In the Shengping Building, the envoy of Western Xia, Li Bigeng, did not communicate with the envoys of other countries, and poured himself a drink alone in the corner tower, looking very determined, waiting for the Song Dynasty to come to him to find him.

It's just that he doesn't want to find things, but things don't necessarily want to find him, just before Li and Erren came to find him to reconcile, the envoys of Northern Liao, Hui Hui, and Khotan were colluded together, and then the three of them conspired and went straight over, and surrounded Li Bigeng, and suddenly had a dispute.

First of all, the envoy sent by Emperor Tianzhen of Northern Liao was surnamed Yelu, with a single name and a tin character, and he was one of the few elders who supported Emperor Tianzhen to go to Zhenzhou to open the country, and he was not very old, just in his early forties. He himself is a nobleman of the Yelu clan of the Liao State, and it seems that he has been admitted to the imperial examination of the Liao State, so it is not a small matter to be an envoy.

As for the envoy of the Hui, his name was Saab bin Muhammad, a true Semu (Central Asian with dark brown eyes), an old man in his early fifties.

One more thing to say here is that the Uighur (HE) at this time should be called the Uighur (HU), because the Uighur had actually been divided into three small states as early as the end of the Tang Dynasty, and at this time, the Western Qarakhanid who was able to inherit the Uighur monarchy, the main human race is the descendants of the Turks who drove the Egyptian Ayyubid Saladin the Great (that is, the one who conquered Jerusalem in the Heavenly Dynasty) who overthrew the Crusaders of the Eastern Expedition, and these Turkic descendants are especially the descendants of the Turks who were driven to the west when the Tang Dynasty ran the Western Regions. They are all descendants of Turkic people who have converted to the Pig-hating Cult.

In fact, the Uighurs should only be regarded as a large alliance of minority tribes, not an empire or a kingdom, or even an emirate. The word "Uighur" in Chinese historical materials comes from the ancient Uighur script, and the name of the Uighurs comes from the tribes of Wei and Wuhu.

In the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty (788), the Uighurs changed their name to Uighurs, taking the meaning of "whirling light and swift like a falcon". The Uighurs were a branch of the Tiele tribes, with Wei living in the northern Tura River and Uhu living in the Tiera Mountains region, so the Uighurs were once vassals of the Turkic Khanate. When the Turkic Khanate was strong, the Hui tribe submitted to the Turks, and in the second year of Tianbao (743) of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Hui Khanate destroyed the Turks and unified the Tiele tribes, and the Hui gradually became the collective name of the Tiele tribes.

As a result, in the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty (840), the Uighur Khanate also collapsed and was defeated by the subordinate tribes of the Uighurs, most of whom lived in Mobei went south to North China, and the rest moved westward in three groups, one of which was combined with the Uighurs in the Tianshan Mountains, and some of the Uighur tribes were attached to the Uighas.

The Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking peoples in the region formed the Qarakhanid Dynasty, also known as the Western Uighurs and the Asalan Uighurs.

And the so-called envoy Sabo bin Muhammad who has now come to the Bianliang tribute should actually be called the envoy of the Qarakhanid Dynasty or the Asalan Uighurs, but because the diplomacy of the Great Song Dynasty was blank at this time, the person who managed diplomatic institutions such as Honglu Temple was a great musician and a great lyricist under the bed Zhou Bangyan (and the knife is like water, Wu Yan wins the snow, and the slender hand breaks the new orange...... Hehe! So I had to ask where Sabo came from, and then compared it with the general landscape painting of the Western Regions, and I also decided that he was a messenger from Huifu.

Finally, the envoy of Khotan (tian), in fact, this Khotanese (232-1006 BC) was indeed the kingdom of the ancient Western Regions, one of the four towns of Anxi, the capital of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty of China, and its national race belonged to the Tocharians (proto-Indo-European Aryans) who spoke the Indo-European language.

However, as early as the fourth year of Jingde in the Northern Song Dynasty (1006), the Khotanese Kingdom was annexed by the Qarakhanid Dynasty, which moved westward at that time, and gradually hated pigs.

At that time, it should be the first year of Jianlong of the Northern Song Dynasty (960), the Qarakhanid Dynasty Musa Khan, who moved westward, declared the Pig-hating Religion as the state religion, and a religious war broke out between the Buddhist Yu Wenguo and the Qarakhanid Dynasty, which believed in the Pig-hating Religion, which lasted for nearly 40 years. At the beginning of the war, Khotanese had the upper hand, and after repelling the Qarakhanid attack, they marched westward, and for a time captured Kashgar (the ancient city of Eskesa, on the southeastern outskirts of present-day Kashgar).

Although the Qarakhanid dynasty recaptured Kashgar with the support of reinforcements from the Pig Hatred Sect, it did not turn the tide of the war, and Ali Khan himself died in the war with Khotan.

Khotan's financial, material, and manpower resources were inferior to those of the Qarakhanid Dynasty, and the protracted war greatly damaged its strength and gradually put it at a disadvantage. During the reign of Yusuf Qadir Khan, the Qarakhanid dynasty finally completed the conquest of Khotan.

As for the exact time of the fall of the Khotanese state, there is no clear history, but it should be between the fourth year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty (993) and the fourth year of Jingde in the Northern Song Dynasty (1009). Because there is a "Book of Ganzhou Khan and the King of Khotan" in the Hotan document for four years, which shows that Khotan had not yet destroyed the country at that time; According to the "History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Khotan", in the fourth year of Jingde, King Khotan sent the Uighur Luo Weiwen and others to the Central Plains to pay tribute, indicating that Khotan had already died at this time.

However, although the Khotanese state was destroyed, the Tocharians still survived tenaciously at the junction of the Uighurs and the Tibetan tribe south of the Green Mountains, and now it is a small climate with a little climate, so the Khotanese merchant Wei Chi Chaonan (don't laugh, Wei Chi is the surname of the Khotanese country) also came to the Great Song Dynasty with the caravan to trade, and then turned into a messenger of the "Later Khotanese State" to pay tribute.

After talking about the origin of the three envoys, he also said that after Yeluxi, Sabo and Wei Chi Chaonan had a good exchange, they also came to the corner tower to attack Li Bigeng, and heard Yeluxi first ask triumphantly: "Xia envoy, do you know that the kingdom wants to open a field in Xizhou (now Xining)?" ”

Li Bigeng grinned when he heard this, but asked rhetorically: "If you don't open in Gaochang (in the territory of Huifu) or Dadan (Saiyin Shanda controlled by Northern Liao north of Erenhot today), I don't know why the Liao envoy is jubilant?" And even if you really open the field in Gaochang or Dadan, you have to ask me if Da Xia Le is happy, and I will wait with you through the way! ”

The capital of the Northern Liao Zhenzhou, that is, the later generations of Ulaanbaatar west of the city of Kedun, because the foundation of the Northern Liao is to fight to the death with the Jin State, so the passage to the east and south of Zhenzhou is now blocked by the Jin State, and now to communicate with the Great Song Dynasty, either to go back to the territory of the Tubo detour, or from the Western Xia to borrow the road from the Great Song Dynasty, but because of the hatred of Li Qianshun a few years ago to run to rob the Great Song Dynasty, the result was the seed master Dao, the two old brothers in the seed master to break the backbone, the border once trivial, Even now, the borders of the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia are still in a semi-blocked state, so in recent years, the collusion between Northern Liao and the Great Song Dynasty has been through the Huifu and Tubo passages.