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蕭敵烈 〈（拔剌）〉 耶律盆奴蕭排押 〈（恒德匹敵）〉 耶律資忠耶律瑤質耶律弘古高正耶律的錄大康乂
Xiao Dilie (See the biography of Balaci)〉 Yelü Pennu and Xiao Paiya (See the biographies of Hengde and Pike)〉 Yelü Zizhong, Yelü Yaozhi, Yelü Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelü Delu, and Da Kangyi
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蕭敵烈，字涅魯袞，宰相撻烈四世孫。 識度弘遠，為鄉里推重。 始為牛群敞史。 帝聞其賢，召入侍，遷國舅詳穩。 統和二十八年，帝謂群臣曰：「高麗康肇弒其君誦，立誦族兄詢而相之，大逆也。 宜發兵問其罪。」 群臣皆曰可。 敵烈諫曰：「國家連年征討，士卒抏敝。 況陛下在諒陰，年谷不登，創痍未復。 島夷小國，城壘完固，勝不為武，萬一失利，恐貽後悔。 不如遣一介之使，往問其故。 彼若伏罪則已； 不然，俟服除歲豐，舉兵未晚。」 時令已下，言雖不行，識者韙之。 明年，同知左夷離畢事。 改右夷離畢。 開泰初，率兵巡西邊。 時夷離堇部下閘撒狘撲裏、失室、勃葛率部民遁，敵烈追擒之，令復業，遷國舅詳穩。 從樞密使耶律世良伐高麗。 還，加同政事門下平章事，拜上京留守。 敵烈為人寬厚，達政體，廷臣皆謂有王佐才。 漢人行宮都部署王繼忠薦其材可為樞密使，帝疑其黨而止。 為中京留守，卒。 族子忽古，有傳。 弟拔剌。
Xiao Dilie, whose style name was Nielugun, was a fourth-generation descendant of Chancellor Talie. He was far-sighted and widely respected in his home district. He began his career as Herald of the Cattle Herds. When the emperor heard of his talent, he summoned him to attend at court and promoted him to Detailed Commandant of the Imperial Maternal Clan. In the twenty-eighth year of Tonghe, the emperor told his ministers: "In Goryeo, Kang Zhao murdered King Song and installed Song's clansman Sun as king while serving as his minister. This is the gravest treason. We ought to send troops to demand an accounting for his crime. All the ministers agreed. Dilie remonstrated: "The state has fought campaign after campaign, and the troops are exhausted. Moreover, Your Majesty is still in mourning, the harvests have been poor, and the scars of war have not yet healed. That island kingdom is small, yet its walls and defenses are strong. Victory would add little to our martial renown, while a single setback could bring lasting regret. It would be better to send a lone envoy to inquire into the affair. If they submit to judgment, well and good; if not, wait until mourning is ended and the harvest is full—then it will not be too late to take the field." Although the command had already been issued and his counsel was not adopted, men of judgment approved it. The following year he became Associate Director of the Left Irbi. He was transferred to Right Irbi. At the beginning of the Kaitai era he led troops on patrol along the western frontier. At that time, under the Irbi Chief, the tribal leaders Zhapusa Puli, Shishi, and Boge led their people in flight. Dilie pursued them, captured them, restored them to their livelihoods, and was again appointed Detailed Commandant of the Imperial Maternal Clan. He followed Privy Councilor Yelü Shiliang on the campaign against Goryeo. On his return he was made Associate Director under the Gate and Chancellor of the Secretariat and appointed regent of the Supreme Capital. Dilie was magnanimous by nature and well versed in governance; officials at court all said he had the talent to assist a ruler. Wang Jizhong, Chief Deployment Officer of the Han Palace Establishment, recommended him as fit for Privy Councilor, but the emperor suspected clique-building and held back. He served as regent of the Central Capital and died in office. His clansman Hugu has a separate biography. His younger brother Balaci.
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拔剌，字別勒隱。 多智，善騎射。 開泰間，以兄為右夷離畢，始補郎君，累遷奚六部禿裏太尉。 太平末，大延琳叛，拔剌將北、南院兵往討，遇於蒲水，南院兵少卻。 至手山，復與賊遇。 拔剌乃易兩院旗幟，鼓勇力戰，破之。 上聞，以手詔褒獎，賜內廄馬。 重熙中，遷四捷軍詳穩，謝事歸鄉里。 數歲，起為昭德軍節度使，尋改國舅詳穩，卒。
Balaci, whose style name was Biele Yin. He was clever and skilled in horsemanship and archery. During the Kaitai period, as his elder brother served as Right Irbi, he was first appointed Langjun and rose through several posts to Grand Commandant of the Six Xi Tribes Tulü. At the end of the Taiping era, when Dayan Lin rebelled, Balaci led the Northern and Southern Division armies to suppress him. They met at Pushui, where the Southern Division had fewer troops and fell back. At Mount Shou they encountered the rebels again. Balaci then exchanged the banners of the two divisions, roused their fighting spirit, and broke the enemy. When the emperor heard of it, he rewarded him with a handwritten edict and gave him a stallion from the imperial stables. During the Chongxi era he was made Detailed Commandant of the Four Swift Armies, then resigned and returned to his home district. Several years later he was recalled as Military Commissioner of the Zhaode Army, soon after made Detailed Commandant of the Imperial Maternal Clan, and died.
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耶律盆奴，字胡獨堇，惕隱涅魯古之孫。 景宗時，為烏古部詳穩，政尚嚴急，民苦之。 有司以聞，詔曰：「盆奴任方面寄，以細故究問，恐損威望。」 尋遷馬群太保。 統和十六年，隱實燕軍之不任事者，汰之。 二十八年，駕征高麗，盆奴為先鋒。 至銅州，高麗將康肇分兵為三以抗我軍：一營於州西，據三水之會，肇居其中； 一營近州之山； 一附城而營。 盆奴率耶律弘古擊破三水營，擒肇，李玄蘊等軍望風潰。 會大軍至，斬三萬餘級，追至開京，破敵於西嶺。 高麗王詢聞邊城不守，遁去。
Yelü Pennu, whose style name was Hudujin, was a grandson of Tiyin Nielugu. Under Emperor Jingzong he served as Detailed Commandant of the Wugu Tribe. His rule was harsh and severe, and the people suffered. The responsible office reported this, and an edict said: "Pennu holds a frontier commission; to pursue him over trifles would damage his authority." He was soon transferred to Grand Guardian of the Horse Herds. In the sixteenth year of Tonghe he secretly identified men in the Hidden Elite Yan Army unfit for duty and removed them. In the twenty-eighth year, when the emperor campaigned against Goryeo, Pennu served as vanguard. At Tongzhou, the Goryeo general Kang Zhao divided his army into three to resist our forces: one camp west of the prefecture at the confluence of the Three Waters, with Zhao in the center; one camp on the hills near the prefecture; and one camped against the city walls. Pennu led Yelü Honggu, broke the Three Waters camp, and captured Zhao. The forces of Li Xuanyun and others fled at the sight of them. When the main army arrived, more than thirty thousand heads were taken. They pursued to Kaesong and defeated the enemy at Xiling. When Goryeo King Sun heard that the border cities had fallen, he fled.
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盆奴入開京，焚其王宮，乃撫慰其民人。 上嘉其功，遷北院大王，薨。
Pennu entered Kaesong, burned the royal palace, and then reassured the populace. The emperor praised his achievement and made him Grand Prince of the Northern Division; he later died.
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蕭排押，字韓隱，國舅少父房之後。 多智略，能騎射。 統和初，為左皮室詳穩，討阻卜有功。 四年，破宋將曹彬、米信兵於望都。 凡軍事有疑，每預參決。 尋總永興宮分糺及舍利、拽剌、二皮室等軍，與樞密使耶律斜軫收復山西所陷城邑。 是冬，攻宋，隸先鋒，圍滿城，率所部先登，拔之，改南京統軍使。 尚衛國公主，拜駙馬都尉，加同政事門下平章事。 十三年，歷北、南院宣徽使。 條上時政得失及賦役法，上嘉納焉。 十五年，加政事令，遷東京留守。 二十二年，復攻宋，將渤海軍，下德清軍。 後蕭撻凜卒，專任南面事。 宋和議成，為北府宰相。 聖宗征高麗，將兵由北道進，至開京西嶺，破敵兵，斬數千級。 高麗王詢懼，奔平州。 排押入開京，大掠而還。 帝嘉之，封蘭陵郡王。 開泰二年，以宰相知西南面招討使。 五年，進王東平。 排押為政寬裕而善斷，諸部畏愛，民以殷富，時議多之。 七年，再伐高麗，至開京，敵奔潰，縱兵俘掠而還。 渡茶、陀二河，敵夾射，排押委甲仗走，坐是免官。 太平三年，復王豳，薨。 弟恒德。
Xiao Paiya, whose style name was Hanyin, was descended from the Lesser Father House of the Imperial Maternal Clan. He was resourceful in stratagem and skilled in horsemanship and archery. At the beginning of Tonghe he was Detailed Commandant of the Left Pishi and won merit campaigning against the Zubu. In the fourth year he defeated the Song generals Cao Bin and Mi Xin at Wangdu. Whenever military affairs were in doubt, he was regularly called in to deliberate. Soon he took overall command of the Yongxing Palace Division troops together with the Shali, Zhuala, and two Pishi armies, and with Privy Councilor Yelü Xiezhen recovered the prefectures and districts lost in Shanxi. That winter, on the attack against Song, he served under the vanguard, besieged Mancheng, led his own troops in the first assault, took the city, and was made Military Commissioner of Nanjing. He married the Princess of Weiguo, was appointed Commandant of Cavalry, and made Associate Director under the Gate and Chancellor of the Secretariat. In the thirteenth year he served in succession as Commissioner of the Southern and Northern Division Imperial Clan. He submitted a memorial on the strengths and weaknesses of current policy and on tax and corvée law; the emperor praised and adopted it. In the fifteenth year he was made Director of Affairs and transferred to regent of the Eastern Capital. In the twenty-second year he again attacked Song, led the Bohai army, and captured Deqing Army. After Xiao Talin died, he was entrusted alone with southern affairs. When peace with Song was concluded, he became Chancellor of the Northern Administration. When Emperor Shengzong campaigned against Goryeo, he led troops along the northern route to Xiling west of Kaesong, defeated the enemy, and took several thousand heads. Goryeo King Sun was afraid and fled to Pingzhou. Paiya entered Kaesong, plundered extensively, and returned. The emperor commended him and enfeoffed him as Prince of Lanling. In the second year of Kaitai, while serving as chancellor, he was made Commissioner for the Southwestern Pacification Commissioner. In the fifth year he was advanced to Prince of Dongping. Paiya governed with leniency yet firm judgment; the tribes both feared and loved him, the people grew prosperous, and contemporaries greatly praised him. In the seventh year he again campaigned against Goryeo. Reaching Kaesong, he routed the enemy and led his troops in capture and plunder before returning. Crossing the Cha and Tuo rivers, the enemy shot at them from both flanks. Paiya cast off his armor and arms and fled, and for this was removed from office. In the third year of Taiping he was again made Prince of Bin and died. His younger brother Hengde.
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恒德，字遜寧。 有膽略而善謀。 統和元年，尚越國公主，拜駙馬都尉，遷南面林牙。 從宣徽使耶律阿沒裏征高麗還，改北面林牙。 會宋將曹彬、米信侵燕，耶律休哥與恒德議軍事，多見信用，為東京留守。 六年，上攻宋，圍沙堆，恒德獨當一面。 城上矢石如雨，恒德意氣自若，督將士奪其陴。 城陷，中流矢，太后親臨視，賜藥。 攻長城口，復先登，太后益多其功。 時高麗未附，恒德受詔，率兵拔其邊城。 王始懼，上表請降。 十二年八月，賜啟聖竭力功臣。 從都部署和朔奴討兀惹，未戰，兀惹請降。 恒德利其俘獲，不許。 兀惹死戰，城不能拔。 和朔奴議欲引退，恒德曰：「以彼倔強，吾奉詔來討，無功而還，諸部謂我何！ 若深入多獲，猶勝徒返。」 和朔奴不得已，進擊東南諸部，至高麗北鄙。 比還，道遠糧絕，士馬死傷者眾，坐是削功臣號。 十四年，為行軍都部署，伐蒲盧毛朵部。 還，公主疾，太后遣宮人賢釋侍之，恒德私焉。 公主恚而薨，太后怒，賜死。 後追封蘭陵郡王。 子匹敵。
Hengde, whose style name was Xunning. He was bold and resourceful and skilled in planning. In the first year of Tonghe he married the Princess of Yueguo, was appointed Commandant of Cavalry, and transferred to Southern Division Linya. Following Imperial Clan Commissioner Yelü Amoli on the campaign against Goryeo, on his return he was transferred to Northern Division Linya. When the Song generals Cao Bin and Mi Xin invaded Yan, Yelü Xiuge and Hengde deliberated on military affairs. Hengde was often trusted and made regent of the Eastern Capital. In the sixth year, attacking Song, they besieged Shadui; Hengde alone held one sector of the siege. Arrows and stones rained on the walls, yet Hengde remained calm and urged his officers and men to seize the parapet. When the city fell he was struck by a stray arrow. The empress dowager came in person to visit him and bestowed medicine. Attacking Changcheng Pass, he again led the first assault; the empress dowager praised his merit all the more. At that time Goryeo had not yet submitted. Hengde received an edict and led troops to capture its border cities. The king then grew afraid and submitted a memorial requesting surrender. In the eighth month of the twelfth year he was granted the title Meritorious Subject Who Exhausts Himself for Qisheng. He followed Chief Deployment Officer Heshuonu in the campaign against Wunai. Before battle was joined, Wunai requested surrender. Hengde coveted the captives and would not permit it. Wunai fought to the death and the city could not be taken. Heshuonu deliberated on withdrawing. Hengde said: "They are so stubborn, yet we came by imperial edict to chastise them. If we return without achievement, what will the tribes say of us! If we penetrate deep and take much booty, that is still better than turning back empty-handed. Heshuonu had no choice. They advanced and attacked the southeastern tribes, reaching the northern marches of Goryeo. By the time they returned, the road was long and provisions were exhausted. Many soldiers and horses died or were wounded, and for this his meritorious title was stripped. In the fourteenth year he was Chief Campaign Deployment Officer and campaigned against the Pulü Maoduo tribe. On his return the princess fell ill. The empress dowager sent the palace woman Xian Shi to nurse her, and Hengde took her privately. The princess died in anger. The empress dowager was furious and ordered him put to death. He was later posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Lanling. His son Pike.
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匹敵，字蘇隱，一名昌裔。 生未月，父母俱死，育於禁掖。 既長，尚秦晉王公主，拜駙馬都尉，為殿前副點檢。 統和八年，改北面林牙。 太平四年，遷殿前都點檢，出為國舅詳穩。 九年，渤海大延琳叛，劫掠鄰部，與南京留守蕭孝穆往討。 孝穆欲全城降，乃築重城圍之，數月，城中人陰來納款，遂擒延琳，東京平，以功封蘭陵郡王。 十一年，聖宗不豫。 先是，欽哀與仁德皇后有隙，以匹敵嘗為後所愛，忌之。 時護衛馮家奴上變，誣後弟浞卜與匹敵謀逆，以皇后攝政，徐議當立者。 公主竊聞其謀，謂匹敵曰：「爾將無罪被戮。 與其死，何若奔女直國以全其生！」 匹敵曰：「朝廷詎肯以飛語害忠良？ 寧死弗適他國。」 及欽哀攝政，殺之。
Pike, whose style name was Suyin, was also known as Changyi. Within a month of his birth both parents had died, and he was reared in the inner palace. When he came of age he married the Princess of the Qin-Jin King, was appointed Commandant of Cavalry, and made Deputy Chief Inspector of the Palace Front. In the eighth year of Tonghe he was transferred to Northern Division Linya. In the fourth year of Taiping he was made Chief Inspector of the Palace Front and then appointed Detailed Commandant of the Imperial Maternal Clan. In the ninth year, when the Bohai leader Dayan Lin rebelled and raided neighboring tribes, he campaigned with Nanjing Regent Xiao Xiaomu to suppress him. Xiaomu wished to secure the city by surrender and built heavy fortifications to besiege it. After several months people inside secretly came to submit, Dayan Lin was captured, the Eastern Capital was pacified, and for this Pike was enfeoffed Prince of Lanling. In the eleventh year Emperor Shengzong fell ill. Earlier, Qinai and Empress Rendé had been at odds. Because Pike had once been favored by the empress, Qinai resented him. At that time the guard Feng Jianu submitted a report of treason, falsely accusing the empress's younger brother Chubuo and Pike of plotting rebellion while the empress dowager held the regency, so they might deliberate in time who should be enthroned. The princess secretly heard of the plot and said to Pike: "You will soon be put to death though guilty of nothing. Rather than die, why not flee to the Jurchen state and save your life! Pike said: "Would the court truly harm the loyal on mere rumor? I would rather die than go to another country." When Qinai took the regency, she had him killed.
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耶律資忠，字沃衍，小字劄剌，系出仲父房。 兄國留善屬文，聖宗重之。 時妻弟之妻阿古與奴通，將奔女直國，國留追及奴，殺之，阿古自經。 阿古母有寵於太后，事聞，太后怒，將殺之。 帝度不能救，遣人訣別，問以後事。 國留謝曰：「陛下憫臣無辜，恩漏九泉，死且不朽！」 既死，人多冤之。 在獄著《兔賦》、《寤寐歌》，為世所稱。
Yelü Zizhong, whose style name was Woyan and childhood name Zhala, came from the Second Father House line. His elder brother Guoliu was skilled at letters, and Emperor Shengzong valued him highly. At that time Agu, wife of his wife's younger brother, had an affair with a slave and was about to flee to the Jurchen state. Guoliu overtook the slave and killed him, and Agu hanged herself. Agu's mother was favored by the empress dowager. When the matter was reported, the empress dowager was furious and was about to have him executed. The emperor judged that he could not save him, sent someone to bid him farewell, and asked about affairs afterward. Guoliu thanked him, saying: "Your Majesty pities my innocence; your grace reaches the nine springs. Dead, I am not destroyed!" After he died, many considered it a grave injustice. In prison he composed the "Rabbit Rhapsody" and "Songs of Waking and Dreaming," works praised in his time.
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資忠博學，工辭章，年四十未仕。 聖宗知其賢，召補宿衛。 數問以古今治亂，資忠對無隱。 開泰中，授中丞，眷遇日隆。 初，高麗內屬，取女直六部地以賜。 至是，貢獻不時至，詔資忠往問故。 高麗無歸地意。 由是權貴數短於上，出為上京副留守。 三年，再使高麗，留弗遣。 資忠每懷君親，輒有著述，號《西亭集》。 帝與群臣宴，時一記憶曰：「資忠亦有此樂乎？」 九年，高麗上表謝罪，始送資忠還。 帝郊迎，同載以歸，命大臣宴勞，留禁中數日。 謂曰：「朕將屈卿為樞密，何如？」 資忠對曰：「臣不才，不敢奉詔。」 乃以為林牙，知惕隱事。 初，資忠在高麗也，弟昭為著帳郎君，坐罪沒家產。 至是，乃復橫帳，且還舊產，詔以外戚女妻之。 是時，樞密使蕭合卓、少師蕭把哥有寵，資忠不背俯附，詆之。 帝怒，奪官。 數歲，出知來遠城事，歷保安、昭德二軍節度使。 聖宗崩，表請會葬。 既至，伏梓宮大慟曰：「臣幸遇聖明，橫被構譖，不獲盡犬馬報。」 氣絕而蘇，興宗命醫治疾。 久之，言國舅侍中無憂國心，陛下不當復用唐景福舊號，於是用事者惡之，遣歸鎮，卒。 弟昭，有傳。
Zizhong was broadly learned and skilled at literary composition, yet had not taken office by the age of forty. Emperor Shengzong knew his worth and summoned him to serve in the palace guard. Several times the emperor asked him about order and disorder in past and present times; Zizhong answered without concealment. During the Kaitai era he was appointed Vice Censor-in-Chief, and imperial favor toward him grew daily. Earlier, when Goryeo was an inner dependency, the lands of the six Jurchen tribes had been granted to it. By this time tribute and offerings did not arrive on schedule. An edict ordered Zizhong to go and inquire into the cause. Goryeo had no intention of returning the land. For this the powerful often spoke ill of him to the emperor, and he was sent out as Deputy Regent of the Supreme Capital. In the third year he was again sent to Goryeo and detained without being allowed to return. Zizhong always yearned for sovereign and kin and would compose writings, which he titled Collected at the Western Pavilion. The emperor feasted with his ministers and at one point recalled: "Does Zizhong also enjoy pleasures such as these?" In the ninth year Goryeo submitted a memorial begging pardon and at last sent Zizhong back. The emperor met him in the suburbs and rode back with him in the same carriage. He ordered the great ministers to feast and reward him and kept him in the palace several days. He said to him: "I intend to appoint you Privy Councilor. What do you think?" Zizhong replied: "Your servant lacks talent and dares not accept the edict." He was then made Linya and given charge of Tiyin affairs. Earlier, while Zizhong was in Goryeo, his younger brother Zhao was a Registered Langjun. For a crime his family property was confiscated. By this time he was restored to the Horizontal Tent and his former property was returned. An edict gave him a woman of the imperial maternal clan in marriage. At that time Privy Councilor Xiao Hezhuo and Junior Tutor Xiao Bage were in favor. Zizhong would not bow and follow them and spoke against them. The emperor was angry and stripped him of his office. After several years he went out to manage affairs at Laiyuan City and served in succession as Military Commissioner of the Bao'an and Zhaode armies. When Emperor Shengzong died, he submitted a memorial requesting permission to attend the funeral. When he arrived he prostrated himself before the bier and wailed greatly: "Your servant was fortunate to meet a sage ruler, yet was slandered on every side and could not exhaust himself in loyal service like a dog or horse. He fainted and revived. Emperor Xingzong ordered physicians to treat his illness. After a long while he said the imperial maternal-clan attendant lacked a mind to worry for the state and that Your Majesty ought not again to use the old title of Tang Jingfu. For this those in power hated him, sent him back to his command, and he died. His younger brother Zhao has a separate biography.
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耶律瑤質，字拔裏堇，積慶宮人。 父侯古，室韋部節度使。 瑤質篤學廉介，有經世誌。 統和十年，累遷至積慶宮使。 聖宗嘗諭瑤質曰：「聞卿正直，是以進用。 國有利害，爾言宜無所隱。」 由是所陳多見嘉納。 上征高麗，破康肇軍於銅州，瑤質之力為多。 王詢乞降，群臣議皆謂宜納。 瑤質曰：「王詢始一戰而敗，遽求納款，此詐耳，納之恐墮其奸計。 待其勢窮力屈，納之未晚。」 已而詢果遁，清野無所獲。 其眾阻險而壘，攻之不下，瑤質以計降之。 擢拜四蕃部詳穩。 時招討使耶律頗的為總官，瑤質恥居其下，上表曰：「臣先朝舊臣，今既垂老，乞還新命，覬得常侍左右。」 帝曰：「朕不使汝久處是任。」 且命無隸招討，得專奏事到部。 戢暴懷善，政績顯著。 卒於官。
Yelü Yaozhi, whose style name was Balijin, was a man of the Jiqing Palace. His father Hougu was Military Commissioner of the Shivei Tribe. Yaozhi was devoted to learning, upright and self-restrained, and had the will to bring order to the age. In the tenth year of Tonghe he rose through several posts to Commissioner of the Jiqing Palace. Emperor Shengzong once instructed Yaozhi: "I have heard you are upright, and for this I advance you. Where the state has benefit or harm, you should speak without concealment." For this what he presented was often praised and adopted. When the emperor campaigned against Goryeo and defeated Kang Zhao's army at Tongzhou, Yaozhi's effort counted for much. King Sun begged to surrender. The ministers deliberated and all said he should be accepted. Yaozhi said: "King Sun was defeated in a single battle and hastily sought to submit. This is deceit; to accept him now may fall into his treacherous scheme. Wait until his strength is exhausted and his power spent—then it will not be too late to accept him." Before long Sun indeed fled. They cleared the countryside but took nothing. His troops held difficult terrain and built ramparts. The attack could not succeed, and Yaozhi reduced them by stratagem. He was promoted and appointed Detailed Commandant of the Four Fan Tribes. At that time Pacification Commissioner Yelü Pode was overall commander. Yaozhi was ashamed to serve beneath him and submitted a memorial: "Your servant is an old minister of the former court. Now that I am old, I beg to return the new appointment and hope to attend constantly at Your Majesty's side. The emperor said: "I will not let you remain long in that post." He also ordered that he not be subordinate to the Pacification Commissioner and might memorialize directly on arrival in his district. He restrained violence and cherished kindness. His administrative achievements were conspicuous. He died in office.
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耶律弘古，字盆訥隱，遙輦鮮質可汗之後。 統和初，嘗以軍事任為拽剌詳穩，尋徙南京統軍使。 十三年，徇地南鄙，克敵於四嶽橋，斬首百餘級。 攻宋，以戰功遷東京留守，封楚國公。 後伐高麗，副先鋒耶律盆奴，擒康肇於銅州。 三十年，西北部叛，從南府宰相耶律奴瓜討之。 及典禁軍，號令整肅，諸部多降。 尋遷侍中，卒。
Yelü Honggu, whose style name was Penne Yin, was descended from Khan Xianzhi of the Yaolian clan. At the beginning of Tonghe he was once appointed Detailed Commandant of Zhuala for military affairs, then soon transferred to Military Commissioner of Nanjing. In the thirteenth year he raided the southern marches, defeated the enemy at Siyue Bridge, and took more than a hundred heads. On the attack against Song he was transferred for military achievement to regent of the Eastern Capital and enfeoffed Duke of Chu. Later, campaigning against Goryeo, he served as deputy to vanguard Yelü Pennu and captured Kang Zhao at Tongzhou. In the thirtieth year the northwest rebelled. He followed Southern Administration Chancellor Yelü Nugua to suppress them. When he took charge of the forbidden army, his orders were strict and orderly, and many tribes submitted. Soon he was transferred to Attendant-in-Chief and died.
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高正，不知何郡人。 統和初，舉進士第，累遷樞密直學士。 上將伐高麗，遣正先往諭意。 及還，遷右僕射。 時高麗王詢表請入覲，上許之，遣正率騎兵千人迓之。 館於路，為高麗將卓思正所圍。 正以勢不可敵，與麾下壯士突圍出，士卒死傷者眾。 上悔輕發，釋其罪。 明年，遷工部侍郎，為北院樞密副使。 開泰五年卒。
Gao Zheng—his native commandery is unknown. At the beginning of Tonghe he passed the jinshi examination and rose through several posts to Academician Direct of the Privy Council. When the emperor was about to campaign against Goryeo, he sent Zheng ahead to announce his intent. On his return he was transferred to Right Vice Director. At that time Goryeo King Sun memorialized requesting to come to court. The emperor permitted it and sent Zheng with a thousand cavalry to meet him. He was lodged on the road and was surrounded by the Goryeo general Zhuo Sizheng. Zheng judged the force could not be resisted. With stalwart men under him he broke through the encirclement, and many soldiers died or were wounded. The emperor regretted having acted rashly and remitted his crime. The following year he was transferred to Vice Minister of Works and made Deputy Privy Councilor of the Northern Division. In the fifth year of Kaitai he died.
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耶律的錄，字耶寧，仲父房之後。 習兵事，為左皮室詳穩。 統和二十八年，伐高麗，的錄率本部軍與盆奴等擒康肇、李玄蘊於銅州。 帝壯之曰：「以卿英才，為國戮力，真吾家千里駒也！」 乃賜御馬及細鎧。 明年，為北院大王，出為烏古敵烈部都詳穩。 年七十二卒。
Yelü Delu, whose style name was Yening, came from the Second Father House line. He studied military affairs and served as Detailed Commandant of the Left Pishi. In the twenty-eighth year of Tonghe, on the campaign against Goryeo, Delu led his own division army together with Pennu and others and captured Kang Zhao and Li Xuanyun at Tongzhou. The emperor praised him, saying: "With your outstanding talent exerted for the state, you are truly our family's thousand-li colt!" He then bestowed an imperial horse and fine armor. The following year he was made Grand Prince of the Northern Division and went out as Overall Detailed Commandant of the Wugu and Dilie Tribes. He died at the age of seventy-two.
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大康乂，渤海人。 開泰間，累官南府宰相，出知黃龍府，善綏撫，東部懷服。 榆裏底乃部長伯陰與榆烈比來附，送於朝。 且言蒲盧毛朵界多渤海人，乞取之。 詔從其請。 康乂領兵至大石河駝準城，掠數百戶以歸。 未幾卒。
Da Kangyi was a man of Bohai. During the Kaitai era he rose through several offices to Chancellor of the Southern Administration and went out to govern Huanglong Prefecture. He was skilled at pacification, and the eastern tribes submitted in their hearts. Boyin, chief of the Yulidi Nai tribe, and Yuliebi came to submit and were sent to court. He also reported that many Bohai people lived within the borders of Pulü Maoduo and asked that they be brought over. An edict granted his request. Kangyi led troops to Tuozhun City on the Dashi River, carried off several hundred households, and returned. Before long he died.
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論曰：高句驪弒其君誦而立詢，遼興問罪之師，宜其簞食壺漿以迎，除舍以待； 而乃乘險旅拒，俾智者竭其謀，勇者窮其力。 雖得其要領，而端端獨居一海之中自若也。 豈服人者以德而不以力歟？ 況乎殘毀其宮室，系累其民人，所謂以燕伐燕也歟？ 嗚呼！ 朱崖之棄，捐之之力也，敵烈之諫有焉。
The commentary says: Gaogouli murdered King Song and installed Sun. Liao raised an army to call them to account. They ought to have welcomed our troops with baskets of food and jars of drink and cleared lodgings to receive us; yet instead they held difficult terrain and resisted stubbornly, making the wise exhaust their stratagems and the brave spend their strength. Although the essentials were seized, they remained at ease, alone in their realm amid the sea. Is it not that those who win submission do so through virtue rather than through force? Moreover, to ruin their palaces and bind their people—what is this but the proverb of using Yan to attack Yan? Alas! The abandonment of Zhuya was the work of Juanzhi; in Dilie's remonstrance there was wisdom.