Historically, Western Xia was not a very mature country with a fully integrated economy and culture.

Before the founding of the Western Xia, the Hexi and Lingxia areas were multi-ethnic living areas, with Han nationality, Dangxiang, Huihe, Tuyuhun, Tatar, Tubo, Shatuo, etc., and the ethnic composition was extremely complex.

In "Records of the Song Desert", it is said that Hui Que "has family accounts in the old days of sweetness, coolness, melon, and sand, and later learned that he was confined to Western Xia". The Li Yuanhao family forcibly brought together the various ethnic groups in the region through military conquest and political alliances, and the original Xia regime was actually a political and military alliance of the tribes.

Under the strong influence of the rulers of the Li family in Western Xia, through a long period of mixed living. The barriers between the original tribes gradually broke down and the process of integration began.

In this process, the successive rulers of the Tangut Dynasty played a positive catalytic role in the emergence of the Tangut national consciousness through a series of means such as making the Tibetan ceremony, issuing bald hair orders, creating writing, introducing religious culture, and carrying out foreign trade and war, and gradually accumulated and created a unique Tangut national culture.

However, the racial differences within the Tangut nation have not yet had time to be digested, such as the "Yuan History" volume 170 "Yuan Yu Biography" cloud: "The Qiang of the Western Xia is mixed and indistinguishable." The so-called Qiang refers to the Tibetan Yi language groups such as Dangxiang Qiang, and Hun refers to the Altaic language groups such as Tuyuhun.

Wu Hai's "Preface to the Genealogy of the Wang Family" for the Tangut people also said: "Its customs are different from the old Qiang to Fan, and no one is Han in Hexi." Tu Ji according to this cloud: "Its custom is that the old Qiang is the west of the Han River, and no one is in the west of the Han River, such as Xiao Li, Gao, Shi, Lai, Yang, Liu, Wang, Zhou, and Zhang Zhu's are all in the west of the Han River." For example, "the famous family of Xia, different from Tang Wu, has Liu Shiyan, who first lived in Dunhuang, died in Xia, and migrated to Zhangye in Ganzhou."

This Liu immediately "fell into Hexi and no one", and still retained the characteristics of the Han nationality. Zhang Yanghao's "Gansu Province Founding Laiyuan Building": "Zhangye is thousands of miles away from Beijing, and those who live in the middle of the wrong place are not one."

These records show that although the Tangut had begun to integrate with the various ethnic groups, it had never completed the process, and even now that the imperial army was attacking, the internal racial differences in the Tangut still existed.

In fact, don't say that this little Western Xia, even a powerful empire, and even all countries in later generations, have the same problems, and even a country like the United States, there is no good way to solve it.

In the past, when the Western Xia dominated the northwest and invaded the surrounding countries, a balance could still be maintained between the various ethnic groups in the country, but since the successive droughts, all the contradictions have been stimulated.

There were not many places with water sources in Western Xia, only the vicinity of the Yellow River and the Datong River were the most suitable for survival, so Li Qianshun, the head of the country, as a member of the party, naturally ordered that the people of his own nationality should be given priority to migrate over, which caused dissatisfaction among other ethnic groups in the territory.

If the Western Xia clan continued to maintain high-pressure rule, it is estimated that it would not be a big problem, after all, other ethnic groups have no ability to resist, but now it is different.

The two armies of the north and south of the empire attacked in a big way, and Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia state, took the initiative to concentrate the forces of the whole country, preparing to annihilate the northern route army of the empire first, and then eat the other army of the empire in the south.

Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, had a good plan, but he didn't expect that the Western Xia Iron Cavalry, which had been invincible in the past, would not be able to defeat the imperial infantry in the field.

The defeat of the field battle was like a slash in the heart of every Western Xia general, cutting off their pride and glory.

For the Western Xia soldiers who were good at cavalry and archery, their powerful cavalry could not defeat the infantry with extremely poor mobility in the relatively flat and completely galloping wilderness, which simply subverted their understanding of war.

At this time, Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia State who was trapped in Xingqing Mansion, was also very confused, judging from the previous battles, he knew that he was powerless to return to the sky in this war, and he did not know where to go in the future.

Even Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, began to have such a mentality, not to mention other soldiers and the people of Western Xia.

Lu Dinggong once asked: "The monarch envoy, the minister, what is it?"

Confucius said: "The king makes the ministers courteous, and the ministers are loyal." ”

Cheng Shude's "Collected Interpretations of the Analects" quoted "Huang Shu": "If the king is rude, the minister is also disloyal." This can be compared with what Mencius said.

Mencius said: "The king regards his ministers as his siblings, and the ministers regard the king as his heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy. ”

These remarks all expounded the relationship between the monarch and the people, and now Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia State, completely disregards the people in the south, and now the northern battlefield is also suffering a series of defeats, so the people in the country also regard him as a revenge.

Just when the North Route Army was preparing for the final decisive battle with the Western Xia army in Xingqing Mansion, the South Route Army marched into the hinterland of Western Xia in four ways.

Zhang Shuye, the commander of the Sixth Army of the Empire, led his army to the area of Xuanhua Mansion, and the leaders of the Tuyuhun, Tatar, Tubo and Shatuo tribes living here did not flee, but took the initiative to come to the camp of the imperial army.

Zhang Shuye did not greet the leaders of these tribes in the tent, but came outside.

Looking at the desolate land outside, Zhang Shuye said impassionedly to the leaders and servants of these tribes: "You have been completely abandoned by Li Qianshun and the party members, and they haven't even sent troops to try to stop the empire's army, so your return to the empire is the most correct choice at present!" ”

The tribal leaders standing beside Zhang Shuye, although they looked old and tired, they were the negotiators elected by the various tribes of Western Xia.

Coming to the camp of the Imperial Army at this time was actually a very risky thing, but in order to keep their own clansmen alive, these people could only muster up courage and come hard.

With a glimmer of hope, the Uighur patriarch asked, "Our tribes, and hundreds of thousands of people, are no longer able to live, and if the empire is really sincere enough to accept us, then I hope you can provide some food." ”

Now the most expensive thing in Western Xia is food, not only many people have begun to sell their sons and daughters, but there are also rogues in some areas who kill people, it can be said that these shortcomings are not far from starvation.

Food is indeed a big problem, and now the imperial legion of Zhang Shuye and others also needs to transport food from the country, so this sincerity is not too easy to express.

After careful consideration, Zhang Shuye said to the patriarchs of many tribes: "You also know that our army will come to Western Xia far away and will not carry too much food, but I am willing to give you some of it to help you in emergencies, but if you want to survive this year, you have to wait for the empire to pacify Western Xia and restore transportation." ”