Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 756 Marriage (please subscribe!)

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Duting Xiyi.

Ma Kuo, Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhichang walked in from the outside together.

From far away, Li Zhizhong and other Xia envoys saw Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhichang's faces sinking into water, only Ma Kuo still had a warm smile on his face.

Speaking of which, Li Zhizhong and other Xia envoys hated Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhichang to death.

During the negotiation process, these two not only reported all the details of Xixia to the court of Dazhong, making them extremely passive, but also always tried to prevent Zhongxia from forming an alliance. They even suspected that the recent quarrel between Dazhong and Zhongxia "Delay the recovery of Yanyun and destroy Xixia with all our strength" was proposed by these two people or the Fuzhou Zhe family behind them.

fine--

Dazhong is not all short-sighted people!
Li Zhizhong and the others didn't even look at Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhichang, but went straight to Ma Kuo, and at the same time said with great enthusiasm: "Ma Xianggong, I see your face is flushed, but if something good happens, I'll let you know." What good news do we have?"

Ma Kuo smiled and said, "There is good news."

Li Zhizhong said: "Oh? What good news?"

Ma Kuo said: "The officials agreed to most of the alliance conditions you proposed, and also agreed to accept your Xixia princess as a concubine."

Li Zhizhong was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said: "Your Majesty the emperor is really wise, he and our Princess Yinchuan will definitely be a couple of gods and gods!"

Ma Kuo said: "Uh... the government is not going to accept your Princess Yinchuan, no, you can't say that, the official words are that what he doesn't dislike the most is that there are many women, Princess Yinchuan is beautiful and elegant, unparalleled , he likes it very much, but the officials want to accept the other two princesses more."

Li Zhizhong and the others were dumbfounded, "The other two princesses? But we don't have any other princesses in Daxia!"

The Xixia royal family is withered, and its members can be said to be pitifully small.

Let’s not talk about Li Yuanhao’s past, it’s too far away from Xixia now.

Just start with Li Yuanhao.

original--

Although Li Yuanhao cannot be compared with Li Yan and Zhao Ji who have many sons, he also has six sons.

But Li Yuanhao, who killed his mother, uncle, wife, son, and minister, was cruel by nature. He killed two of his six sons, and the rest, one died of being unable to eat while practicing qigong, and the other died of an accident. Ji was killed and one died young.

As a result, Li Liangzuo, who was only one year old, could only be allowed to ascend the throne in the end.

Although Li Liangzuo was lustful, even his own sister-in-law would be spared, but he was a short-lived guy, he only lived to be 21 years old before he died, leaving only one son, Li Qianshun's father Li Bingchang.

(Li Liangzuo actually has a daughter, but she was sent to Tubo to marry by the cruel Queen Mother Liang decades ago.)
Li Bingchang was better than Li Liangzuo. He lived to be 25 years old before he died, leaving behind two sons—the eldest son is Li Ganshun, the current Lord of Xixia, and the youngest son is Li Chage, the current Marshal of Xixia, King Jin.

When it came to Li Qianshun's place, he was not strong enough. Li Qianshun had only three sons in his life—the eldest, Li Renai, died a few years ago because of Emperor Tianzuo, and now only Li Renxiao (later Renzong of Xixia) and Li Renyou (King of Yue, biological father of Xiangzong Li Anan of Xixia.)
That is to say, Xixia doesn't actually have a princess at all.

So what happened to Princess Yinchuan?

This Yinchuan princess, named Li Qinglu, is actually the only daughter of Jin Wang Li Gecha, who is only 13 years old this year.

The brothers Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha can be said to be a model of good brothers. The elder brother is the emperor and manages all political and civil affairs in Xixia.

Therefore, Brother Li Cha's daughter is equivalent to Li Qianshun's daughter, and was named Princess Yinchuan by Li Qianshun early on, and because there is only one princess in Xixia, she is also called Princess Xixia.

To be honest, Xixia never thought of marrying Li Qinglu at all, what they wanted was to marry a princess back from Dazhong.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan insisted on neither making peace nor paying tribute.

From the perspective of the grassland countries, peace is the most sincere alliance and the most reliable alliance.

Ordinarily, Li Yan insisted on not being close to relatives or paying tribute, and Xixia could ignore Dazhong, because they could not see any sincerity in forming an alliance from Dazhong.

But Li Zhizhong gave back the true strength of Dazhong to Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha, which made Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha very worried. If they don't form an alliance with Dazhong, Dazhong will find an excuse to destroy Xixia!

After thinking about it, the Xixia executives discussed again and again. In the end, Li Qianshun decided to use Li Qinglu to make a marriage. If you don't marry, I will marry.

But what Li Qianshun and others never expected was that they rushed to send the princess off, and Dazhong was pushing back.

After finally waiting for Dazhong to agree, there was a side issue, and he insisted on accepting the other two princesses.

The point is, there are no other two princesses in Xixia!
I really can't figure out what kind of medicine Dazhong's gourd can sell, Li Zhizhong can only say: "I dare to take the head of Shang to guarantee that I will never have a second princess in Daxia, so I also ask Mr. Ma to speak bluntly, your country Who does the emperor want?"

Ma Kuo didn't talk nonsense, and replied directly: "The two daughters of the late Liang Guoxiang, honorable names, Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi."

"what?"

When Li Zhizhong and others heard this, they were all shocked!

Why did Li Zhizhong and others have such expressions?
This is not only because Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi are not Xixia princesses, but also because Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi's identities are so special!
Then who are Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi?
As mentioned above, they are the daughters of the late Prime Minister Liang Yibu.

Some people may say that Liang Yibu's daughter is Liang Yibu's daughter, so is it worthy of Li Zhizhong and others?
Those who can say this must not know the relationship between Liang Yibu and the Xixia royal family.

To put it simply, this Liang Yibu is the elder brother of Li Qianshun's mother, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, and a powerful official in Xixia. In other words, Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi should be the cousins ​​of Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha.

Hearing this, some people may say, that's nothing, and it's not worth Li Zhizhong and others being so shocked?

How could things be so simple.

In Xixia's short history of more than 100 years, there have been two very famous women-the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang.

The two of them fought the Northern Song Dynasty for decades.

And the elder brother of the Queen Mother Liang is Liang Yibu's father Liang Yibu.

The two brothers and sisters, the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yibu, worked together—the Empress Dowager Liang entrusted all the power of the government to Liang Yibu, and Liang Yibu arranged for his children and cronies to hold important positions.He, Du Luowei, who holds military power, and Queen Mother Liang's bodyguard, Wang Mengye, formed a new mother party group, which firmly controlled the supreme ruling power of Xixia. imperial power.

After the death of the Empress Dowager Liang, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang came to power.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang appointed Liang Yibu as Prime Minister.

But Liang Yibu didn't have his father's foresight and ability, and he and the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang couldn't work together like the Empress Dowager Liang and his father. Not only that, he also fought openly and secretly with the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, and gradually, he even developed a relationship of disobedience. In his heart, he wanted the Liang family to replace the Li family, and wanted to usurp the throne.

The Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was also a ruthless person. She cooperated with the Xixia dignitaries and not only killed Liang Yibu, but also wiped out the entire Liang family.

After more than [-] years of monopolizing Xixia, there were two relatives of the Liang family who were in charge of the Taimu, and that has come to an end since then.

but--

The Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was actually the Liang family, and she didn't really kill all of the Liang family—some insignificant Liang family actually survived in the end.

And two of them were Liang Yibu's two twin daughters, Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi, who were just over a month old at the time.

Time flies, more than twenty years have passed.

People at that time either died or lost their power, in short, times have changed.

And Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi had also grown up, and they were slim, unparalleled in beauty, and overwhelmed the country. Some old people saw them, and even secretly exclaimed: The queen mother of Xiaoliang was reborn!

Unfortunately--

Because of the inextricable grievances between the Liang family and the Western Xia royal family, coupled with the complete decline of the Liang family, although Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi were beautiful, no one dared to marry them. As a result, they were already 23 and hadn't married yet. , and lived a life of poverty and semi-prisoner.

Li Zhizhong and the Xia envoys never expected that Li Yan would accept these two women!
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(End of this chapter)