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Song Dynasty - MSN Encarta (1646 words) |
 | 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. |
| Chinese History - Song Dynasty å® event history (www.chinaknowledge.de) (8681 words) |
| Emperor Song Taizong for his part tried to gain peace at the northeastern border by bestowing Li Jiqian with some nominal military commands and granting him the imperial surname Zhao è¶ (as the Tang emperors had granted his family the imperial surname Li æ), but the ruler of the Xia empire refused. |
| Emperor Jin Xuanzong éå®£å® resumed war campaigns against the Song in the south, the first reason being a punishment for the delay of the annual tributes, the second reason was a territorial compensation for the losses to the Mongols. |
| The court of Emperor Lizong å®çå® was dominated by consort clans (Yan é», Jia è³) and the eunuchs Dong Songchen è£å®è£ and Lu Yunsheng ç§å
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