select brave and good warriors to occupy the pass to intercept them, so the Khitan often loses and loses, so they dare not invade easily.

When Zhou Dewei served as the envoy of the Lulong Festival, he relied on his bravery and no longer paid attention to the border defense, so he lost the natural danger of Yuguan, and since then the Khitan people have gone south every year to herd horses between Yingzhou and Pingzhou.

Zhou Dewei was jealous of the famous and talented people among the old generals in Youzhou, and often killed them under the pretense of crime.

King Wu sent a messenger to Abaoji to give Abaoji "fierce fire oil", that is, oil, saying: "When attacking the city, use this oil to set fire to the tower, and the enemy will pour water on it, and the fire will become more and more vigorous." ”

Abaoji was very happy, so he selected 30,000 cavalry to prepare to attack Youzhou again, Shu Luping laughed at him and said: "Where is there an attack on a country in order to test weapons? ”

Then he pointed to the big tree in front of the military tent and said to Abaoji: "This tree has no bark, can it still grow?" Abaoji replied, "No." After recounting the law, he said: "Youzhou City is also the same as this tree.

We only need to use 3,000 cavalry to ambush next to Youzhou City, loot its surroundings, so that there is no food to eat in the city, and in a few years, Youzhou City will naturally be in a predicament, and then we will be able to win without a fight, why act so rashly!

In case we fail to win and are ridiculed by the countries of the Central Plains, our tribe will also disintegrate. Abaoji then stopped the attack on Youzhou.

In March 917, Lu Wenjin led the Khitan soldiers to quickly attack Xinzhou, but Xinzhou assassin Shi Anjin could not hold on and abandoned the city and fled. Therefore, Lu Wenjin appointed his subordinate Liu Yin as the assassin of Xinzhou and asked him to stick to Xinzhou.

Li Cunqiao sent Zhou Dewei to join forces in Hedong, Zhenzhou, and Dingzhou to launch an attack on Xinzhou, but failed to conquer it for more than ten days. Abaoji led an army of 300,000 to the rescue, but Zhou Dewei was outnumbered, defeated by the Khitan, and fled in a hurry. (To be continued......)