For more than a thousand years in northwest China, the military scholar Li Yuanhao established the Western Xia Dynasty, and he was called "Owl Xiong" by posterity. After the founding of the country, Li Yuanhao gradually became addicted to female sex, and his "feat" also opened the era of the dictatorship of the Mother Party in Western Xia, and lasted for many years.
After Empress Wuzang and the Liang clan, another foreign relative stepped onto the stage of history, and this person was ren Dejing, a general of the Song Dynasty.
Li Yuanhao
During Li Qianshun's reign, it was an era of drastic changes in the political situation, the rise of the Jin Dynasty, and the decline of the Liao and Song dynasties, and the Western Xia, in the midst of the cracks between the great powers, also changed its foreign policy at the right time, trying its best to seek the greatest benefits for itself in the chaotic world.
In 1137 AD, the Liao state at this time had been replaced by the Jin state established by the Jurchens. Destroyed the Jin Kingdom of the Northern Song Dynasty, and then went south, with the intention of swallowing up the Southern Song Dynasty. Seeing this, Western Xia also wanted to get a piece of the pie and send troops to attack the northwest border of the Southern Song Dynasty when the Southern Song Dynasty was preparing for the Jin Dynasty.
The protagonist of this article, Ren Dejing, was then the general judge of Xi'an Prefecture (Xi'an Prefecture in present-day Northwest Haiyuan County, Ningxia) during the Song Dynasty.
When the Western Xia army attacked Xi'an Prefecture under Ren Dejing's jurisdiction, this guy did not resist at all, and directly led the crowd to surrender, reducing the mortality rate to a minimum. In order to show his determination to surrender to the city, he also dedicated his 17-year-old daughter to Li Qianshun, who was already 53 years old at this time, and Ren became Li Qianshun's concubine. Ren is young and beautiful, and Li Qianshun also likes it.
Zhi Xi'an Prefecture appointed his daughter as a concubine.
Emperor and Empress of Western Xia
The reason for Ren Dejing's surrender was that he felt powerless to resist the attack of western Xia, and surrendering might be able to find a better career. Nowadays, although the daughter is favored, her own status will not be shaken for the time being, but after all, the age of the emperor is there, the new emperor succeeds to the throne, and the status of the Ren family is still unknown. Therefore, Ren Dejing must seek a higher status for himself.
Ren Dejing, who had an idea, did not hesitate to bribe the imperial court and the party nobles at great expense. Therefore, when the imperial master Bari Zuren, who accepted the bribe, proposed to Li Qianshun that Ren be the empress, all the ministers thought that the Ren family was worthy of the empress. In this way, in August 1138, the second year after entering the palace as a concubine, Ren was made empress, and Ren Dejing became the head of the Western Xia State, and was given the title of "Father and Daughter Gui" as the commander of the Western Xia Jingzhou Capital.
After gaining respect, his daughter often bribed the nobles and the rulers of the clan with goods. Therefore, the Imperial Grand Master Bari Zuren said: "..."Qian Shun consulted the group of courtiers, Xian called Mendi, Caide no more than a concubine. Qian Shun then made Bali Zuren an empress and awarded the jingzhou capital to command the army.
From the minister of the Song Dynasty to the abbot of the Western Xia Dynasty, Ren Dejing took only one year. For his own position of power, he gambled on his daughter's life, and Ren Dejing interpreted selfishness to the fullest.
Western Xia character building
In 1139 AD, Li Qianshun was ill by the "feat" of "the general Li Shifu leading the troops to the Song Dynasty", and died in June of the same year. Li Qianshun's eldest son, 16-year-old Li Renxiao, succeeded to the throne as Xia Renzong. Li Renxiao was the most filial emperor in the history of Western Xia, and after succeeding to the throne, his mother Ren and his birth mother Cao shi were established as empresses. This year, less than a year after ren was enthroned, and ren was only 19 years old, only three years away from emperor Li Renxiao.
In June, the lord of the country, Qian Shun, died, and Zi Ren was filial to him. In November, his mother Ren and Cao were made empresses.
The sudden death of the emperor made Ren Dejing very afraid. Although the daughter is the empress dowager of a country, but the emperor is not her own child after all, moreover, the Ren clan is from the Song Dynasty, the foundation in Western Xia is not stable, if you want to hold heavy power, you can only make meritorious achievements and rely on military merit to achieve revenge.
In 1140, xiao heda rebelled in western Xia. Xiao Heda, a native of the Liao State, followed Li Qianshun's first empress, Yelü Nanxian, to Western Xia and was granted the post of governor of Xia Prefecture. In 1125 AD, jin destroyed the Liao, and Li Qianshun weighed the pros and cons and then defected to the Jin kingdom, resulting in Li Qianshun's eldest son Li Ren'ai dying in anger, and Yelü Nanxian could not face the pain of losing his son in the country, and died of hunger strike. In order to avenge the old lord, Xiao Heda took advantage of the beginning of the new emperor of Western Xia to launch a rebellion in Xia Prefecture, and at the same time contacted the Khitan tribes to find the descendants of the Liao royal family in an attempt to restore the Liao Empire. He conquered Yanzhou (yanchi, ningxia) and directly connected to the Helan Mountains.
In April, Li Heda, the commander of Xia Prefecture, rebelled against the city. In June, Heda wai Xiping Province. In the autumn and July, Heda divided his troops and fell into Yanzhou.
Faced with such a severe situation, Ren Dejing, the commander of the Jingzhou capital, took the initiative to suppress Xiao Heda's rebellion. Soon, he pacified Xia Prefecture and recovered Yan Prefecture. Ren Dejing was also given the title of "Duke of Xiping" (西平公), and Ren Xiangqing (湘庆軍) was the commander of the army.
In the winter of October, Ren Dejing returned to XiaZhou. Attack Yanzhou, attack Xiao Heda, and break it. Heda walked to death. In December, Ren Dejing was made the commander of the Xiangqing Army and the Duke of Xiping. ...... Ren Xiao was given the title of Commander of the Capital Army, and was given the title of Duke of Xiping, with a very generous reward.
In September 1142, a severe famine occurred in Western Xia, and in 1143, another earthquake occurred in Xingzhou and Xiazhou in Western Xia. Natural disasters have made the people of Western Xia unhappy. In order to survive, the people are desperate to take risks, and the people of all states across the country have revolted continuously. Ren Dejing took the initiative to ask for help, and adopted a combination of massacre and disintegration, and finally suppressed the peasant uprising by cruel means.
Ren Dejing had been operating in the local area for many years and his power was also growing, but he was not satisfied with this, and in May 1147, Ren Dejing wrote to the emperor the idea of entering the government. Li Renxiao was a filial emperor, and he did not object to the fact that this concubine wanted to participate in politics, but the chancellor Of the Imperial Household, Yu Shi dafu Hot Hot Gongji, Li Renzhong, the Prince of Pu, and others strongly opposed it, and Li Renxiao listened to their suggestions and refused Ren Dejing's request.
And Ren Dejing is a person who does not accept defeat, and a setback cannot help him. Just when he was frowning and there was no good way, Li Renzhong, the pu king of Western Xia, died of illness, and the pu king was the most opposed to Ren Dejing's participation in politics. In this way, the stumbling block on the road to Ren Dejing's participation in politics walked away by himself.
Subsequently, Ren Dejing adopted the old method, bribing the emperor's uncle Richard The Prince of Jin, and on the recommendation of Richard Brother, he entered the dynasty in 1049, serving as Shang ShuLing, and in October of the following year, he was promoted to Zhongshu Ling and participated in the imperial government as a foreign relative.
In April 1156, Li Chage, the King of Jin, died, and in September of the same year, Ren Dejing was promoted to minister of state. After Brother Richard's death, Ren Dejing revealed his true face, he took charge of military power, reused the Ren family personnel, excluded and attacked those officials who refused to be attached to him, and became a powerful minister above ten thousand people under the Western Xia.
Such a position, such a right, Ren Dejing is still not satisfied. His ambitions grew, and he gradually had the idea of replacing him, and he wanted to usurp the throne as emperor.
In March 1160, Ren Dejing forced Li Renxiao to make him the King of Chu, and the specifications of the entry and exit ceremony were the same as those of the emperor. The Ren family controlled the military and political power of the Western Xia, and he did not pay attention to the ministers of the DPRK and even the emperor.
In 1165, Ren Dejing recruited 100,000 men to build Lingzhou City and build a palace of the same size as the Western Xia Imperial Palace. At the same time, he also wanted to place Li Renxiao in Guazhou and Shazhou and occupy Lingzhou and Xiazhou himself.
Dejing Zhi usurped the Kingdom of Xia, and wanted to deal with melons and sand with benevolence and filial piety, and to possess the spirit and xia. Therefore, the 100,000 servants built the city of Lingzhou, with the Xiangqing Military Supervision Division as the palace. In the middle of summer, the servants eroded and complained.
In 1168, Ren Dejing also sent people to Sichuan to establish contact with the Song Dynasty. Ren De's intention to usurp power is clearly revealed. At this time, Li Renxiao also felt Ren Dejing's disobedience, so he reported the matter to Jin Guo.
In the fourth year of Qiandao, in the summer and May, Ren Dejing sent an envoy to Sichuan and sent an army to attack The Western Province; in the autumn and July, Dejing sent an army to Sichuan with a letter, and went to Guangning for the luo. Ren Xiao suspected that there was a difference and secretly offered it to Jin.
In the years that followed, Ren Dejing not only did not just misbehave, but became more and more pampered and arrogant. More and more people impeached him in the DPRK, and Empress Ren was very worried about her father's behavior, and repeatedly reprimanded her father and his clan, but Ren Dejing did not listen at all.
In April 1170, Empress Ren died of anxiety and anxiety. In May of the same year, Ren Dejing coerced Li Renxiao to divide the Southwest Xia Road and Luo Pangling in Lingzhou to him, and asked Li Renxiao to report to the Jin State and recognize Ren Dejing's "Chu State". Regarding Ren Dejing's greedy demands, Li Renxiao adopted a tolerant and restrained attitude and met his unreasonable demands one by one.
At this time, the lord of the Jin Kingdom was Jin Shizong. Yan Yong saw Ren Dejing's disobedience and refused to canonize him. At that time, Western Xia was not an independent country, and the kings of Western Xia needed to be crowned by the Jin State in order to be called emperors, and if the Jin Kingdom did not recognize Ren Dejing, then Ren Dejing was not an emperor.
Ren Dejing was dissatisfied, so he turned to the Song Dynasty and planned a joint attack on the Jin Dynasty. Later, when the matter was revealed, Li Renxiao obtained evidence and designed to kill the Ren clan, smashing Ren Dejing's conspiracy to usurp power and split the country in one fell swoop, ending the situation in which foreign relatives of the Ren family interfered in politics. The Western Xia power returned to the hands of the imperial family.