Chapter 328 Offering his beloved concubine to beg for peace? Emperor Xia made a difficult decision
"Zhao Ji, how dare you be so rude!"
"The Dog Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, how dare you plot against my beloved concubine!!"
Li Qianshun stood up abruptly and kicked over the Long Bookcase in front of him.
The crisp sound of it hitting the ground echoed in the hall, frightening the officials to kneel down and kowtow, and all exhorted:
"Your Majesty, please calm down..."
"Your Majesty, please put the dragon body first and don't get angry..."
However, although Li Qianshun was extremely angry, he knew that the military strength of the Song Dynasty was far superior to that of the Xia Kingdom.
He knew that if he refused Song Emperor Zhao Ji's request, it would probably trigger an all-out attack by the Song army, and Daxia would be facing catastrophe by then.
The ministers in the palace also came to remonstrate with them one after another. After conceiving the holy will, most ministers advocated resolutely rejecting the rude request of the Dog Emperor of the Song Dynasty...
A few calm-minded Chinese ministers remonstrated tactfully:
"Your Majesty, please think twice..."
"The humble minister has a plan: Your Majesty can learn from the method used by Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty to send Wang Zhaojun out of the fortress..."
"I would like to second my opinion: It is a good idea for Emperor Han Yuan to send the beautiful palace queen Zhaojun out of the country to marry Huhanxie Chanyu!"
"Your Majesty can follow this method and select a beautiful maid from the Han family in our Great Xia Palace, give her the surname Cao, make her a royal concubine, and then marry her to the Naghu Emperor Zhao Ji of the Great Song Dynasty..."
After Li Qianshun heard this plan, his heart was shaken...
He asked: "Is this plan feasible?"
The envoy of the Xia Kingdom who returned from his mission to the Song camp immediately came to admonish:
"This method is definitely not feasible! Zhang Jun, the imperial envoy of the Song Dynasty, once told the ministers that your majesty must not find anyone other than the imperial concubine Cao to impersonate..."
"According to what Wei Chen heard from Zhang Jun: The current dog emperor of the Song Dynasty, after several years of planning, has already sent many spies to sneak into the court and the inner courtyard of the harem of our Daxia Kingdom."
"The Emperor of the Song Dynasty has also already obtained the portrait of the imperial concubine Cao, the granddaughter of the traitor Cao Mian of the Song Dynasty who surrendered to Xia, as well as many secret reports on her life, appearance, height, preferences, etc..."
In the main hall, the officials of Xia Kingdom were in an uproar...
"Wei Chen believes that if someone else is used to replace Princess Cao, I am afraid that it will arouse the anger of Zhao Ji, the dog emperor of the Song Dynasty. At that time, he will lead a personal expedition and lead a heavy army to attack our capital of Daxia..."
"If that happens, the two countries of Xia and Song will never be able to reach an agreement again! I'm afraid, your majesty, please think again..."
Li Qianshun was so angry after hearing this that he gnashed his teeth and cursed:
"In your opinion, you want me to dedicate my beloved concubine Cao to that dog emperor of Song Dynasty?!"
"Ah?!" The peace negotiation envoy who was sent to Song Ying turned pale with fright. He knelt on the ground tremblingly beside him, kowtowing repeatedly.
"Bang bang bang..."
"Weichen definitely did not mean this..."
"Bang bang bang..."
"The sin of a humble official deserves to be punished by death!"
"Wei Chen is just stating truthfully what the Song Dynasty's imperial envoy Zhang Jun conveyed to the Naghu Emperor of the Song Dynasty..."
"roll!!"
"Everyone, get out of the hall!"
"I will never accept such humiliation!"
"If anyone talks about this matter again, I will definitely kill him without mercy."
Li Qianshun's roar echoed in the hall, shaking all the civil and military ministers present to their hearts content.
The twelve Xia envoys who were envoys to the Song camp, as well as more than forty civil and military ministers of the Xia Kingdom, knelt down and resigned...
The angry Li Qianshun glared at the backs of the ministers and gradually disappeared from his sight with blood-red eyes.
"puff!"
He fell down on the dragon throne.
He looked at the several eunuchs in front of him, kneeling on the ground, carefully lifting up the Long Bookcase that he kicked to the ground, and then carried it back to its original position and put it away...
Li Qianshun waved his hand feebly, signaling the eunuchs in front of him to retreat.
The eunuchs bowed their heads and walked quickly out of the hall.
At this time, only Li Qianshun was left in the empty hall.
Li Qianshun, who is thirty-eight years old this year, was strong and energetic before the Emperor of the Song Dynasty personally conquered Xia.
However, after he learned that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty personally conquered Xia, and the Song army successively conquered several major military towns and cities in the Xia Kingdom, during this period of time, he had trouble sleeping and eating, suffered endlessly, and his days were like years. He was haggard and Much older...
Li Qianshun sat blankly on the dragon chair, his eyes dull, muttering to himself:
"My father died young, and I ascended the throne when I was only three years old! At that time, my mother was in charge of politics behind the curtain."
"At this point, the mother-in-law Liang's party controlled the military and political affairs for thirteen years, which led to political corruption in Daxia and the weakening of the army... The Song army took the opportunity to attack, and the Xia army was defeated in repeated battles..."
"Since I was five or six years old, every time I heard that the Xia army was defeated by the Song army, I became angry and determined to take revenge and avenge my shame!"
"It was also at that time that I started to have great ambitions, studied literature and martial arts assiduously, and secretly accumulated strength..."
"Finally, in the second year of Yong'an, when I was sixteen years old, I secretly united with the ministers of civil and military affairs in the DPRK and China who opposed the dictatorship of the Houdang clan, and sent troops to annihilate the entire Houdang Liang family in one fell swoop. Only then could I begin to rule personally."
"After I took office, I worked hard to govern, imitated Han law in governing the country, rectified the administration of officials, and strengthened military armaments..."
"Since then, my army in Daxia has gradually grown stronger, and we have won great victories in several battles against the Song army. This forced the Song Dynasty, which wanted to destroy Xia, to agree to peace terms that were extremely humiliating..."
"I also ensured the centralization of monarchy and ended the situation in the Great Xia Kingdom where many foreign relatives and aristocrats had exclusive power..."
"My country in Daxia is strong and powerful, and I have created a prosperous era..."
"However, this year, my brave and fearless Xia army was repeatedly defeated when it resisted the army led by the Song Emperor Dog Emperor who was personally conquering..."
"My important military towns in Daxia - Zhejianghui, Mengjing, Pule City, and Yaode City were successively captured by the Song Army..."
"When my fierce general Xifeng Manniu led his troops to fight against the Song army's invasion, he died in Zhejianghui..."
"My capital, Xijing City, was in danger of being surrounded by heavy troops of the Song Army a few days ago..."
"In order to break the siege of Xijing City, my younger brother King Richard of Jin personally led Daxia's strongest cavalry force, the Iron Kites, to fight against the Song army. However, he was captured by Song enemies outside Xijing City.
Suffering humiliation, torture and disability, life is worse than death..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "My three thousand heavy armored elite cavalry - the Iron Harrier Army, were almost completely wiped out..."
"My good nephew Li Renzhong, King of Pu, led his troops, but he failed to defend Xijing City, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack!"
"When the enemy city in the Song Dynasty was defeated, my wise nephew Renzhong refused to escape or surrender. In order to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, he actually drew his sword and killed himself, and his blood was on the city wall..."
"Alas! Now, in this troubled time, it is really difficult for me!"
"I sent several batches of imperial envoys with silver medals for mobilizing troops, and sent them to various local military supervision departments in the Great Xia Kingdom. I wanted more than ten tribal armies to send King Qin's divisions to help quickly and jointly fight against the enemies of the Song Dynasty...
"However, until today, my Daxia Kingdom has a total of more than 500,000 local troops, but I have not sent a single soldier to them..."
Li Qianshun also saw the reason:
That is the local tribal armies of Daxia Kingdom. They must have heard that the Song Dynasty enemy was powerful and broke the Xijing City of my Xia Kingdom, so they became timid. They may have wanted to protect their tribes from being destroyed, so they deliberately showed superficial
You obeyed my edict of King Qin, but behind your back you deliberately delayed sending troops to King Qin...
The fact was just as Li Qianshun expected.
But that's not all. Li Qianshun only anticipated most of the reasons.
The more important reason is that the leaders of many tribes and local armies in Xixia secretly met with the envoys sent by Emperor Zhao Guan of the Song Dynasty to persuade them to surrender and neutralize...
"well!"
"Alas... alas!"
Li Qianshun sighed and said to himself:
"Now, what else can I do to negotiate terms with Song Dynasty?!"
"Today, the hundreds of thousands of troops who invaded Xia, led by Emperor Zhao Ji Nagou who led the expedition in person, are becoming more powerful and stronger, and they also have secret weapons that can attract thunder! If I can't bear the humiliation and accept the truce, I will
Daxia will be at great risk of being destroyed!"
The Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, who prided himself on being able to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, was quite talented and resourceful. From the perspective of preserving the country of Great Xia, after careful consideration, he was forced to consider temporarily bowing to the Song Dynasty, reluctantly cutting off his love, and agreeing to Zhao Ji's lustful and rude emperor.
requirements...
He gritted his teeth and comforted himself:
"Beautiful women are as light as clothes, and the country is as heavy as mountains!"
"You can still buy clothes if you lose them, but you can't recover them if they collapse in a landslide!"
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Li Qianshun, who had been thinking for a long time, glanced at the dark night outside the hall, and recalled the day and night he had spent with the young and beautiful Princess Cao in the past six months, with crystal tears in the corners of his eyes.
He thought of Princess Cao's virtuous, charming and soft as water...
He was still unwilling, but had no other choice.
He also wanted to see his most beloved princess, Cao, for the last time.
Li Qianshun weakly declared:
"Summon Princess Cao to the palace to see me..."
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