(The Crisis-ridden Tang Empire)
The second year of Tang Tianfu, 902 AD.
This year, according to the chronology of the stem branch, is the year of nongzhi.
For Datang, this is not a good season.
Warlords are fighting, the festivals everywhere make them stronger and bigger, and the emperor is sitting in the distant city of Chang'an, but it has become a decoration.
Zhu Wen, Li Keyong, Yang Xingmi, Qian Wei, and Wang Jian, the warlords who divided one side in the later Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, had already entered the stage of history.
Today you give me a set of whirlwind legs, tomorrow I give you a set of combination punches. Attacking each other continuously, the Central Plains are in flames of war, and a new era is about to begin vigorously.
In the northern grasslands, it is a completely different style.
The Khitan chief Yelü Abaoji unified the Khitan tribes and was about to establish a new dynasty and ascend the throne as emperor.
It was also in this year that the protagonist of this article, Yerushalayim, was born.
(Yerushalayim image)
From the perspective of the Central Plains culture, the timing of Yelü Deguang's birth was not too good.
Yes, there is also a timing in birth.
In the inheritance system of most of the Central Plains dynasties, it is emphasized that there are concubines and concubines, and whoever is born first has the advantage.
In most of the nomadic regimes, it is also important to pay attention to the young son shou stove, who is the last born, who is the most pampered.
Before he was born, Apaochi already had the eldest son, Yelü Sudden, and soon after his birth, Apaoji would give birth to his youngest son, Yelü Lihu.
Imagine that in a family, people either have a preference for the eldest son because he is stable and mature, or because the young son is young and young, and he takes more care of him.
The second eldest in the middle often becomes the object of father's lack of love for his mother.
But fortunately, even if Yelü Deguang did not have an innate advantage, his own comprehensive quality was still excellent.
Yes, fight for generations, fight for love, it is better to fight for your own strength.
And the strength of Yerushalayim is that he is very good at fighting.
Everything is good. - "History of Liao"
The Liao people were rough and simple, and their records of Yelü Deguang on the battlefield were not much, only a short sentence.
But that's the sentence that says it all.
Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, everywhere there are the figures of Yelü Deguang, and everywhere there are traces of him following his father in battle.
Why doesn't the boy take the Wu hook and charge Guan Shan Fifty States?
Unlike the extravagant and corrupt Khitan nobles, the young Yelü Deguang dedicated his blood and sweat to the battlefield.
The first year of tianxian, 926 AD.
It was an extraordinary day for the Khitan people.
In this year, the founding emperor of the Khitan Dynasty, Yelü Abaoji, who fought a lifetime of conquest, unified the eight departments of the Khitan Dynasty, and established a huge Khitan Dynasty, died of illness on the way back from the expedition to the Bohai Kingdom.
(Jeroboam image)
Although he is not the protagonist of this article, I still want to leave him a comment:
He was a pioneering emperor who spent his life on a journey, using his strong military prowess and exquisite political acumen to build an unprecedented Khitan dynasty, and the emergence of the Khitan dynasty opened a whole new era in Chinese history.
In the future, this steppe civilization will repeatedly pose a threat to the Central Plains Dynasty, and even become their mortal enemy for a time.
The old emperor died, and the throne was suddenly vacant.
Who will be the emperor?
It depends on who can decide who becomes emperor.
On the issue of succession to the throne, Emperor Taizu's empress Shu Luping had the most say.
Maternal love is selfless, the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are all flesh, which should be a difficult choice for Shu Luping.
After the Khitan shulu, he loved his neutron Deguang and wanted to establish it. —— "Zizhi Tongjian"
But in the vast history books, we finally found the answer.
Empress Shu Luping's favorite was her second son, Yelü Deguang.
Why?
There is no record in the history books, and since the history books do not record it, as a rigorous historical author, I cannot talk nonsense.
All I can tell you is, perhaps out of mother's intuition.
(Shu Luping image)
Therefore, with the full support of Shu Luping, in 927 AD, Yelü Deguang was crowned king and officially became the second emperor of the Khitan state.
But at this point in the story, we have to put it on hold for the time being, because next, we are going to mention a person who seems to have nothing to do with the whole article.
This person's name is Shi Jingyao.
Shi Jingyao, character unknown, Shatuo ethnic group, Shanxi Taiyuan people.
In the early years, he once worked under Li Siyuan of the Later Tang Dynasty, and later followed the Later Tang Emperor Li Cunxun to live together.
At that time, the Later Tang Dynasty was strong in China in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the territory was vast, and it was the Tang Dynasty Zhengshuo, so Shi Jingyao's welfare treatment was still very good.
Four dishes and one soup, five insurances and one gold were all arranged, and even Married Li Siyuan's daughter, and even the marriage problem was solved.
However, when The Late Tang Emperor Li Congke became emperor, the situation changed.
The national strength is declining, one day is not as good as a day, Shi Jingyao can only mix a low insurance under Li Congke's hands, and the hardships of life are hard, so don't mention it.
(Image of Lee Heng-naka)
This situation lasted until the third year of the Qing Dynasty, 936 AD.
Seeing the decline of the Later Tang Dynasty, Shi Jingyao pondered that I could not finish with the company, I had to find a way out, so I rebelled and wanted to go it alone.
Comrade Lao Shi's relationship with the Later Tang Dynasty cannot be described as deep.
Emperor Li Congke saw that this was not okay, our old Li family inserted a knife for your two ribs, you inserted two knives into me to live a good life, I must clean you up.
Perhaps Li Congke overestimated Shi Jingyao's strength, or perhaps Shi Jingyao underestimated the national strength of the Later Tang.
(Image of Keijo Ishi)
As soon as the two sides fought, Shi Jingyao actually found that he was unable to confront The Later Tang at all, and he was defeated and retreated one after another, and he was still surrounded in Taiyuan, thinking that he could not go out, and he could not run.
At this point, Comrade Shi Jingyao almost finished mixing himself.
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is a chaotic situation, there are very few true friends, but there are many real villains.
Everyone was mixed up from the Tang Dynasty, who knows everyone well, and it is inevitable that there will be new hatreds and old hatreds, don't say help you, don't take advantage of your difficulties to give you a knife, you should burn high incense.
Looking up, no one in the Central Plains was willing to help, so Shi Jingyao set his sights on the Khitan Dynasty in the northern steppe.
The Khitan army was brave and good at war, the warhorses were rushing, and Rao was good at riding and shooting, as long as they were willing to help deal with Hou Tang, they would definitely be able to escape from the ascension.
The solution is a good one, but the problems come with it.
The question is also very simple, which can be summed up in a widely circulated proverb, that is:
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
You Shi Jingyao and can't bear to work for Hou Tang Bai, so how could the Khitan people give you Shi Jingyao bai a job?
People's armies come and go, how to calculate the oil money? Who will pay for the grain and grass money? Who is responsible for the wear and tear of horses and weapons?
Of course, Shi Jingyao is very sensible, he said, I can give money.
money?
Sorry, in the war years, money is not hard currency, land is.
Shi Jingyao became more sensible, he said, I can give you land, don't say land, I can even recognize you as a father.
Friends, this is not a joke or an insult to historical figures, but a true record of history.
In order to understand the siege of Taiyuan, and even more to establish his own political power by obtaining the support of the Khitans, Shi Jingyao sent money and gifts, and even did not hesitate to bend the knot, recognizing the Liao Dynasty Taizong Yelü Deguang, who was eleven years younger than himself, as his father.
But that's not the most critical.
In a sense, whoever he gives money and gifts to is his freedom.
Whoever he calls Daddy, we have no right to interfere.
But in addition, Shi Jingyao also ceded a piece of land to the Khitans.
The name of this land is "Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures".
(Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures)
This is an incomparably painful memory of the Central Plains regime.
The term "Yanyun" first came from the "History of Song Dynasty Geographical Records", and today's Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are probably a large part of the area north of Beijing, northern Hebei, and northern Shanxi.
This area is mostly lofty mountains and high valley slopes, which straddle the North China Plain and the northern grasslands, and is a natural barrier for the Central Plains regime to the nomadic peoples.
This is the best defense that nature has given to the Central Plains regime.
But now, large tracts of land belong to the Khitans.
Since then, the central plains have no danger to defend, thousands of miles of splendid embroidery, thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, all exposed under the iron hooves of the nomads.
Shi Jingyao got his wish, and Yelü Deguang not only sent troops to relieve the siege of Taiyuan, but also destroyed Later Tang by the way.
Soon after, with the support of the Khitans, Shi Jingyao established the Later Jin Dynasty, and finally fulfilled his dream of being an emperor.
He has fulfilled his dream, but how many people with lofty ideals and who want to protect their families and defend the country have their dreams shattered tonight?
But Shi Jingyao's happiness did not last long, he thought that his own era had finally come, but he did not expect that after his son took the throne, the Khitan army went south, and without saying a word, he destroyed the Later Jin.
The capital of the Later Jin Dynasty was in present-day Kaifeng, Henan, and the Later Jin Dynasty fell, and Kaifeng naturally fell.
(Kaifeng City)
In the same decade, in 947 AD, on the first day of the first lunar month.
This is the first day of the new year.
In the past, on such days, it must be the crowd bustling, the sound of firecrackers rising and falling, the lights in every house, and the lights at night.
But this year's New Year is not the same as in the past.
The doors of every house are closed, the streets are sparsely populated, and the whole city smells of slaughter.
On this day, Emperor Taizong of Liao led a large army into Kaifeng and received a pilgrimage from a hundred officials at the Chongyuan Hall of the Kaifeng Imperial Palace.
They knelt down in unison like the Zhongyuan Hanchen when they met the Son of Heaven, shouting long live.
And in this solemn and solemn moment, Yerushalayim made an important decision:
In February, Ding Shushuo, the founding number of Daliao. - "History of Liao"
He issued an edict changing the name of the Khitan state to "Great Liao".
Through vicissitudes, the world has changed.
At that time, his father once galloped on horseback and "set an arrow to Beijing" on the Khitan grassland, laying the foundation of the Khitan people's original inheritance.
And now, he swept through the four heads, looked at the world, and finally became a qualified king.
A brand-new dynasty has finally entered the stage of Chinese history.
Da Liao! Don't stop!
Create your own legend!