Chapter 170 A Baoji died of a serious illness
When A Baoji heard this, he suddenly burst into tears. He cried and said, "I am a brother with the old King Jin from Hedong, Zeng Yi. The emperor of Henan, I have always treated him as my own son! This time I heard that my son was in trouble, so I quickly mobilized a 50,000 army to go to Luoyang to rescue him. But he delayed the incident in Bohai, which made my son suffer such difficulties! My son died so unjustly!"
A Baoji cried for a while and began to tell Yao Kun: "Since your new emperor heard about the incident in Luoyang, why didn't he go back to rescue him quickly?" Yao Kun replied: "It's not that he won't go to save him, it's because the incident happened suddenly and the road was far away. When he arrived, it was too late."
A Baoji said angrily: "Even if my son is dead, who will inherit the family business he left behind? I should discuss with my elders. How can General Manager Li be the emperor?" Yao Kun said seriously: "My emperor has been in charge of the army for 20 years and is in power. He has 300,000 elite soldiers under his command, which is deeply in line with the public. At that time, everyone must support General Manager as the emperor. If they do not obey the public's wishes, a great disaster will come! So it's not that we don't want to notify you, it is really the will of God and the people cannot be disobeyed!"
Someone next to Abao's machine moved out the allusion from the Spring and Autumn Period and asked: "Just because someone's cow stepped on the field you added, he would snatch the cow from him. Is this appropriate?" Yao Kun also treated the person with his own way and said calmly: "How can we compare the common people's affairs with trivial matters? Just like when the Hendejin Khan of your country passed away, Emperor Tian, you were not Yao Nian, and you were not a relative of the old Khan, but inherited the position of Khan. Is it not that God's will and the support of the people, but that he stole it himself?"
This sentence hit A Baoji's weakness. You can't deny his legitimacy in order to deny Li Siyuan's legitimacy, right? A Baoji was stunned for a while, and suddenly his face changed. He turned cloudy and sunny. He no longer complained about "my son" and criticized his sins: "Yes, it makes sense to say this. My son suffered from this trouble. I heard that he had two thousand palace maids and one thousand happy officials. He let go of eagles and dogs all day long, indulged in wine and sex, and did not care about the sufferings of the people. He also appointed villains, which made the world angry."
After criticizing the crime of "my son" and sighing about how he should take it as a warning, A Baoji's conversation entered into substantive content: "Although my son and I are family friends, our relationship is not that good, and we have fought many wars with each other. However, my new emperor and I have no grievances and rebuild a friendly relationship between the two sides. In this way, as long as you give me the place north of the Yellow River to me, I am willing to form an alliance with you forever and never invade the south again in the future!"
Of course, Yao Kun could not agree to this unreasonable lion, who was so unreasonable that he could not agree to this unreasonable lion. He refused: "I am just an envoy and have no power to cede land!" If he failed to force, A Baoji showed his power and unreasonable depressed the diplomatic envoy and locked him in a cell.
After Yao Kun was imprisoned for more than ten days, A Baoji probably felt that the will of the Later Tang envoy had been hit and might give in. So he met him again and said with great considerateness: "I have thought about it these days. After all, the place north of the Yellow River is too big, and it is indeed difficult for you to make such a decision. In this way, we each take a step back, just give me the three towns of Chengde, Yiwu and Lulong!" After that, A Baoji sincerely ordered someone to hand Yao Kun the paper and pen to him.
This treaty drawn up by the Khitan was signed.
Faced with the shameless blackmail of the Khitan emperor, Yao Kun was very tough and refused to sign. A Baoji was furious and tried to kill Yao Kun, who was trying to kill him, but after being advised by his subordinates, he did not take action and imprisoned Yao Kun again. Due to Yao Kun's backbone, A Baoji failed. Having said that, even if Yao Kun was a corrupt person, he really signed the treaty document for cede land, the treaty would definitely not be recognized by Li Siyuan, and even more so, it would be impossible for him to be implemented.
During Yao Kun's detainment, Abaoji's newly obtained information in other aspects made the Khitan emperor more and more frustrated. The current situation in the Central Plains seems to be not much different from what Yao Kun said. Although the power change in the Later Tang Dynasty was achieved in the fierce collision of blood and fire, the duration was unexpectedly short and he did not fall into a long-term melee. Moreover, Abaoji, the newly-entered general, Li Siyuan, was quite familiar with it. This was a very difficult hard hand to deal with.
A Baoji had to sigh in his heart with infinite regret: It seems that there is no chance this time, let's wait for the next time. Since he gave up the plan to invade the south immediately, A Baoji will no longer rush back. He stopped in Shenzhou, intending to wait for his second son Yelu Deguang to pacify the South China Sea, and the remnants of the Bohai Party of the Theorem II, and then go back after meeting with him.
Unexpectedly, Yelu Deguang was still not seen returning in early July. A Baoji sent someone to investigate and found that after taking over the South China Sea and theorem, a rebellion broke out in Tielli Mansion, and the Grand Marshal Yelu Deguang led a large army to suppress the rebellion. A Baoji began to feel something was wrong. Every time Yelu Deguang took a place, he would naturally re-arrange his own people to guard. Should he use this to undermine his brother Dongdan little by little?
A Baoji ordered Yelu Deguang to conquer Tieli Mansion and not delay any further and immediately come to meet him. However, before the order was implemented, another shocking news happened on July 16: A Baoji arranged for the chief minister who assisted Yelu Bei, and Dongdan Zuoxiangdila suddenly died!
A Baoji felt that the situation in Dongdan was obviously becoming more and more worrying, so he ordered people to escort Da Junzhu and his group back to Khitan, and he led his army to prepare to return to Tianfu City. On July 25, A Baoji arrived at Fuyu City, where he suddenly fell seriously ill and had to stop and stay in the palace temporarily.
That night, a meteor fell in front of Abaoji's tent. A few days later, it seemed like a yellow dragon fell from the sky, drilled into the palace, then jumped out, soared into the sky, and soared into the sky. Then, Abaoji, the monarch of the Khitan Empire, passed away. Soon, in order to commemorate the founding lord, the Khitan Empire changed the Fuyu Palace to "Summoning Heaven Hall", and Fuyu City was renamed "Huanglong Mansion".
The day after A Baoji's death, Queen Shuluping immediately announced her temporary command and temporarily declared her husband A Baoji's power during her lifetime. Then, she sent someone to notify Marshal Yelu Deguang and Dongdan King Yelu Be to come back to attend the funeral. The reason why she put the second son's name before the eldest was that Shuluping deliberately notified her second son first and then notified her eldest son.
As a result, on August 18th, Yelu Deguang arrived first, and on August 21st, Yelu Bei also arrived. Shuluping's optimistic second arrived three days earlier than the eldest. However, Shuluping did not take advantage of this time difference and forced Yelu Deguang to be the emperor. Both sons bowed to the coffin of his father and were extremely sad in front of the world.
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According to the practice of the Central Plains dynasty, since the heir to the throne has arrived and the country cannot be without a king for a day, it is natural that Yelu Bei should succeed to the throne in front of the coffin of the late emperor. It is natural and normal things can no longer be normal.
However, Yelu Bei's head was knocked down, and the normal things that should have happened next were unusually unaware of any shadow. The Khitan Kingdom was still under the temporary command of the land queen Shuluping. None of the leading figures of the Khitan Empire, including Yelu Bei, the first heir to the throne, and Yelu Deguang, all the leading figures of the Khitan Empire, raised the urgent problem that needed to be solved!
Given that the Khitan Empire still retained the remnants of a certain tribal alliance, such as Shuluping, could not do anything completely. However, at least she temporarily suppressed different factions in the Khitan country and forcibly maintained her supreme authority, and no one dared to publicly question it. Moreover, for a whole year and three months after that, the Khitan Kingdom had no emperor, and the supreme authority was the Empress Dowager Shuluping.
Within more than a year when Shuluping was in power, a lot of things happened in the Khitan Empire. Five days earlier than Yelu Deguang, Kang Moji, Han Yanhui finally captured Changling Mansion and rushed to Huanglong Mansion to report to Abaoji. Naturally, Abaoji could no longer hear this good news, and the one who listened to the report was Shuluping. Among these two Han ministers, Han Yanhui had received Shuluping's recommendation earlier and had some friendship with her. However, Kang Moji supported Yelube, and his relationship with Shuluping was not particularly harmonious.
Because Kang Moji was good at engineering, he was the first capital of the Khitan. Emperor Shulu Ping gave him the responsibility of building a tomb for Emperor Daxing. So Kang Moji was sent to Zuzhou to build a "ancestral tomb" for Abaoji, thus cutting off his contact with the army and other ministers.
Before his death, Abaoji did not return to Khitan, but returned to Fuyu City. One of the important reasons was that Dongdan Zuoxiang Diela, who was sent to assist Yelube, suddenly died. The situation in Dongdan worried him. In order to make up for the vacancy left by Diela, Abaoji appointed his fourth brother Yin DiShi as the Grand Tutor of the Dongdan Kingdom to help Yelube stabilize the situation. However, Yin DiShi failed to reach Tianfu City and suddenly died halfway.
More than ten days later, on September 8, the Khitan Prime Minister, Abaoji, the youngest and most loyal brother, who died suddenly, was unknown!
A Baoji brothers had six, including the second brother, Lage, who betrayed his elder brother and defected to Li Cunxu, and then betrayed Li Cunxu to seek refuge in Houliang. He was killed by Li Cunxu when Liang was destroyed. Among the remaining five brothers, the third brother, Diela died on July 16th of this year, the eldest brother, A Baoji died on July 27th, the fourth brother, Yin Dishi, died on August one day, and the sixth brother, Yelu Su, also died on September 8th, and only the fifth brother, An Duan survived.
In less than two months, the four brothers made an appointment, as if they were ascended to heaven, and died inexplicably. In this strange wave of death, it was not just A Baoji and his brothers who were swallowed up. There were many other heavyweight figures, such as Yilijin of the Nanyuan. Yelu Diili was A Baoji's cousin. He received special care from A Baoji since he was a child, equivalent to an adopted son. He was also grateful and loyal to his cousin. When he grew up, he served as Tiyin and the general official, and until Yilijin of the Nanyuan, he was a relatively powerful figure in the Khitan clan.
Chapter completed!