Chapter 159: Envoys of the Song Kingdom
From a long time ago, until yesterday, the Jurchens considered themselves invincible.
And so it is, because the Jin army has not tasted defeat for a long time.
The Battle of Tianling seems to be the last defeat of the Jurchens in recent years, and that battle, because the three kingdoms of Song, Liaoxia and Xia joined forces, whether it was the frontal battlefield or the base camp in the rear, the Jin army was under great pressure, so the defeat of that battle was inevitable.
Now, the Liao people in the declining West Mountains are already too busy to take care of themselves, how can they still have the strength to take care of the affairs of the Western Xia people.
The Tangut people, who were finally liberated from the Liao people, began to drool over the land of the Song State, but Guo Cheng was stationed in the area of Pingxia City, and the Tangut people were defeated by Guo Cheng when they attacked Pingxia City.
Li Qianshun was only three years old when he succeeded to the throne, and at that time he was still in charge of the government after Xiaoliang.
Later, Pingxia City was defeated, and Xiaoliang later asked the Khitans for military assistance. Yelu Hongji was unwilling to offend the Song Dynasty, so he killed Xiaoliang, and the Western Xia did not speak of soldiers from then on.
Now Li Qianshun is 26 years old, and with the assistance of many advisers, he has managed the country very well. But any aspiring emperor always has a dream of expanding his territory, not to mention that Tiandu Mountain originally belonged to their Western Xia territory.
In the defeat three years ago, there were not many scoldings against Li Qianshun, and most of them scolded the people around Li Qianshun for instigating him and asking him to order troops.
Those ministers are dumb and eat coptis, and they can't tell if they have bitterness. Only they themselves know that this is entirely the result of Li Qianshun's obstinate actions.
The Liao people are weak, and the Jin people are strong. The strength of the Song State fluctuated from high to low, and he did not dare to judge lightly. Now, no matter what kind of mood it is based on, the most important thing to attack is the Liao State.
After that, either take refuge in the Song State and join forces with the Song State to fight against Jin. Either take refuge in the Jin State and cooperate with the Jin people to attack the Song Dynasty, which is a good choice.
I just want to provoke Song Guo, isn't this asking for hardship?
But it's a good thing to lose, at least Li Qianshun knows that he should honestly develop the economy now with peace of mind, and shouldn't think about what he has and doesn't have.
It's just that the situation seems to have changed a little today, and a team of envoys from the Song Kingdom wanted to ask to see Li Qianshun.
"The envoy of the Song Kingdom? What are they here for? "At the mention of the Song people, Li Qianshun felt a headache, these guys not only have to defeat themselves on the battlefield, but their businessmen also like to come to their own country to suck blood.
The eunuch who came to report scratched his head and said, "This ...... Your Majesty, if you ask the slave and maid, the slave and the maid don't know. ”
"Well, forget it, let's talk about it first." Li Qianshun waved his hand and began to clean up the desk: "Just bring them here." ”
The contents of several relatively confidential memoranda cannot be seen by the Song people, even if they are not possible at all. Li Qianshun thought about it, and simply buried these few points at the bottom.
"The envoy of the Song Kingdom has arrived!" Outside the door, eunuch
The official raised his voice to report, and then three Song people wearing crowned hats walked in.
"The messenger of the Great Song Kingdom raised Xu Jing and visited King Xia." As soon as the Song envoy entered the door, he saluted Li Qianshun, who was smiling and groaning.
Li Qianshun waved his hand and said, "Envoy Xu doesn't need to be polite. After that, he called the palace maid to give the three of them a seat to watch tea.
"Thank you, King Xia." Xu Jing thanked him.
After taking a seat, Xu Jing wanted to chat with Li Qianshun as usual. It was nothing more than Li Qianshun asking Zhao Ji how his health was, and after Xu Jing answered, he thanked Li Qianshun for Zhao Ji's care.
Then, Li Qianshun changed his words and asked with a smile: "I don't know what happened when my brother sent Xu Envoy?" If the brother is sent, the brother will not dare to leave. ”
Xu Jing put down the teacup and said, "King Xia, since you have asked so, then I will say it directly."
The official family sent down to visit you, King Xia, for this matter. ”
With that, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to the palace maid beside him.
After the palace maid took the letter, she took small steps to Li Qianshun and handed him the letter.
Li Qianshun took the letter with a frown, and he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
From the first time he saw Xu Jing, he felt that something was wrong.
It stands to reason that if the Song State sent an envoy to see him, he did not need to send an envoy from the country to a great deal of effort, and if he had any news to tell him, he could send a fast horse to inform the Song envoy in Xia, and then he could tell himself.
This saves time and does not cost much. Second, the envoy sent by the Song State has been here for a few years, and his face is familiar and easy to speak.
No matter how bad it is, you have to send an old and dignified envoy to see you, right?
This Xu Jing looks very young, like a fledgling stunned young man.
Besides, what can't be said in public, do you have to sneak a letter out for yourself to read?
With such an idea, Li Qianshun opened the letter Xu Jing gave him. Halfway through it, his eyes widened. When he finished reading it, he was terrified.
I couldn't help but ask Xu Jing: "This letter was written by my brother?" Are you really an envoy of the Song Kingdom? ”
Xu Jing smiled: "It's like a fake." ”
Li Qianshun gasped.
He knew that the emperor's heart was darker than ordinary people, but he never expected that Zhao Ji's heart would be so black.
If you do what you say in this letter, that person will really work hard for Da Song all his life, but in the end he will end up with a very sad end.
Li Qianshun shook his head secretly, but what way did he refuse? It's a good thing for him that he's dead, and he only needs to send a hundred iron harriers to find a chance.
Come to think of it, Lee
By the way, he said to Xu Jing expressionlessly: "This king knows, if there is nothing else, Envoy Xu, please go back." ”
Xu Jing stood up and said with a smile: "Thank you King Xia for your cooperation, in order to show sincerity, the official family specially entrusted King Xia to give him a piece of white jade, and a number of other gifts, and the gift list has been handed over to your close attendant." ”
"Got it." Li Qianshun nodded.
After Xu Jing left, Li Qian sat motionless on the chair in a daze. After a while, he took out the letter and read it again.
Is it really good to do that?
Actually, there's nothing bad about it, right......
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The Ninth Route Army won a great victory in Canzhou, and the death of Wanyan Lou was a heavy blow to the morale of the Jin army.
Minister of the Seven Rivers, the first Meng'an in the Jin Army, the right-hand man of Wanyan Aguta, and the victorious general who led the Jin Army to many victories, was shot to death by the Song Army on his way to support Xuanzhou.
Sometimes I have to say that fate wants to play tricks on a person, and you can't escape it.
Originally, the protection measures of Wanyan Lou Room were very perfect, as long as the soldier holding the big shield kept holding it, Wanyan Lou Room did not have to worry about the dark arrows or stray arrows shot from behind.
But they walked to the place where Wu Dazhuang had just died, and the corpse of the guy who was almost split in half by Wu Dazhuang was still lying in place.
The little soldier holding the shield didn't notice the corpse when he retreated, and his heel tripped on the corpse and fell to the ground, and by the time he got up, Wanyan Lou's room had already been shot by Wang Sunchen with an arrow in the center.
When a person is unlucky, he will stuff his teeth when he drinks cold water, and if the creep does not fall, or if he changes his position when he falls. If he had carried his lieutenant on his back and walked faster, he would not have died.
So the battlefield is a kaleidoscope, and anything can happen.
A few years ago, when the Song army was fighting gold, there was also a general who fell off his horse and broke his neck when he was chasing, causing chaos in the Song army.
The Jin army took advantage of the situation to counterattack, but instead wiped out the pursuing Song army.
Wu Dazhuang died, and Tang Ning was very sad about it.
The old faces walked and scattered, and now they are leaving themselves one after another, saying that Tang Ning is not sad, that is impossible.
More than 2,000 brothers were killed in the battle, and the Song army, which was seriously wounded and lightly wounded, was temporarily out of danger. The first thing Tang Ning did after taking charge of the Ninth Route Army was to rectify the wounded barracks, so the survival rate of the wounded in the Ninth Route Army was not low.
Unable to resurrect from death, Tang Ning buried the soldiers on a sunny hillside outside the city of Canzhou. There were too many people to count, so an anonymous monument was erected.
The people of Canzhou promised to take good care of them, and when Tang Ning left, he saw them planting trees on the hillside.
At this time of the year, these trees will surely grow very luxuriantly.
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