At the end of April of the eighth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, Western Xia, southeast of Gaofu City, Shane Mountain.

After Zhao Qianshun welcomed his mother, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang from the Great Song Dynasty, in order to express his gratitude to the Great Song Dynasty, he changed his name to Shan'enshan.

At the same time as changing the name, Zhao Qianshun also ordered the construction of a Song Dynasty-style palace on this hill overlooking the entire Gaofu City, named the Thanksgiving Palace.

The name of the Thanksgiving Palace is not very imposing, but the palace is built magnificently and luxuriously. Mo Niangzi compares with this place in the bright top on Ceylon Island, and it is inevitable that she will be a little childish.

The Thanksgiving Palace is a stepped palace built on the slope of the Shane Mountain. Looking from afar, you can see Song-style pavilions and pavilions, stacked on top of each other along the hillside, until they reach the top of the mountain.

The materials used to build the Thanksgiving Palace were also extravagant, not only using precious stone (marble) from Afghanistan, but also bringing precious wood from Tianzhu.

As for the furniture placed in this Thanksgiving Palace, it is all made of Tianzhu's most precious small leaf red sandalwood, carefully crafted by the most skilled carpenters in Tianzhu Kingdom, and each piece is a beautiful work of art.

Although this Thanksgiving Palace is only a royal palace of a subject country of the Song Dynasty, its luxury far exceeds that of the Qionglin Palace in Kaifeng Mansion.

To put it bluntly, every corner of this Thanksgiving Palace is filled with the smell of extravagance to the point of erosion. Even the guards guarding the palace are all rich and powerful. Even the armor he wore was made into exquisite handicrafts and inlaid with gilt decorations. The guys in their hands are all fine products made of Uzi steel. The scabbard and handle are also decorated with gold and precious stones.

Originally, the army of Western Xia was an army of poor people who were extremely poor. Gold and silver ornaments were only owned by kings, and ordinary Western Xia soldiers could not even see a few copper coins. It's good now, everyone has become nouveau riche in gold and silver.

is such an army wearing gold and silver, if it encounters the knights' soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty, will it become the target of robbery?

However, here in Tianzhu, this army wearing gold and silver is an invincible existence.

Zhao Qianshun, Zhao Zhongshun and Li Heda (Xiao Heda) have also become military god-like figures. More than once, he led troops to invade the hinterland of Tianzhu, and all the sultans, emirs, kings, and lords of all walks of life knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Countless treasures of gold and silver, as well as beautiful women, were taken back to the courts of Lahore and Kabul as trophies.

And the warriors of the Western Xia Han people who followed Zhao Qianshun and Zhao Zhongshun over the mountains and mountains to Tianzhu and Afghanistan also made a fortune and became noble old soldiers - but the real masters! Every family has a grange of hundreds of acres, and they are all good fields with high yields and high yields. You don't have to plough the fields yourself, they are all handed over to the lowly Tianzhu untouchables to plant. For every old soldier, there are more than ten or twenty untouchables who can be enslaved.

In the plains on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the fertile Xindu River, there are granges of old soldiers!

More than 100,000 families of veteran soldiers and their families lived a good life there.

It's all "happy here, don't think about it"......

Oh, and by the way, the current Western Xia lord kingdom did not conquer all of India.

It can't be done, and there's no need for it.

It can't be done not because it can't be defeated, but because the climate in India is too torturous. Now Afghanistan and the Sindu River valley in the northeast corner of India, as well as the area around Greater and Lesser Bolu (Kashmir), are cooler. Further east and south, it will be hot and deadly.

Therefore, the land ruled by the two brothers Zhao Qianshun and Zhao Zhongshun went east to Punjab, which was later India. Further east, in the area of Delhi (Dilu), it now belonged to the Kingdom of Polo, an ally of Western Xia in Tianzhu.

The "Polo" in this Baltic Kingdom means "Dharma Protector", which means to protect the Dharma, and it is naturally a Buddhist kingdom. The Tantric Buddhism of Buddhism practiced by the Balo royal family had a common belief with the Western Xia, and they fought together against Tianzhu's Tianfang Sect and Brahmanism, so they became natural allies, and they also intermarried and relied on each other.

In addition, the Western Liang Kingdom, which ruled Tibet, also entered Tianzhu and occupied the Nibora region on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, and also joined the alliance marriage between the Western Xia and the Bala Kingdom, forming a Triple Alliance in Tianzhu.

The Triple Alliance was fought against the Gul Sultanate of the Celestial Sect and the Brahmanical Kingdom of Zhuran, which had been expelled to south-central Tianzhu, as well as other small states of Tianzhu that practiced Brahmanism.

However, the confrontation between these two alliances in the land of Tianzhu is not life-and-death.

Because the people and horses of Western Xia and Xiliang couldn't stand the scorching heat in the central and southern parts of Tianzhu, there was no motivation to completely conquer Tianzhu, so they were naturally satisfied with acquiring wealth.

On the other hand, the Tianfang Sect and the Brahmanical Sect were attacked from the back, and the sea power of the Great Song and Great Zhou Dynasty posed a serious threat to the maritime merchants of the Tianfang Sect and the Brahmanical Sect in the Western Ocean.

In contrast, the threat of the alliance of the Western Xia, Polo, and Western Liang was even less.

Therefore, the Sultan of Gur and the Zhuran Dynasty preferred to pay tribute to Western Xia and Western Liang in order to avoid meaningless losses - of course, they could not defeat Western Xia and Western Liang.

For the current Western Xia, on the one hand, it can obtain a large amount of taxes from the Xindu River Basin; On the one hand, you can get the gift of the Polo Kingdom. Life flies so leisurely! Wouldn't it be nice if we could just mix it up?

But why did the Central Plains suddenly change?

The good end of the big song is divided into two! And both sides sent messengers to the Palace of Thanksgiving......

Should Xixia kowtow over there?

This is no trivial matter!

Because the Eastern Song Dynasty was very strong in the Western Ocean, it could attack the estuary area of the Xindu River at any time. And the Eastern Song Dynasty is still an international arms dealer! In his hands, he has in his hands the weapons of mass destruction of this era - Chinese guns and Chinese artillery! If it was sold to the Gur Kingdom and the Turks, it would be enough for Western Xia.

And the Western Song Dynasty has the vassal state of Xiliang, if Xixia worships the wrong emperor, will Xiliang send troops to attack Xixia? Xiliang is not as corrupt as Xixia, and he has become a old soldier.

It's hard to deal with both ends!

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"There are more than two emperors, and there is also a little Wuyuan who has to deal with it first!"

In the Thanksgiving Palace, Li Heda, who had just returned from Hekou Mansion (Xindu Hekou), brought additional bad news to Zhao Qianshun and Zhao Zhongshun.

"The head of Xiao Wu also wants us to be ministers?" Zhao Qianshun asked with a frown.

"He doesn't want us to be ministers, he wants money, he wants to open a concession!"

It turned out that Wu Yijiu also sent an envoy to Gaofu City. The request was to open a concession in Hekou Province, and the Western Xia was required to pay a protection fee, 100,000 taels of gold a year!

"Shall we give it?" Zhao Zhongshun snorted and asked, "He's so far away from us, could it be that he sent troops to attack?" ”

"Not really," Li Heda smiled bitterly, "but he will sell cannons and gunpowder to the Zhulin and Gur kingdoms!" ”

"What? He actually ......" Zhao Zhongshun exhaled heavily, "Give it, give it...... It's a big deal to collect more taxes from the Tianzhu untouchables! ”

This is no joke!

Zhao Qianshun frowned and said: "100,000 taels of gold doesn't matter, but the concession land...... They don't have a plan, do they? ”

"No," said Li Heda, "I have heard that the Zhou envoys also sent envoys to the Western Jalou State, and obtained from the Western Jalou people the right to set up a concession in Goa. ”

The Western Chalou State is a powerful country on the west coast of the Tianzhu subcontinent, and it also believes in Brahmanism, and has a hostile relationship with the Zhuran State, the Gur State, and the Baltic State, and the relationship with the Western Xia is of course not good, and the Tianfang Christians on the other side of the Arabian Sea are of course also enemies.

However, this country is relatively friendly to the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou, it has too many enemies, and if you want to add the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou, simply don't live.

Therefore, both the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty have now been granted the privilege of setting up concessions in Goa.

By the way, the Great Zhou not only received the right to establish a concession in Goa, but also in Kolangbu in the State of Ceylon, and also proposed to the Bala Kingdom to set up a concession at the mouth of the Ganges River.

In addition to taking over the Great Song Dynasty's concession in Gaolangbu and its suzerainty over Ceylon, the Eastern Song Dynasty is now also actively seeking colonial strongholds and concessions in various parts of the West.

The Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty have now launched colonial competition all over the world!

"Da Zhou is okay to deal with," Zhao Qianshun sighed, "What about the two Song Kingdoms?" Do you want one servant and two masters? ”

"Give Xiliang another tribute!" Li Heda said, "Chang'an can't reach us...... The one who can really trouble us is the Xiliangzhang family.

In addition, we have to send an envoy to Taoli Temple and ask the Emperor of Xiliao to come forward to coordinate the relationship between us and Xiliang. As long as the three of us are united, we will not be afraid of anything. ”

Taoli Temple is Tabriz, located in northwest Persia, near the Caspian Sea, and is now the Xijing of the Western Liao Empire. The full name is Tabriz House of Xijing Road.

In addition to Tabriz in Xijing, there are also Broken Leaves in Shangjing Province, Hezhong Province in Chukyo Province, Khorasan Province in Tokyo Province, and Ahvashi Province in Nanjing Province.

It's still the pattern of Gokyo Road!

However, it can be seen from the location of Wujing Road that the current center of gravity of Western Liao rule has shifted from Central Asia to the homeland of Persia.

The Xijing Taoli Monastery, which is close to the peninsula of Asia Minor and Baghdad, is the main station of Yelu Dashi.

And the distant Shangjing Broken Leaf Mansion and Zhongjing Hezhong Mansion were handed over to the important ministers of the Western Liao Dynasty to stay behind.

After moving to Tabriz, Jerodashi's main focus shifted from Central Asian affairs to exchanges with the Middle East and Europe.

It is not to conquer the Celestial Sect of Great Food in the Middle East and the Christian Roman State in Europe, but to put his Western Liao in the status of the original Great Liao State, and regard the Great Food and Rome as a weak Song Dynasty, hoping to ask for New Year's coins from these two sides.

And just when Dashi was about to show his skills in the West, the situation in the East suddenly changed drastically!

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