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Chapter 0373: Cold reception

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    The earliest prototype of Xixia was the Dangxiang Qiang who were active on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The so-called Dangxiang tribe was actually a branch of the Qiang ethnic group.  With the rise of Tubo, the various party ministries were gradually driven off the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by the Tubo Empire and attached themselves to the mainland.  The Tang Empire first settled it in Qingzhou. After the Anshi Rebellion, it was worried about alien rebellion, so it was moved to the Yinzhou area.  Tuoba started from this. After Huang Chao raised his army, he was named Xia Guogong for his military exploits in regaining Chang'an.  He was given the surname Li Tangguo, and was later called the Jiedushi of the Dingnan Army. The four prefectures of Yin, Xia, Sui, and You were the territory of the Tuoba tribe.  During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Central Plains was constantly at war.  In just half a century, five Central Plains dynasties changed.  But no matter which dynasty emerged, all the Dingnan troops surrendered.  In addition to consolidating the rule of the four states, he also received a large number of rewards.  Even when the Liao Kingdom was established, the Tuoba tribe also expressed a certain degree of friendship.  Until Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinied and established the Song Dynasty, the Dingnan Army continued to surrender.  But the meaning of this surrender is only attitude and nominal belonging. In fact, the separatist rule of the vassal town is still maintained.  "However, the Tuoba tribe's ambitions at this time are not very big. They just want to maintain the state of separatist vassal towns and become a grass-headed king.  Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, after more than 200 years, the economy of Yinxia region has made great progress.  Grain, cattle, horses, sheep, and green salt not only ensure self-sufficiency, but can also be traded with foreign countries.  In 982 AD, the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation, Zhao Guangyi took advantage of the discord among the top leaders of the Dingnan Army to formally launch an operation to eliminate vassal towns, and brought Li Jipeng, the then military governor of the Dingnan Army, and his family to Tokyo City.  By giving money but not power, I took the opportunity to take back the land of Yinxia's four states.  Unexpectedly, Li Jipeng's younger brother Li Jiqian did not go to Beijing, but absconded to Serizawa and began to build up troops. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Three years later, Li Jiqian took advantage of the situation and raised troops. First, he used a trick to trap and kill Yinzhou general Cao Guangshi and occupied Yinzhou.  Later, they officially sent troops to conquer Huizhou of the Song Dynasty and officially took possession of the foundation land.  Taking advantage of the hostile relationship between Song and Liao, Li Jiqian surrendered to the Liao State and was canonized as King of Xia.  During this period, Li Jipeng, who was in Tokyo during the Song Dynasty, also secretly helped in many ways and worked hard to restore the Tuoba tribe's former status.  At that time, the strong enemy of the Song Dynasty was always the Khitan, and Li Jiqian did not take it too seriously, as he only divided the two states.  Li Jiqian continued to pay tribute, paralyzing Zhao Guangyi in the name of restoring his ancestral land.  After all, Song Taizong took away the land of four states, and only Yinzhou and Huizhou were taken away.  It is said that it is also to pay tribute to the ancestors and ensure that the ancestors¡¯ mausoleum is in their hands.  But he didn¡¯t expect that this was simply Li Jiqian¡¯s tactic to delay the war, intending to restore his strength and then expand his foundation.  Although Li Jiqian occupied two states at this time, his actual strength was unable to pose any threat to the Song Dynasty, both economically and militarily.  But after another ten years of recuperation, Li Jiqian finally felt that he had enough capital and decided to use troops again.  First, he led his army to seize 400,000 grain and grass supplies from the Song Dynasty, and then sent troops to besiege Lingzhou, an important town in the northwest.  Zhao Guangyi finally got angry and mobilized five armies to attack Li Jiqian.  But this time the troops were sent out, it ended in failure.  After Zhao Guangyi died and Song Zhenzong succeeded to the throne, the fearless Song Zhenzong directly ceded all the four prefectures of Yin, Xia, Sui, and You that Zhao Guangyi had taken away from Zhao Guangyi to Li Jiqian, and also added Jingzhou.  .  Li Jiqian's "wishes" to restore his ancestral land were finally officially realized. Song Zhenzong and a group of ministers believed that peace could finally be restored in the northwest frontier, and the troublemaking army should not continue to cause trouble.  But only a few years later, Li Jiqian sent out a large army to attack Lingzhou, an important town in the northwest, and renamed it Xiping Prefecture.  Soon after, Liangzhou was captured, completely cutting off the communication channels between the Song Dynasty and the Western Regions.  As a result, the Song Dynasty lost the plains and horse breeding land in the Hetao area, and cut off the channels for buying horses in the Western Regions.  On the surface, the Song Dynasty did not lose much land and population, but it suffered huge losses at the strategic level.  Originally, due to the loss of the Yanyun land, there was no important horse-raising land. As a result, the loss of the Hetao area caused the Song Dynasty to lose the last horse-raising land and also lost the commercial channels for buying horses in the Western Regions.  Since then, the Song Dynasty has always been at an absolute disadvantage at a strategic level.  Without enough war horses, it is impossible to form a large-scale cavalry, a strategic arm of the agricultural era.  By the end of the Song Dynasty, infantry could only be used as the main force in actual combat, and thus the strategic initiative was lost. ??Later, Li Jiqian was plotted against and killed by an arrow when he made an alliance with Tubo. He was 42 years old.  It basically laid the foundation for the founding of the Xixia Kingdom. After his son Li Deming succeeded to the throne, he attacked Tubo in the south and the Uighurs in the west, making every effort to stabilize the Hexi Corridor, and officially changed Huaiyuan Town to Xingzhou as the capital.  Although nominally still vassal to the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty, internally it already had an imperial demeanor.  When Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne in 1032 AD, he began to prepare for the establishment of a country.  Change the year name, change the surname, build palaces, establish civil and military affairs, establish military systems, establish military names, create Xixia script, and at the same time change etiquette and grammar and issue bald orders.  After successively capturing the three strategic locations of Guazhou, Shazhou and Suzhou in Tubo, Li Yuanhao, who finally owned more than 20 states, officially founded the country in 1038 AD. He changed Xingzhou to Xingqing Prefecture, established it as the capital, and named the country  Daxia.  Because it is located in the northwest, it was called Xixia in history.  When Xixia was founded, its territory extended to the Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, and the desert in the north, covering an area of ??more than 20,000 miles.  The northeast is adjacent to the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom, the east and southeast are adjacent to the Song Dynasty, and the south and west are bordered by the Tubo tribes, the Yellow-headed Uighurs and the Xizhou Uighurs. It can be said to be a place of four wars, with very prominent strategic significance.  Although most of the territory in the country is desert terrain, the Hetao Plain is within our control.  As the saying goes, the Yellow River is full of dangers but only benefits. Xingqingfu, located in the center of the Hetao Plain, is crisscrossed by rivers and gullies and has thousands of lakes. It is known as the "block of the Yangtze River".  Therefore, in terms of grain output, it can basically meet domestic demand.  In the west, there is Helan Mountain, which serves as a barrier to shield the cold air from Siberia and serves as a strategic location to resist foreign invasion. In the west, there is the Hetao Plain irrigated by the Yellow River, as well as grasslands for horse breeding and grazing, as well as the output of green salt.  The founding of Xixia was very well prepared.  Li Yuanhao was good at military affairs. He had conquered east and west since he was the prince. He was famous both at home and abroad for his reputation of being victorious in every battle.  After the founding of the country, they fought against the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty more than ten times. They won all four key strategic decisive battles and lost more than 100,000 elite soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty.  Later, there was an enmity with the Liao Kingdom, and the Khitan Emperor personally led a hundred thousand elite troops to conquer the country.  As a result, Li Yuanhao once again won a great victory, which completely established the status of Xixia, making both Liao and Song Dynasties dare not underestimate it.  However, Xixia is still a small country with a small population and lack of knowledge, and successive years of war have consumed a lot of national power.  Although they forced the Song Dynasty and Liao Dynasty to recognize the formal founding of Xixia, they no longer had the capital to continue fighting.  After that, Xixia continued to claim vassalage to the Song Dynasty and Liao Kingdom, but this became a nominal title.  About half a century has passed since Zhao Guangyi cut down the feudal vassal town and collected the troops to deal with the disaster.  The final result was not only that the vassal towns of the Dingnan Army were not eliminated, but that the sphere of influence was expanded, causing heavy losses to the Song Dynasty itself.  After the founding of the Xixia Kingdom, successive invasions led to the erosion of the entire northwest of the Song Dynasty, and wars broke out almost every year.  The original heartland of the Han and Tang Dynasties turned into a frontier, and successive wars caused continuous blood loss in the Song Dynasty.  Ding Yang knew very well that if he wanted to change the Song Dynasty, he first needed to pacify Xixia and restore the entire northwest from the frontier to the inland before he could proceed with the next step.  This time I left Liao and went straight to Xixia, firstly to see with my own eyes the domestic situation in Xixia at this time, and also to satisfy my own wishes.  Speaking of which, Xingqingfu, the capital of Xixia, will be his hometown a thousand years later. It would be really hard not to go back and see it.  After leaving the Liao Kingdom, Ding Yang did not make any fanfare and even refused the official escort of the Liao Kingdom.  The car was light and simple, and it took only a few guards and set off on the road.  In addition to Coach Guo Lin as a personal bodyguard, Yelu Yixin also sent Xiao Da to escort the Eight Immortals to the west.  In fact, everyone knows that with Ding Yang¡¯s strength, he does not need anyone to escort him.  But no matter what the face is, even if Yelu Yixin no longer wants to keep Ding Yang, he still has to give it away.  Anyway, Xiao Da and Ding Yang have also cooperated. Xiao Da was the one who escorted them to Huanglong Mansion before.  Xiao Da was overjoyed to be dispatched again this time - after all, he was a close subordinate of Yelu Hongji, and if he stayed in Shangjing City, he would inevitably be disliked by Yelu Yixin.  Simply take advantage of the escort opportunity and leave Daliao with Ding Yang.  Although no official notification was given to Xixia, when Ding Yang entered Xixia from Liao Kingdom, he still received a very warm welcome.  The generals guarding the border areas of Xixia have all been famous for the Eight Immortals for a long time, and they are all full of awe.  Not to mention that Ding Yang didn¡¯t receive any ill treatment along the way, even Xiao Da enjoyed some unprecedented hospitality.  No matter who they were, everyone was in awe when they saw Ding Yang and his entourage.  Especially the common people, their attitude towards Ding Yang is no different from that of a living god - a lot of news from the Liao Kingdom has been passed on.But when the group entered Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia, the situation finally changed.  The initially enthusiastic attitude suddenly cooled down, and a hint of hostility arose.  This situation immediately aroused Ding Yang's dissatisfaction, and even made him doubtful.  Although he did not expect to gain much from this trip, the abnormal attitude in Xixia clearly had a reason.  After Xiao Da¡¯s many inquiries, he finally got a piece of news that he didn¡¯t know whether it was true or false.  ~
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