The third year of Zhao Song Xuanhe, the first year of Northern Liao Jianfu, the third year of Jurchen Tianfu, the third year of Western Xia Yuande, and the twelfth year of Dali Wenzhi.

This is also the second year of the Celestial Fu Ruiwu of the Li Dynasty of Vietnam and the second year of the security of Emperor Toba of Japan.

As long as you are interested in history, you will pay attention to two major events

In early autumn, King David IV of Georgia defeated hundreds of thousands of Seljuk Turkic armies in the Diedri Mountains, and the Crusader saints, revered by the Church as the "Sword of Messiah", single-handedly changed the geopolitical landscape of Northwest Asia, and the Seljuk Turks who believed in the Celestial Religion had to abandon the region and concentrate on dealing with the crusaders from the Western countries on another front.

And in the depths of winter, in the northern part of East Asia, whether it is the Northern Liao in the deep twilight, the Jurchens in the ascendant, and Zhao Song, who exudes the flavor like an overripe fruit, is trying to decide who is the real master of the destiny of this big 6 through a big war.

Compared with these two wars, such as the establishment of a new state by the Celestial Sects in North Africa, the farce of Buddhist sects burning monasteries against each other in Heiankyo in Japan, and the "reform of the feudal system" carried out by the Li Dynasty in Vietnam, it is difficult to arouse interest.

As for Goryeo, a half-thousand-year-old vassal state that did not even have its own era name, no one paid attention to what happened to this country, except for those who suffered from dyslexia between proverbs and Chinese characters.

On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, even the Hehuang Kaibian dominated by Song Shenzong and Song Zhezong is difficult to shake this snowy region. The leaders of the Zampu bloodline were still trapped in the chaotic situation after the fall of the Tibetan monarchy, and no one except for the esoteric monks who were enthusiastic about teaching the Dharma did not bother to pay attention to this area of human activity in the world.

The clouds of war arose in the north, and the collision of the three forces of Song, Liao, and Jurchen was destined to be a major event in the history of the world.

In the palace of Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia, Li Qianshun, the fourth-generation owner of Dagao Bai Kingdom, is one of these insomnia patients with particularly serious symptoms.

If his grandfather Yuan Hao had a real strategic vision, instead of only robbing houses in the western part of the Song Realm like a bandit, then the fourth-generation king of the Dagaobai Kingdom could probably also be remembered in history as a generation of Ming monarchs.

But unfortunately, this virtuous king was faced with the mess left over from the chaos of a foreign relative, and the external environment of Western Xia, with the opening of the river for decades in the Zhao and Song dynasties, was also extremely bad. The difference in size between Western Xia and Zhao and Song was too great, and it became a joke to use several states to disturb the robbery activities of the Zhao and Song Guanxi Roads, and to face the Western army that took the initiative to attack.

If it weren't for Li Qianshun's request to marry Yelu Nanxian, the daughter of the Khitan sect, and the Tianzuo Emperor of the Liao State who was pressed to the ground by the Jurchens and rubbed on the ground, he supported his cheap son-in-law through diplomatic channels, and Zhao Ji himself inherited from his ancestors' phobia of Liao in a timely manner, I am afraid that the old and small races would have led the army into Xingqing Mansion long ago.

It should be said that at the moment when the Western Army was transferred out to attack Liao, Li Qianshun's life was still very good, and without the Song Army sharpening its swords, Dagao Baiguo could at least rest and recuperate for a few more years.

However, Li Qianshun, who sat in the position of the lord of the Western Xia and was well versed in the philosophy of "pro-Liao ministers and Song", did not have a sense of "the years were quiet", and just desperately sent people to investigate the situation of the war between the Song, Liao, and Jurchen.

If the Liao State can stand tall under the siege of Zhao Song and Jurchen, then it is not said that he Li Qianshun is still the filial son-in-law of Da Liao.

But once Da Liao blows the lamp and pulls out the wax, Li Qianshun has to change his thigh as soon as possible, and of course he can only hug the thigh of the Jurchens. No matter who became the official of Zhao, all he thought about was the matter of "recovering the old land of the spirit of rejuvenation", once the Song army destroyed Liao and recovered Yanyun, then he would only sharpen his sword and pick up the Western Xia, and he Li Qianshun would only be afraid that he would not be able to get the ending of a disobedient marquis at that time.

When people are anxious, they often think of relying on gods and Buddhas, and the generations of Western Xia lords are all extremely fanatical Buddhist believers, and Li Qianshun is naturally no exception. In the palace of Xingqing Mansion, there is also a new face, and there are many places for Buddha.

The Buddha hall is always bright and dazzling, on the Buddha Virujana, that is, the great day of the Esoteric Buddhism, the left is holding the vajra sword and the Prajna Sutra of the great wisdom Manjushri Bodhisattva, the right is holding the vajra pestle and the vajra bell of the great line of the Bodhisattva. The combination of these three Buddhist dharma figures, known as the "three saints of Huayan", is the cultivation deity of the Huayan sect of Buddhism.

It's just that the Huayan Sect flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and since the first ancestor of the Emperor's Heart, it has gradually declined. Now it is all dependent on the support of the lords of the Western Xia dynasties, so that he can be in the land of Xingling, and he has to be regarded as a small local sect.

Under the law of the three sages of Huayan, Lu Bu Zhiyun, the current descendant of Huayan Sect in Western Xia and the national teacher of Western Xia, is holding an incense bucket in his hand and reciting the "Huayan Sutra": "...... The Bodhisattva appeared as a king, the most unequaled in the world, and the glory of merit and power prevailed over all......"

Li Qianshun, who still didn't sleep in the middle of the night, sat down, clasped his palms and listened to Lu Bu Zhiyun's chanting, and heard the two sentences "The living nobles ascend to the throne, and they are kind and non-toxic and cruel", and they felt something, and they didn't feel a smile at the corner of their mouths, and even the sorrow of thinking too much during the day was alleviated.

It's just that the monks and officials who accompanied them took out the spirit that had been stirred up by pouring a lot of tea soup before, and tapped the wooden fish and small chime as accompaniment to the national teachers who sang the scriptures.

In this incomparably peaceful picture of the Buddha of the monarch and the minister, Lu Bu Zhiyun suddenly raised the voice of the chanting by an octave, and the scripture also changed its tune: "If I hear it, the Bodhisattva can break all the demons, the Bodhisattva can break all the karmic mountains, and the Bodhisattva can break all the outer paths!"

The voice of this Western Xia national teacher was like thunder, and he had obviously used the Zen skills of the lion's roar in Buddhism, but in the rumbling Zen singing, he saw a bowl of big white lotus growing on the caisson of the Buddha hall for no reason.

Looking closely, what constitutes the white lotus is the purest and unsurpassed light, and in this light lotus, someone faintly laughed and said: "Although the Huayan Sutra is the supreme method for practicing the Bodhisattva Path, if you are like your sect and are in a small country in the northwest, where is the real Bodhisattva line?"

In the laughter, the white lotus had already fallen from the caisson and was falling in front of Li Qianshun. In the white lotus, there was a phantom of a monk, and he asked the lord of the Western Xia country: "The mountain monk and the great doctor king, please meet His Majesty the lord of the Great Xia country." ”

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