About Chapter 79 Synopsis: Under the blows of Northern Liang and Western Qin, the Southern Liang Kingdom was poor and weak, and as a result, there was a food shortage in the country in another disaster year. Regardless of the opposition of the ministers, the bald hair of the lord of Nanliang insisted on personally leading the army to plunder the Yifu Department attached to Tuyuhun, and the bald hair Wei Tan left the prince bald Hutai to stay in the capital city of Ledu before the expedition, and as a result, the lord of the Western Qin State took the opportunity to attack. The bald tiger did not listen to his father's words, resulting in a great defeat and the loss of Ledu. On the way to successfully loot the Yifu Division, the bald Wei Tan heard that Le Du was lost, and as a result, the troops fled very heavily, and the bald Wei Tan had to dispel the idea of making a comeback, surrendered to the Western Qin, and the Southern Liang also perished.

In this story, the already weak Nanliang regime made matters worse, and natural disasters broke out in the country, and the Nanliang regime was robbed by the Western Qin regime, and the bald Wei Tan, the lord of the Southern Liang State, had to surrender to the Western Qin, and the Nanliang regime was destroyed by the Western Qin regime 23 years after the founding of the country. With the demise of the Nanliang regime. The Xianbei bald hair department has also merged with various ethnic groups in the northwest region. We can basically find the ethnic relics of the Xianbei bald tribe today, but in history, there was a feudal dynasty in the northwest that existed for nearly 200 years, and the main tribe of this feudal dynasty was inextricably linked with the Xianbei bald tribe and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe. We have already said a lot about the Xianbei Bald Hair Department and the Nanliang regime established by it, and we will take this opportunity to talk about this feudal dynasty related to the Xianbei Bald Hair Department.

This feudal dynasty is the Xixia Dynasty that once formed the Three Kingdoms with the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty, the main tribal party of the Xixia Dynasty, the historical records are a branch of the Qiang people, also known as the Dangxiang Qiang, but from the perspective of the development process of the party, the party should also be formed by the fusion of nomads in the northwest region. Because the original party was divided into eight tribes, known as the eight tribes of the party, the most powerful of which was called the Tuoba tribe, its leader Tuoba Sigong helped the Tang Dynasty to suppress the Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and was canonized by the Tang Dynasty, and was given the surname Li. Therefore, Tuoba Sigong is also called Li Sigong, and his descendants also take Li as their surname.

In fact, we can see from the Tuoba Department of the Party that the Dangxiang people should be the tribe of the new nomadic people formed after the Xianbei Tuoba Department in the northwest region during the Sixteen Kingdoms period and the fusion with other ethnic groups, especially the tribes of the Qiang people, of course, the Dangxiang people must be the royal descendants of the Northern Wei Dynasty, however, I think this is the Dangxiang people who put gold on their faces, because the most important branch of the Xianbei Tuoba Department in the northwest region is the Xianbei Bald Division. Therefore, I think that the ancestor of the Dangxiang people should be the Xianbei Bald Hair Tribe, not the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, the main ethnic group of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because the main activity area of the Xianbei Tuoba Department that established the Northern Wei Dynasty was in the Kanto region, although there was a population that migrated to the northwest region, it was definitely still very small. Therefore, in the northwest region, it can be directly related to the Tuoba Department. It is the Xianbei bald department that once established the Nanliang regime. However, there is now a disagreement about the origin of the party. In any case, the Qiang people with Tuoba as their surname should be produced after the fusion of the Xianbei and Qiang groups.

After the death of Tuoba Sigong, who was given the surname Li, the leaders of the Party Tuoba Department took advantage of the fall of the Tang Dynasty that the Central Plains region fell into the chaos of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and began to grow and develop in the northwest region, but no matter which of the five dynasties the Central Plains Dynasty was replaced, they all showed an attitude of bowing down to the vassals, so the Central Plains Dynasty did not regard the expansion of the Party Tuoba Department as a thing. However, after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, in order to recover his military power, recruited the leader of the party Tuoba Department, Li Jisheng's family, to the capital Kaifeng, preparing to completely pacify the northwest, but Li Jiqian, the younger brother of Li Jisheng, knew that he would die if he went to Kaifeng, so he escaped halfway.

After Li Jiqian returned to the northwest, he not only mastered the full strength of the tribe, but also married with the local big families in the northwest region, so that the party gradually developed and expanded, Li Jiqian took advantage of the contradiction between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty to continuously defeat the army of the Northern Song Dynasty, forcing the Northern Song Dynasty to cede land and seek peace. However, when Li Jiqian was gradually dominating the northwest, when he allied with the Tubo Dynasty that rose in Tibet, he was plotted by the Tubo people and was finally shot. After Li Jiqian's death, he was succeeded by his son Li Deming.

During the reign of Li Deming, he focused on developing the power of his tribe to the west, and constantly defeated the Tubo and Uighurs, laying the foundation for the Western Xia Dynasty to dominate the northwest. After Li Deming's death, his son Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne.

Li Yuanhao is the famous founding emperor of the Western Xia, in fact, during the reign of Li Jiqian and Li Deming's father and son, the Western Xia Dynasty had the foundation of the country, so Li Yuanhao was called the emperor, posthumously named Li Jiqian as Emperor Taizu, Li Deming was Emperor Taizong, Li Yuanhao inherited the rich foundation left by his father, naturally no longer obedient to the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty, and after successively defeating the Northern Song Dynasty's conquest army, he officially called the emperor in Xingqing Mansion, which is today's Yinchuan, Ningxia, and established the Western Xia Dynasty. However, Li Yuanhao became more and more arrogant when he continued to achieve rich results in foreign wars and the founding of the country, and he was killed by Ning Lingge because he robbed the wife of the prince Ning Lingge as a concubine, because of his temple name Jingzong, so Li Yuanhao is also known as Xixia Jingzong.

After Ning Lingge killed his father, he was killed by his uncle who did not hide the false Pang, and did not hide the false Pang to support Li Yuanhao's one-year-old young son Li Liangzuo succeeded to the throne, and he controlled the power of the Western Xia Dynasty, Li Liangzuo became an adult, dissatisfied with the dictatorship of the Emperor Pang, and took the opportunity to kill him, and since then he has been in power, Li Liangzuo is young and old, very diplomatic, leading the Western Xia Dynasty to maneuver between the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty and the Tubo Dynasty, and has achieved many diplomatic and military victories, making the Xixia Dynasty develop steadily, but unfortunately Li Liangzuo died young, and the temple name is Yizong. His seven-year-old son, Li Bingchang, succeeded to the throne.

Because Li Bingchang was young, the Western Xia Dynasty was in the hands of his mother Empress Dowager Liang, the Empress Dowager Liang was unwilling to grow up Li Bingchang pro-government, and even imprisoned Li Bingchang, although this matter was opposed by the Western Xia generals, but Li Bingchang has never been able to pro-government, and finally died of grief in the puppet career, the temple name Huizong, his three-year-old son Li Qianshun succeeded to the throne, and the Western Xia State Administration was still controlled by the Empress Dowager Liang and her family. In order to extort the rewards of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Liang constantly sent troops to attack the Northern Song Dynasty, resulting in the closure of trade between the two countries, the internal financial difficulties of the Western Xia Dynasty, and the boiling of public resentment.

Li Qianshun, who had his own ambitions, was naturally dissatisfied with his grandmother Empress Dowager Liang's interference, but before Li Qianshun was in power, there were contradictions within the Empress Dowager Liang's family, and the power of the Empress Dowager Liang began to decline, because the Empress Dowager Liang continued to use troops against the Northern Song Dynasty, which made the internal contradictions of the Western Xia Dynasty reborn, and the emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Hongji, saw the evil consequences caused by the Empress Dowager Liang's perverse actions, so he poisoned the Empress Dowager Liang as the suzerain, and ordered Li Qianshun to govern in person, and Li Qianshun was in power after the two Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty that were about to decline. So that the Western Xia Dynasty gained time to recuperate. At this time, the Jurchen Wanyan Department began to rise, constantly attacking the Liao Dynasty, Li Qianshun continued to expand the territory of the Western Xia Dynasty in the Liao Jin Dynasty, and Li Qianshun saw that the demise of the Liao Dynasty was a foregone conclusion, and attached to the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchen Wanyan Department, Li Qianshun saw a profit in the war of the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Northern Song Dynasty, and constantly encroached on the northwest territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, during the reign of Li Qianshun, the Western Xia Dynasty took advantage of the rise of the Jin Dynasty and the decline of the Liao Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, and reached the peak of national strength, Li Qianshun died of illness after reigning for fifty-three years, and the temple name Chongzong. He was succeeded by his son Lee In-hyo.

During the reign of Li Renxiao, the Xixia Dynasty pursued the national policy of forming a good alliance with the Jin Dynasty and maintained a relatively stable relationship with the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, so during this period, the Xixia Dynasty was in a period of peaceful development, and Li Renxiao did not rely on the Central Plains culture to govern the country at the right time. The Tangut Dynasty's foreign wars were basically repeated defeats. Li Renxiao, who reigned for fifty-four years, died, and his eldest son Li Chunyou succeeded him.

During the reign of Li Chunyou, the Mongols began to rise, and constantly rioted the Western Xia border, but Li Chunyou was unable to inherit his father's title because of the clan Li An'an's request, and was abolished and imprisoned by Li An'an in the rebellion of the clan.

Li An'an was dumb and incompetent, and even tore up the contract with the Jin Dynasty, constantly at war with the Jin Dynasty, and began to make good alliances with the Mongols, the Western Xia Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty quickly declined in the war, while the Mongols who were friendly with the Western Xia continued to get opportunities to develop and grow, Li An'an's behavior of calamity to the country and the people eventually caused strong dissatisfaction among the ministers of the clan, and Li Zunwei, who had won the title of champion in the imperial examination of the Western Xia Dynasty, imitated Li An'an to launch a coup d'état and ascended to the throne, and Li An'an also left and died, and the temple name was Xiangzong.

After Li Zunwei ascended to the throne, he was still continuing Li An'an's policy of governing the country, forming a good alliance with the Mongols, and making war against the Jin Dynasty, as a result, the internal and external contradictions of the Western Xia Dynasty were highlighted, while the Mongols were becoming stronger step by step. Under the coercion of the Mongols, the champion emperor Li Zunwei had to abdicate as the emperor, and passed on to his son Li Dewang, after the death of Li Zunwei, the temple name Shenzong.

The Western Xia Dynasty inherited by Li Dewang was already a mess, under the continuous advance of the Mongol army led by Genghis Khan, the emperor Li Zunwei and the emperor Li Dewang of the Western Xia Dynasty were frightened to death one after another, and Li Dewang's temple was dedicated to the sect. With the support of the remaining ministers of the Western Xia clan, Li Dewang's nephew Li Li inherited the throne, but only a year later, under the siege of the Mongol army, Li Li surrendered out of the city and was killed by the Mongol army, and the Western Xia Dynasty fell 189 years after the founding of the country. The Dangxiang people were then integrated between the Mongols and the various ethnic groups in the northwest.