Chapter 212: Civil strife is predetermined
Yunzhou returned to the Great Song Dynasty, this bombshell exploded in Xingqing Mansion, and the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, who was under house arrest, was completely dead, he knew that everything was far away, and it was impossible to come back, and finally chose to accept the humiliating conditions offered by the queen Yelu Nanxian in exchange for his own peace.
Queen Yelu Nanxian was waiting for this opportunity, the time to give birth was getting closer and closer, she didn't dare to hesitate, she had to end everything in advance, otherwise once she gave birth, then the whole situation would be reversed.
Yan Shun entered the palace as soon as he received the flying pigeon message, he knew that the matter of Xingqing Mansion was at the end of the time, and if this was the only time for him to wash away his shame, this step must not make a mistake.
Queen Yelu Nanxian saw that Yan Shun was coming, and she didn't plan to go around in circles, she said straight to the point: "Compared to you, you have already received instructions, right?" ”
"Obey the queen's command." Yan Shun knelt on the ground, this time he really regarded the woman in front of him as the main mother, and he said very respectfully: "Be ready to act at any time, just wait for the order of the main mother." ”
"Very good, how did you send someone to contact Yiwang Li Renkai?"
"Before, we took the initiative to contact Yiwang Li Renkai, but now Yiwang Li Renkai has taken the initiative more, but." Yan Shun was a little hesitant when he said this, he didn't know whether to say the following or not.
"What's it!" Yelu Nanxian heard that Yan Shun had concerns, she smiled and said: "I am your mother, there is nothing to worry about, you must know that in the end it is your little master who is in charge of the court." ”
"Yiwang Li Renkai does not seem to be killed, although he has lost the support of the Jin State, but there is still the support of the Tuoba Department, as well as the imperial army. Now it is possible for him to get the imperial army to support the Tuoba tribe and attack the Mili tribe. Once the Mili Department is taken, then Li Renkai can still control Western Xia, after all, there are envoys from Western Liao in the west, and it seems that he is plotting something. ”
Yan Shun only speculated, after all, he was not completely sure of many things, but the envoy sent by Xiliao was real, but the envoy entered the Yiwang Mansion, and the outside world could not find out the news.
Yelu Nanxian is a Khitan, of course she knows what the envoys sent by the Western Liao to do, if she is usual, she may also be willing to cooperate with the Western Liao, but her son Li Renai died, and the imperial doctor said that the child in the womb is a boy now, that is, the future emperor of the Western Xia. At this time, this ice and snow smart and ambitious beauty has lost her former ambitions, and her heart has long belonged to that person, which no one can erase.
After thinking for a long time, Yelu Nanxian said, "Do you know what your lord said, what he said about the arrangement. ”
"The Zhejia army is stationed in the Mili tribe, and the cavalry of Yunzhou is ready to flank the imperial army from the rear at any time, as long as the Tuoba Department dares to enter the Mili Ministry, it will be annihilated. The imperial army may be okay to bully the Mili Department, but in the face of the army of Yunzhou, it can only be destroyed. ”
Yan Shun didn't care about military matters, but he believed that since the lord was deployed, there would be no problems at all.
Yelu Nanxian shook her head, and she said: "Since the envoy of the Western Liao is here, once the Tuoba Department attacks the Mili Department, the imperial army will definitely participate in the war, and the Western Liao should put pressure on Yunzhou to avoid the Yunzhou army from intervening in the Western Xia civil war." You must know that without the support of Western Liao, Yiwang Li Renkai would not have taken risks. ”
"So, how is that good?"
"It's okay, you can't turn the sky, Xiliao is thousands of miles away from Xingqing Mansion, and it takes three or four months to come and go, and the army is even slower. As long as the Western Liao envoy leaves Xingqing Mansion, you only need to detain it and send it to Yunzhou. If Xiliao doesn't intervene, even if King Yiwang Li Renkai has great ability, he won't be able to turn the sky. ”
Yelu Nanxian knows Yelu Dashi too well, this guy has strategy, scheming, and skills, but the only bad thing is that he is more than cautious and not adventurous, and he will never rush to send troops without seeing the messenger, which is absolutely not wrong.
Yan Shun suddenly had a backbone, and he said: "As long as there is no problem with this, then please ask the master mother to give an order." ”
"The first step is to assassinate Li Renyun, the king of letters."
"Assassinate Li Renyun, master mother, isn't this King of Faith your cronies?"
"The assassination of Li Renyun is for the outside world to see, only when King Xin is assassinated, King Yi will seize power without scrupulousness, and the war between the Tuoba Department and the Mili Department can be successfully started. Therefore the king must die. ”
Yelu Nanxian's face was expressionless, and she said coldly: "Don't worry, Li Renzhong, the king of Pu, is already on his way to the capital, and Li Renkai can't turn the sky." Remember, during this time, no matter how King Yi jumps, as long as he doesn't force the palace, you don't pay attention to it, of course, as long as he forces the palace and he enters the palace, you will kill him, can this be done? ”
"It can be done."
"Very good, the mourning family is about to give birth, and they are unable to take charge of the government, plus Li Renyun was assassinated, Li Renkai will definitely choose to force the palace during the mourning family's childbirth period, during this time. You mainly do two things, the first is to strictly seal the news of Puwang Li Renzhong's entry into Beijing, and no one is allowed to disclose it, including his family. The second thing is to infinitely amplify the news of King Xin's assassination, so that the people in the entire Xingqing Mansion know that it was King Yi Li Renkai who assassinated King Xin, and at the same time, there is one thing to do, that is, to cut off the channel of dialogue with Li Renkai, so that the outside world knows that the Zhejia army has been stationed in the Mili Department, and the hundreds of thousands of troops in Yunzhou may attack the imperial army at any time, of course, this news must be true to the people, but the upper echelons think it is false, this is difficult, you have to work hard. ”
There is difficulty, this is indeed difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, Yan Shun will implement it.
Yelu Nanxian continued: "The mourning family has already obtained authorization, that is, Yue Fei's army has set off, the Yunzhou army is fake, and Yue Fei's Longwei army is real, mainly to monitor the imperial army. Okay, you are ready to go, the life of the mourning family is in your hands. ”
After Yan Shun left, Yelu Nanxian let out a breath of cold air, and she said to herself: "It seems that the mourning family's mother's family should also move, see how Li Renkai can avoid Yan Shun's subordinates, and whether he can avoid the mourning family's mother's family." ”
Assassination is simple, but it is indeed difficult to make a storm in the city, and it is indeed difficult to detain the basin of the assassination on the head of Yiwang Li Renkai, but this matter is difficult for Yan Shun.
After Yan Shun found Ying San, he said directly: "Now there is something for you to do in Shadow, that is, to assassinate Li Renyun, the king of letters, don't be neat, you have to drag it out a little, make the city full of storms, and let everyone in the entire Xingqing Mansion know that it was Li Renkai, the king of Yi, who did it, can you do it?" ”
"No problem, you just say how long it will take to let King Shin die, and I'll execute King Shin at that point."
Yan Shun said: "On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, King Xin celebrated his birthday, and at noon when everyone was drinking, he started to assassinate in a lame way, and he wanted to force King Xin from King Xin's mansion to the front gate tower of the central street, and that time was the death date of King Xin. ”
"Got it."
Shadow Three only knows how to execute and doesn't ask other questions.
King Xin is only twenty-five, what kind of life, but the reward of the queen Yelu Nanxian has made the teachers move, almost all the high-ranking officials and nobles in Xingqing Mansion, the royal family and nobles have attended, of course, King Yiyi will not attend.
Yiwang Li Renkai was very nervous during this time, and he originally expected to win the court with the support of the Jin army, but Yunzhou was taken away by the Song army, which made this careerist's fantasy bubble burst.
Relying only on the imperial army and the Tuoba Department, this is absolutely impossible to fight the queen Yelu Nanxian, after all, there is the support of the Song army. This is very clear to King Li Renkai, and he decided to compromise. However, the situation changed abruptly, Liu Zhenglong was transferred, and the newly arrived Northwest Supervisor Li Bangyan was greedy for money and lustful, and his policy towards Western Xia made a 180-degree turn, which made Li Renkai see an opportunity.
At this time, the envoy of Western Liao came, which made Li Renkai make up his mind.
With the support of Western Liao, Li Renkai firmly believes that the sky can be turned upside down, after all, the queen Yelu Nanxian is about to give birth, so it is destined that there will be a vacuum in the imperial power for a long time, and only in this vacuum time period is enough to complete the forced palace.
Li Renkai, the king of Yi, was a decisive man, and on the one hand, this guy sent people to bribe Li Bangyan with a lot of money to ensure that the Song army would not send troops to interfere in the internal affairs of Western Xia. In Li Renkai's view, the Song State has always used literature to unify the military, and since Li Bangyan is ordered to supervise the army, it is destined that the Northwest Military Gate will listen to this guy. As long as the Song army does not intervene, then the Tuoba Department can easily destroy the Mili Department with the support of the imperial army, and then after the next step is to destroy Li Renyun, the king of letters, the forced palace will naturally come to fruition.
With the support of Western Liao, even if the Song army was biased towards the Mili Department, they were fearless. This is Li Renkai's confidence, he began to secretly mobilize the imperial army into Xingqing Mansion, ready to force the palace at any time, and the specific time was set when the queen Yelu Nanxian was in childbirth, that is, in late June.
At the same time as Yiwang Li Renkai was secretly deploying, a large-scale battle was brewing, that is, 30,000 Zhejia troops were stationed in the Mili Department.
Some time ago, the Tuoba Department continued to provoke and skirmish, and the weak Milli Department could only choose to be patient, but this extremely forbearant Milly Qunfeng secretly vowed to bloodbath the Tuoba Department.
Just when the Mili Peaks couldn't bear it anymore, the Zhejia Army secretly opened into the Mili tribe.
The two brothers, Zhe Yanhu and Zhe Yanlong, visited Mili Qunfeng.
Zhe Yanhu said to Mili Qunfeng: "Our Lord Liu has ordered that the 30,000 Zhejia army is ready to go and obey the dispatch of the leader of Miri, as for whether to attack the Tuoba Department or destroy the Tuoba Department, it depends on your meaning." ”
Mili Qunfeng gritted his teeth and said: "Destroy the Tuoba Tribe, but the imperial army is still very strong, and the two of us are at most tied, or even a little inferior." ”
"Don't worry, the problems of the Imperial Army are much bigger than those of the Tuoba Department. As long as there is an abnormality in the imperial army, it will be destroyed, and you don't have to worry about that. Zhi Yanlong said: "Leader Milley, you only need to care about whether you have the confidence to destroy the Tuoba Department, as for the imperial army, you may seem to be very strong, but for us, it has long been controlled, and this is not a matter at all." ”
Without the imperial army, Mili Qunfeng suddenly became bolder, and he said: "At the beginning of June, the six major armies attacked the Tuoba Department, the men were killed, the women remained in our tribe, and the gold and silver treasures, cattle, sheep and horses were all returned to the family army. ”
"No need, our family has an order, as long as the horses, the rest is all yours." Zhe Yanhu didn't look down on those riches at all, all he cared about was war horses.
"In that case, then the woman is half of the family." Mili Qunfeng is extremely greedy for money, and now people don't want gold and silver treasures, and he can't be ungenerous.
"Leader Milley, you are familiar with geography, how to fight this battle, you can deploy."
Mili Qunfeng asked his son Mili Zhanjiang to take out the map, he pointed to the map and said: "The terrain of the Tuoba Department is gentle, there are four exits, my two sons, and the two of you, each commander and a horse, will enter after dark on the sixth day of the first month of June." ”
In the end, Mi Li Qunfeng said: "The reason why I chose the night of the sixth day of the sixth month of June is mainly to block the news, so that Yiwang Li Renkai can not get any news, only in this way can the operation on the Xingqing Mansion side be smoothly advanced." ”
On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, this day is long overdue.
Due to the return of Yunzhou to the Great Song Dynasty, Yiwang Li Renkai has a lot of low-key, on the contrary, the prestige of King Xin Li Renyun is extremely high, almost everyone knows that this King Xin is the spokesperson of the queen mother, and he is determined to be the regent, after all, the queen mother has reached the time of childbirth and is unable to take charge of the government.
Li Renyun's prestige is getting higher and higher, and this guy seems a little carried away. Twenty-fifth birthday, how can you celebrate your birthday? Although it was the grace of the queen's mother, he should have declined, but his birthday went on as scheduled.
It seems that after the queen mother gives birth to the prince, Li Renyun will be the regent, after all, the queen mother is a woman, many things are inconvenient, the prince was born, and there are more than ten years before he grows up, how can there be a power vacuum during this period, so the call for King Xin to be the regent is getting higher and higher, especially at this birthday banquet.
Why is the call for King Xin to be the regent so high, there are still people behind the scenes, but these are no longer important, the most important thing is that King Xin has won the favor of the queen's mother, and now he is in power, and his prestige has long overshadowed King Yi.
After Li Qianshun's assassination, King Yi chose to avoid concessions, but King Xin was aggressive, which gave people the illusion that the power of Western Xia was under the control of King Xin, and the defectors were like carp crossing the river.
On the night of the fourth day of the sixth lunar month, Li Renyun, the king of letters, received a secret report, saying that King Yiwang had hired a killer to assassinate him at the banquet. In the past, King Yixin's character would definitely cancel the banquet, but this time he didn't take King Yi in his eyes at all, and just strengthened his vigilance in advance.
Shameless, Fan Renyun, the strategist of King Li Renyun, came up with a very shameless idea, that is, to tell the princes and ministers of Western Xia in advance, the royal magnates, and let these people know how inferior it is for King Yi to send people to assassinate. For a while, the crowd was full of emotion, but there was no seizure because of the approaching birthday.
Little trick, after hearing this shameless news, Yiwang Li Renkai did not admit it, nor did he deny it, in his opinion, King Xin was just a thief shouting to catch a thief, just to clear himself in the next step and do a good job of public opinion propaganda. Now that everyone has reached the time to meet the poor dagger, there is no friendship to talk about, and whoever kills the deer depends on whose means are higher.
On the one hand, he fanned the flames, and on the other hand, he was silent, which doomed Yiwang Li Renkai to hire a killer to assassinate King Xin and become a well-known thing for passers-by, which made Queen Yelu Nanxian very pleased, she is finally relieved now, for herself, she is at ease and waiting for the birth of the child, as for how to make trouble outside, it doesn't hurt.
A thousand guards have been added to the palace of King Xin, although many of them are wearing civilian clothes, but the security has reached the limit, at least King Xin Li Renyun firmly believes that it is foolproof, because he was still asking the queen Yelu Nanxian Empress before, borrowing the Khitan warriors who had been hidden for many years to protect secretly.
On the sixth day of the first month of June, the heat was terrible, and the genius was bright, and the heat wave began to hit the face, but no matter what, the enthusiasm of everyone to give gifts was high, and the magnates attended not very early, and the first batch of gifts were given by some small officials, and as time went by, the courtiers attended one after another.
If there is a fly in the ointment, it is that the queen did not attend, which everyone can understand, after all, it is the time to give birth, and it is hell to be able to attend.
In fact, Yelu Nanxian's due date is the tenth day of June, but the future is covered up by people's eyes, so it is said that it is late June. She's wasting time now, just waiting for the good news. On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, two major events were destined to occur, the first was the assassination of Li Renyun, the king of letters, at noon, and the second was the bloody sweep of the Tuoba Department by the army of Mili at night.
Assassination, the first batch of assassination unfolded at noon, a subordinate with a fish plate staged a picture of the poor dagger, but this guy was unlucky, the assassination speed was a little slower, was cut off by a guard, the fish plate fell to the ground, and the dagger also fell to the ground.
"Someone, there's an assassin." Li Renyun, the king of letters, was originally timid, and this guy panicked when he saw that there was an assassin, and he shouted while running backwards, as if it was safe to run to the backyard.
Safe, the backyard is not safe, countless assassins poured out of the backyard, one by one with weapons in hand, assassinated, and soon fought with the guards.
After the killing began, the Xinwang Mansion was in chaos, the crying and shouting shook the sky, and those guys who were sloppy and slapping horses ran out one after another, and this chaos made people confused for a while.
The guards were also in disarray, and there were Assassins everywhere, as if they were everywhere.
Kill, kill, kill, kill everywhere, there are assassins everywhere, but no one knows how many assassins there are, these people only care about catching assassins, and for a while they neglect to protect King Xin, of course, these people are looking at King Xin's cronies and guards to protect King Xin, so no one deliberately cares.
Where did King Xin go, this guy was actually protected by his own guards and ran out of King Xin's mansion, all the way to the front gate tower of Central Street.
Kagezo had been waiting in the front gate tower for a long time, and he had already hired dozens of people to hide in the front gate building, just waiting for King Shin to come. The so-called personal guards have long been bribed, and this group of guys just knows that if they escort King Xin to the front gatehouse, each of them will receive five hundred taels of silver.
After Li Renyun, the king of letters, arrived at the front gatehouse, those personal soldiers and guards disappeared without a trace, and countless people rushed over, and this group of people shouted along the way: "Kill this guy, King Yi will reward one thousand taels of silver." ”
Yiwang rewarded 1,000 taels of silver This sentence was made up by Ying San, and this guy wants this effect.
Li Renyun, a high-ranking and powerful king of letters, was punched and killed by this group of ordinary people, and I didn't die until dark. While beating, the group shouted: "Cut off King Xin's head and go to King Yi's mansion to receive the award." ”
Along the way, these people took Li Renyun's head to Yiwang's Mansion, and finally the leading few guys entered Yiwang's Mansion with that bloody head, of course, Yingsan opened the door of Yiwang's Mansion, otherwise these guys wouldn't be able to enter at all.
It's just that the people who went in and the people who came out were not a group of people, and this group of people held the silver with white flowers and shouted long live King Yi along the way.
Where can the guards of Yiwang's Mansion fight the shadow, so this scene can't be stopped at all.
It was dark, and the news of the killing of King Li Renyun reached the palace, and the queen Yelu Nanxian was finally stable, she knew that after King Yi Li Renkai knew that the Tuoba Department was destroyed, he would definitely jump over the wall and force the palace. But these are not a problem anymore, you can take a good rest and wait for the information to come.
The warriors of the Milly Department have been suppressed by the Tuoba Department for too long, and this time they are waiting for the final general attack moment to come, and this time the killing is not only for the long-term peace and stability of the Milly Department, but also for wealth and women.
As night fell, the men and women of the Tuoba tribe gradually fell asleep. These people never dreamed that a nightmare would strike.
The four-way army slowly advanced into the Tuoba tribe, and after eliminating the outpost, the army rushed to kill it. There is no cover-up, no concern, only the killing of hatred.
Overnight, the huge Tuoba was uprooted, and all the men were killed, and the men who were more than the height of the wheels were also killed, and all that was left were children and women.
The Zhejia army took away 80,000 war horses, and thousands of women went back, but this time they did not withdraw to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and still stayed in the Mili tribe.
Zhe Keqiu came to see Mili Qunfeng in person, after all, his army was stationed on other people's territory, and there was no reasonable explanation that could not be justified.
Zhi Keqiu said helplessly: "The Great Song Dynasty has always used literature to unify the military, I am Lord Liu's father-in-law, after Lord Liu was transferred, I was destined to be suppressed by Li Bangyan, but no matter what, my army can't be broken up by that bastard, so I can only borrow your territory for the time being." In addition, as a token of appreciation, I am willing to give a million supplies to stay with you for a year. ”
"And after that year?"
"After a year, we will leave, if we don't leave, we will give you more than three million to be stationed for a year, but it will definitely not be for any longer." Zhe Keqiu knew that Mili Qunfeng was greedy for money, so he offered such conditions, and only in this way could he stay.
Mili Qunfeng actually didn't mean to drive away the other party, after all, the imperial army was still there, maybe they would avenge the Tuoba Department, and it would be safe to have the Zhejia army. was about to bring it up, but he didn't expect to say it first, and he was very happy. With this million, it would not be a problem for the Folded Army to stay here.
Zhe Keqiu sent a message to Liu Zhenglong as soon as possible, and at the same time asked for instructions on whether to kill Li Bangyan. This Li Bangyan is really insatiable, and he can't wait to dig three feet into the ground to dig up wealth. You must know that the northwest is barren, and these generals can only get some money by relying on military merits and risking military salaries, but even so, they still have to face Li Bangyan's blackmail.
Things have come to this point, it is no longer something that Liu Zhenglong can control, anyway, in the northwest it is Li Bangyan who has the final say, and this guy can't die yet, otherwise, the court will definitely pursue it.
There is no impermeable wall in the world, even if the entire Tuoba Department is slaughtered, the news still reaches the ears of Yiwang Li Renkai after more than ten days, and in this case, there are not many opportunities left for this careerist.
The Tuoba Department was uprooted, and Li Renyun, the king of letters, also died, and now Li Renkai, the king of Yi, knows that the next step is to himself, and now it can be said that either the fish dies or the net is broken. Now I can only force the palace, and only by forcing the queen Yelu Nanxian to crown myself as the regent can I be safe and peaceful, otherwise I can only die.
There is only one way left to go, but once the palace fails, it will definitely be uprooted, but at this time, Yiwang Li Renkai has no way out, he still decided to gamble. As long as there was the support of Western Liao, even if there was no Jin State, the Song army would not dare to rashly break into Western Xia, after all, the money-greedy Li Bangyan was just a cowardly civil official, and he definitely did not have the courage to provoke a war.
Since it was decided to force the palace, King Yi Li Renkai secretly transferred 3,000 imperial troops into the city to control the defense of Xingqing Mansion, and at the same time surrounded the palace. It is difficult to succeed in forcing the palace in Xingqing Mansion, if you can't force the queen Yelu Nanxian to submit in a short time, once the order of King Qin is issued, the people in the city will fight back, this is the biggest feature of Western Xia, hiding soldiers in the people. Both men and women, as long as the authority gives an order, will take up arms and take to the streets to serve the king.
For a long time, it has always been the empress Yelu Nanxian who is strong, and the emperor Li Qianshun is weak, and over time, the people in the city have accepted the reality that the empress is in power, and recently the emperor Li Qianshun has announced that the imperial power is in the hands of the empress due to the difficulty of healing from his injuries.
If Yiwang Li Renkai could not become the regent authorized by Empress Yelu Nanxian, then it would be difficult for him to control the situation in Xingqing Mansion with only 3,000 imperial troops. Moreover, the imperial army is loyal to the emperor, and after the emperor authorized it to the empress, there are very few imperial troops that can be mobilized by King Yi, and only these 3,000 people can absolutely obey.
After taking control of the defense of the palace, Yiwang Li Renkai forcibly entered the palace surrounded by dozens of guards. But not long after this guy entered the palace gate, the palace gate was tightly closed.
After the palace gate was closed, Li Renzhong, the king of Pu who had disappeared for a long time, finally appeared, he entered the city with thousands of elite soldiers, and he took the edict of Empress Yelu Nanxian and the holy decree of Emperor Li Qianshun, this guy became the regent.
Since its establishment, the imperial army has stipulated that it cannot violate the holy decree, as long as the holy decree must be obeyed, and the 3,000 imperial army soon submitted to Li Renzhong, the king of Pu.