To be more precise, it was subdued by the Western Army and the Forbidden Army of the Great Song Kingdom.

Previously, the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang of the Western Xia Kingdom took the opportunity to invade Hengshan in a big way, trying to recapture Lanzhou City and break through the defense line of Jingyuan Road, but her conspiracy was shattered again.

Therefore, even the big boss behind the Western Xia Kingdom, the Emperor of the Liao State, Ying Yelu Hongji, was afraid of this crazy woman. He sent envoys to collude with the opposition in the Western Xia Kingdom and poisoned the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang with a cup of poisonous wine.

As a result, the situation of the Liang family's dictatorship of Western Xia for more than 30 years finally came to an end. As for the history books that said that the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was disrespectful to the Liao envoys, Yelu Hongji sent someone to poison her, she was simply deceiving the ghost.

At this time, the situation in the Western Xia Kingdom was already in danger, and the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang would definitely beg the Liao Kingdom, where would she dare to offend this sect master again? The reason why she poisoned her can be regarded as responding to the heart of heaven and the will of the people.

Under her rule, the Western Xia Kingdom was defeated every time it raised an army. The territory of the Western Xia Kingdom is also getting smaller and smaller, and no one will be satisfied. This naturally also includes her son Li Qianshun, who has never been able to pro-government.

Li Bingchang, who has always hoped to get along with the Great Song Dynasty, can finally look away. Because, his son not only conspired with the Liao State to bury the Liang family, avenged this great revenge for him, but also finally asked the Great Song Dynasty to surrender, and since then the two sides have completely withdrawn their troops. Moreover, even with Yelu Hongji behind him.

Li Qianshun also knowingly did not make any excessive demands, he only asked for two things,

First, the Great Song Kingdom was able to distribute the annual coins to him as usual;

Second, it is hoped that the Great Song Kingdom can resume mutual markets at the border.

This incident happened when Zeng Zhao had not yet left Bianliang City, Zhao Xu asked the opinions of the important ministers, and most of the ministers hoped that the army should not be stopped, but should be completely destroyed in one go.

During this period, the Great Song Kingdom did have the ability to do this.

However, Cai Dao and Zeng Zhao discussed this matter in private, but Cai Dao's idea was to agree to all of Li Qianshun's requests, including the coin that was very humiliating in the eyes of the generals.

Coin, it's just a pretty good-sounding name.

In essence, there is no difference between it and the New Year's coin given to the Great Liao State, but its quantity and name are different. This ugly thing done by the Great Song Dynasty is the most classic example of the idiom of covering one's ears and stealing bells.

However, after the scandal was done, the result was not bad.

To a certain extent, although the Great Song Kingdom humiliated the Great Liao State and the Western Xia Kingdom to give coins and coins, it used these money and mutual markets to indirectly control the economic trend of these two countries.

Silk and copper coins made the upper-class nobles of the Liao State live a life of poverty and luxury, and also made the low-level soldiers lose their desire to fight grass and valley.

The copper coins of the Great Song Kingdom were used to obtain the products of the Great Song Kingdom, and moreover, it was a transaction that took place in a peaceful state. The ferocious tiger was gradually raised to lose its wild nature, so if Li Qianshun continued this national policy, the hungry wolf would one day be tamed as a domestic dog.

Moreover, if the Song-Xia border was in the open market, the Western Xia Kingdom would no longer be able to fool the merchants and ordinary people of the Great Song Dynasty with cheap green salt. Because today, in addition to the common people of Shuzhong Silu who still rely on well salt to live, the people from all walks of life in the Great Song Dynasty have eaten a clean and cheaper ocean, and even the best-selling Huai salt in the past has been squeezed out of the market.

So what else could the Western Xia Kingdom be able to trade with the Great Song Kingdom?

Horses are definitely not good, they have lost a large territory, and if they lose their advantage in mobility, then the Western Xia Kingdom might as well surrender to the Liao State.

The rest is nothing more than cattle and sheep. Of course, the Tangut people could go on the old road of the overland Silk Road through the Hexi Corridor and sell the goods of the Great Song Dynasty to Xizhou by themselves. And the forces of the Western Xia Kingdom can also be deployed in this direction to reduce the conflict between the two countries again.

In any case, Zeng Zhao was persuaded by Cai Dao. And Zeng Zhao also persuaded Zhao Xu on this ground.

The final result was somewhat unexpected, Zhao Xu, who had been determined to forge ahead in the past, actually agreed to Li Qianshun's request in full, and sent the coins back to the Western Xia Kingdom together with the peace treaty that year.

The long-lost peace gave the monarchs and ministers of the Western Xia Kingdom a chance to breathe, and the coin could also allow the devastated Western Xia Kingdom to repair the scars on its appearance. If you want to completely heal the wounded soldiers, it is not something that the current Li Qianshun and the Western Xia Kingdom can do.

However, Zhao Xu also made it clear in his reply to Li Qianshun that if he wants to open a mutual market, it is impossible this year, and the Great Song Dynasty also needs time to prepare the supply of goods.

The mutual market will definitely start next year.

Since Li Qianshun became pro-government, he has also been discussing with his cronies and important ministers and the good generals in charge of the army in China about the future development direction of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Losing the barrier of Hengshan and going to Lingzhou City and Xiazhou City, the two fortified cities, the Western Xia Kingdom has no capital to continue to fight with the Great Song Kingdom. At this point, even those famous generals have no courage.

Zhao Xu has indeed changed, since the death of the little prince Zhao Mao, he has become depressed, and no one is busy with the great cause of creating people except for handling government affairs.

After a few days of delay, Queen Liu finally calmed down, in addition to taking care of her two daughters every day, sometimes she would separate everyone around her, and she would be alone for a long time. No one knows what she's doing when she's alone.

Also, the number of times Zhao Xu went to Empress Liu's palace also decreased a lot, and later, except for visiting his two daughters, he never stayed in Empress Liu's palace again. In the entire inner palace, since that day, except for Zheng Li'er alone, Zhao Xu has never stayed in the same concubine's room for two days.

persuaded many times, and Empress Dowager Zhu didn't bother to persuade again.

Every day, Empress Dowager Zhu will inevitably invite Cai Dao into the palace, together with the tenth princess and King Jian, to play with Xiao Zhao.

Perhaps, in the entire palace now, only here can we see the vitality and make people feel that this is a home.

has been locked up for so long, Jian Wang Zhao still seems to be the same, he is a full angry bag, he will always be tricked by the ten princesses and Xiao Zhao's two children, but even if he suffers a crime, he is at most just smiling.

But the tenth princess was quite resentful of this matter, and complained to Cai Dao many times in private.

It was also in this year that Zeng Gong died of illness.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are inevitable at any time.

didn't see his last old man, didn't hear his last teachings, Cai Dao was still very disappointed and missed it very much.

Shouldn't Lao Cai Xi also be close to the capital? This thought suddenly rose in Cai Dao's heart.