Xingqingfu, the capital of the Western Xia Kingdom, is a city built in the style of the Tang and Song dynasties, built more than 60 years ago by Li Deming's assistant He Chengzhen, Li Yuanhao called the emperor and then took it as the capital.

The city is located on the west bank of the Yellow River, west by Helan Mountain, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the location is almost Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia in later generations.

Yinchuan is known as the south of the Yangtze River, the towering Helan Mountain blocks the cold air from the northwest, the Yellow River alluvial has created a large silt plain, the climate is good, the surface water is abundant, and it has been a good place for cultivation since ancient times.

Therefore, on this plain, there is not only the capital of Xingqingfu, but also a large number of small cities such as Dingzhou, Huaizhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou, which are the anointed places of the Western Xia Dynasty.

The inland rivers and lakes where Xingqing Mansion is located are dense, and it is difficult to build the city in a special order, but Li Deming still strives to make the city more in line with the regulations of symmetry on the left and right, and the connection between north and south.

It is slightly longer from east to west and slightly narrower from north to south, and is rectangular. The longest point is no more than five miles, and the walls are very tall, made of stone from Helan Mountain, and there is a wide moat outside.

The whole city is divided into two circles, the outer city and the palace city, outside the palace is the residential area, and inside the palace is the palace of the highest military and political department of the Western Xia Dynasty. The outer city is divided into six gates, and there is a large urn city outside the Nanxun Gate in the southeast and the Desheng Gate in the northeast, which is called the north and south passes.

According to the introduction, Xingqing Mansion was built in the shape of the Buddha, but this Buddha was lying on the ground with his head to the east and feet to the west. The Gaotai Temple in the east of the city is the head of the Buddha, the north and south passes are the hands of the Buddha, the rectangular city is the body of the Buddha, and the Buddhist temple at the foot of Helan Mountain in the west of the city is the Buddha's feet. Sounds like it's interesting.

But listening to Hong Tao's ears, what feng shui is nonsense, and the Buddha statue is even more far-fetched, he just thinks that this city is a miniature version of Kaifeng. There are three gates with the same name, and the city is also based on the neighborhood system, a total of 24 squares.

Miyagi is much more regular than the outer city, it is a square, and it is in the middle of the city. It has more doors, three on one side, and the main gate is also on the south side, which is called the Zhimen Gate. Entering this gate is the concert hall, which is the place where the court of the Western Xia court held a meeting.

The emperor of Western Xia is called Li Bingchang, but at this time sitting on the throne is a middle-aged woman who still has charm. Looking at his age, he is in his early thirties, and if Hong Tao is present, he must ask how this woman is maintained.

is forty years old, playing palace fighting all day long, since he was a teenager, he has been harming this and that, and even his husband's family has given up, how can he not be haggard at all in such a tense atmosphere?

This is the legendary Empress Dowager Liang of Western Xia, who is forty years old this year. She has lived too exciting in the past forty years, and she has not been idle since she was fifteen years old when she met Li Liangzuo, the emperor of Western Xia who had just ascended the throne for two years, at her brother's house.

first bewitched Li Liangzuo and booby-trapped the powerful Wuzang Pang family, and then married Li Liangzuo, who was a few years younger than her, and became the second queen.

The Pang family is her husband's family, and her husband and Li Liangzuo are still cousins, and Li Liangzuo should call her cousin-in-law. And the last queen was her sister-in-law, and her father-in-law didn't hide Pang or was the uncle of the dynasty, this is a mess.

But he didn't hide that Pang and his son bullied Li Liangzuo at a young age, holding great power and leaning towards the government and the opposition, but he didn't expect to end up in the hands of Liang, a Han woman.

But the good times didn't last long, Li Liangzuo was a short-lived ghost, he was wounded in a battle with the Northern Song Dynasty army, and died at the age of 21, and he was succeeded by Li Bingchang, the son of him and his cousin-in-law Empress Dowager Liang.

Li Bingchang was only 7 years old at this time, and he was definitely unable to manage the country, so the Empress Dowager Liang's waist changed and she listened to the government, and instead of her son, she managed the country and became the de facto leader of the Western Xia Dynasty.

The ancients said that once the power was in hand, they would carry out the order. Empress Dowager Liang killed her first husband with her own hands, and survived the lewd and lustful second husband

What's the picture? It's definitely not love, and it shouldn't be money, but power.

The power is so hard, it must not be wasted, one person ascends to heaven, and the Liang family has become the first family in Western Xia.

The first family must have the first treatment, so her younger brother Liang Yi buried himself as the prime minister of Western Xia, and her niece married her son as the queen.

A young woman, her husband died early, and she must be very lonely without a man to accompany her. Therefore, the Empress Dowager Liang still has many lovers, among which there is a Western Xia nobleman named Meng Meng who is the most trusted. He was originally the queen mother's bodyguard, so it just so happened that he should be the deputy minister of defense and be in charge of military power.

Nepotism is definitely not good, but Empress Dowager Liang can't help it. She is a Han person, and in a country dominated by party members, no matter how high a Han person sits, he will not feel safe.

In order to prove that she was a qualified party member and national leader, Empress Dowager Liang had to abolish many of the sinicization policies implemented by Li Liangzuo, and she had to fight against the Northern Song Dynasty regardless of whether it was right or wrong, so as to gain the approval of the party nobles.

This is also why there were not too many wars between the Western Xia and the Northern Song Dynasty during the reign of Li Liangzuo, but when the Empress Dowager Liang was in power, the two countries immediately fought, and neither side dared to trust who was the main problem.

The power is so powerful, anyone who encounters it, as long as there are not enough restrictions, will become a monster with no family affection, no nation, no country, and no ethics and morals in the world.

But this time the Empress Dowager Liang was a little depressed, and the Northern Song Dynasty army suddenly drank chicken blood, bringing irreparable losses to the Western Xia in just half a year.

First, his nephew Liang Yibury lost his news, and then the border general Wei Ming Awu was defeated and died. The initiator of all this is actually a little-known Song Dynasty horse, and this horse has no other strengths except for being able to draw a few brushstrokes and be romantic.

Huangzhou is sparsely populated, with mountains and rivers, and has never been the main battlefield of both sides, so why did such a general who can fight suddenly appear?

The word amorous nature is the weakness of the Empress Dowager Liang, don't look at her own private life is not proper, but she hates flowery men very much, and it is estimated that her second emperor's husband is hurt a lot.

For Wang Xu, the Empress Dowager Liang, she gritted her teeth, and even sent her lover out to lead the right wing of the town to guard Xingqing Mansion, with 10,000 garrisons, 1,000 proton troops, and 500 iron harriers rushing to Zhuo Luo City, ready to take a picture with this concubine, and be ashamed of the snow.

But before the horse Wang Xu, bad news came from the border, the Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army was mobilizing on a large scale, and from the banner, not only the original border army, but also a lot of reinforcements.

This situation is not only in Yanyan Road, but also in three or four important border towns from east to west, and it is self-evident what the opponent wants to do.

At this time, Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yiburi really didn't care about avenging their nephew and illegitimate son, so they immediately drew their energy back from Huangzhou, and hurriedly took action, sending troops from all over the country to Yingli and Yanzhou to assemble.