According to Khitan tradition, the khan's position is a hereditary election system, a bit like democratic elections, and once every three years, the adult men of the Yelü family have the opportunity to become the next khan as long as they have merit and ability.
Statue of Jeroboam
However, since Yerushalayim became the Khan, the power has become more and more concentrated, more and more large, and he has become more and more reluctant to take the position of Khan. In this way, the tribal chiefs and generals who also dreamed of khanhood were not happy. And among these people, the first to attack were the younger brothers of Jeroboam.
Led by Yelü Lagar, the leader of the Dilabu Yili (the head of the ministry), Yelü Dila, Yelü Yin, and Yelü Andan soon colluded and secretly contacted and plotted to get rid of Apaoji and seize the khan's position. However, because the machine was not secret, he was detected by Anduan's wife and reported it to Apaoji. Apaoji took decisive measures to arrest the four younger brothers who were secretly plotting rebellion. At this time, Apaoji did not want to intensify the contradiction and cause greater turmoil, so instead of killing them, he "openly and honestly" had a "heart-to-heart" conversation with the four younger brothers, and swore an oath to kill the animal, saying that he would definitely hand over the Khan's position in the next khan election.
Khitan tent
However, the deadline for the Khan's election soon arrived, and Apaoji had originally used the strategy of delaying the army. As the saying goes: as long as the thinking does not slip, there are always more ways than difficulties. Apao had a clever move and sent someone to tell everyone that he was now at war with other tribes, the military was busy, and it was not possible to hold a change of term for the time being.
The four younger brothers looked dumbfounded, which was fooled. So, the old trick was repeated, and the plot was again plotted to prepare for rebellion. This time, the new Thime (the official in charge of the affairs of the Khan's nobles) Yelü Shuige also joined in, and his strength increased greatly. Apaoji saw that it was not the way to go hard, so let's just hold a re-election in accordance with the Khitan tradition. But the re-election is a re-election, and the strategy must still be there.
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After consulting with the generals and advisers around him, Apaoji decided to secretly summon the various ministries to a meeting in front of the army. At the meeting, Apaoji made an important speech, saying that this year is the year of re-election, we must respect the tradition of re-election, and the election must be open, fair, just, and so on. Listening to Apaoji's generous remarks, all the ministries listened to Apaoji's generous speech and looked at the people attending this meeting, none of Apaoji's four younger brothers had arrived, nor had Yu Yue Yelü's jurisdiction and Tiyin Yelü Slip Brother come, and the army of Yelü Abaoji outside the account was around, murderous. In addition, everyone has long known the contradiction between Rak and others and Apaoji. Therefore, the various ministries knew that this was obviously formalism, and there was no way to vote in support of Apaoji, and "happily" held a firewood ceremony to celebrate the re-election of Yelü Abaoji as Khitan Khan.
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There was a custom in the Khitan that as long as the "chai book ceremony" was held, it was a legitimate khan, and everyone had to obey and approve.
Apaoji's re-election had become a fact, so he immediately sent someone to inform his brothers who were still waiting for him to return to hold a general election. His brothers were dumbfounded again, but they had to admit the result of re-election and plead guilty, expressing remorse.
The temptation of the Khan's throne was too great, how could Apaoji's brothers be dead hearted? In less than half a year, Rak ge gathered his brothers again to prepare for the rebellion, and this time, in addition to a few younger brothers, even Abaoji's mother, Empress Xuanjian, empress dowager, sister Yu Lu, adopted son Ne Wanli, and great witch God Sugu also participated in it, preparing to support Raksha as khan. Ryag sent Di La and Anduan to pretend to see Apaoji, in an attempt to hijack Apaoji. Unfortunately, it was another tragedy, and Apaoji saw through their plan and easily defeated Diela and Anduan. Apaoji and Rakgar officially went to war. Because Ofag made full preparations this time, when Apaoji pounced on Rakgar, Rakog immediately pounced on the rear palace of Apaoji, and captured the "Drum Ring" and the Divine Tent, Apaoji's wife Shu Luping knew what it meant to lose the "Drum Ridge" and the Divine Tent, so in the face of an enemy several times larger than himself, he desperately resisted until reinforcements arrived, defeated Yelü Rak in one fell swoop, and recaptured the "Drum Ridge" and the Divine Tent, and Apaoji finally captured the "Drum Ridge" and the Divine Tent, and the rebellion ended.
Scenes of Khitan life
At this point, Jeroboam countered the rebellion three times, completely eliminating the opposition from within the family. However, this civil war caused heavy losses to the Dielabu, its strength was sharply reduced, and its vitality was seriously damaged.
You know, the Khitan is composed of the Eight-Part Alliance, and Yelü Abaoji is the leader of the Eight-Part Alliance, in addition to having just defeated the Dierabu controlled by his brother and regained control, there are seven others who have been secretly watching the tiger fight and waiting for the opportunity.
Finally, once, on the way back to the division to quell the rebellion of the Wugubu, the seven departments had already been unable to hold back, and Chen Bing said on the road, "greeting" the arrival of Apaoji. At this time, the Apao machine soldiers were sleepy and tired, and they could no longer fight hard, so they had to take the initiative to go down to the field. But he asked himself to take the captive Han people to tanshan ancient Seoul to develop alone.
Qibu Yi was overjoyed and happily agreed to Apaoji's request. So Apaoji came to tanshan ancient Hancheng with a large number of Han chinese who had lost their former scenery and a large number of captives.
Tanshan Ancient Hancheng, about the upper reaches of today's Luan River, is rich in salt and iron, and is a commercial city with internal access to the Central Plains and Shuo Desert on the outside. More importantly, the salt of the entire Khitan was supplied from here, and Apaoji reused some of the Han people, adopted the suggestions of the Han counselors, and vigorously developed the agricultural economy, so within a few years, the economic, military and population of the Dielabu returned to the past, becoming the first of the eight Khitan tribes.
When the time came for revenge, Yelü Abaoji listened to Shu Luping's suggestion that if he wanted to be a Khitan khan forever, he must unify the Khitan tribes, and if he wanted to unify the Khitan tribes, he must kill all the khitan departments, and if he wanted to kill all the tribes, the minimum price was to let them gather together and then kill them all.
How to get them all together, you have to use salt to make a fuss. Apaoji conveyed his thoughts to Shichibu Yili: We have produced salt here for each ministry to eat for so many years, you should all come and treat me! As soon as the Seven Parts of the House of Violet heard that it made sense, he set a date and came to the Dielabu with livestock and wine to thank Apaoji. Apaoji personally greeted them, and held a grand banquet to serve them with good food and drink, and the Seven Parts were elated, raising a glass and drinking bitterly, and were enjoying themselves. The soldiers who were ambushed outside suddenly rushed in, rushed forward, and killed all seven of them. This is the Khitan version of the Hongmen Feast - "The Change of the Salt Pond".
After that, Yelü Abaoji successfully unified the eight Khitan tribes and regained the khan's throne. In 916 AD, modeled on the political system of the Central Plains Dynasty, he called the emperor Jianguo, the name of the country was Khitan and the Jianyuan Shence, and he proclaimed himself "Emperor of the Great Saint and Great Tomorrow", crowned his wife Shu Luping as "Empress Ying Tian Damingdi", and established the eldest son As the crown prince, completely abolishing the tribal alliance hereditary election system and implementing the hereditary system of the imperial throne.
The Khitan opened a new chapter.