The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 369 Qingli increases currency!

On the canopy.

The young man with bright eyes looked at his aging father, his tender face showing a touch of determination, and his clear voice echoed in the palace.

"Father, my country of Xia has always been mainly engaged in raising horses and sheep."

“But now they are offering these things to the Song Dynasty in exchange for frivolous things like tea and silk!”

"As time goes on, our people and warriors will surely become spoiled and degenerate!"

"Horses and sheep are decreasing day by day, but tea and silk are increasing gradually!"

"This is actually consuming the resources of our Xia country!"

……

【Western Xia was a regime established by the Dangxiang people in the northwest. 】

[During the Huang Chao Uprising, the leader of the Dangxiang tribe, Tuoba Sigong, participated in the expedition against the rebels and made great contributions. So, just like the way the Tang Dynasty rewarded the local armed forces that supported them, the court appointed Tuoba Sigong as the governor of the Dingnan Army and gave him the surname Li.]

[Since then, Tuoba Sigong has occupied Xiazhou and Youzhou, and the Dingnan Army has become a vassal force. ]

[Because it was far away in the northwest, it was less involved in the disputes between the various regimes in the Central Plains. Therefore, unlike the late Tang Dynasty when various vassal states gradually disappeared, the Dingnan Army lived in peace in the northwest until the Song Dynasty. ]

[The Song Dynasty was unable to eliminate the Dingnan Army as it did with the "Ten Kingdoms" such as the Southern Tang and Northern Han. After years of peace and war, the two sides formed a nominal vassal relationship.]

[This superficial peace was broken by Li Yuanhao in 1032.]

……

Datang.

Li Shimin rolled his index finger and looked at the sky expressionlessly.

During the An-Shi Rebellion, the troops stationed in the northwest were transferred to Guanzhong and the Central Plains to quell the rebellion.

After the Anshi Rebellion, he was unable to continue to govern the northwest and retreated to the Guanzhong line.

Although it was unable to govern the northwest, the territory has always belonged to the Central Plains.

This time, the territory no longer belongs to the Central Plains.

Damn...Li Longji!

Li Shimin decided to vent his anger.

……

【Li Yuanhao, "who was strong and resolute by nature, had great plans, was good at painting, and was able to create things", once advised his father Li Deming not to serve the Song Dynasty.】

【Zhao Deming warned him: "I have been at war for a long time and I am tired. My family has been clothed in brocade for thirty years. This is the favor of the Song Dynasty and we must not betray it."】

[The 13-year-old Li Yuanhao said: "Wearing furs and raising livestock is the nature of the barbarians. A hero is born to be a king, why would he care about finery?"]

……

Liu Song.

Liu Yu's expression was complicated.

There is no harm without comparison.

He now feels very disgusted with Zhao Song.

I'm so disgusted that I want to change the country's name!

……

Tang Dynasty and Emperor Gaozu's period
"Na na na!"

Li Yuan kept pointing at the sky!

"I finally remembered what the Song Emperor was missing!"

"Blood and anger!"

"There's not a bit of bravery and masculinity in it!"

"Look at people!"

"As expected of you with the surname Li!"

Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin:?
What does it have to do with whether your surname is Li or not!
……

[In 1032 AD, Li Deming died and Li Yuanhao succeeded him and began to implement his plan to rebel against the Song Dynasty and establish his own regime.]

[He imitated the system of the Central Plains dynasty, established government agencies such as the Secretariat, the Privy Council, the Three Departments, and the Censorate, appointed officials such as the Secretariat, the Prime Minister, the Privy Council, and the Grand Marshal, and established the court.]

[When the order to shave hair was enacted, Yuan Hao "began by shaving his own hair. When he ordered all the people in the country to shave their hair, if they did not obey the order within three days, he would be killed by the public." ]

[He stopped using the reign title of the Song Dynasty, abandoned the surnames Li and Zhao, changed his surname to Weiming, and named himself Nanxiao. He also created his own Xixia script and "taught the people to use the foreign script to record events."]

……

On the canopy.

The picture is pushed to the world border.

The Song Dynasty in the south is enjoying a peaceful life.

Xia in the north is conquering the city.

The "Xia" border is expanding rapidly in the northwest.

It borders the Yellow River in the east and Yumen in the west.

It borders Xiaoguan in the south and the desert in the north.

……

[In 1034 AD, Li Yuanhao sent troops to attack Fuzhou and defeated the Song army in Huanzhou and Qingzhou. ]

[The following year, he attacked the Uighurs and captured the three states of Su, Gua and Sha, thus controlling the entire Hexi Corridor.]

[In November 1038 AD, Li Yuanhao officially proclaimed himself emperor and named the country Xia.]

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Tang Xuanzong Period
Li Longji felt a little confused for a moment when he looked at the Western Xia that was established on the lost northwestern land.

"You guys! You guys are such rubbish!"

The northwest has been in jeopardy ever since the An-Shi Rebellion.

Let it hang in the air, at least the law is still there.

it's good now!

The legal basis is gone again!
I don't need to guess to know that someone is going to take it out on me again!
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Armor! Armor!"

Yang Yuhuan, who was holding a fruit basket, stared blankly at the mature, steady, handsome and generous man in front of her, who was surrounded by golden light.

The man put a finger to his mouth to signal for silence.

Yang Yuhuan nodded stupidly.

Then...

"Ah! Bang!"

Putting the fruit basket aside, Yang Yuhuan held her face with both hands and rested her hands on her knees.

Looking at the fierce one-sided battle over there, he murmured:

"This is...Emperor Taizong..."

Gao Lishi on the side: ...

Your Majesty! Something seems to be wrong with the development of things!

……

Great Song.

"Sky curtain! Sky curtain!"

Zhao Kuangyin jumped onto the stone table and shouted loudly to the sky!
"Give me a chance! Give me a chance!"

"I'm going to beat them up severely!"

"Beat!"

"I don't want a reward! I'll give you my life instead!"

“Give me a chance!”

"A chance ahhhh!"

Zhao Kuangyi, who was standing aside, looked at his elder brother who seemed to have gone mad, and whispered to the trembling eunuch beside him:

"Go and change that basin of salt water to one without salt."

"The king will definitely reward you handsomely!"

The young eunuch was about to speak, but when he took a look, his body froze and he lowered his head, pretending to be dead.

Zhao Kuangyi sighed.

You're going to get beaten.

……

[Initially, Li Yuanhao hoped that the Song court would recognize his regime in the northwest, but the ruling ministers of the Song court believed that Xixia was a small Qiang and not worth worrying about, so they rejected his request.]

【Then, the Song Dynasty was severely punished by this "little Qiang".】

[On the 1040th day of the first lunar month in , the Song and Xia sides fought the Battle of Sanchuankou miles west of Yanzhou (Yan'an, Shaanxi).]

[The Western Xia used old, weak and disabled soldiers to lure the Song army into a pocket formation, surrounded and annihilated them. The Song army's main generals Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were captured.]

[In February 1041, the two sides fought the Battle of Haoshuichuan, miles southwest of Zhenrongjun (Guyuan, Ningxia).]

[The Song army was eager to achieve success and rashly attacked the Xixia army. They mistakenly entered the pocket formation set up by the Xixia army. Nearly 10,000 soldiers under their command were killed in the battle. The 61-year-old general Ren Fu was killed in this battle.]

[In the intercalary ninth month of 1042, the Battle of Dingchuan Village took place forty miles north of Zhenrong Army.]

[Song army commander Ge Huaimin and more than a dozen of his generals were killed in battle, and nearly 10,000 Song soldiers were killed or wounded.]

[The Western Xia army reached Weizhou, the northern gateway of the Guanzhong Plain, and further south was Xianyang, directly threatening Jingzhao Prefecture (Xi'an) at the time.]

[It was not until Fan Zhongyan urgently dispatched troops from the nearby Huanqing Road to defend the city that Li Yuanhao was able to withdraw his troops calmly.]

……

Big man.

Liu Bang was speechless.

The army that once unified China suffered repeated defeats when facing the weak Western Xia more than 70 years after its establishment.

"The Song Dynasty had too many institutional problems."

Liu Bang didn't see much about tactics, but it was enough that the soldiers didn't know their generals, and the generals didn't know their soldiers.

Here, the three powers of commanding, dispatching and managing troops are separated and check and balance each other.

The commander is not familiar with the characteristics and combat effectiveness of the troops he leads, and has no prestige over his subordinates, which is bound to affect the combat effectiveness.

The other side used the Tang system, which was not very restrictive. It might not be possible to command the army as one would an arm, but as long as the soldiers knew the generals and the generals knew the soldiers, it would be enough.

Not to mention that the opponent is an emperor on horseback.

"If this system is not changed, the Song Dynasty will sooner or later be annihilated..."

No...it lasted another hundred years...

The things I didn't understand started to increase.

…………

The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
"boom!"

"My Hexi Corridor!"

Liu Che jumped up, pointed to the sky with bare feet and shouted angrily!

"My Yumen Pass!"

"My Silk Road!"

"Yanyun is gone! Hexi is gone too!"

I felt dizzy.

He took two steps back and sat down.

Wei Zifu tried to hold him but was pushed away by a sleeve.

Liu Che looked at the sky with red eyes.

Xixia can't hold on! Even if they win, they can't sustain these battles!
And the Song Dynasty... bah!

Finally, we still have to sign the covenant!
Those were opened up with the blood of the Han soldiers!

This was achieved through a hundred years of fighting with the Huns!
He had never been so angry even when the Hu people took control of the Central Plains.

"A bunch of rubbish! Look who they are!"

"A bastard who abandoned Xia and followed Yi!"

"And you're bald! You're even more barbaric than the Huns!"

"You can't even beat this! You rubbish!"

……

Ji Han.

Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang gently waved his feather fan and said thoughtfully:
"The Xixia army is brave, but it is a small country after all. It is impossible for it to swallow up the Song Dynasty."

"Besides, there is the Liao Kingdom next to Xixia, and the Liao Kingdom may want to sit back and watch the fight."

"It is impossible for Xixia not to be on guard against Liao."

"The Three Kingdoms were about to emerge, which was probably the reason why the Song Dynasty was able to survive for a hundred years."

"but……"

Zhuge Liang seemed to find it difficult to speak.

Liu Bei did not ask any further questions, and no one in the hall was tactful enough to ask further questions.

After all, this matter is actually quite clear.

The Song Dynasty couldn't defeat the Western Xia on this side, and the Western Xia couldn't last long on the other side.

But if both sides want to negotiate peace, they have to find a reason.

It would be nice to sign an alliance, as both families are familiar with each other.

As for the Song Dynasty, they would never use military force if they could accomplish something with money.

But if this happens, the northwest land... will really be gone.

……

{What a miserable loss...Even though Emperor Taizong of Song drifted his car, he was still able to compete with the Liao Kingdom. How... did they fight?}
{The soldiers were numerous but not well-trained. The total number of soldiers during the reign of Emperor Renzong was 1.259 million. Excluding the approximately 200,000 soldiers stationed on the northwest border, there were about 300,000 soldiers stationed in Hebei, and another 300,000 imperial guards stationed near the capital Kaifeng. The rest were scattered in Jianghuai, Hunan, Fujian and other places.}
{According to the records of Shaanxi Jinglüe Anfu Judge Tian Kuang, the number of troops stationed in the northwest was about 66,000 in Fuyan Road, about 48,000 in Huanqing Road, and about 66,000 in Jingyuan Road, totaling nearly 180,000.}
{Its border is particularly long, with more than 200 defensive fortresses, and the division of troops means that there are very few soldiers left in each fortress.}
{And every time Li Yuanhao attacked, he concentrated more than 100,000 troops to fight against the 10,000 or 20,000 Song soldiers in the fortress. How could the Song army not be defeated?}
{“Without thorough training, the generals have no strategy”, no wonder Fan Zhongyan firmly advocated the strategy of active defense and opposed Han Qi’s active attack. In the end, it turned out to be true.}
{The same thing happened in the later battle of Dingjunzhai. Commander Wang Yan planned a defensive counterattack, but General Ge Huaimin forgot about it when he was executing it. He just wanted to take the initiative to attack and gain merit, and finally the whole army was annihilated.}
{It is said that Song Dynasty military commanders had no autonomy, but in fact there were too many battles where the generals did not obey orders and disrupted the overall deployment.}
{The legacy of the Five Dynasties, going crazy once hit!}

……

Great Sui.

"One million and two hundred and fifty thousand troops?"

Yang Jian counted on his fingers and after a long time he came to a conclusion.

"The Song Dynasty was really rich!"

Dugu Jialuo was very puzzled.

"This is how you make money by opening up trade routes?"

"To support an army of 1.25 million people... the people chewing and feeding the horses... it would cost countless dollars a day!"

Yang Jian held his knees and sighed:

"No wonder the Liao Kingdom only wanted money, and the Song Dynasty only gave money."

"It makes me want to take advantage of you!"

"It's a sure win business!"

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Tang Dynasty and Gaozong period
Li Zhi frowned, unable to understand.

What do they have such a large army for?
Fighting a war is not just about numbers!
The Dangxiang people in the northwest have been able to draw bows on horseback since they were young, so it is not enough to just have a large number of people to deal with them.

We need good horses and good generals!

You...have nothing...but money.

Besides...

Li Zhi made an estimate based on the grain transportation of the Tang Dynasty.

About 6 million shi of rice from the south of the Yangtze River was transported to Chang'an every year, which could probably feed 1.3 million people.

However, the grain that the Song Dynasty transported with huge amounts of material and human resources was mainly used to feed a group of troops that had no combat effectiveness.

Redundant soldiers will inevitably lead to redundant officials.

It’s only been about seventy years…

……

[When the Song Dynasty was struggling to cope with the war with the Western Xia, the Liao Kingdom sent an envoy to deliver a letter, demanding the ten counties south of the Guan that had been recovered by Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and threatened to raise an army.]

[The Song court was panicked, and Song Renzong sent Fu Bi to the Liao Dynasty to seek peace. The "letter of state" brought by Fu Bi contained the content that "if the Liao Dynasty can make the Xia Kingdom pay tribute again, then the annual gold and silk will be increased by 200,000, otherwise 100,000"]

[In October 1042, the Liao Kingdom did not spend a single soldier, and the Song Dynasty agreed to renegotiate the alliance by increasing the amount of silk to the Liao Kingdom by pieces and silver to the Liao Kingdom by taels per year. This was called "Qingli Increased Currency" in history.]

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Later Zhou Dynasty: Emperor Shizong's reign
Guo Rong felt very complicated as he looked at Zhao Kuangyin, who looked like he had lost his parents.

Putting aside personal grudges, this person is a man of great talent.

But maybe God can’t bear it?

Vent my anger?

He is quite unlucky.

Having such a thing...isn't it still a descendant!

Guo Rong's eyes became even more compassionate.

He will always have to bear the consequences of all the troubles caused by people who are not his descendants.

He is even more unlucky than Emperor Gaozu of Tang.

Emperor Gaozu of Tang is the forgotten founding emperor.

And he was the founding monarch of the country that paid indemnity.

……

Great Song.

Zhao Kuangyin covered his chest with his hands, his face grim, and he couldn't figure it out.

How come the great Song Dynasty can’t defeat anyone?

It was like this when it was in my hands!

Blame him!

"It's you! It's you!"

Zhao Kuangyin pointed the sword at the speechless Zhao Kuangyi with trembling hands.

"If you hadn't exaggerated and arbitrarily changed the military system!"

"How could the Song Dynasty be like this!"

Zhao Kuangyi didn't want to say anything.

What else can be said...

At least the Jin Dynasty still had a powerful ruler.

The Great Song Dynasty...but so far each one is weaker than the last.

……

[On the tenth day of the fifth month in 1042 AD, the Liao Kingdom issued an edict to recruit soldiers to attack Li Yuanhao because the tribes surrendered to the Western Xia.]

[In order to avoid being attacked from both sides, Li Yuanhao declared himself a vassal of the Song Dynasty on the 20th of the same month, calling himself the ruler of the Xia Kingdom, and sent envoys to negotiate peace.]

[On the first day of October, the Song Dynasty gave "130,000 pieces of silk, 50,000 taels of silver, and 20,000 kilograms of tea every year", plus silver, silk, tea, and clothing and other gifts for various festivals and birthdays. The Western Xia Dynasty agreed to peace by submitting to the throne.]

[In December, Song Renzong officially issued an edict to confer the title of Lord of Xia on Li Yuanhao, and changed his name to Nanxiao according to Li Yuanhao's request. Song and Xia officially negotiated peace.]

[The Song Dynasty's defeat in the war against the Western Xia Dynasty tore apart the illusion of peace and prosperity, and the Song Dynasty's poverty and weakness were clearly revealed.]

【Song Renzong decided to start reforms. 】

(End of this chapter)