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Dali State is a small regime established by many ethnic groups in the southwest of the Great Central and Southwest - Duan Siping united with the nobles of the Erhai region Gao Fang and Dong Jialuo to destroy the Great Yi Ning State, and set the capital of Yang Tho Bacheng (later Yunnan Dali), the country name "Dali", and the territory covered Yunnan, Guizhou, and southwestern Sichuan in later China, as well as parts of Myanmar, Laos, and northern Vietnam.

Let's not talk about the process of its establishment and development.

Thirty years ago, Gao Shengtai, the prime minister of Dali, usurped the throne and changed the name of the country to "Dazhong", died the following year, and then returned to the government Duan Zhengchun.

Twenty years ago, Duan Zhengchun gave up the throne to his son Duan Zhengyan, and then became a monk.

This period is strict, the word and reputation, he is the prototype of Duan Yu, one of the protagonists in the later "Dragon Babu".

Duan Yu, no, Duan Zhengyan, was a very accomplished monarch - he understood that establishing friendly relations with the Song Dynasty was the foundation of the country, so although the relationship between the Song Dynasty and Dali was alienated by Song Taizu's policy of "there is a great enemy in the north, and there is no time to go far" (there is a great enemy in the north, so it is not to expand to the southwest), he still strengthened the ties with the Song Dynasty, often paid tribute to the Song Dynasty Dali horses, musk, bezoars, fine felt and other local specialties, and also sent illusion musicians (magicians) to the Song Dynasty to perform, and then won the courtesy of Zhao Ji, Canonized him as the Golden Purple Guanglu Doctor, the Yunnan Jiedu Envoy, and the King of Dali.

Later, when Dazhong rose, Duan Zhengyan misjudged the situation and still hugged the thigh of the Song Dynasty tightly.

It wasn't until Dazhong swept Liuhe in the Indochina Peninsula and occupied half of the Indochina Peninsula that Duan Zhengyan realized the strength of Dazhong and began to communicate with Dazhong.

But even so, Zheng Yan did not completely give up the Song Dynasty during that period, and when Zhao Jiancheng established the Southern Song Dynasty, he still sent people to Jinling to congratulate him as soon as possible.

Now, the Great Central and Southern Expedition has captured Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, in one fell swoop, and then annexed the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty on a large scale.

This can't help but make Duan Zhengyan worried!

Unlike the previous dynasties of the Central Plains, the dynasty of Dazhong attached great importance to maritime international trade, and therefore to the Indochina Peninsula.

Judging from the various measures and layouts of Dazhong, if it were not for the chaos in the Central Plains, Dazhong would have shifted its focus to the Central Plains, then Dazhong would inevitably invade the entire Indochina Peninsula.

In this regard, Duan Zhengyan saw it very clearly, which was also one of the reasons why Duan Zhengyan did not have a deep friendship with Dazhong but tightly hugged the thigh of the Song Dynasty, which had no intention of invading the south.

And yet—

What Duan Zhengyan never expected was that the Song Dynasty, which had been strong for nearly two hundred years, was destroyed by Dazhong so easily!

For now, Dali actually has no worries.

Now, Dazhong still needs time to swallow the vast territory of the Song Dynasty, and it still needs time to digest the vast territory of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Dali did not completely cut off the north-south connection and communication between Dazhong - from Guangxi, it was actually possible to enter the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula.

But—

In the future, when Dazhong wants to unify the Indochina Peninsula, then Dali will inevitably become a nail hindering the unification and development of Dazhong - the central and northern regions of the Indochina Peninsula are mountainous, especially the Song Zaozai Mountain near the east, which cannot be crossed at all, therefore, if you want to go to the central part of the Indochina Peninsula from the land, you can only go from Guangxi to the Li Dynasty, and then from the Li Dynasty to the Champang, and then pick it back from the Champa City, so as to reach the central part of the Indochina Peninsula, and in this way, Invisibly, it will take a lot more distance and a lot of time, and if Dazhong can capture Dali, it will be possible to go straight to the central region of the Indochina Peninsula from Dali, which greatly saves distance and time.

Nowadays, Dazhong only owns the Li Dynasty and Champa in the east and the Khmer counties in the center, and is barely under the influence of Dali.

But if Dazhong wants to invade the Queen's Kingdom, the Fallen Bowl Kingdom, the Bagan Kingdom and other territories to completely unify the Indochina Peninsula, then it is bound to attack the Dali Kingdom.

Because only in this way will it not hinder the overall traffic of Dazhong, and will not hinder the overall development of Dazhong.

For this reason, Wang Lun and others have been laying out the Indochina Peninsula for several years and have spent countless energy and efforts.

In other words, sooner or later, Dali will face the invasion of Dazhong.

Therefore, Duan Zhengyan is even more troublesome than Li Qianshun.

As a last resort, Duan Zhengyan invited Prime Minister Gao Taiming to discuss countermeasures.

The Gao family where Gao Taiming is located, in the country of Dali, the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and several kings of the Duan family have been forced to become monks, and even to Gao Taiming's father Gao Shengtai in his later years, directly abolished Duan Zhengming (that is, Duan Zhengming, the uncle of Duan Yu in "Tianlong Babu"), and established himself as the emperor, later, due to the opposition of the Yunnan Ministries, Gao Shengtai asked his son Gao Taiming to return to the government of Duan, so Gao Taiming supported Duan Zhengming's younger brother Duan Zhengchun as the emperor of Dali, but then the authority of Dali was still in the hands of Gao, known as the lord of Gao, The prime ministers are also from the Gao family, and nearly half of the generals are the children of the Gao family.

In other words, today's Dali Kingdom is nominally Duan Zhengyan in charge, but in fact, Duan Zhengyan and Gao Taiming are in charge together.

After Gao Taiming came to the Dali Palace to see Duan Zhengyan, he turned against the guest and said: "Your Majesty is looking for me, it should be to discuss the destruction of the Great Song Dynasty in Dazhong, right?" ”

Duan Zhengyan said: "It's this matter, I don't know what the minister has to worry about?" ”

Gao Taiming also looked bitter and said: "Even the Khmer, the Great Song Dynasty and the newly rising Dajin in the north are not the opponents of Dazhong, and our Dali is even more unlikely to be the opponent of Dazhong, so it is impossible to designate the enemy." ”

Duan Zhengyan also knew that he was not capable of fighting against the powerful Dazhong.

The main reason for this is naturally because the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is too strong.

There are a number of other reasons for this.

For example, the internal disunity of the Dali State, and the fierce internal strife of the Gao clan often caused political turmoil, which in turn led to the fall of imperial power and the lack of a unified voice in the country.

For example, the barbarians in Yunnan often rebelled - not long ago, there were thirty-seven barbarian rebellions, Duan Zhengyan sent Gao Taiming to personally lead the troops, and it was finally pacified, and then Gao Taiming's fourth son, Gao Mingqing, guarded in Shanyan.

For example, in recent years, natural disasters have occurred frequently in Dali, resulting in a great decline in national strength.

Wait a minute......

Duan Zhengyan said: "What does the minister of state claim?" ”

Gao Taiming pondered for a long time and said: "Now, those who are frightened are not only our Dali Kingdom itself, but also the situation of the Queen Kingdom, the Fallen Luo Bodi Kingdom, the Bagan Kingdom and other countries is not much better than ours, or even worse. ”

Duan Zhengyan said: "What does the minister mean by alliing with these countries to jointly resist Dazhong? ”

Gao Taiming said: "The alliance is to be an alliance, otherwise our Dali may have to be slaughtered by Dazhong, but ...... Alliance with the Queen's Country, the Fallen Bowl Country, Bagan State and other countries, can play a role, I'm afraid it is very limited, under the instigation of Dazhong, the Meng people and the Thai people have already played a real fire, it is impossible to really alliance, as for the Bagan country, its palace continues to kill each other for the throne, and then it is impossible to unify its internal unity, so how can we form an alliance with us? ”

After a long sigh, Gao Taiming said again: "The only way to do this is to pay more tribute to Dazhong, and then beg the Buddhas of the heavens to bless Dazhong if there are internal problems, otherwise it will ......."

Gao Taiming didn't say the latter words, but his meaning had already been expressed, that is, if there was no problem inside Dazhong, then they would have no solution to Dazhong's invasion of their Dali.

Duan Zhengyan heard a kind of helplessness from Gao Taiming's words, a kind of helplessness that he couldn't control his own destiny!

Duan Zheng asked himself solemnly: "Why am I not like this?" ”

Internal and external troubles made Duan Zhengyan exhausted, and he couldn't help but feel like he was in retreat......

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ps: Yesterday's things haven't been done yet, and today has delayed me for most of the day (still haven't done Lisuo, and I have to go there tomorrow), so I still haven't been able to write two chapters today, sorry, I'll do my best to resume two shifts tomorrow.