Chapter 39 Meng Ming's assassination of the princess

Now insert a scene: It is said that the Western Xia is now a vassal to the Song Dynasty, but it is already an independent kingdom, and the current lord is Li Deming, the history of the previous life records that Li Deming laid a solid foundation for the founding of the Western Xia, but unfortunately died when the preparations for the emperor were almost completed.

In May of the first year of Tiansheng, the Shannan Party and the Du'er tribe under the rule of the Great Liao rebelled against Liao and returned to Xia. Then the Du'er tribe descended and constantly harassed the borders of the Liao Dynasty. In June, the five sections of Liaoshan Province made Qu Lie and others surrender to Xia, and the Liao court ordered them to be returned, but Li Deming delayed and did not give a reply. So in September, Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu sent Xiao Qulie as the capital commander, Yelu Shiliang (who died violently in 1016 in his previous life) as his deputy, led an army of 100,000 to attack Western Xia, broke the rebel army in September, and recovered all the Shannan and Shanxi parts of Liao. After a month of repairs, preparations were made to attack Western Xia. The 30,000 vanguard troops of the Liao State have entered the territory of Western Xia, marched south along the Great Wall, conquered the turbidity wheel village, and all 3,000 defenders of the Western Xia were killed. Li Deming sent an envoy to sue for peace, but Liao Shengzong ignored it. At present, the main force of the Liao army is stationed in the Heqing army and the Jinsu army in Xijing Road of the Liao State, and is ready to enter Western Xia. Li Deming has sent his son Li Yuanhao to lead troops to Yinzhou (Shaanxi Mizhi, Jiaxian area) to defend, Li Yuanhao is already 21 years old this year, with the army's generals Yeli Wangrong and Li Jichong, the garrison of 50,000 rely on the Great Wall to defend. Soon the two sides fought in Qiliping on the northeast bank of the Heishui River, Yelu Shiliang led the army around the Heishui River to break through Wangting Town, attacked the right army of the Western Xia army, and opened the north gate of Xiazhou, if the Liao army captured Xiazhou, then the 50,000 Western Xia army would become a turtle in the urn, so that the Liao army was a nest. Therefore, the Western Xia army counterattacked fearlessly and recaptured Wangting Town, but the Western Xia army suffered 10,000 casualties, and Li Jichong died.

The two sides entered a state of stalemate, Li Deming was very anxious, Da Liao did not accept the peace, and was afraid that the Song army would take advantage of the fire to rob, so the spies came to report that the Sui German army, the security army, and the Anding army of the Song court had a transfer of troops and horses. Li Deming, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, was at a loss, at this time Li Yuanhao sent someone to send a letter, Li Deming praised the clever plan after seeing it, and then sent a group of envoys to the Song State and the Liao State respectively, and sent a secret letter to Li Jiyuan, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo.

After the princess of Liao was escorted back to the Great Liao Embassy in Tokyo, in a green building called Zizhuxuan in Little Sweet Water Lane, the old bustard wearing a yellow dress and a half-aged hurriedly walked to the backyard, and then walked to the front of a small building with one or two floors, and then the old bustard went up to the second floor, and the second floor was a woman's boudoir at a glance. She knocked on the door and said, "Princess, our assassination failed this time, only two people, Weiming San and Weiming Eleven, came back alive, and the rest were all dead." I saw that the inside said: "Qiu Chaofeng, you come in, you call someone to call Weiming San and Weiming Eleven, I want to ask" The old bustard pushed the door in, only to see that the left side of the room was separated by a painting screen, dividing the room into two parts, there was a rosewood desk by the window outside, there were a few pieces of rice paper on the table, and a few brushes were placed on the inkstone, and there was a poem on the rice paper, which was Meng Ming's "Touching the Fish. Yanqiu Words". On the opposite side of the desk are tables and chairs carved from fine sandalwood, all of which are delicately carved with different patterns; There is also a piano and a lute hanging on the wall. I saw a fairy like a fairy woman walking over, flying clouds, a pale yellow shirt, round neck stilts, a few light flowers embellished, wearing a pale pink long skirt, a belt around the waist, hanging a gold inlaid jade; This woman was as beautiful as a fairy, but her eyes were a little inverted, a bit like that of a Sogdian.

The old bustard's name is Qiu Yuexian, it seems that she has some awe and restraint towards the real young and beautiful woman, she honestly stood beside the woman, and soon two people came in, both of them were sturdy men in their thirties, but at this time they seemed to be on the verge of collapse, trembling and shivering, and they were people who had completely lost their fighting spirit. The two also described the scene of the assassination at that time, Wei Mingsan said: "At that time, the princess of Liao only had four guards, and we were four times as many as hers. Then the unnamed eleven hurriedly said: "This thing can also make loud noises, and it can also emit fire and black smoke, like a hidden weapon that has never been seen before." After listening to this, the woman asked a few more questions, specifically asked the two people about the way and route of escape, and then asked the two people to leave. She asked the old bustard Qiu Yuexian to stay, and he said: "Qiu Feng, you immediately send someone to take a look at the route where the two escaped, don't leave any clues, and Elder Zhang of Yipintang is coming, and the intelligence activities in Tokyo will be handled by him in the future, you arrange a place to live, and set up a banquet for Elder Zhang." After the Spring Festival, the princess returned to Western Xia. Then he asked the bustard to step down.

This woman is the princess of Western Xia, the third daughter of Li Deming, named Li Zhilan, twenty-nine years old. I have been in Tokyo for two years, specializing in spying on the intelligence of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Deming has secretly prepared to ascend the throne and become the emperor, and has made Li Yuanhao the crown prince (six years earlier than in history), and canonized Li Zhilan as the princess of Tianxiang. Li Zhilan has laid many eyeliners in Tokyo, and opened four green buildings in Tokyo, namely: Zizhuxuan, Yiqingyuan, Mengqing Building, and Qingyin Pavilion, collecting information through courtesans; In the major well-known restaurants in Tokyo, the service personnel of Paotang and Dr. Tea have developed into spy personnel; even extended its tentacles to the Six Ministries and Kaifeng Mansion, and bribed some of the chief soap officials to spy on intelligence. Li Zhilan has set up a vast intelligence network in Tokyo, covering three religions and nine streams. Its intelligence agency is known as the Agi Division.

Some time ago, after the Liao delegation came to the Song Dynasty, it was discovered that the third princess of the Liao State, Yelu Yanni, also secretly followed, and Li Zhilan also passed the matter back to the Western Xia, and finally when the Liaoxia War was in full swing, it was stuck and the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the Western Xia, Li Yuanhao thought of the strategy of assassinating the three princesses of the Liao State in the Great Song Dynasty, and wanted to cause trouble to the east, provoke the Song-Liao War, and reduce the pressure on his own side. He first presented the plan to his father Li Deming, who had nothing to do for a while, so he agreed to the plan, so he authorized Li Zhilan to carry out the assassination plan and sent the samurai of Yipintang to die. So there is the assassination above.

At this time, Meng Ming was more interested in the tattoos on the dead assassin's body, and when Kaifeng Mansion caught the fast rubbing, he also wanted to have a copy, and after studying it at home, he found out that these three words were: "Yipintang". Meng Ming was shocked, in his previous life, he looked at Old Man Jin's "Tianlong Babu", there was a record of "Xixia Yipintang", Xixia Yipintang. Speaking of this mysterious organization, it is not a simple Jianghu sect, because there is the shadow of the Western Xia Military Department behind this organization. At the same time, the Xixia Yipintang is not a simple military organization, because its members are mainly from the rivers and lakes. But this is only something mentioned in fictional fiction, and the possibility of it existing in reality is extremely small, but it is still okay to refer to it. Meng Ming also knew that now the Liao State and the Western Xia were in a big war, and the assassination of the three princesses of the Liao State was the most suspicious in the Western Xia. If it succeeds, Song Liao will definitely break out into a war, and it is impossible for Da Liao to go to war with two countries at the same time, so it is extremely likely that Da Liao and Western Xia will strike the war. At this time, Li Zhilan also found out that the teenager who destroyed her assassination plan was Meng Ming, and she only hated the root of her teeth and was determined to give Meng Ming a color.