Chapter 18 Section Three

Abaoji's eldest son, Yelubei, was not only knowledgeable, capable and virtuous, but also brave and good at fighting. Therefore, Abaoji made him the prince to inherit the great rule of the Liao Kingdom.Since the prince Yelubei is so good, why doesn't the Empress Shulu like him? One of the important reasons is that Empress Shulu represented the old traditional concept of the grassland people, while the prince represented a tendency of Sinicization at that time.After Emperor Taizu established Shangjing on the grassland, he once asked his ministers: "A king who is entrusted with heaven should serve heaven and respect God. If I want to sacrifice to people with great merit in history, which one should I choose first?" Some ministers said that they should respect God. Buddha.Emperor Taizu said that Buddha is the God of Rong, which is an Indian religion, not a Chinese religion.From Taizu's words, we can clearly capture a message: Emperor Taizu considered himself a Chinese, and I inherited the orthodoxy of the Central Plains Dynasty.Buddha is not a Chinese god, so I don't worship him.Think again who should be worshiped?At this time, Yelubei said that the great sage of Confucius, the teacher of all ages, should sacrifice to Confucius first.Taizu was very happy and ordered to build a Confucian temple in Shangjing, and then ordered the crown prince to worship Confucius every spring and autumn.It can be seen that Prince Yelubei is a person who is devoted to Sinicization. He is also a famous painter, onmyoji, medical scientist, and translator in Chinese history. He is very knowledgeable.

Yelubei not only emphasized literature, but also martial arts. He often went out to fight with Emperor Taizu, conquered from south to north, and made great military exploits.After Taizu pacified Bohai, he wondered: how to govern Bohai?Haidong Shengguo for more than 200 years, which followed the Tang Dynasty, is actually a purely Sinicized country.If the Khitan law is used to rule this place, the Bohai people will definitely not accept it, and they may lead the army to rebel, and there will be no time for stability.If Han law is used to rule, look around the Manchu dynasty, who has the ability to govern this newly conquered country?So I thought of Yelubei.Yelubei not only understands Chinese law, but also he is the crown prince with a high status. No one else can control this place, only the crown prince can.Therefore, when the Taizu was in charge, he asked Yelvbei to guard the Bohai Sea, renamed the Bohai State to the Dongdan State, which means the Khitan State in the east, and let the prince be the king of the Eastern Dan State.In this way, the crown prince guarded the Dongdan country and completely adopted the old Bohai system, which was basically the Han system.Taizu was very happy when he was in class. He patted his son on the back and said, good boy, with you guarding this place, I will have no worries.I can be a class teacher, and I will specialize in running our hometown, the west, and the north, and I will leave it to you to guard the east.When Yelubei watched his father leave, he fell to the ground and wept bitterly, kowtowing endlessly, with an ominous premonition in his heart.What does the emperor mean by putting me here?I am obviously the crown prince, and the crown prince is not in the capital, but was thrown into a subordinate country. Does this mean that my father trusts me, or does my father not trust me?He knelt down and wept bitterly, saying that he was afraid that father and son would never see each other again after the emperor left.Fortunately, Emperor Taizu was happy at that time, and maybe the nomads were more rough. If the emperor of the Han nationality would be in big trouble: What do you mean by that?Once I leave you, I will never see you again, so you say you can't see me or I can't see you, you have to make it clear, what do you mean by that?At that time, Emperor Taizu was very happy and didn't care about it. The child was overwhelmed.Sure enough, Taizu died on the way back to Beijing and died on the road.Then the Emperor Taizu passed away, according to the etiquette system, Yelubei, the emperor of Dongdan Kingdom, should go to the capital to attend the funeral, and then take the throne in front of the coffin of Emperor Daxing.

Unexpectedly, the empress said that the sons were young, one was twenty-eight, one was twenty-five, and the other was sixteen.How to do it?I am in charge of the court, and I am not listening to the government behind the curtain, but I alone decide on military and state affairs. Now the Khitan nobles are not happy. When Emperor Taizu was alive, you gave advice and made great achievements. It’s nothing to say.Taizu attached the empress to the Great Wall, right arm and arm. Now that the emperor Taizu has passed away, the eldest son has grown up. In any case, the eldest son should succeed to the throne, and the heroine will come to court.The ministers refused to accept it, so they made small moves underneath, and after explaining the law, they thought of a way to deal with it.