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Sickness comes like a mountain.

Li Qianshun said that he fell, and suddenly he fell.

Because Li Qianshun fell so suddenly, that the Western Xia dynasty, which was in the midst of storms, did not have a suitable heir.

Li Qianshun has a total of three sons in his life, namely, the eldest son Li Renai, the second son Li Renxiao, and the youngest son Li Renyou.

Li Renai, that is, the original prince of Western Xia, if he is still alive, then everything will be easily solved - Li Renai, who should be twenty-seven or eighteen years old now, can be Li Qianshun's position, and should be able to take over the rudder of the broken ship of Western Xia and continue to sail in the ocean of history with the people of Western Xia.

It's a pity -

At the beginning, Liao was about to die, Emperor Tianzuo fled in a hurry, close to the border of Western Xia, Li Qianshun sent people to meet, at that time, Wanyan Aguta also sent people into the Xia Kingdom, and put forward conditions to Li Qianshun: if Emperor Tianzuo entered Xia, he hoped to capture the release of Jin, Jin would cut part of the land of Liao as a reward, otherwise, the soldiers would meet each other.

Li Qianshun saw that the Liao situation was gone, and after weighing the pros and cons, he agreed to Wanyan Aguta's request and "ced" Emperor Tianzuo to the Jin State.

Li Renai sighed and was sad for several months when he learned the news of the defeat of Liao, and when he learned that his father Li Qianshun had declared himself a vassal to the Jin State and turned his back on the Liao State, he cried bitterly to persuade his father.

Out of consideration for the interests of the Western Xia country, Li Qianshun did not listen to Li Renai's advice, but instead scolded Li Renai.

The young Li Renai was so grief-stricken that he died of grief a few months after the fall of Liao.

At the beginning, when the Liao State had not yet declined, Yelu Nanxian, who had the support of the Liao State behind her, was very domineering, and she monopolized the harem, forcing Li Qianshun not to dare to be fortunate with other women.

Of course, you can also say that Li Qianshun and Yelu Nanxian have a good relationship, and Li Qianshun is reluctant to touch other women.

In short, until the Liao State lost power, there was never another woman who gave birth to a son and a half daughter for Li Qianshun, and it was not until the year before the death of Li Renai and Yelu Nanxian that Cao Guifei gave birth to Li Qianshun's second son Li Renxiao, and a few years later, Li Qianshun's third son Li Renyou was also born.

Because Li Renxiao was born too late, Li Qianshun fell ill a few years earlier than in history, so that the current Li Renxiao is only eleven years old, and as for Li Renyou, he is even younger, less than ten years old.

How could such two young children drive the broken ship of Xixia that leaked everywhere?

Although Li Qianshun was seriously ill, his mind was still quite clear, and he knew what kind of burden he had entrusted to his young son.

Therefore, whenever Li Qianshun is sober, he always cries bitterly!

One day.

Empress Ren, who was guarding Li Qianshun's bedside, heard Li Qianshun crying again and asked, "Why is Your Majesty sad?" ”

Li Qianshun replied: "I'm sad for Da Xia, sad for your mother and son, I don't know, after I'm gone, what should Da Xia and your mother and son do?" Will it be like the Liao Song ......?"

Li Qianshun really couldn't say the rest of the words, and he really didn't dare to imagine that kind of thing happening.

Empress Ren helped Li Qianshun wipe away her tears and said, "Your Majesty said such frustrating words, the imperial doctor said, Your Majesty is just overworked, and after a while of resting, he will get better." ”

Li Qianshun let out a long sigh and said, "I know my body, so the queen doesn't need to comfort me anymore." ”

When Empress Ren heard this, she couldn't help but cry - she lied, and what the imperial doctor said was actually that Li Qianshun had little time.

Although the age difference between the two is nearly forty years old, the relationship between Li Qianshun and Queen Ren is really good, and Li Qianshun also really loves Queen Ren, so Queen Ren is really crying for Li Qianshun.

Li Qianshun stretched out his thin hand tremblingly to help Queen Ren wipe away her tears, and said: "What are you crying about, everyone dies once, how can I be an exception, it's just ...... I died at a bad time. ”

Hearing Li Qianshun's words, Queen Ren's tears that had just been wiped away by Li Qianshun immediately flowed down again.

Li Qianshun wanted to help Queen Ren wipe away her tears again, but he couldn't touch Queen Ren's face with all his strength.

In the end, Li Qianshun could only put his hand down again very unwillingly.

Empress Ren only cared about crying, and didn't see Li Qianshun's powerlessness at this moment.

After a long pause, Li Qianshun said again: "There is one thing, I want to ask your opinion, I hope you can give me a pertinent suggestion truthfully in the relationship between the two of us in the past few years." ”

When Empress Ren heard this, she wiped away two handfuls of tears, and then said, "Your Majesty said that the concubine will answer truthfully." ”

Li Qianshun said: "Your father wants to marry your sister to Xiao'er, what do you think of this matter?" ”

Queen Ren listened to the words and was silent for a while before she said: "The sister has received an excellent education since she was a child, she is knowledgeable, intelligent and unparalleled, and what is even more rare is that she has a pure character and a tolerant atmosphere, if she is the queen, she will be a generation of virtuous queens, and, as we all know, she is the first beauty of our Great Xia, the concubine thinks, the prince should also like her, and she should also be able to assist the prince." ”

Li Qianshun listened to the words and asked quietly: "So, do you approve of your sister marrying Xiao'er?" ”

What Li Qianshun didn't expect was that Queen Ren didn't nod, but shook her head, and then said, "The concubine doesn't approve." ”

After Li Qianshun heard this, his cloudy eyes lit up slightly, and then he continued to ask quietly: "This is strange, your sister is so good, why don't you approve of her marrying Xiao'er?" ”

Queen Ren was silent for a while, and said: "It's good that the sister is good, and she can be qualified for the position of queen, but she shouldn't have been, and she shouldn't have been born in the Ren family." ”

Li Qianshun asked knowingly, "Why is this?" ”

Queen Ren didn't blame Li Qianshun for asking knowingly, but said directly: "Because of the concubines, the Ren family has been extremely favored, if you let the sister marry the prince again, it will not only be a good thing for our Daxia, but also for the Ren family, so the concubine resolutely opposes the prince marrying the sister." ”

Li Qianshun is not a dumb gentleman, he likes Queen Ren, not only because Queen Ren is young and beautiful, but also because Queen Ren is virtuous, so that he who was oppressed by Yelu Nanxian before found spiritual sustenance, otherwise, with Li Qianshun's means and skills, how could he tolerate Ren Dejing and the Ren family to become stronger and bigger and become a disaster that Xixia Wei could not get rid of?

Now it seems that Queen Ren has not lived up to Li Qianshun so good for her - you must know that no matter how Queen Ren is favored by Li Qianshun, after Li Qianshun dies, the only thing Queen Ren can rely on is the Ren family, therefore, Queen Ren's sister becoming the next queen is actually the most beneficial to Queen Ren, but Queen Ren finally chose to obstruct her sister from the next queen for Li Qianshun and Xixia, which is very commendable.

Li Qianshun is very pleased!

After a pause, Li Qianshun said, "Xiao'er, can you hear what your mother said?" ”

As soon as Li Qianshun's voice fell, eleven-year-old Li Renxiao walked out from behind the screen, and then bowed to Queen Ren and said, "The child greets the queen mother." ”

Empress Ren was surprised that Li Renxiao was hiding behind the screen, so she couldn't ask Li Renxiao to be exempt from etiquette at the first time.

At this time, Li Qianshun's voice sounded: "Don't blame Xiao'er, the queen, I let him hide behind the screen, I did this, first to tell Xiao'er that he can't marry your sister, and secondly, for you, I want Xiao'er to know how good you are, so that after I die, Xiao'er can respect you, and the rest of your life will not be too bleak." ”

Li Renxiao answered: "The child only knows the feelings of the father and the queen mother today, and the emperor can rest assured that the child will treat the queen mother as a biological mother in the future, and will never teach her to suffer half of the grievances." ”

Li Qianshun listened to the words and said to Li Renxiao: "If you can really do this, it will not be in vain for you and my father and son." ”

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A few days later, presided over by Li Qianshun and Empress Ren, the eleven-year-old Li Renxiao married the thirteen-year-old daughter of the Gang family as the crown princess.

The Gang family is a big party family, and the Gang family has also received an excellent education since she was a child, knowledgeable, intelligent and virtuous, and she also loves Chinese learning and Chinese etiquette.

In addition, the Gang family has a deep background in Western Xia.

After Lee In-hyo married the Gang, it helped him stabilize his power.

It can be said that Li Qianshun chose a good virtuous helper for Li Renxiao.

For Li Qianshun not choosing the second daughter of the Ren family as the crown princess, Ren Dejing secretly hated.

But although Ren Dejing's current power is already very large, the current Western Xia is actually still under the control of Li Qianshun.

Therefore, Ren Dejing dared to hate but did not dare to speak, so he could only watch as the Gang family became the crown princess, and after Li Qianshun's death, he became the queen.

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After more than half a month, Li Qianshun's condition suddenly worsened and he died within two days.

After Li Qianshun's death, Li Renxiao, who was more than eleven years old and less than twelve years old, ascended the throne.

Li Renxiao honored his mother Cao as the "Mother of the Nation", Empress Zunren as the "Queen Mother", and the Regang family as the "Empress".

Politically.

Externally, Li Renxiao still followed the route of his father Li Qianshun and befriended Dazhong - in view of the current difficult situation in Western Xia, and in view of the fact that Li Yan and Li Qianshun had become brothers with different surnames, Li Renxiao himself was Li Yan's nephew, Li Renxiao took the initiative to send people to Dazhong to request that the brother's state be reduced to an uncle and nephew state, Li Renxiao was willing to respect Li Yan as an uncle, and Xixia was willing to become a vassal of Dazhong, Li Renxiao tried to resolve Dazhong's economic sanctions against Xixia in this way to stabilize the external environment and internal hidden dangers.

Internally, Li Renxiao reused party items and Han ministers with a high level of education to preside over state affairs; setting up schools at all levels to promote education; the implementation of the imperial examination to select talents; Respect Confucianism, overhaul the Confucian Temple and respect Confucius as Emperor Wenxuan; established the Hanlin Academy and compiled the records of the past dynasties; attaches great importance to ritual music, and cultivates the music book "New Law"; During the Tiansheng years, the code "Tiansheng Year Reform Law Order" was promulgated; Respect Buddhism, worship Tibetan Buddhist monks as national teachers, and engrave a variety of Buddhist scriptures.

Although Li Renxiao is young, Li Renxiao's governance methods are not tender.

Of course, all of this is thanks to Li Qianshun - when Li Qianshun ran out of oil and dried up, he arranged for Li Renxiao, Li Chage, Li Renzhong, and Li Renli, three auxiliary ministers with both talents and talents, which made Li Renxiao take over the throne in a hurry, but he took over the throne of Western Xia very smoothly.

But—

This is only a temporary phenomenon.

In fact, as long as you have a little political vision, you can see that the current Western Xia is actually sitting on a powder keg, and it may be blown up at any time.

Really!

It didn't take long for the Xiao Heda rebellion to occur in Western Xia.

Xiao Heda was originally a general of the Liao Dynasty, and he came to Western Xia from Princess Yelu Nanxian of Cheng'an.

Because Xiao Heda was brave and good at riding and shooting, Li Qianshun left Xiao Heda in Western Xia.

Over the years, Xiao Heda has made many military exploits in the expedition, so Li Qianshun gave him the surname of the country and promoted him to the capital of Xiazhou.

After Li Qianshun betrayed Liao, the princess of Cheng'an, Yelu Nanxian, and the prince Li Renai died one after another.

At that time, Xiao Heda already secretly hated Western Xia and Li Qianshun.

But while secretly hating Li Qianshun, Xiao Heda was afraid of Li Qianshun, who was very methodical.

Therefore, before Li Qianshun died, Xiao Heda did not dare to act rashly.

Later, Xiao Heda sent people to find Yelu Yali, wanting to join forces with Yelu Yali.

But by the time the people sent by Xiao Heda found Yeluyali, Yeluyali was already exhausted from hunting.

Xiao Heda then sent people to Kedun City to find Yelu Shulie, however, Yelu Shulie only wanted to be happy and happy, and did not want to return to the country at all.

Xiao Heda was furious because of this.

coincided with the death of Li Qianshun, and Xiao Heda was angry and rebelled in Xiazhou City.

Xiao Heda then contacted the Khitan tribe in Yinshan in an attempt to support the royal descendants of the Liao Dynasty and restore the Liao Dynasty.

Soon, Xiao Heda's rebels entered the siege of Xiping Mansion, conquered Yanzhou, approached Helan Mountain, and Xingzhou was shaken.

On the contrary, the disaster is not a single line.

In this year, there was another severe famine in Western Xia, and the price of grain soared, and a liter of rice was sold for 100 yuan.

Not only famine, but also a strong earthquake occurred in the capital Xingqing Mansion, with aftershocks lasting more than a month, bad officials' private houses, city walls, and tens of thousands of people and animals died.

Subsequently, the ground cracked in Xiazhou, and the black sand gushed out, reaching several feet high, and the trees and houses were submerged.

Due to the disasters caused by famine, earthquakes, and ground fissures, it was difficult for the party and the people to survive, so they had to take risks and hold armed uprisings to rebel against the imperial court -- Dabin in Weizhou, Burying Qing in Jingzhou, and Zhulang and Fuer in Dingzhou and other tribes and people revolted one after another, with more than 10,000 people and as few as 5,000 or 6,000 people.

The Privy Councillor Su suggested that these incidents should be caused by disasters, and that priority should be given to the relief of the victims, and proposed a relief method, that is, those who died as a result of the disaster were exempt from rent and tax for three years; Death tax exemption for two years; The injured are exempt from rent and tax for one year. The building collapsed and asked the government to help repair it. In areas where the famine is severe, the officials of the prefectures are ordered to inspect the areas where the famine is severe, and the relief and relief benefits reach the wells according to the severity of the famine.

To be fair, Su Zhili's method is good.

But the problem is that Xixia has no money, so he can't do it according to Su Zhili's method.

As a result, the chaos intensified.

In the face of this big mess, not to mention that Li Renxiao is just a twelve-year-old child, even if Li Qianshun is still alive, he can't control it.

As a result, everything spiraled out of control.

This is feudal society.

On the surface, this series of events in Western Xia was all caused by natural disasters.

And this natural disaster was caused after Li Renxiao ascended the throne.

This inevitably makes people suspect that God does not approve of Li Renxiao as the emperor.

There are also many such discussions.

One day, Ren Dejing heard someone say: "The emperor is not virtuous, so that the world is restless, otherwise let's change to a virtuous emperor, right?" ”

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

After Li Qianshun's death, Li Renxiao in order to show his respect for Empress Ren (he also wanted to get rid of Li Chage, Li Renzhong, and Li Renli's control over him), and issued an order to respect Ren Dejing as the minister of state.

Not long ago, Xiao Heda rebelled, and Ren Dejing took the initiative to ask Ying to quell the rebellion, but Ren Dejing took the military power of Western Xia in his hands.

It can be said that today's Ren Dejing has initially obtained the supreme authority of Western Xia.

The taste of power is so wonderful.

Man's ambition is so endless.

Ren Dejing didn't want to just be a passerby of this supreme power, he wanted to keep this supreme power forever.

However, Ren Dejing felt that God gave him this opportunity.

After thinking about it for a long time, Ren Dejing made an extremely bold decision - he sent his confidant to escort his second daughter, who was the Empress Ren in history, to Dazhong, he wanted to dedicate her second daughter to Li Yan, and asked Li Yan to canonize him as the lord of Western Xia, and then he raised troops to replace Li Renxiao......

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PS: This is a big chapter in two, so that's it for today.