"If you enter, you will not be able to stay at home, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will perish." After writing this famous sentence from "Mencius" in chalk on the blackboard, a tall old professor cleared his throat: "Today, let's start with this sentence and talk about what happened after the Xia people moved west. ”

There is no fixed order of seats in the classroom, those who come early can be picked first, and those who come late can only pick the rest of others.

But Cheng Qi sits at the front every time, firstly, it is easy to leave a good impression on the teacher who is eager to learn; Second, he did find that the world is changing too fast, and there is no way to be a good traverser without humbly learning.

And it's really interesting to say, in Cheng Qi's original world, the small but strong Western Xia Kingdom has been persevering in the Hetao region until the era when the Mongolian iron cavalry swept the world before dying. And the Western Xia of this time and space lost the Hengshan barrier and was forced to move west when Song Gaozong Zhao Xining changed the law.

Traveling west along the Hexi Corridor, there were several major powers in the Western Regions at that time, with Gaochang and Luntai as the center in the east, and the Uighur Kingdom of Gaochang had close ties with the Central Plains, and had repeatedly sent tribute to the Song Dynasty. The Xia people's westward migration journey also received their help. To this day, the Uighur kingdom of Gaochang remains a semi-independent feudal kingdom under the Bactrian Empire.

To the west of the Uighurs of Gaochang, the Qarakhanid Dynasty, which believed in the Heavenly Sect, and the Khotanese state, which believed in Buddhism, fought each other for many years, and the Qarakhanid Dynasty had the support of the Samanid Dynasty behind them, while the Khotanese Kingdom did not receive assistance from the Central Plains Dynasty because of its distance on the border of the Western Regions. By the time the Xia people moved westward, the cavalry of the Qarakhanid dynasty had already invaded the capital of Khotan and slaughtered them. The Khotanese royal family was slaughtered and almost perished.

Fortunately, before the city was broken, the last Khotanese king sent a prince and a princess out of the city, asking for help from the Uighurs of Gaochang and the Great Song Dynasty, respectively. On the way, the prince died at the hands of the Celestial Sect Assassins, and the princess who arrived in the Uighurs of Gaochang died of anxiety because of the fall of her homeland and the reluctance of the Uighur kingdom to send troops because Gu Quan and the Qarakhanid dynasty belonged to the same Uighur branch, and her descendants settled in Luntai.

But what the Uighurs never expected was that their own kinship was worthless in the eyes of the converted Qarakhanid dynasty. Soon after the fall of Khotan, the former compatriots became opponents on the battlefield. By the time the Xia people moved westward, the two sides had been attacking each other for decades, and there was no difference between victory and defeat.

Li Bingchang, the male lord of a generation of Tianjiao, was keenly aware that this was an opportunity. After secretly finding the Khotanese princess among the people, he married a girl with Khotanese royal blood, and then led a coalition of Xia and Uighurs to defeat the Qarakhanid dynasty in the name of a defender of Buddhism.

The Tangut people came at the right time, at this time the Qarakhanid Dynasty was no longer the hegemon of the Western Regions, and the dynasty that was deeply involved in the royal family was powerless to resist the Western Xia veterans who were equipped with advanced firearms and experienced in a hundred battles. And Li Bingchang was born and surprisingly long-lived, and he could still lead the army to fight until he was over seventy years old. Under the leadership of the Gaochang people, who were familiar with the terrain, the Xia people, who were stable internally, took ten years to recapture the towns of Khotan, and another ten years to plough the north court and unify the Western Regions.

Li Bingchang and other Western Xia nobles, who believed in Buddhism, witnessed the destruction of Khotan, the holy place of Buddhism in the Western Regions, by the Qarakhanid Dynasty, and the fanatical Western Xia army regarded the entire Tianfang Sect as the most vicious enemy. In 1675, the summer army conquered Balasagon and built its capital here. Since then, the kings of the Western Xia Dynasty have taken this as a base and successively conquered Bukhara, Samarkand and other pearls on the Silk Road, and expanded the border to the west to the Caspian Sea and the vast area in the south of the river.

After the fall of the Samanid Empire, the Xia gradually encroached on the southern territory, slowly pushing the border to the Indus Valley for hundreds of years. In order to eradicate the influence of the Heavenly Sect, the Xia people adopted a dual policy of military control and religious cleansing in the newly acquired territory. That is, for each region conquered, a military governor's office was set up, and policies such as extermination and forced relocation were adopted for the armed forces that dared to resist, and when the ruling order was restored, the local residents were forced to convert to Buddhism with swords. From 1688 to 1723, Li Renxiao, who reigned from 1688 to 1723, edicted that Buddhism should be the state religion and the Chinese language should be the Chinese in the country, and all imperial examinations must be based on Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. And the implementation of the ploughing war order to disintegrate the traditional clan forces, known as the "Qianyou Reform Law" in history.

In the era that Cheng Qi is living in now, the territory of the Western Xia has completely realized the "anti-heavenization", Buddhists can safely walk on the mountain road where the Tang monks sought the Dharma in the past, and the tribes of various ethnic groups living in the mountains have also been led slowly towards the road of civilization and enlightenment.

This process is, of course, a long one, and it is still a work in progress. Finally, the professor concluded: "The westward migration of the Xia people greatly expanded the western boundaries of Chinese civilization, and it was another westward expansion of Chinese culture since the Battle of the Rus'. Through the efforts of the Xia people for four or five hundred years, they not only restored the original scope of Buddhism, but also brought closer ties between Middle-earth and Persia and the Heavenly Region, and brought the light of civilization and the fire of progress to the people of all ethnic groups living in the Western Regions, Transoxian, Sassanid Persia and other places living under the autocratic system of slave owners......"

After leaving the classroom, Cheng Qi and Huang Yang walked back on the path, while still recalling the professor's words just now. Huang Yang, who was walking side by side, said a little angrily: "I really didn't expect Professor Gao to be an imperialist. ”

"Huh?"

"The abominable Tanguts, their massacre of the so-called infidels in Hezhong, Persia and other places is completely shameful in China, and it is extremely barbaric! This incident should be nailed to the pillar of shame for all mankind for 10,000 years. ”

Cheng Qi was silent for a while: "Perhaps, in the long run, this is a good thing for the Persians and the people in the river...... At least, liberated them from a barbaric system of military slavery. ”

Huang Yang was about to debate with him, but he heard a woman's anxious cry for help from the grove in front of him: "Help, someone has robbed it!" ”

The two looked together, and saw a man in the woods in front of him on the right, carrying something in his arms, and was running wildly with his head down. Cheng Qi and Huang Yang looked at each other, and rushed forward together to stop the man: "Oh, thief!" Don't be tied yet! ”

The strongman who was stopped took two steps back, and when he saw that it was a student baby, he seemed to be a little more confident. He pulled out a dagger from his waist, and the bright blade waved in the air: "Little hairy doll, get out of the way quickly, otherwise grandpa's knife is not vegetarian." ”

Cheng Qi bent down to pick up a branch, and Huang Yang also picked up two angular stones: "Scare the master, is the master scared." Master beats you to death just like playing! As he spoke, he threw out the stone in his hand fiercely, and Cheng Qi also waved a branch and shouted: "Baga, die, die!" "Jumped up. The strongman probably hadn't seen this routine, and for a moment, he was hit on the arm by Cheng Qi with a stick, and Huang Yang took the opportunity to rush over and kick him hard in the waist, kicking the strongman to the ground.

Cheng Qiji couldn't afford to follow him again, stepped on the strongman's wrist, stepped on the dagger in his hand, and Huang Yang also pounced and held him down: "Sun thief, look where you are running this time!" ”

After this pair of tacit friends crushed the unlucky grandson to death and kept begging for mercy, the panting bitter lord finally caught up.

Cheng Qi only looked at it, and he couldn't move as if he was frozen by Sun Monkey, it turned out that there was no other, just because this woman was really born too beautiful: it was a young lady in her twenties, swaying when she ran over, her face was peach, and when she got closer, she looked dignified and demure, young and beautiful, and her long hair coiled up like dark clouds was silky and smooth like lacquer. When running, it jumps like a rabbit, and when it is still, it is like a virgin, and the willow waist that Ying Ying holds is slender, so soft that it seems to be able to break with the wind.

"This young lady." Cheng Qi licked his face and handed back an embroidered bag snatched from the strongman to the beauty: "Please take a look, is this your thing?" Nothing is missing. ”

The woman took the embroidery bag and checked it: "Fortunately, fortunately...... It's a blessing. Thank you to the two young heroes for coming to the rescue. The little woman Gu Mei is really inscribed, and she can't repay ......"

Cheng Qi and Huang Yang's eyes lit up, and they seemed to shout the strongest voice in their hearts: "Since there is nothing to repay, then let's make a promise with your body!" ”