[Abandon the country and join the Tang Dynasty]
Yelvbei was reduced from a crown prince who was inferior to one person to a "prisoner in Dongdan". He was completely despondent and lived in fear every day. Li Siyuan's invitation gave him hope again.
Yelubei left his Khitan princess and son in Dongdan Kingdom, and took only his favorite Han concubine, Gao Meiren, and some of his treasured books to embark on the road to the Later Tang Dynasty.
Before leaving, he explained his defection to the Later Tang Dynasty, saying: "I have handed over the country and the country to the current emperor, but he is still suspicious of me. Then I can only leave my hometown and leave the Liao Kingdom so that He can be the emperor with peace of mind. I will follow Taibo Wu's example."
Taibo Wu was the eldest son of King Zhou. His second brother was Zhongyong, and his third brother was Ji Li. Ji Li's son was Jichang, King Wen of Zhou. According to etiquette, the eldest son Wu Taibo should inherit the throne, but Ji Li and his son Ji Chang were both talented, so King Zhou had the idea of abolishing the eldest son and establishing a younger one.
After gaining insight into this information, Taibo Wu took his second brother Zhong Yong away from home and exiled himself to a barbaric and smoky land in order to fulfill his father and third brother's wishes. In order to show that they had no desire for the throne, the two brothers cut off their hair and tattooed themselves and turned themselves into "barbarians".
Eventually, the two brothers settled in Meicun, today's Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. The local people were moved by his righteousness and supported him as their leader and established the Kingdom of Wu. He was also honored as "Taibo Wu". Later generations regarded him as the ancestor of the Wu family.
After Taibo Wu passed away, the local people were extremely sad. In order to express their memory of him, they tied hemp rope around their waists because Taibo Wu liked to grow hemp during his lifetime. Over time, this custom evolved into "wearing hemp and wearing filial piety", which became a part of traditional Chinese culture and has been passed down to this day.
His third brother Ji Li therefore inherited the throne, and eventually passed it to his son Ji Chang. Ji Chang needs no further introduction. He evolved the Book of Changes, visited Jiang Ziya, and laid the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty.
Yelu Bei compared himself to Wu Taibo, implying that Yelu Deguang was Ji Li and King Wen of Zhou. The description of treason and surrender to the enemy is so fresh and refined.
When he arrived at the seaside and was about to board the ship, Yelvbei's literary thoughts surged, and with a stroke of his pen, he left a "Poetry on the Sea":
“The small mountains overwhelm the big mountains, and the big mountains are powerless.
Ashamed to see people from his hometown, he went to a foreign country from then on. "
The level of this poem... mainly depends on the temperament. Don’t forget, this is a poem written by a Khitan. It’s not easy to align the number of words and express the meaning clearly. Chinese Level 4 and Level 6 are really difficult.
Yelvbei took a boat from today's Liaoning Province to sneak across the Bohai Bay, successfully landed in Dengzhou (now Yantai City, Shandong Province), and then traveled to Bianzhou.
Facing Yelvbei's arrival, Li Siyuan was elated and greeted him with the highest standards of emperor's ceremony.
Li Siyuan changed Yelvbei's surname to "Dongdan" and gave him the name "Muhua". Later, he gave Yelvbei the national surname Li and changed his name to "Zanhua". Yelvbei had many names. For example, his Khitan name was transliterated as Tuyu (also known as Tuyu) or Tuoyun. After Chineseization, the Khitan was named Yelubei. After joining the Tang Dynasty, he was called Dongdan Muhua and Li Zanhua.
Li Siyuan was addicted to giving names, and gave all the previously captured Khitan generals meaningful Chinese names, such as Di Huaihui, Di Huaizhong, Lie Zhien, Yuan Zhigan, Fu Huaizao, and Yi Huaiyou.
First, Ruizhou and other prefectures were placed under the Huaihua Army, with Yelvbei as the military envoy of the Huaihua Army. Later, the town was moved to Huazhou; in addition, the Taibao and the Andong Protector were added.
In addition to giving him a name and an official position, Li Siyuan also gave Yelvbei a wife, the Xia family.
This Xia family was originally Li Cunxu's concubine, and was named Mrs. Guo as Zhaorong. During the "Xingjiaomen Incident", Zhu Shouyin entered the palace to snatch the maid. Knowing that Xia was Li Cunxu's concubine, he did not dare to mess around, so he handed it over to Li Siyuan. After Li Siyuan entered Luoyang, he ordered the maids and concubines of the previous dynasty to be released and asked them to go back to their homes and find their mothers.
However, this Xia family was lonely, helpless and homeless. Because Li Siyuan's surname was Xia, he gave her to the general Xia Luqi. Xia Luqi did not dare to make any mistakes. He just regarded Xia as his daughter and did not dare to have any wrong ideas.
Now, when Yelubei came to surrender, Li Siyuan rewarded the Xia family to Yelubei as his wife.
Therefore, some history books say that Xia was the daughter of General Xia Ruqi. Not accurate, she is her goddaughter.
The "History of Liao" put gold on Yelvbei's face, saying that he rewarded Zhuangzong Li Cunxu's queen Xia to Yelubei. Nonsense! First of all, Zhuangzong’s queen is Xiao Liu, and she is plotting against Liu’s father; secondly, the etiquette of the Central Plains! There are precedents for emperors to reward concubines and concubines to ministers, but I have never heard of giving red envelopes to queens.
Li Siyuan took the initiative to summon Yelvbei and provide him with political asylum. This was not out of sympathy and pity, but was really a long-term political investment based on the consideration of "the long-term friendly relations between the two countries" and a long-term strategic layout.
Yelvbei was the eldest son of Taizu of the Liao Dynasty and the former heir to the throne of the Liao Kingdom. This was of course public information. As the ruler of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Siyuan was keenly aware of the hidden business opportunities. That is, once someone appeared within the Liao Kingdom, If there is turmoil, then this "former crown prince" will explode with amazing political appeal.
Taizong of the Liao Dynasty was forced to ascend the throne by abolishing the eldest son and establishing a young one under the circumstances of "the descendants intervening in politics". This process was full of bloody violence, and this was the hidden danger. Under the seemingly calm surface, there was dissatisfaction and resentment towards the Queen Mother and Taizong. In short, In three to five years, or in ten to eight years, this seed will surely bear fruit.
At that time, if Yelu Beigong is sent back to his country, Daliao will be in a lively state.
By then, if the Later Tang Dynasty is strong, it can blatantly support Yelubei, use its strong military strength to forcibly intervene in the internal affairs of Daliao, put the puppet Yelubei on the throne, and then use its strong economic strength to firmly control Daliao and make it It became the back garden of the Later Tang Dynasty;
If you are not strong enough to intervene directly, then you can also become an "extraordinary human trafficker" at the end, be an international courier boy, and throw Yelube back to Daliao, leaving him to fend for himself.
In short, the Later Tang Dynasty would always use Yelvbei to disgust the Liao Kingdom.
In later generations, the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty and captured the two emperors of Huiqin, which also had this meaning. The two emperors of Huiqin sat in the north and watched the sky. They became Song Gaozong's weakness. They were manipulated by the Jin people. They took the absolute initiative at the negotiation table and severely took advantage of Song Gaozong.
Man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation.
Li Siyuan's strategic layout was very advanced, but it was one step away from success, because he had calculated everything, but he failed to calculate that it would be his later Tang Dynasty that would be the first to experience turmoil, and his political trump card, Yelvbei, not only did not He ushered in the initiative for his country, but on the contrary, the Central Plains fell into great passivity due to the coquettish operations of "one of his own people".
