Speaking of the Yang family general, everyone may be familiar with the story of Yang Zongbao, the duke of Yang Laoling. It was the Liao people who fought with them, how to fight with Empress Xiao of the Liao State, and how Empress Xiao used tactics to poison them. There was also a rebellion within the Liao Daozong Yelü Hongji in the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon, and how did the Great Hero take the first rank of marshal in the Million Army to save the Great Liao. It is all about how incompetent Liao is, but in fact, this concept is completely wrong. After all, there is still a gap between fiction and history.
The Liao state was founded by the Khitan people, the Khitan had eight khitan parts, the Tang Dynasty was attached to the Tang Dynasty and the Western Xia were once given the surname Li, and then in 907 the Tang Dynasty fell, and the land of China changed into a new era of five dynasties and ten kingdoms. Later, a powerful nation, the Khitan, arose in the northern steppe, and he made many indelible contributions to Chinese civilization, because the Liao Dynasty always used the Khitan language to prevent traitors from coming to the Liao, so this is also one of the many unsolved mysteries in history.
In 907, Yelü Abaoji was called the leader of the Khitan tribe at that time, and it happened that the Tang Dynasty collapsed in this year and China entered the chaotic situation of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Later, in 916, after everything was ready to unify the grasslands, the Liao Empire was established, which opened up a super-strong territory, and even once eliminated the Bohai State, a holy state in Haidong that had been established for more than 200 years. Liao Taizu Yelü Abaoji laid the foundation of the state, and a few years later Yelü Abaoji died, and the emperor's repeated recommendation after the law was to let her second son, that is, the Liao Taizong Yelü Deguang in the history of the Liao Dynasty. This can be said to be a relatively accomplished emperor in the history of the Liao Dynasty. During his reign, he destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty and even became the emperor of the Central Plains for a time, and later Shi Jingyao ceded Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to Liao, which was criticized by later generations.
Later, in the process of Banshi's return to the dynasty, Yelü Deguang unfortunately fell seriously ill and died, and in the process of transporting him back to the grassland, he was afraid that the corpse would rot and make him into jerky, so he was also called the emperor of jerky. As soon as he died, the throne of the Liao Dynasty was in the air, and After Shu Lu wanted his younger son Yelü Lihu to succeed to the throne, and this person was famous for his cruel and murderous love, so many ministers did not do it, and they all requested that Yelü Ruan, the son of Taizu's eldest son Yelü Bei, succeed him, which was the third emperor of Liao, Liao Shizong. After repeated negotiations, the mother and son agreed to let Yelü Nguyen become emperor, and at this time they had to admit it, and they were finally put under house arrest by Yelü Nguyen until death!
Emperor Shizong of Liao's three years was very mediocre and basically had no political achievements, and he was murdered by the powerful minister Yelü Cha for only three years, along with his empress and empress dowager, as well as some family members, and yelü Xian, who was only a few years old, was spared from danger. Later, Yelü Wuqian escaped to find the king of Shoukang at that time, Yelü Xuan, led troops to quell the rebellion of Yelü Cha, and finally Yelü Cha was chopped into meat sauce, and then the chancellor recommended Thato's eldest son Yelü Xuan to ascend to the throne, which is the famous sleeping king in the history of the Liao Dynasty, basically a small feast for three days, a big feast in five days. After nineteen years as emperor, the government was all about Yelü Andya and others helping him. He was also too brutal to be murdered by his men during a day of hunting during his nineteen-year reign. In this way, the fourth emperor of the Liao State died again.
At this time, the only surviving son of Emperor Jingzong of Liao grew up, which was also the famous Yelü Xian of Emperor Jingzong of Liao, who was also called Emperor Jingzong Zhongxing in later generations. Because the scene of witnessing the tragic death of his father since he was a child was chilling, his health has not been good, fortunately he married a good wife, which is Xiao Yanyan, who is famous in the history of the Liao Dynasty. After Emperor Jingzong's death, Xiao Yanyan assisted his younger son Yelü Longxu to succeed to the throne, which was also known as the Liao Shengzong, during which the National Strength of the Liao Dynasty reached its peak, developed the economy internally, and vigorously opened up its territory by waging war with the Northern Song Dynasty externally.
Liao Shengzong died was his son Liao Xingzong succeeded to the throne, this emperor can basically say that he did nothing, did not develop the national strength of Liao, the Liao Dynasty has been in decline since the beginning of him, his mother does not want him to succeed to the throne, wants his brother to succeed to the throne, his brother does not know which tendon is wrong to tell the emperor about this, the emperor promised himself that he will be the emperor after a hundred years, and named him the emperor's brother- Later, after Liao Xingzong became emperor, he imprisoned his mother, and after a hundred years, he did not let his brother succeed to the throne, but let his son, that is, Liao Daozong, succeed to the throne, which laid the foundation for the subsequent Chongyuan rebellion, and during his reign, he went to war against Western Xia, and finally returned without success. The internal favor and the adulterous government have long since declined.
Emperor Daozong of Liao's succession further ruined the Jiangshan established by the ancestors of the Liao Dynasty, and he reigned for more than sixty years without doing a single good deed. Favoring the traitors led by Jeroboam, the country was already in danger. What is even more puzzling is that Because the prince and he are not the same person, Yelü Yixin tried his best to bring down the queen and the prince, and borrowed a divisive plan to finally get rid of these two people, and what is even more bizarre is that Yelü Hongji killed them without asking.
After the corruption of the Daozong Dynasty, basically the national power has accumulated and it is difficult to return, and after the death of Daozong, his grandson is the emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Tianzuo Emperor Yelü Yanxi, who succeeded to the throne, this guy's favorite period is hunting, just at this time, a powerful national Jurchen has risen between the northeast white mountains and black water, and once at the head fish banquet, Emperor Tianzuo wanted to let one of the leaders of the jurchens at that time dance, when he refused to dance, maybe Emperor Tianzuo would not drink high or drink low. This leader who did not want to dance would later be the founding emperor of the Golden Kingdom, Guanyan Akuta.
Jurchen was oppressed by the Liao for hundreds of years, and it was impossible for such a brave and courageous nation to always be subordinate to you, and finally the first battle of the Battle of Hedian crushed the Liao army, and then encountered the 700,000 troops of the Liao state when attacking Huanglong Province, basically destroying his entire army. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens is strong at this time! Later, after the founding of the State, Jin Taizu successively took five capitals of Liao, and in 1125 captured The Liao Tianzuo Emperor, and Liao declared its demise!
Although there were several short-lived regimes of Liao in the back, they were destroyed by Jin one after another, and only Liao Yelü Dashi fled west to the northwest, when the northwest was still the territory of Liao and was not taken by Jin. Then he used this wealth to expand his territory step by step to the west, establishing the Western Liao Empire that shocked Europe at that time, although it could not be compared with the previous Liao territory, but at this time he was also considered a hegemon in the West. After a few years of the rise of the Mongols, he unified the steppe and moved the Jin dynasty south, and when he attacked the Naimanbu, he did not catch it, and when he learned that he was going to the Western Liao, Temujin sent Zhebei Guo Baoyu and others to attack the Western Liao in one fell swoop, and the rule of the Liao was completely destroyed!