In one breath, Li Bingqian cut off the biggest political enemies and hidden dangers, which for Li Bingqian, was the last barrier for him to ascend the throne and become the lord of Western Xia.

It stands to reason that he should be happy, but the important ministers of Western Xia, who had recently met Li Bingqian, found that their lord did not seem to be happy. Not only does there be no smile on his face, but he also has no smug expression, but he often falls into the trouble of worry, which is incomprehensible.

Fortunately, not many people know.

After all, Fei Tingdoro was the person next to Li Bingqian, and he could feel that the uneasiness in Li Bingqian's body was not because of the uneasiness of becoming the lord of the country and ascending the throne.

Rather, there are deeper reasons.

Fei Tingdoro felt that if there was someone in this world who could persuade his master, there was no doubt that this person was Li Kui. Fortunately, he didn't know the scene where Li Kui bullied Li Bingqian at the beginning, otherwise this slave who was loyal to Li Bingqian would have to find Li Kui desperately.

Xingqing Mansion, Generalissimo's Mansion.

Li Kui's men were busy and ready to leave.

The servants of the mansion, especially the dozens of Western Xia beauties sent by Li Bingqian, looked panicked and didn't know what to do? It happened to be Fei Dora who visited, so he stopped planning to pack up and leave.

"Generalissimo!"

"Old Fei, aren't you going to be busy preparing for the enthronement ceremony for your prince, why are you coming to my place?"

Li Kui reluctantly met with Fei Tingdoro, who smiled apologetically at Li Kui with a bitter face, and after letting him enter the hall and retreat around, he spoke: "The prince's mood is not quite right, it seems to be very hesitant. In this Manchu Dynasty, the prince has the most trust in the generalissimo, and the old slave also asks for the generalissimo to help persuade me to help me for the sake of the generalissimo's support to the present. ”

Li Kui touched his chin and stared at Fei Tingduoluo with malicious eyes.

"Well...... this" Li Kui pondered for a while, and then whispered to Fei Tingduoluo: "There is no one from Liaoguo?" ”

"Liao?"

Fei Tingdoro immediately shook his head and said: "No, the king of my family agreed at the beginning, and in the future, he will be dominated by the Great Song Dynasty, and there will be no two hearts, how can there be no clarity between him and the Liao State?" ”

This kind of nonsense, Li Kui said that he would not believe anything.

"Okay, I'll go into the palace and have a look."

Although Li Yuanhao defeated the Liao State in the two battles of Helan Mountain, in fact, the forces of the two sides were absolutely unequal. Western Xia used 500,000 troops against the 100,000 army of Liao. They were all narrow victories, and the gap between them made the whole Xixia frightened. Therefore, even if the Western Xia was founded, in the end, the Western Xia was still dominated by the Liao State. Li Yuanhao also married the princess of Liao. Of course, the princess doesn't live long if she marries far away, and it seems to have become a curse.

After the king of Western Xia ascended the throne, he would report to the Liao State, and then the Liao State would give him a title.

In fact, Western Xia had already become a vassal state of the Liao State.

Although Li Bingqian had already controlled the interior of Western Xia, even if there were rebels loyal to the Liang clan, under absolute strength, they would not hold out for long. But in case, the Liao State does not recognize Li Bingqian's status as the lord of the country, unless Li Bingqian gives up the lord of the country and re-establishes a satisfied lord of the Western Xia State in the Western Xia, otherwise there will be only one way to war.

But if you really want to start a war, is Western Xia still an opponent at this time?

Li Kui came to the palace, looked at the architectural style that was similar to the Great Song Dynasty everywhere, and quietly waited for Li Bingqian's summons.

He was not afraid that Li Bingqian would poison him.

Because it is completely unnecessary, Li Bingqian's current means are to win over the generals who mutiny with him, and if it is unfavorable to Li Kui at this time, even if Li Kui's Song identity is revealed, it will make the monarch and ministers deviate from morality.

"King!"

"Brother Lee." Li Bingqian said to Li Kui: "Are you still ready to leave?" ”

"There's no point in me staying in Western Xia, besides, after the king ascends the throne, it should be the time to divide the vassals, I can't be the left minister in Western Xia, right?" Li Kui said with a smile.

His credit is too great, even if Li Kui stays in Western Xia, if Li Bingqian does not handle Li Kui's reward well, it is easy to cause the worries of the ministers of Conglong.

Therefore, Li Bingqian's emotions towards Li Kui are also very subtle.

Because Li Kui didn't look at him and called him 'king', it seemed to give him enough face, but in fact, Li Bingqian knew that Li Kui had never had the respect he deserved. Li Kui's stay in Western Xia will definitely do more harm than good to him. But in order to appease other meritorious officials, Li Kui must be encircled, at least in terms of posture.

After hearing the news that Li Kui was leaving, Li Bingqian breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Kui is a person who is not very willing to hide his character, so he naturally speaks straightforwardly, and asks: "Lao Fei saw that the king was in a bad mood and wanted to persuade him, but he didn't know how to persuade him, so he invited me to come." The king can't be upset because of murder, right? ”

Not really.

The corners of Li Bingqian's mouth sighed for a while, and when he said it, strangling the imperial sister-in-law and nephew not only cleared the last way for him to pass through the lord of the country, but also poured out the pressure that had been pressing on his shoulders for many years. It's just that the person's face before death is quite ugly, so he sometimes wakes up when he has nightmares.

But the emperors are all lonely, isn't it normal to have nightmares?

Li Bingqian shook his head and said slowly: "Brother Wei is worried about the future of Great Xia. Now the remnants of the Liang clan in Great Xia are not to be worried, but Brother Wei knows that if Western Xia cannot be satisfied with the Great Song and Great Liao, the future of Western Xia will fall into an even more difficult situation. It's good to be struggling, but it's also about to fall. ”

Li Kui is not easy to accept this, after all, Liaoguo?

He hadn't been there, and he didn't know how powerful the Liao State was.

As for the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty towards Western Xia, Li Kui couldn't say. If the acquisition of Hengshan is only the first step of the Great Song Dynasty, and the destruction of Western Xia is the ultimate goal of the Great Song Dynasty, this is also reasonable.

After all, Zhao Xu is young, and he probably won't tolerate letting Western Xia block the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty and spend endless military spending on the Great Song Dynasty.

But this has to be discussed by the important ministers of the court of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Kui is just a general judge of Yan'an Mansion, where is he qualified to figure out the strategic purpose of the Great Song Dynasty against Western Xia?

Li Kui hesitated and said: "The king is embarrassed by the foreign ministers, I am just a six-grade civil official of the Great Song Dynasty." In the face of national affairs, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a small official, what qualifications do he have to quell the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty towards Western Xia? However, the king does not need to be in a hurry, after the king ascends the throne, the Great Song Dynasty will naturally send envoys to Western Xia, and then the king will naturally be able to know the attitude of the Great Song towards Western Xia. ”

"Don't wait, you are." Li Bingqian pointed at Li Kui.

Li Kui was stunned, and looked at Li Bingqian in great puzzlement, who took out a book of national letters from under his buttocks, and squeezed his eyebrows at Li Kui and said: "Brother Xian is really a real person, you are the deputy envoy of the dignified Great Song Dynasty, and you are fully qualified to talk about the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia." ”

Li Kui pointed to his nose in surprise and said to Li Bingqian: "Don't be joking, I'm the deputy envoy of the Great Song Mission, why don't I know when a Great Song Mission came out of Xingqing Mansion?" ”

"Xingqing Mansion does not yet have a Great Song Mission, and the Great Song Dynasty mission is still in the Song Kingdom, but the identity of your Deputy Envoy of the Great Song Dynasty has also been decided. Even if the lonely king lied to you, do you think the national letter of the Great Song Dynasty will still come to deceive you? ”

While speaking, Li Bingqian handed Li Kui the letter of state sent by the Great Song Dynasty to Western Xia.

Li Kui wrote ten lines in one scene, and it didn't take much time to read the national letter. The words are fine, much like the font that the secretary saved. The secretary province is Li Kui's old department, and he knows some secrets of some Great Song Dynasty documents.

Seals are no problem either.

When he gave the Empress Dowager Xiang a set in the Metropolitan Hall, he had seen the national seal of the Great Song Dynasty. He is very familiar with the highest seal of the Great Song Dynasty.

But the content made Li Kui puzzled.

An Tao is the main envoy, and there are two deputy envoys, one is Li Kui, and the other is Fan Chunren.

Li Kui looked at the name that was juxtaposed with him, his head twitched, and his heart said, "Isn't this a pit person?" ”

What is Lao Fan's identity and what is his identity?

In addition, he was horrified to see the name of his teacher Zhou Yuan.

This made Li Kui even more frightened, this is to roast him on the fire! Where is this to make him the deputy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty! It's simply a fateful proposition for him to be a filial disciple and how to deal with the relationship between superiors and subordinates. No matter how he received Zhou Yuan, he was a dead end. maintained the dignity of the court, he just didn't respect the teacher; If you respect the teacher, you will ignore the system of the imperial court.

"King, if I go back to the Great Song Dynasty now, you pretend that I have never been to Western Xia, and when I return to the Great Song Dynasty, I will send someone to send you the letter of repentance you wrote at the beginning, do you think it's okay?"

Li Kui cautiously sent the letter of state to Li Bingqian's hands respectfully, and the latter looked at Li Kui's nervousness in surprise, which was not like a fake, and felt quite strange.

Especially seeing the horror in Li Kui's eyes, is this still the black handsome man who is not afraid of heaven and earth?

Li Bingqian felt that this national letter was strange, and he originally thought it was Li Kui's backhand. Looking at Li Kui's reaction now, it should have nothing to do with Li Kui.

Li Bingqian has never encountered this kind of opportunity, and now that he has encountered it, he doesn't want to let go at all.

He groaned, "Brother Li, now you can say it, right?" ”

"Am I betraying the Great Song Dynasty?"

"It doesn't count."

"Okay." Li Kui pretended to groan at this time, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Li Bingqian was half angry: "What does the king think the Great Song Dynasty will need?" ”

This is to ask Li Kui if his words are good, and in a blink of an eye, Li Kui asked him to say. Whatever he said, for the Western Xia country, it was a huge loss to the prestige of his lord. couldn't help but smile bitterly: "If you let Brother Li sit in my seat......"

"No way, no kidding!"

"The Lone King is saying what if!"

"No ifs."

"If you don't cooperate like this, believe it or not, I will let Mi Baoguang immediately start negotiations with you with Da Song?"

These words are powerful, and Li Kui feels that his small body bones want to represent the Great Song Dynasty, and there is still a little bit of height behind. He immediately admitted: "It's easy to say, the Great Song Dynasty has the idea that the Hexi Corridor, the land of Hehuang, and even the entire Hetao area should be attached to the territory. As long as the officials who have seen the territory of the Tang Dynasty, there is no one who does not want to restore the original territory. Even if Xixia has a tough attitude, he has to continue fighting. ”

Li Bingqian had a prepared expression, but his eyes were gloomy.

Li Kui said to himself: "The plains around Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia today are the prefectures and counties where the Southern Xiongnu are located in the Western Han Dynasty. The king may not be able to feel this feeling. In the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty, the party was just a guest placed on his own land. But this guest now wants to take over the field. Although the territory occupied by the Western Xia now did not have much attraction to the Great Song Dynasty. But it is about the dignity of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Dignity?"

"It has taken hundreds of years since the former King of Fenyang was placed in Xiazhou, but this land has belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times. In addition, since Li Yuanhao, the party has torn its face with Western Xia, unless he gives up the national title of Western Xia and bows his head, there is no other choice. Li Kui paused and said: "With all due respect, if it was to bow down and be subsumed into the Great Song Dynasty, the king probably wouldn't have thought of mutiny, right?" ”

"That's right." Li Bingqian admitted that the reason why he staged the mutiny was not to defect to the Great Song Dynasty.

It is for the royal family of the party, once the strength of the Liang family continues to increase, maybe the naivety of Western Xia will really become the Liang family that day.

He couldn't bear this ending.

But when he heard Li Kui's analysis of the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, he suddenly found that everything that Empress Dowager Liang did seemed to be right. And he, a seemingly righteous guy, made an unforgivable mistake.

In today's Western Xia, the domestic military loss is more than 150,000.

This was just a riot, and the Western Xia had lost the ability to launch an attack on the Yongxing Military Road, Yanyan Road, Huanqing Road, and Qinfeng Road of the Great Song Dynasty.

The lack of military strength is only secondary.

There is also political instability, which worries him even more. Coupled with his worries about Liao, Li Bingqian was depressed, which was normal.

Li Bingqian muttered, "In this way, Western Xia will be in danger. ”

"If it's me, just don't do it and make a way out. The current situation in Western Xia is not good, but there are still 250,000 troops who have smashed pots and sold iron. As long as 50,000 elites are prepared to attack the countries of the Western Regions, it is not difficult to fight a piece of heaven and earth. Besides, the Western Xia still controlled Shule City, and it was already easy to enter the Western Regions. In three years, it is not difficult to build a kingdom that is no less than several times the territory of Western Xia. Then the migration of the Ju clan avoided the dilemma of being sandwiched between the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty? ”

"Three years?" Li Bingqian's eyes lit up, and then he looked at Li Kui expectantly and asked, "Can the virtuous brother lead the troops?" ”

Don't look at the fact that there are many generals in Western Xia now, but to talk about the superstition of the battle record, no one opposes Li Kui leading the troops to the battle. Li Kui said that he had conquered the Western Regions in three years, but others said that Li Bingqian was the first to disbelieve it. But Li Kui said, can he not believe it?

When he was in Blackwater City, how many troops did he and Li Kui have?

But in just a few months, the 300,000 Liang army was wiped out. If Li Kui helps, the expansion of the territory of Western Xia is just around the corner. It's a pity that Li Kui was not moved by this at all, and rolled his eyes and said to Li Bingqian: "King, if I really lead my troops to go on the expedition, will the territory I fight belong to the Western Xia or the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Faced with this tricky question, Li Bingqian didn't know how to answer.