Xixia, Xingqing Mansion, has a population of 70,000 people.
Under the Xixia system, all people lived in earthen houses, and only those with official positions were allowed to use tiles.
Most of the residences in Xingqing Mansion have tiles. After Li Yuanhao founded the country for decades, Xingqing Mansion and Shangjing of the Liao Dynasty were both famous for being the capital on the fortress.
The imperial palace Yuanhao Palace located in the center of Xingqing Mansion was also built after the Bianjing Imperial Palace.
To the left and right of the palace are Chengtian Temple and Gaotai Temple.
On this day, the entire Xingqing Mansion heard the rumbling bells of the Buddhist temple. Empress Liang, the wife of the king Bingchang, led the female family members in the palace to pray for the Xia Kingdom and eliminate military obstacles.
Everyone in the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms worshiped Buddhism, especially the upper echelons of the royal family and relatives.
Now that the Xia Kingdom is facing the threat of national subjugation, in addition to sincerely begging to eliminate the military disaster, knowledgeable people in the country are also discussing countermeasures.
The main hall where monarchs and ministers discuss matters is modeled after the Zichen Palace in Bianjing. Next to the main hall is a felt hut with a tall dome. This is a prairie tribe custom still preserved in Xixia. This is the same as the Shangjing Imperial Palace in the Liao Dynasty, but also different from the Bianjing Imperial Palace.
Behind it is Guanghanmen, which is the place where the harem of the king of Xixia rests.
Li Qing argued with the Xixia generals, and those behind Li Qing and the Xixia generals were Li Bingchang and Liang Yimi.
There are two sets of official teams in Xixia, one is modeled after the Song Dynasty and has the official positions of Zhongshu, Privy Envoy and the second government, and the other is the leaders of various tribes.
The leaders of each tribe have their own titles such as Ningling and Mo Ningling, which are mostly hereditary.
There are also two systems for talent training: Sinology and Tibetan Studies.
As for the Empress Dowager Liang, Liang Yi was buried as a hereditary tribal leader.
Why?
Let’s start with the background of Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yimi.
Li Yuanhao stole the wife of his son Ning Lingge, and was killed by Ning Lingge who hated his wife. The minister who instructed Ninglingge to kill Li Yuanhao did not hide his lies and killed Ninglingge again.
Bu Zang falsely established the young Li Liangzuo as the head of the Xixia Kingdom, took charge of the government himself, and married his daughter to Li Liangzuo.
After Li Liangzuo grew up, he had an affair with his daughter-in-law, Liang, who was not hiding from his wife.
Wu Zang Yupang and his son planned to kill Li Liangzuo, but the Liang family informed Li Liangzuo. Li Liangzuo took the initiative and killed Wu Zang Yupang and his son.
Liang, who had just become a widow, was immediately summoned to the palace by Li Liangzuo and made queen.
After Li Liangzuo's death, Liang became the Queen Mother from being a victim of her husband's concubine, that is, the Queen Mother Liang.
In order to gain more power, Empress Dowager Liang made her younger brother Liang Yimi the prime minister.
The Xixia prime minister originally did not allow Han people to take up the position. Due to the brutal power struggle in Xixia, the Liang siblings just came to power by chance.
After the Empress Dowager Liang and her younger brother Liang Yimi took charge of the government, the royal family and tribes below were dissatisfied. The Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yimi were of Han origin. They belonged to the Fan-Han system in Xixia (the Fan converted the Han people), only Li Qing and others were subordinate to the Han (subjected to the Han).
Subduing the Han) is superior.
At the top of the Xixia power pyramid is the Weiming family, followed by the leader of the Party Department.
Therefore, in order to consolidate his power, the Liang family used the method of allying with the Liao Dynasty to conquer the Song Dynasty. He used war to force the tribes to obey his orders, controlled the power of rewards and punishments, and controlled internal power through external wars.
And Li Bingchang wanted to take back power from the Liang family to stop the war.
When Li Qing saw that his proposal to cede the Five Prefectures was opposed, he knew that this was not the way to go. As far as the monarch was concerned, whether the Liang family converted the Han people or those who had no background and surrendered to the Han people, they all had the characteristics of a "poor family".
If a poor family leaves the imperial power, all power will disappear. For the emperor, only a poor family is the most trustworthy.
The Liang family has become the most powerful family from a humble family, and Li Qing challenges him on behalf of the emperor.
Li Qing questioned Liang Yi and said: "Since you became prime minister, your Majesty has attacked the Song Dynasty more than fifty times, the most of which was six or seven times a year. He was an enemy of the Han Dynasty. This is not worth the gain."
"With the onset of war, peace and prosperity are cut off. People look forward to peace and prosperity like a baby looking for milk! Once peace and prosperity are cut off, how can our country survive alone?"
Faced with Li Qing's repeated questioning, Liang Yimi said: "The reason why I attack the Song Dynasty year after year and keep paying tribute to the Song Dynasty is to make the Eastern Dynasty fear me and ask you to stop fighting for the sake of the people of the country."
Liang Yimi said to the generals: "Although I am a Han, I do not like Han people's etiquette, but like to use Tibetan etiquette. Even the names of my Liang family are all named after Tibetan names. The reason why I continuously attacked the Song Dynasty and became an enemy of the Song Dynasty is that
It’s for us to understand the well-being of Gaoguo!”
As soon as Liang Yimi said this, all the generals shouted in unison, applauding Liang Yimi.
What other words could be more convincing than Liang Yimian, a Han Chinese, advocating attacking the Song Dynasty?
Liang Yimi looked at Li Qing and said: "It is true that you have spent all these years hunting down Han prostitutes and entertaining them to please the emperor. Is this what you call using Han customs to make Han customs more popular?"
Hearing what Liang Yimi said, the generals in the hall laughed.
When Li Bingchang heard this, anger surged on his face.
Seeing that most people were siding with Liang Yimi, Li Qing was not afraid to speak: "In the past, Wei Minglangyu, the commander-in-chief of Dudu Army, repeatedly went to Shangshu to make peace with Song Dynasty, but he was dismissed by the prime minister and died in depression."
"Is the army disloyal to Dabai Gaoguo?"
He commanded the army and was the head of the town government. He was in charge of military affairs and commanded the military supervision department across the country. In order to eliminate dissidents and gain the power to command the army, Liang Yimi dismissed Li Yuanhao's younger brother Wei Minglangyu from office.
Liang Yi buried his head and said: "I have already noticed that Wei Minglangyu has the intention to rebel. His dismissal from the military has nothing to do with his opposition to the attack on the Song Dynasty. Do you think so?"
All the generals agreed in unison.
Liang Yimi smiled when he heard this.
Li Qingdao: "In recent years, your Majesty has been waging war wantonly and relying on his power to collect money. If you don't agree with your leaders, you will exclude them all from other places, so that they cannot get involved in military power and cannot predict state affairs."
"Now the court is full of people from the Erliang family."
Liang Yimi sneered, with a killing intent in his eyes.
Li Qing said to Li Bingchang: "Your Majesty, the leaders of the Song Dynasty have been suffering from successive attacks. If the Prime Minister does not learn from the previous defeat at Taoshui, he will continue to use force. If this continues, the Xia Kingdom will surely perish."
Liang Yimi said to Li Bingchang who was sitting on the throne: "Your Majesty, you can make peace with the Song Dynasty, but the Five Prefectures must not be ceded, otherwise the Song Dynasty people will come to your doorstep. If your Majesty wants to remove me from the post of Prime Minister, I will
We can only do as we are told, but I still say that the five states will never be separated."
Although Li Bingchang had been in power for a short time, he was also very decisive. After hearing Liang Yi's resignation, he really wanted to agree to depose the other party as prime minister, but he also guessed that the other party might retreat in order to advance. If he agreed today, the other party would launch a coup tomorrow.
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Although he intended to kiss Song Dynasty, he also knew that without Liang Yi's support, he would not be able to negotiate peace with Song Dynasty.
He said: "Li Qing, please step aside first."
Li Qing's expression changed upon hearing this and he had no choice but to retreat.
Li Bingchang said: "Come here and give the late emperor's silver armor, felt hat and yellow tent to the prime minister."
"From now on, I will entrust all the power to my uncle."
Liang Yi was overjoyed that his strategy was successful.
Li Bingchang not only did not fall out with him, but also gave him all the equipment used by the late emperor to lead troops in war, and asked him to preside over the battle against Song Dynasty.
Liang Yi buried his head and said, "I thank your Majesty. I think we are still following the old method, sending people to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty and find out the Song people's plans in order to numb their minds."
"On the one hand, we will go all out to raise troops!"
Li Bingchang said: "According to what my uncle sees, if the Song army comes from three directions, how can we resist it?"
"I believe that the Five Prefectures are bound to be difficult to protect. Once they fall, Ganliang will be our last retreat for the Dabai Gao Kingdom!"
Li Bingchang also said that he was worried. Once Hengshan fell to the Song people, the focus of Xixia's rule would only move westward from Xingqing Mansion. Then from Liangzhou to the Western Regions, it would be their last place of birth.
Liang Yi buried his head and said: "Why should your Majesty be afraid of this! Ganliang, Liangzhou has Renduoyading guarding it and it will be fine!"
"From my perspective, although the Song Dynasty has many troops and horses on the Yanyan Road, they are separated by the vast sea and do not have enough food supplies. It is even more difficult to attack Xingqing Mansion."
"On the other hand, although there are not many soldiers and horses on Jingyuan Road, it is dangerous to go directly to Huluchuan Avenue, where there is abundant water and grass, and it is so close to Lingzhou!"
Li Bingchang asked: "Should we defeat the enemy on the original road of Jing first?"
Liang Yimi nodded and said: "Yes, Emperor Jing established the Twelve Military Supervisors back then. His intention was that whenever something happened to the west, he would gather from the east to the west and gather to the west. Whenever something happened to the east, he would gather from the west to the east.
East."
"Now the troops and horses in the right wing are guarding Ganliang. Lanzhou is enough. I will gather the six roads in the left wing to attack the Jingyuan Road all the way, and then turn back to attack the troops and horses in the Yanyan Road!"
"In the past, when we fought with Song Dynasty, we just didn't fight head-on. We let him come over, sent troops to cut off his food route, and then retreated after his food was exhausted. Then we used the old strategy to kill the soldiers and horses on the Yanyan Road this time!"
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Liangzhou Prefecture.
Several groups of cavalry arrived.
The leader of the general was Renduo Baozhong, the supervisor of Zhuoluo Henan Military Supervision Department who was stationed in Tuozi Mountain. This time he came to see his father Renduoyading.
The Renduo people live in Kalochuan, and their origin is Renduoquan City, north of Qingtang City.
The Renduo tribe is not a Dangxiang tribe, but belongs to one of the Liugu Fan tribes. After Xixia captured Liangzhou, the Renduo tribe rebelled against the Qingtang and joined the Dangxiang tribe.
Xixia also attached great importance to the Renduo clan and appointed Renduoyading to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Ganzhou and Gansu Military Supervision Departments and the Zhuoluo and Henan Military Supervision Departments.
Let me mention here that because the Song army captured Huangzhou, the Qingtang tribe where Qingtang City is located surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
Song troops also began to enter Qingtang City.
In order to prepare for the Song army's offensive against Liangzhou from the Qing and Tang Dynasties, Xixia also made adjustments to the Military Supervision Department.
Xixia strengthened the city defense of Liangzhou City, and at the same time moved the Shunsu Military Supervision Department in the right wing of Renduoquan City to Liangzhou City. It also made an exception and let Renduoyading, who was not from a party, serve as the commander-in-chief of both military supervision departments.
In addition, facing the Xihe Corps of the Song Army stationed in Huizhou, Xixia merged the Xishou Baotai Military Supervision Department and the Tiandushan Military Supervision Department into the Xishou Baotai Military Supervision Department.
Now Wen Xixin, the leader of the Qingtang Dynasty in Miaochuan, sent his son Wen Na to support Yingcheng to Liangzhou City. Renduo Baozhong was recalled to Liangzhou by Renduoyading.
Both belong to the Miaochuan clan, and Wen Xixin is related to the Renduo clan. In the past, when Xixia and Qingtang negotiated, the two clans were entrusted as intermediaries.
This time Wen Xixin was ordered by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to let his son Wen Na support Yingcheng to negotiate with Tong Guan and Ren Duoyading, the envoys of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Renduo Baozhong met the Song Dynasty negotiator. Wen Na supported Yingcheng and drank with his father Renduoyading throughout the whole process.
As for the tall messenger, he stroked the sparse beard under his chin.
Nendo Baozhong immediately felt that this envoy was a difficult person to deal with.
But he saw Tong Guan saying in front of Renduo Baozhong: "Renduo led the army, and my lord treated him as an envoy of Jiedushi. This is a great grace. At present, in the entire Qingtang Dynasty, only Dong Xiang and Mu Zheng are disciplined.
He was appointed to the position."
"As for the rest, as long as I, Tong Guan, can make the decision, I will allow it!"
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