After discussing the military deployment for a while, Doye saw that it was not too early, so he invited Huang Taiji to stay and have a light meal together—it was a simple meal, but it was still a grand banquet in the earl's house, and the maids who shuttled back and forth, Yingying Yanyan, and there were singers and jugglers performing during the banquet, and the flowing grape wine was transported from Georgia, and the caviar that accompanied the meal was the caviar of the fine salmon imported from Daliao, and the main meal cooked with whale meat, plus hump and shark fin, such a luxurious life, It is as if people have forgotten the imminent counterinsurgency war.

The earl who served as the master was an old nobleman of the Great Xia Kingdom, and his great-grandfather had conquered the Quartet with several generations of previous kings of Great Xia, and a bronze tripod in the courtyard of the family was given by Shaozong, who reigned sixty years ago. The current Earl also joined the military as a young man – like every nobleman of the classical era, he had been on an expedition to Tianzhu during the time of King Xuanzong, and was wounded during the attack on Portuguese-occupied Goa before retiring with honor.

The Count's wife had died, and the year before, in order to sleep at night was not too cold, he had married a young widow from the far east as his successor. The widow brought with her a rich dowry—tea, ironware, scriptures, and monks enough to support a temple.

Monks were important to the Western Xia nobility. The status is second only to land and population.

Whether it is the Xia Kingdom or the Liao Empire, there has actually been a problem for hundreds of years, how to rule the majority with an absolute minority of nobles. Before the Gengzi Reform, the Liao Empire actually ruled the empire in an aristocratic alliance between the Khitan and Xi tribes, accounting for a few percent of the population. They passed on the ruling experience of the Han dynasty to the Khitan people, that is, to pay equal attention to envy and power, and to change the land and return to the stream.

On the one hand, the feudal military aristocracy of the Liao Empire expropriated the dangerous places of mountains and rivers and the fierce customs of the people, and enriched them with barbarians, and used military means to suppress the foreign nationalities within the territory. On the other hand, the state capital roads were arranged in a staggered manner to guard against the possible potential rebellion of the military nobles. This set of political measures has been effective. At the same time, the cultural atmosphere of the Liao Empire has always been relatively relaxed, the early Shamanism of the Jurchen people, and later the Jurchen upper nobles (such as Aixin Jueluo, Yehenala and other families) all changed their surnames to Buddhism not out of any pressure, but a kind of upper-class atmosphere, the Mughal nobles also gave up the primitive totem worship on the early grassland, but did not convert to Han Buddhism, but chose the Yellow Sect from the snowy plateau. In addition, the Cossacks, Eastern Slavs and other Baidi tribes who made military achievements for the empire, they either believed in Catholicism or Orthodox Christianity, and the empire also retained their basic right to believe, which was very different from the Xia Kingdom.

Since Li Bingchang's Western Politics, the Xia kings of all dynasties have regarded themselves as the defenders of Buddhism, especially after a large number of royal children became monks, the power of Buddhism was quite strong in the kingdom. The royal power and the clerical power are deeply entangled, as inseparable as a pair of twins.

The formation of this situation naturally has its historical factors - every step of the expansion of the Xia Kingdom is to seize (or restore) the sphere of influence of Buddhism from the pagans, and in order to suppress the remnants of the pagans and foreign peoples, it is necessary for the Xia Kingdom to make a big fuss outside of politics. When the people of the fallen country were still united under the banner of paganism to resist the iron hooves of the kingdom army, it became necessary to establish a state religion to unite those they needed to unite and fight against those they needed to fight.

Li Bingchang was reluctant to feudal new lords in his own territory because of his personal experience, but his proud soldiers needed to be paid with land, estates, and slaves, so he and his son came up with a brilliant idea to make the proud soldiers become the protectors of the Buddhist temples in the temple unit, and the land and the production of the grange around the temple needed to be offered to the real owners of the temple - this is the true meaning of the offering. The offerings to the clay tires and wood sculptures are some worthless melons and fruits, while the offerings to the owner are real local products, from furs and horses to wine, flour, and even an ancient equivalent - women.

Li Bingchang once issued an order in the territory of the new government: foreign races are forbidden to form associations, and fathers and sons must live separately. Ten households can raise a large army, and listen to their families' support.

The Great Xia Kingdom has been fighting for many years, and there are many disabled and retired soldiers, how should these people be settled? Many of them have lost their ability to work, and if they return to their hometowns to settle down, their livelihoods will be difficult to maintain, or they will have to place a heavy burden on their families. If it is raised by the government, then it will put a lot of pressure on the finances of the imperial court.

After some thought, Li Bingchang, the talented Xia King, threw this burden to the vanquished. It is up to these vanquished to raise the soldiers. The GIs, who were missing arms and legs, carried their burdens and lived in Uighur tents, Turkic camps. Eating their mutton and sleeping with their women, the second generation of Xia King Zhaozong Li Renxiao also issued a famous "First Night Power Decree" full of evil taste. In the areas where this royal decree was enforced, the chastity of the woman on the first night of marriage between the Uighurs and Turks was to be verified by the veterans. It is said that someone once went to the king to admonish him, worried that it might cause dissatisfaction among foreign peoples, but Li Renxiao disagreed: "Barbarians are not as good as China's knowledge of etiquette, and this act of testing chastity is also edification." Sure enough, this move did not cause much resistance or dissatisfaction among the foreign peoples. It has become a typical measure to promote national unity and integration.

It's useless to talk less and talk more.

After the old earl feasted on the distinguished guests from the Great Liao Empire, Huang Taiji rode back with several Xia army officers with a little drunkenness, and when passing through a street, he encountered a group of knights in brocade clothes who were executing criminals - Huang Taiji knew that these brocade knights were the so-called brocade guards, they were the secret services of the Xia Kingdom, specializing in arresting all kinds of dangerous elements. It's just that the weeping women don't look like dangerous people.

Huang Taiji raised his horsewhip slightly drunk: "These women are also breaking the law?" Why are they being executed on the streets? Isn't there a legal system in the Xia Kingdom? ”

An intelligence officer rubbed his eyes and said, "It's the Jinyi Guard who is taking people...... Who's going to call their leader over and ask for clarification. ”

One of the guards went right away, and in a short time brought back a second lieutenant in brocade. The second lieutenant saw that all the generals in front of him were generals, and he gave a military salute before he said loudly: "I don't know what instructions the commander has for summoning?" ”