Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 853 Good fortune tricks people (please subscribe!)
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After Li Renli returned to Xingqing Mansion, he immediately came to the palace to see Li Renxiao.

It just so happened that Li Renzhong was also here with Li Renxiao at this time.

Li Renli immediately told Li Renxiao and Li Renzhong the whole story of his meeting with Wu Jie, and focused on the "personal letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan.

After hearing this, Li Renxiao denied it flatly: "I did write a letter to the Lord, but what I wrote in the letter was to ask the Lord to support us according to what we discussed before, and did not ask the Lord to send troops to help us." To suppress rebellion, I am not stupid, how could I do something like lure wolves into the house?"

Li Renli hesitated and said, "This letter written by His Majesty, um... Has anyone else seen it besides Your Majesty?"

Seeing that Li Renli didn't believe him, Li Renxiao was very upset!

But Li Renxiao still replied: "This letter was written by Fan Daochong, a professor of Sinology. I copied it myself, then put it in an envelope, and Xiao Shunzi sealed it."

Wo Daochong has a profound family background and is a scholar with rich Chinese and Xixia writings. Moreover, Wo Daochong has a high moral character and is well known to the world. Therefore, if Wo Daochong witnessed the letter written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan China's support for Xixia does not mean asking Dazhong to send troops to help, then Li Renxiao's words will be much more convincing, so Li Renli hurriedly asked: "Has Wo Daochong ever seen His Majesty write a letter to Zhongzhu?"

"This... never."

Li Renxiao is also the lord of Xixia, how could Wo Daochong dare to "monitor" Li Renxiao's writing?What if Li Renxiao wants to write something private in this letter, such as asking his uncle to send troops to help.

Therefore, apart from himself, Li Yan, Xiao Rang, and Jin Dajian, no one else has seen the letter written by Li Renxiao.

Li Renxiao was very unhappy and said again: "Even if no one else has seen it, so what, can I tell a lie?"

Li Renli said: "Now it's not a question of whether His Majesty will tell a lie, but Dazhong insisted that His Majesty asked the Lord for help, and Dazhong sent troops."

Li Renxiao raised his voice and said, "That's because the middle master lied, or someone dropped my personal letter. It doesn't matter. I can say publicly that I have never asked for soldiers from the Chinese army. Please ask the Chinese army's squadron to go back to the imperial court. Hengshan The region will be returned to us in Daxia."

Li Renli also raised his voice and said, "When did your Majesty see a wolf on the grassland eat a sheep and spit it out?"

Seeing that Li Renxiao and Li Renli were on fire, Li Renzhong hurriedly smoothed things over and said: "Okay, okay, the Chinese army has won the Hengshan area. The predicament, now that there are wolves before and tigers after, it has come to the time of our Xixia's life and death, we must deal with it properly, otherwise..."

Li Renzhong didn't say the latter words, but both Li Renxiao and Li Renli knew what Li Renzhong meant, otherwise it would be the end of their Western Xia Li family.

Li Renxiao was silent for a while, and said: "I have been thinking hard for the past few days, but I have come up with a solution. The two of you can help me to go over it and see if it is feasible?"

Li Renxiao organized the language, and then said: "If Ren Thief is allowed to continue fighting, let alone we lose, if we win by luck, Xixia will no longer exist. It is impossible for Xixia to suffer from both sides. Those who can resist the invincible Chinese army, for the present plan, can only divide half of Xixia to Ren Zei to make peace with Ren Thieves, and then our two sides, Chen Dajun, will be in the east, so that we can deter the Chinese army so that they will not dare to go west easily. Temporarily stabilize the situation, and then we will slowly figure it out."

Li Renzhong and Li Renli were a little surprised—they didn't expect that Li Renxiao, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, could actually think of a way to resolve the predicament in front of him!

This also made Li Renzhong and Li Renli re-examine Li Renxiao, thinking that Li Renxiao might also become a wise king—Li Renzhong and Li Renli thought at the same time: "If your majesty didn't take over a Xixia full of holes, God Let me take care of Your Majesty again, don't let disasters occur frequently as soon as you take the throne, Your Majesty may be able to leave a mark in history, and now...you can only do your best and obey the destiny."

Li Renzhong was silent for a while, and said: "Your Majesty's method has a certain possibility of success, but... as soon as your majesty took the throne, there are... some... some..."

Li Renxiao laughed at himself: "As soon as I ascended the throne, I lost half of the Great Xia. I feel sorry for my ancestors, right?"

Both Li Renzhong and Li Renli were silent, and it could be said that they acquiesced to Li Renxiao's self-mockery.

Li Renxiao was silent for a while, and then said: "I am incompetent. As soon as I ascended the throne, natural disasters continued, bandits broke out everywhere, important ministers rebelled, and the army of a big country suppressed the border. Ji Zhao, and then abdicate to the King of Yue."

Li Renzhong and Li Renli are veterans of the two dynasties, how could they not understand that Li Renxiao is ready to shoulder all the sins including ceding half of Xixia to Ren Dejing?

To be honest, this is not the usual responsibility.

From this, Li Renzhong and Li Renli also saw that although Li Renxiao was young, he actually had the qualifications of a wise king.

Therefore, Li Renzhong and Li Renli cried at the same time: "Your Majesty..."

Li Renxiao waved his hand and said: "I have made up my mind. If you are still the servants of Daxia or members of the Li family, you must do this well, and it will not be in vain... It will not be in vain..."

Li Renxiao really couldn't say what happened next!

In fact, he also wanted to be a good emperor, not to mention carrying forward Xixia, at least he wanted to keep his ancestral family business.

However, good fortune tricks people!

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Now is the time to race against time - if the Chinese army advances westward, then everything will be out of the control of the Xixia court.

Therefore, we must make a strategy, and Li Renli immediately went to Xiazhou to negotiate peace with Ren Dejing without stopping.

By the way, the Empress Dowager Ren learned that Li Renxiao was going to negotiate a peace with Ren Dejing, so she also wrote a letter to Ren Dejing to persuade Ren Dejing not to become a sinner of Xixia.

Speechless all the way.

It only said that after Li Renli arrived in Xiazhou, he immediately asked Brother Li Cha to arrange someone to escort him to Ren Dejing's barracks.

After several twists and turns, Li Renli came to Ren Dejing's tent of the Chinese army and met Ren Dejing.

Li Renli hated Ren Dejing, who committed the following offense to death——Li Renli believed that if it weren't for Ren Dejing's wolfish ambition to take advantage of Xixia's weakness and rebellion, how could Xixia be in such a dilemma and have to cede half of the territory to have a chance to breathe?
Therefore, Li Renli was too lazy to talk nonsense with Ren Dejing, and said directly: "Your Majesty has a decree. As long as the Prime Minister is willing to strike and reconcile, His Majesty is willing to give the Southwest Road and Lingzhou to the Prime Minister so that the Prime Minister can be a country by himself. From now on, Mrs. Li is willing to take charge of Xixia with you Mrs. Ren."

Ren Dejing really did not expect that Li Renxiao would have the courage to cede half of Western Xia to him!

This made Ren Dejing, who had just had a deep talk with Ren Decong, a little hesitant, wondering if he should continue to attack and destroy the Li family?

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(End of this chapter)