History is often more exciting than film and television dramas, after all, the creation of scripts still has a certain logic to speak of, but the development of history often does not follow the logic. Yelü Deguang was the second son of yelü Abaoji, the founding emperor of the Liao State, although he was the second son, but Yelü Deguang was deeply loved by Yelü Abaoji, and Yelü Deguang did not disappoint his father, at the age of 20, he was appointed as the Grand Marshal of Terracotta Army and HorseMen to accompany his father to the southern expedition to the north, and made a lot of military achievements. After The death of Liao Taizu, Yelü Deguang successfully ascended the throne with the support of Empress Shulu with his great military achievements.
Under the rule of Yelü Deguang, the Liao state was strong and strong, and Yelü Deguang was no longer satisfied with the status quo, so he set his sights on the Central Plains and wanted to achieve a grand hegemony. At this time, the Central Plains Later Tang Jiedu made Shi Jingyao see the strength and ambition of Yelü Deguang, took the initiative to get in touch with Yelü Deguang, hoping to be able to use the power of Yelü Deguang to help him establish a country, of course, there is no free lunch in the world, Shi Jingyao and Yelü Deguang both understood this truth, so Shi Jingyao was willing to cede the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the LiaoGuo, and at the same time, in order to show loyalty, Shi Jingyao took the initiative to recognize Yelü Deguang as a dry father, interestingly, at this time Yelü Deguang was only 38 years old, and Shi Jingyao was already 47 years old, and the difference between the two was nearly 10 years old. The father is 10 years older than the son. Yelü De looked at it, this feeling is good, not only can get so many cities and have one more son, although this son is ten years older than himself.
But to be able to recognize people who are ten years younger than themselves as dry fathers, such people will certainly not be ordinary people. After all, recognizing Gan Dad was only a false name, and at that time, Shi Jingyao was willing to cede the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, as early as after the Anshi Rebellion, it was already in a semi-independent state, Shi Jingyao could not control it at all, it was for you to give it to you, and whether it could be controlled was his own business. It can be said that Shi Jingyao successfully obtained the support of Yelü Deguang after paying almost no substantial price, and Yelü Deguang also fulfilled his promise to his son, and soon led 50,000 cavalry to destroy The Later Tang and helped Shi Jingyao establish the Later Jin.
And Shi Jingyao also naturally ceded the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures that could not be controlled to Yelü Deguang, and sure enough, the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures did not listen to Shi Jingyao at all, and Yelü Deguang saw that this was easy to do, fight, just do it, the cavalry walked up, and then successfully controlled the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, although it was a little unexpected, but after all, both sides achieved the expected goals, Shi Jingyao established a state as emperor, and Yelü Deguang had Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.
Shi Jingyao became emperor with the support of Yelü Deguang, and Yelü Deguang naturally did not be too embarrassed about his own dry son, and under the "rule by customs" practiced by Yelü Deguang, that is, the Han people's way of ruling the Han, it was also a peaceful place, at this time the Liao state and the Later Jin Were in a delicate balance, but with the death of Shi Jingyao's illness and the ascension of his son Shi Zhonggui, this balance was broken. Shi Chonggui wanted to break through the restrictions of the Liao State, so he said to this grandfather, "Calling Sun not a subject", this relationship was recognized by his father at that time, so he recognized this relationship, but let the title of subject be unable to do it. Yelü Deguang saw that his "dry grandson" was obviously not as obedient as his own dry son, but it was easy to do, and he could fight until he obeyed. However, what made Yelü Deguang depressed was that in the following confrontations, Yelü Deguang was actually defeated by Shi Zhonggui and was defeated.
Shi Chonggui saw that his own grandfather was not a good idea, so his ambition soared, not only to recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures but also to claim to be the north of Saibei, so Shi Chonggui appointed his uncle as the commander and led 100,000 elite troops to attack the Liao state. However, Shi Chonggui's uncle turned against him and poured out all 100,000 elites in the country to become prisoners of the Liao state, and later Jin perished.
Then Yelü Deguang rushed straight to the Central Plains, indulging the soldiers to burn and kill and plunder, which caused dissatisfaction among the people of the Central Plains, so all over the place revolted and fought a guerrilla war with Yelü Deguang, so the Liao army fought all the way, along the way, the wind and food were open and sleeping, plus the water and soil in the Central Plains were not satisfied, Yelü Deguang had to withdraw his troops back to Liao, but on the way back he died of illness.
Yelü Deguang's mother, Empress Shulu, gave the order to die, to see people alive and to see corpses in death. But at this time, the road was far away, and the weather was hot, and it was not as simple as trying to transport the body of Yerushalayim back. But the empress dowager gave the order to die, which could not be brought back, I am afraid that the head will be moved, just when everyone was anxious to scratch their ears and scratch their cheeks, a brother-in-law said that there is really no way but to make the former emperor into a "羓". "羓" is a way of storing meat in the Liao country, using salt and spices to marinate and dry the meat to achieve the purpose of long-term storage, which is actually similar to what we call bacon. Now there is only this way, so the imperial cook who accompanied him took Liao Taizong as a liao, and later there was an exclusive term "emperor" that specifically referred to Liao Taizong Yelü Deguang. It is said that in the end, the man was not punished, but was rewarded for successfully transporting the body of Yerushalayim.