Therefore, after a fierce attack by the Song army today, the defenders of Dongpingmen were the first to collapse, and the Song army attacked the city wall, and then entered the city along the Yongdao, opened the city gate, and let the Song army's brigade enter the city. 〈Eighty-one?) Chinese ]〉].>8〕1〕

When Li Chunyou heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly said: "Everyone, Aiqing, the Song army has entered the city with a scripture, how can this be good?" ”

When Lang Jinzhong saw it, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't panic, although the Song army has entered the city, it has not been able to attack the palace for a while, please prepare immediately, we will leave immediately." ”

At this time, Wei Ming Yanbu also said: "Lord Lang, you and King Yue will protect His Highness from Xingqing Mansion, and I will lead the army to block the Song army and try my best to buy time for you." ”

When Li Chunyou heard this, he felt very unhappy in his heart, and was about to ask Wei Ming Yanbu to escape with him, but Lang Zhenzhong knew that now that time was pressing, he didn't have time to discuss more, so he immediately said: "Your Highness, don't hesitate, let's go." ”

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Xingqing Mansion City is the capital of Western Xia, and it is also the largest city in Western Xia, although it is not as good as Jiankang and Zhongdu, but the scope of the city is not small.

Although the Song army broke through the Dongping Gate and entered the city of Xingqingfu. But on the streets, it was still met with stubborn resistance from a part of the Western Xia army, and it took two days to completely occupy Xingqing Mansion and end the battle.

In the end, Wei Ming Yanbu, Ye Ligang and others were killed in battle, and a group of Western Xia officials led by Liu Zhongping also surrendered to the Song army. However, Li Renyou, Lang Duzhong, Jiao Jingyan, Gao Yi, Xibihe, Weimu Yanping and others still protected Li Chunyou, led thousands of men and horses, killed Xingqing Mansion, and fled to the west. Gao Zhen sent troops to chase after him for a while, but he didn't catch up after all, so he had to temporarily withdraw his troops. At the same time, he immediately wrote a book and reported to the Jiankang court.

Subsequently, Gao Zhen led the army into the city of Xingqing Mansion. At this time, Temujin also led the Mongol army back to Xingqing Province, and learned that there was a civil war within the Jin Kingdom, Temujin immediately realized that this was a rare opportunity, and immediately said goodbye to Gao Zhen and wanted to turn back to Mongolia to fight the Jin army.

According to the agreement reached when Yang Yan left the Western Xia, the two sides divided the money and materials in the Xixia treasury in Xingqing Mansion equally, and then divided the residents of the city in half according to the household registration register in Xingqing Mansion according to their childhood, women, old age, and prime of life, and let the Mongol army take them away. However, in the distribution of the people, Gao Zhen played a small trick, and most of the people who gave it to the Mongolian army were party nobles and clan members, and many of them were officials who surrendered. The explanation for Temujin was that the Great Song Dynasty was a country of the Han Chinese, so he did not want the Mongol army to take more Han Chinese.

Of course, this was also instructed by Yang Yan before leaving. The Western Xia is a country established by the Dangxiang clan, the Dangxiang aristocracy has always held the military and political power of the Western Xia, they are passed down from generation to generation in the Western Xia country, the power is great, and deep into the folk areas, they will be the biggest obstacle to the stability of the Song Dynasty in the future, in contrast, the Han people are more able to accept the rule of the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, by allocating the residents this time, the Mongol army plundered most of the Western Xia nobles, which cleared some obstacles for the Great Song Dynasty to smoothly carry out stable rule in the Western Xia in the future.

For the Mongol army, there is no difference between the party and the Han, and in the previous battles, the Mongol army captured a large number of civilians, and there was no shortage of labor, and plundered the party nobles, and many people's families also spent a lot of money to ransom people like the Mongol army, and then they could make another profit. Therefore, there is no objection

。 After more than 10 days of investigation, the two sides completed the distribution of wealth and population. Temujin and his generals led the Mongol army, escorting a large number of people, cattle, sheep, horses, and wealth to Mongolia to be satisfied.

After the Mongolian army left, Gao Zhen immediately assigned Yang Changpeng to garrison Xiliangfu and Li Haoyi to garrison Xiazhou. Ran Hao wrote a notebook again, reported the follow-up process back to Jiankang, and asked the imperial court to decide on the next arrangement.

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Yang Yan read all the official documents of Western Xia in one go, and finally completely relieved. Then all the official documents of Western Xia were sorted out first, and they were ordered to be sent to the palace for review by Zhao Chen, which also reassured the imperial court.

Although the administrative procedures of the Great Song Dynasty were now drafted by the ministers and then submitted to the emperor for approval, this was limited to general affairs, and major matters such as conquering Western Xia and expanding the territory were still discussed by the emperor and the ruling ministers before the final decision could be made. Therefore, the next day, Zhao Chen immediately recruited Han Yanzhi, Ye Hao, Zhou Kui and Yang Yan to focus on discussing the aftermath arrangements of Western Xia.

Regarding the aftermath of Western Xia, there are three major issues that need to be dealt with.

First of all, there is the issue of garrisons, and now the Great Song Dynasty has a total garrison of more than 200,000 troops in Western Xia, accounting for more than one-third of the total strength of the Great Song Dynasty, including more than 80,000 Sanya forbidden troops, there are such a huge number of troops stationed thousands of miles away for a long time, no matter who is the emperor and who is in charge of government affairs, it is difficult to rest assured. Therefore, the withdrawal of troops is no longer inevitable.

But now that the Song army has just occupied Western Xia, its foothold has not yet been stabilized, and it is necessary to leave a part of the army behind to ensure the rule of the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time, the original ruling forces of the Western Xia have not been completely eliminated, and the remnants of the Western Xia court that have fled to the Xiping Military Division must not be let go, and they must be quelled as soon as possible. Therefore, it is inevitable to retain a considerable number of troops in the Western Xia Territory, so how to distribute and deploy the troops has become a top priority at present.

The second is the treatment plan for Ren Dejing and the Ren clan. This time, the Great Song Dynasty was able to successfully capture the land of Western Xia, and the Ren clan with Ren Dejing was naturally indispensable. According to the principle of merit reward and punishment, the Ren clan should be rewarded and given a fief, even if it is a king. But whether they should be moved to Jiankang or continue to stay in the Western Xia realm is another difficult question.

Ren Dejing stayed in the Western Xia, for the Great Song Dynasty, undoubtedly a great hidden danger, Ren Dejing in the Western Xia painstaking business for more than 40 years, the power throughout the Western Xia, and now after the defeat of the Western Xia, the power of the party nobles has been greatly reduced. The power of the Ren clan will inevitably increase greatly in the future, although there are no outstanding talents in the Ren clan now, but it is difficult to guarantee that in the future, there will not be a man like Li Yuanhao who has great talents and ambitions, and then split the Western Xia.

On the other hand, after Ren Dejing arrived in Jiankang, it was difficult for him to grasp the actual power, so he may not be willing to leave his hometown lightly. If he is forcibly ordered to become an official in Jiankang, it is tantamount to depriving him of his fundamental power, and it is inevitably too difficult for a strong man, and once he does this, then who will be willing to take refuge in the Great Song Dynasty in the future? Therefore, it is also a difficult problem to deal with the Ren clan.

And the last point, how to rule the Western Xia region, is not only a matter of sending local officials to the Western Xia region, that is to say, the positioning of the Western Xia region. Whether the Western Xia region was divided into prefectures and military counties according to the normal administrative method of the Great Song Dynasty, and then the imperial court directly dispatched officials to rule, or was it ruled by the semi-autonomous ethnic groups of each ethnic group in accordance with the Great Song Dynasty's treatment of its less frontier ethnic groups, and the joint rule was implemented with the officials appointed by the imperial court.

In terms of regional and ethnic composition, it should naturally be the same as other ethnic regions, and the various tribes and officials appointed by the imperial court will implement joint rule, but the Western Xia is different from other ethnic regions, and in the future, it will be used as an important horse-producing area of the Great Song Dynasty and a passage area to collude with Mongolia, or a base for attacking the northwest of the Jin State during the Northern Expedition in the future.

If you consider it from the perspective of stability, it is natural that the implementation of joint governance can restore the stability of the Western Xia region faster, but the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty have been hostile for nearly a hundred years, and there have always been more and less wars, and the Great Song Dynasty court did not dare to give too much power to the party nobles, which is the same as the reason for dealing with the Ren clan. However, the use of the imperial court to directly control the system will inevitably cause contradictions between the old and new local forces in the local area, and the party and aristocracy will never be willing to give up their power just like that. Therefore, this issue is also very important.

After listening to the words of several other people, Yang Yan understood why he often heard people say that it is easy to fight the country and difficult to defend the country. It is easy to capture a piece of land, and if you want to hold it steadily, there are too many things to be involved in all aspects, and it is by no means possible to solve it by strong force alone. Even in the Tang Dynasty, where the armed forces were strong, the frontier areas that were opened up often changed hands several times and were repeatedly contested. Among the unified Han dynasties, the Great Song Dynasty was the smallest of the Yi Dynasty, and even the sixteen states of Yanyun have not been recovered, so although it has created a huge amount of wealth, it is also the one with the least expansion of territory, and the experience in this area is almost none.

Now it is still facing the Western Xia, so the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, recovering all the lost territory, will face several times the Jin State of the Western Xia, although they are all Han Chinese, but will face similar problems will never be a few, so dealing with the affairs of the Western Xia, the Northern Expedition after the Wugong, to hold the results of the Northern Expedition, has great reference value.

After deliberation with several ruling ministers, it was decided that Yang Yan would be responsible for making all the military arrangements for the garrison of troops in the Western Xia region and the remaining forces that would continue to pursue the Western Xia court. Because he was now the acting privy envoy and the chief general of the Western Xia war, he was familiar with the local situation and situation, so he could formulate the most appropriate plan for marching and dispersing troops according to the actual situation.

If Ren Dejing is interested in his own interests and is willing to take the initiative to serve in Jiankang, then it is naturally better than the Song Dynasty Imperial Court will also allow him to take the official positions of young master, Kaifu Yi and three divisions, the king of Jing'an County, the envoy of the Taining Army, and the envoy of the Yunxiao Pavilion. Although these official positions are all virtual streets, they are all extremely high grades, the young master is already a first-grade official position, the other Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, the king of Jing'an County, etc. are all from the level of the first grade, and the lowest Taining military festival envoy is also from the second grade, in terms of grade alone, at present, in the Great Song Dynasty, it can be regarded as a second grade. The other disciples of the Ren clan also have their own rewards, and the minimum will not be lower than the fifth grade, and it is guaranteed that Ren Dejing's son will stay in the Western Xia realm and serve as a local official.

However, if Ren Dejing is unwilling to enter Jiankang as an official, then he cannot be treated lightly, and he is still granted the hereditary Ling'an County King, the Zijin Guanglu Doctor, and the Taining Military Festival Envoy, and the places east of the Yellow River, north of Weizhou, west of Yanzhou, and south of the Great Wall are given to Ren Dejing as a fief. The other sons of the Ren family also had their own rewards, but they were all officials in the fiefdom. At the same time, it is necessary to send one son and nephew each to Jiankang Mansion as an official, so that although Ren Dejing received the title of hereditary county king and also had a fief, he could firmly limit the power of the Ren clan in these hundreds of miles of fiefdom, and other Western Xia places were still owned by the Great Song Dynasty, and Ren's fief was in a situation of being attacked on all sides, plus there were hostages in Jiankang, so he was not afraid that Ren would make trouble in the future.

Finally, the management method of the Western Xia region, which will use the method of combining joint governance and direct management of the imperial court, for the southeast of the Yellow River, there are many lands that were originally the Great Song Dynasty, and the local residents are mainly Han Chinese, these places will directly send officials from the imperial court to serve as local governors and directly manage.

In the northwest of the Yellow River, where there are relatively many Dangxiang clans, except for the places east of Helan Mountain, officials are sent by the imperial court to jointly manage the places with the Dangxiang nobles. However, party nobles who held local official positions had to send their sons to study in the Guozijian Middle School in Jiankang Mansion and receive education from the Great Song Dynasty for a period of three years, after which they could be replaced. At the same time, the future successors of these party nobles must also be selected from among the sons who have studied in Jiankang, and no other person can be chosen.

In this way, the Song court could not only hold a large number of hostages of party members in their hands, but also let them receive the ideological education of the Great Song Dynasty, and after they later became local administrative officials, they gradually recognized the rule of the Great Song Dynasty ideologically, thus gradually stabilizing the rule of the Great Song Dynasty in the Western Xia region.

In this way, two of the three major problems of how to rule the Western Xia have been preliminarily resolved, and of course whether these solutions are effective or not depends on the implementation in the future, and then further adjustments will be made.

And in the end, just wait for Yang Yan to come up with a garrison plan, and then he can issue an edict to Xixia and open an envoy to implement it.

There are military problems, but it is difficult for Yang Yan, and he already has a preliminary plan for this. The withdrawal of troops from Western Xia was naturally necessary, and it could be roughly divided into two steps.