Now the territory of the Western Liao Khitan has extended from Hami to Weihai and Kuyu, and its suzerainty extends from the upper reaches of the Yenisei River to the Amu Darya River. From a Muslim point of view, the hegemony of this pagan Mongol force within the territory of the Muslim Turks was a serious obstacle and a great humiliation. These people are not looking at Muslim society, but at China, whose culture they have acquired.

Because the Khitan people are small in the new empire, most of the residents are Turkic and believe in Islam, so the Western Liao monarch Yelu Dashi adopts the Turkic emperor name, called "Guer Khan", which means "the Khan of the world", and gives freedom of religious belief to Muslims, Nestorian Christians, Buddhists, etc.

Zhao Ta's use of the Western Liao, which had a common cultural foundation, not only blocked the Tuque and other nomadic peoples from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, but also effectively prevented the influence and invasion of Western religion on the culture of the Central Plains. The Great Song Dynasty captured Gaochang and Mobei at the same time, and then established a second buffer line to filter out those dangerous factors, so that the Great Song Dynasty could complete the reform under his guidance and eliminate and isolate the unstable factors.

Since Zhao Ta had not yet received a return from the sea expeditionary force, he did not know that the army he sent also tossed the Arab world enough, which directly led to the fall of Sultan Sanjar, who was defeated in the Kavant steppe. It was precisely because of his incompetence that the caliphate, the spiritual leader of the Muslim world, was in crisis and had to spend huge sums of money to redeem it, otherwise it would be taken away by the Orientals, which was a great shame for the entire Muslims. They broke away from its rule and sought independence.

The superposition of the two failures made Sanjar dare not return to the imperial capital and wandered outside. Instead, the caliph was given a chance to return to power, and he deposed Sanjar as sultan as a Muslim leader. His family members and forces left in the imperial capital were all eradicated, and the political system of theocracy was restored. And the Sultan Sanjar, who was equivalent to being exiled, was not willing to give up easily, and also contacted the lords of various places to crusade against Baghdad, in an attempt to make a comeback. The two rivals fought to tear the Arab world apart, and the lords of all sides also took the opportunity to attack each other, fighting endlessly, expanding their own territory, this chaos was difficult to end for a while, so that the Great Song Dynasty could be left alone......

"Your Majesty. The leader of the Mughal tribe is not strangled to death! The emperor of the Western Liao side predicted that Yelu Dashi would not survive next year, and there was no need to use it as a key strategic fortification, but as soon as the words fell, Zhao Yi received the murderous letter of Hebule's death, and he hurriedly returned to the palace to report.

"Oh, he's strangled to death!?"

"Your Majesty, yes!" Zhao Yi looked at the emperor's calm face and replied, but he was very puzzled in his heart. Emperor Hebule has always attached great importance to it, and after his return, there was no Ministry of Rites or Household Department under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, but there was always a Privy Council to manage the affairs of the Mughal Ministry. This is equivalent to being directly controlled by the emperor.

"When did you die?"

"Your Majesty, since the pacification of Gaochang, Hebule felt that he was not in good health, so he asked to lead his troops to return first. When he returned to the clan land in June, he died in a few days! Zhao Yi replied.

"Well, what did he say?" Zhao Tan nodded and asked again.

"Your Majesty. Hebul demanded that his subordinate brother be appointed Khan, and that he continue to be loyal to His Majesty. The news of his death was sent by my child! Zhao Yiyan said.

"Yes, it is up to Shang Shu and your Privy Council to grant his request. Give 5,000 taels of silver, a set of sacrifices, and appease the Dai I to go to the memorial! Zhao Ta groaned slightly.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhao Yishi replied.

"After the death of Hebul, did the Tatar Department move?" Zhao Ta thought for a moment, stopped Zhao Yi and asked again.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates have not received any relevant news, so someone will investigate!" Zhao Yi replied, hesitated and asked the emperor, "Doesn't Your Majesty think this matter is strange?" ”

"Is there any doubt, birth, old age, sickness and death are not ordinary things!" Zhao Ta raised his eyes to look at Zhao Yi and asked puzzled.

"Your Majesty, Hebule has seven sons, even if there are no heirs, they have to pass it on to their own brothers, but now they want to pass on the throne to their younger brothers, isn't this abnormal, is my Ba child usurping the throne and seizing power, and wants to be recognized by His Majesty!" Zhao Yi voiced his doubts.

"Hehe, there's nothing strange about this, it's the most normal thing to say that a strong person is on the grassland!" Zhao Tan said with a smile, "On the grassland, the production capacity of each tribe is limited, but the population is growing, and the resources that can be used are limited. In this process, the various tribes on the steppe are desperately trying to develop and strengthen themselves, and then to eliminate and annex others. Therefore, if a tribe wants to become strong, there is no other choice of the strong as the king, and the son of Hebul is young and cannot lead the entire tribe, so he can choose the strongest person from his own family to take over the throne to avoid the decline of the tribe and be annexed by other tribes! ”

"The Mughal tribe is already strong enough under the support of our Great Song Dynasty, if another strong man succeeds to the throne, it won't be a lot of trouble once he betrays us!" Zhao Yiyan said that in addition to the oppression of the Jurchens, there were also constant wars between the various tribes of the grassland, and the Kereh and the Tatar tribe, the Mierqi tribe and the Kereh tribe, and the Naiban tribe and the Kereh tribe have been attacking each other for decades, and now the Kereh and Naiman tribes have declined under the blow of the Western Expeditionary Army, and the remnants have withdrawn from the Mobei grassland and escaped to the far north, so the chance for the rise of the Mengwu tribe is greater, which is not in line with the interests of the Great Song Dynasty.

"It's not unreasonable for you to think about it, but they have a blood feud with the Tatar Ministry, so the contradictions between them are difficult to reconcile, so it's not time for us to make a move, we support him to weaken the Jurchens, and the Tatars and the Jurchens hook up, and their conflict will be more intense after the death of Hebu!" Zhao Ta explained that in fact, Zhao Ta's attention to the Mughis was due to the later generation of Temujin, and he would not be born until ten years later, and what he was doing now was to change the environment in which he grew up.

The Tatar tribe is a good target, they both belong to the tribe split from the Mughal part, and the relationship between the two tribes is not bad. However, after Hebule fell to the Great Song Dynasty, his power expanded rapidly under the support of Zhao Tan, and he became the head of the tribes in a few years. Sensing the danger, the Tatars chose to cooperate with the Jurchens to maintain their power, but at this time the two of them were able to maintain peaceful coexistence and support each other until an accident happened.

Ghabl Khan's wife, Lady Missai, was a native of the Hora tribe and she bore seven sons to Khbol Khan. One year, Ghbra Khan's brother-in-law Sain? of Jin was sick. To heal Sain? Of the catties, please a Tatar named Cha'er beggar? The shaman of Natuyi came to heal.

The tribes of the Mongolian steppes believed in a primitive religion, shamanism, and they claimed to be able to speak with spirits. At that time, Sain? A few years old, and the patient was blind, the Tatar shaman did not have the art of resurrecting the dead, and saw that the patient was dead. It is common sense that there is no absolute doctor, but the family must be angry when the patient dies, and it is the same everywhere throughout the ages, so the people of Huoluo have done things that are no different from modern people.

In addition to the grief of the people, he insisted on Sain? He was killed by a shaman, and he didn't admit that he was a representative of any ghost or god, so he beat the shaman in a fit of rage. The sons of Hebul Khan were Sain? The nephew of the catty, who naturally had an unshirkable duty to help his uncle, was also involved, and they were disappointed in the wizard, and in anger they collectively believed that the wizard did not contribute to the work and intended to treat the patient to death. The sons of Hebul Khan caught up and killed the Tatar wizards on the way.

Of course, the Tatars refused to give up, and immediately raised a vengeful army to carry out a crusade against the Hora Thorns. The Hora Assassins were a relatively civilized but weaker tribe, and they could not withstand the powerful attack of the Tatars, so they had to ask the Mughuls for help, and they became involved in the war with the Tatars. With the strength of his troops and the support of the Great Song Dynasty, no one could resist them. The third son of Hebul, Hitan, was the famous "Batel" of the Mongol tribe, and twice fought against the Tatar monarch of the tribe, the first time he stabbed the Mutiel, and the second time he died, and the Tatar army became a captive of the Mughal people.

Since then, the two tribes have become enemies, and once the hatred is formed, it will snowball and grow bigger and bigger, until it causes a great avalanche that destroys everything, and the Mughul and the Tatars have formed a generational feud, and the blood revenge war continues, and whenever they have the opportunity, there will be massacres and looting. In the Central Plains, this process generally takes several generations of hard work to achieve, but in the Mobei grassland, two generations of encounters are enough. But Zhao Ta will not reconcile the hatred between the two of them, because he is waiting, waiting for the most opportune time to appear, when he will take action to destroy this tribe that may give birth to a character who will make the world tremble......

As soon as a condolence envoy was sent to the Mengwu Ministry, an official from the Ministry of Rites came to report that the old minister Zong Zehe had died of illness a few days ago. I don't like Zong Ze Zhao Ta, but this person is loyal to the country and has courage to do things, gave him a lot of help at the beginning of his succession, and also made a great contribution to stabilizing the army, and also has a high reputation in the court. After learning of the murderous letter, Zhao Ta issued an edict posthumously to give the bachelor of the Guanwen Palace and the general doctor, and he was called Zhongjian. With the senior counselor Xu Jingheng as the condolence envoy, he gave 10,000 taels of silver, and the two descendants of the shadow entered the office, and set up a spiritual sacrifice in the Luoyang Palace.

"The hero has fallen, is it my era is coming to an end......" Several characters who can be called heroes have left or are about to leave, which makes Zhao Ta a little melancholy! (To be continued......)