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 | Emperor Taizu and his brother, who succeeded him as Emperor Taizong (T'ai-tsung) in 976, conquered the rest of the north and the several kingdoms in the south, unifying the empire in 978. |
| After unifying north and south, Emperor Taizong turned to the northeastern border (in the area of what is now Beijing) and tried to recover 16 prefectures with a mainly native-Chinese population from the Khitans, a tribal confederation that had established the Liao dynasty in 907. |
| The Song army was defeated, and in 1004 it signed a peace treaty with the Liao in which it agreed to make an annual payment of 100,000 ounces of silver and 200,000 bolts of silk. |
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