Xixia dead book

Chapter 41: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (41)
The great lama put down the jade screen, let out a long breath, and continued: "I have long expected that such a day will come. Next, I will talk about the history of this jade screen, all of which come from our party nation. As you already know, our Dangxiang people originated from the first song of the Yellow River, in the grasslands and forests beside the Baihe River. Later, the Dangxiang people could not bear the attack of the Tubo people and chose a difficult migration route. Our ancestors After crossing the holy Animaqing Snow Mountain, all the way to the north, they migrated to the Ningxia Plain, and then they stopped and gradually settled down. Later, under the leadership of the great leader of our nation, King Hao, which is known to you as Yuan Hao, after several generations of bloodshed and sacrifice, finally established the powerful Baigao Daxia Kingdom in Shuomo, which is what you call Xixia."

"These are the history we already know, you can just talk about this jade screen." Han Jiang was a little anxious.The great lama ignored Han Jiang, and said slowly: "Our ancestors lived among many tribes and ethnic groups. The ethnic groups on the grasslands and deserts believed in the law of wolves. The weak eat the strong. If you are not strong, you will be swallowed by others, so In the struggle with other tribes and nationalities, the party members have developed the habit of being brave and aggressive. If the party members make enemies with others, they must kill the enemy and pay back, otherwise they will have no face to live in the world. But it is also because the party members are brave and good Fighting, so that the party members have been in a state of being torn apart, being used by others, and killing each other. It is King Hao! It is King Hao who led the party warriors to conquer the east and west, and was invincible. He used blood to unite the brave and militant party members. Party people become a nation, a powerful fist.

"Dangxiang people often fight with all the people as soldiers. It is this kind of army that made King Hao defeat the Song army at Haoshuichuan and Sanchuankou, and repelled Khitan at Dijinze. Dare to underestimate Xixia. But at the same time, because of years of wars, the national power of Xixia was exhausted, which made King Hao change his national policy in his later years, stop the war, recuperate, and advocate Buddhism; on the other hand, King Hao took advantage of the convenience of mastering the Silk Road, Heavily taxed business travellers. This series of measures gave Xixia a scene of prosperity in the later years of King Hao, and treasures and rare goods from all over the world gathered. The party members who became rich, especially those who made great contributions in the war Nobility, gradually began to seek pleasure, and the original bravery and combativeness were replaced by arrogance and lust.”

"That's right! All those powerful nations that rose from the grasslands and deserts have lost their brave and aggressive wolf nature after going south to the Central Plains and conquering the country. This is also the reason why those once glorious empires came and went in a hurry." Tang Feng Can't help sighing.

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The great lama nodded and smiled, and looked at Tang Feng with admiration, "Yes, even King Hao, who was dressed in a military horse, began to become extravagant in his later years, and his arrogance was also caused by the incident that took his life in his later years. The coup in the palace planted the root of disaster. However, King Hao is King Hao after all. According to the legend passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors, King Hao seemed to have an ominous premonition in the last few years of his life. For the sake of the long-term stability of the dynasty, he secretly sent the minister close to him to report that there was war on the northwest border, so King Hao sent a general to lead the carefully selected tens of thousands of soldiers to the northwest. The strange thing is that apart from the brave warriors, this team also has a large number of artisans recruited from all over the world, as well as many families of soldiers."

"Is there a war on the northwest border? As far as I know, when King Hao was in power, the northwest of Xixia was relatively stable. I haven't heard of any wars. At that time, the main enemies of Xixia were the Khitan in the northeast and the Song Dynasty in the southeast. Tubo in the southwest and Uyghur in the west can be described as the land of the Four Wars, but there are no enemies in the northwest." Tang Feng wondered.

"Young man, have you forgotten how Xixia was subjugated?" the great lama asked Tang Feng back.

Hearing this, Tang Feng thought for a while, and was stunned: "You mean... you mean the Mongols? Xixia was finally defeated by the Mongols who came from the Northwest Gobi! But...but how is this possible?! Hao At that time, the Mongolian grasslands were still torn apart, and there was no power to attack Xixia. How could King Hao predict what will happen more than 100 years later... Could it be that King Hao can predict the future!"

The great lama shook his head: "I am not very clear about the specific situation. In short, the legend passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors said so. At that time, many people felt strange, so there were various legends. It is said that , when that team left, they secretly took away many big boxes. Many people thought that those big boxes contained the treasures of King Hao. A new city was secretly built, and the treasures of King Hao were stored in this city. That team never came back, and no one knew where they went, but the legend has been passed down."

"What about the jade screen?" Han Jiang asked impatiently.

"It is said that there are four pieces of jade screens. Back then, when King Hao had that strange idea, it happened that the Western Regions paid him a large piece of high-quality Hetian beautiful jade rough stone, so King Hao ordered that the best jade craftsmen in the world be invited to make it Four jade screens. On the reverse side of the jade screens, a map leading to the desert oasis-Han Hai Mi City is engraved. Only when the four jade screens are put together, can the whole picture of the map be glimpsed. And in each On the front of a piece of jade screen, King Hao ordered someone to engrave 44 characters, which is the text on the front of the jade screen in your hands. These 44 characters revealed an important message, that is, King Hao’s defense When descendants are in trouble, an astonishing amount of wealth has been prepared in advance in the city of Mi in the desert, and there is also a brave and skilled army stationed there."

"It's easy to understand that King Hao planted treasures in Mi City, but we can't understand the sentence of stationing an army there." Tang Feng asked.

"Only the Longevity knows this." The great lama sighed helplessly, and then said to Tang Feng, "However, one thing I can be sure of is that the party inscriptions engraved on the front of your jade screen are not engraved by King Hao. Up."

"What? What do you mean... this jade screen is a fake?" Tang Feng was dumbfounded.

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The big lama shook his head and said slowly: "I don't mean that. I can't judge whether this jade screen is real or not, because I have never seen a real jade screen. The reason why I say this jade screen is The inscription on the party item on the screen was not engraved by King Hao at the beginning, because when King Hao ordered the engraving of the four jade screens, he did not send the four jade screens to different places for storage, but kept the four jade screens. It is treasured in the palace, so of course it is impossible for him to engrave the respective hidden places on each piece of jade screen. Another point is that what King Hao originally engraved was not the party characters, but Chinese characters."

"Chinese characters? From your point of view, what does the larger part of the party item on the jade screen say? Is it, as we judged, the location where the second jade screen is hidden?" Han Jiang stood aside interjected.

The big lama picked up the jade screen, looked at it for a long time, nodded and said: "My opinion is the same as yours. If my judgment is correct, each jade screen is engraved with the hidden position of the next jade screen. The jade screen in the hand should be the first of the four jade screens, and the text on it reveals the hidden location of the second jade screen. By analogy, the second jade screen It must be engraved with the location where the third jade screen is hidden. It should be like this."

"Then according to your statement, when and who carved these words on the jade screen?" Tang Feng continued to ask.

"To clarify this issue, we have to continue with the history of Xixia that I said earlier. King Hao made a fatal mistake in the last year of his life. He forcibly married his own daughter-in-law, that is, the Xixia Dynasty Originally, this was nothing to the party members. The party members are bold and unrestrained in nature, advocating freedom, and love between men and women. For the party members, this is completely free, without any ethical and moral constraints. Hao The blood of the party members flowed in the king's veins. He fell in love with that girl. He didn't think there was anything that could stop his feelings. However, Prince Ningling grew up under the influence of Confucianism. He couldn't accept this. The cruel reality. Brother Ning Ling thought this was a great shame for himself and for the entire dynasty, and hatred had gone to his brain.

"At this time, a person who has been hiding behind the scenes and waiting for an opportunity appeared. This person was the Prime Minister of the country at that time - Wu Zangyopang, and he was also the most trusted minister of King Hao in his later years. He has been waiting for an opportunity, a It is a time for Wu Zang to become famous. Now, he thinks that the best time has come. Therefore, Wu Zang Pang tried his best to incite the prince Ning Ling. Brother Ning Ling, who has been dazzled by hatred, no longer has any scruples. One day In the evening, he sneaked into the palace and assassinated King Hao, but he himself was later executed by Wuzang Yepang on charges of regicide." The great lama finished the history of this sword and sword in one breath.

Tang Feng sighed and said: "King Hao really shot himself in the foot with a stone. He himself does not believe in Confucianism, but he admires the civilization of the Central Plains and tried his best to promote Confucianism in the country. As a result, his son who grew up under the influence of Confucianism ended up killing him." It seems that all the nations rising from the grasslands and deserts cannot escape this catastrophe. They admire and learn from the civilization of the Central Plains, but the civilization of the Central Plains will inevitably conflict with their inherent way of life. Once they consciously or unconsciously If the land is sinicized, the original wolf nature in the body will be almost lost."

"Okay! Alright! Save your long speeches for later. What I care about now is the history of Yuchaping." Han Jiang interrupted Tang Feng, turned to stare at the big lama and asked, "Yuan Hao died, the crown prince also died, who will inherit the throne?"

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The great lama continued: "Liang Zuo! Your name is Liang Zuo! The second emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty! When King Hao died, he was just a baby. The reason why he became emperor was because of a woman. , his mother is from the Wuzang clan. Speaking of the Wuzang clan, she is really an extraordinary woman. She is the younger sister of Wuzang Yepang, who was originally the wife of Nori Yuqi, a general under King Hao. Yeli Yuqi is brave He was good at fighting, and made great achievements in the war with the Song Dynasty. In addition, the Yeli family was powerful at the time. As time passed, Yeli met the master of begging Gao Zhen, and was jealous of King Hao. The Song Dynasty wanted to get rid of this person for a long time. Shuai Fan Zhongyan set up a countermeasure and sent someone to steal Yeli Yuqi's treasured sword, claiming that Yeli Yuqi was going to surrender to the Song Dynasty, using this knife as evidence. The news spread to Xixia, and King Hao, who was already dissatisfied with Yeli's family, was furious , happened to kill Yeli Yuqi by this incident. It was at this time that King Hao discovered Yeli Yuqi’s young and beautiful wife—Mizang. In order to deceive people, King Hao first sent Mr. Wuzang to the altar The temple shaved off his hair and became a nun, but King Hao often came to Jietan Temple to have private meetings with the Wuzang clan. It was also in Jietan Temple that the Wuzang clan gave birth to Liang Zuo. Not long after Liang Zuo was born, the Wuzang family went wrong. Pang instigated Prince Ning Lingge to assassinate King Hao, so Pang Wuzang supported Liang Zuo, who was not yet one year old, as emperor, and his younger sister became the empress dowager without the Zang family."

"So that's what happened, no wonder Wuzang Yepang wanted to encourage the prince to kill King Hao! It's all for power!" Makarov also heard some clues.

"Yes, it's all for rights. After that, the Wuzang family has been in charge of the government for more than ten years, and Xixia's government orders are all from the Wuzang family. But as Liang Zuo grew up, he became more and more concerned about the rights that belonged to him. He became more and more dissatisfied, so he united with some other ministers to get rid of Wu Zang. Liang Zuo wanted to make a big difference, but Liang Zuo was short-lived and died at the age of 20, so another child succeeded to the throne—— Wei The name Bingchang, but the government is controlled by Bingchang's mother family, the Empress Dowager Liang's family. After the death of King Hao, Xixia seems to have fallen into the vicious circle of foreign relatives interfering in politics. From the Wuzang family to the Liang family to the later Ren family, all in this way."

"What happened afterwards?" Makarov seemed to be very interested in the history of Xixia.

"In this way, until the end of Xixia, the Mongols on the northern grassland rose up and repeatedly invaded Xixia. From the first invasion to the last Xixia's subjugation, there were six times before and after, which lasted for more than [-] years. Among them, the Mongolian cavalry invaded for the first time. Xixia was the territory of Xixia that entered in order to chase and defeat Sang Kun, the general of the defeated army. The Mongolian invasion of Xixia was not serious this time, but it sounded the alarm for the rulers of Xixia. You. Chunyou realized the seriousness of the problem, so he ordered the rebuilding of the castle destroyed by Mongolian cavalry, amnesty for the whole country, and changed the capital Xingqing Mansion to Zhongxing Mansion. From these actions, it can be seen that Chunyou originally wanted to revive Chao Gang, Became the king of a generation of Zhongxing, but the party members at that time were no longer the party members who followed King Hao to expand the territory. Chunyou's things backfired. In the second year, Chunyou's cousin Wei Mingping conspired with Queen Mother Luo to abolish Chunyou. Yu, established himself as the emperor. It was this palace coup that completely changed the history of Xixia. Since then, Xixia has been in a slump, and has been defeated repeatedly in the war with the Mongols, and finally the country is destroyed."

"But, what is the relationship between the history of Xixia you talked about and the jade screen?" Han Jiang was eager to know who carved the words they saw now on the jade screen.

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The great lama smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, I'm going to talk about it soon. Not long after Wei Mingping abolished Chunyou and established himself as the emperor, the northern grasslands resurfaced, Mongolian cavalry came back, and Genghis Khan conquered Xixia again. Allied with Jin to fight against Mongolia, survived this catastrophe by luck. But in the next year, Genghis Khan’s army came again, this time was not so lucky. Although the party members resisted desperately, they lost to the Mongolian cavalry. The Mongolian cavalry went straight to the capital Xingqingfu. Fortunately, the Xingqing Mansion built by King Hao was as solid as gold. Genghis Khan was unable to attack for a long time, and became so angry that he poured water from the Yellow River to flood the Xingqing Mansion. Blessed by Changshengtian, the water of the Yellow River not only failed to submerge the Xingqing Mansion, but almost flooded Mongolia. People. Genghis Khan had no choice but to order the army to retreat. On the way to retreat, Genghis Khan ordered the captured Xixia Taifu to go back and recruit Wei Mingping to surrender. After returning, Wei Mingping, who had been frightened by the Mongolian army, immediately agreed to surrender He dedicated his daughter to Genghis Khan, and paid tribute to Mongolia on a regular basis, and broke off the alliance with Jin, and instead attacked Jin for Mongolia.

"It's just such an incompetent and stupid king. When the nation was in crisis, he suddenly remembered the four jade screens left by King Hao, so he pinned the hopes of the entire nation on these few jade screens. Wei Ming Ping An carefully prepared a team of hundreds of people, ready to search for the city of Mi in the vast sea. This is a tragic expedition, and all the best party warriors are selected. The name Ping An has been wondering who will lead this The team is worried, and ordinary people are worried about him. These four jade screens are even more worrying than the jade seal, and the clan nobles and old ministers and nobles he trusts are all greedy for life and fear of death, and refuse to go. At this time, the clan One of the nobles stepped forward and voluntarily led the team. This person was named Zunxu after King Zhongwu of the clan Qi Zhongwu. Zunxu had won the first prize in his early years, and he was considered a talented person in the clan and was very famous. Wei Ming An'an's own throne is not right, so naturally he has a grudge against a talented person in the clan like Zunxu, but at this time there is really no one to send, so I have to order Zunxu to lead this team to go."

"Did they find Hanhai Micheng later?" Tang Feng interjected.

The great lama shook his head and said, "No one knows if they have found Hanhai Mi City. This team first came to Heishui City, an important town in the north. Since the time of King Hao, this has been the seat of Yan Junsi in Heishui Town. It is the only place in the northwest of the dynasty. An important military town. When Zunxu and the others arrived, Heishui City had just been ransacked by Mongolian cavalry and was in dilapidated condition. They took a rest here, then left Heishui City and continued to the depths of the vast sea. No one knows the whereabouts of this team..."

"That's not right! I remember that Wei's name Zunxu later replaced Wei's name Pingan and became the emperor of Western Xia!" Tang Feng asked the big lama.

"Yes, there is one survivor in this team, Wei's name is Zunxu, but no one can be sure whether he has really found Hanhaimi City. When he returned to Xingqing Mansion, he was shot by several arrows and was shot A group of Mongolian cavalry pursued and killed Zunxu. When he rushed into the city, Zunxu was already dying. When he woke up, he announced to the officials and people of Xingqing Mansion that he had discovered the city of Hanhai Mi, where there were countless rare treasures left by King Hao. Solve the financial crisis faced by Xixia; there is also a brave and warlike Dangxiang tribe there, which can resist the invasion of Mongolian iron cavalry, but the road is long and dangerous, and the Mongols chased and killed many times on the way, so he failed to bring back those rare treasures. Bao. Originally, a warrior from the local tribe came back with him, but on the way back, he was chased and killed by Mongolian iron cavalry. The warrior and others were killed in battle, and he was the only one who escaped."

(End of this chapter)