Chapter 112: Stone Spring City (2)
After introducing Zhe Yuzhong and Zhejiajun, let's talk about Li Jiqian.
Li Jiqian, this person, everyone seems to be a little unfamiliar and familiar!
Look at what this said, unfamiliar is unfamiliar, familiar is familiar, how can there be a sense of familiarity?
Don't be in a hurry to listen to the contemptible people slowly: now is the era of rapid development of information technology, and you can read history with a mobile phone while lying under the covers.
Therefore, many people know that during the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a Western Xia state on the northwest border, which was established by the party members; The party members claim to be the descendants of Tuoba, and the guy named Li Yuanhao in the Western Xia Kingdom must be familiar to everyone; He is a hero in troubled times.
Some people say that the Northern Song Dynasty, Liao, and Western Xia are the "New Three Kingdoms", which seems to have a certain amount of truth.
"The New Three Kingdoms" is Song Liaoxia, then "The Old Three Kingdoms" is Wei Shu Wu.
Compared with "The New Three Kingdoms" and "The Old Three Kingdoms", the area is much larger.
The area of "The Old Three Kingdoms" is more than 3 million square kilometers at best, but the "New Three Kingdoms" is more than 10 million square kilometers.
The territory of the Western Han Dynasty was the largest, with 25 million square kilometers; At its peak, the Tang Dynasty was second only to the Western Han Dynasty with 15 million square kilometers, and the territory of the New Three Kingdoms was basically the same as that of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanhao's grandfather Li Jiqian seems to be a little unfamiliar to everyone, but in fact, this guy is the real founder of the Western Xia Dynasty; This is a footnote to the unfamiliar familiarity we talked about above.
If you talk about who has the greatest credit for the Western Xia Kingdom, it is, of course, Li Yuanhao's grandfather Li Jiqian.
So how could Li Jiqian appear in Shiquan City! This guy came to join relatives and friends and wanted to contact the neighboring Tubo to attack the Northern Song Dynasty, and Li Jiqian's conspiracy was figured out by Yu Zhong; Zhi Yuzhong followed Li Jiqian and followed him to Shiquan City.
In this way, it is even more interesting, the main forces of the battle of "New Three Kingdoms" are Song, Liao, and Xia; If you add the Tibetans, Uighurs, Cochin, and even a few small vassal states in the surrounding areas, it will be too lively.
Li Jiqian is a descendant of Xianbei in the Northern Wei Dynasty, in the early years of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan; Li Jiqian's ancestor Tuoba Chi resigned to the Tang Dynasty and was given the surname Li.
During the reign of Tang Xizong, Li Jiqian's great-grandfather Li Sizhong and his brother Li Sigong were killed in battle against Huangchao; The court honored their descendants as kings.
Since then, the party item Li has been called the difficult army according to the land of the five states centered on Xiazhou, and the five dynasties have been alternating and unchanged at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Jiqian's great-grandfather Li Renyan Shi was the defense envoy of Yinzhou after Tang, Li Jiqian's grandfather Li Yi Jingshi was later Jin, and his father Li Guangyan was later Zhou.
In 963 A.D. (the fourth year of the Northern Song Dynasty Taizu Jianlong), Li Jiqian was born in an official mansion by the Wuding River in Yinzhou (Yulin, Shaanxi).
Li Jiqian was born with teeth, and when he grew up, he was famous in the township for "being good at riding and shooting, and being wise and numerous".
In 975 A.D., the Dingyan Army Festival made Li Guangrui (Li Jiqian's uncle) love his talents; Li Jiqian, who was only 12 years old, was appointed as the party leader of the affairs of the Inner Tibetan Department in the Song Dynasty.
Li Jiqian got this position, and his ambition swelled; conspired to take advantage of the competition between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao State to establish a state dominated by party members, and to develop between the Song and Liao countries; If it grows stronger, it will destroy the Song and Liao countries.
Li Jiqian's ambition was not small, but he was only a 12-year-old child at the time; It's hard to be ambitious.
Seven years later, in 980 AD, Li Jiqian was seventeen years old; It is the age of the flesh and blood; Feeling that the idea of establishing a country was still a little lacking, he brought 100 cronies all the way to Shiquan City, Maozhou.
The 100 cronies are the dead soldiers trained by Li Jiqian, all of whom have big shoulders and round waists; All of them are extraordinary.
At this time, the Qiang people in Shiquan City continued to rise up, and Li Jiqian felt that the Qiang people were of the same origin as the Dangxiang Tuoba clan; It was the living forces of the nation's founders who wanted to recruit them.
There is another point that is more important, that is, the Tubo people who are adjacent to the party Xiang Qiang in Shiquan City; After the Tang Dynasty "Zhenguan", the Tubo people were killed by the Tang Dynasty for many years, and they were the old enemies of the Central Plains Dynasty.
After the "Anshi Rebellion" in 763 AD, the Tibetan army took advantage of the chaos to attack the Tang Dynasty; Due to the contradictions between the local generals of the Tang Dynasty and the central Tang government, the Tibetan invasion was deliberately allowed to occur, and the eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen concealed the military situation and did not report it, so that the central Tang government failed to arrange defenses in time, resulting in the occupation of Chang'an by the Tibetan people for 15 days; also set up a puppet emperor, and the Tang Dynasty Zong saw that the momentum was not good and fled to Shaanzhou in a hurry.
Later, Guo Ziyi used suspicious tactics to make Tubo retreat, but Tubo occupied a vast area west of Fengxiang; The Tang Dynasty court lost half of the country.
After the death of Tang Dynasty Emperor in 779 AD, Tang Dezong took the initiative to send envoys to seek reconciliation with Tibet.
In the edict, "dedication" was changed to "enter", "giving" was "sending", and "receiving" was "receiving"; to signify the reciprocal status of the two countries.
In the fourth year of Jianzhong (783), Longyou Jiedu made Zhang Yi and the shogunate Qi Ying, Qi Kang, Hongluqing Cui Hanheng, Yu Di, Fan Ze, and Chang Lu, the judge of the Tibetan envoy, in Qingshui County and the Tubo Great Minister Shang praised, and the general discussed the cheek Tibet, Zang Re, Lituo, and Xu Huimeng, which is known as the "Qingshui Huimeng" in history
"Qingshui Huimeng" is to cede all the land west of Fengxiang in the Tang Dynasty to Tibet, which is the first land cession and peace treaty of the Chinese nation in history.
After "Qingshui Huimeng", Tubo was not sincere, and then the Jingyuan Mutiny broke out in the Tang Dynasty; The Tibetans said they could help the Tang Dynasty put down the rebellion.
Tang Dezong promised to give up Anxi and Beiting, and Tubo later only sent 20,000 troops to help quell the rebellion.
After the rebellion was quelled, Tubo violated the agreement of the "Huimeng" and invaded the Tang Dynasty for many years.
In 786, after the Tang general Li Sheng led the Tang army to defeat the Tibetans twice, the Tibetans knew that they could no longer rely on force to get more advantages from the Tang Dynasty, so they deceived and sent envoys to the Tang court through another general of the Tang Dynasty, Ma Sui, to beg for peace and strike the war.
Ma Sui did not see the deceit of Tubo, and asked Tang Dezong for permission and peace; The weak Dezong promised peace talks and dismissed Li Sheng, the famous general of the main battle who had been defeated in Tibet, and stripped him of military power.
The deceitful Tibetan side continued to make demands to the Tang Dynasty, naming the Tang Dynasty to send another general, Hun Ying, to preside over the alliance.
The Seventh Tang Dynasty was held in Pingliang, and the Tibetans took advantage of the weak Tang Dezong's eagerness for peace to use peace talks as bait; induced Dezong to get rid of Li Sheng, who was in the main battle; and then captured Hun Ying, who presided over the ceremony, at the scene of the Huimeng, and Ma Sui, who played an important role in promoting the Huimeng, would also be charged with the crime and removed by the Tang court.
In this way, three famous generals of the Tang Dynasty were removed; There was no obstacle for the Tibetans to attack the Tang Dynasty.
When the Tubo ambush was everywhere at the scene of the Pingliang Alliance, Hun Xuan, who was the primary target of Tubo, escaped from danger; Luo Yuanguang and Han Youbi, who saw through the deceit of Tubo, quickly drove troops to rescue Hun Xuan.
Hun Yang fought with his father in the Shuofang army in his early years, and after the outbreak of the "Anshi Rebellion", he successively served as Li Guangbi, Guo Ziyi, and Fugu Huaien's generals; Dozens of large and small battles have the most military exploits.
When the Tubo army of 100,000 invaded, Hun Yang led 200 cavalry to break the Tubo.
During the Jingyuan Mutiny, Hun Yang fought in Fengtian and broke tens of thousands of rebels; and led the army to recover Xianyang, served as the deputy marshal of the Fengtianxing battalion, and was named the king of Xianning County; Together with Ma Sui, he led the army to quell Li Huaiguang's rebellion, and then promoted to the inspection school, and went out of the town and river.
Tubo used the method of "robbing the alliance" at the scene of the alliance but did not capture Hun Xuan, and Tang Dezong's way of fantasizing about peace talks and peace was blocked.
So Li Mi and others, who used the main battle, quickly drove the Tubo people out of Guanzhong.
The Tibetans did not gain much benefit after the Qingshui Alliance, but due to excessive greed and expansion, they became enemies of the Tang, Dashi, and Uighurs, and the regime turned from prosperity to decline......