When the sky in Dali was cloudy and bright, Duan Yu, the emperor of Dali, was already walking in the imperial garden with Empress Wang.

Duan Yu held a long sword, faced the morning glow at the head of Dali City, and stopped.

He is forty-eight years old this year, and he has been emperor for twenty-three years.

However, his emperor (he was called the emperor in Dali and the king of the Great Song Dynasty) did not have much real power, and the military affairs were controlled by the Gao family, who held the position of hereditary Qingping official (prime minister). When Duan Yu was young, his uncle Duan Zhengming was once forced by Gao Shengtai, the official (prime minister) of Qingping, to abdicate and become a monk, and Chan was located in Gao Shengtai, and the name of Dali was also changed to Dazhong. Gao Shengtai reigned for two years and died, and when he was dying, he ordered his son Gao Taiming to return the throne to Duan. Therefore, Duan Yu's father, Duan Zhengchun, was able to become the fifteenth king of Dali.

And Duan Yu also had the opportunity to ascend the throne as emperor after his father Duan Zhengchun abdicated the throne and became the sixteenth king of Dali.

However, Duan Yu, who became the emperor, had no real power, and was just a puppet of the Gao family in the Shanyan Mansion (Kunming). The government was successively controlled by Gao Taiming, Gao Taiyun, Gao Mingshun and Gao Shunzhen, four generations of Gao Qingping officials.

Because he has no real power, Duan Yu doesn't have to bother with the government affairs, he only needs to make an appearance at the court meeting on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, and let the ministers below know that there is still an emperor like him in Dali.

The rest of the time can be used to enjoy life with the queen and several concubines, study Buddhism, and practice traditional martial arts.

It sounds very good, when you become an emperor, you don't have to worry about the government and politics, and you enjoy life every day, which is really the envy of the gods!

But in fact, Duan Yu has a lot of troubles!

He and Queen Wang and Concubine Zhong Xian, Concubine Mu, Concubine Li Shu, etc., were happy and respected each other in their early years. But as the heirs born to the concubines grew up, everyone stared at the throne under his father's ass, and he was also mixed with the infighting of the Gao family, which gave him a headache.

He, the emperor, has no real power, so he doesn't care who he will appoint as the crown prince, and there is no way to solve the problem quickly. And the Gao family, the hereditary Qingping official, is now also fighting among themselves! A bunch of brothers, uncles and nephews are all competing for the top, and people's heads are about to fight out of dogs' heads, and there is no accurate number.

Moreover, Duan Yu's sons and several powerful factions of the Gao family also colluded with each other and twisted together, so that Duan Yu, the father, had no ...... The concubines who originally had a harmonious relationship also turned against each other and wanted to put each other to death!

Thinking of these things, he can't wait to become a monk!

But being a monk can't be pure!

Because now the two religions of Confucianism and Buddhism in Dali are fighting again!

Dali has always been a combination of Confucianism and Buddhism, known as Confucianism and Buddhism.

However, since the Confucianism of the Great Song Dynasty began to change drastically thirty years ago, there have been some positivists, rational schools, rational schools, Tianli religions, and so on.

The balance between Confucianism and Buddhism began to be broken!

Although Confucianism has fallen into division and infighting, its overall strength has become stronger and stronger—the more the truth is debated, the clearer it becomes! If Confucianism is rigid, then there is nothing to fear.

However, now Confucianism has been divided into a few parts, and it has frantically absorbed the essence of various ideas from the East and the West, and has also solved the problem of "world view" and "tools" that have plagued Confucianism for more than 1,000 years in one fell swoop.

Now Confucianism has been able to use philosophical reasoning to explore the "ultimate question", and its theory is no worse than Buddhism, and its fighting spirit far surpasses that of Buddhism.

Although Dali is in a safe corner, it is in the Confucian cultural circle after all, so it is inevitably affected by the great division and evolution of Confucianism.

Now there is a "Buddhist and Confucian debate" every three or five days, the local Confucian students in Dali, as well as the Tianli Confucian students who ran from the Central Plains (people from Tianlijiao), often refute the high monks in the Tianlong Temple speechless.

Duan Yu, who often felt distraught, could only turn his attention to his favorite traditional martial arts.

Thinking of this, Duan Yu staggered, pulled out his long sword "Six Pulses", drew his sword and danced!

Duan Yu has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and has practiced for more than 40 years, although he is nearly fifty years old, his body is still strong and strong, and he is not his opponent if he comes to three or five people together.

In the original history, he lived to be 94 years old and died in 1176, 6 years later than Wang Chongyang, so Wang Chongyang's "No. 1 in the world" is a bit watery...... How could he beat Duan Yu?

It's just that although Duan Yu's martial arts are high, they don't help to revive the prestige of the Duan dynasty, and can only be used to strengthen the body. Because muskets are now popular, no matter how high the martial arts are, they are afraid of muskets!

After only dancing for a quarter of an hour, Duan Yu heard a person applauding: "Good swordsmanship!" His Majesty's swordsmanship is really superb, and it can be called the best in the world! ”

Duan Yu put away his sword and stood upright, his breath was not panting, his face was not red, and when he looked at it in a blink of an eye, it turned out to be Gao Shunzhen, a Qingping official.

I don't know what happened, Gao Shunzhen's brows were furrowed, and her face was gloomy.

"Gao Qing, why did you enter the palace early in the morning today?"

Gao Shunzhen saluted: "Your Majesty, yesterday afternoon, Qin Hui, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, arrived in Dali City. ”

Dali is the Gao clan in power, so the visiting envoys will first meet the Gao clan Qingping official, and then go to the palace to meet the Duan king.

"Which Da Song?" Duan Yu asked.

Now there is more than one Great Song......

"It's the Great Song of Chang'an," Gao Shunzhen said, "He brought news to the minister that is related to the survival of my Dali!" ”

"Survival?" Duan Yu was taken aback.

"Yes!" Gao Shunzhen said, "The Great Song Dynasty officials in Chang'an want to raise troops to fight against the county kings of Jiaozhi. ”

"Huh?" Duan Yu was stunned, "Can they reach it?" ”

"I can't reach it, so I have to borrow from my Dali."

Duan Yu took a breath: "Borrow? They won't give Dali to ......"

Gao Shunzhen nodded, "The minister is also worried that the Song people will be killed by false ways. ”

"How's that for good?" Duan Yu asked, "Can our country resist the soldiers and horses of the Song people?" ”

"The minister thinks ......," Gao Shunzhen said, "only to ask for help from the Shenglong Mansion and bring in the aid of the Eastern Song Dynasty to fight against the Western Song Dynasty." ”

Now the Thang Long Mansion is a vassal to Jiangning, and asking for help from Thang Long is equivalent to asking for help from the Eastern Song Dynasty.

It's just that the Eastern Song Dynasty is far water, how can you quench the thirst of Dali?

"Bringing in the aid of the Eastern Song Dynasty?" Duan Yu frowned, "Isn't it too far?" ”

Gao Shunzhen said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, our Dali is not a small country, and we did not dare to ask for it when the Song Dynasty was unified in the past." Now that China is all three, what else is there to fear? The minister has ordered Gao Liangcheng to lead an army of 100,000 and go north to Jianchang Mansion to defend against the enemy. Nor do they seek a complete victory, as long as they can delay for several months and make their divisions and veterans tired. ”

Just when Gao Shunzhen and Duan Yu were discussing to ask for help from the Eastern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei, the Yunnan Road of the Western Song Dynasty, had already led an army of 27,000 and drove to Hanyuan County, Lizhou, which is subordinate to Chengdu Fu Road, which is only more than 1,000 miles away from Dali City.

More than 1,000 miles are not close, and they are all continuous mountain roads, so it stands to reason that they are not so easy to pass.

But most of the more than 1,000 miles of the problem are in the hands of various barbarians.

Dali has never dealt with all the barbarians, even when it is strong, the decrees of the imperial court can be used in the core prefectures and counties of the national capital Dali, Shanyan Mansion, Nongdong Mansion, Moutong Mansion, Huichuan Mansion, and Weichu Mansion.

For the outlying tribes, they can only be managed by the method of fetters and rules.

And by the time Duan Yu became the emperor, these fetters tribes kept rebelling. In the Xuanhe period of the Great Song Dynasty, the rebellious 37 barbarians even broke through the Gao family's old nest, Shanxian Mansion, and killed the fourth son of Gao Taiming, the Qing Ping official of the overseer, Gao Mingqing.

Although the rebellion of the barbarians was suppressed by Gao Taiyun of the Gao family, it was won very reluctantly, so the control of the Dali court over the barbarians was very weak.

Once the Dali Kingdom showed its decline in the war with the Western Song Dynasty, it was very likely that the barbarians would defect to the Song Dynasty.

As long as he gets the support of the barbarians, Yue Fei's army of 27,000 can pass through these more than 1,000 miles of mountain roads in a very short time and appear under Dali City.

Therefore, Yue Fei, who was stationed in Hanyuan, was most worried about now not the thousands of miles of mountain roads, nor the soldiers and horses of Dali, but the shrinkage of Dali's troops to Jianchang City.

Because he desperately needed a hearty victory to prove to the barbarians in the north of Dali that the Great Song Dynasty was invincible.

As long as those barbarians believed that the Great Song Heavenly Soldiers could beat Dali without difficulty, then there would be no problem with their subordination.

With their guides and supplies, the thousand-mile mountain road is nothing more than a matter of twenty days.

When the soldiers arrived at the city of Dali, what way out did Duan Yu have? Not yet a flight or a surrender?

"All deployed, the Dali soldiers have arrived!"

Just when Yue Fei was a little apprehensive, his chief military aircraft, Zhang Xian, walked quickly into his White Tiger Festival Hall.

"How much?" Yue Fei looked at Zhang Xian and asked.

"According to the report of the chief of the Ministry of False Hatred, there are a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses in Dali, as well as hundreds of war elephants, and the leader of the troops is Zhengguo Gong Gao Liangcheng."

The Void Hate Department is a tribe located on the border of Song Li, and most of the tribes on the border of the Central Plains have adopted a strategy of eating two ends. On the one hand, he was a minister to Dali, and on the other hand, he opened the Chengdu Fu Road.

"100,000?" Yue Fei smiled, "So many! That's great!

You immediately send someone to bring the war book to the Ministry of False Hatred, and ask them to pass it on to Gao Liangcheng on your behalf. Let's just say that my Great Song Dynasty is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and I am not willing to let the people of the Li and Song families fall into fire and water. Therefore, he was willing to choose an open place on the south bank of the Dadu River to fight a decisive battle with the Dali soldiers. If he can't win, he will lead his troops to retreat, and never attack Dali again. ”

"On the south bank of the Dadu River?" Zhang Xian was stunned for a moment, "Aren't you afraid that they will attack halfway?" ”

Yue Fei smiled: "Hehe, Bandu? A third of them crossed the Dadu River, and they were afraid that they would not be able to defeat their 100,000 army? After being defeated, he pursued with the tail rank of cavalry, covering all the way. These 100,000 people are thrown on a thousand-mile mountain road......"