In the third year of Jiayou, in the first month, Song Renzong ordered the requisition of officers and soldiers, and transferred the people to dig the Yongji River, which took nine months to complete this huge project. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Regarding this matter, Su Lin didn't know why Zhao Zhen did this, but fortunately, Su Lin went back last time and put a few Song history books in the ring, and only after checking it did he know.

It turned out that during the reign of Song Renzong, Kaifeng, the capital city of Song, suffered a catastrophic flood disaster and suffered extremely heavy losses. In order to prevent floods from flooding again in the future, some people suggested digging a river channel from Gejiagang in Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, to Haocaopi in the south of Kaifeng City, so that the water would flow north into the Huimin River, and then flow from the Huimin River into the Lugou River.

In March, Su Lin bid farewell to everyone and went to the border area of Songxia and Shaanxi.

Su Lin's team, counting her, has a total of one hundred and fifty people. One hundred and eight of them were warriors, and the rest were some grooms.

Su Lin's team was huge, and she brought some ceramics, tea, cloth and other goods that were not practical. Although the most popular thing for the Tangut people is food, it is impossible for Su Lin to use the grain to fund the enemy.

Su Lin sat in the carriage and looked out the window.

"Sun Tai, we're there."

"Back to the princess, we have arrived in Gyeongju, and we are not far from the border."

Su Lin and his entourage, starting from Bianliang, Tokyo, all the way to the west, due to the huge team, so they walked very slowly, and they have been walking for a month.

During this month, Su Lin carried a large amount of goods, which naturally attracted the attention of the people of the green forest. Some people on the road, among them, there are also martial arts masters, and there are so many first- and second-rate masters hidden in Su Lin's team, they are all shocked and dare not attack in the slightest.

But there are still some little thieves who are not afraid of death, who come out to block the road and rob, and they don't need Su Lin to make a move at all, just these people under Su Lin can be carved up.

Although Su Lin tried to keep a low profile, some people still saw that they came from an extraordinary background. Their destinations, in particular, are much speculated.

Who are these people? Looks like you're heading to Western Xia? Now that the imperial court has banned commercial exchanges between the two countries, they dare to defy the condemnation of the world, are they not afraid of being caught by the imperial army?

But the army of the imperial court didn't seem to see them, and the officials they passed by didn't ask, so Su Lin came all the way to the Western Xia border.

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Along the way, Su Lin took a look at the history of Western Xia. At that time, Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne of Xia and began to actively prepare to break away from the Song Dynasty. He first abandoned the surname Li and called himself Wei Ming. In the second year, in the name of avoiding his father, he changed the name of Song Mingdao to Xiandao. began the Western Xia's own era name.

In the following years, he built a palace, established civil and military classes, stipulated the service of officials and the people, fixed the military system, established the name of the army, created his own national script (Western Xia script), and issued the bald hair decree. He also sent a large army to capture the three strategic places of Guazhou, Shazhou and Suzhou in Tibet. In this way, Yuan Hao already owned the land of Xia, Yin, Sui, You, Jing, Ling, Hui, Sheng, Gan, Liang, Gua, Sha, and Su, that is, northern Ningxia, small part of Gansu, northern Shaanxi, eastern Qinghai and parts of Inner Mongolia.

In 1038 AD, Li Yuanhao was proclaimed emperor and founded the country as Daxia. The Song court was extremely angry, and the relationship between the two sides officially broke down. In the following years, Yuan Hao successively launched four major battles, including the Battle of Sanchuankou, the Battle of Haoshuichuan, the Battle of Linfufeng, and the Battle of Dingchuanzhai, annihilating tens of thousands of elite people in the northwest of the Song army. And in 1044, in the Battle of Hequ, he defeated Liao Xingzong, who was personally conquered with 100,000 elite royal drivers. At this time, the total strength of the Western Xia was about 500,000.

After the defeat of Song Liao, Li Yuanhao was indispensable, increasingly tyrannical and indulgent, and even took his son Ning Lingge's wife as a concubine, in 1048, because of the hatred of taking his wife, Yuan Hao's son Ning Lingge waved a knife and cut off all the nose of his father Yuan Hao, Yuan Hao died of pain and blood, at the age of 46.

Li Yuanhao's son Langzuo inherited the throne, and after his death, he ascended the throne by Zi Bingchang, at this time the political situation in Western Xia was in turmoil, and Song Shenzong thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and sent troops to attack Xia in five ways, preparing to recover Lingwu. However, there were many defeats and few victories, especially in the two battles of Lingzhou and Yongle City, which lost more than 600,000 soldiers and civilians, and spent no money on military expenses.

The national strength of the Western Xia side also suffered a big loss. After the rise of the Jurchens, the Western Xia captured the Dingbian army of the Song Dynasty and declared itself a vassal to the Jin State. The emperor of the Jin Dynasty was happy and rewarded the Xixia king Qianshun with the Xixia homeland Lezhou, Jishi Prefecture and other states outside the river that he had occupied, and the territory of the Western Xia reached its peak. After the rise of Mongolia, it has always regarded the Western Xia as a thorn in its side, using it as a training ground, constantly sending troops to attack and harass assaults, and drill troops.

At this time, the emperor of Western Xia was Li Yuanhao's son Li Liangzuo, that is, the historical Xia Yizong, Xia Ting further consolidated his rule internally, and often was in a state of war and peace with Song and Liao externally. Xia Yizong was young when he succeeded to the throne, and his mother did not hide the Empress Dowager and did not hide the dictatorship.

At that time, Liao Xingzong of the Liao Dynasty attacked the Western Xia again, and finally the Western Xia declared himself a vassal to the Liao Dynasty. The Queen Mother was lascivious and lustful, and colluded with outsiders many times, among which Li Shougui and Eat Duoji competed for favor many times. In the end, Li Shougui killed the Queen Mother and ate more than himself, and was also killed by Wu Zang Pang afterwards. did not hide the false Pang and married his daughter to Xia Yizong to control the little emperor.

After four years of Fusheng Chengdao, the Queen Mother died, and the Queen Mother's brother did not hide Pang with his daughter-in-law Xixia Yizong to control the power. Yizong began to participate in state affairs at the age of twelve. Falsely accused Pang of killing Yizong's cronies and envoys Gao Huaichang and Mao Weizheng.

Yizong had an affair with Pang's daughter-in-law Liang, and the father and son conspired to kill Yizong; The Liang clan changed, and Yizong killed Pang and his family with the support of the general Manba, and killed his wife Wuzang, and established the Liang clan as the queen, ending the situation of the Wuzang clan's dictatorship.

He was buried by his younger brother Liang Yi as the Minister of State, and he cited Han scholars and scholars such as Jing Xun. He abolished the Fan rites and changed to Han Yi, and once asked the Song Dynasty to restore his surname Li, but the Song Dynasty refused. He adjusted the military supervision department, strengthened the armament, and controlled the military power, so that the civil and military forces checked each other. In addition, Han and Tibetan official posts were added to enrich the administrative organs. Constantly sent troops to harass Song Bian.

Objectively speaking, as a monarch, Li Liangzuozun used Han rites to change Tibetan customs, and begged for Confucian scriptures to be Muhua, but it was a new trend that Yuan Hao had never had when he founded the country, which was a manifestation of the strengthening of the influence of the Han nationality in the process of ethnic integration.

However, although he made a lot of contributions to the cultural governance of the Western Xia, he still pursued a policy of invading the Song Dynasty abroad.

Su Lin's arrival, and the border generals of Western Xia also received the news, but they were not clear about the purpose of their trip. With so many martial arts masters, are they really here to do business?

Just like four years later, there may be a big battle outside Yanmen Pass, and the reason is because some people say that there are a large number of samurai who have plotted against the Central Plains martial arts. And looking at the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty, it seems that they can be allowed to pass, could it be said that there is any conspiracy among these people?

At this time, Su Lin didn't expect that she had been targeted by many people, and things were far from being as simple as she thought!