Chapter 40: The Wild Goose is Long and the Sky Is Not Visible (II)
[I fell asleep while writing, and the next one was a little later.] 】
Just like what Yelu Yixin and Xiao Shisan discussed, the Western Xia lord who had just been in power was always in charge of the matter, and the matter of taking his uncle's cronies Jing Xun to open the knife was also spread to the Great Song Dynasty through many detailed works arranged in the Xingqing Mansion.
Jing Xun is a well-known traitor, who followed Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao with the party army to attack China to burn, kill and loot, and used the bones of the Han people to cushion his position in the Western Xia Kingdom, and was one of the few Hanchen representatives in the Western Xia Kingdom.
Shaanxi once arrested his wife and prepared to punish him, but Emperor Yingzong felt that it was too embarrassing to do so, and it was not decent for the court, so he issued an edict to release the people.
But for Jing Xun himself, whether it is Yingzong or the current Son of Heaven, he will never forget it, and as soon as he catches the Western Xia escapees, he will turn around the idea of exchange. Even when the seed said that after descending Weiming Mountain and seizing Suide, people from Western Xia came to ask for it, and the condition offered by the Great Song Dynasty was that you send Jingxun over, and we would return Suide and Weiming Mountain to you.
Western Xia did not agree to this condition. They didn't believe that the sincerity of the Song people was one, but Jing Xun was indeed more important than Suide City in the eyes of the Western Xia high-level.
The death of such a person is, of course, good news for the Great Song Dynasty. And the meaning behind the cause of his death is even more ecstatic.
What could be more exciting than the internal division and fratricidal fighting of the enemy?
It is a kind of Jianzhong and a kind of Pu to celebrate each other, and the kind of man twists his beard and has a good mood for a few days. I heard that the seed and friendship of Huanqing Road even found a reason to be out of tune, and then secretly celebrated this matter.
"That way, the big picture is settled." Chong Jianzhong's cheeks were mixed with drunkenness and excitement, "The civil strife of the Western Thieves is the time for the official army to conquest. The more chaotic it is, the more tribes will be separated from Germany, and in this way, it may become a situation when the official army attacks Jiaozhi, and there is no need for the official army to do anything, and the Tibetan department that follows the official army will come out to calm down, and the big and small things are all taken by the Tibetan department, and the official army only needs to sit in the rear and do a good job of backing up. ”
"If Han Yukun heard the news that Jing Xun was killed, I don't know if he would ask the official army to fight Yinxia?" Chong Pu picked up the wine cup and said with a smile, "The official is getting bigger and bigger, but the old sharpness is less." ”
"Han Yukun was also worried that Hanhai would be difficult to cross, so he was bent on seeking stability, so he said in the letter before that it was best to recover Yinxia only." "But now that the situation in Western Xia has changed, presumably he will also change his ways." ”
This information was transmitted from Xingqing Mansion to Shaanxi, and a few days later from Shaanxi to the capital, and to the desk of the Son of Heaven.
Recently, all the good news I received made Zhao Ji feel worried because of the illness of the Seventh Prince, and he got a lot of comfort.
This year's autumn grain is followed by another bumper harvest, and this is of course the first major event worth celebrating. Because of the successive disasters in the second half of Xining, the positions that have become increasingly empty in various places can finally return to the safe boundary.
The Xianghan Cao Yun finally began to start, which was the second happy event. Although the water transport channel has not yet been fully completed, the intermediate transshipment track is said to have enough capacity to transport autumn grain from Jinghu to the capital before the Gyeonggi River freezes. Zhao Ji knows Han Gang's personality very well, knows that his words are not light, his hair must be well-founded, and he knows his talents, and has deep expectations for Xianghan Caoyun.
As long as it can replenish the transportation capacity of the Shangbian River, even if there is any problem with the Bianhe River in the future, there is no need to worry about not being able to eat, at least there is Xianghan Caoyun who can transport enough food to the capital.
I have food in my hands, and I don't panic in my heart. With the grain foundation, Zhao Ji can also watch the changes in the Western Xia Kingdom with anticipation.
The death of the traitor Jing Xun made Zhao Ji overjoyed. This rebellion is almost a knot in the hearts of the two generations of monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty. Although the Western Xia has been pressed and beaten in recent years, he has no way to perform, but he has attracted the party cavalry several times during the Zhiping period and the early years of Xining, and instructed them to burn, kill and loot in the Great Song Dynasty.
The existence of this person made Zhao Ji unbearable, so he always wanted to get him back, or simply send him down to reincarnate. But even if you are the Son of Heaven, you can't do anything you want, Jing Xun has always lived well, so that the person who cursed him to die secretly gritted his teeth. But now he's finally dead, and it's a new round of politics. A sign of the beginning of the struggle.
The internal divisions tend to become more visible, and the disputes that have surfaced on the surface will inevitably bring positive factors to the extinction of Xia. Maybe the official army has not yet arrived at the city of Xingqing Mansion, and the city has already killed you to death.
"Good death! Well dead! Zhao Ji smiled, completely losing the reserve and steadiness of the Son of Heaven.
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"Liao and Song must have received the news." More than one in the Xingqing Mansion was talking like this, "The two families are not easy to mess with, and if they see an opportunity, I'm afraid they won't sit idly by." ”
"Give the flaw to the opponent, can they not laugh? I am afraid that in the future, there will be no peace in the country. ”
"It's best to fix this as soon as possible. When the soldiers come to the city, it will be too late to discuss this matter. ”
"I wonder who General Lee is going to side with?"
The same problem has appeared many times in Xingqing Mansion in a short period of time. The current situation in the country cannot tolerate both ends of the world, and the time has come when it is necessary to take sides
The biggest trouble is that Bingchang's eldest son was born to Yelu, which is the so-called eldest son. As long as there is no accident, the kid who can't be pleasing to the eye is the future lord of Western Xia.
has already arrived in this field, and there is nothing to pay attention to in the relationship between mother and son. Before the struggle for power, family affection or something was dispensable.
"With the Empress Dowager Liang here, she will definitely be confined, but she can always keep her majesty alive, and if your majesty is powerful, it is impossible to say, the Liao people have a murderous personality, and they will not be willing to stay in trouble. General Li, do you think you can make Your Majesty a mother killer? …… There is also the Poxi Army, among the Song people, there are many skilled craftsmen, and the whirlwind cannon can be imitated by two glances at most, compared to the Khitan, it must be a hundred times stronger. If the Khitans wanted to imitate it, they would definitely empty the old bottom of the Poxi Army and leave nothing behind. ”
The Poxi Army was a rare team of pure skills in the Western Xia army, which delivered fist-sized stones to the enemy's head and body by loading a small and agile whirlwind cannon on the back of a camel. The first time it appeared decades ago, when it was in Sanchuankou, the Poxi Army, which only had 200 people, played the name of the Western Xia Han Army, and was no longer a death squad like Bang Linglang.
Even the Song people, who looked down on the level of engineering skills in Western Xia, were also surprised when they saw the power of the Poxi Army. Stone throwing utensils have always been made in large quantities, where is the design to be placed on the back of a camel? Not only novel, but also practical. It's just that the process is too cumbersome, and so far, there are only more than 300 finished products, which makes it difficult for Poxi Jun to expand.
It was because of the number of people that the number of two or three hundred people was too small to participate in a serious big war at all. Otherwise, if there is a charge on the opposite side, the Poxi army will be like encountering new snow in the boiling water, and it will turn into a bubble in the blink of an eye.
However, the command of the Poxi army made Li Qing's status in the Western Xia army very high, and at the same time strengthened his position in the court, in the Xingqing Mansion, he seemed to be the representative of the Han army. When he went to war, not only did the Po Xi army follow him, but sometimes it was purely a death squad, and it was also under his jurisdiction.
Because of this, he has also become the object of both sides. It was time to stand on that side, which made Li Qing think a lot.
Is it on the side of the Queen Mother, or on the side of the Lord of the Kingdom? Once you stand on the wrong line, you don't regret taking the medicine, and it's a blessing to be able to save your life, not to mention the current wealth.
Last night, someone from the lord's side came to visit, but his attitude and eloquence were not as good as today's guests. And the attitude is a little arrogant, and there is a little less politeness in the words, which makes Li Qing very disliked.
It stands to reason that Li Qing must bring his generals with him to fully support his monarch. But judging from the actual situation, to support Bingchang is to support the Khitan.
Originally, in the Western Xia Kingdom, the Han people were under the Dangxiang people, and when the Khitans came, they would definitely have to be lowered to a higher level.
Li Qing lowered his head and pondered. He is a Han Chinese, and if he wants to choose between the Great Song and the Liao Kingdom, he is of course willing to favor the Great Song Dynasty.
If Xixia can't support it, he will take refuge in the Song people, not only can he have a rich and old ending, but it is not too difficult to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou to have a good visit. And to continue to be loyal to the monarch, you must be ready to retire in the Khitan State. Judging from the current national situation of Song and Liao, it is still a better chance for the Song side.
Nodding, Li Qingzhi said what he should choose. From the perspective of his personal future or the future of Po Xijun, Li Qing felt that only the Liang family was the most suitable choice.
Although the Liang family has no intention of surrendering to the Great Song Dynasty at the moment, with the development of the current situation step by step, Li Qing feels that if the lonely Liang family does not have the support of a backer, it will only have a disillusioned ending.
The Liang brothers and sisters are not stupid people, how and when to do it, so as to realize their own best interests, and even maintain their independence in the hands of the Song people, these are all things that need to be thought through.
This is the helplessness and sorrow of a small country, once the foundation for persevering in building a country is gone, we can only wait for the big countries to divide the victory and defeat after the saber rattling.
Perhaps after the first fiasco on the banks of the Western Xia and Wuding River, today's ending was already doomed. A small country has no power to fail, it is not as big as Song Liao, and several defeats in a row will not affect the status of the country.
He arched his hand at the lobbyist: "Please reply to the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister, Li Qing obeys." ”
Just when the power of the Western Xia Kingdom was being divided into two, and all countries in the world were paying attention to the development of this matter, a party doctor with more than a dozen guards, as well as dozens of villagers who were forced to escort him, walked out of the Fulong Mountain in the south of Xiangzhou for a long time, and marched towards Xiangzhou City.