Chapter 36: Yang Ming's blueprint for hegemony
One hundred and fifty years ago, Duan Siping, the ancestor of the Duan family in Dali, united with the nobles Gao Fang and Dong Jialuo in the Erhai region to destroy the Great Yi Ning Kingdom, and set the capital of Dali City to create the Dali Kingdom. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Because the Dali Kingdom was founded by the Duan family and several nobles, although the Duan family is the lord of Dali, the government of Dali is controlled by several nobles.
The emperors of the Duan family in Dali like to become monks in Tianlong Temple, not because they believe in Buddhism, but because they can't control the power of the court when they are emperors, but they are just a puppet emperor in name only.
Take Baoding Emperor Duan Zhengming as an example, before the age of sixty, he was in the prime of life but did not go to become a monk, and he married a wife and had a daughter.
If the emperor of the Duan family in Dali likes to become a monk so much, even if Duan Zhengming becomes the emperor, he should not set up a concubine and harm so many women in the second half of his life.
It is precisely because he does not want to be a puppet emperor in name only, so the emperor of the Duan family in Dali will be keen to become a monk in Tianlong Temple.
After Yang Ming and Baoding Emperor Duan Zhengming did a good negotiation, Duan Zhengming was an honest person, and he announced his will on the third day of returning to Dali City, canonizing Duan Wanqing, the daughter of Duan Zhengchun, the king of Zhennan, as the crown princess on the grounds that the whereabouts of Duan Yu, the prince of Zhennan, were unknown.
On the fifth day when Mu Wanqing was canonized as the imperial concubine, Duan Zhengming announced his will to canonize Mu Wanqing as the imperial concubine of the prison country, and Duan Zhengming himself abdicated as a monk and went to Tianlong Temple to become a monk.
The Duan family is the lord of Dali, and they don't care that Dali is annexed by the Longyou Protectorate, and of course a few Dali nobles led by Gao Shengtai will not care.
After all, whether it is the Dali Duan family or the Longyou Duhufu, as long as the interests of their Dali nobles can be guaranteed, they will be able to accept their rule.
Dali is still calm on the surface, and those ignorant people just know that there is another emperor in the Duan family of Dali who went to Tianlong Temple to become a monk.
The 50,000 Dali army, 50,000 Tubo soldiers, and 50,000 Longyou troops were originally stationed on the border between Dali and Tubo, but now they have been transferred to the territory of Dali, and 50,000 Longyou troops are stationed on the border between Dali and Song. 50,000 Dali soldiers and 50,000 Tubo soldiers were stationed on the southern border of Dali, preparing to bring the vast area of the Indochina Peninsula under the administration of the Longyou Protectorate.
Although the Song Dynasty was a weak Song Dynasty known for its weakness in all dynasties, and its territory was not as good as that of the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, the wealth of the Song Dynasty was far better than that of the previous dynasties because of the profits of maritime trade.
At that time, the surrounding countries of the Song State, except for the Liao State, was a threatening power. Western Xia, Tubo, Dali and the Indochina Peninsula were all places where the Song Kingdom could be used.
If all the surrounding small states of Fanbang can be annexed, not to mention that the Song State can expand its territory and increase its military resources, it can also strategically threaten the northern frontier of the Liao State and transpose the offensive and defensive positions between the Song and Liao countries.
It's a pity that the scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty looked down on the barbarian lands of these small countries, and the Zhao and Song royal families did not want the generals to expand their territory and increase their prestige to become Zhao Kuangyin's second.
So the Song Dynasty was like a pool of stagnant water, whether it was the Liao State or the Western Xia, they could intervene, but the monarchs and ministers of the Song State had no enterprising heart.
The monarchs and ministers of the Song Kingdom looked down on the surrounding barbarian land, but Yang Ming did.
Moreover, the Longyou Protectorate now has 300,000 troops. On the surface, it seems that the soldiers are strong and strong, but there is still a big gap compared with the Liao State and the Song State.
The Longyou Protectorate is now unable to defeat powerful countries like the Liao State and the Song State, but if it uses troops against the surrounding small states of Fanbang, an army of 100,000 can form a crush.
If the barbarians of those small countries are unwilling to submit, then it is good to kill them directly until they are willing to submit.
The small states of Fanbang in the Indochina Peninsula have been subject states of the Central Plains Dynasty since the Sui and Tang dynasties, as long as the Longyou Protectorate crushed them with a large army with one hand and gave some sweet dates with the other hand, they kept the obedience to the governance of these small civilizations of Fanbang.
After the annexation of Indochina. As long as the Uighur Khanate and the Black Khanate, which were controlled by the Ethereal Vulture Palace, were brought under the control of the Longyou Protectorate, the territory controlled by the Longyou Protectorate would be able to surpass that of the Liao and Song states. and threatened the northern frontier of the Liao State and strategically suppressed the Liao State.
As for the Western Xia, which was surrounded by the three major forces Longyoudu, the Liao State, and the Song State, they could only struggle to survive in the cracks.
After Yang Ming formulated a strategy in Dali City, he used an edict to recruit Li Xin, the general of the Longyou Army, to Dali, and General Li Xin commanded 50,000 Longyou Army and 50,000 Tubo soldiers to occupy the Indochina Peninsula.
With the support of Gu Mozhi, the Tubo national teacher Dalun Ming King, the loyalty of the Tubo tribes to Yang Ming is even higher than that of the Longyou Army. It's a pity that the ability to lead troops to fight, and all the leaders of the Tibetan tribes together are not as good as General Li Xin alone.
Several nobles in Dali are good at fighting for power and profit, leading the troops to fight worse than one another, and they are new to the Longyou Protectorate, this kind of major event naturally cannot be entrusted to them.
Yang Ming entrusted most of the power of the Longyou Protectorate to Li Xian and Li Xin of the Longyou Army. In addition to the fact that there is no one available in his hands, it is also because the Longyou army can prove that the Longyou Protectorate is a separatist force of the Han people, not a country established by the Fanbang barbarians.
Now although the Song Dynasty was pressed and beaten by the Liao State, there was no shame of Jingkang in the south of the Jin State, and the Zhao and Song royal families did not lose the support of the people.
If Yang Ming wants to meet with the soldiers of the Song State one day, the Longyou Protectorate will be regarded as a barbarian, and it will definitely be strongly resisted by the ordinary people and people in the rivers and lakes in the Song State.
But if the Longyou Protectorate is a Han domain town, even if the Longyou Protectorate attacks the Song State, it is Yang Ming, the Protector of the Longyou Protectorate, who wants to compete with the Zhao and Song royal families for the throne, since it is the Han people who fight the Han people, no matter who is the emperor, it has nothing to do with ordinary people and people in the rivers and lakes.
Qiao Feng made great contributions to the beggar gang and led the beggar gang to become the largest gang in the world, but the beggar gang could not tolerate him as the gang leader, just because Qiao Feng's identity was a Khitan.
It can be seen how hostile ordinary Han people and Jianghu people are to foreign people in the world.
Of course, this is also the reason why the Song State is weak and has been pressed and beaten by the Liao State.
Now in the territory of Longyou Protectorate, there is no situation where Han people are hostile to foreign people, because Han people are completely superior to first-class people in Longyou Protectorate, and when they see foreign people, they are all arrogant, and they wish that there are more foreign people in Longyou Protectorate.
It is also because of the policy of preferential treatment of Han people in the Longyou Metropolitan Protectorate, and in just one year, the Han population in the Longyou Metropolitan Protectorate has increased to two million.
Half a month later, General Li Xin rushed from the Longyou region to the south of Dali. He led an army of 100,000 and began to attack the small state of Fanbang in Indochina.
There are also more than a dozen civil officials trained by the Longyou Protectorate, who followed General Li Xin to Dali Kingdom.
These civil officials will intervene in the government affairs of the Dali State on behalf of the Longyou Protectorate, gradually control the real power of the Dali Dynasty, and finally use the peaceful evolution to turn the Dali Kingdom into the Dali region controlled by the Longyou Protectorate.
In addition to more than a dozen civilian officials, there was also a person who gave Yang Ming a headache when he came to Dali with General Li Xin.
Li Wanting, the daughter of Li Xian, the deputy protector of the Longyou Metropolitan Protectorate, was originally a gentle and virtuous lady.
But the demon of Tianshan Tong didn't know what Li Wanting had fallen in love with. actually accepted her as the maidservant of the Vulture Palace, and taught her to practice the superior internal skills of the Vulture Palace.
In just one year, the charming ladies at the beginning now have the martial arts of second-rate masters in the rivers and lakes, and they can dance knives and guns to become heroines on the battlefield.
Emperor Duan Zhengming of Baoding abdicated the throne as a monk, and Mu Wanqing became the empress of the prison country, and naturally lived in the palace of Dali City.
Yang Ming, as Mu Wanqing's quasi-husband, naturally followed him to live in the Dali Palace.
This is also the proper move of the Longyou Protectorate and Dali Kingdom to integrate, if Yang Ming does not become husband and wife with Mu Wanqing, the empress of the prison country. Whether it is the people of the Duan family or several Dali nobles, they will be worried that the Longyou Protectorate will settle accounts with them after the autumn.
Li Wanting came to the Dali Imperial Palace, and after meeting Mu Wanqing, the empress of the Imperial Guard, Mu Wanqing, the daughter of the Imperial Protector of the Imperial Palace, as the daughter of Li Xian, the deputy protector of the Longyou Metropolitan Protector, met Yang Ming, the Grand Protector, in the daughter of the Imperial Palace.
has not seen her for a year, and Li Wanting has become more slim.
Although she is a tiger girl, she is not a person in the rivers and lakes, and at her age of seventeen now, she should have married a wife and a husband and children.
looked at Li Wanting's delicate and lovely appearance. Yang Ming felt a headache.
The foundation of the Longyou Protectorate is the Longyou Army, and the people who really control the Longyou Army are Li Xian and Li Xin.
Yang Ming's hand-shaking protector was able to keep his authority and not be overturned. In addition to the support of Gu Mozhi and the Tibetan tribes, it was also because Li Xian and Li Xin did not rebel against him.
However, although Yang Ming had the grace of life for Li Xian and Li Xin and the soldiers of the Longyou Army, but with these alone, there was no way for Li Xian and Li Xin to serve his willing death.
Therefore, Yang Ming married Li Wanting as his wife, and it became his due duty to tie the interests of the Li family to himself.
Li Wanting is already seventeen years old and has not yet been married, just because the deputy capital protector Li Xian is waiting for Yang Ming to take the initiative to ask for marriage.
Frankly. Although Yang Ming has no love for Li Wanting, he doesn't want a girl with a good youth to delay her lifelong happiness because of herself.
"Miss Li, you should have something very important when you come to see me!"
Hearing Yang Ming's title, Li Wanting nodded with a disappointed expression.
"I'm here for two things! Grandma, her old man will be rejuvenated in a few months, and she hopes that you can rush to the Vulture Palace as soon as possible to protect her! The second thing is that Helian Tieshu, the generalissimo of the Western Xia Kingdom's expedition to the East, took the master of Yipintang to the Song Kingdom, and wanted to join forces with the Song State to deal with our Longyou Protectorate. ”
"Don't worry about the affairs of Senior Grandma Tong! As long as she doesn't lose her strength for a day, that old witch Li Qiushui won't dare to appear in front of her for a day! As for Helian Tieshu's matter, I was about to go to the Central Plains, and I happened to meet him for a while. ”
If it weren't for the martial arts of Li Qiushui's old witch, the current strength of the Longyou Protectorate would have been able to level the Western Xia long ago.
It's a pity that the demon of Tianshan Tong's grandmother is not a worry-free one, although Yang Ming wants Tianshan Tong's grandmother to help contain Li Qiushui from stepping into Xixia, but Tianshan Tong's grandmother will not help until she has spent her third rejuvenation.
Now that the Longyou Protectorate surrounded the Western Xia from the south and west, the Western Xia could only ask the Song State for help, because the Liao State's troops in the northern Xinjiang could only barely protect themselves, and it was not enough to help the Western Xia fight against the Longyou Protectorate.
"Since Dadu Hu is going to the Central Plains, can he ...... What about taking Wanting with you?"
has already let the girl take the initiative to speak, and Yang Ming, who is soft-hearted, naturally can't refuse.
"Then Miss Li will divide into two ways with my soldiers! As the envoy of the Longyou Protectorate, you will go to Kaifeng in Tokyo to meet the Emperor of the Song State and participate in the alliance between the Song State and the Western Xia!"
Li Wanting's purpose was to follow Yang Ming's side, but unfortunately Yang Ming had to pretend to be stupid.
As if pouting with some dissatisfaction, Li Wanting glared at Yang Ming and said.
"I went to see His Majesty the Emperor as an envoy, so most of them will protect you?"
"My words...... I want to go to the Jiangnan of the Song Kingdom and invite a great hero who stands up to the sky and the earth to join the Longyou Protectorate!"
When Li Wanting left, Mu Wanqing, who had not taken off the phoenix crown on her head, ran to Yang Ming's room.
"Brother Yang, what is your relationship with that woman just now, what were you all talking about in the room?"
Although Yang Ming and Mu Wanqing did not get married, Mu Wanqing now seems to be Yang Ming's wife, and she is as arrogant and domineering as the princess of Zhennan, Dao Baifeng, and even Zhong Ling came to find Yang Ming and was scared away by her several times.
"My relationship with Miss Li is probably like the relationship with Zhong Ling!"
Seeing Mu Wanqing's face sinking and pouting dissatisfiedly, Yang Ming said with a wry smile.
"Wan'er! Because of the reason that Helian Tieshu, the generalissimo of the Western Xia Expedition to the East, sent an envoy to the Song State, I want to go to the Central Plains. ”
"That Miss Li will also go to the Central Plains with you!"
Seeing Yang Ming's acquiescence, Mu Wanqing pursed her lips and said.
"It's okay! I'll also go to the Central Plains with Brother Yang, so it'll be fine. ”
Although Mu Wanqing is arrogant and domineering, she has a lot of examples of her father Duan Zhengchun's lovers, she doesn't want to be as desperate as Dao Baifeng, she just wants to ensure her status as a wife.
Yang Ming shook his head and said.
"Wan'er! I leave Dali Kingdom, you must stay to stabilize people's hearts! Moreover, the matter of unifying Tiannan Martial Arts, only if you come forward can it be justified. ”
In the martial arts world, chivalry is forbidden by martial arts, and the court and government are not taken into account at all.
Duan Jiagui is the lord of Dali, Zhong Wanqiu and they arrested Duan Yu, but Duan Zhengming, the emperor of Baoding, wants to visit the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribulations according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, and cannot dispatch thousands of troops and horses to level the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribulations.
This kind of so-called rules of the rivers and lakes can be endured by the Duan family in Dali, but Yang Ming can't bear it.
Therefore, in the territory of the Longyou Protectorate, ordinary people must accept the management of the Longyou Protectorate, and the people in the rivers and lakes must also be used by the Longyou Protectorate.
Now although Yang Ming controls the Infinite Sword, the Shennong Gang and the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribulations, which are the most famous in Tiannan Martial Arts, it is not enough to command Tiannan Martial Arts.
The prestige of the Vulture Palace is enough, but the dignified Longyou Protector Mansion can't rely on the prestige of the Vulture Palace's rivers and lakes.
The Dali Duan family is the overlord of Tiannan and has been powering Tiannan martial arts for hundreds of years.
If Mu Wanqing, as the head of the Duan family, unified the Tiannan Martial Arts with the support of the Boundless Sword, the Shennong Gang and the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribulations, it would be more suitable.
"If I can't follow Brother Yang, then I won't do this princess! If I don't follow you, what if you provoke a bunch of women like my father?"
"Could it be that in Wan'er's eyes, I look like the king of Zhennan?"
Although Yang Ming does not have the hard-hearted heart of Qiao Feng and Qiao Daxia, nor is he a wooden person like Guo Jing and Guo Daxia, but the two beautiful girls, Zhong Ling and Li Wanting, took the initiative to show a good impression of him, but he never accepted it.
Replaced by a humanoid self-propelled cannon like Duan Zhengchun, I am afraid that the innocence of my daughter's family would have been ruined a long time ago, and they would have children out of wedlock.
"My mother said that all men in the world can't believe it!"
Mu Wanqing pouted, stared at Yang Ming with big eyes and said.
"But this time, I believe you, Brother Yang! Even if you really provoke other women, you bring them back, and I will let them be your concubines." ”
The corners of Yang Ming's mouth twitched, he didn't expect that a girl like Mu Wanqing, who has a straightforward personality, has learned the trick of retreating as advance, and she doesn't know which bad woman taught her badly. (To be continued.) )