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When the envoy of the Western Xia cried in Beijing of the Liao State, the envoy of the Liao State also wanted to hug his head and cry in the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo.

When the situation was favorable to the Liao State before, the Liao envoy Xiao Wang was aggressive and insisted that the Great Song Dynasty cede three passes and ten counties, and now it's good!

Western Xia was beaten to half-crippled, and the Liao State did not take any advantage, but was occupied by the Hedong Army.

On the other hand, when the soldiers and horses of the Xijing Road of the Liao State attacked the Yanmen Pass with all their might, the chief of the Obstruction Department saw the opportunity and broke through the Fengzhou of the Southwest Road of the Liao State in one fell swoop, and the momentum was even greater, and now the total number of troops has exceeded 20,000, and it has become a major problem for the Liao State to suppress the indestructible.

The Great Song Dynasty sent Xiao Wang to hang for a few days, and finally sent a Ministry of Rites, Langzhong Lu Jing, to Dutingyi to contact Xiao Wang;

As soon as Lü Jing opened his mouth, he stopped giving Liao State New Year's coins, and the two sides released each other's prisoners, and redrew the national border with the area under their current actual control, and the two countries withdrew their troops and never invaded each other from then on.

Xiao Wang really couldn't accept this kind of role reversal, and his lungs were about to explode when he heard it, why redraw the national border with the current actual control area? The feelings are iron-hearted, and I won't return Wuzhou, Liaoguo.

Xiao Wang rolled up his sleeves and was about to fight with Lu Jing to the end, but Lu Jingxiang spent too much energy on the concubine at night, and after talking about the conditions of the peace talks of the Great Song Dynasty, he dozed off!

No matter how much Xiao Wang shouted, he couldn't pull him back from Duke Zhou. Angry, Xiao Wang slapped the table loudly.

When Xiao Wang had enough trouble, Lu Jing woke up leisurely, yawned and said: "The terms of my Great Song Dynasty's peace talks will not be discounted at all, if your envoy can't be the master, you can ask the emperor of your country first, and my Great Song Dynasty will wait for good news and leave." ”

Seeing Lu Jing's attitude, Xiao Wang threatened unwillingly: "Song Guo despises my Da Liao so much, is it easy to bully me when I am Da Liao?" Our lord has gathered an army of 500,000, and if Song Guo still has this attitude, my lord will definitely wave his army south and go straight to Tokyo! ”

Lu Jing smiled coldly and replied: "Your envoy doesn't need to lie and threaten, your country has an army of 500,000, and our dynasty has a million royal divisions, since your envoy said so, then our two countries might as well divide the final victory and then talk about it, and say goodbye!" ”

Arrogant! It's so arrogant!

Looking at Lu Jing's distant back, Xiao Wang was so angry that he completely forgot how arrogant he was when he forced the Great Song Dynasty to cede three passes and ten counties!

Xiao Wang, who is unimaginable, can only ask the country for instructions first, otherwise he can't talk about it at all.

The Great Song Dynasty was not in a hurry, the imperial court was gritting its teeth, trying to transfer money and grain, and stepping up the repair of the Great Wall north of Wuzhou;

Da Song almost wiped out the treasury this time, but the emaciated camel was bigger than a horse, and it would not be long before the autumn tax could be collected, and he would be able to survive by gritting his teeth.

Speaking of camels, shortly after the Mid-Autumn Festival, a caravan of nearly two hundred camels set off from Tokyo;

The caravans brought light silk and tea at the most important goods, which didn't cost much to buy in Tokyo, but if they could be shipped to the Western Regions, they would definitely make a lot of money.

Yang Yi asked Liu Qingjing to give the caravan a copy of the decree and the corresponding national letters, although these national letters did not pass through the court, but they were stamped with seals, and the caravan could take them out if necessary, and deal with the countries of the Western Regions as an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty.

Before the Hexi Corridor was cut off by the Western Xia, the Huangtou Uighurs, the Western Uighurs, and the Black Khanate all sent envoys to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty.

For example, when the Black Khanate sent envoys to the dynasty in the past, the national letter called the Great Song Emperor "the great uncle of the Han family in the great world of the eastern sunrise", this is because the former Tang Dynasty had married the princess to the Black Khan King, and the Black Khanate still regarded himself as a nephew to the Great Song Emperor in order to befriend the Central Plains Dynasty.

With the national letter of the Great Song Dynasty, the caravan should still be able to get a lot of convenience when it arrives in the Western Regions.

When the caravan arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, Ma Hanqing joined in with two hundred men. The two hundred men were carefully selected by Yang Yi, and half of them were the most elite special combat personnel in Huanzhou.

Yang Yi gave them a great task, and asked them to find out as much as possible about the economy, culture, politics, military, topography, products, contradictions and exchanges between various countries and ministries in the Western Regions, and so on.

As the so-called long-distance friendship and close attack, while exploring the way to develop diplomacy in the Western Regions, there will be no slackening in the infiltration and sabotage of the Western Xia.

Now Song, Liao, and Xia are all tired and need time to catch their breath, and a large-scale war cannot be fought in the short term.

However, in order to curb the speed of the recovery of the Western Xia, the fine work and hard exploration of the northwest roads have doubled into the Western Xia, and the total number of people in Jingyuan Road and Huanzhou alone has been close to 1,000.

These people were like drops of water seeping into the sand, and in addition to reprimanding for information, they rebelled, sabotage, created contradictions, and incited the people of Western Xia at every opportunity.

Lingzhou Mansion, the richest place in Western Xia, a few days ago Miao gave 10,000 horses to ravage back and forth here, although it was only two or three days, but as far as the eye could see, there were burned villages everywhere, collapsed eaves, homeless refugees cried everywhere, helping the old and the young, and flocked to Lingzhou City.

In just over a year, the Western Xia repeatedly raised troops, but they all ended in fiasco, with the loss of troops reaching an astonishing 150,000 troops, and countless grains, grasses, and materials.

Chang Zhidi has just raged from the north, Miao Zhu and Wang Shu have entered from the southwest, the destructive power of these people is amazing, the small people of Xixia themselves are poor, how can they stand it?

At this time, even the Empress Dowager Liang is almost going to drink porridge to survive, where can she have the ability to help the people?

Yang Zhi and Ruan Erlang are also mixed in with thousands of refugees, and like them, there are many fine works mixed in them, and these surging refugee waves are like fertile soil for them, as long as they are watered a little, they can bloom into bewitching flowers.

Under their constant agitation, the hungry people who could not be rescued were quickly ignited, and their thirst for food, their desire for survival, and their dissatisfaction with the government quickly turned into a riot in Lingzhou City.

The Western Xia was a system of all soldiers, and these fleeing people were not unarmed;

Tens of thousands of refugees armed with bows and knives rushed into the official warehouses in the city, and looted food and property from the homes of nobles, bureaucrats, shops, and wealthy families.

Yang Zhi and Ruan Erlang took advantage of the riots in the city to set fire everywhere, making the scene even more out of control, and the entire Lingzhou City was filled with thick smoke, fire, fighting, knives and axes, cries, and screams, as if a tragic war was being waged.

As soon as the news reached the capital Xingqing Mansion, Empress Dowager Liang immediately ordered martial law and drove all the refugees who poured into Xingqing Mansion out of the city, for fear that there would be a riot like Lingzhou in Xingqing Mansion.

The people who were driven out of the city did not even have a shelter from the wind and rain, and although the government tried its best to appease and opened many porridge shops, it was difficult for the clever woman to cook without rice, and the government itself was also short of food!

The porridge was so thin that there were not enough grains of rice to be scooped, and countless refugees were still starving, struggling on the brink of life and death, seeing that a riot was brewing again, and could break out at any time......

Above the Xixia court, the daily gloom clouds are bleak, the undercurrent is turbulent, and the Empress Dowager Liang herself is even more anxious, counting the defeat to Zhang Qi a few years ago, the Empress Dowager Liang's "royal conquest" in exchange for the loss of soldiers and generals, and the vitality is greatly damaged;

Now that her prestige has been discredited, the dissatisfaction and resentment of various party departments against her have reached its peak. It's just that Li Qianshun is still a little younger now, otherwise those big leaders may have united to force Empress Dowager Liang to return to power.

Empress Dowager Liang is also deeply aware that the crisis is approaching her step by step;

Taking advantage of the opportunity to reward merit and accountability after the war, she vigorously cultivated her confidants and the Liang family;

Liang Gefang, Liang Dingshan and others were all promoted to high positions by her, and once again controlled the government; The two henchmen, Renduo Baozhong and Wei Ming Ah Wu, were in charge of the military;

As for the Wei Ming clan, the Xi Feng clan, and the Xiang Li clan, who were bent on recovering the imperial power, the Empress Dowager Liang once again purged her heart. Including the big chieftain Wei Mingbabu, Ah Gulu, and Xifeng Qimai are all among the purges.

Empress Dowager Liang's series of purges aroused a lot of resistance in Western Xia, and Brother Ying, the son of Xifeng Begging, led more than 1,000 people from his headquarters and simply defected to the Great Song Dynasty.

In fact, for decades, it has been common for Western Xia generals who lost power in the power struggle to defect to the Great Song Dynasty.

Among them, the most famous is Li Yuanhao's uncle Wei Mingshan Yu.

Wei Mingshan Yu was a famous general in the Li Yuanhao period, in charge of the soldiers and horses in the right wing of the Western Xia. It has a very high prestige in Western Xia.

It's a pity that the Great Song Dynasty was scared by Li Yuanhao at that time, and he didn't dare to take in Wei Mingshan, otherwise he would have stayed in Wei Mingshan for Xifan Pinghan, and if he controlled his henchmen with his siblings and constantly plotted against the Xixia tribes, it was likely that the Xixia would fall into a split/split, where would there be so many years of Songxia War?

This time, Brother Ying didn't choose anywhere else, and went straight to Huanzhou, and now in Western Xia, Yang Yi's limelight has overshadowed Zhang Qi, and if he wants to defect, he will naturally defect to a famous and powerful person.

After Yang Yi learned that Brother Ying led his troops to surrender, he personally welcomed them to Qingping Pass, and did not accept the sheep and horses they offered, but also gave food, and immediately recruited Langzhong for treatment for those who were injured on the way, which was very courteous.

At the same time, the matter was quickly reported to the imperial court, and the imperial court was asked to give the fine seal to Brother Ying;

Yang Yi's meaning couldn't be more obvious, he just wanted to set up Brother Ying as a model and tell those who have no ambition in Western Xia, don't hesitate, come on! Come to my big song!

I am waiting for the hot tea and food of the Great Song Dynasty, and the high-ranking officials are waiting, as long as you come, I will not treat you badly.

Of the more than 1,000 people in Brother Ying, half of them were old and weak, women and children, but Yang Yi still took some precautions without a trace and placed them near Hedao Town in the south of Huanzhou.

It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, the water and grass are good, it is very suitable for grazing, and at the same time, the population is relatively sparse.

It is still necessary to be careful, before you thoroughly understand the details of Brother Ying, you have to prevent him from surrendering, this kind of thing has long been common in the northwest.

The reward of the imperial court also came down quickly, and Brother Ying was awarded the title of General Jin Wuwei (fictitious title).

The Great Song Dynasty itself has the army of the Fan soldiers, mainly for the Qiang people in Shaanxi and Hedong regions, and there was no fixed establishment of the Fan soldiers in the past, and it was not until the time of the Emperor of God that the command and capital were uniformly adopted.

The people and horses brought by Brother Ying were organized into a command, and he served as the commander, which was his actual job.

This official letter came down, and Yang Yi quickly brought Brother Xifeng Ying to discuss the matter of plotting against the Hengshan Qiang people.

You have to get a name when you go up the hill and fall into the grass!

Since you have defected to the Great Song Dynasty, you have gained a lot of benefits, so you have to do something for the Great Song Dynasty, right?

(To be continued)