Chapter Seventy-Five: Politics is Always a Tethered Stake

Yanyundi!

Da Song is forever painful. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In order to avoid being killed by the Later Tang Dynasty in Taiyuan, the Later Jin Emperor Shi Jingtang used the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun as a gift and turned to the Khitan for help.

Yan Yundi was exchanged for Shi Jingtang's six-year career as an emperor, but his career as an emperor was not happy, and he finally died of worry.

I don't know if he felt guilty about ceding the land before he died, his son Shi Chonggui was very dissatisfied with the cession of Yanyundi, and would rather call the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang a grandson than a minister.

The price of reluctance to be a vassal was great, and the Later Jin was destroyed by the Khitan six years later.

The decision to cede Yanyun Land, which had been painful for the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years, only brought Shi Jingjiao's family twelve years of imperial glory.

From a legal point of view, there is nothing to blame for the Khitans' occupation of Yanyundi, which was obtained by the Khitans in exchange for military assistance.

The Khitans believed that they had fulfilled their promise to send troops, so it was natural to accept Yanyundi.

The only thing they missed was whether Shi Jingtang was qualified to trade the land of the Han people.

This question is a matter of opinion.

If Yanyun Land was an ordinary land, the Great Song Dynasty would not have thought about this land.

In the past, when Huo Qu's sick horse stepped on Yanzhi Mountain, the Huns lamented that they had lost my Yanzhi Mountain, making my woman colorless.

Yanzhi Mountain was very important to the Xiongnu, so the Yan Mountain, which stood on the land of Yanyun, was equally important to the Great Song Dynasty in Kaifeng, the capital of Dingdu.

Losing my Yanshan makes my emperor sleepless......

After listening to Zhao Wan's narration, Wang Rouhua didn't speak all day.

If the family affection in the words of Emperor Zhao Zhen of the Great Song Dynasty is removed, the remaining words are full of strong transaction flavor.

The next day, Wang Rouhua summoned several important ministers of the Hami Kingdom in Tokyo one by one to discuss the matter.

After Shan Yuanxing listened to Wang Rouhua's relay, he burst into tears with laughter, scolded Huang Zhao for being shameless, and then brushed his sleeves and left, lest he would stain his ears if he stayed for a while.

After Ouyang Fa listened to Wang Rouhua's relay, he was silent for a long time, and then asked for an order to go to Hami in advance and ask King Hami to decide.

Only Hurunur was overjoyed after hearing the news, thinking that this was the Tie family's shortcut to the throne, and strongly hoped that the Hami Kingdom could immediately march eastward, take advantage of the power of the Western Xia people, and capture the sixteen states of Yanyun.

I went to the door to consult Wang Su, the head of the Wang family, and my old friend Ouyang Xiu, and the answer was very clear, they all thought that this was a great opportunity, if the Hami country had the ability to go east, it might as well start preparing from now on.

Wang Rouhua naturally couldn't make any decisions, so she wrote down the suggestions she heard on paper as they were, and asked Ouyang to go to Hami to bring her son Tie Xinyuan to decide.

Wang Anshi brought back the most definite news about the Hami Kingdom, especially after the news that the Hami Kingdom might become the victor in this war, but this rumor that was good news for the Great Song Dynasty did not bring joy to the court.

Silence is the most standard way for the Great Song scholars to deal with it.

Ouyang Xiu held a grand banquet at home, inviting hundreds of relatives, friends and former colleagues.

It's a pity that only a dozen people participated in this banquet in the end, and the rest did not participate due to physical violations.

Ouyang Xiu laughed at the doctors for being sick after drinking and having hot ears......

In contrast, before they knew it, the people of Tokyo finally learned that the Great Song had a powerful friend in the distant Western Regions.

This friend can be so powerful that he can kill 80,000 soldiers in Western Xia.

The cold snap from the northwest finally flooded the bustling city of Tokyo in October, and the leaves on the locust trees had fallen early, with only a few scattered leaves shivering in the cold wind on the willows and elms.

Every year in October, a large number of camel riders make the arduous trek from the Western Regions to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

In previous years, camel riders from the west had to enter Tokyo through the Chenqiao Gate on the north side, which was not only troublesome, but also had cumbersome rules for entering the city.

This year is different, they can stick to Qionglin Yuan and go straight to Tokyo from the Shinzheng Gate in the west.

The frost-covered iron nest was not willing to move at all when he entered the city on the camel, and he had just used a thick woolen blanket to transmit the camel's body temperature to himself, so that he could get off the camel and face the cold wind, it was better to kill him.

He believed that the Hami flag at the front of the caravan was enough for him to ignore most of the rules in the city.

The city gate official of Xinzheng Gate shrunk his hands in his sleeves and smiled bitterly at the crowded city gate.

It's not that the gate isn't wide enough, it's that two teams want to rush into the city, and they end up squeezing into a lump.

In front of Xinzheng Gate is the moat of Bianliang City, and although the cold wind at the end of October does not freeze the water in the moat, it is enough to freeze the people who fall into the water to death.

Finally, someone fell into the moat, and then the war horse also fell into the moat, and a man and a horse floated in the moat, surrounded by the current and floated towards the east gate.

Yuan Rong, the envoy of Western Xia, was so violent that he had to stop his subordinates from entering the city and make way for the arrogant Hami people in the face of the tall camels under the seat of the Hami people.

Tie Dan indifferently glanced at the Western Xia warrior who fell into the moat, and saw that this warrior who couldn't swim was sunk into the river by the iron armor, so he ordered the camel team to move on.

It's a pity that the Western Xia envoys didn't carry it to the end, and the Great Song City Guards also hurried out of the city to isolate the Hami camel team from the Western Xia envoys.

The Tanguts made a very bad start, killed the envoys led by Zema, and caused great harm to Zema, which was already well known in the Hami country, and was regarded as a great shame by the Hami people.

Tie Xinyuan had already decreed that the Tangut people were the unforgivable enemies of the Hami people, but any Hami people could kill the Tangut people at any time and in any place without bearing any responsibility.

As soon as this order came out, the whole world was in an uproar, and even the Western Xia merchants could not escape the doom of being slaughtered.

In just over a month, the Hami Kingdom and the Western Xia have severed any contact, and General Li Qiao, after killing the bald Agu, Chen soldiers in the Black Mountain Pass, ready to send troops from the Black Mountain Pass to attack the sandbar at any time.

In order to guard against the possible attack of Hami, the prime minister of the country had to transfer 20,000 cavalry from the Zhuo Luo Henan Military Division to rush to the sandbank day and night.

With less 20,000 main cavalry, the Zhuo Luo Henan Military Division was no longer able to confront the Song army in Ningyuan City, so he had to retreat back in a hurry to defend Karochuan.

At the same time, Tie Xinyuan, the king of Hami, told the Empress Dowager Mozang of the Western Xia Dynasty through the mouth of the envoy of the Qarakhanid State that if the Western Xia people could not hand over Li Shougui, the initiator of the murder of the Hami envoy Zema, the heads of the 80,000 Western Xia soldiers would still not be able to extinguish the anger of the subjects of the Hami State.

The Mozang clan, who stole chickens and rice, was furious and issued the same order as the Hami country, treating the Hami people as a feud, but all the Tangut people would be killed in the wilderness if they met the Hami people in the wilderness, and they would be killed in the market when they met the Hami people in the market, and vowed to avenge the Tangut soldiers who died in battle.

It's just that in the current Western Xia Kingdom, it is very difficult to draw out an army that is enough to attack the Hami Kingdom.

Since hearing that the Western Xia had marched into Hami, the Song State urgently used Di Qing to lead 14,000 Japanese troops to enter Huizhou, and the veteran of the Fold family could control the Baode army, and the Volcano Army was stationed in Linzhou. Zhang Kangjie, the prefect of Huanzhou, formulated a border army, the Zhenrong army was stationed in Toad Village, and Hehuang Jiedu made Fu Bi take the 170,000 troops of the Qingtang headquarters to enter the Gaizhou City, which was not guarded by the Tibetan Pang, and was ready to enter the Kaluo River at any time.

If it weren't for the sudden annihilation of the 80,000 army of Western Xia, which gave the Great Song border army no chance to prepare, the grain, grass, and ordnance were all complete, Pang Ji, Fu Bi and others would have prepared to attack Western Xia on a large scale.

The situation is stronger than the man.

Under the persuasion of the ministers, although the Mozang clan still maintained a tough attitude towards the Hami Kingdom, they hoped to get a little room for relaxation from the Great Song Dynasty.

The envoy Yuan Rong came to the Great Song Dynasty with a large number of treasures this time, hoping to persuade the emperor and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty that the two countries should exercise restraint and stop the army and make peace.

The Song city gate officials saw that the envoys of the Western Xia were squeezed down the moat by the camels of the Hami people and drowned alive, and they did not have the intention of helping.

Hami has a lot of industries in Tokyo City, and there is a large courtyard in Zaozuka Alley that Zhao Wan personally purchased.

The caravan entered the city of Tokyo without stopping, and went directly into its own industry.

Tie Dan jumped off the camel, and without saying hello to the steward, he went into the warm room.

After taking a sip of hot tea, he spread out his limbs and said lazily to the steward: "Find out where the Western Xia envoys live, if they don't enter the pavilion, they will come to report quickly." ”

The steward arched his hand and said: "The humble post found out when the Western Xia people had not yet entered the city that the envoys lived in Demingli and did not stay in the Honglu Temple. ”

"Demingli? Isn't the Guard Infantry Division in Demingli?

It has always been a military location, surrounded by military camps, how can the Tangut people live in Demingli? Who are the three leaders of the guards this year? ”

The steward smiled bitterly and said, "Now that everyone knows the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty towards the Western Xia Kingdom, how can someone teach it privately?" No one dared to do that.

The subordinates learned that it was the will of the official family to arrange for the Tangut people to be stationed in Demingli, and the Honglu Temple specially designated the location. I'm afraid that it was because we were worried that we would kill these Tangut people that we made such an arrangement. ”

Tie Dan slammed his fist on the table and said hatefully: "Then send someone for me to keep an eye on Demingli day and night, as long as there are Xixia people who dare to walk out of Demingli, Lao Tzu will want his life." ”

The steward clenched his fists and said: "The subordinates have already informed the hidden stakes in the city, and the only thing I am worried about is that once the matter becomes big, it will attract the suspicion of the imperial court." ”

Tie Dan smiled: "Expose your strength, this is the king's order, if we always do it secretly, I'm afraid it will attract more criticism." ”