(Xia Renzong, Li Renxiao)
When Li Renxiao of Xia Renzong became emperor, there was a very powerful benevolent brother in the imperial court, and the name of this benevolent brother was Ren Dejing.
Comrade Lao Ren was one of the most powerful ministers in the history of Western Xia, arrogant, and when he was the emperor's home and the emperor's lord, he was sent to ride on the emperor's head and.
Of course, the emperor could not let the powerful ministers become bigger, so he immediately arranged for his younger brother Li Renyou to take more than a dozen people, taking advantage of the dark wind of the moon, to give Ren Dejing a sullen stick, and Ren Dejing was seriously injured and died, and within a few days he received a bento.
Because of Li Renyou's outstanding performance in this campaign against the powerful ministers, the emperor was very happy and immediately made Li Renyou the King of Yue.
After Emperor Renzong's death, his son Li Chunyou took the throne.
At this time, Comrade Li Renyou had also returned to the west, and his son Li An had just grown up.
Lee inherited his father's mansion, property, servants, and envoys, but did not inherit his father's throne.
It is reasonable to say that the father dies and the son succeeds, which is a natural reason. The passing of Li Renyou's throne to Li was not a big problem.
But Li Safe waited left and right at home, and a month had passed, and he did not see the imperial court to crown his emissaries.
Comrade Xiao Li could not sit still, so he took up his pen and wrote such a letter to the emperor at that time, Huanzong Li Chunyou.
When the author flipped through the historical materials, he found that Li An's letter was in Western Xia, and I couldn't see what it meant when I looked at it, so I found a fan who was proficient in Western Xia history to help me translate it.
This fan friend translated for an afternoon, and finally translated this obscure Western Xia text into Chinese.
This period of Chinese is very long, but it can basically be summed up in one sentence, Li An'an said to the emperor, brother, my father and your father came in the wind, went in the rain, fought back to the front, are the brothers who have passed the life, now that your father is dead, you will continue to be the emperor for your father, then my father is also dead now, should I also inherit my father's throne?
This request seemed very reasonable, but the emperor was furious after reading the recital.
Because the throne that Emperor Renzong gave to Li Renyou was not hereditary.
In Western Xia, there were two kinds of knighthoods.
One is hereditary and has been consistent from generation to generation.
Grandpa is mayor, son is mayor, grandson is mayor.
This level of hereditary inheritance is only possible if you have made great contributions to the emperor.
The second is not hereditary, and one generation is one level lower than the next.
Grandpa is mayor, son becomes county magistrate, and when grandson takes over, he may just be a town mayor or section officer.
Li Renxiao's "Yue King" is obviously the latter, and cannot be hereditary, but can only be demoted.
For the emperor, there was a big difference between demotion and not demotion.
Because the "Yue King" is his uncle in terms of generations, and Li Security is his own peer, if he makes him the King of Yue, won't he still call him Uncle?
Moreover, as soon as he ascended the throne, he created a powerful Yue king, how could the throne be secured? How did imperial power develop?
The emperor thought about it and refused Li's request.
(Xia Huanzong, Li Chunyou)
Of course, the emperor did not say such things as disagreement, impossibility, and wishful thinking, because after all, he still had to save some face for Li Security, so the emperor only replied with two words: reconsideration.
Renegotiation?
What does renegotiation mean?
Renegotiation means deliberating again.
The scope of further discussion is wide, it may be ten days, it may be half a month, and it may be ten years and eight years.
All in all, this thing is mostly out of the picture.
Li Security was very frustrated, and his wish was so disappointed.
But the scheming young man did not give up hope, and soon he thought of another way.
This method is amazing, and once it is implemented, it will shock the world.
The solution is very simple, if you don't let me be the king of Yue, then I won't let you be the emperor.
Lee Security intended to rebel.
There are many kinds of rebellion, but in layman's terms, there are only two kinds, wenzhuang and martial manufacturing.
Wuzao is to raise troops to enter the imperial palace, kill the emperor, control the regime, and change the day.
Li Security has no one and no soldiers, and it is obvious that he does not have this strength.
So he could only choose Wenzao.
Wen Zao was to contact the ministers, form their own political forces, and step by step, deposing the emperor in a relatively normal and gentle way.
The liaison minister was a little too long for Li Security, and it was difficult for a person who had no foundation and background in the imperial court to develop his own power by gathering heads.
Moreover, the ministers did not have the right to decide on the emperor's abolition, so Li Safe directly found a person.
This man's status in the Western Xia Dynasty was extremely revered, even superior to that of the emperor.
At the same time, her decisions and actions would have a significant impact on the emperor.
This person was the emperor's mother, the empress dowager, Luo Shi.
(Empress Luo image)
Li Safe found Empress Luo, and coincidentally, the two were very close, and after some conversation and planning, they quickly established the relationship of political allies.
At the instigation of Li An'an, Empress Luo decisively deposed her son Huanzong Li Chunyou and established Li An as the new emperor.
It's weird, it's really weird.
Through the historical records of various generations, we have no way of knowing why Empress Luo deposed her own son and instead supported her nephew as emperor.
For a long time, this has been an unsolved historical mystery.
But when the author translated some Western Xia literature, he seemed to find the answer to this question.
The history books record that when Li An'an first met Empress Luo, he often secretly stayed in Empress Luo's palace and left near dawn.
The answer finally surfaced.
The reason why Empress Luo abolished her children and nephews was probably that the empress dowager and her nephew had an unrequited love affair.
Empress Luo and Li An'an became lovers, and helping her lover become emperor was of course beyond reproach.
Emperor Huanzong' Li Chunyou, who had been dragged down by his mother, was imprisoned in the deep palace, depressed, and soon died.
Li Safe stepped on the corpse of the former emperor and, under the protection of Empress Luo, successfully usurped power and became the seventh emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty.
But the funny thing is that when the Western Xia was in the hands of Huanzong Li Chunyou, it was still a kingdom with smooth winds and rain, guotai and Min'an, but since Li An took great pains to snatch it from Huanzong's hands, the Western Xia Dynasty became a mess with many holes.
In 1206, Emperor Xiangzong ascended the throne safely.
(Xia Xiangzong, Li An'an)
At that time, a new tribe on the northern steppe, the Mongols, had risen.
Genghis Khan unified the Mongol tribes, established the Great Mongol State, and became the Emperor of the Great Mongolian State.
This proud son of heaven has been fighting for many years, conquering the east and the west, and cleaning up who is not pleasing to the eye, including of course the Western Xia.
In 1209 AD, Genghis Khan personally conquered Western Xia, the combat effectiveness of the Mongol iron horse was not given in vain, the Western Xia army could not resist at all, and the Mongolian army fought until the Western Xia capital Zhongxing Province.
Even the capital was besieged, and Li Had no choice but to ask the Jin Dynasty for help.
Prior to this, the foreign policy of the Western Xia State had been "attaching funds to the Jin and Song".
The Jin people are strong, and Xixia can only surrender, honestly being a little brother to the big brother of the Jin Dynasty.
While the Song people were rich, the Western Xia could develop trade through peaceful diplomacy and demand pocket money by the way.
Now the younger brother has difficulties, naturally he has to find the big brother to help.
If it had been before, the Jin Dynasty would certainly have made this head for the Western Xia brother.
However, when Li Went to ask for help, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty was a famous emperor in history, and the king of Wei Shao completed Yan Yongji.
At the level of this Emperor, of course, he could not consider that Western Xia was the gateway to the Jin Dynasty, and if Western Xia was in danger, then the Jin Dynasty would not be able to be proud for a few days.
But instead of knowing the truth of the cold lips and cold teeth, YongGe actually said this sentence in the face of the emissaries from the Western Xia Kingdom who came to ask for help:
"When the enemy attacks each other, the blessings of our country are also troubled, so why bother?"
Yongge believes that in essence, both western Xia and Mongolia are enemies of the Jin Dynasty, and now that the enemy and the enemy are fighting, it is equivalent to giving benefits to the Jin Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty will get it when they look at it.
Therefore, Yongge did not give any face and directly refused Xixia's request.
(King Wei Shao, Finish Yan Yongji)
Li Safe called the heavens and the earth ungodly, and now even the big brother Jin Dynasty can't count on it, is it that the doom of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species will fall on his own generation?
In such a desperate situation, there is really no hope or opportunity to speak of.
But the magic of history is that things turn out to surprise everyone.
The Mongols built a lot of dams in the territory of Western Xia, these dams were originally used to divert water to wash away the cities in the territory of Western Xia, but they did not expect that within a few days, the dams were suddenly washed away, and they did not rush to the Western Xia, but washed the Mongol army away.
The Mongol army played a strong water rafting outside Zhongxing Province, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, so it had to retreat.
Of course, the retreat was also based on the Western Xia's land cut and compensation.
Although they do not often pay compensation like others, the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties have not talked to them about peace, and they can learn from it.
Sending the Mongols away, Li Was safe and furious.
He immediately regrouped, gathered his army, reversed direction, and attacked the Jin Dynasty.
I have called you big brother for so many years, I have paid you protection fees for so many years, and now that we have an accident, you not only do not help, but also look at us coldly and taunt us?
It is intolerable, and the uncle cannot tolerate it.
Out of anger, revenge, and even more out of changes in the times, the Western Xia began to change its strategy, relying on the powerful Mongols and counterattacking the unsympathetic Jin Dynasty.
It is understandable that the Western Xia Dynasty has always been this way of survival, and whoever is strong I mix with whom.
When the Liao Dynasty was strong, the Western Xia mixed with the Liao Dynasty, and when the Jin Dynasty was strong, he followed the Jin Dynasty again, and now that the Mongols are getting stronger, the Western Xia abandoned the Jin Dynasty and recognized Mongolia as the big brother.
Of course, in essence, it was the Jin Dynasty that did not do things properly, and the Western Xia did not send troops to rescue them when they were in danger, which destroyed the feelings between the two countries, which led to the confrontation between the Xia and Jin.
After this, the Xia Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty successively fought more than ten years of battles, more than twenty large and small battles, basically twice a year, once, they could fight for half a year.
The Xia-Jin war did not matter much to the Southern Song Dynasty, because the Southern Song Dynasty was located in the south of the Jiangsu Province, in a corner of peace, and it could not control the changes in the northern grasslands, nor did it dare to manage it.
The real fishermen were the Mongols.
For the Mongols, the destruction of the Western Xia and Jin Dynasties was a matter of time, and now they are willing to kill each other and consume their national strength, and the Mongols are certainly happy to see it succeed.
That's the real pleasure.
A dynasty full of wars must be a miserable dynasty.
According to historical records:
"Since the rise of the army, the defeated soldiers have been on the side, and the hungry people have scattered"
From the moment the Xiajin War began, deserters were everywhere, there were countless victims, countless families were destroyed, and wives and children were very common.
Lee was upset, he didn't know why everything had turned out the way it was.
When Emperor Huanzong ruled the country, the world was too peaceful, and he usurped power to become emperor, and Western Xia was so devastated and devastated.
Knowing this, it would be better not to be the emperor.
Heaven quickly fulfilled this wish of his.
In 1211, Li Zunyan, the Prince of Qi of the Western Xia Dynasty, staged a coup d'état and pulled him off his horse.
(Li Zunyan is Xia Shenzong)
Li Was deposed from the throne and imprisoned in the room where Li Chunyou was once imprisoned.
Now, the careerist finally has time to reflect on his life's actions and mistakes.
Deep in the palace, he watched Li Zunyan, the King of Qi, ascend to the throne happily, as if he had seen himself.
He understood that Li Zunyan's ecstasy at this time would eventually turn into sadness and pain.
Xixia could not be saved.
He will eventually become himself.
And himself, at this time, has become a prisoner of the order, and can no longer be anyone except being ridiculed and insulted.