Section 3: Marriage with Xixia

Drinking alone under the moon

Second

If heaven did not love wine, the wine star would not be in the sky. If the earth did not love wine, there would be no fountains of wine.

Both heaven and earth love wine, and the love of wine is worthy of heaven. I have heard it as clear as the sage, but after returning to the turbid way, I am as good as the sage.

Since the sages have already drank, why ask for gods? Three cups lead to the road, and one bucket combines with nature.

But if you get the pleasure from drinking, don’t pass it on to those who are sober.

Yelu Hongji was emperor for 46 years, but he did nothing in his life and brought chaos to the entire Khitan Empire. After his death, his grandson Yelu Yanxi succeeded to the throne and became the last Khitan emperor-Emperor Tianzuo.

As soon as Yelu Yanxi ascended the throne, Xixia sent envoys to request peace and marriage in order to consolidate the relationship between the two countries.

The first time Xixia sent an envoy, Yelu Yanxi refused without even thinking. Unexpectedly, Xixia did not give up. After being rejected for the first time, Xixia sent several waves of envoys one after another.

Yelu Yanxi felt very puzzled. He had just become emperor a few days ago, why Xixia was so eager to marry him. After some understanding, he found out that when his grandfather Yelu Hongji was in power, he often served as

The peace between the Song Dynasty and Xixia lasted for a long time, so Xixia always clung to the Khitan.

At that time, Yelu Hongji believed the slander and killed his wife and son. Later he came to his senses and got rid of the treacherous minister Yelu Yixin. At this time, great changes took place in the internal political power of the Xixia Empire.

When Li Bingchang, Huizong of the Western Xia Dynasty, passed away, his son Li Qianshun, who was less than three years old, succeeded to the throne. Because the little emperor was too young, Li Qianshun's mother, the Empress Dowager Liang, and his uncle, Liang Yibu, jointly assisted in the government affairs. The two brothers relied on the power in their hands to overthrow the previous dynasty who was not convinced by them.

The ministers killed and squeezed out, and the entire Xixia Dynasty has become the Liang family dynasty.

The people inside Xixia are panicked, and the ministers are submissive on the surface, but they are already dissatisfied in their hearts. Xixia is in crisis, and a civil war seems to be about to break out.

The Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yibu were very clear about the situation facing the country, but they had to do this in order to strengthen their rule. After causing so many contradictions in the court, they had to think about how to transfer these contradictions to the outside. At this time, they

I thought of the means of war.

At this time, the Song Dynasty in the south sent envoys to Xixia to confer the young emperor as the king of Xixia in the second year after he came to power. Not long after, the Khitan also sent envoys to confer him as the king of Xixia. Both sides took measures against Xixia.

The policy of co-optation put Empress Dowager Liang's brother and sister in a dilemma. Who should they provoke a war against?

They thought carefully and finally chose the Song Dynasty, which was weak and could be bullied. They also announced that they would take over the Central Plains and expressed their intention to fight to the death with the Song Dynasty.

From the very beginning of the war, the Liang brothers and sisters showed great enthusiasm. In a short period of time, they actually planned fifty or sixty wars.

At the same time, Xixia has been maintaining envoy exchanges with the Song Dynasty, constantly asking for more "yearly gifts", and wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain more benefits. In name, it still maintains a vassal relationship with the Song Dynasty.

Later, the Liang brothers and sisters turned against each other, and the Empress Dowager Liang killed her brother Liang Yibu. After that, the Empress Dowager Yang went even more crazy in using troops against the Song Dynasty, and often even mobilized the whole country to bring her own son to conquer the Song Dynasty.

This year, the Empress Dowager Liang once again mobilized 400,000 troops to attack Pingxia City in the Song Dynasty. However, Pingxia City was strong and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Soon, Xixia encountered difficulties in the supply of food and grass. Not only did the Empress Dowager Liang not withdraw her troops, but continued to allow

The army besieged Pingxia City.

Suddenly, the sky changed drastically and strong winds rose. Although the Xixia people were accustomed to windy and sandy weather in the desert, such bad weather did not last long, and the troops were in chaos. The Song Dynasty immediately seized this opportunity and took advantage of it. The army left the city and defeated the Xixia army. The Empress Dowager Liang and the young emperor Li Qianshun finally escaped under the protection of their generals.

The Empress Dowager Liang was defeated and returned home, still unwilling to give up, and she was still angry about this failure. She wanted to send troops to the south again, but after the last disastrous defeat, the current strength no longer allowed the Xixia army to attack alone. So the Empress Dowager Liang He personally wrote a letter to the Khitan Emperor Yelu Hongji requesting the Khitan to send troops for assistance. Yelu Hongji had long heard that the Empress Dowager Liang was unpopular in Xixia and was domineering. Therefore, he repeatedly rejected the Empress Dowager Liang's requests. The Empress Dowager Liang After receiving the reply, he felt very dissatisfied with the Khitan, and strongly expressed his dissatisfaction in the reply to the Khitan. This dissatisfaction was noticed by Yelu Hongji, and he decided to wait for an opportunity to get rid of Empress Dowager Liang.

At this time, Li Qianshun was already 16 years old. According to the ancient tradition, he was fully able to take charge of the government himself. However, his mother, Queen Mother Liang, had no intention of returning the power to him, which made Li Qianshun feel very depressed.

Yelu Hongji decisively seized this opportunity and sent people to Xixia to poison the Queen Mother Liang. He also supported Li Qianshun to take power.

After Li Qianshun came to power, he planned to reconcile with the Song Dynasty. However, Song Zhezong, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, had been harassed by Xixia for decades, and he was suffocating in his heart. There happened to be civil strife in Xixia and it was not yet stable. Song Zhezong wanted to take this opportunity to crack down. Xixia wanted to give them some color, so they firmly refused to agree to reconciliation. Li Qianshun had no choice but to turn his head and place his hopes on Khitan.

Yelu Hongji felt that he had helped King Li Qianshun of Xixia regain power and that he was the great savior of Xixia. So he acted as a peacemaker between Xixia and the Song Dynasty. He first suggested that Li Qianshun kill the military advisor of the Empress Dowager Liang and the military advisor who had previously been responsible for planning the war with the Song Dynasty. For those who were involved in the war with the Song Dynasty, Li Qianshun obeyed his instructions. Then he apologized to the Song Dynasty again.

Song Zhezong saw that Xixia was very sincere this time and that there was Khitan interceding, so he showed the demeanor of a great country and agreed to negotiate peace with Xixia.

Li Qianshun received repeated aid from the Khitans and deeply felt the benefits of currying favor with the Khitans. So he took the initiative to request a peace marriage from the Khitans, but Yelu Hongji did not see the benefits brought by the peace between the two countries, so he refused without even thinking. .

Li Qianshun did not give up. After Yelu Hongji refused, he sent an envoy again, but this time the Khitan had changed its emperor. Unexpectedly, the new emperor Yelu Yanxi rejected Xixia's request as ruthlessly as his grandfather. After experiencing repeated failures, Xixia still refused to give up. He once again sent an envoy to ask for peace with Khitan.

Yelu Yanxi thought about it and felt that she had rejected Xixia several times before, and it was not easy for Xixia envoys to travel across mountains and rivers to come again and again. It would not be good if she continued to refute others' face!

Therefore, Yelu Yanxi agreed to Xixia's proposal and married Princess Cheng'an to Li Qianshun.

After Princess Cheng'an married into Xixia, she missed her homeland all the time. Later, when news of the demise of Khitan reached Xixia, Princess Cheng'an was so distraught that she went on a hunger strike and died.

Life insights: All fairy tales about Prince Charming and beautiful girls end abruptly at the moment they finally get married. Once the beautiful and tortuous love turns into a trivial and boring life, even the most skilled writers find it difficult to write. The prince and

Beautiful girls "live happily together", do they also quarrel? The answer should be yes.

Couples who never quarrel in their lives are probably rarer than giant pandas. Many marriages break up because both parties have endless quarrels.

As the saying goes: There is no spoon that does not touch the edge of the pot. The same is true for the first loving couple. After two people live together for a long time, it is inevitable that they will encounter some unpleasant things. There will always be times when couples conflict with each other. If you don’t want to hurt each other’s feelings,

If you have self-esteem, you should learn to say polite expressions such as: "I'm sorry!" "I'm sorry!" "Forgive me!"

In daily life, we sometimes encounter such a situation: some couples get angry easily and do not analyze the reasons or find ways to solve them afterwards. Although many couples are quite proud of this and call it "chronic" in their marriage.

"Suicide". However, they naively believe that if either party tolerates it and does not have any quarrels or conflicts, the relationship between husband and wife will definitely be good. This seeming calmness has actually gone to the other extreme. Looking back at them

The relationship between the two people is indeed "good" outside the world, but they are not warm and considerate, and the sparks of love do not often burst out. This is because they ignore the fact that all families should have a certain degree of conflict.

, no one's spouse will be full of tenderness and sweetness towards each other all the time, but it is reasonable for each other to hope that the other party will meet certain requirements of theirs, as long as these requirements are not harsh. The correct approach should be, since recognizing the occasional
Chapter completed!