Chapter 116: Mistakes
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of a god-like opponent, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate. The reason why there was a conflict between the party and the Liao State was because someone in the party tribe gave Li Jiqian such a pig teammate.
The party in this period was not a centralized state like the later Tangut kingdom, and today it is only a loose tribal alliance.
And Li Jiqian is just the chief of a relatively powerful tribe in this tribal alliance, and it is only because his tribe is relatively strong, and he has married the daughters of several other powerful tribal leaders, so a quite powerful group has been formed around him.
And Li Jiqian relied on the power of this group to become the leader of the alliance, but although he is the leader, it does not mean that all the tribes of the alliance must listen to him.
The reason is very simple, Li Jiqian, the leader, has been constantly voting for the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty, and the Liao Dynasty for a long time. This also led to him being suppressed by both Song and Liao.
In addition, in recent years, Li Jiqian's troops have been suppressed a little ruthlessly by Li Jiguang, which has caused his prestige as a leader to gradually decline.
No, when he easily seized the opportunity and wanted to take advantage of the Great Song Dynasty to go to Lingzhou and other places to get a handful, the tribe in the rear that did not listen to his orders gave him a pig teammate, which caused a big trouble.
Here's the thing, although the whole country of Liao is nomadic, everyone is raising horses. But horses, like people, have the Tao that one side of the water and soil supports one side of the people, and it is the same when it is placed on horses.
Liao has a vast territory and countless horse farms, but the horse farms that can raise the best horses in the real sense are still a little far away from Shangjing Linhuang Mansion, the capital of Liao State.
The horse farm was located in the western part of the Liao Kingdom, probably in what was later Xinjiang. Although the place was far away, the horses produced there were used as horses for the royal family of the Great Liao Yelu. Every spring and summer, a large number of horses are driven from the far west to Shangjing as a reserve for horses, which are selected by the royal family.
However, something happened to the batch of horses this spring, because I don't know which party and tribe leader had a nerve to get the best horses.
Because the Dangxiang tribe actually belongs to the category of nomads, they are also fond of BMW, and there are corresponding competitions.
Moreover, this kind of competition often becomes a channel for gambling among the party aristocracy, and the gambling jackpot of this competition every year is very huge.
And the leader of the nervous tribe was very unwilling because he lost several competitions in a row, but the horses cultivated by his tribe were very weak, so he started the idea of looking for "foreign aid".
However, this "foreign aid" can not be found by looking for it, and the party departments are quite strict about guarding their own good horses, and it is basically impossible to attack them.
Coincidentally, however, at this time, the horses that pay tribute to Shangjing every year happened to pass by the neighborhood where the tribe gathered.
The tribal leaders did not know that the horses were paid tribute to the Khitan royal nobles, as their tribes had only recently migrated here.
But after his tribe's men observed the horses, they came to the conclusion that they were all the best horses in a hundred, several grades higher than the so-called good horses raised in his own tribe.
So under the inspiration of the fearless courage of the ignorant, and under the domination of the already greedy **, this leader made a move that shook the past and the present, that is, he sent troops to rob these BMWs.
Now it was worth it, and the plan that had been prepared to attack the Song Dynasty was suddenly stopped by Liao Shengzong, because the incident of the BMW being robbed was really embarrassing.
Originally, horses were the same thing as the root of life for the Khitan people, and the Khitan people's love and love for horses was equivalent to the love and love of later generations for cars.
In later generations, as long as their good cars are slightly rubbed off a little paint, they will be heartbroken and thunderous. And the Khitans of this era are the same. They can be described as caring for their horses.
Now that the royal horse selected for the royal tribute was actually robbed by a small party tribe, how could the Khitan royal family not be angry in their hearts, and this made the face of Yelu Longxu of Liao Shengzong go where.
In addition, due to the rise of Han Derang, a large number of Han people entered the political arena of the Liao State, although these Han people were loyal to the Liao court, but they grew up with Confucian culture and education, and they would still act according to the guidance of Confucianism.
For them, even if they have a feud with their neighbors, but the monarch of the family is newly mourned, it is immoral to launch an attack on their neighbors at this time.
So they have been looking for an opportunity to prevent the Liao State from waging war against the Song at this time. And it just so happened that the robbery of the imperial horse this time was a good opportunity, because once the war against the party was started, then it was bound to be unable to fight against the Song for the time being.
Because although the party item is small, it is not so easy to deal with, if the war against the Song Dynasty is launched at the same time as the battle against the party item, the Great Liao who is caught in a two-front war will inevitably pay a lot of price, which is not cost-effective.
Therefore, these Han ministers all expressed their support for waging war against the Dangxiang tribe in order to avoid war against the Song.
In order to strengthen Yelu Longxu's determination to wage war against the party, these Han ministers of the Liao State turned over the previous matter of Li Jiqian's defection to Liao and then to the Song Dynasty.
This is used to show that the party and the nation are capricious villains, and they are all white-eyed wolves who are not familiar with them. How good the Great Liao was to them, but they not only rebelled against the Great Liao and took refuge in the Song Dynasty, but also hijacked the Great Liao Imperial Horse, which was unbearable.
The purpose of their repeated belittling of the party clan is to make Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu understand a truth, that is, they can no longer act benevolently and righteously towards the party, and for this lowly nation, violence is the only language they can understand, and subduing them is the best choice.
And at this time, Liao Shengzong actually had his own ideas, and at this time, Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu had reached the age of twenty-five, but the problem was that he still did not have a pro-government until this age.
Now the power of the Liao State is still in the hands of his mother, the Empress Dowager Xiao Xuan, and the Song Dynasty is the conclusion of the collective negotiation of the political group headed by Xiao Xuan.
Yelu Longxu didn't have much say in this matter, which made him a little unhappy.
It just so happened at this time that such an incident happened, and the occurrence of this incident led to more voices from the government and the opposition to crusade against the party.
This made Yelu Longxu have the idea that he could take advantage of this matter, because if he could use these voices to stop the actions of the Song Dynasty, even if he could not take back power from his mother, he would at least be able to establish his own image in the court that could make independent decisions, which would also help the transfer of power in the future.
So, just when the voice of the DPRK and China imposing sanctions on the party became louder and louder, Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu stood up decisively, and he announced the cessation of the Song Dynasty without consulting his mother and Han Derang, and turned his gun to attack the Lingzhou party departments.
This move caught Empress Dowager Xiao and Han Derang off guard, which made Empress Dowager Xiao a little annoyed. But fortunately, Han Derang is still more open to this matter.
Because Yelu Longxu is twenty-five years old after all, in the Central Plains, if the empress dowager does not return to power after the emperor is sixteen years old, the ministers of the court and the central government may unite to force the empress dowager to return to power.
At this time, Yelu Longxu just wanted to use this incident to brush up his sense of existence in the hearts of the ministers of the court, and he did not do anything to prepare to seize power.
Therefore, Han Derang persuaded Xiao Sui to follow Yelu Longxu's meaning in this matter and let him make his own decision.
After all, now that the Great Song Dynasty is experiencing a national funeral, it is not very auspicious to say anything about the Song Dynasty at this time, and it is time for the party to beat it.
As a result, the Liao side officially stopped the plan to attack the Song Dynasty, and transferred all the troops that were originally going to fight the Song Dynasty to the southwest and the border with the party departments.
And the original general of the Song Dynasty, Yelu Mo, turned into a general who crusaded against the party and led his troops to the battle.
But at this time, Li Jiqian didn't know that he had been cheated by his pig-like teammates, and at this moment he was still preparing for how to capture Lingzhou and other places.
However, just when he was waiting for Li Jiguang to return to Beijing and Lingzhou was empty, the Liao army suddenly launched an attack on him.
This made Li Jiqian feel surprised and panicked, and now in this period, the Liao Iron Cavalry is even more terrifying than the Great Song Dynasty's strong crossbow.
Even if Li Jiqian was given the opportunity to prepare for defense in advance, he would not be able to defeat the Liao army, not to mention that at this time he did not have the slightest idea of the Liao State attacking.
As a result, the unprepared party departments were slaughtered by the Liao army in the form of crushing.
Li Jiqian, who really couldn't figure out why, had to send someone to sue for peace immediately, and it was definitely impossible to resist.
After Li Jiqian's envoy to the Khitan camp arrived, he realized that the original cause of the incident was that the Khitan tribute royal horse was robbed, which made Li Jiqian's envoy only cry out for wrongdoing.
At that time, Li Jiqian led all the troops to prepare for a sneak attack on the Great Song Dynasty, how could there be air control over these individual tribes who didn't listen to them in the first place.
Therefore, this incident is completely the personal behavior of the leader below, and it has nothing to do with Li Jiqian.
But it's not like you say it's okay and you can be okay.
In the end, in desperation, Li Jiqian not only handed over the man's tribe, but also paid a large amount of compensation to the Liao State, and had to pinch his nose and endure all the undeclared war behavior of the Liao State.
In this way, the Liao people took the money and left, but the party departments suffered heavy losses, and they didn't want to slow down in a few years, and it was easy to wait until the opportunity to capture Lingzhou again was gone.
So in the midst of the misfortunes, Da Song escaped the first catastrophe after the change.