Qian Song

Chapter 355 The advantage of a big country (ask for a monthly ticket!)

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It's not that Li Qianshun was unwilling to be flexible, and remarried Li Cun's daughter to marry his aunt or his aunt to the Dagan Dynasty, and let Li Cun be his uncle or uncle.

But the problem is that because most of the Xixia emperors were short-lived, and because the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang had monopolized Xixia for more than [-] years, the Xixia royal family withered and had very few members.

I won’t talk about the ones that are too far away, but let’s start with Li Yuanhao who established Xixia.

Li Yuanhao's son can't say less.

Added up, Li Yuanhao also had six sons in his life.

But Li Yuanhao was cruel by nature. He killed his mother, uncle, wife, and son. He killed two of Li Yuanhao's six sons himself (one was slandered by the queen because of wild interests, saying that she didn't look like Yuan Hao, and was killed by Yuan Hao shortly after birth. The other was killed by Yuan Hao and Shen He.), and the rest, one died of being unable to eat while practicing qigong, one was killed by a trick, and one died young.

In the end, Xixia's Jiangshan Sheji could only allow Li Liangzuo, who was only one year old at the time, to ascend the throne.

And although Li Liangzuo was as lustful as his father Li Yuanhao, even his own sister-in-law, he died at the age of 21, leaving only a son and a daughter.

This son is Li Ganshun's father Li Bingchang.

The daughter was sent to Tubo by the Empress Dowager Liang decades ago to marry her.

Li Bingchang is slightly stronger than Li Liangzuo, and he barely lived to be 25 years old.

However, Li Bingchang was held hostage by his mother and wife for many years, and the two daughters forced Li Bingchang to work on the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, leaving behind two sons.

The eldest son is Li Qianshun, and the youngest son is Brother Li Cha, King of Jin, who is now the Generalissimo of the Xixia Army and Horses.

That is to say, because the Xixia royal family is too small, there is no princess in Xixia at all, not to mention that Li Cun wants the princess of Li Qianshun's father's generation.

After all the calculations, Li Bingchang's sister, who was married to Tubo, met Li Cun's requirements.

Don't say that Li Bingchang's sister died long ago, even if she is not dead, she is now over 60 years old. If she is married to the Daqian Dynasty, I am afraid that Li Cun will be furious and send troops to attack Xixia immediately.

Someone might say, couldn't Li Qianshun just recognize one or two aunts and send them to Li Cun?Isn't this the normal operation of marriage?
If Xixia is strong and the Daqian Dynasty is weak, this can be done.

But the problem is that now the Dagan dynasty is strong and Xixia is weak.

Under such circumstances, if Li Qianshun dared to do this, it would probably be counterproductive. Not to mention Li Qianshun's goal of delaying time through marriage, it might even advance Li Cun's time to destroy Xixia.

The royal family can't do it anymore, how about the relatives?After all, Li Cun is also willing to have Li Qianshun's aunt.

Li Qianshun is of course willing to do so.

But the problem is that in order to keep her own power, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang cooperated with the Xixia dignitaries to exterminate the entire Liang family.

This foreign relative doesn't seem to be able to do it either, right?
Naturally, it is impossible for Li Qianshun to worry about all this kind of thing. If the ministers of Xixia can't even solve this problem, then Xixia should also perish.

Later, after searching and screening, someone found the two illegitimate daughters of the Empress Dowager Liang and the youngest brother of Liang Yibu.

These two illegitimate daughters are a pair of twin sisters, who are identical in appearance. When the Liang family was destroyed by the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yibu escaped under the escort of her heartfelt servants. , and then kept their names incognito for many years. These twin sisters were born 17 years ago to the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Daliang and Liang Yibu and a loyal maid.

According to people of the older generation, these two girls look exactly like the Queen Mother Dayang when she was young, and they have six or seven points of similarities with Queen Mother Xiaoliang, so they must be from the Liang family.

Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha personally saw the two girls.

Is it the same as the Empress Dowager Dayang when she was young? I don’t know if I have never seen Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha when the Empress Dowager Dayang was young, but these two girls do look a bit like their mother, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang. similarities.

Slim, glamorous and unparalleled, overwhelming the country and the city.

In terms of appearance and figure alone, both Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha believed that the twin sisters would definitely satisfy Li Cun.

However, the problem is that the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yibu passed away seven years ago, and no one can confirm that these twin sisters are the cousins ​​of Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha.

Taking a step back, even if it can be confirmed that the twin sisters are the cousins ​​of Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha, this identity is a little bit far away, and it may not be able to play the role of marriage.

What should I do?
Later, Li Renzhong suggested that it is better to marry Li Cha's only daughter.

In Li Qianshun's generation, the population of the Xixia royal family was not prosperous.

Li Qianshun had three sons in total, and Li Renai died a few years ago because of Yelu's continuation.

And Brother Li Cha has only one daughter.

In other words, this generation of Xixia royal family has only such a precious daughter.

The pair of brothers Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha can be said to be a model of good brothers.

Li Ganshun is the emperor, managing all political and civil affairs of Xixia.

Brother Li Cha is the commander-in-chief of Xixia's soldiers and horses, and manages all Xixia's soldiers and horses.

Therefore, using Brother Li Cha's only daughter to make a marriage is definitely Xixia's greatest sincerity.

If possible, Li Qianshun would definitely not want to marry Brother Li Cha's only daughter.

In fact, Li Qianshun's original plan was to marry a woman back from the Daqian Dynasty. Even if that woman was not Li Cun's daughter, he would happily let her be the queen of Xixia.

Unexpectedly, Li Cun hates marrying his daughter and getting married.

The Dagan Dynasty is too powerful now.

The point is that Xixia and the Dagan Dynasty are too close.

The key point is that because Xixia has been uniting with the Jin Kingdom to harass the border of the Dagan Dynasty, the Dagan Dynasty has every reason to destroy Xixia.

In this case, if the relationship with the Daqian Dynasty cannot be eased, Xixia may soon perish.

No way, even though Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha were reluctant to send Brother Li Cha's only daughter to the Daqian Dynasty for marriage, but in order to keep the country and society of Xixia, whether it was Li Qianshun or Brother Li Cha, they still held back in the end. The only daughter of brother Li Cha, the twin daughters of the Empress Dowager Liang and the youngest brother Liang Yibu were sent to the Daqian Dynasty together with fifty Xixia beauties...

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Like the "28 Generals of Yuntai" in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the "24 Heroes of Lingyan Pavilion" in the Tang Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom in history also placed the portraits of its founding heroes in the Shengwu Hall of the Taimiao Yanqing Palace in the central capital of the Jin Kingdom. Yanqing hero".

At first, there were only 21 Yanqing meritorious officials. Later, Jin Shizong Wanyanyong added some more, bringing the number of Yanqing meritorious officials to more than 40.

Among the heroes of Yanqing, the one who made the most contribution, that is, the one on the left, is Wanyan Xieye.

Wanyan Xieye is the younger brother of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda and Jin Taizong Wanyan Wu Qimai.

When Wanyan Aguda fought against the Liao Dynasty, Wanyan Wu Qimai served as the "Family Banbo Jilie" (Crown Prince), who was responsible for assisting Wanyan Aguda in handling government affairs and providing logistical support; and Wanyan Xie also served as "Kuru Bo Jilie" (Deputy Prime Minister of the State), responsible for commanding troops to fight.

Wanyan Xie also led almost all the famous generals of the Jin Kingdom to attack the Liao Kingdom, including: the No.1 general of the Jin Kingdom’s clan—Wanyan Zonghan, the four Jurchen princes—Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongfu, Wanyan Zongbi (Jin Wushu), Jurchen No.1 general—Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Wulu, Wanyan Jiamu, Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyanchang, Wanyan Yinshuke, etc.

Any one of these people will be a big shot who later became powerful.

After the Liao Dynasty was destroyed, Wanyan Wu begged to buy the throne because of Wanyan Aguda's death, and Wanyan Xie also returned to Shangjing, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, to become the Crown Prince "Family Banbo Jilie".

——At that time, the military command of the southern region of the Kingdom of Jin was actually handed over to Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, and Wanyan Xie was also the supreme commander of the Kingdom of Jin in name.

Later, Wanyan Xie also served as the supreme military commander in name, and Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang served as the actual commanders. They went south to attack the Zhao and Song Dynasty in two ways, and when they besieged the capital of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, Bianliang City in Tokyo for the second time, The city was broken, and the royal family and clan of the Northern Song Dynasty were almost wiped out. Zhao Ji and Zhao Ji were captured, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

After that, the Southern Song Dynasty was established under the formation of Zhao Gou, and the Song and Jin Dynasties went to war again.

In the name of the commander in chief, Wan Yanxie also ordered the Jin army to go south several times, forcing the Southern Song Dynasty to the edge of the cliff. Zhao Gou once hid in the sea to avoid the pursuit of Jin Wushu. Jin Wushu was driven out of Jiangnan.

Next, Wanyan Xie also ordered Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongfu, and Wanyanchang to launch a fierce attack on the Sichuan-Shaanxi and Jianghuai lines in the Southern Song Dynasty.

At the most critical moment when the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Xie also died.

Historically, Wanyan Xieye's death had a huge impact on the Kingdom of Jin, because it was his death that led to the dispute over the Crown Prince that caused discord in the Kingdom of Jin.

Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongfu, Jin Wushu, Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyanchang and other generals temporarily put aside the war against the Song Dynasty in the south for the sake of the crown prince.

The Southern Song Dynasty also won a rare respite in the past few years. The Jin Kingdom's main peace faction once raised its head and returned the land of Henan to the Southern Song Dynasty, but in the end the Jin Kingdom's main peace faction lost to the Jin Kingdom's main war faction.

The root of all this lies in the large-scale internal strife in the Kingdom of Jin after Wanyan Xieye's death.

In this life, due to Li Cun's sudden birth, he destroyed the Liao Dynasty, captured the Yanyun area of ​​the Daliao Empire, and blocked the Jin people from the Great Wall. so big.

But in the same way, Wanyan Zongwang was hacked to pieces by Li Cun, and Wanyan Zonghan was also defeated several times in the battle with the Daqian Dynasty.

In comparison, Wanyan Xiye, who has never fought the Daqian Dynasty head-on, still maintains the myth of his invincibility.

Because of this, the Kingdom of Jin has been rumored. If Wanyan Xie had led the troops to fight the Daqian Dynasty, the Kingdom of Jin might not have been defeated.

In this way, Wanyan Xie is still the most ideal and most convincing crown prince of the Kingdom of Jin.

If Wanyan Xie is fine, the Jin Kingdom's regime is undoubtedly very stable.

However, since the beginning of winter, Wanyan Xieye's body has suddenly lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not long after, Wanyan Xie also fell ill.

What's more, Wanyan Xie is still sick, and the situation is getting worse and worse.

This is really worrying Wanyan Wu begging for money.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the succession of the chiefs of the Jurchen tribes was all brothers and sisters, resulting in every person who has been a chief, and his descendants have very strong political power.

In addition to the Wanyan Aguda lineage, the Wanyan family also has many powerful families such as Wanyan Aguda's cousins ​​and uncles, such as Wanyan Zonghan's father, the Jin Dynasty's early clan, and the state minister Wanyan Sagai. , the power is extremely powerful.

Therefore, Wanyan Aguda is more like the CEOs of these powerful families, and does not have absolute authority and supreme power like the emperor of the Central Plains.

At that time, when something happened in the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Aguda wanted to call the leaders of the major families and political forces to discuss it.

Of course, because Wanyan Aguda is the hero of the Jurchens, and he is both civil and military and intelligent, most of the leaders of other major families and major political forces will listen to what he says.

But even so, Wanyan Aguda couldn't just make a decision on everything without discussing it.

At that time, the Kingdom of Jin was actually in the process of transitioning from the original military democracy to the state and imperial autocracy.

When Wanyan Aguda was in office, he had high prestige, good balance skills, charisma and leadership skills, and a military genius, so everyone was convinced, what he said, everyone listened to what he pointed , everyone will call there.

In other words, those big families and political forces at that time were very obedient to Wanyan Aguda's rule.

But when Wanyan Aguda died and Wanyan Wu begged to succeed him, things changed.

Wanyan Wu begs for domestic affairs, logistics, and resettlement of his hometown. He is a good hand.

But the problem is that Wanyan Wu Qimai has never been on the battlefield, so he has no military exploits.

This will inevitably make the Jurchens who advocate force, especially those big families and political forces, not take Wanyan Wu's begging seriously.

Back then, Wanyan Zonghan, who inherited Wanyan's political influence, spanked Wanyan Wu's begging ass, which was a warning to Wanyan and Wu begging.

Since then, the tradition that things must be discussed has been strengthened.

From the perspective of the family and political forces outside the Wanyan Aguda system, Wanyan Wu Qimai is just the leader of the Wanyan Aguda Department, and they do not obey the control of Wanyan Wu Qimai.

Therefore, the imperial power that Wanyan Wu begged to buy was weak.

Still take Wanyan Zonghan as an example.

If Wanyan Zonghan wanted to start a war with the Dagan Dynasty, he would go to war with the Dagan Dynasty. If he was in a good mood and remembered it, he would notify Wanyan Wu to beg for it.

Moreover, in the areas and grasslands controlled by Wanyan Zonghan, the people only know that there is Wanyan Zonghan, but not that there is Wanyan Wu begging for money.

The imperial power falls aside!

This is something that no emperor can tolerate.

Therefore, Wanyan Wu Qimai has been planning to weaken the several major families and political forces of the Jin Kingdom represented by Wanyan Zonghan.

In order to achieve this goal, Wanyan Wu Qimai began to reform the system, that is, he began to learn from the ruling system of the Central Plains.

In other words, under the leadership of Wanyan Wu Qimai, the Jin people have already embarked on the road of Sinicization.

Promote schools and set up imperial examinations.

Determine the official name, confer the title, and determine the color of the uniform.

Formulate astronomical calendars, formulate penalties, and establish etiquette systems.

After this series of operations, the imperial power that Wanyan Wu begged to buy was strengthened to a certain extent, and several major families and political forces represented by Wanyan Zonghan began to be weakened.

At present, Wanyan Wu Qimai is planning to take back the power to use foreign troops from the hands of several major families and political forces represented by Wanyan Zonghan.

But at this critical moment, Wanyan Xie, who strongly supported Wanyan Wu's begging and buying reform, was about to fail.

Without Wanyan Xieye's support, Wanyan Wu's begging would not be able to deter Wanyan Zonghan and his arrogant warriors at all, and Wanyan's reform of Wu's begging would probably come to naught.

Also, the crown prince is also a big deal.

You know, not only Wanyan Aguda left a lot of sons, Wanyan Wu Qimai also has many sons himself.

Wanyan Xie is also going to die, these people will definitely have to fight among themselves for the crown prince.

At this critical time, the Dagan Dynasty wiped out the Western Song Dynasty, and it was immediately free to start a war.

Internal and external troubles!

In this case, not to mention that the Dagan Dynasty agreed to negotiate a peace just without giving the New Year coins, even if the Dagan Dynasty asked the Jin Kingdom for some New Year coins before agreeing to negotiate a peace, Wanyan and Wu Qimai would agree.

In order to make sure everything was safe, Wanyan Wu Qimai ordered someone to prepare one hundred beauties, ten boxes of wild ginseng, ten boxes of velvet antler, and many special products of the Kingdom of Jin and Korea for Li Cun to send to the Daqian Dynasty for peace...

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