In fact, Li Liangzuo had a plan in his heart for the matter of being called Khan, originally hoping to wait until he unified the grassland before adding a Khan name to himself, but he didn't think that the group of subordinates who had just surrendered to him were more anxious than himself, since he wanted to call himself Khan now; In fact, Li Liangzuo also knows that these people have their own little Jiujiu in their hearts, if Li Liangzuo is called Khan under their recommendation, according to the Central Plains dialect, it is from the dragon's merit, which is naturally superior to the subordinates who surrendered to Li Liangzuo in the future.
Since everyone unanimously recommended himself, Li Liangzuo did not intend to shirk it, it was completely a posture of being willing to fight and suffer, anyway, it was a matter of time before he called Khan, just when Li Liangzuo was just thinking about the camp, suddenly there was a burst of thunder outside the tent asking His Majesty to call Khan, please call His Majesty Khan The roar of 400,000 people together was too powerful, it was simply deafening and resounding in the sky, almost making Li Liangzuo think that there was a drought and thunder in the sky Looking at the eight governors standing below and looking at him, Li Liangzuo smiled bitterly: "Okay, okay, I will be called Khan if I serve you."
The eight governors excitedly saluted Li Liangzuo and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen retires." ” After Ye Lujin and the others left, Li Yi walked in, Li Liangzuo took off his boots and threw himself at Li Yi and scolded with a smile: "You said, did you think of this play today, I found that your kid has been getting bolder and bolder recently." ” Li Yi scratched his head embarrassedly and said: "Actually, it's not the last general, it's Ye Lujin's idea, and the last general is just an accomplice at most." ” Li Liangzuo said: "I know it's him, who has this heart and eye in those grassland men."
"Your Majesty, isn't this a good thing, why are you reluctant," Li Yi asked Li Liangzuo in confusion; "This is called Khan, can't you rule the steppe justifiably?"
Li Liangzuo sat crooked in his chair and said: "It is indeed a good thing to call Khan, but why do I feel more and more awkward?
You said that I am now the emperor, is this called Khan equivalent to demoting myself by one level?"
"This" Li Yi couldn't answer for a while, and after thinking about it, he said: "It shouldn't be, the Great Khan is the general name of the grassland people, and the emperor is the general name of the Central Plains people, they should be at the same level."
"That's right."
Li Liangzuo said silently; "But I am both the Great Khan and the Emperor, and it would be nice if I could merge the two titles."
The next day, Li Liangzuo was promoted by the eight governors and 400,000 soldiers, as well as the leaders of various tribes, to call Khan on an unknown mountain outside the city of Zhenzhou, and the etiquette of calling Khan on the grassland was very simple, just light a pile of dry firewood, kill cattle and slaughter sheep and horses to sacrifice to the heavens, and give the flag, golden drum and horn symbolizing the Great Khan to Li Liangzuo; There was a person who announced a sacrifice to heaven and told God that Li Liangzuo said that it would be over when the Khan was over, which was much simpler than the succession of the Central Plains Emperor.
Li Liangzuo wore a dragon robe on the altar surrounded by everyone, Li Liangzuo felt very awkward on the altar, it is estimated that Li Liangzuo is the first person to wear a dragon robe and hang the title of the emperor since ancient times, but this did not affect everyone's excitement at all, after the banner symbolizing Li Liangzuo's Great Khan was erected, the golden drum was handed over to Li Liangzuo's personal guard battalion, and the horn was handed over to Li Liangzuo's hands.
Then Yelu Jin proclaimed the sacrifice to the heavens: "Honorable god Tengri, your son has descended on the steppe and brought us to the steppe to become strong, and today the descendants of the steppe jointly elected him as the only Great Khan of the steppe, that is, the Holy Khan." ” After reading the sacrificial text, Li Liangzuo suddenly decided to ask Li Yi to prepare a large jar of wine, and then cut his fingers and let his blood drip into the wine and said to the eight governors and the leaders of the tribes: "Everyone today everyone elected me as the Great Khan, I will not disappoint everyone, I am here to make an alliance with everyone's blood, swear to the sky, I treat the people of the world equally, if you violate the oath, I am willing to be punished by God." ” Everyone saw that even Li Liangzuo had sworn an oath, so they also swore one after another: "We swear to Tengger, and our tribe is willing to submit to the Holy Heavenly Khan for the rest of our lives, and if you violate the oath, people and gods will be angry, and all the tribes will punish it." ” The oath is extremely important to the ancients, especially the grassland people, which represents an eternal inconvenient promise, everyone in turn dripped their blood into the wine jar, Li Liangzuo and everyone drank this wine together on the mountain, this is the so-called blood alliance; This also means that everyone recognizes Li Liangzuo, the Great Khan, from now on Li Liangzuo is not only the emperor of Western Xia, but also the Great Khan of the grassland, with the help of these grassland warriors, Li Liangzuo is one step closer to his dream of dominating the world and reproducing the Han and Tang Dynasties.
"Long live the Great Khan, long live the Great Khan, long live the Great Khan" In the face of hundreds of thousands of cheers, Li Liangzuo's blood boiled, from this time on these people will become the new subjects of the Western Xia Kingdom, with the addition of this batch of fresh blood, the national strength of the Western Xia has improved by leaps and bounds, and an important obstacle to the development of the Western Xia is the population, especially the adult male; Almost all adult males in the Western Xia had to serve in the military, and the situation of all the people being soldiers would naturally greatly affect the productivity, and the comprehensive national strength of a country in this era was determined by the population.
When Li Liangzuo just took over, Western Xia can only be said to be a small country in a corner of peace, although the combat effectiveness of this small country's army is very strong, and it dares to provoke the big country from time to time, but if the Central Plains Great Song Dynasty desperately wants to destroy the Western Xia, the Western Xia will struggle at most, and it will be difficult to escape the fate of destruction in the end.
But now it is different, after Li Liangzuo's assimilation reform, and three expansions abroad, the national strength of the Western Xia has increased significantly, both the population and the economy have increased several times, especially the Xia conquered the grassland is very important to the Western Xia Kingdom, not only the land area has more than doubled, even the population has increased by more than one million, the Western Xia is gradually growing into a large country standing in western China, once Li Liangzuo completely annexed the grassland, the power of the Western Xia is enough to really compete with the Great Song Dynasty.
So after the integration of the central region of the grassland, Li Liangzuo did not stop the pace of expansion, Li Liangzuo this time aimed at the eastern grassland, Li Liangzuo wanted to eat all the Liao territory west of Yong'an Mountain into his stomach; However, it was not easy to expand into the eastern grasslands, which were the traditional grazing areas of the Liao State, where there were a large number of Khitan tribes, and Yelu Hongji had strong control over the eastern grasslands.
And if you want to reach the eastern region from the middle of the grassland, there is a long distance in between, and you have to pass through mountains, swamps and other uninhabited areas on the way, and there is a danger of annihilation of the whole army if you are careful, so Li Liangzuo is very cautious in the annexation of the eastern grassland, and Li Liangzuo wants to peacefully take the entire central part of the grassland into his arms.
When Li Liangzuo was fighting in the east and west on the grassland, the situation in the sixteen states of Youyun was also surging, the situation of the Xia army, the Song army and the Southern Liao army was extremely complicated, and because Yelu Chongyuan was dead, the civil strife in the Southern Liao State, the army of the entire Southern Liao State was divided into two major systems, namely the Eastern Liao Army headed by the crown prince Yelu Nelugu and the Yan army headed by the Yan King Yelu Mu
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