Chapter 292 Emperor Xia Qianshun killed someone in anger and urgently summoned the best warrior in the party
The announcer obeyed the order of the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun. He left the imperial study in fear and passed the order to the announcer:
"Your Majesty's decree: Urgently send an emissary to Pu Lecheng to enter the palace to meet the Holy Spirit."
The proclaimer ran outside the east gate of the palace and announced the imperial edict of the Xixia Emperor...
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The twenty Fei Ting clan descendants from Pule City, as well as the ten representatives of deserters and defeated generals selected from the Zhejianghui and Mengjing defense lines, did not expect that all of them would be invited to the palace to face the Saint.
Because they were in this tall and majestic imperial city, and they were standing outside the palace where the True Dragon Emperor of Great Xia lived, most of them were visiting the capital for the first time. Invisibly, they felt a powerful force. Coercion.
At this time, they were extremely nervous.
In fact, many of them became nervous as soon as they entered Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia.
Xingqingfu, the capital of Xixia, has been established for a hundred years.
As early as 1017 AD, the party leader Xia Wang Li Deming (that is, Li Yuanhao's father) felt deeply that Lingzhou, the then capital, was a place of four wars and had no one to rely on. He always wanted to find a safe place. He wanted to The royal capital moved from Lingzhou (later Xiping Prefecture) to Huaiyuan Town, which has natural dangers.
Huaiyuan Town of Xixia (later Xingqing Prefecture, the capital) has the continuous Helan Mountains to the west, like a black dragon across the west; the surging Yellow River to the east, the desert to the north, and the Xiao Pass to the south, forming a natural security Barrier; not to mention that there are rumors among the people that "there are hidden dragons in Helan Mountain". This place is rich in imperial aura and is an ideal place to build a capital.
Although Li Deming, the king of Xia, was originally a descendant of the Tuoba clan of Danxiang, he had long admired the Han culture and the imperial city of the Han family. However, he could not find it among the "barbaric" people of the Danxiang clan. He wanted people who could build the capital. He chose Han minister He Chengzhen to be responsible for supervising the construction of the capital.
In order to build the new capital, He Chengzhen lent his envoy to the Song Dynasty twice a year to visit Bianjing, Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, to observe and learn from the architectural features of the capital of the Song Dynasty, and to innovate in the process of building the capital of Xixia.
Finally, He Chengzhen returned to Huaiyuan Town and "supervised tens of thousands of servants." After several years, he finally built a new and magnificent capital in 1020 AD.
Eighteen years later, in 1038 AD, the first thing Li Yuanhao did after becoming emperor was to upgrade Xingzhou to Xingqing Mansion, expand the palace city and build palaces there. After that, he carried out many large-scale construction projects, making the Western Xia Imperial City , the architectural scale and level of the palace are comparable to Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
Xingqingfu, the capital of Western Xia, was built after Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty. It has a structure with the word "Hui". The city is 18 miles in circumference. The city wall is three feet and five feet high, and is made of bricks and stones. It is cut all around...
However, the Zhou Hui of Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty, was only twenty miles and one hundred and fifty-five steps.
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At this time, the proclaimer ordered twenty Fei Ting clan descendants and ten representatives of deserters from the defeated army to hand over their scimitars, bows and arrows and other weapons to the palace guards for temporary storage. Then he asked the guards to search them to make sure they were about to be attacked. After knowing that everyone who met the Saint had no secret weapon, he trotted to lead everyone into the palace to meet the Saint...
The military situation on the border was urgent, and Emperor Li Qianshun wanted to personally inquire about the details of the Song army's prisoners. These people who came from Pule City endured the sleepiness of being on horseback for a day and a night, dragged their tired bodies, and followed the magistrate. He trotted behind him into the majestic palace and came to the outside of the royal study.
They were brought in front of the announcer outside the royal study. After the announcer came in to report, they were announced inside...
Twenty descendants of the Fei Ting family and ten representatives of deserters from the defeated army, all trembling with fear, walked inside and bowed down...
Emperor Li Qianshun of Xixia is thirty-nine years old this year. He is more than half of Han descent. His mother, Empress Liang of Zhaojian Wenmu, and his grandmother, Empress Liang of Yizong, are both Han Chinese.
Because his father, Li Bingchang, died young, Li Qianshun ascended the throne thirty-six years ago, when he was only three years old, and became the emperor of Xixia. At that time, because of his young age, his mother, the Liang family, ruled under the one-party dictatorship.
During the Liang family's rule in Xixia, the government was corrupt and the military was weak. The Song Dynasty took the opportunity to attack several times, and the Xia army was defeated repeatedly.
Li Qianshun, who had great ambitions and talents since childhood, saw that the Liang family controlled the government and made Xixia a mess. When he was 16 years old, in the second year of Yong'an (1099 AD), he exterminated his mother's Liang family and took over the government himself.
In the twenty-three years since Li Qianshun took office, he rectified the administration of officials, established a system of centralized monarchy, and ended the dictatorship of foreign relatives and aristocrats that had occurred in the previous dynasties of Xixia.
Li Qianshun loved Han culture, taught Sinology widely in the country, and trained officials. He imitated the Han system, appointed officials according to their seniority, and gave special rewards to those who excelled in literature.
He also promulgated the titles of official ranks, which were divided into seven grades except for the emperor and heirs to the throne. The political system of Xixia was modeled on the Han Dynasty and was becoming increasingly complete.
Li Qianshun also reduced taxes, focused on mulberry farming, and built water conservancy projects. Under his hard work, Xixia became strong, politically clear, and the economy and society developed well.
All of the above are powerful guarantees for Xixia to withstand the Song army's repeated attacks on Xia from the second year of Yongning (i.e. 1115 AD) to the first year of Yuande (1119 AD).
In the first year of Yuande (1119), Liu Fa, the Xihe military envoy of the Song Dynasty, was coerced and provoked by Tong Guan, the eunuch who held military power in the northwest. Liu Fa led his army deep into Xingzhou and the heart of Lingzhou in Western Xia. At that time, Li Qian obeyed his order. Chage, the king of Jin, led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry to fight. The Xia army fought bravely and annihilated Liu Fa's troops. The Song army suffered tens of thousands of casualties. The Xia army took advantage of the victory to break through the Song army's Tong'an City and encircled Zhenwucheng...
In June of the first year of Yuande (1119), Li Qianshun's Xia army won a complete victory against the Song army. He was still able to assess the situation and knew that the national power of Xixia could not destroy the Song Dynasty at all, so he requested the Liao Kingdom to They sent envoys to mediate and negotiate a peace over the long-standing war between Xia and Song... In the end, the Song Dynasty was forced to accept peace negotiations with Xixia.
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At this time, Li Qianshun, who is thirty-nine years old this year, recalled that he had worked hard during the twenty-three years of his rule, so that the powerful Song Dynasty did not take advantage of the Xia Dynasty, but instead spent a large amount of money to his country every year.
However, now looking at the military intelligence and battle reports brought back by Fei Ting's children who rushed back to the capital from Pule City to deliver messages, and hearing how the Song army had so easily captured the two important cities on the Xixia border, he was furious. Burning in my chest!!!
Li Qianshun suppressed the anger in his heart and spoke leisurely, asking in Dangxiang dialect:
"I see you and other five people with tattoos on their faces. Please raise your heads."
Those five Party members and soldiers were tattooed on their faces by the Song army after they were captured after Zhejianghui City was broken.
Ever since they entered the royal study, they had kept their heads bowed, for fear that the Emperor of Daxia would see the tattoos on their faces, but they did not expect that Emperor Li Qianshun would see it.
They were extremely frightened and did not dare to disobey the holy will, so they raised their heads one after another.
At the same time, they also saw the Holy Face for the first time.
Today, Li Qianshun is wearing a yellow robe embroidered with sun, moon and dragon patterns, and a crown on his head.
They knew that the current emperor Li Qianshun was deeply influenced by Han culture and imitated the Han emperor in his clothing, which was completely different from the clothing worn by Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of the Xixia Dangxiang tribe.
They have heard their elders say since they were young: Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Xixia, "began to wear a white narrow shirt" and "wear a felt crown on his head" after he succeeded to the throne. "The felt crown has a red lining and a red ribbon hanging from the top of the crown"... …
Not only that, Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Xixia, "took the lead in balding his hair, and then ordered the people of the country to obey it. If they did not obey for three days, many people killed him. So the people fought to have their hair bald, and their earlobes were heavily ringed. "different"...
However, when they looked up, they saw that the current Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun's clothes were already dressed like the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
At this point, they are not surprised. After all, they heard from their elders that Li Liangzuo, the second emperor of Xixia, Yizong, the son of Li Yuanhao, "admired Chinese clothes" and advocated "removing Tibetan rites" after he came to power. From Hanyi".
However, Li Liangzuo was short-lived and died at the age of twenty-one.
The third emperor of Xixia, Li Bingchang, succeeded to the throne when he was only seven years old. His mother, the Empress Dowager Liang, was in charge, and his uncle Liang Yi was the prime minister. In the second year of Da'an (1076 AD), Li Bingchang was sixteen years old and began to rule personally. .
Of course, in order to consolidate the long-term power of his family in the Xixia Kingdom, Emperor Liang chose the Queen Liang for his son Li Bingchang. Naturally, she was also Empress Liang’s own niece...
In the sixth year of Da'an (i.e. 1080 AD), the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yimi imprisoned Li Bingchang in Muzhaili in Xingzhou, about five miles away from the Forbidden City. In the ninth year of Da'an (1083), in the leap month of June, due to the opposition of the generals, The Empress Dowager Liang had to reset Li Bingchang. However, the Liang family was very powerful and could not be easily eliminated, so he still could not rule in person.
When the Empress Dowager Liang was in power, the Liang family opposed Han rituals, so they abandoned Han rituals and reused Fan rituals.
Li Bingchang and Empress Xiaoliang gave birth to the emperor's eldest son Li Qianshun in the ninth year of Da'an (1083 AD).
Empress Dowager Liang had a grandson in her later years. She loved him very much and often personally took care of the infant Li Qianshun.
The third emperor of Xixia was also a short-lived man. He only lived to be twenty-five years old, which was only four years longer than his father, Emperor Li Bingchang, who died at the age of twenty-one.
In July of the first year of Anli Ding in the Western Xia Dynasty (AD 1086), the Empress Dowager Liang and Li Bingchang died successively. Li Qianshun, who was only three years old, ascended the throne and was assisted by his mother Liang and his uncle Liang Yibu. This was also a good move by the old Empress Dowager Liang. The chess game turned out as she wished. Even though she is no longer alive, the Liang family still controls the actual power of the Xixia Kingdom.
Unfortunately, the good times of the Liang family did not last long. Li Qianshun had great ambitions since he was a child, and secretly determined that he would never be manipulated by the Liang family like his father had heard about him, and he would never again be manipulated by the Liang family like his father. A puppet emperor!
At the same time, Li Qianshun also saw that during the actual rule of the Liang family, the Xixia government was corrupt and the army was weak. The Song Dynasty took the opportunity to attack, and the Xia army was defeated repeatedly. Li Qianshun, who had been a talented and strategist since he was a child, saw this and in the second year of Yong'an (i.e. 1099), after he took office at the age of sixteen, he used various means to win over the tribes with military power from various party departments, and finally destroyed the Liang clan and took office...
Li Qianshun advocated Han culture and governance concepts. He set up imperial examinations and built schools. In terms of clothing, he also advocated ethnic clothing, especially the clothing of the emperor and queen, which was almost the same as that of the Song Dynasty royal family in the Central Plains.
Li Qianshun imitated the yellow dragon robe reserved for emperors of the Song Dynasty, and imitated the crown of heaven worn by the emperor of the Song Dynasty.
The Western Xia Code expressly stipulates that the colors and patterns of imperial clothing are not allowed to be used by officials, civilians, or common people. Monks and laymen are prohibited from wearing stone yellow, stone red, apricot yellow, embroidery, gold decorations, sun and moon patterns, and original textiles with colored flowers. On certain days, there is a dragon with a round body on the sun, moon and variegated clothes. It is forbidden for women of the government and civilians to insert real gold phoenix and dragon-like ornaments on their crowns.
At this time, the five small colonels and soldiers who had been released from Zhejiang Society and had their faces tattooed saw Emperor Li Qianshun wearing a yellow sun and moon dragon robe and a crown of heaven, and they suddenly felt I am like a majestic and terrifying mountain.
They feel that the mountain is standing still, but they are also afraid that if the mountain is slightly angry, even a small stone falling, it can easily smash these "sinners" to pieces...
As they slowly and timidly raised their heads, Li Qianshun also looked at the faces of the five of them. On the left and right cheeks of each of them, there were two kinds of tattoos in Chinese characters and party items respectively.
Li Qianshun opened his mouth and read the tattoos on their faces in Chinese, his tone was low and angry:
"The Xia army betrayed the alliance and robbed the Song merchants; the Song army attacked them and released the prisoners in a righteous manner!"
Every time the current Xixia hero Li Qianshun read a word, those present felt like they heard a thunderbolt from the blue!
The five Xia soldiers and Xiao Xiao who had been tattooed by the Song army were so frightened that they trembled all over.
"Hmph!" Li Qianshun snorted angrily and asked, "Are what you said before true? Is the Song Army really capable of 'drawing thunder from the sky' to attack the city?"
The people who were asked felt that they were afraid of death and surrendered during the war between Song and Xia, and they were offended. Naturally, they did not dare to deceive the current Emperor of Xia, and they all answered that everything they said was true...
"Because I have learned some Chinese, after I was captured by the Song Army in Zhejianghui City, I vaguely heard the soldiers of the Song Army shouting, 'The official sages have developed magical weapons, and it will be easy to conquer Xia and break the city'..." …”
After listening to the man's narrative, Li Qianshun frowned and asked in disbelief: "Is what you said true?"
"What I said is the truth and I dare not deceive Your Majesty. I heard Song Jun talking about it like that and celebrated."
Li Qianshun murmured: "Could it be that the magic weapon that can easily destroy the city by 'attracting thunder' was developed by the mediocre calligraphy and painting emperor of the Song Dynasty?
"Impossible?! Impossible!!!
"Absolutely impossible!!! I have worked so hard to govern, respect heaven, gods, and Buddha, but I haven't received God's favor yet. How could the Hunjun of the Song Dynasty be so favored by Heaven?"
At this time, Li Qianshun was extremely angry, roaring angrily and gritting his teeth.
His right hand was holding the hilt of the Emperor's Sword hanging at his waist, and he already had the intention to kill...
However, Li Qianshun was one of the four emperors in the history since the founding of the Xixia Kingdom. He was one of the few emperors who was both elegant, sage, and ruthless. He suppressed the anger in his heart and did not kill those who were greedy for life and fearful of death.
He opened his mouth and asked these people if there was anything else they had not confessed truthfully. The answer he received was that they had already told everything they could about the situation of the Song Army and the fact that they could not resist the Song Army while defending the city. Tell the truth.
Li Qianshun knew that these people were of no use, so he stayed and did not kill them. Instead, the Xixia soldiers who were sent to resist the Song army would mistakenly think that Daxia's military laws were not strict. Then, the soldiers and generals who followed the Song army would not do the same. Should we follow their example and surrender or escape to save our lives?
Li Qianshun said leisurely: "If you and the ten of you surrender or escape during the battle with the Song Army, it is a capital crime! I hope that you and the others can still make a long journey back to Beijing to report to me the battle situation on the front line..."
When the ten people heard the emperor's words for the first time, they were despairing. But when they heard that there seemed to be a chance of survival, they couldn't help but feel elated. General Fei Tingyuan Shang really knew what was going to happen...
However, they were happy too early.
Li Qianshun changed the topic and continued: "You still have to work hard.
However, my national and military laws in Daxia are very strict, and you will not be able to escape the death penalty.
I remember the hard work you and others put in when you returned to Beijing to report to me the battle situation on the front line, so I am pardoning you and others for the death penalty but not your family members."
When these ten people heard the emperor's words, they were frightened out of their wits. Some of the timid ones were so frightened that hot water inadvertently gushed out between their legs...
Among them, there was a bolder one with a tattoo on his face. When he saw that he was about to die, he took courage and shouted and begged:
"Your Majesty, please spare your life! We were captured after we were defeated in a fierce battle!"
"The Song army was able to spare the lives of prisoners like us.
"Your Majesty admires the Han culture of the Song Dynasty. Please spare our lives!"
"What's more, before I came to Beijing, General Fei Tingyuan Shang swore to us that His Majesty is a sage and wise king and will not kill us!"
Li Qianshun glared coldly at the person who was begging for mercy, and then glanced at the twenty messengers sent to the capital by Fei Tingyuan Shang.
He secretly became even more angry. As a wise and heroic leader, he naturally guessed the purpose of Fei Tingyuan Shang, the commander of Pule City, sending his relatives to the dangerous city to deliver a message to the capital. It was just that it was inconvenient for him to pursue the matter now.
"Your Majesty, if you want to kill us now, wouldn't it damage the reputation of a sage and wise king?"
The words of the elementary school student who was ignorant of current affairs completely angered Li Qianshun.
Li Qianshun heard this man's words and said fiercely: "I want to kill the French army who founded the country and let millions of party members know that those who surrender to the enemy in fear of death and those who escape from the battle will be punished by death!!!"
After he finished speaking, he quickly pulled out the Emperor's Sword from his waist and stabbed the left chest of the principal who had just begged for mercy with his sword.
With a "pop" sound, the tip of the sword came out, feeling cold in the heart and dripping with blood.
"Ah?! Ahhhh..."
The young schoolmaster who was struck by the sword screamed in pain, his voice quickly decreasing from loud to quiet...
The emperor of Daxia killed the man himself, which shocked everyone present.
Even the little school boy who was stabbed showed disbelief in his gradually distracted eyes...
Li Qianshun kicked the man with his left foot, grasped the hilt of the sword with his right hand, and quickly withdrew the Emperor's Sword.
At the same time, the man's sword wound caused blood to flow like a fountain, and it was hard to stop the splattering.
He fell to the ground, his body twitched for a few times, and after a few breaths, he stopped moving.
Li Ganshun held the bloody sword in his hand, wiped it twice on the clothes of the corpse in front of him that were not stained by blood, and then returned the sword to its sheath.
"Come here, drag the dead body out of the palace. The remaining nine surrenderers and deserters will be pushed outside the Meridian Gate and beheaded!"
"The descendants of the Fei Ting family are sent to the capital post to be well entertained. They are not allowed to leave the capital unless they get my order."
The twenty young men of the Feiting clan were trembling with fear and their feet were shaking. They didn't know how they walked out of the palace.
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In the imperial study, the chamberlains and maids were frightened and frightened. They were busy cleaning and wiping away the bloodstains on the floor...
However, Li Qianshun sat firmly on the dragon chair behind the imperial desk again, and he quickly wrote several imperial edicts with his pen.
These imperial edicts he wrote were all about the urgent military information about the Song army's invasion of Xixia, and he was preparing to send them to the defenders of several important cities in Xixia where the Song army was very likely to attack.
In addition, Li Qianshun also issued an edict, saying:
"I urgently announce that the number one warrior of our party, the Xiang Clan, my imperial brother Richard, will quickly come to the palace to see me and discuss the urgent military situation of one hundred thousand troops!"