Li Qiufeng listened to Sun Guangming talk eloquently, but he didn't think so. I thought that these things were absurd, and they were all ethereal ghosts and gods. I don't know which one Sun Guangming read these legendary words from the history of the notebook, so he regarded them as treasures, and even spent endless effort to get the so-called Zhuge Relic Array Diagram. Although he listened to Sun Guangming more and more strange, not only did he not believe it, but he felt more and more funny.

Sun Guangming continued: "It's just that Wu Zetian's hiding of the formation map was only known to her as a personal female official before her death. When Wu Zetian was ousted from the throne, the female official escaped from the palace and went into exile. The notebook I saw was handed down by her descendants. It's just that its Chinese characters are absurd, and the people who see this note are only wild history, which is no different from legends such as "Westbound Ping Demon" and "Legend of the Pagoda", and no one believes it. And I have been investigating this matter for many years, and the clues I have gathered show that in addition to the formation map handed down by Wu Zetian, Cao Bin must have also obtained a copy in Shuzhong. In addition, according to the text left in the tomb of a monk in Luoyang, I suspect that the Khitan also hid a formation map back then. ”

Li Qiufeng was stunned and said, "This is quite unusual, how can the monks mix with the Khitans again?"

Sun Guangming said with a smile: "If you mention this monk, you will inevitably have to talk about another past." Let's make a long story short, this matter is related to Yelubei, a royal family of Khitan. Li Daxia, have you ever heard of this person's name?"

Li Qiufeng shook his head and said, "I'm ashamed, Li has never heard of this person's name. ”

Sun Guangming nodded and said, "If it weren't for the fact that I stole a tomb in Bishan by chance and found the text recording Yelubei's deeds in the tomb, I wouldn't have known that there was such a great figure in the Khitan back then." Na Yelu Bei is the eldest son of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, who once helped Yelu Abaoji conquer the Bohai Kingdom, and was canonized as the 'King of the People' by Yelu Abaoji for his military exploits. At that time, Yelubei was already the crown prince of the Khitan, Abaoji's own honorific title was 'Emperor of Heaven', and Empress Shu Luping was the 'Queen of the Earth', which established Yelubei's status as 'below two people and above ten thousand people'.

"It's just that the good times didn't last long. Yelu Abaoji wanted to conquer the Central Plains, but repeatedly to no avail. Soon after, on the way back to Khitan, he fell ill and died. After Yelu Bei, who was outside, received the news of Yelu Abao's death, he immediately set off to return to Khitan. But his mother Shu Luping has returned to the west of the palace, and his younger brother Yelu Deguang has received the news revealed by Shu Luping, and has rushed to Yelu Abaoji's coffin. The two brothers rushed to mourn, but they didn't have any affection for their father. Both of them knew that whoever rushed to Yelu Abaoji's body first would be able to seize the opportunity in the battle for the throne.

"Although Yelubei is a Khitan, he admires my Han dress and etiquette, and there are many Han people among the advisers around him, so he respects Confucius and Confucianism, and has always advocated that the Khitan should learn from the Central Plains and take Confucianism as the art of governing the country. But his old lady Shu Luping is a Khitan nobleman through and through, and her temperament is extremely tough, which is somewhat similar to the later Khitan Empress Dowager Xiao Yanyan. Under the instigation of the Khitan nobles, she made up her mind to abolish Yelubei's crown prince and make her younger brother Yelu Deguang the new king of the Khitan.

"As soon as Yelu Abaoji took his last breath, Shu Luping summoned the Khitan nobles and ministers to her big tent, and she said to everyone: 'My two sons are very good, and they are both suitable to be emperors, I can't decide who will be the emperor, and now I will hand over the power of choosing the emperor to you, and whoever you think is suitable to be the emperor will hold the saddle bridle of whomever you think. At that time, outside the big tent were all Shu Luping's personal guards, and Yerod wore his armor and led his troops and horses around the perimeter. These nobles and officials originally knew Shu Luping's intentions, and when they saw Yelu Deguang eyeing the horse outside the tent, they knew that the situation forced them, and if they did not obey Shu Luping and Yelu Deguang, they were afraid that they would be dismembered on the spot. As soon as Shu Luping's words fell, they rushed to grab the saddle bridle of Yelu Deguang and cheered, 'May the Emperor Deguang'. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Guangming sighed and said: "Since ancient times, it has not been a good thing for Si Chen, Shu Luping, a girl who is so nonsense, has caused the Khitan to fall into a civil strife. When the crown prince Jerubi arrived at the horde, everything was settled, and if he was even more dissatisfied, he was afraid that his mother and brother would be killed on the spot. In desperation, Yelubei had no choice but to lead his ministers to ask Shu Luping for his life, and took the initiative to ask to give up the throne to Shu Luping's favorite son Yelu Deguang. Yelu Deguang became the emperor with the help of his mother, and he was Liao Taizong.

"Since ancient times, the deposed emperor has never ended well, and Yelubei is no exception. Although Yelu Deguang ascended the throne as he wished, he was not at ease with his brother Yelubei. not only monitored Yelubei in every way, but also constantly tried to weaken the strength of the feudal Dongdan Kingdom obtained by Yelubei. For this reason, the contradictions between the brothers are getting deeper and deeper. Jerubi had to find a way back to avoid his brother's murderous hands.

It was also at this time that the Later Tang Emperor Li Siyuan knew about Yelubei's situation. At that time, the Later Tang Dynasty and the Khitan were already like fire and water, so Li Siyuan sent someone to find Yelubei, claiming that the Later Tang Dynasty was willing to accept Yelubei. At that time, Yelubei was already in a panic, and Li Siyuan's proposal was in the middle of it. Under the persuasion of the envoys of the Later Tang Dynasty, Yelubei crossed the sea from Liaodong to the Later Tang Dynasty with his favorite concubines and treasured books, comparing himself to 'Wu Taibo'. When he was about to get on the ship, facing his homeland, he was full of grief and indignation, and set up a small wooden sign by the sea, engraved with the cloud of "Poems on the Sea": "The small mountain presses the big mountain, and the big mountain is powerless." I am ashamed to see my hometown, and I will go to a foreign country from now on'. Although this poem is average, it contains incomparable grief and indignation, and it is a fight with Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem".

After Yelubei arrived in the Central Plains, he was ceremoniously greeted by Li Siyuan. Li Siyuan greeted him with the honor guard of the Son of Heaven, and gave him the surname Dongdan and the name Muhua. Change Ruizhou to Huaihua Army, worship Huaihua Army Festival Envoy, Ruishen and other state observation envoys. Later, he was given the surname Li, and the name was Li Zanhua, and he moved to Huazhou, and led the Qianzhou Festival to make the envoy. ”

When Li Qiufeng heard this, he couldn't help but praise: "Mr. Sun, you really have you." These long-winded and bizarre official titles are also a shame that you can remember them so clearly. ”

Sun Guangming said with a smile: "Li Daxia's words are ridiculous. It was only after I found some clues in the monk's grave that I flipped through the history books and learned about these things. Otherwise, even if you smash my head, I am afraid that I will not know where Jerube is and what official position he has held.

Although Jerubi is in a foreign country, he often misses his hometown and relatives. Later, Li Siyuan died of illness, and his son Li Conghou was killed by Li Congke's adopted son Li Congke less than half a year after he ascended the throne, and the throne was transferred to Li Congke. Yelubei thought that this was an excellent time to attack the Later Tang, and even sent someone to secretly report to Liao Taizong to persuade him to take advantage of the civil strife of the Li clan to attack the Later Tang. Yelu Deguang really led the army south, but he was not invited by Yelubei, but was invited by the traitor Shi Jingjiao, so he raised troops to the south.

"Li Congke was besieged by the combined forces of Shi Jingjiao and the Khitan and was trapped in a lonely city. Seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, Li Congke didn't want to be humiliated, so he wanted to **. He summoned Jelubei to burn him, but when Jelubei refused, Li Congke sent assassins to assassinate Jelubei on his way back. Yelubei was only 38 years old when he died, and he believed in Buddhism during his lifetime, and often associated with a monk in the White Horse Temple in Luoyang. After Jerubi's death, the monk gathered up Jerubi's body and buried it temporarily on a barren hillside. Later, the combined forces of Khitan and Shi Jingtang destroyed the Later Tang Dynasty, and the Khitans transported Yelubei's body back to Liaodong for burial, nicknamed 'Wenwu Yuan Emperor'. This unlucky emperor finally returned to the Khitan after nearly twenty years of wandering.

Many years later, Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang died of illness on the way out. The Khitan nobles took the opportunity to support Yelubei's eldest son, Yelu Ruan, as the emperor for Liao Shizong. This kid thought that his father's throne was snatched away by his grandmother and uncle, and he died in a foreign land, and this anger could finally be vented. So he led his troops to attack Shuluping and Yelu Lihu, the son of Yelu Deguang, in Shangjing, and defeated his grandmother and cousin. At that time, Yelu Ruan wanted to kill his grandmother and cousin, but the minister Yelu Wu tried hard to dissuade him, and the two sides finally reconciled. Shu Lu Ping and Yelu Lihu recognized Yelu Nguyen's position as emperor. After Yelu Ruan ascended the throne, he posthumously called his father Yelu Bei as the 'Emperor of the Rangguo', and the mausoleum was called Xianling. During the reign of the Liao Shengzong and the Emperor, the name was changed to 'literature'. After Liao Xingzong ascended the throne, he added the name of Emperor Qinyi, the temple name Yizong, and the two queens were titled 'Duanshun' and 'Rouzhen'. ”

Li Qiufeng heard that Sun Guangming had led the topic to Yelu Ruan again, and thought to himself: "This Sun Guangming and Situ Qiao are talking at length, and there is no point at all. From an artifact robe, it is said that Master Xuanzang went west to Tianzhu to seek Buddhist scriptures. Later, he talked about Li Shimin's struggle for the world, Wu Zetian's usurpation, and Huaiyi's monk Jianmingtang. Now the topic has been brought back to the father and son. Repented of asking a few random questions, but provoked him to say so much. Alas. ”

Sun Guangming glanced at Li Qiufeng, saw that he looked indifferent, and knew that Li Qiufeng was tired of listening, so he smiled and said, "I'll make a long story short." About five or six years ago, I robbed a mausoleum in Bishan, and I didn't expect that the tomb was buried by a monk in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the coffin of this monk, there is a silk book. This monk told the story of Yelubei's arrival in the Central Plains in the silk book, which mentioned that Yelubei was good at reading Chinese and had many rare Chinese books. When he went south to the Central Plains, he took with him the rare books he had collected over the years. Among them, there is a formation map left by Zhuge Wuhou, which is said to be able to drive ghosts and gods, and it is extremely powerful.

After Yelubei was killed by the assassins sent by Li Congke, the monk heard the news and took the risk to collect Yelubei's body. In fact, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos to take the formation map away, so as not to fall into the hands of the wicked. However, after the assassins killed Yelubei in the street, Li Congke sent troops to seal Yelubei's mansion, and the monk could not enter, so he had to temporarily bury Yelubei's body on a barren slope.

Later, the Khitan army and Shi Jingtang's soldiers and horses invaded the city, and the general of the Khitan army heard that the monk had buried Yelubei's body, but he found him, rewarded him with a lot of silver, and transported the bodies of Yelubei and his two concubines, along with the books and other things in Yelubei's mansion back to the Khitan. Although the monk was bent on retrieving the formation, he never had a chance to make a move, and finally died of depression. He left this silk book to tell future generations that this array was taken away by the Khitan. It's just that the Khitan people are rude and unruly, and they don't know how powerful this array is. This formation must be recaptured as soon as possible, otherwise the Khitans will know the power of this formation, and they are afraid that there will be no peace in the Central Plains. ”