> Linhuang Mansion, Shangjing.

Although it is the capital of the Liao Kingdom, compared with the prosperity of the Central Plains city, Shangjing is really shabby, not even as large as the county seat, and the palace is pitifully small, even if the palace is decorated with gold, it also reveals an indescribable rustic atmosphere. It is no wonder that the emperors of the Liao State were more accustomed to living in the Golden Horde.

Shu Luping didn't like to live in a palace with walls on all sides, and she felt aggrieved to live there. The eagle on the prairie should flap its wings in the sky, not be locked in a cage, although it may be much warmer and more comfortable. In contrast, she prefers the savage and free breath of the prairie.

She doesn't like the Han people, because the Han people are too weak and lack the recklessness and undiscipline of the prairie men. Although the things made by the Han people are indeed very useful, she believes that the edge of the sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and only the wolf cubs who grow up in the bitter cold wind and bite each other can be regarded as real good men, and not those who are weak, well-behaved, and good at observing words and feelings.

Shu Luping believes that there are some things of the Han people that the Khitan people may learn, but there are some things that cannot be contaminated. For example, the Han people are pedantic and obedient, in contrast, the Han people are like tamed dogs, and the Khitans are wolves on the grassland.

Whenever he saw the Han slaves trembling like quails under the whips of the Khitans, with only begging and pleasing in their eyes, and not the slightest courage to resist, Shu Luping felt a burst of disgust. If the powerful Khitan had learned all the things of the Han people, she knew that one day, the eagle in the sky would sooner or later turn into a quail hiding in a cage, and the strong and unruly silver wolf on the grassland would also become a dog wagging its tail and begging for mercy. She never wanted to see the great Khitan end like this. Gentle Township is also a hero's mound, and how many heroes and heroes have been consumed in Gentle Township and become vulnerable.

However, the habits of the Han people were like a plague, which spread to the Khitan warriors, and the more they came into contact with the Han people, the more severe the Khitan infection became. Therefore, she did not support Yelu Deguang's expedition to the Central Plains, and Shu Luping believed that when the Khitans conquered the Central Plains, it was the time when the Khitans perished.

This is also the reason why Shu Luping killed countless Khitans, but refused to kill the Han Zhao Siwen.

At the beginning, Emperor Taizu Yelu Abaoji passed away, and the power-hungry tribes of the government and the opposition were ready to move, and her position was also in jeopardy. Shu Luping summoned the heads of the ministries and important ministers to discuss the matter.

It was a short meeting.

Shu Luping asked the ministers, "Do you miss the first emperor?"

Of course, the ministers looked sad and replied, "The ministers are deeply favored by the first emperor, how can they not want to?"

Shu Luping smiled slightly: "That's good, since that's the case, it's not good for the mourning family to be fulfilled by you, please go to see the first emperor!"

Shu Luping put away his smile, and with an order, nearly a hundred tribal leaders and important ministers of the court who opposed her were all beheaded, and their bodies were sent to Taizu for burial.

The means are direct and simple, and Shu Luping has always been proud of it.

After that, all the high-ranking dignitaries who were suspected of misdeeds by Shu Luping had only one result, which was to pass the message to the first emperor on her behalf, and then pull her to the spirit of Yelu Abaoji and kill her.

But for some meritorious ministers and veterans, this method did not work, so Shu Luping first let people spread rumors, and then took rumors as a crime, and those who were removed were removed and beheaded. These include Yelu Tupinbu, who created the Khitan script, Yelu Duozhen, whose grandfather had a life-saving grace for Abaoji, and Yelu Dieli, who opened up territory for the Khitan, and so on.

Unexpectedly, just when Shu Luping was rising, he ran into a hard bone. That is Zhao Siwen, the former assassin of Pingzhou, a Hanchen who took refuge in the Khitan.

In Yelu Abaoji's campaign against the Bohai Kingdom, Zhao Siwen fought against the remaining barbarians, and was seriously injured in many places, making great contributions to the Khitan.

When Shu Luping also asked him to "serve the first emperor", to her surprise, this Zhao Siwen refused to give in.

Shu Luping asked: "You are a person close to the first emperor, and the first emperor once personally mixed medicine for you to feed you, what reason do you have not to go?"

Zhao Siwen's answer Shu Luping still remembers, he replied: "If you want to say that you are close to the first emperor, who can compare to the queen? If the queen is willing to serve the first emperor, the minister must follow behind." ”

When the ministers heard this, they immediately turned their eyes to Shu Luping.

In front of everyone's eyes, Shu Luping immediately reacted and replied: "The sons are young and weak, the country has no owner, even if the mourning family has its own heart, it can't be left behind, so it can't go!" In fact, at this time, the crown prince Yelubei was already twenty-eight years old, and Yelu Deguang was also twenty-six years old, and only Yeluhonggu was a little younger, only sixteen years old.

As soon as the words fell, Shu Luping pulled out the golden knife with a "whoosh", cut off one of his hands with his own hands, and ordered someone to send this hand to Abaoji's coffin to be martyred on his behalf.

Shu Luping's hand stunned everyone present, and also suppressed all the ministers with bad intentions.

From then on, all the imperial relatives and relatives of the Manchu Dynasty were afraid of her like a tiger and scorpion, and they did not dare to disobey her at all.

And the strange thing is that Shu Luping let go of Zhao Siwen, who forced her to cut off her hand.

All the people don't understand why Shu Luping will Zhao Siwen, only she understands in her own heart, there is only one reason, she admires Zhao Siwen, in Zhao Siwen's body, she saw the wolf nature of the Khitan people who are gradually disappearing, the kind of wolf nature that has to bite the opponent when they die, she wants to tell the clansmen that the Khitan people can lose anything, but they can't lose this wolf nature, it is this unruly wolf nature that makes the Khitan people rise among many tribes in the grassland. Without this wolf nature, the Khitans will lose everything.

This is also the reason why she likes her youngest son Yelu Honggu, maybe Yelu Honggu is not as smart as her eldest son Yelu Bei, good at opportunism, and not as broad-minded as his second brother, but he has the savagery of a grassland boy that the two of them do not have. In Shu Luping's view, this point is more important than cleverness and open-mindedness, although cleverness can make the Khitan prosperous for a while, but it will bring the Khitan to destruction. That's what Daqiao said.

This story has been widely circulated, and after the processing of some well-intentioned people, Shu Luping has changed from a perpetrator to a counterattacker. History is recorded by people, and those who record history can change the real history beyond recognition according to their own needs.

It's just a pity that there are too few people who can understand her meaning. They actually use the thinking of the Han people to understand Shu Luping, and ask when the wild wolf on the grassland will wait for others to deal with it first? The wild wolf will not, and neither will Shu Luping.

It is also for this reason that Shu Luping does not like his eldest son, Yelubei, although he is the crown prince. Yelubei was too heavily influenced by the Han people, and Shu Luping believed that with Yelubei's ability, when he was alive, he could make the Khitan strong, but if the Khitan fell into his hands, the wolf nature would quickly disappear, and eventually he would become a weak Han Chinese. And Yelubei's descendants may not be as wise as him, which means that once Yelubei dies, the Khitan will be finished sooner or later, just like the countless once powerful tribes in the grassland, where can they still find traces of the past?

The habits of the Han people are simply a dose of poison for the grassland tribes.

But at that time, Yeluhonggu was only sixteen years old, and it was impossible for him to become the emperor of the Khitan, the Great Khan of the steppe. Everyone thought that Shu Luping's answer to Zhao Siwen's sentence was an excuse, only she understood it, and what she said was also the truth.

Shu Luping was also not satisfied with Yelu Deguang, who was also greatly influenced by the Han people, but the influence was not as deep as that of the eldest son Yelu Bei. Since the Khitan country could not be handed over to Yelubei, and Yelu Honggu was too young, Shu Luping had no choice but to choose Yelu Deguang. However, she explained to Yelu Deguang that the crown prince must be Yelu Honggu.

As she expected, whether it is Yelu Bei's son or Yelu Deguang's son, they have already been imprinted with the brand of the Han people in their bones, and only Yelu Honggu is still as barbaric as ever.