In 947, Emperor Taizong of Liao led an army south to the Central Plains, captured Beijing as emperor, and changed the khitan name to Daliao, thus officially establishing the state of Daliao.
"Out of the Hunt"
After successfully claiming the title of emperor, Yelü Deguang planned to establish an absolute dominance over the Central Plains, but because Yelü Deguang did not have a long-term vision and countermeasures, although he successfully established the country, he still allowed the Liao soldiers to plunder the people of the Central Plains, kill people and set fires, blatantly seize the people's money, and then transport the money back to the Liao state.
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The unpopular Yelü Deguang and the Liao soldiers led by him provoked the people to do evil everywhere. So Liu Zhixuan established the Later Han dynasty in the Jinyang region and declared himself emperor, and the people of the Central Plains, who had been persecuted by the Liao soldiers for a long time, rushed to respond to the army that followed the rebel army to attack the Liao state. Yelü Deguang knew that the Liao state would not be able to stand in the Central Plains sooner or later, so he hurriedly retreated to the Liao state with a large number of gold, silver treasures and prisoners, but suddenly fell ill on the way and died on the road within a few days.
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When Yelü Deguang's mother heard the news, she directly ordered the ministers who followed Yelü Deguang to bring Yelü Deguang back to the Liao Kingdom in its entirety and bury him. But the time of Yerushalayim's death was the hot summer, and there was no effective way to preserve Yerushalayim's body.
Inner Mongolia Chifeng City relief "Khitan Dynasty"
The ministers discussed together all day and could not find a good solution, at which time a cook accompanying the army proposed a solution, which was supported by the ministers, that is, to make the body of Yelü Deguang into an "emperor".
The so-called "羓" is that when the nomadic people were nomadic in the grassland, in order to better preserve the food, the cattle and sheep that could not be eaten would be taken out and then salted, so that the beef and mutton would not rot and could be cooked and eaten at any time. The so-called "emperor" should be popularly known as the "mummy" we know today.
Egyptian mummies
With the unanimous permission of the ministers who had arrived, the cook took out the internal organs of Yelü Deguang, then coated his whole body with salt to completely dehydrate the body, and then Yelü deguang was brought back to the Liao Kingdom for burial.
In this way, Liao Taizong Yelü Deguang became the first emperor in ancient China to be made into a "mummy".