Chapter 269 Shis parents seize their daughter-in-law, and the Xia royal family is in chaos
Guo Cheng clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Xixia is a grassroots and a wolf with ambitions. Only when I, the Song Dynasty general, send troops to beat the party members into submission can I, the Song Dynasty, send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty."
They don’t dare to intrude on our northwest border of the Song Dynasty!”
Zhao Ji heard the words of Guo Cheng, who had been in the army for more than 40 years, but he did not take a stance immediately.
This time, Zhao Ji called Zheng Juzhong, Cao Fu, Zongze, Li Gang, Guo Cheng, Zhang Jun and other loyal ministers to drink tea and discuss matters, in order to listen to the opinions.
After Guo Cheng finished expressing his opinions, he saw that Zhao Guanjia did not express his position, so he half-sat on the imperial stool respectfully.
Zhao Ji asked Zheng Ju and other ministers sitting around the Eight Immortals table:
"What do you think of General Guo's words?"
In charge of the affairs of the Privy Council, Duke Zheng Juzhong of the State of Yan frowned. After thinking for a while, he began to say:
"The humble ministers are in the middle to report to the officials. What General Guo said is absolutely true. The Xixia Party members are really just grassroots. They will fall to whichever country is strong.
However, two years ago, the Song Dynasty sent troops to fight against the Xixia Kingdom, which often harassed the border. The Song Dynasty did not get much benefit, and the famous Western Army general Liu Fa was killed!
Of course, with the national power of Xixia at that time, it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to fight for a long time.
Therefore, Xixia begged Liao for mediation, and finally Song and Xia negotiated peace..."
Zongze, Li Gang and others nodded, they all knew about this incident.
Zheng Juzhong said again: "In the humble opinion of officials and veterans, if the Song Dynasty once again mobilizes troops to attack Xixia and fights a national war, we, the Song Dynasty, will have to send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty. No matter in terms of military strength or financial resources, there will be little."
I am really afraid that the Song Dynasty will be exhausted!"
Zhao Ji nodded and said: "Old General Guo's analysis is reasonable from a military perspective, and what Duke Yan said is also reasonable when considering the national strength of the Song Dynasty. Do you dear friends have a way to get the best of both worlds?"
Li Gangqi, a civil servant who came from a family of senior military officers in the Song Dynasty, said:
"Wei Chen observes that Zhao Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, is a man who has both sides. When the Liao Dynasty was strong, he feared the Liao Dynasty and relied on the Liao Kingdom.
He took the opportunity to send troops and generals to invade the northwest border of the Song Dynasty. However, the Song and Xia countries fought a war the year before last. The Western Army of the Song Dynasty sent by Zhao Guanjia fought with the Xia army. The two countries won each other's victory.
However, our country, the Song Dynasty, is rich and powerful, while the Xixia country is weak. If we fight for a long time, we will definitely lose.
The leader of the Xixia Kingdom once again bowed to his imperial dignity and begged the Liao Kingdom to come forward and force the Song Dynasty to negotiate peace with its Xixia Kingdom.
The leader of the Xixia Kingdom, in order to allow the Xia and Song Dynasties to negotiate a peace and cease the war, he could even shamelessly change his original name from Li Qianshun to Zhao Qianshun!
Therefore, Wei Chen believes that we can first use diplomatic means such as sending envoys to detect the current intentions of the Xixia ruler and the ministers in the court."
Zhao Ji nodded with a smile and said: "What Li Aiqing said is reasonable. Dear friends, don't be deceived by Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom. When he sent envoys to present the credential of the Song Dynasty, he was willing to change the surname from Li to Zhao, claiming to be
Zhao Qianshun.
However, all your dear friends should know that the Xixia emperor's family is not Han, but a member of the Party Xiang tribe, with the Tuoba surname.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Tuoba family of the Dangxiang tribe saw the prosperity of the Li dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, and they were envious from the bottom of their hearts, so they voluntarily changed the surname of the Dangxiang people from the Tuoba surname to 'Li'.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Li Sigong, the leader of the party, was awarded the title of Military Envoy of the Dingnan Army for his contribution in pacifying Huang Chao, and was granted the title of five states.
Dangxiang successively submitted to the Tang Dynasty and other countries in the Five Dynasties, until now it ostensibly submitted to the Song Dynasty;
In the first year of Chunhua, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, after the Five Prefectures were occupied by the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian, the leader of the party, left to start a business. He was named the "King of Xia" by the Liao Dynasty.
Li Jiqian's son, Li Deming, was named the "King of Daxia" by the Liao Dynasty, and he was also named the "King of Xia" by the Song Dynasty.
After that, the Xiang people of the Xixia Kingdom successively occupied the states in the Hexi Corridor.
Eighty-three years ago, in the first year of Baoyuan of the Song Dynasty, King Li Deming of Xia died suddenly.
It is rumored that the reason for Li Deming's sudden death was that he was killed by his son Li Yuanhao...
Of course, Li Yuanhao's patricide has always been tabooed by the Xixia Kingdom, and the matter will never be mentioned internally or externally.
From the time when Li Yuanhao proclaimed the emperor in Xixia to the current leader of Xixia, Li Qianshun, the Xixia party members invaded the northwest of the Song Dynasty and wars broke out frequently!"
Guo Cheng seconded: "What the officials said is very true. When Wei Chen joined the army in the northwest more than forty years ago, he heard old soldiers from the Western Army talking about the Xixia Kingdom. After Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, there was no peace in the northwest, and he was often attacked. Intrusion by party members."
Zhao Jidao: "Guo Aiqing, can you elaborate."
"I obey the decree." Guo Chengdao:
"I was in the northwest and heard that the Xixia people said this in private:
At that time, Li Yuanhao, the prince of Xixia, was not favored by his father-in-law Li Deming.
Therefore, Li Yuanhao was not established as the heir.
However, Li Yuanhao had a large field and selected hundreds of warriors who were good at riding and shooting from among his soldiers to act as his bodyguards.
He trains his warrior bodyguards every day. Wherever Li Yuanhao shoots his arrows, the arrows of his bodyguards must also shoot there.
One day, Li Yuanhao shot a resounding arrow at his favorite mount. Most of the bodyguards also fired their bows and followed suit. However, a small number of the bodyguards mistakenly thought that Li Yuanwu had missed the target and shot the resounding arrows at Li Yuanwu. He killed his mount, so he didn't fire the arrow.
Those personal guards who did not fire arrows were beheaded by Li Yuanhao in public.
A few days later, Li Yuanhao shot his most favored concubine with a loud arrow...
Those of Li Yuanhao's bodyguards who follow and shoot will be heavily rewarded; those who fail to shoot will be beheaded in public.
Through these two shootings, Li Yuanhao selected more than a hundred personal guards who would obey his orders.
Finally, Li Yuanhao shot his father with a loud arrow..."
After hearing what Guo Cheng said, Zongze said: "Although Li Yuanhao's father, Shi, is rumored in the gossip, his mother, Shi, killed his relatives, took his daughter-in-law as his wife, and was finally assassinated by his second son. There were many scandals, but it was me, the envoy of the Song Dynasty, who was envoy to Xia in all dynasties. I will bring it back and spread it widely!"
Zhao Ji nodded and said: "The ancestors of the Xixia Kingdom had bad morals and were not free from barbarism, and the same is true for their descendants."
No matter Zhao Ji was the original owner of the body or based on the historical knowledge he had learned, the scandals of Li Yuanhao, the ancestor of the Xixia Emperor, were all recorded in history books.
After Li Yuanhao, the ancestor of the Xixia Kingdom, proclaimed himself emperor and established the country, he abandoned the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty and granted his ancestors the surnames Li and Zhao respectively. He changed his surname to Wei and called himself my ancestor.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! My ancestor is Dangxiang, which means "son of the blue sky".
Li Yuanhao believed that his ancestor was Xianbei Tuoba. In order to commemorate his ancestors and maintain the old customs, he took the lead in balding his hair, shaving his head, piercing his ears, and wearing heavy rings to distinguish him from most of the Dangxiang people who had been Sinicized.
At the same time, Li Yuanhao forced all Dangxiang tribesmen to become "bald" within three days. Anyone who disobeyed would be beheaded immediately. For a time, Dangxiang people scrambled to become bald in order to save their lives...
Since Li Yuanhao became emperor, he has been obsessed with his illustrious military exploits and believed that the imperial power was very stable. He ignored the government affairs in the later period and often played and indulged in sex with the concubines in the Helan Mountain Palace.
In 1047 AD, Li Yuanhao presided over the wedding ceremony of his second son Li Ningling. However, when he saw that his son Li Ning's new wife was beautiful, he took her as his own, adopted her as the new queen, and deposed Ye Ye.
Queen Leigh...
Li Ning's brother could not bear the hatred of his love, and coupled with the instigation of the ambitious Wu Zang and Pang, so Li Ning's brother entered the palace with a gun and assassinated his father Li Yuanhao...
Brother Li Ning did not chop off the head of his father, Li Yuanhao, but cut off Li Yuanwu's nose...
The final result was that Li Yuanhao collapsed due to an untreated "nose wound"...
Li Ningling's brother was killed by the Empress Wu Zang's brother and sister who gave him the assassination idea.
Successor to the throne of Li Yuanhao is his youngest son Li Liangzuo...
Zhao Ji knew that the year after Li Liangzuo, the second emperor of the Xixia Kingdom in history, came to the throne, that is, in the autumn of 1049, the Liao Kingdom took advantage of the new mourning of Jingzong and broke out the second Battle of Helan Mountain in Liaoxia with Xixia, and Xixia was defeated.
, suffered heavy losses and surrendered to Liao.
As a time traveler, Zhao Ji, Xinguo felt that it was a pity that the Song Dynasty did not seize the best opportunity to destroy Xixia at that time.
He thought about it, it was the seventh year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the reigning emperor was Song Renzong Zhao Zhen. At that time, Song Renzong had been ill for a long time, and he had long since lost the courage and endurance to launch a national war against Xixia. Because
, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen died a few months later the next year.
However, Zhao Ji, a time traveler, secretly swore: I will definitely complete the great cause of unification during my reign!
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After thinking about this, Zhao Ji took a sip of tea and said: "Since Li Yuanhao became emperor, the Xixia people have always coveted the land, wealth and population of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, there has been no peace in the northwest of the Song Dynasty for a hundred years. There have been constant wars between the Song Dynasty and Xia Dynasty.
Things like being harassed by Xixia often happen."
Ministers Zheng Juzhong nodded in agreement...,
Even Zhang Jun, who is only in his twenties this year, was the top scholar in the liberal arts examination the year before last. He is well-read and already knows the history of the war between the Song and Xia countries.
And like the privy councilor in his fifties, Zheng Juzhong of Yan State, Zongze who is over sixty years old, and Cao Fu who is in his fifties, they are all in the court at the rear, and have personally heard about the Song Dynasty and Xixia Kingdom for many years.
The military situation of several battles...
Guo Cheng, a veteran who had served in the northwest for more than 40 years, was an eyewitness to the war between the Song and Xia countries.
Zhao Ji added: "Song and Xia were at times at war and at times at peace. In addition, the Liao Kingdom, which had not had a war with the Song Dynasty for a hundred years, had already formed a tripartite situation among Song, Liao and Xia.
However, the Jurchens rose to prominence seven or eight years ago, and the Jin people had already invaded more than half of the Liao Kingdom's territory only six years after their founding. The Jin people's ambitions were not small.
Therefore, I will not only prevent the Xixia party members from invading the borders of the Song Dynasty when the Song Dynasty aids the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, but I will also force the Xia Kingdom into the water and fight against the Jin Dynasty together with the Song and Liao Dynasties."
"Goodbye, officials!"
"The official sage!"
"…………"
Zheng Juzhong, Cao Fu, Zong Ze, Li Gang, Zhang Jun and Guo Cheng all praised him.
Although they are all loyal ministers, on the premise that Zhao Guanjia's strategic plan is correct, they are not afraid to use words of praise (flattering) to express their great admiration for Zhao Guanjia.
However, one difference between loyal ministers and treacherous ministers is that treacherous ministers will blindly follow the emperor's wishes and say good things, while loyal ministers dare to put forward their own opinions.
"The sage of the official family has forced Xixia to join the "aid Liao and fight against the Jin" strategy, which is wonderful!" Zongze started. He first praised the Zhao family. Then, he changed the subject and said worriedly:
"However, the specific implementation process of this strategy is very difficult!"
Ministers Zheng Juzhong also nodded.
Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said, "Zong Aiqing, what's the problem? Please tell me in detail."