Chapter 571: Xingqing Mansion

(Cat flutter Chinese) "Xingqing Mansion controls Heshuo in the north, leads Qingliang in the south, according to the upper reaches of the road, chokes the key points in the west, and its geographical situation is much superior to that of the silver and Xia areas. Please search (%¥¥) to see the most complete! The fastest update is really an easy place to defend and difficult to attack! In the car, Lotte looked at the map of Western Xia, paid special attention to Xingqing Mansion and said in a low voice.

At this time, Xu Jiang sat in the car with Lotte, looked at the map for a while, and said: "The original base of the Dangxiang people is in the area of Yin and Xia, the southeast is the territory of my Great Song Dynasty, and the northeast is a powerful Liao State.

"Yes, it is precisely because of the complex terrain and the complex ethnic composition here that it has been very difficult to control the Hetao since the dynasties!" Lotte obviously agreed with General Xu's opinion, and said: "Huai, Yong, Ding, and Shun will defend Xingqing Mansion in the middle, and Xiangqing Mansion and Xiping Mansion will be in the south of the front fortress, all of which are hard to bite, and it is not only difficult to destroy it, but also control it in his hands, and it will also consume the great national strength of my Great Song Dynasty."

In the Hetao area occupied by the Western Xia, the ethnic composition was too complicated, and the Qiang, Dangxiang, Hui, Tubo, Mongol, and Ughul ethnic groups lived together, and there were many contradictions of all kinds, which made its management a headache for the rulers of all dynasties.

A few miles north of Mingsha City is the Mingsha River, which is actually the upper reaches of the Yellow River, but the Xixia people call it the Mingsha River. Tanglai Canal, Hanyuan Canal in the north of Mingsha City 100 miles into the Mingsha River, if in the Mingsha River by boat to take the waterway against the Tangyuan Canal upstream, until the west gate of Xingqing Mansion, it is really the closest waterway, far more convenient and faster than taking the land route.

Xu Jiang suddenly said: "The Xia people take the three waters as a natural risk, and when the Shenzong Dynasty chose to cut down the summer in the autumn five roads, I think that if the three waters freeze in the winter, the Xia people will have no danger to defend!" ”

The two countries fought not only for the bravery of the sergeants, but also for the logistics.

Xia Huizong Li Bingchang was the third emperor of Western Xia, very fond of Han Confucian culture, from time to time to consult the Han people and the etiquette system of the Great Song Dynasty by sea, land and air, and wanted to "resume the Han rites" and "abolish the Fan Yi" in the Western Xia, but he was a little cowardly by nature, so the imperial power was actually controlled by his mother Empress Liang.

Just when Li Qing was preparing to send an envoy to the Song Dynasty, he was learned by the Empress Dowager Liang, who summoned Xingchen to conspire and lure Li Qing to drink, and immediately imprisoned Li Bingchang in Muqi, which was five miles away from the Xingqing Palace.

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In the car, Lotte looked at the scenery outside the window and sighed: "I always thought that Xingqing Mansion was a bitter cold place in the northwest, but I didn't expect it to be rich here." ”

In addition to the original Tang Lai, Hanyuan ancient canal and other irrigation benefits, Li Yuanhao built the 'Haowang Canal' on the alluvial plain at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, which is more than 200 miles long, so that the agricultural and animal husbandry production in the suburbs of Xingqing Mansion has developed greatly, and it has become a grain base and an important pasture in the territory of Western Xia. ”

At this time, Xu Jiang, who was next to Lotte, said: "Zhongda, according to the spy report about Xingqing Mansion seen by the lower officials, the city of Xingqing Mansion is rectangular, more than 18 miles in circumference, and the moat is ten zhang wide, with two gates in the north and south, and one in the east and west.

Although Xingqing Mansion is not large, the palace gardens of the Xia royal family in the city occupy a large area, and there is a palace city of a certain scale, while the general residents are densely distributed in dozens of neighborhoods, all of which are low earthen houses or earthen houses. ”

Xingqing Mansion is only eighteen miles around, the square city wall is only four and a half miles on each side, Lotte comes from the south, you can clearly see the two city gates outside the south city, the city wall is about six to seven zhang high, there is an urn city outside the city gate, the city gate has a suspension bridge, there is a moat nearly ten zhang wide outside the city wall, it is connected with the Tanglai River in the west of the city, it is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The closer it is to the city gate of Xingqing Mansion, Le Tiancai noticed that although there is an endless stream of pedestrians inside and outside the city gate, it is the difference between heaven and earth compared to the Great Song Dynasty Biandu, the permanent population in Biandu City is about 1.5 million, and from the perspective of the flow of people in and out of Xingqing Mansion, there are 200,000 people living in Xingqing Mansion to reach the sky.

In the 1,000 Xixia light cavalry, mixed with more than 500 people of the Great Song Dynasty soldier Ding Ling, since Li Jiqian became a leaky fish to betray the Song Dynasty to Li Yuanhao built Xingqing City to stand on his own, in the past hundred years, the Song and Xia countries killed the corpses of the mountains and sea of blood, the Great Song Dynasty army has never set foot in Xingqing Mansion again, and the people of Xingqing Mansion have never seen the Song army, which is naturally very fresh.

After taking a shower in the post house and changing his clothes, Xu Hui reported to the future: "Zhongda, the lower officials have checked up and down, and sent the Ding Ling sent by the Xia people to the post house, so as not to mix with the Xia people's fine work!" ”

General Xu hurriedly replied: "The lower officials have been released, and it won't take a day to think about it, and the entire Xingqing Mansion knows that the adults have come to marry Princess Lando, and use 500,000 taels of silver as a bride price!" ”

"CUHK adults have written it down!" Xu Jiang replied with a smile on his face.

In the Great Song Dynasty, any official was inevitably monitored by the emperor to monitor his words and deeds, and everyone knew it in their hearts, but they just pretended not to know on the surface. In ancient times, there was often a certain minister to visit the house of a certain minister, and the visited person would order the person to open the door of the house before meeting the visitor, and at the same time, when the person in the family would enter the house, the family would also roar so loudly, and the person would come to visit the visit......

Xu Jiang was puzzled: "The subordinates don't understand, just remember that you can probably have an explanation with the one in the palace, what is the use of the official record ordered by the lord to be so detailed?" ”

Xu Jiang suddenly realized: "The lower officials understand, the middle school people want to separate the Xia people, the monarchs and ministers from the people!" ”

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"Your Royal Highness Princess, according to the eunuchs who procured the goods, the master of the horse has arrived in Xingqing Mansion today...... "A palace lady rushed to report to Princess Lando.

"It's the ...... the princess is going to marry," Gong E replied.

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