In 1227 AD, the iron hooves of the Mongol army stepped on the Helan Mountain, the Western Xia Kingdom collapsed, and the main ethnic group of the Party disappeared into the long river of history, and has been quiet since then. Although there are records of a few remnants, but the vicissitudes of the world, can no longer constitute the continuation of a nation, only the magnificent Chengtian Temple (which no longer exists) and the lonely Western Xia King's Mausoleum in the wilderness confirm the traces of the existence of this humble and humble people, rolling to the east of the Yellow River, forever taking away the legend of heroes and beauties, the long-hanging eternal life, watching the trajectory of the life of many beautiful people.
The construction of Chengtian Temple is closely related to a woman, who is the favorite concubine of Xia Jingzong, the founding emperor of Western Xia, and the birth mother of Xia Yizong Tuoba Yuzuo. She has a high temperament and beautiful posture, and is a beautiful woman among the beauties of the party, and is deeply admired by the party warriors. She has married two husbands, one is the founding hero of the Western Xia Dynasty, Ye LiYu Beg, known as the King of Tiandu, and the other is the founding emperor of the Western Xia, Tuoba Yuanhao, known as Wuzu (meaning Qing Tianzi). Both of her husbands loved her deeply and were very docile to her. Her step-husband beheaded her ex-husband, turning her into a woman by the emperor's side. When her step-in-law Tuoba Yuanhao died, her son was just one year old, she and her brother Wuzang Pang controlled the Western Xia dynasty together, the Western Xia Empress Dowager, who had countless lovers and enjoyed herself, spent the last eight years of her life, four years of Fusheng Chengdao (1056), the favored minister Li Shougui assassinated her, ending her beautiful and confused life (probably because of the jealousy between lovers).
In history, there has been a saying that Hu people know their mother but do not know their father, and although the party men are not unaware of their father, their attachment to their mother and wife is obvious to all. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian (Tuoba Jiqian) betrayed the Song Dynasty and was severely attacked, the Song army once captured Li Jiqian's mother and wife, left them in the Song Dynasty, and treated them with kindness, which made Li Jiqian worry about his life, later, Li Jiqian's mother died in Yanzhou, Li Jiqian was grief-stricken, and Li Jiqian's son Li Deming, grateful for the kindness of the Song Dynasty, took the initiative to submit to the Great Song. From this historical record, it can be glimpsed that women in the minds of most party men are by no means old clothes that can be discarded at will, which is not necessarily out of some filial piety, but may be the instinctive attachment and affection of nomads to women. Liu Bei in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" once had a classic saying, "Brothers are like brothers and sisters, wives are like clothes", Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao (Tuoba Yuanhao) is a typical "brother like clothes, wife like clothes", but the beautiful Wuzang clan can get yuanhao's love throughout his life, compared with Yuanhao's other concubines Wei Mushi, Liaoguo Xingping Princess, Ye Lishi, enough to prove that Wuzang's extraordinary female charm.
Tuoba Yuanhao, in response to his father's advice not to forget Song En, with the support of the DangXianghao clan, fought many bloody battles with the Song dynasty army, and severely wounded the Song army at Sanchuankou (northwest of present-day Yan'an, Shaanxi), Haoshuichuan (present-day Longdedong, Ningxia), and Dingchuan (present-day northwest of Guyuan, Gansu). Yuan Hao's Han courtier Zhang Yuanyoushi testified, "Xia Zhu He once shrugged, and Han Qi was not surprised. The Song army, which was led by the literati and scattered in strength, was lured by the enemy to go deep and defeated by the masses, and suffered a tragic defeat, and what is even more tragic is that until the fall of the Song Dynasty, the mechanism of the literati leading the troops has been continued (which is good for the stability of the imperial power), especially for future generations to mourn their descendants.
Yuan Hao, who is a man of great talent, has always been "suspicious and will be punished", and does not spare anyone who threatens his position, including his biological mother Wei Mushi. Wei Mu's brother Wei Mushanxi once plotted to assassinate Yuan Hao in order to seize his throne, but after the plot was revealed, he was fiercely retaliated against by his nephew. Yuanhao tied the entire Wei Mu clan to stone, sank to the bottom of the river, and killed his birth mother Wei Mushi with poisonous wine, Yuanhao's cousin and concubine Wei Mushi opposed Yuanhao's cruel behavior towards his biological mother, Yuanhao simply did not do two things, killed the concubine Wei Mushi, and incidentally killed the son born to him by Wei Mushi, the ancients Yun, "tiger poison does not eat children", Yuanhao is both a child and a mother, vicious to the point of transformation, may also be a woman in the party nation has a great influence, so cut the grass to remove the roots, refusing to let go of the seemingly weak woman.
Princess Xingping of the Liao Kingdom was the sister of Emperor Xingzong of Liao, and the two brothers had a deep affection. After Dang Xiang allied with the Liao state, out of common interests, Princess Xingping married Tuoba Yuanhao. Maybe Princess Xingping had another love in her heart, or maybe Tuoba Yuanhao had never liked this honorable concubine, and the two had always been very unhappy with each other. Princess Xingping fell ill, and Yuanhao, as her husband, neither went to visit nor informed Emperor Xingzong of Liao, and Princess Xingping was depressed for many years, depressed and inexplicable, and died darkly. Emperor Xingzong of Liao shed tears of sadness for his sister, and he sent YelüShu to carry his own edict to condemn Tuoba Yuanhao, expressing the extreme dissatisfaction of the Emperor of the Liao State, and the Liaoxia alliance has since developed a deep rift, coupled with the "struggle with Yuanhao for the small clan in the mountains", which eventually led to the Battle of Hequ, although Yuanhao was defeated and won, but both sides were seriously injured. The Liao-Xia marriage was originally intended to close the relations between the two countries and make the two countries nephews, but if they met a man like Tuoba Yuanhao, whose six relatives did not recognize, even if the Princess of the Liao Kingdom was beautiful as a heavenly immortal, I am afraid that it would backfire.
Yuanhao's first empress, Ye Lishi, was the sister of Nori Yug, the first husband of the Wuzang clan. The heroic beauties of The Nori Yu-beg and the Nozo clan should be the most attractive couple in the Dangxiang nation, and they should also be very affectionate. Although Yuan Hao did not have a few women in his harem (seven marriages in his lifetime), he had been coveting the Wuzang clan for a long time, which should be an indisputable fact. Yuan Hao established the Nori clan as empress, but it was only to reward the Nori family for their many years of struggle with happiness and hardship. In many life-and-death duels with the Song army, the Yeli family's record is the most prominent, becoming the confidant of the Song army. The battle record is a double-edged sword, which can deal with both the enemy and the lord of the people, after Yuan Hao sat on the throne, the dependence on the tribal leaders was not so great, in order to concentrate all the power in his own hands, so "all the tribes were exhausted", including the most powerful Yeli family, and the Song Dynasty general Zhong Shiheng's counter-plan only played a role in fueling the waves. Just like Song Taizong trusted the Northern Han general Yang Jiye, many people could not play a role in provoking him, without him, the internal causes did not change because of the external.
Zhong Shiheng took various means to deal with the Yeli brothers of The Western Xia (Yeli Wangrong and Yeli Yu beg), but the assassination of the dead soldiers failed to work, so he stole YeLi Yu Beg's sword, and falsely claimed that it was a relic of Ye Li Yu Begging who defected to the Song Dynasty, and this sword was given to Ye Li Yu Beg by Yuan Hao himself. Seed Shiheng used the "life" and "death" of Sun Tzu's Art of War, and finally made Yuan Hao make up his mind and behead yeli Yu beg. A generation of Famous Western Xia generals embarked on the most miserable end, the beautiful Wuzang clan lost her long-looking husband and became a widow, Tuoba Yuanhao got his wish and took it into his harem.
Empress Ye Lishi was originally very dissatisfied with Yuanhao's killing of her brother, and she was even more angry when she saw That Yuanhao occupy her former sister-in-law. But as a woman who lives according to people, what can she do? The Ye Li clan only forced his former sister-in-law to become a nun at the Jietan Temple in Xingqing Province, and became the "Master of Wuzang" of the Jietan Temple. It should be said that the Wuzang clan had quite a Buddhist wisdom root, and even had a small achievement, and soon he was able to open the altar to preach the scriptures and become a Buddhist master. The Hao clans of Western Xia undoubtedly married the best women in Western Xia, the door was right, and the two matched, until now this is an untimely unspoken rule. Meng Mu moved three times, the mother-in-law stabbed the word, without excellent women, just like the vibrant rice field has no water source, can not produce excellent men.
Yuan Hao did not abandon her because of the monks of the Wuzang clan, he frequently drove to the monastery, and by the way, the "Master of Wuzang" who lived in the monastery was fortunate to live, and soon let the "Master of Wuzang" conceive the dragon son, and in 1047, on the way out hunting between the two, he gave birth to Tuoba Yuzuo (Xia Yizong). Originally, a small baby boy, not born to the empress of the dynasty, should have no chance of inheriting the throne, but fate would sometimes open its blood basin and swallow everything that originally belonged to someone.
The young crown prince Ning Lingge had been married before this, and the bride was the daughter of The Immutable Mountain (in "Helan Xue", this woman is called Wuxian Lima), and the young woman was beautiful and full of youthful vitality. Yuanhao was immediately moved, and he did not tell his son anything about false etiquette, but directly put it into action and snatched his son's new wife. "My daughter married for twenty years, stopped the former residence, and did not move the daughter, but for the sake of Xiunei (here refers to the Tiandu Mountain Leaving the Palace)", Empress Ye Lishi followed Yuan Hao for twenty years, and could only live in the former residence, and did not move the clan to live later, enjoying the comfort of the Tiandu Mountain leaving the palace. Empress Yeli's new hatred and old hatred broke out at the same time, and had a big quarrel with Yuanhao, who cleaned up several of Empress Yeli's brothers, and without worries, immediately deposed Empress Yeli and crowned the new favorite as the new empress of the Western Xia Kingdom.
His former wife had become today's stepmother, Ning Lingge was full of anger, and the vigorous bloodiness of the party members made him unbearable to bear the shame in front of him, and swallowed like the son of Emperor Tang Ming. The Minister of State did not hide pang and told him, "Kill your father, we will support you as the Emperor of Western Xia." Ning Lingge believed it to be true and decided to take the risk. On January 15, 1048, Ning Lingge and Ye Lilanglie broke into Yuanhao's residence, Yuanhao was already drunk at the time, Ye Lilanglie died under the chaotic knife of the guards, Ning Lingge broke into the inner mansion, a knife cut off Yuanhao's nose, because it alarmed everyone, quickly fled, the next day, Yuanhao died at the age of 46, sitting on the emperor's throne for only ten years. Because his sister had no Tibetan clan and had been promoted to the Western Xia Xiangguo's Wuzang blackmail favor had already controlled the overall situation of the imperial government, he successfully realized his plot, killing the crown prince Ning Lingge for the crime of killing the king, as well as Ning Lingge's mother, Empress Yeli, who was deposed by Yuan Hao, and helping his sister Wuzang's one-year-old son to the emperor's throne, which was Xia Yizong Tuoba Zuo.
Empress Wuzang built a huge Chengtian Temple for her young son, and tens of thousands of people spent five years for this, and Empress Wuzang hoped that her son would "take care of heaven and take care of his destiny", enjoy the blessings of the Buddha, and undertake the state of Western Xia. Since then, Buddhism has flourished in Western Xia, becoming the spiritual sustenance of the Dangxiang people, the former fierce and barbaric Dangxiang people have become gentle Buddhists, the wolf nature has been removed by the Buddha for the most part, it is no longer difficult to deal with the more backward barbarian people, if the Empress Wuzang can see this day, see the consequences of building a monastery and promoting the Dharma, I don't know whether to cry or laugh?
When Empress Dowager Wuzang's son Yu Zuo grew up, he repeated the bloody scene of the court seizing power, killing his uncle Wuzang's entire family, killing his own empress Wuzang (his uncle's daughter), and marrying his daughter-in-law Liang Shi as his wife. Liang was an authentic Han Chinese woman who was deeply favored by Yu Zuo, and later, because of the young age of Yu Zuo's son, she took over the imperial government as the empress dowager of Western Xia. She had written to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, asking for the replacement of the "Han Ceremony" that her husband had long promoted with a "Han Ceremony", which was approved by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. Later, she selected Empress Xiaoliang for her son, despite the strong opposition in Western Xia, repeatedly sent troops to invade the Song territory, and in October 1098, Empress Xiaoliang personally led 400,000 Western Xia troops to attack the Song Dynasty's Pingxia City, and finally suffered heavy casualties, "weeping and crying", and Empress Xiaoliang was also poisoned by the Emperor of Liao. "The Han people learned the Hu'er language and fought to scold the Han people at the head of the city", the behavior of Empress Xiaoliang can be explained by "supreme power", and the bloody reincarnation of the Tuoba family can also be explained by "supreme power". The lord of Dongguang County in the Tang Dynasty was frugal, and the royal sisters were very puzzled, they said that the reason why glory and wealth were worshipped by people was because it could make people do whatever they wanted, "alone and diligent, what do you want", the history of the Tuoba family is just like Mr. Li Ao's classic quote, "You think you are holding up your hand, casting your foot, they are all manipulated by the old friends on the line, this old friend is history."