Chapter 81: Post-Incident Investigation
A difficult choice was made between the major party forces and whether to continue the passive defense or move the capital farther north to defend it. Continuing to stay in Xingqing Mansion can only allow the mysterious troops of the Great Song Empire to come to destroy the country, and if they can move the capital to the Hetao Plain, they can buffer for a few days.
It was clear that the crossing masses did not have sufficient capacity to attack the fortifications, and there was a serious shortage of artillery to attack the city and to prevent the party members from escaping the besieged city. The news disseminated by those spies every day also focused on the secret weapons of the Great Song Empire, avoiding the important and trivializing the decision of the party members to move the capital after being frightened. If the Great Song Empire had enough military strength, it would have eliminated the party members a long time ago, and there was no need to hide it at all. The timid and weak tribes called the land to seek peace in order to protect themselves, but in fact, the proposal of the pillars of the great nobles to sell the country became popular.
One by one, the spies who investigated the reasons for the fiasco constantly crossed the border to spy on intelligence within the Great Song Empire. But how could a spy in the feudal era get information from high-level insiders such as the Dart Bureau, who had been trained as a CIA agent? Besides, the investigation that can be led to the direction of the secret weapon of the Great Song Emperor's [***] team is also inconclusive, and there is no weapon at all, so how can the Northwest Army leak information. The high-level investigation of the Northwest Army also triggered a round of suspicion and discord between the central and local governments.
Another piece of news that made the spies frustrated was that the largest part of the army that had been assembled through the mines, the convoys of mines and industries in various places, were only escort logisticians who did not join the battle at all. The few prisoners of war who escaped could not describe the situation during the battle, the process of becoming prisoners of war was very rapid, the sudden explosion and irritating smoke while passing through a small plain made many soldiers lose their combat effectiveness in an instant, all the horses scattered in all directions, the soldiers fell to the ground and had difficulty breathing, and the prisoners of war woke up and were already tied to ropes and strung on strings and escorted to various mines and closed remote industries as coolies.
Among the hundreds of people who fled from the Xia Kingdom, they did not see the enemy with their own eyes, and no one saw the main force and banner of this army. The secrets of mines and smoke are top-secret information that no one can answer. Although gunpowder weapons and smoke grenades were also developed within the Great Song Empire, none of them could achieve such a powerful incapacitating effect. The more than 10,000 military horses that had been branded were also missing, and in fact, all of them were sent by the forces of the people to serve as pack horses for commercial transportation between Shanzhou and the Huangtou Huifu area, and those spies were naturally impossible to see in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.
All the investigations afterwards seemed to follow the arrangement of the traversal people step by step, pointing to the secret forces of the Great Song Empire that did not exist at all. And the mutual suspicion within the local and central armies of the Great Song Empire was also quelled by the vague communication of the people who crossed the investigation team. The central government thought that the Northwest Army did not fight, but just picked up shit luck and bumped into the infighting of the Xia [***] team, and the melee of the local warlords against the Liang brothers and sisters was framed on the Great Song Empire; The Northwest Army, on the other hand, believed that it was a secret weapon developed by the central government, and sent a surprise soldier to attack the enemy army when he went out of the country.
The final conclusion of the Xia State was also that the secret weapon of the Central Surprise Army of the Great Song Empire annihilated Liang Yikui's army, and this fiasco could not completely destroy Liang Yikui's ambitions, but completely destroyed his power base - the trust and support of the party nobles for him. It is impossible to rely solely on the emperor's pro-army to maintain a continuous deterrence of the powerful people who are surrounded on all sides, as long as the emperor is in power, the situation of the Liang brothers and sisters controlling the government will end, and in 1086, the three-year-old Li Qianshun ascended the throne and became the emperor, and now he is 10 years old, which means that at most four years, the Liang brothers and sisters who have lost their political authority will be finished. The strength of the dynasty to usurp the throne was also exhausted in this fiasco, and the desperate Liang Yikui hit the head of the Great Song Empire.
Why is it best to take refuge in the Great Song Empire? The Liao State is a barbarian regime with deep nomadic tribal habits, and only values the strong and powerful, if Liang Yiwei is desperate to join the Liao State, the best outcome is to be a prisoner who is imprisoned, and ensure that he will not die. If it is not safe to take refuge in Khotan in the northwest, he may be extradited back to China. Only the vain Chinese regime will shelter the politicians of other countries who have lost power as vases, and provide them with good food and drink as evidence of the self-boasting of the nations. Although the Xia State and the Great Song Dynasty were hostile countries, the enemies of the Great Song Dynasty were not one or two political figures, but the entire party elite class. After thinking about it, the only way to retreat was to take refuge in the Great Song Empire.
As for stealing chickens and losing money, the major tribes and magnates who lost a lot of money in order to make up for the losses put pressure on the queen mother, demanding compensation for the losses and the power below to the grassroots level. The military strength of the other and the other made the empress dowager and the imperial family have to agree to a bunch of reforms that greatly weakened the imperial power, and the original feudalization and centralized power of the Sinicization process was interrupted. The royal family and the descendants had to unite to compromise with the local tribes, whether it was Renduo Baozhong, who was loyal to the imperial family, or Liang Yiqi, who was about to fall, they had to move out of the cellar treasures and goods in order to appease the major clans and the officers and soldiers under their direct cronies.
Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Dangxiang clan has taken the surname as the clan, with a total of eight tribes. In addition to the Tuoba Department, there are also seven departments: Yeli, Fine Seal, Fei Ting, Fangdang, Pochao, Mi Capture, and Xiangli. All the ministries obeyed the orders of the Li family, acting as vassals and horses of the Li family, and jointly promoting the feudalization process of the party members.
However, this fragile alliance was entirely based on military strength and marriage, and once the imperial family and the descendants did not have enough strength to subdue the major tribes under them, they would not mind being the emperor of the Xia Kingdom. This investigation was urgently stopped in the turmoil within the Xia Kingdom, and the best result was not over. The investigation of the Great Song Empire is still continuing, but it is obviously impossible to find out that the mastermind behind the scenes is the Crossing People. The investigation clues of the Great Song Empire were led to three possibilities, one was the internal strife in the Xia, the other was the cover-up action of the Xia State eating empty salaries, and the other was the alliance formed by the Qingtang and Tubo tribes with strong combat effectiveness to annihilate the invading enemy. The tendency of the top is clearly biased towards the second reason, which is most easily accepted by the top of the Great Song Empire.
Both the high-level of the Xia Kingdom and the high-level of the Great Song Empire breathed a sigh of relief, although the cross-cutting people did not reveal their strength, but the situation was no longer under the control of the emperor's mother who was in power in the two countries, and this feeling of invigoration made the two elderly women experience the crisis of losing power.