Northern Song Dynasty: I became Zhao Ji Chapter 270 Bravely enter the Xixia Tiger's Den and force it to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty
Chapter 270 Bravely enter the Xixia Tiger's Den and force it to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty
Zongze reported to Zhao Guan's family: "Although Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, was the son-in-law of Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom, the reason why the Xixia Kingdom and the Liao Dynasty were in harmony was because the Liao Dynasty was strong and Xia was weak at that time.
Nowadays, Liao is weak and Jin is strong. Jin and Liao have been at war for six years. The leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Li Qianshun, has dispatched troops and generals to help Liao resist the invasion of Jin!
Now, how difficult is it for the Song Dynasty to forcefully win over Xixia to join the Liao Dynasty and fight against the Jin Dynasty?"
Zhao Ji smiled slightly, he already had a clever plan in mind.
He asked: "My dear friends, if you have any opinions, feel free to tell me."
When receiving the affairs of the Privy Council, Duke Zheng Juzhong of the State of Yan took a sip of fragrant tea, slowly placed the tea cup on the Eight Immortals table, and said: "The official family summoned ministers and others to come here today to drink tea and discuss matters. The ministers must act according to their true intentions." Say whatever you think."
Zhao Ji smiled and nodded: "Zheng Aiqing, just say what you say."
Zheng Juzhong said: "I still remember that Li Qianshun, the current leader of the Xixia Kingdom, twenty-two years ago, as a 16-year-old young leader of the Xixia Kingdom, he was able to join forces with ministers to destroy other people who had been controlling the affairs of the Xixia Dynasty. Biological mother’s maternal cousin, the Liang family!
It can be seen that he can be regarded as a young hero.
Li Qianshun has always been very ambitious, whether he begged the Liao Kingdom, which was still powerful at the time, to marry the princess to him, or he worked hard to govern, select and train troops, or he loved our Han culture and promoted the teaching of Sinology in Xixia. His heart must be to make his country strong and prosperous."
When Zheng Juzhong said this, he saw that after he told the truth in his heart, Zhao Guanjia's expression remained as usual, and he listened to his explanation very seriously, so he became more courageous and continued:
"However, the current leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Li Qianshun, does not really act according to 'benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust' like we Han people.
Border wars between Song and Liao have occurred frequently over the years, and every time when the Xixia Kingdom failed due to the protracted war with the Song Dynasty, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Li Qianshun, would send envoys to ask his father-in-law, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Kingdom, to mediate the war between Song and Xia..."
Zhao Ji, Zongze, Li Gang and other ministers kept nodding, saying that what Zheng Juzhong, a veteran minister who had been an official in the imperial court for more than 20 years, said was true.
He knew this period of history. Just three years ago, the Western Army of the Song Dynasty sent out heavy troops to fight back against Xixia, which often harassed the border.
Although the Xia army won a great victory in the strategic war, with Xixia's weak national strength, a long-term war with the Song Dynasty would definitely drag down Xixia's population and livestock, and the national strength would be exhausted...
Whenever he encountered a similar situation, Li Qian, the Lord of Xia, would shamelessly ask his queen Yelu Nanxian to quickly write a letter home, together with Li Qianshun's personal letter of credence asking for help from the Liao Kingdom. Let the envoy bring it to Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Kingdom...
Yelu Nanxian couldn't stand the hard work of her husband Li Qianshun.
She always does it...
Of course, Princess Yelu Nanxian of Liao Dynasty was not the biological daughter of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Dynasty, Yelu Yanxi, but was recognized as his daughter by Yelu Yanxi and named Princess Cheng'an.
This is because in the first year of Zhenguan in Xixia, which was also the first year of Qiantong in Liao, Li Qianshun, the leader of Xixia, heard that the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty was very powerful in history, so he plagiarized the reign title of Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty and changed it into The reign name of the Xia Kingdom was changed to "Zhenguan".
At the same time, Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, also wanted to learn from Songtsen Gampo, the leader of the Tubo Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty. He sent envoys many times to request the Liao Kingdom to marry a princess, so that Xia and Liao would be reconciled forever...
At first, the Liao Kingdom did not agree.
And Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, is thick-skinned, patient enough, and very good at rubbing people in with each other.
For four or five years, Li Qianshun sent many groups of envoys to the Liao Kingdom every year to request "peace"...
In the fifth year of Zhenguan in the Western Xia Dynasty, the fifth year of Qiantong in the Liao Dynasty, the fourth year of Chongning in the Song Dynasty, in the year of Yiyou Rooster (i.e. 1105 AD), the then thirty-three-year-old Emperor Yelu Yanxi of Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom could not bear the request of the Xia envoy. The marriage, a state matter, has gone through a lot of hard work...
However, Yelu Yanxi is only thirty-three years old. The happy life in the harem is really not as important as his favorite hunting and drinking. How can he have an adult biological daughter suitable for intermarriage?
Yelu Yanxi selected a beautiful, kind, well-educated Yelu Nanxian from among many clan girls as her daughter, named her Princess Cheng'an, and married Li Qianshun...
Li Qianshun made Yelu Nanxian his queen.
The Xixia Kingdom relied on its peaceful relationship with the Liao Kingdom and benefited a lot from the Liao Kingdom.
Nowadays, more than half of the territory of the Liao Kingdom has been occupied by the Jin Kingdom. However, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Li Qianshun, sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. Instead of helping the Liao Kingdom to fight against the Jin Kingdom, he and the Jin Kingdom often sent envoys to visit each other...
Zheng Juzhong changed the subject and said:
“However, in the past five years, the Jurchens in Northeast China have emerged among the white mountains and black waters. Under the leadership of their tribal leader Wanyan Aguda, they have conquered all directions and established the Jin Kingdom with strong military strength.
Nowadays, the Jin Kingdom is powerful and has swallowed up more than half of the Liao Kingdom's territory. However, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Li Qianshun, has never seen him send troops to the Liao territory to help his father-in-law's country fight against the Jin Dynasty!
On the contrary, in the past three or four years, Jin and Xia often exchanged envoys and became very good friends...
Wei Chen observes that Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, although he has great ambitions, is an ungrateful person who only values the interests of his own country.
Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, does not seem to care whether other countries, such as his father-in-law's country, will be occupied by the Jin army in terms of land and population!
Wei Chen guessed that given the current situation, Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, would never send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty.
Even if the officials want to force the Xixia Kingdom to send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, it will be extremely difficult to do so!"
"Haha!" Zhao Ji smiled slightly and did not take Zheng Juzhong's words to heart. He said seriously:
"What Zheng Aiqing said is based only on past events, so we can see that Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, will not send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty."
"However, Li Qianshun should also know a truth, that is, 'the lips are dead and the teeth are cold'!"
"I see that Li Qianshun has not sent troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty. Instead, he has sent envoys to the Jin Kingdom continuously, as if he has the intention of making good friends. His original intention should be that he does not think that the once powerful Liao Kingdom can really be destroyed by the Jin Kingdom. .
Before, he, Li Qianshun, did not send a single soldier into Liao to fight against the Jin. It was because he, the Xixia Kingdom, wanted to borrow the help of the Jin people to weaken the strength of the Liao Kingdom and maximize the interests of the Xia Kingdom.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, when the Jin Army is about to destroy the Liao Kingdom, how can Li Qianshun sit still?
Since Li Qianshun is praised by the world for his "great talent and great strategy", doesn't he worry that his Xia Kingdom will be destroyed by the Jin Kingdom like the Liao Kingdom?
Therefore, I believe that Li Qianshun will definitely send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty when the life and death of the Liao Kingdom is at stake!"
Zhao Ji's words made Zheng Juzhong, Zongze and others think while sitting around the Eight Immortals table...
Zhao Ji changed the topic and said: "However, if one day the Liao Kingdom is about to be destroyed, Xixia will send troops to fight against the Jin and save the Liao, which will not help the situation!"
At that time, because the Jin State occupied almost the entire land and population of the Liao State, the Jin army was bound to become stronger. At that time, if Xixia sent troops to rescue the Liao State, it would only be a disastrous defeat!
If we wait until that day, after the Xixia resists the Jin and saves the Liao and is defeated miserably, someone like Li Qianshun, the current leader of the Xixia Kingdom, will definitely become attached to the Jin Kingdom, and even be willing to become a vassal state of the Jin Kingdom.
If by that time, the Jin Kingdom has newly occupied a large area of land and tens of millions of people in the Liao Kingdom, and the Xixia Kingdom has become its tributary, then the Jin Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom will jointly invade the Song Dynasty. How can our Song Dynasty resist? Woolen cloth?"
After Zhao Ji finished speaking, he saw Zheng Juzhong, Zong Ze, Li Gang, veteran Guo Cheng and others frowning, and they kept nodding...
Zhao Ji naturally could not reveal his identity as a time traveler in front of these important ministers and veterans. However, what he just said was indeed very different from the historical attitude of the Xixia Kingdom towards the Jin Kingdom's invasion of the Liao Kingdom. Worse.
Zhao Ji knew that in history, from 1115 AD to 1119 AD, the four countries of Song, Xia, Liao and Jin were all involved in a protracted and fierce war.
Generally speaking, in the north, it was the war between Jin and Liao;
In the northwest, the Song Dynasty wanted to conquer the land occupied by Xixia, and launched a four-year war in which the Song army invaded the Xixia Kingdom many times.
During this period, Liu Fazeng, the Xihe strategist of the Song Dynasty, led his troops deep into the Xia capital Xingzhou, Lingzhou and other hinterlands of Xixia. Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, ordered Jin Wang Chage to lead more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry men to fight, and the Xia army fought back bravely. , completely annihilated Liu Fa's troops, who had to obey Tong Guan's military orders and went deep alone. The Song army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and Liu Fa, a famous general of the Song Dynasty, fell. The Xia army took advantage of the victory to attack Song Tong'an City, and entered and surrounded Zhenwucheng.
However, in June of the first year of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty and the first year of Yuande of the Western Xia Dynasty (1119 AD), Li Qianshun saw that in the four years of war with the Song Dynasty, although the Xixia Kingdom had achieved considerable victory on the battlefield, the Xixia Kingdom The national power is gradually declining.
Therefore, when Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, won a complete victory against the Song Dynasty, he sent envoys to ask the Liao Kingdom to mediate, and the Xia Kingdom asked the Song Dynasty for peace...
Song was forced to accept peace talks with Xia.
Since Song Huizong changed the reign name to Xuanhe in this year, he also vowed to live in peace with Xixia, and even neighboring countries such as Liao and Jin.
However, the reign of Xuanhe only lasted seven short years, and the Jingkang Incident occurred, which was considered extremely humiliating by the Song Dynasty and even the previous Han dynasties.
Zhao Ji recalled this period of history, and it matched the war between Song and Xia in the world he traveled to.
Moreover, Zhao Ji knew that it was almost a year since he traveled through time and came to this world that was very similar to the Northern Song Dynasty in history. According to the Western era, it should be 1121 AD.
So, the Xixia Kingdom before and now did not send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty. However, in the history of Xixia, in 1122 AD, that is, in March next year, the Xixia Kingdom leader Li Qianshun sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to prepare to rescue the Jin Dynasty. The Xijing City of the Liao Kingdom was besieged by the army...
However, when Xixia's five thousand reinforcements were on the way, they heard that Xijing of the Liao Kingdom had been lost, so they returned to Xixia.
Two more months later, in May, Li Qianshun in history learned that Emperor Zuo of Liao Tian had fled into the Yinshan Mountains, so he sent General Li Liangfu of Xixia to lead 30,000 troops to rescue...
On the way, the 30,000 Xixia army under Li Liangfu fought with the Jin army under Wanyan Loushi, a general of the Jin Dynasty, on the banks of the Yichuan River. The Xia army was defeated...
In July of the same year, Li Qianshun sent his minister Cao Jie to ask Emperor Tianzuo about his daily life and presented him with money and food...
With his own historical knowledge, Zhao Ji knows that if the trajectory of historical development is not changed, these will be major historical events that will occur in the next few years.
What has not happened yet is that next year, the Xixia army in history will go to rescue the Liao Kingdom, which can well refute the current view of those at the Eight Immortals table that Xixia will not go out to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty. This is wrong.
However, Zhao Ji did not want to refute Zheng Juzhong, Zongze, Li Gang and other ministers, because he knew these loyal ministers of the Song Dynasty, because unlike him who traveled back in time, he did not know enough about what would happen next year in history.
He also knew in his heart that Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, sent troops to rescue the Liao Kingdom, and even sent minister Cao Jie to inquire about the daily life of Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom who had fled to Yinshan, and gave him money and food...
This is definitely not because Li Qianshun values kindness and cares about his father-in-law, Emperor Tianzuo, but because he fully understands the principle of "lips are dead and teeth are cold".
In the view of Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom could be cannibalized by the emerging Jin Kingdom. However, if the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by the Jin Kingdom, it would be extremely detrimental to the Xixia Kingdom.
Now, sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals, Zhao Ji does not agree with the views of Zheng Juzhong, Cao Fu, Zong Ze, Li Gang, Guo Cheng, Zhang Jun and others that "the Xia Kingdom will only sit on the mountain and watch the battle between tigers and tigers" when facing the battle of Liao and Jin.
Zhao Ji, who was familiar with the history of the two Song Dynasties, knew that after two years, in 1123 AD, which was the fifth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, the seventh year of Jin Tianfu, and the first month of the fifth year of Yuande in the Western Xia Dynasty, he faced the Liao Kingdom that was about to be destroyed. Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, once again sent troops to rescue the Liao Dynasty, but was blocked by the Jin army and unable to advance...
In May of the same year, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom ostensibly surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin, but fled to Yunneizhou in the west. Li Qianshun sent an envoy to meet him at the Xia border and invited Emperor Tianzuo to enter the Xia territory.
In June, Emperor Tianzuo, who was still shameless in the Xia Kingdom, sent an envoy to confer Li Qianshun as the emperor of the Xia Kingdom and ordered the Xia Kingdom to send troops to rescue the Liao Dynasty...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this time, Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Jin Kingdom sent envoys to Xia and proposed to Li Qianshun: If Emperor Tianzuo escapes into Xia, he should be captured and given gold; Xia Ru Jin promised to cede the land in the northwest of Liao to Xia.
Li Qianshun saw that the Liao Kingdom was over and the Jin's destruction of the Liao was a foregone conclusion. After weighing the pros and cons, in order to preserve the Xia Kingdom, he agreed to the Jin people's conditions and "ceded" Emperor Tianzuo to the Jin Kingdom...
Li Qianshun swore an oath to the Kingdom of Jin, stating that the Kingdom of Xia was attached to the Kingdom of Jin...
In 1125 AD, Yelu Yanxi, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Dynasty, was captured by the Jin army, and the Liao Kingdom was destroyed. So far, the Liao Kingdom was established by Yelu Abaoji, the outstanding leader of the Khitan tribe, Taizu of the Liao Dynasty. It had nine emperors and enjoyed the country for 210 years. In the eighth year, it was said that Emperor Tianzuo, who ignored government affairs and loved hunting, died.
In September of the same year, Li Renai, the grandson of Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Dynasty and the crown prince of the Xia Kingdom, died of grief and anger at the age of seventeen because he was sad that his grandfather's Liao Kingdom was destroyed.
After the Liao Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, Li Qianshun's queen, Princess Yelu Nanxian of Liao Cheng'an, was saddened by the death of her beloved son, worried about the demise of her motherland, and was angry at Li Qianshun's ruthlessness. She was so sad that she went on a hunger strike in the palace and died.
…………
Relying on the historical knowledge he had learned in his previous life, Zhao Ji couldn't help frowning when he recalled this point.
Liang Shicheng, the eunuch who was serving Zhao Ji, saw the frowning and thinking expressions of Zhao Guanjia.
He immediately winked at Zheng Juzhong, Zongze, Li Gang and others who were sitting around the Eight Immortals table, telling them to say something nice that the officials would like to hear and not to disobey the officials again...
However, when Zheng Juzhong, who had a relatively upright personality, saw Liang Shicheng winking at him, he pretended to lower his head and blow the hot tea in the teacup.
Zongze and Li Gang, who had upright personalities, glared angrily at Liang Shicheng, who was giving them direct glances, and did not even look at Liang Da's eunuch who was once known as the "hidden minister".
At this time, Zhao Guanjia's expression was serious and he was deep in thought, making the hall fall into a moment of silence.
What Zhao Ji thought deeply about was that if the Song Dynasty had waited until the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom would not only have received land and food from the Liao Kingdom, but what was even more terrifying was that the Jin Army had always liked to surrender and surrender for its own use. At that time, because the Jin army surrendered many Liao troops and added the Xia Kingdom as a new vassal, its power was huge, and it was only a matter of time before the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.
Historically, in 1125 AD, after the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao Kingdom, it found an excuse to send troops south to attack the Song Dynasty...
The following year, in March 1126 AD, Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom who had become attached to the Jin Kingdom, took advantage of the opportunity of the Jin soldiers to attack the Song Dynasty and sent troops to successively capture the castles built by the Song Dynasty on the Xia border...
In accordance with the promise made by the Jin State to the Xia State, Li Qianshun also occupied the Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou and Hedong Baguan areas, as well as Zhenwucheng on the border of the Song Dynasty. Xixia sent troops and also captured Xi'an Prefecture and Linzhou in the Song Dynasty. Jianning Village, Huaide's army, took advantage of the victory to conquer Tiandu Village; besieged Lanzhou, looted wantonly and then withdrew their troops...
Soon after, Jin general Wanyan Zongbi sent troops to seize Tiande, Yunnei and other prefectures. Emperor Li Qianshun of the Western Xia Dynasty questioned the Jin State: This land was the land that Jin had promised to give to the Xia State. Why did the Jin army seize it?
Jin Guo ignored Xia Guo's protest at all.
At this time, the Xia State also had no choice but to continue to be the Jin State's little follower.
…
Zhao Ji has been thinking about this. In order to prevent the historical shame of Jingkang from happening to him as a time traveler, he must fight against all opinions and stick to his established grand plan.
At this time, Zhao Ji, who was sitting around the Eight Immortals table with Zheng Juzhong, Zong Ze and other important ministers, raised his head, his eyes were cold and he said seriously:
"All my dear friends say that it is extremely difficult to force Xixia to send troops to aid Liao and fight against Jin!
However, I have to overcome the difficulties!
Go ahead to dangers!
Lasixia's sending troops to fight against the Jin could not only help the Song Dynasty to relieve the Liao Kingdom from being destroyed, but also make Xia and Jin countries hostile. Xixia would not covet the cities on the northwest border of the Song Dynasty for the time being.
Dear sirs, let’s have a cup of tea and discuss how to coerce the Xixia Kingdom to assist the Song Dynasty in sending troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and share your good advice!”
Zhao Guanjia's words are tantamount to finalizing the general direction.
Zheng Juzhong, Cao Fu, Zong Ze, Li Gang, Guo Cheng, Zhang Jun and others, although it is very difficult to force the Xixia Kingdom, which likes to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger's head, to resist the Jin Dynasty, the Zhao Guan family has decided on a strategy, and this strategy is also beneficial to the Song Dynasty.
Very beneficial and they won't be able to argue with it.
So, all the ministers came up with suggestions one after another...
Zhao Ji finally made the final decision: "For the Xixia Kingdom, which is facing the Qin Dynasty and the late Chu Dynasty, we must use force to deter and diplomatically win over the Xixia Kingdom, so that we can force it to follow the Song Dynasty and send troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty!"
Zhao Ji told Guo Cheng, who returned to Beijing from the Western Army to report on his duties, saying: "For the purpose of deterrence by force, Guo Aiqing and Han Shizhong led their troops to give a powerful blow to the Xixia Army on the northwest border."
When Guo Aiqing sets out to return to the northwest and leave Beijing, I will give Guo Aiqing some new weapons to his troops, so that the soldiers of the Xixia Party can have a taste of the power of the advanced weapons newly developed by the Song Dynasty, so as to frighten Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom.
Purpose."
Guo Cheng, a veteran general who had just arrived in the capital a few days ago, couldn't understand what Zhao Guanjia meant. Seeing Zhao Guanjia's confident look, he immediately thanked him and said:
"I thank the Lord for your kindness..."
Zhao Ji looked around at the loyal ministers and generals in front of the Eight Immortals table and asked: "Only using force to frighten the Xixia Kingdom cannot fully achieve the goal of forcing it to send troops to assist the Song Dynasty to aid the Liao Dynasty and fight against the Jin Dynasty.
There is a saying in the art of war: 'The superiors attack the enemy, the superior troops attack the enemy, the second attack the enemy, the third attack the troops, and the lower ones attack the city.'
Today, I also want to select a civil servant who is eloquent, brave enough to enter the tiger's den of Xixia, and dares to express his strong relationship with Li Qian, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, by sending troops to assist the Song Dynasty in aiding the Liao Dynasty and fighting against the Jin Dynasty.
I don’t know if you all love me, is there anyone you can recommend to me?
If you love me, you should not avoid your relatives if you want to recommend someone worthy, so you can also recommend yourself!"