The year 926 A.D. was a year of sorrow and a year of great joy for Jeroboam. Sadly, his father, Yelü Abaoji, the founding emperor of the Liao Dynasty, died of an unfortunate illness on the way back to the dynasty. The great joy is that he can inherit his father's mantle and sit on the throne of the Liao Dynasty himself.
At this time, some people stood up against it. Jeroboam had long been regarded as a prince by Jeroboam, and after Yelü Abaoji's death, it was natural that Jeroboam would take the throne, and which one who lacked the heart and eyes dared to offend the future emperor and "say no" to Jeroboam's ascension to the throne?
When Jeroboam looked at it, the person who opposed it was actually his own mother, Shu Luping! At this time, Jeroboam was dumbfounded, if any of the civil and military officials objected, he ordered the beheading, his mother said so, but he could not do anything.
Founding Queen
As we all know, the Liao Dynasty was a dynasty established by the Khitans. In the north, the ruler of a tribe was always chosen through elections and competitions, and this is how Yerushalayim became the king of the tribe. In 906 AD, Jeroboam became the tribal khan by election.
Prior to this, in 892 AD, Shu Luping, who was only 14 years old, was married to his cousin Yelü Abaoji, who was already 20 years old at the time. The so-called scarf does not let the eyebrows be raised, as a grassland girl, Shu Luping is also brave and good at war, and since the day the two got married, they have fought together on the battlefield.
Therefore, in 907, when Yelü Abaoji was officially able to take the throne, Shu Luping became empress. It stands to reason that in the Khitan it should be re-elected every three years, allowing more powerful young people to lead the tribe. But this would lead to a struggle for power, and the tribes would fight each other to maintain internal rule, so the Khitans could not join forces.
This is what neither Yelü Abaoji nor Shu Luping want to see, they want to establish a unified dynasty like the Central Plains, and they want to replace the electoral system with a hereditary system to make the political stability within the clan continue for thousands of years. Therefore, with the help of Shu Luping, there were more and more Han Chinese strategists among them, and Yelü Abaoji treated them very kindly, and slowly grasped the military and political power, and all the Han courtiers were very supportive of Yelü Abaoji.
Since then, the internal troubles of Yelü Abaoji have gradually been eliminated, and under the continuous conquest, finally unified the various ministries, and established the Khitan State in 916 AD, the regulation of the Dynasty has been no different from the Han Dynasty, and since then the Khitan people have also had their own unified dynasty, and began to use the hereditary system, and Shu Luping, who has made great military achievements and repeatedly contributed good strategies, has become the founding empress and has been favored by Yelü Abaoji.
Push-down tsugu
Before Yelü Abaoji's death, he made Yelü Bei the prince, and even the Dongdan Kingdom that he personally fought down also let Yelü Bei, who was then the prince, become the king of Dongdan. However, as a woman, Shu Luping's bloodiness did not lose to the steppe man at all. In her opinion, although Jeroboam was her own son, he had few military achievements in his cultivation and was not a talent at all.
Her other son, Yelü Deguang, followed herself and Yelü Abaoji around when he was young, and he was the best candidate to become emperor. Therefore, in 926 A.D., Jeroboam, who was supposed to ascend the throne, was constrained by his birth mother Shu Lupin and was unable to ascend the throne smoothly.
However, after so many years, the ministers at the bottom had accepted the hereditary regulations of the eldest son and were very supportive of Jeroboam's ascension to the throne. Therefore, the first thing Shu Luping had to deal with was not his own sons, but these ministers. So she thought of a way to get the ministers to bury the former emperor!
As a result, one by one, the ministers were thrown into the grave of Yelü Abaoji, and Shu Luping was already in the regency of the dynasty at that time, and the military and political power were in his hands, no different from the emperor, so the ministers had no choice but to let others slaughter.
But there are also disobedient, that is, Hanchen Zhao Siwen, who reads through history and how can he not know Shu Luping's intentions. Therefore, he knew that he could not escape, so he simply spit out the dissatisfaction in his heart: "The martyrdom is to make the former emperor less lonely after he goes down, but the one who can make him not lonely must be the closest empress you!" Empress, why don't you bury your body to accompany the emperor? ”
After Shu Luping heard this, he knew that this was Zhao Siwen's radical method, and she would fall into disgrace if she was not martyred, and if she was martyred, Yelü Deguang would not want to ascend the throne. Therefore, she immediately made a decision, swung a knife and cut off her right hand at the wrist, and then quietly asked people to send the severed hand to the cemetery for burial.
Immediately afterward, as if she were not injured, she said lightly: "Although I want to accompany the former emperor, the first prince is still in the human world and needs the companionship and love of his mother, so he cut off his own hand to show his loyalty." Seeing that Shu Luping was so crazy, the ministers at the bottom no longer dared to support Yelü Bei, so since Zhao Siwen, no minister had been sent to Yelü Abaoji for burial.
In this way, in 927 AD, Yelü Deguang successfully ascended the throne. Yelü Ping, the king of Dongdan, who was far away on the Bohai Sea, could only cry without tears, allowing his throne to be taken away by his mother and then given to his brother.