Chapter 237: Reckoning with the General Ledger

In fact, since the change of Jinshui Fort, Western Xia has not had such brilliant achievements as before. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info the Western Xia and the Great Khitan gradually disobeyed the constraints, so that the court and the economy were suppressed by the Great Khitan, and they have gradually shown a decline. Originally, he often provoked Nanchu on the border, but now he even cares about his own country's affairs. On the one hand, it was necessary to recruit soldiers to strengthen the military, but on the other hand, the heavy military pressure on the common people was breathless, and local forces often rebelled. So there were originally hundreds of Western Xia soldiers stationed in Taoyuan Village, where there were disputes between Southern Chu and Western Xia, but when Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Xiaoyu appeared this time, there were only ten people left, and now these ten people are also fleeing back to Western Xia, and they want to tell the king of Western Xia what they saw Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Xiaoyu near Taoyuan Village.

Li Yuanri, the king of Western Xia, recently killed too heavily when he was young, and his old son Li Liangzuo was driven crazy by Lu Xiaoyu, although his daughter was shrewd and capable, and was called a rare woman in Western Xia for a hundred years, but after all, in this era of male superiority and inferiority, no matter how capable a woman is, she cannot inherit the throne, and after a hundred years of Li Yuanri, he dare not imagine that the Western Xia Dynasty will be destroyed in his own hands.

Speaking of the history of the Western Xia, the historical roots of the Western Xia in this era can be traced all the way back to the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period. The party item is a branch of the Qiang nationality, and the party item Qiang is also after the three seedlings. During the Warring States period, Dangxiangqiang and Tuyuhun, who lived on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, often united against the powerful Tibetans. During the reign of Emperor of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Tuyuhun was destroyed by Tubo, and the Dangxiang Qiang, who had lost its dependence, requested to be attached to it, and was placed in Songzhou by the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and then the Dangxiang Qiang gradually multiplied into several large tribes, among which the Tuoba clan, the leader tribe, probably only occupied the southeast of Qinghai and the south of Gansu today. During the Kaiyuan period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Dang Xiangqiang, who lived in the southeast of Qinghai and the south of Gansu, was very afraid of the Tibetan army that was looting everywhere, and asked the Eastern Zhou Emperor for help, but the Eastern Zhou Emperor himself could not protect himself, so he moved them to Gyeongju.

To the north and east of Xiazhou, this area is the old land of the "Great Xia" of the Huns during the Warring States Period, which was called Pingxia at that time, so this part of the Dangxiang Qiang became the Pingxia Department, that is, the ancestors of the Western Xia royal family in the future.

After that, the leader of the party department, Tuoba Sigong, was named the envoy of the Xiazhou Festival by the imperial court, and because of the meritorious work of the Huangchao uprising, he once recovered Chang'an, and was given the surname Li again, and was named the Duke of Xia. Since then, Tuoba Sigong and his descendants surnamed Li have become local feudal forces with Xia Guogong. This part of the Dangxiang Qiang armed forces is also known as the Dingyan Army, and its sphere of influence is centered on Xiazhou, including the vast areas of Xia, Sui, You, and Yinzhou, all of which are called the private territories of the Tuoba clan.

When the Chu Dynasty was first founded, no matter who was in power in the Central Plains, the Li clan (Tuoba clan) was "bowing down to the vassals" in exchange for the dominance of the place and a large number of rewards. During this period, the Western Xia were very careful in their relations with other regimes, and later Yelu Abaoji established the Great Khitan State and the intricate diplomatic relations between the Southern Chu Dynasty established by the Chu Xin Emperor Xiong Xiu.

After more than 50 years of construction, the Pingxia area is very rich, with the fertile pastures of the Jinze area in the south of Ordos as the core, and the agricultural area represented by Qiliping at the junction of Xia and Chu provides a large number of cattle, sheep, grain and grass for the Western Xia, at the same time, Ordos is also rich in the best green salt that can be used as currency at that time, and the annual output can reach about 15,000 Hu, so the Pingxia Department of Dangxiang Qiang can be said to have soldiers, horses, grain and money, the right time and place and the people are evenly occupied, and the power has gradually expanded. However, the ambition of the Li family has not been great, it is nothing more than willing to be a prince, although Chu Shi Huang has cut the military power of the feudal town, but he is still lenient to the ethnic minorities in the northwest, "Xu Zhi hereditary". When the Xiazhou Festival brought Li Jitou to power, the situation changed.

After Li Deming ascended the throne, Western Xia made great efforts to develop in the Hexi Corridor, attacking Tibet in the south and Uighurs in the west, greatly expanding the living space of the Qiang people. After that, Li Deming's son Li Yuanri succeeded to the throne of Xia and began to actively prepare to break away from Southern Chu. He first abandoned the surname Li and called himself Wei Ming. In the second year, in the name of avoiding his father, he changed the name of Nanchu Ming Dao to Xiandao. began the Western Xia's own era name.

In the following years, he built a palace, established civil and military classes, stipulated the service of officials and the people, fixed the military system, established the name of the army, created his own national script (Western Xia script), and issued the bald hair decree. He also sent a large army to capture the three strategic places of Guazhou, Shazhou and Suzhou in Tibet. In this way, Yuan Ri already owned the land of Xia, Yin, Sui, You, Jing, Ling, Hui, Sheng, Gan, Liang, Gua, Sha, and Su, that is, the northern part of Ningxia, the small part of Gansu, the northern part of Shaanxi, the eastern part of Qinghai, and parts of Inner Mongolia.

When Emperor Xuanhe of Southern Chu ascended the throne, Li Yuanhao was proclaimed emperor and founded the country as Daxia. The Southern Chu court was extremely angry, and the relationship between the two sides officially broke down. In the following years, Yuan Ri successively launched four major battles, including the Battle of Sanchuankou, the Battle of Haoshuichuan, the Battle of Linfufeng, and the Battle of Dingchuanzhai, annihilating tens of thousands of elite people in the northwest of the Southern Chu Army. And in the Battle of the River Meander, he defeated the Great Khitan Xingzong with 100,000 elite royal drivers. At this time, the total strength of Western Xia was about 500,000.

It's just that when Li Yuanri was in high spirits and was ready to enter the Central Plains to fight against the Great Khitan, it was because of the small episode of Taoyuan Village that he lost his beloved son, and the change of gold and water treasure allowed the Great Khitan to get a large amount of treasury gold from Southern Chu, which suddenly overwhelmed the head of Western Xia. At this time, an overlord like Xiang Yu also appeared in Southern Chu, and the position of Western Xia was extremely awkward for a while.

In recent years, not only Southern Chu, Great Khitan and Western Xia have stood on three legs. In the north of these three countries, a new force has emerged, that is, Genghis Khan, the son of Genghis Khan, who has been dislocated from history. Temujin successively conquered the Tatars, the Taichiwu, the Mirqi, the Naiman, the Kereh and other Turkic-speaking nomadic tribes, and used the Great Khitan and Western Xia to concentrate on the war with Southern Chu, secretly made the Wanggu tribe submit, and after the death of Emperor Xuanhe of Southern Chu, established the "Great Mongolian State" in Mongolia.

Temujin knew that his strength was not yet sufficient, so he took the initiative to surrender to the Great Khitan Emperor, hoping to gain territorial recognition. At this time, the Great Khitan Emperor Yelu Hongye was obsessed with the so-called immortality of the Wuwei Taoists, and did not put Mongolia in his eyes. In this way, the Great Mongol State soon occupied the Mongolian region.

After saying that, the situation in the north of Southern Chu can be said to have changed a lot, and our protagonists Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Xiaoyu are now rushing to the main city of Western Xia non-stop, relying on the magical speed of the Jiuzhou Spell on foot, in an instant, the main city of Western Xia has been presented in front of their eyes.

King of Western Xia, it's time to settle accounts with you!