Chapter 33 Section Six Three Losses Three Wins

After Liao Taizong returned to the north, Liu Zhiyuan, the former governor of the Later Jin Dynasty, captured Kaifeng and named the country Han, which was called the Later Han in history. However, the Later Han Dynasty perished after only four years of rule.It can be said that during this period of time in the Central Plains, there have been too many swords, swords, blood and rain, all of which are caused by the yellow robe.In the letter to his younger brother Yelu Lihu, Liao Taizong summed up his three losses and three gains. Which three losses and three gains? Emperor Taizong of Liao wrote a letter to his younger brother Yelu Lihu, saying that there were "three mistakes" in his rule.

The first loss is to search for the money of the people.If you rob things, the common people will not do it. This is a very bad tradition of our Khitan. It seems that the imperial court should bear part of the food and grass for the army and horses in the future, and the march cannot only rely on robbing. The second is to disturb the people.In the future, when the Khitan soldiers went south to fight against the Song Dynasty, this kind of thing could no longer be done.We read in martial arts novels that during the seventh and eighth emperors of the Liao Dynasty, Khitan soldiers were still "threshing grain and grass", which did not conform to historical facts. Emperor Taizong had already realized that he could not disturb the people.

The third mistake was that all the local Jiedu envoys in the later Jin Dynasty were detained by me. I didn't put them back, and the place was chaotic if no one was in charge.The original Jiedu envoys of the Later Jin Dynasty should be allowed to return to their feudal towns to appease the people. If there is a loss, there must be a gain, and he told Yelu Lihu that he has "three gains" at the same time, so which "three gains"? Confidential, harmonious military situation, comfort the people.If you want to govern the Central Plains, you need to do these three points. As long as you do it, the Central Plains is not impossible to rule.Unfortunately, history will not give him a second chance. Emperor Taizong developed a high fever and died in today's Luancheng, Hebei Province on the way to retreat.The common people call this place Shahu Lin, the forest where Hu people are killed.Your evil will be rewarded with evil, and your evil will be full of evil. If you dare to invade our Central Plains, you will have a high fever and burn to death. You don’t need us to beat you.After Taizong's death, his body had to be transported back to the grassland for burial, but in summer the body was easily decomposed, and even ice cubes couldn't hold it down. What should we do?The ministers took out all the viscera of Taizong's body, salted it, and turned the emperor into jerky (the people in the Central Plains called Taizong of the Liao Dynasty the emperor of jerky), and then transported it back to the grassland.

After the death of Emperor Taizong, according to the arrangement of Empress Shulu, Taizu's third son, Yelu Lihu, who was her favorite, should succeed to the throne.But the development of the matter was beyond the expectations of Queen Shulu. As soon as Yelu Lihu was appointed as the successor, all the ministers who followed Taizong to the south quit. The pain of bereavement in the future will definitely be vented on us, why don't we all have to let us accompany the late emperor?Therefore, Yelu Lihu must not be allowed to succeed.How to do it?Everyone hastily supported a new emperor, the eldest grandson who was the last to be seen after Shulu, and inherited the Datong.So who is this person?