The year 1193 AD, on the dry branch, is the year of decay.
In this year, India began to build the Gutberg Tower.
Saladin, the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt, died and died.
In the Central Plains, Genghis Khan had his fourth son, Tuolei.
Jin Sejong's son Yong Yong attempted to rebel and was executed by his father.
On October 16 of that year, the most effective generation of the Western Xia Dynasty, Li Renxiao of Xia Renzong, died.
The emperor devoted his life to feeding and clothing the people of Western Xia, so much so that he was too tired and laborious, and finally dragged down his body.
As soon as the old emperor died, the new emperor immediately ascended the throne step by step.
The new emperor who ascended the throne was the son of Emperor Renzong and his name was Li Chunyou.
(Xia Xiangzong, Li An'an)
Purity is pure goodness, and blessing is blessing.
The emperor's name speaks volumes about his character.
He was a simple and kind emperor, and his greatest job as an emperor was to protect the peace of the land of Western Xia.
The emperor was seventeen years old when he ascended the throne, and in ancient times it was an age when he could judge and think independently.
However, when the new emperor ascended the throne, he did not set off any monstrous waves of reform and change, and there was no major change in personnel arrangements.
The policy of benefiting the people implemented by his father, Emperor Renzong, was still implemented by Li Chunyou, and even the preferential treatment of the people was even worse, and the welfare benefits were mentioned again and again.
And The Western Xia has always attached the diplomatic policy of Jin and Song, and Li Chunyou obviously does not want to change it very much, and it is still the same old way.
For the emperor, it was a helpless move to rely on the Jin Dynasty and claim to the Jin Dynasty.
The Jin people were strong, first destroyed the Great Liao, and then destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, if it were not for their own rules and regulations to recognize the big brother of the Jin Dynasty as the younger brother, it is estimated that they would have been cold long ago.
Since you can't beat it, you can't mess with others, and honestly mix with others.
Peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, to a large extent, was just needed by the Western Xia people.
The territory of the Western Xia Dynasty, in today's view, cannot be considered small, including all of Ningxia, most of Gansu, southwestern Inner Mongolia, northeastern Qinghai and a small part of Xinjiang, and even part of today's Mongolian People's Republic.
It has a vast territory, a fertile land, and a proper big country weather.
But embarrassingly, despite owning large tracts of land, most of the industries on which Western Xia depended for its survival were agriculture and animal husbandry.
The underdevelopment of industry and commerce led to the scarcity of domestic goods in Western Xia, not to mention ordinary people, even the Western Xia royal family, not even a decent piece of clothing.
In order to solve this dilemma, the Western Xia people's initial method was to grab hard, run to the border and fight guerrilla warfare with the Southern Song Dynasty when there was nothing to do, and grab some commodities and goods by the way.
But soon, the Western Xia people found that this inefficient way of plundering goods was simply a drop in the bucket, and the team of thousands of people was dispatched, time-consuming and laborious, and the result was to snatch back more than a dozen pieces of rags.
(Tombs of the Western Xia Kings)
As a result, the Western Xia Emperor quickly changed his strategy and began a policy of peaceful diplomacy with the Southern Song Dynasty.
Peace and opening up, the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the development of trade, no need to go out to rob can still do business, for both Song and Xia are beautiful and nourishing.
From the above content, we can roughly understand a conclusion, that is:
From the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia, it never thought of ruling the world and unifying the world, and the ultimate dream of the emperors of the Western Xia Dynasty was only four words, to live well.
Not all empires have great ambitions, and not all emperors want to conquer the world.
To be alive is the unified appeal of all people in this world.
If everything is calm, then Emperor Huanzong Li Chunyou may quietly become emperor for more than ten years during his term of office, and then retire honorably, leaving a good name of "Lord of Shoucheng" in history.
But the benevolent brother's luck was really not very good, because at that time, a strong tribe, the Mongols, had risen in the northern steppe.
When it comes to the Mongols, we have to mention Genghis Khan.
(Genghis Khan)
This world-famous military man unified the mongol tribes and established the Great Mongol State, that is, the emperor's throne, and during his reign of fifty-five years, he went on a crusade to the west and saw who fought whom.
When Comrade Li Chunyou was in power, Genghis Khan happened to be cleaning up a regime called Naiman.
This Naiman regime, which has been living in the western part of the Mongolian plateau since the 11th century AD, has now grown and grown, and of course it is necessary to drive out the Naiman who live here.
There is the Southern Song Dynasty in the south, the Jin Dynasty in the north, the Western Xia, the heavens and the earth are big, where is home?
The barbarians met all night, believing that neither the Southern Song Dynasty nor the Jin Dynasty were easy to mess with, and if we ran away, we would still run to Western Xia.
Perhaps the barbarians fled to the Western Xia just to survive, but their escape almost brought ruin to the Western Xia Dynasty.
Genghis Khan was good at war, warlike, chased and fought fiercely against the Naiman tribe that fled all the way, chased into the hinterland of the Western Xia Kingdom, and finally destroyed Naiman.
Supposedly, I'll go home when I'm done, right? Genghis Khan was not, since he led a large army to Western Xia, he naturally wanted to get some benefits and then go back.
So the Mongols plundered the territory of Western Xia and snatched away Guazhou and Shazhou.
Where did the young Li Chunyou see this battle? In the face of the crazy plunder of the Mongols, the emperor did not say a word, and the atmosphere did not dare to take a mouthful.
But fortunately, the Mongols grabbed their things and did not continue to move forward, but ate dry and wiped clean, patted their butts and left.
External troubles are frequent, and the country in Western Xia has also begun to become less stable.
And the reason why it does not stop is because of the existence of a person.
Speaking of which, this man was also related to the emperor, who was the younger brother of Emperor Renzong Li Renxiao and the uncle of the current Emperor Huanzong, Li Renyou the Prince of Yue.
Brother You is an imperial prince and nobleman, and he is also the uncle of the Son of Heaven, with a prominent position and great respect.
After Li Renyou's death, his son Li An wrote to the emperor, saying that my father was dead, then his official position, knighthood, and feng lu ah, can I inherit it, after all, my father is a prominent person, and there is nothing wrong with the descendants of Fuze.
This proposal looks feasible, but in fact it is very problematic.
In the past, unless he has made a major contribution to the country, such as saving the emperor's life, or standing up when the country's life is hanging in the balance, he can obtain the eternal title designated by the emperor and the title of undiminished.
Otherwise, an uncle like Li Renyou, who has no merit, but is just born well, and who is related to the royal family, and his descendants inherit the title, can only be lower than the next generation.
The grandfather is the mayor, the son can only be the county chief, and to the grandson's generation, he may only be a town mayor or section officer.
The purpose of this was simple, to weaken the power of the prince and strengthen the authority of the emperor.
But Li Security obviously did not want to be cut, he wanted to inherit his father's status unchanged.
Although Emperor Huanzong was loyal and honest, he still understood the basic principles, and he believed that he absolutely could not promote the arrogance of the children of the imperial family. The proposal was quickly rejected.
The decision of the Son of Heaven was the death order, and unless the emperor himself repented, once it was issued, there would be absolutely no room for maneuver.
Li An'an saw that his glory and wealth were hopeless, so he held a grudge in his heart and always wanted to find an opportunity to deal with the emperor.
But he has no power and no power, and he wants to oppose the emperor, how easy is it to talk?
If you can't get on the king in a single row, you have to find teammates to double row together.
Soon, Li An'an found his favorite teammate, who was none other than the emperor's mother, Empress Luo.
(Empress Luo image)
Moreover, Li Security and Empress Luo not only formed a pair of political allies, they also had a more ulterior relationship - lovers.
Li An's mental skills were not right for the time being, and he dared to mess with the emperor's mother about the relationship between men and women.
As the mother of a country, Empress Luo actually fell in love with her son's peers and became lovers, which was really surprising.
Love overwhelmed Empress Luo's mind, and at the instigation of Li An'an, the empress dowager staged a coup d'état, abolished the throne of her son Li Chunyou, and embraced Li An as the new emperor.
On another day, the deposed emperor established himself, that is in the distant year of 1206.
Before Emperor Huanzong could figure out what was going on, he was dragged from the throne and imprisoned.
The emperor was deposed from the throne, imprisoned, imprisoned in a deep palace, and soon died of depression at the age of thirty.
Throughout his life, the emperor was cautious and tried to follow the system of his father Renzong, he was diligent, he was obedient, he had no bad habits, and although he was not a particularly wise king, he was by no means a faint-hearted person.
He may not be able to push the Western Xia Dynasty to a new peak, but in his hands, the Western Xia has never gone backwards.
Such an emperor, on the other hand, finally died in the conspiracy of imperial power politics and died at the hands of his mother.
Lee securely ascended the throne.
Ironically, the Western Xia Empire that this benevolent brother had painstakingly snatched from Emperor Huanzong's hands had become a mess in an instant.
After Genghis Khan had recently gone deep into the hinterland of Western Xia to pursue the barbarians and tasted the sweetness, the brave and warlike Mongol emperor began to frequently use troops against Western Xia.
Because the Mongols found that compared with the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the Western Xia was a soft persimmon.
When the Mongol Iron Horse stepped into the land of the Jin Dynasty, the Jin people were agitated and the resistance was very high, and when the Mongols wanted to infect the Song Dynasty, they also exchanged the Song people's death resistance.
But they plundered and set fire to people in the land of Western Xia, but the attitude of the Emperor of Western Xia was very unclear.
Don't resist, don't speak, don't squeak, let yourself do it.
In 1209, Genghis Khan once again organized his forces and invaded Western Xia on a large scale.
The Mongol Iron Horse was invincible and had few opponents in the world at that time.
Can Xixia resist?
How would this usurper of the throne, Emperor Xia Xiangzong Li An' security, respond?
The final answer is, of course, obvious, because after all, we are the descendants, and we already know the end of most of history.
After all, Western Xia could not escape the doom of extinction.
But this matter has little to do with Comrade Li Security.
Because Rome wasn't built in a day, and it certainly wouldn't collapse overnight.
If all ten Western Xia emperors, including Xia Xiangzong, were viewed from a strict historical perspective, then they were not very qualified in essence.
A rising regime never had an emperor who really guided and led it, which was undoubtedly a sad thing for the Western Xia Dynasty.
The future of Western Xia will not be the worst, only worse.