Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Chapter 240: The Western Xia Envoy

From the first day to the fifth day of the first month, Zhao Chen has been inspecting the various armies of the Forbidden Army, and at the same time inspecting the situation of the production and construction corps. These days he has almost no time to rest!

Wang Shu and Yu Yunwen have been following Zhao Chen, explaining to Zhao Chen the important events that happened this year!

At present, the situation in Guanshan is becoming more and more dangerous. Apart from Jurchen and King Kang, according to the information obtained by the intelligence department of the General Staff Headquarters, Xixia in the north is also ready to move! If Xixia goes south, Guanshan will face the danger of being attacked from three sides! According to the analysis of the General Staff Headquarters, the situation in the north is becoming more and more dangerous. Under such circumstances, if Zhao Chen does not return in time, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, Qu Duan, Yue Fei and others will have to make their own claims and find ways to deal with the Xixia people up!

"Is there any possibility of us having peace talks with Xixia?" Zhao Chen asked as he walked on the snow.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to negotiate peace! In fact, we sent people to Xixia last winter, but our people did not see the emperor of Xixia at all, and the ministers of Xixia ignored us! Since Xixia was defeated by Jurchen, in the past few years We've been restraining ourselves, and we didn't expect that they would suddenly want to move towards us!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Xi Xia..." Zhao Chen pondered.

He was thinking about what happened in Xixia during the Southern Song Dynasty, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of an answer! It seems that after the Southern Song Dynasty, Xixia did nothing, and Xixia did not participate in the history of the East Asian continent at all! It was not until the rise of the Mongols that Xixia was wiped out by the Mongols!

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Xixia often invaded the northwest and fought against the Western Army! In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were very few wars between the two sides!

In fact, in this magnificent era, Xixia did not participate in the history of the East Asian continent! Since the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty until the rise of Mongolia later, the Xixia people have been fighting among themselves!

The city of Kaifeng was destroyed that day, and countless officials from the Northwest of the Song Dynasty took refuge in Xixia, and one of them was Ren Dejing! This person was originally just a general judge of the Song Dynasty. After he took refuge in Xixia, his status was not high, but he had a daughter who was extremely beautiful. He dedicated his daughter to Xia Chongzong, the then emperor of Xixia! After that, his daughter was favored and became the Queen of Xixia at that time! After Xia Chongzong's death, his daughter became the Empress Dowager, and Ren Dejing became a great success. As a Han, he became Shangshuling, Zhongshuling, and then the Prime Minister of Xixia, and was finally named the "King of Chu" in Xixia! Ren Dejing's three younger brothers, one was the Taiwei in front of the Xixia Palace, the other was the governor of Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Xixia at that time, and the other was the Xuanhui envoy of the Southern Academy of Xixia! Ren Dejing's sons and nephews also took up important military and political positions one after another! Later, Ren Dejing forced the emperor of Xixia to entrust half of the territory of Xixia to him, and the country was named Chu! With the military and political power in his hands, the Xixia Emperor had no choice but to agree! After that, there will be a struggle between Emperor Xixia and Ren Dejing! From Ren Dejing's defection to Xixia to Ren Dejing's death, for nearly fifty years, Xixia was powerless to look around! After Ren Dejing's death, Xixia's national strength was severely depleted, and it was impossible to go south!

This is the history of Xixia after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty!

At this moment, Zhao Chen thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out what Xixia did during the Southern Song Dynasty! He shook his head at the moment, now there is no history as a judgment, and he can only make judgments based on the current form!

"I'm afraid we have to use force against Xixia!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Will you use force?" Zhao Chen frowned and said, "We don't have the conditions to fight on three fronts now!"

"Your Majesty, the Military Aircraft Department has formulated a battle plan, which I think is feasible!" Yu Yunwen said.

"I want to take a look when I get back!" Zhao Chen said.

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This afternoon, they had just returned to Wugong County when Yue Fei came to report that the envoy from Xixia had arrived in the morning and was waiting for Zhao Chen!

"Who is Xixia's envoy?" Zhao Chen asked.

"It's the younger brother of the current Emperor of Xixia, Li Qianming, King of Jin of Xixia!" Yue Fei said.

"Okay! Let him come to see me!" Zhao Chen nodded and said.

At that moment, Yue Fei immediately notified him, and not long after, a Xixia man dressed in extravagance entered the county government office under the protection of more than ten Xixia warriors!

"Is this the Song Dynasty emperor's palace? It's too dilapidated! The Song Dynasty seems to be dying!" The Xixia man was about forty years old. He was not very tall, but he was strong! He has a beard all over his face, and his hairstyle is very weird. A large part of the top of his head is bald, but there is a bunch of hair on the top of the head, and the hair on the sides is also kept. This hairstyle is somewhat similar to that of the Khitan people. resemblance! His face was full of flesh, with a fierce look in his eyes!

At this moment, his words were actually spoken in Chinese!

Xixia has changed from a nomadic nation to a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural nation in a hundred years since the founding of the country, and the upper class of Xixia has already been completely sinicized! In Xixia, Chinese has replaced the party language of their own nation, and Han people's clothing is also very popular! The imperial court of Xixia also implemented the imperial examination system, and they also had Confucian temples, and Confucius statues were placed in the Confucian temples, and their official positions were almost exactly the same as those in the Song Dynasty!

At this moment when he blatantly said these words, the surrounding officers and soldiers of the imperial camp glared at him, while he looked at them with disdain. A mouthful of saliva!

The officers and soldiers of the imperial battalion were extremely angry. If they were not restricted by military discipline, they would definitely rush up to fight him!

"Han people! Cowardly and incompetent things! Now I will meet the emperor of the Han people first!" This Xixia man is naturally Li Ganming, the Jin Wang of Xixia, and he laughed at this moment.

He strode forward, and when he came to the front room, he wanted to bring his subordinates in, but at this moment, dozens of guards rushed over! These guards glared at them with spears in their hands, Li Qianming snorted coldly, and immediately ordered his subordinates to stay here, and he strode into the room alone!

In the room at the moment, Zhao Chen, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, and Yue Fei are all here, and their eyes are all fixed on Li Qianming!

Under the gaze of the four people, Li Ganming's expression remained unchanged, but his gaze was on Zhao Chen after scanning for a while! Zhao Chen was wearing a bright yellow dress, which was only worn by an emperor, and he immediately recognized Zhao Chen's identity!

"Emperor of the Han people, kneel down and accept the decree!" Li Qianming took out a copy of the imperial decree from his sleeve, and said loudly at once.

"What did you say?" Zhao Chen was stunned, and Wang Shu and others beside him were also stunned!

"I say you, the Han emperor, kneel down to accept the will of our Xixia emperor!" Li Qianming snorted coldly.

"Kneel down?" Zhao Chen couldn't believe it!

Before the Jurchens invaded, Xixia had always been a border trouble of the Song Dynasty! But the two sides have been fighting for a hundred years, and they have always won and lost. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Army even defeated Xixia repeatedly and thwarted the Xixia invasion! In terms of comprehensive national strength, the Northern Song Dynasty will definitely surpass Xixia! In any case, the status of the Northern Song Dynasty is above that of Xixia! The status of the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty and the emperor of Xixia has always been the same! But now, this Li Qianming is holding the imperial decree of the Xixia Emperor in his hand, and he wants Zhao Chen, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, to kneel down to answer it!

"That's right! Kneel down! Your Song Dynasty is no longer the original Song Dynasty, especially you, a little emperor, who now only has half of the original territory! You must now live on the breath of our Xixia! Our emperor of Xixia sent a decree, you Shouldn't you kneel down and answer?" Li Qianming laughed.

"Very good!" A mocking smile appeared on Zhao Chen's face. He stood up, and Wang Shu and others stood up one after another.

"It seems that you, the Han Emperor, are not very stupid. You know how to kneel down! Not bad! When you accept the imperial decree of my Xixia Emperor, that is our vassal state of Xixia, and we Xixia will protect your safety!" Li Qianming laughed loudly. laugh.

Zhao Chen walked forward, getting closer and closer to Li Qianming, and the smile on Li Qianming's face became more and more smug!

At this moment, Zhao Chen suddenly raised his leg and kicked towards Li Qianming!

There was only a muffled sound, and Li Qianming fell to the ground! He couldn't believe that the emperor of the Han people dared to kick him! Does he think the Han emperor is crazy? Before he came, he had already inquired clearly about the predicament the Han emperor was facing. Now that the Han emperor was under attack from Jurchen and King Kang, if Xixia took action under such circumstances, the Han emperor would undoubtedly perish! Under such circumstances, the Han emperor would certainly bow his head and become a minister, but now he dared to attack the noble prince of Xixia!

"You're looking for death!" Li Qianming said angrily.

"Come here, beat him half to death, and then drive him out! Kill all the Xixia warriors under him, and leave no one behind!" Zhao Chen said coldly.

"Are you tired of working?" Li Qianming said in horror.

At this time, the soldiers of the imperial camp who were not used to Li Qianming's style had already rushed over! This Li Qianming is the prince of Xixia, who is pampered and pampered on weekdays. Although his body looks strong on the surface, how can he be the opponent of these soldiers who walked out of the mountain of corpses and blood! There were constant screams from the courtyard below. It was the sound of Xixia warriors falling in a pool of blood!

"What is written in the edict?" Zhao Chen asked.

"Your Majesty... I really dare not say what is written in it!" Wang Shu had already picked up the imperial decree, he opened his mouth and said.

"Read!" Zhao Chen said.

"The Emperor Xixia asked us to bow down to them, let us cede Weizhou, Huanzhou, Qingzhou, Yan'an Mansion and other places, and let us give them 500,000 taels of silver every year as a yearly currency! In addition, the Emperor Xixia asked Your Majesty to... Call him Grandpa, and he asked Your Majesty to send the queen to Xixia!" Wang Shu said.

"Damn it!" Zhao Chen was furious!

Don't say that Zhao Chen was furious, but Yu Yunwen, Yue Fei, Wang Shu and others beside him were all furious. This is a naked insult to the Song Dynasty and a naked insult to the Han people! Zhao Chen is the emperor of the Han people, and he was the representative of the Han people in ancient times, but the emperor of Xixia dared to say such a thing, he looked down on the Han people from the bottom of his heart! Although there was Ren Dejing's rebellion in Xixia in history, but now that Ren Dejing has just joined Xixia, Xixia's country is still stable, and now Xixia's strength is still extremely strong! It is actually quite normal for the Emperor Xixia to judge the current situation of the Han people and write such an imperial decree! In the history of the Song Dynasty, it was very common for emperors to address foreign emperors as "Uncle" and "Grandfather" many times. Zhao Gou once called "Uncle" to two emperors of the Jin Kingdom. This is just a means for foreigners to insult Han people! It's a pity that Zhao Chen absolutely cannot accept such an insult! What's more, there is the so-called dedicating the queen! The queen is Zheyueru, how could Zhao Chen offer it?

"Your Majesty, the battle against Xixia is imperative!" Yu Yunwen said.

"But we still have King Kang and Jurchen in front of us! If we rashly start a war against Xixia, and King Kang and Jurchen suddenly attack, we are not opponents! Now we don't have the conditions to fight with the three!" Zhao Chen said after a long silence.

"Your Majesty, we have discussed this matter many times! We have been discussing it since we found out that Xixia was going south last year! The General Staff Headquarters has also been formulating a battle plan for the current situation. Your Majesty can go and have a look!" Yu Yunwen road.

"Okay!" Zhao Chen nodded!

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