Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 361 Self-directed and self-acted

Chapter 361 Self-directed and self-acted
It is a big deal that this tribute gift was robbed.

Shocked by this news, the government and the opposition were immediately filled with righteous indignation, and the generals who couldn't bear it all demanded to send troops to ask for an explanation.

It's nothing more than normal time, and now envoys from various countries are gathering in Bianjing.If this incident happened at this moment, if it is not dealt with by means of thunder, it will make the envoys of other countries laugh at it.

Luo Youdu was extremely calm about this, and there was still a strange look in his eyes.

If this hadn't happened, Luo Youdu would not have remembered the power of Hengshan Qiang.

Luo Youdu has seen the records of Hengshan Qiang many times while learning about the war between the Song Dynasty and Xixia.

"Song History Xia Guozhuan" records: "The hard-fought battle relies on the mountains, and the mountains are the Hengshan Qiang, and the Pingxia soldiers are not as good as them."

The Qiang people in Hengshan have strong horses, and they must be the vanguard in every battle.

"Song Shi Bing Zhi" also records: Walkers, going up and down hillsides, entering and leaving streams, are the most able to surpass heights and distances.

This step postscript is also a mountain army composed of Hengshan Qiang people.

To put it bluntly, they are the Hengshan Qiang soldiers, brave and good at fighting, and they are the champions of the Western Xia armies.

During the Battle of Haoshuichuan, Sanchuankou, and Dingchuanzhai that broke out during the reign of Song Renzong, when the Song army was forced to fight in the valley due to the situation, Bubazi of Xixia began to show his power.

Active in streams and valleys with strong bows and crossbows, and using super high mobility to quickly move around the battlefield, the Song army who cooperated with the Hengshan Qiang cavalry was crying for their fathers and mothers, and their elites were completely lost.

Historically, because Xixia relied too much on the Hengshan Qiang, whenever there was a war, they sent more troops to the Hengshan Qiang, which aroused dissatisfaction from the Hengshan Qiang and intended to submit to the Song Dynasty.

The Xixia Emperor Li Liangzuo was so frightened that he immediately moved all the ethnic groups in the Hengshan area to Xingzhou to prevent the Hengshan Qiang soldiers from being used by the Song Dynasty.

After understanding the situation, the commander-in-chief at the time, Zhong Er, also sent people to recruit the people of Hengshan and formed an extremely powerful Hengshan soldier.

This Hengshan Qiang was the most important source of soldiers of the Western Xia Dynasty, which is now the Dingnan Army. They plundered the Dingnan Army dominated by Dangxiang Qiang?
Is this a brain tease?

Luo Youdu was a little puzzled.

If it were an ordinary emperor, he would be furious when he learned that the tribute supplies had been robbed, and he would either crusade or order the Dingnan army to arrest the leader of the bandits.

But Luo Youdu is well aware of the importance of Hengshan to the Dingnan Army, even if one of his own people robs his own people, it will not cause trouble to him, making him laugh out loud.

If things go wrong, there must be evildoers.

Luo Youdu suppressed the anger of the generals, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt strange, and ordered the Privy Council to fetch the topographic map of the Dingnan Army.

Looking at the topographic map on the desk and the Hengshan mountain range, he gradually came to his senses.

The Hengshan Mountains are not a small area, but a whole stretch of mountains and rivers stretching for hundreds of miles, starting from Linzhou Yulin in the east and extending to the southwest from Tiandu Mountain to Mayan Mountain.

In history, this mountain range is like the Great Wall of Xixia. Party members can go south to harass the border city at any time, and even if the battle is unfavorable, they can quickly retreat and defend, and remain invincible.

The war between the Song Dynasty and Xixia was a competition around the Hengshan Mountains.

The middle section of the current Hengshan Mountains is occupied by the Dingnan Army, but the east, west, and end sections are under the control of the Central Plains.

The Hengshan Mountains in the west belong to Dingbian, Yanzhou.

The Dingnan army was bewitched by the Khitan and responded to the Northern Han Dynasty's dispatch of troops. What they wanted to capture was the Hengshan Mountains in the west. As long as Dingbian was captured, Lingzhou, which was known as the southern part of the south, would be in the possession of the Dingnan army.

As for the eastern section of the Hengshan Mountains located in Yulin, part of it is under the jurisdiction of Linzhou, which is the harvest of this attack on the Northern Han Dynasty.

Yanzhou should not be a problem here, the two sides have been getting along for many years.

Due to the complex terrain, it is inevitable that there will be "bandits" who don't have eyesight and invade the border.

But since Wang Yansheng was exiled, he unlocked the habit of eating ears. He likes to tear off the ears of thieves alive and gnaw them alive, scaring the border people on both sides to tremble.

The only possibility is here in Yulin, Linzhou.

Luo Youdu immediately asked the Council to go to Linzhou to ask Yang Zhongxun and Li Mu about the situation.

The main reason is Li Mu, and Yang Zhongxun's speech is just to give him face as the governor of Linzhou.

Now the administrative power of Linzhou is in the hands of Shi Limu, the governor of Linzhou.

Yang Zhongxun was not dissatisfied with this situation.

After all, the Central Plains is not the Northern Han Dynasty, let them grasp the deep-rooted military and political power of the local wealthy clan.

Luo Youdu retained his military power and reused his elder brother Yang Ye to guard Yanmen Pass. This kind of favor was enough, and he didn't care about the government affairs of Linzhou at all.

Li Mu, who received the urgent letter from the Council Hall, was a little confused.

Li Mu, a native of Yangwu in Kaifeng Fuyang, Xiande Jinshi in his early years, is a capable minister and official, the most commendable thing is his virtue, and he has extremely high moral requirements for himself.

After taking over the government affairs of Linzhou, it was found that [-]% of Linzhou's economy came from trade with Hengshan Qiang.

Compared with Yang Zhongxun who is not good at government affairs, Li Mu has shown extraordinary ability in this area.

He opened a border market in Yulin to encourage mutual trade. He also met and talked with Tuoba Xiong, the patriarch of the Qiang Lynx tribe in Hengshan, and opened the door to trade.

Li Mu's morality is extremely high, and he has an absolutely fair attitude towards the trade between the two parties, which has won the trust of Hengshan Qiang.

In just a few short months, the border market, which was already prosperous, was booming.

Li Mu had no idea what went wrong, so he could only report the truth.

Send the letter back to the Council Hall.

Which one of the prime ministers in the government hall is Yi Yi's generation.

Seeing Li Mu's reply, everything became clear.

Outside the city of Bianjing.

Li Guangrui and Han Junxiong came from Xiazhou in a hurry, and behind them was a long congratulatory gift.

Their congratulatory gifts were indeed robbed by the Hengshan Qiang, but in order to show the Dingnan Army's admiration for the Central Plains Dynasty, they prepared a new batch of congratulatory gifts and came to see them.

Seeing that he was about to join the reception officials from the Central Plains, Li Guangrui felt a little apprehensive, and said in a low voice, "Major Minister, there really won't be any problems."

Han Junxiong replied: "The emperor of the Central Plains has always had the best face. At the critical moment of his enthronement, in front of all the envoys, if such a thing happened, he would be furious. Our congratulatory gifts are not in short supply, and they have no reason to criticize us. "

In fact, he also knew that they were playing with fire.

But nothing can be done.

The Hengshan Qiang is the most reliable force of the Dingnan Army. The Hengshan Qiang is spread all over the Hengshan Mountains, and they are divided into more than [-] tribes, large and small.

Among them, the strongest are several tribes near Yulin, Linzhou.

These tribes are followed by the Tuoba bear of the lynx tribe.

There is a reason for all this.

Li Yiyin had great ambitions, intending to contain the development of the Central Plains together with Khitan and Northern Han.

Put the thighs of the Central Plains and don't hug them, but hug the thighs of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Linzhou is the border between the Dingnan Army and the Northern Han Dynasty.

The salt, iron, and tea produced by Hengshan were sold to the Northern Han Dynasty and Khitan through Linzhou.

Therefore, most of the powerful Hengshan Qiang tribes gathered near Hengshan, Yulin.

The sudden fall of the Northern Han Dynasty caught the Dingnan army completely off guard.

Li Mu is also a cadre. The demand for salt and iron in the Central Plains is far greater than that of the Qidan in the Northern Han Dynasty, and he has grasped the key point of the Hengshan Qiang.

Of course Li Yiyin panicked at this sudden change.

If the Hengshan Qiang fell to the Central Plains, the Dingnan army would have no power to fight back and could only linger on.

The Hengshan Qiang, an ethnic group located in the Hengshan Mountains, has never had any national concept. Above the ethnic group, whoever has milk is a mother.

Li Yiyin, the Jiedushi of the Dingnan Army, did not have much binding force on them.

He couldn't make Tuoba Xiong cut off the trade with the Central Plains, if he really wanted to force Tuoba Xiong, he would force him to defect to the Central Plains.

This is seeing the contact between Hengshan Qiang headed by Tuoba Xiong and Linzhou getting closer.

In the long run, Li Yiyin had no choice but to make such a bad strategy to create conflicts and cut off the communication between Hengshan Qiang and the Central Plains.

Let the Central Plains bully the Hengshan Qiang, while they randomly pick a few small tribes to explain to the Central Plains, and then protect the powerful Hengshan Qiang to evacuate Yulin.

"Xue Juzheng has seen the two envoys!"

Xue Juzheng greeted with gentle courtesy.

His blissful attitude was like a reassurance, which reassured Li Guangrui a lot. He said: "I have been waiting for a long time, but I encountered bandits from Hengshan and Qiangshan on the way, and lost half of the congratulatory gifts. In order to reorganize, I delayed some time." time, please forgive me."

Xue Juzheng replied: "The envoy has worked hard all the way, this Hengshan Qiang dared to plunder my congratulatory gift, it is really audacious. Please rest assured, Your Majesty will not sit idly by and ignore this matter."

He didn't know the inside story, but he also knew that the Dingnan army was not peaceful, so he invited the Dingnan army into the city while talking about the scene.

Li Guangrui said: "I don't know when I will be able to meet Your Majesty. Hengshan Qiang is too arrogant. My father was furious when he learned that the tribute was robbed. He has ordered all the troops to go south, and he must give an explanation to His Majesty. I want to personally report this matter to His Majesty... "

Xue Juzheng said: "The envoy will rest in the Sifang Pavilion first, and I will report to His Majesty. The envoy can wait for the good news."

Li Guangrui couldn't see anything unusual, and felt a little more secure in his heart.

But this wait is three days.

On the eve of the enthronement ceremony, Luo Youdu sent someone to invite Li Guangrui and Han Junxiong to have an audience.

Li Guangrui and Han Junxiong entered the palace with some apprehension.

All the way to Zichen Palace, Li Guangrui and Han Junxiong felt relieved when they saw this.

This Zichen Palace is the former palace of the imperial palace, used only for court gatherings in the first month of the month, congratulations at the completion of suburban temple ceremonies, and reception of foreign envoys.

Luo Youdu received them in the Zichen Palace, which shows that he attaches great importance to them, presumably because they made a remedy in time and did not anger Tianwei.

The two squatted down the stairs all the way into the hall, but saw that there were already three people seated in the hall.

In an instant, a feeling of humiliation welled up in my heart.

At the same time as he was interviewing himself, he was also interviewing another group of people, which obviously didn't take them to heart.

But when he saw the person coming, his hands and feet were cold again in an instant.

The person sitting at the front was Tuoba Xiong, the patriarch of the lynx clan, and the next two were also very familiar. One was the patriarch of the Wild Wolf clan, and the other was the patriarch of the Falcon clan. They were both the patriarchs of the Hengshan Qiang tribe near Yulin.

Luo Youdu originally had a happy conversation with the three chiefs of the Qiang tribe in Hengshan. After seeing Li Guangrui and Han Junxiong entering the palace, he put on a sneer and mocked, and said, "I don't need another introduction. I don't know what you have to say now?"

(End of this chapter)

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