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Yelü Chucai
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- Yelü Chucai
- Yelü Chucai (1190-1244), a Khitan statesman and advisor to the Mongol Empire; he was instrumental in establishing administrative systems and taxation in north China, steering the Mongols away from mass destruction of the population.