Chapter 295: Two Messengers

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Out of the bad taste of seeing the historical figures in the novel with his own eyes, Ding Yang did not object to chatting with Duan Zhengming.

Led into the small box on the third floor, Duan Zhengming began to elaborate on his request.

Of course, it is inevitable to have all kinds of compliments to the Eight Miao Dao Chiefs, but unfortunately Ding Yang has already heard too much now, and directly asked Duan Zhengming to say something, don't talk nonsense.

Although Duan Zhengming was a little embarrassed, he still honestly began to explain the political chaos in Dali, hoping that Bamiao Zhenren could help for the sake of his brother Duan Zhengchun.

Although he didn't know how the Eight Miao Dao people who were far away in the Great Song Jingshi would know Duan Zhengchun in Dali, after all, his clan brother didn't have any conspicuous deeds now.

However, Ding Yang didn't say the reason, and he didn't dare to continue to ask, so he had to bury this question in his heart.

Later, after returning to China, he quietly mentioned the matter to the now reigning imperial brother Duan Silian. Even from now on, he looks at Duan Zhengchun quite differently. To be known by the Eight Wonderful Dao people, there must be some extraordinary ability, right?

As for the names I had overheard of such as the Six-Vein Divine Sword and the Sword White Phoenix, a detailed investigation began.

It's a pity that it's not that he's incompetent, and he has never found any clues after investigating a few things.

At this moment, Duan Zhengming had a lot of questions in his heart that were unanswered, but he didn't dare to ask anything, just said: "It all started 25 years ago......

After listening to Duan Zhengming's slow words, Ding Yang learned for the first time that there were so many inside stories in this Dali Kingdom that he had read many times in martial arts novels.

The so-called Dali Kingdom, the earliest founder Duan Siping was originally the envoy of the Tonghai Festival in the Later Jin Dynasty during the Five Dynasties period. During the period of the Five Dynasties, the Central Plains fought endlessly, and in just half a century, five dynasties were changed one after another.

In other regions, ten regimes have also emerged one after another, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in history.

Duan Siping took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains during this period of time, and he had no energy or ability to interfere in the local political situation, and united the big families in the Erhai region, the Gao family and Dong Jialuo, to destroy the Dayi Ning Kingdom, and from then on the capital was Yangtho Bacheng.

In the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, 937 A.D. was officially founded, and the country name was Dali.

Seven years later, Duan Siping died, and his son Duan Siying succeeded him and changed the yuan. As a result, only two years later, Duan Siping's younger brother Duan Siliang staged a coup d'état against United Nations Minister Dong Jialuo, forcing Duan Siying to abdicate and become a monk.

After that, Duan Siping's younger brother Duan Siliang established himself as the emperor, and the throne of the Dali Kingdom also shifted from Duan Siping's line to Duan Siliang's lineage.

Ding Yang didn't speak when he heard it, but he felt in his heart that the similarity of history was really powerful. The inheritance of the throne of the Dali Kingdom is almost the same as that of the Song Dynasty. The younger brother Zhao Guangyi inherited the throne of the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin, and since then the succession of the throne has been transferred to the Taizong line.

Just when he thought that this was the end of Dali, he heard the subsequent changes.

25 years ago, Duan Suxing, the emperor of Dali, made great achievements and spent countless expenses, but was deposed from the throne by Xiangguo Gao Zhisheng in a coup d'état, and then supported Duan Silian to succeed him.

And this Duan Silian is the great-great-grandson of Duan Siping, the founding emperor of Dali, which made the Dali throne return to Duan Siping's lineage.

Ding Yang, who heard these news for the first time, was suddenly stunned, as if there were 10,000 alpacas running by in his heart: Isn't this more and more similar to the situation of the Great Song Dynasty?

After the disgrace of Jingkang, Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne and became the emperor. And Zhao Gou had no son, and finally found an adopted son from the Taizu family to inherit the throne. As a result, the throne of the Song Dynasty was transferred from the Taizong line back to the Taizu lineage.

However, the coup d'état in Dali seems to be all related to the prime minister's state!

Duan Zhengming saw that Ding Yang seemed to be slightly thoughtful, and he didn't dare to disturb, so he could only pause and wait.

Ding Yang was listening interestingly, but now Emperor Baoding stopped talking, and then asked him to continue. It's a shame not to listen to such an interesting history! After all, there are no such anecdotes in Master Jin's martial arts novels, so they are finally fresh.

And speaking of which, it basically gets to the point, since Gao Zhisheng supported Duan Silian to ascend the throne as emperor 25 years ago, the Gao family's power has become stronger and stronger.

Originally, the Gao clan was very powerful, and after they had the merit of supporting, they were even more faint above many other big families in one fell swoop. Even compared to the Duan clan of the royal family, they are already at a disadvantage.

However, 6 years ago, Yang Yunxian, the patriarch of the Yang family, another powerful family in Dali, staged a military coup d'état, and soon captured many direct territories of the Duan clan.

As a result, it was difficult for the forces of the Duan clan of the imperial family to quell this rebellion, so they had no choice but to ask the Gao family to send troops.

So Gao Shengtai attacked again and swept away Yang Yunxian's rebellion in one fell swoop, and of course took advantage of the situation to take over many of the territories that Yang had snatched from the Duan family.

Duan Silian had no choice but to crown Gao Shengtai as the Marquis of Shanxi, and then carved out Baiya and Rudian from the occupied direct territory and gave them to the Gao family. As a result, the Gao family is strong and almost has power in the opposition.

On the contrary, the direct strength of the Duan family of the imperial family has been greatly weakened, and it is almost difficult to control the political situation in the country.

Nowadays, in many things, you have to look at the face of the Gao family to make a move. So Duan Silian and many people of insight in the Duan family began to worry, what if the Gao family also raised the anti-flag?

With the current strength of the Duan clan of the imperial family, it is simply powerless to resist the other party, in case there is a rebellion of the Gao clan, the throne of the Dali Kingdom is estimated to be wiped out from the hands of the Duan clan soon.

This is a situation that the Duan clan cannot accept in any case, so they want to get help from external forces to maintain domestic stability as much as possible. It is best to greatly weaken the power of the Gao clan, and if it is even worse, it can at least have the ability to balance the opponent.

Otherwise, the future political situation in the country will almost inevitably lead to a conflict between the Gao clan and the Duan clan, and the Duan clan has no hope of winning at all.

In the end, Duan Zhengming euphemistically expressed his expectations, hoping that Ba Miao Zhenren could take the time to go to Dali to visit the royal family.

If Ding Yang is willing to stay in Dali to support the royal family, the Duan family will spare no effort to meet any of his requests: "...... At that time, the Duan clan will regard the real person as a relative. Thousands of generations, but there is a life, and there is no resignation! ”

However, Ding Yang didn't express his position in time, just smiled and sent Duan Zhengming back to wait for news.

Ding Yang, who didn't know the history of Dali, didn't know that it was precisely because of Duan Silian's sense of crisis on the throne that he actively contacted other forces to balance the influence of the Gao clan, and as a result, he was forced to take the throne after 2 years.

Gao Zhisheng was 25 years old and could let him come to power, and now he can naturally let him step down. Soon his son Duan Lianyi ascended the throne as emperor, continuing the power of the Gao clan.

Regarding the political situation in the Dali Kingdom, Ding Yang actually didn't have much interest in interfering. After all, since the last time he talked to his dead friend, he also came up with a new plan, but he hasn't had time to refine it all.

But in any case, he was ready to re-establish the unified Central Plains Dynasty, and it was impossible to let the local regimes exist. Whether it is the Liao Kingdom in the north, or the Western Xia in the northwest, or even the Dayue in Jiaozhi and Dali in the southwest, all of them are not left.

But after all, I still have some strange emotions for Dali Duan's family in my heart, and I want to see it with my own eyes.

As a result, before he could think about the result, he met the Western Xia envoy Ye Li Renyu.

It is said that Yeli was an important force in the founding period of Western Xia, and the Yuan Hao period played a key role. Whether it is civil rule or martial arts, they have very outstanding achievements.

However, as a result of the high achievement, Yuan Hao began to gradually weaken the power of the Yeli clan, not only killing the patriarch of the Yeli clan, Yeli Yuqi, but also taking his wife Wuzang as a lover.

The Yeli clan gradually declined, and until now it can only survive by relying on the Empress Dowager Liang.

The year before last, the Western Xia Emperor Yizong Liangzuo died of a sudden illness at the age of 21. After that, his 7-year-old son Bingchang succeeded to the throne as the third emperor of Western Xia, and was later called Huizong.

As a result, the Empress Dowager Liang seized great power and came to the court as the empress dowager and began to directly intervene in the government.

But after all, Western Xia is a country established by party members, and Empress Dowager Liang's Han status has never been supported by many party nobles. Openly and secretly, there are many people who oppose her coming to power.

Although Empress Dowager Liang also made certain efforts, including ordering the deposition of the Han rites implemented by her husband Emperor Yizong, and restoring the old customs of the party. But it has further caused more trouble, and the government and the opposition are split.

Originally, as long as the Empress Dowager Liang gave up her power, she could solve this problem. But her desire for power is very heavy, and she can't stop since she was designed to ascend to the queen's position.

coincided with the birth of the eldest son of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, so he specially sent envoys to congratulate him, and by the way, he wanted to return to Suizhou City.

In fact, the reason why the famous mountain of Suizhou City was surrendered to the Song Dynasty was not only caused by dissatisfaction with Emperor Yizong's continuous sinicization policy. However, the fall of Suizhou City dealt a major strategic blow to the Western Xia - the entire eastern territory was facing a military threat from the Song Dynasty.

Since this kind of military town has finally returned to the hands of the Song Dynasty, it will definitely not be handed over again.

The Western Xia and Song dynasties have made many negotiations for the ownership of Suizhou, but all of them have returned in vain.

So this time the Empress Dowager Liang simply gave a death order, if Ye Li Renyu could not complete the negotiation task, then there is no doubt that the end of going back to China will be miserable.

Ye Li Renyu had no way to move the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty to agree, so he had to come and beg Ba Miao Zhenren to come forward.

Whether it was to help persuade the Song Dynasty monarchs or go to Western Xia to vouch for the authority of the Empress Dowager Liang, he could ensure that he would not be punished when he returned to Xingqing Mansion.

Of course, as long as Ding Yang is willing to agree to the request to visit Western Xia. Then whatever you want because of this, you can negotiate everything.

Yeli Renyu is also out of the way, he has no qualifications to make a promise at all, and being able to make such a condition is itself a place of death and rebirth.

He believed that as long as he could invite back Ba Miao Zhenren to support Empress Dowager Liang's authority, he would be able to easily deter domestic opposition.

However, after Ding Yang heard his wonderful request, he didn't know what to say.

After all, if you really want to talk about it, his hometown in the future is currently located in the territory of Western Xia. And the school where he studied was located in Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia.

I'm really interested in going and seeing, what is the situation in the hometown of the Song Dynasty!

However, it is impossible for him to easily agree to Yeli Renyu's request