When the sky was dawn in Dali, Duan Yu, the emperor of Dali Kingdom, had already walked in the imperial garden with Queen Wang.

Duan Yu held a long sword and stopped in front of the morning glow at the head of Dali city.

He is 48 years old this year and has been the emperor for twenty-three years.

However, his emperor (he was the emperor in Dali and the king of the Song Dynasty) did not have much real power. His military and national affairs were controlled by the Gao family, who had inherited the position of Qingping Guan (Prime Minister). When Duan Yu was young, his uncle Duan Zhengming was once forced by Qingping Guan (Prime Minister) Gao Shengtai to avoid becoming a monk and abdicated in Gao Shengtai. The name of Dali was also changed to Dazhong. Gao Shengtai died for two years and ordered his son Gao Taiming to return the throne to the Duan family. Therefore, Duan Yu's father Duan Zhengchun was able to become the 15th generation king of the Dali Kingdom.

Only then did Duan Yu have the opportunity to ascend the throne and become the 16th king of Dali Kingdom after his father Duan Zhengchun escaped from his throne and became a monk.

However, Duan Yu, who became the emperor, had no real power. He was just a puppet of the Gao family in Shanchan Mansion (Kunming). The government affairs were successively controlled by Gao Taiming, Gao Taiyun, Gao Mingshun and Gao Shunzhen.

Because there is no real power, Duan Yu does not have to worry about the government affairs. He only needs to show off at the court meeting on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month to let the ministers below know that there is an emperor like him in Dali Kingdom.

The rest of the time can be spent enjoying life with Queen Wang and several beloved concubines, studying Buddhism, and practicing traditional martial arts.

It sounds very good. Even if you become an emperor, you don’t have to take care of the government and enjoy life every day. It’s so envious of all gods!

But in fact, Duan Yu has many worries!

He and Empress Wang, Concubine Zhong Xian, Concubine Mu, Concubine Li Shu, etc., were all happy and respected each other in their early years. However, as the descendants born to the concubines grew up, everyone stared at the throne under the father's butt, and were mixed with the internal strife of the Gao family, which gave him a headache.

The emperor has no real power, so he doesn't have the final say for whom he is the crown prince. There is no way to solve the problem by scattering a knife. The Gao family, which has inherited Qingping officials, is now in internal conflicts! A bunch of brothers, uncles and nephews are fighting for the best, and humans are almost fighting for the dog's head, and there is no accurate number.

Moreover, Duan Yu's sons and several powerful factions from the Gao family colluded with each other and twisted together, leaving Duan Yu, the father, without any mistakes... The concubines who had originally had a harmonious relationship also turned against each other and wanted to kill each other!

Thinking of these destructive things, he wanted to become a monk!

But it is impossible to be a monk!

Because now the two religions of Confucianism and Buddhism in Dali have started fighting again!

The Dali Kingdom has always used Confucianism and Buddhism, and is known as Confucianism governing the country and Buddhism governing the heart.

However, since the Confucianism in the Song Dynasty began to undergo drastic changes thirty years ago, there have been some empirical schools, Neo-Confucian schools, rational schools, Tianli Buddhism, etc.

The balance between Confucianism and Buddhism began to be broken!

Although Confucianism has fallen into division and internal struggle, its overall strength has become stronger and stronger, and the truth is becoming clearer and clearer as it becomes! If Confucianism is rigid, then there is nothing scary.

However, the separation of Confucianism now does not count, but it also crazily absorbs the essence of various ideas in the East and the West, and also solves the "worldview" and "tool" problems that have plagued Confucianism for more than a thousand years.

Now Confucianism can use philosophical thinking to explore the "ultimate problem", and its theory is not inferior to Buddhism, and its fighting spirit is far superior to Buddhism.

Although the Dali Kingdom is in a corner, it is ultimately in the Confucian cultural circle, so it is inevitable that it will be affected by the great division and evolution of Confucianism.

Now, there are "Buddha-Confucian debates" every now and then. Confucian scholars from Dali and Confucian scholars (people from the Tianli Sect) who came from the Central Plains often refute the monks in Tianlong Temple speechless.

Duan Yu, who often feels upset, can only turn his attention to his favorite traditional martial arts.

Thinking of this, Duan Yuqiang stumbled, pulled out his long sword "Six Veins", and drew his sword and danced!

Duan Yu has practiced martial arts hard since he was a child, and has been practicing for more than 40 years. Although he is nearly fifty years old, his body is still strong and strong. The hard hands of the Dali Imperial Army, if three or five people are together, he is not his opponent.

In original history, he lived to the age of 94 and died in 1176, 6 years later than Wang Chongyang, so Wang Chongyang's "No. 1 in the world" is a bit humid... How could he beat Duan Yu?

However, although Duan Yu's martial arts are of high quality, they are not helpful in revitalizing the reputation of the Duan Dynasty. They can only be used to strengthen the body. Because muskets are now popular, no matter how high martial arts are, they are afraid of muskets!

After dancing for a quarter of an hour, Duan Yu heard someone applauding and applauding: "Good sword technique! Your Majesty's sword technique is really superb and can be called the best in the world!"

Duan Yu held his sword and stood upright, not breathing, and his face did not flush. In a blink of an eye, he found that it was Gao Shunzhen, the official of Qingping.

I don’t know what happened, Gao Shunzhen frowned and his face was gloomy.

"Gao Qing, why did you enter the palace early in the morning?"

Gao Shunzhen bowed: "Your Majesty, yesterday afternoon, Qin Hui, the envoy of the Song Dynasty, arrived in Dali City."

Dali was in power, so all the envoys who visited met the Gao clan's Qing official first, and then went to the palace to meet the Duan king.

"Which Song Dynasty?" Duan Yu asked.

Now there are more than one Song Dynasty...

"It's the Song Dynasty in Chang'an," Gao Shunzhen said, "He brought me a message about the survival of Dali!"

"Saving and Death?" Duan Yu was shocked.

"Yes!" Gao Shunzhen said, "The Song Dynasty officials in Chang'an want to launch troops to attack the princes in Jiaozhi."

"Ah?" Duan Yu was stunned, "They can reach it?"

"It's not reachable, so I have to borrow from my Dali."

Duan Yu took a deep breath: "Borrow it? They will not give Dali to..."

Gao Shunzhen nodded, "I am also worried that the Song people will pretend to destroy Guo."

"What should we do?" Duan Yu asked, "Can our country resist the soldiers of the Song people?"

"I think..." Gao Shunzhen said, "I can only ask for help from Shenglong Mansion and attract the Eastern Song Dynasty to resist the Western Song Dynasty."

Now Shenglong Mansion is surrendering to Jiangning. If you ask for help from Shenglong, it is equivalent to asking for help from the Eastern Song Dynasty.

But the Eastern Song Dynasty was far away, how could it relieve the intimate thirst of Dali Kingdom?

"Turn the support of the Eastern Song Dynasty?" Duan Yu frowned, "Is it too far?"

Gao Shunzhen said, "Don't worry, your Majesty, our Dali is not a small country. When the Song Dynasty was unified in the past, he did not dare to conquer. Now China is three points, what else is there to be scary? I have ordered Gao Liangcheng to lead an army of 100,000 to go north to Jianchang Prefecture to fight the enemy. I don't want to win a great victory. As long as it can delay for several months, it will exhaust his teachers and soldiers."

Just as Gao Shunzhen and Duan Yu were discussing asking for help from the Eastern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei had already led 27,000 troops to Hanyuan County, Lizhou, under Chengdu Fu Road, which was only more than 1,000 miles away from Dali City.

It is not close to more than 1,000 miles, and it is also full of mountain roads, which is not so easy to pass through.

But most of the areas in these more than 1,000 miles are in the hands of various barbarians.

The Dali Kingdom had never handled all the barbarians. Even when it was strong, the imperial court's government orders could be passed through the core prefectures and counties of the capital Dali, Shanchan Prefecture, Landong Prefecture, Tutong Prefecture, Huichuan Prefecture, and Weichu Prefecture.

For remote tribes, they can only be managed by the method of ruling thrones.

When Duan Yu became emperor, these surviving tribes kept rebelling. During the Xuanhe period of the Song Dynasty, the rebellious thirty-seven barbarians even once captured the Shanchan Mansion, the old nest of the Gao family, and killed the fourth son of Gao Taiming, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, Gao Mingqing.

Although the rebellion of the Man tribe was suppressed by Gao Taiyun of the Gao family, it won very hard, so the Dali court had very weak control over the Man tribe.

Once the Dali Kingdom showed signs of decline in the war with the Western Song Dynasty, the Barbarian tribes were very likely to turn against the Song Dynasty.

As long as you get the support of the Barbarians, Yue Fei's 27,000 army can appear under Dali City through these more than 1,000 miles of mountain roads in a very short time.

Therefore, Yue Fei, who was stationed in Hanyuan, was most worried about now, not the Qianli Mountain Road or the soldiers of Dali Kingdom, but the Dali Kingdom shrank its troops to Jianchang Prefecture City.

Because he needed a very exciting victory to prove to the barbarians in the northern part of Dali Kingdom that the Great Song Dynasty soldiers were invincible.

As long as the Barbarians believed that the Song Dynasty soldiers could beat Dali with no effort, there would be no problem with their surrender.

With them providing guidance and supplies, the Qianli Mountain Road is only a matter of twenty days to walk.

When the soldiers arrived at the city of Dali, what way out did Duan Yu have? Shouldn’t he escape or surrender?

"All deployments, Dali soldiers arrived!"

Just when Yue Fei was a little nervous, his general military machine Zhang Xian quickly walked into his White Tiger Festival Hall.

"How many?" Yue Fei looked at Zhang Xian and asked.

"According to the report of the chief of the Xuhen tribe, there are 100,000 soldiers and horses in Dali, and there are hundreds of war elephants. The one who led the army was the high-volume Duke of Zhengguo."

The Xuhen tribe is a tribe located on the border of Song and Li, and most tribes on the border of the Central Plains have adopted the strategy of eating both ends. While paying tribute to Dali, the Chengdu Prefecture Road is also well connected.

"100,000?" Yue Fei smiled, "So many! That's great!

You immediately send someone to take the War Book to the Xuhen tribe and ask them to hand it over to Gao Liangcheng. It is said that the Song Dynasty is a benevolent and righteous army, and I am unwilling to let the people of the Lisong family fall into trouble. Therefore, I am willing to choose an open land on the south bank of the Dadu River to fight the Dali army. If I cannot win, I will lead the army to retreat and will not disturb Dali from then on."

"On the south bank of Dadu River?" Zhang Xian was stunned, "Aren't you afraid that they will attack halfway?"
Chapter completed!