Chapter 1,284 Lobbying Tiandu

Su Lie stepped forward and helped Yu Zang Yingsi up: "Old general, don't worry, I'll make sure your young master is fine. This can be regarded as acquaintance without fighting. Give me the command and order, and I'll let you see him tonight."

Major General."

Sure enough, Yu Zang Shuluo was brought back that night. Yu Zang Yingchengsi had no doubts anymore and led the six leaders of the clan to ask for surrender.

With Yu Zangying Chengsi, a native of Tiandu Mountain, Li Xian asked his troops to take the lead and lead the way to Mou Xing Palace in the south of Tiandu Mountain!

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Tiandu Mountain, Nanmou Palace, Li Wenzhao was as anxious as an ant on an iron pot.

Li Wenzhao's life was also difficult. Since Yu Zanghuama, Xixia's official strategic partner, was driven away by Liang Yongneng, the supply of goods from the north was cut off, and the supplies he could trade with Tang Silang were severely reduced.

After the huge income from trade commissions was cut off, the output of the Tiandu Mountain area under his control alone was unable to meet the survival problems of the hundreds of thousands of people under his command.

And now there are several Xia warriors around Tiandu Mountain, the most powerful of whom is Ren Duolingding, the commander-in-chief of the Baotai Army who is known as the most powerful warrior of the Xia people.

Winter has arrived, and it is about to snow. The men have not yet purchased their cold clothes. The military rations that could be obtained from the Baotai Military Division in the past are no longer available this year.

The war between Song and Xia made food more expensive in various places. The harvest in Shanbei this year was destined to be greatly reduced due to early harvest, and most of it was taken to Xingling.

In Xixia Hetao, a traditional production area of ​​grain, the price of wheat has soared. Now it has reached the price of a pound of rice!

The Song Dynasty used food as a means of solicitation, so that a large number of lower-level Xia people defected to the Song Dynasty. Even among their own subordinates, many secretly defected to the Song Dynasty and quietly returned with food.

Li Wenzhao knew that he couldn't control this matter, so it was best to pretend not to know.

To say how much loyalty Li Wenzhao still has to the Xixia court is pure nonsense. The so-called "lonely loyal and pure minister" is just a persona created by the hero for the sake of the current situation.

But this set of characters was sold out this year.

He was filled with regret now, regretting that he should have followed that damn fat man Yu Zanghuama and wanted to take advantage of Bingchang's imprisonment.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with their predictions. Song Xia's strength had gradually reversed over the years. They were caught between the two and could see it more clearly than anyone else.

If there is chaos in the Xia Kingdom, the Song Dynasty will definitely intervene, and it will be an extremely large-scale intervention. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of troops will be hoarding money and food on the border. Everyone knows that this is not a long-term solution.

Therefore, after discussion, the two of them prepared to take on the glorious role of leading the party, and strengthened themselves during the Song-Xia war, and finally became a prince, waiting for a better time to come.

However, the speed with which the Song Dynasty court responded to emergencies made Li Wenzhao choke on his blood.

They deserved to be beaten to pieces by Emperor Jingzong back then!

Li Qing was killed last winter, and Bing Changyu was imprisoned at the end of last year. He got the news in March and immediately informed the Song Dynasty.

As a result, the Song Dynasty was very concerned about "correct procedures" and launched so-called "negotiations and consultations" with Xixia. The envoys changed three times from Miao Shuo, Shen Kuo to Su You!

It was not until the diplomatic envoys rose to the highest level and the negotiations still broke down that the Song Dynasty firmly grasped the golden sign of "benevolence and justice" and declared war on the Xia Kingdom.

It lasted from the spring of March to the golden autumn of August!

The Song Dynasty was not in a hurry, but he and Yu Zanghua were in dire straits.

Liang Yongneng took this opportunity to defeat Yu Zanghuama, surrounded Tiandu Mountain, and sent his men to divide Yu Zangying into four. Renduo was alone, and Weiming's army attacked several times, which made the already not very wealthy family even worse.

Mrs. Liang hated herself so much that she was really cruel this time.

There's something fishy underneath, a big fishy thing.

The biggest reason why the Liang family hated themselves so much was that Bingchang's clothing edict fell into the hands of the Song Dynasty people.

Obviously Yu Zanghuama told him that he saw Li Qing being intercepted by Jialiang on the Yellow River, and the Song Dynasty people and Li Qing did not have time to contact each other, but why did the clothes and belt edict still magically appear in the hands of the officials of the Song Dynasty?

!

The secret room of the Xixia Privy Council explained to the Empress Dowager Liang that Bingchang had two belt edicts, one bright and one dark.

Li Qing was asked to carry it openly, but secretly, through one of Li Qing's servants, it was handed over to him long ago through the secrets.

Then he was used as a bargaining chip to vote for Song Dynasty!

How pitiful God is, although I have been holding high the banner of "sweeping the court and returning power to the king", but... but that's just a pretense!

The real situation is that I and Bingchang have never had any contact!

However, his "An Exhortation to the Liang Family" was so famous, and his character was so solid that anyone would take it for granted that Bingchang handed over the clothing and belt edict to him as a matter of course.

Where can I go to reason with you...

The servant came in with a white copper bowl, which contained some yam and grain soup. The white copper bowl that used to be worth five guan could only be used to hold such coarse meals.

There was no other way. Yuzang Huama ran away to the west, and he lacked a shipping channel. This thing has been in his hands for several months.

Using a delicate spoon, he scooped up the yam and put it into his mouth. Li Wenzhao couldn't help but frowned: "Why did you forget to add salt?"

The servant looked at his master in fear: "Salt... is gone..."

"All the salt is gone?!"

In the Song-Xia trade, Li Wenzhao had handled the largest amount of goods, countless tens of thousands of stones, and now his subordinates actually told him that there was no salt in Tiandu Mountain!

"How can it be?!"

The servant was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a thud: "Commander, spare your life. The grain officer said that the army entered the mountains in a hurry two years ago, and there has been no harvest this year. There is no salt in the entire... entire mountain..."

Li Wenzhao looked at the yam in the copper bowl: "Isn't it true that the food is almost gone?"

The servant cried: "Don't worry, Commander, even if we go hunting, dig out rat holes, and go down the mountain to rob roads, we won't be able to starve Commander!"

Li Wenzhao threw the spoon back into the copper bowl and looked up at the tall and old beams of Nanmou Palace: "I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this day..."

"That's not it." A long laugh sounded from the door: "In this autumn of great changes, it is time for true heroes to take advantage of the situation and rise!"

"who?!"

A man at the door lifted his felt hat and said, "How can Master Hou be so depressed? Wealth is coming!"

Li Wenzhao looked at the man and sneered: "Li Langjun? Now that you have entered my camp, you don't even need to pass through."

Li Yong smiled and said: "We are all brothers, why do we need to be so open-minded? Uncle, the court has a great fortune for you. I am not happy in my heart. I am busy coming in to tell you, but I accidentally forget the etiquette?"

Li Wenzhao chuckled: "There are talented people from generation to generation, and the Song Dynasty is full of talents today. Our generation is getting old, and the heroes in the future are you..."

Li Yong said: "Before coming, the Duke specifically told me that the so-called heroes are created by the times and are just choices made by people when they face critical situations."

"The Duke said that back then, the Marquis was able to resist tyranny alone, and today he is able to take the initiative to punish the emperor. He has not forgotten the teachings of the saints, kept in mind the great righteousness, and made the right choices at two critical moments in his life. Xixia deserves the honor.

big hero."

"There are many heroes. In the long history of mankind, in fact, such as Nong Zhigao, Li Changjie, He Li, etc., they are all the most intelligent and courageous people in the clan."

"But these people are also obstacles to civilization. Whether it is to their own clan or to the people of the world, they bring war disasters and disasters. They are the destroyers of etiquette, civilization, and good lives, rather than the construction of

defenders and defenders.”

"So they are not heroes."
Chapter completed!