Chapter 618: The Son-in-Law Devours His Master

【When Qu Chuli fled west, the Western Liao Dynasty had already entered a period of decline.

The history of the Central Asian empire created by Yelu Dashi is very simple.

After Dashi died, his youngest son Yelu Yile ascended the throne, and the Queen Mother Xiao Tabuyan ruled the country.

When Yelu Yile grew up, Xiao Tabuyan returned to politics. The mother and son handled state affairs in an orderly manner, and the strength of the Western Liao Dynasty steadily increased, and the mother and son were harmonious.

But things were not so harmonious afterwards. After Yelu Yile died, the eldest princess Yelu Pusuwan became regent.

Suwan Suwan was about to end. Some people called this Wu Zetian, who was a mini youth version of Wu Zetian, had some of the legacy of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. She handled military and internal affairs relatively smoothly, especially the rebellion of Khwarezm, which was subdued and ensured the strength of the Western Liao Dynasty.

But in terms of personal morality, this eldest princess mixed with her brother-in-law and fabricated a crime to execute her husband.

This behavior angered her father-in-law Xiao Wulila. When he was young, this old general followed Yelu Dashi to fight against the Jin Kingdom and marched westward. He fought bravely in the Battle of Katwan. He was a solid pillar of the country, the emperor's left hand, and his power was quite amazing.

Faced with the murder of his eldest son, this old general was also very straightforward. He gathered his troops and surrounded the palace, shot Yelu Pusuwan to death with arrows inside, and supported Yelu Yilie's youngest son Yelu Zhilugu to take the throne.

This Yelu Zhilugu basically adhered to the principle of "the father is a hero, the son is a hero, and the grandson is a bastard".

Externally, he was unable to deal with the rise of the Gur Dynasty, and internally he indulged in pleasure and was unwilling to deal with state affairs.

Under his rule, the entire Western Liao Dynasty was basically like a turtle buying a watermelon, rolling when it should roll and crawling when it should crawl. The vassal small countries that were conquered by Yelu Dashi fifty years ago were tempted.

In this situation, when Yelu Zhilugu met Qu Chulug who had fled to the west, he immediately thought of a thousand-dollar horse bone. As long as we promote it well, our Western Liao Empire can still be decorated with a layer of flowers.

Yelu Zhilugu thought Qu Chulug was worthy of training, and his daughter Princess Hunhu thought Qu Chulug still had charm.

A handsome and talkative prince in distress is simply too lethal to a woman who is ignorant of the world.

Finally, with Qu Chulug's consent, he was given the surname Xiao after the Liao Dynasty and converted from Nestorianism (Christianity) to Buddhism, and married into the Western Liao Dynasty, and was Xiao Qu Chulug, the son-in-law of the Liao Dynasty.

But I am already a son-in-law, how can I not bite my master?

Two years later, Qu Chulug hugged the sister of the old Ye family, ate the rice bowl of the old Ye family, and smashed the pot of the old Ye family.

He summoned the old Naiman tribe who did not submit to the rule of Mongolia, and linked up with Khwarezm, and then raided the capital of Western Liao with 8,000 cavalry.

Yelu Zhilugu was forced to become the emperor, and Qu Chulug became the new emperor of Western Liao.

The Persian "History of the World" described the speed of this rebellion as "like lightning in the clouds".

Qu Chulug, who turned over a son-in-law, was full of pride. He was chased by the Mongols in the past, but now he has a lot of power.

But the vassal who had always been at odds with the Western Liao ran even faster, so Qu Chulug was a little panicked. There were still Mongols in the east, looking at him covetously. How could he play without anyone?

As a result, this smart man didn't know where he came up with a trick. He waved his hand and asked everyone under his rule to convert to Buddhism, and ordered the troops to legally rape and plunder the Nestorians and Arabs (Muslims).

In fact, one of the important reasons why Yelu Dashi, the founder of Western Liao, was respected by all sides was that he had declared freedom of belief. Although the Liao royal family believed in Buddhism, they never imposed it on civilians.

Xiao Qu Chulug's move was like lighting a firecracker in a cesspool, which aroused public indignation.

After three years of turmoil, in 1217, Mongolia officially launched the first Western Expedition. Jebe, one of the four dogs of Mongolia, led 20,000 troops under the banner of religious freedom and officially came to the Western Liao Kingdom, which was loyal to Genghis Khan.

Before the Mongols arrived, a mutiny broke out in the capital of Western Liao. Princess Hunhu was stabbed to death and presented to Mongolia. Qu Chulug ran away and fled into the vast jungle of the Wakhan River Valley.

But he was not so lucky this time. The next year, local hunters caught Qu Chulug and presented him to Jebe for beheading. Later generations called him Emperor Minwen.

So far, the Western Liao Kingdom was abolished and enjoyed a reign of 94 years. 】

"This is..."

Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe in evil and went around the screen twice, and even reached out to touch the screen to confirm that there was no mechanism in it.

But seeing the content on it changing, and still hearing the young man's voice talking, there are people who know the inside and outside of Kunning Palace, even if...

Looking up: There shouldn't be a person hiding on it, right?

So in the end, he could only accept what the queen said. How come this ordinary screen that he could see every day before became a magical thing in the queen's place?

Or... send two more to Kunning Palace?

The irrelevant thoughts turned around in his head twice, but in the end he didn't dare... He was still attracted by the content on the light screen:

A man dressed in a mixture of Hu and Han, a young woman wearing strange gold ornaments, an old man without dignity, and buildings with different styles. If you look closely, you can see the small words in the lower right corner. He read it softly:

"A fragment of "Genghis Khan", this..."

Everything he had never seen or thought of before made him feel six points of confusion, three points of novelty, and one point of helplessness.

Before today, he had been thinking about today's birthday party the most, but now he had already thrown that birthday party to somewhere unknown.

The people on the screen, who seemed to him to be dressed a little strangely, met, got married, and drew their swords in an instant, and the subsequent scene lost a lot of surprise.

"This horse is good, but these people are not good at riding, and the cavalry is weak."

"The soldiers are all fair-skinned, can they really fight in battle?"

"It is said that there are 8,000 people in the raid, but the 800 people we see are enough, how can there be 8,000 people?"

Just when Empress Ma wanted her husband to be quiet, she heard the emperor Ming Ming let out a long "Oh..." and stopped talking.

Looking up, it became clear that the well-dressed Hu people on the screen had disappeared, replaced by the map that had been seen many times in the previous narration.

The Western Liao, Western Xia, Gaochang Uighurs, the Tubo tribes, the Mongol Empire and other marks were listed on it, each occupying a color painted on the map.

The emperor of Ming Dynasty quickly found the familiar place in the lower right corner of the map from the place names marked on it:

"Qilian Mountain, Kunlun, Qinghai... should be the West Sea... Going northwest should be the present Beshbalik, and going north is where the remnant Yuan Dynasty is."

"The rivers and lakes are drawn too small, the place names are written too small, the prefectures and counties are not marked, this map..."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and obviously did not look very satisfied, but was immediately rolled his eyes by Empress Ma:

"This map is very good!"

"I have seen the world map of the Ministry of War before, and I remember the thirteen prefectures and counties clearly, but the water of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers does not seem to be seen with my own eyes."

"Before, this young man said that Song and Jin were fighting, and the distance from Yingtian Prefecture to Suzhou can be clearly seen."