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Chapter 258: The Alliance (I)


Luoyang Xing, Song Shenzong is listening to the report of Lu Gongzhu, his face is very ugly, although Song Shenzong is unwilling to admit the status of Li Liangzuo Xixia Emperor, but the fact can not help but let him consider, after all, now Li Liangzuo still occupies the capital of the Great Song Dynasty Bianliang, but once Song Shenzong recognizes the legitimate status of Li Liangzuo Xixia Emperor, the efforts made by the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty have been in vain, this is not a naked slap in the face of the ancestors of the Great Song Dynasty Lu Gongzhu persuaded Song Shenzong and said: "Your Majesty, recognizing Li Liangzuo's status as the Emperor of Western Xia is only a temporary right and right measure, and now that my Great Song army has lost everything, we can't compete with the Xia army at all, Your Majesty might as well promise Li Liangzuo for the time being, and wait for us to recover the Beijing division and train the army before we deal with it."

Regarding Lu Gongshu's persuasion, Song Shenzong thought for a long time and said: "Then according to what Aiqing said, I will agree to Li Liangzuo's request for the alliance, but when I return to Beijing, the Xia army must evacuate Bianjing."

For the conditions said by Song Shenzong, Lu Gongshu was very much in favor of it, and it was necessary for the Xia army to evacuate Bianjing, because the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers were afraid of one thing, that is, when Song Shenzong returned to Bianliang, he was afraid that Li Liangzuo would defeat the Great Song monarchs and ministers in the past with a counterattack, and the Great Song Dynasty without the supreme government would be equivalent to real destruction.

After more than ten days of preparation, Song Shenzong began to leave Luoyang and return to Tokyo Bianliang, and at this time Li Liangzuo had already evacuated the Xia army from Bianliang one after another, and Li Liangzuo gathered most of the Xia army in Fengqiu, the purpose was also to prevent Song Shenzong from regretting halfway, in this kind of distrust, the Song Xia Alliance has basically begun. 1070 A.D., and the eighth year of the assimilation of Western Xia, March 18; In the Yuetai in the west of Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, a sacrificial roof has already been erected, at this time the two emperors wearing dragon robes were in the west and east of the sacrificial robe and slowly walked to the high platform, which is a very important moment in Chinese history, and even in world history, which marks that the Western Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo finally got the recognition of the Great Song Dynasty, the Chinese orthodox dynasty, at this moment the Western Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo can be regarded as the real beginning of his emperor career; From this moment on, the Western Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo will be truly equal to the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and his identity is no different from the emperor of the Great Liao in terms of legal system.

Standing on the second step of the altar, Lu Gongzhu read the sacrificial text aloud: "In the past, there was the good of Qin and Jin, and now there is the alliance of Song and Xia; In the past, although Xia was the state of the Great Song Dynasty, the lord of the Xia Kingdom fulfilled his duties and shocked the West, and now the Liao thieves are ravaging the world, and the people are not living, and even more stubbornly, the Yellow River is cholera in the world, resulting in the death of 600,000 soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty and the suffering of millions of Li people; Fortunately, the lord of the Western Xia Dynasty quelled the rebellion and stabilized the alliance of the Song and Xia Dynasty today, and the Song and Xia became brothers, and the two countries were forever in alliance, destroying the Liao thieves together, and returning the people of the world to the world."

It took a long time for Lu Gong to finish reading this sacrificial text, and after reading it, the sacrificial text was put into the burning Dading to burn, Li Liangzuo did not kneel down and kowtow to the west and east respectively, and the sacrifice to the sky was basically completed, and after getting up, Li Liangzuo said loudly to the soldiers under the altar, the civil and military officials, and the people who watched the ceremony: "Today, my Xixia Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty have formed a brotherly alliance, and I am very relieved, and from now on I will change the name of the country, and the Great White High Kingdom will be changed to the Great Xia Kingdom; I am willing to join forces with the Great Song Dynasty to destroy the Liao thieves" "Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty," shouted the soldiers of the Xia Army in the west.

Although the Western Xia is called the Western Xia Kingdom in the history books, the real name of the Western Xia Kingdom is the Great White High Kingdom; However, from today onwards, the Great White Gao Kingdom is history, and a new Great Xia Kingdom stands tall in the western part of China; Although the soldiers of the Xia army shouted in unison, the soldiers and ministers of the Song army on the opposite side had ugly faces; This is not so much an alliance, it is better to say that this is a humiliation of Li Liangzuo to the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, this is an alliance that the Great Song Dynasty had to carry out under the military authority of Li Liangzuo, although Song Shenzong has always greeted Li Liangzuo with a smile, but he is extremely disgusted with Li Liangzuo in his heart.

After the completion of the ritual of sacrificing to the sky, Li Liangzuo did not leave immediately, but entered Bianliang City with Song Shenzong, Li Liangzuo entered Bianliang City again not because he had nothing to do, but was invited by Song Shenzong to discuss ways to deal with Yelu Nerugu together, and now Yelu Nerugu is said to be like a lost dog, but it is still very strong, and more than 30,000 elite Eastern Liao troops in his hands are the guarantee of its strength.

Due to the loss of the Song army and the fact that the new army was not fully trained, Yelu Nerugu escaped from Bianliang and has now retreated to the area north of the Yellow River; It can be said that the Song army has been powerless against Yelu Nerugu's Eastern Liao army, and now the only thing that Song Shenzong can count on is that Li Liangzuo led the Xia army to exterminate it, although this matter went against the wishes of Song Shenzong, but for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty, Song Shenzong had to bow his noble head to Li Liangzuo again.

Bianliang Palace, Song Shenzong held a grand welcome ceremony for Li Liangzuo in the Zichen Palace, the singers and dancers in the hall, the ministers drank happily, delicious food, and countless delicacies from the mountains and seas; This time Song Shenzong did not sit on the throne, but sat face to face with Li Liangzuo on the second level of the Majesty's platform, the ministers of the Xia and Song dynasties looked at each other from afar on the left and right, Li Liangzuo's subordinates were all generals in the army, and they were people with bold personalities.

At the banquet, Song Shenzong said to Li Liangzuo: "Now that the Liao thieves are raging, I don't know when Emperor Xia is going to send troops to exterminate the Liao thieves."

After Li Liangzuo drank a glass of wine, he gave Song Shenzong a sloppy look and said: "The Liao thieves are powerful, and most of them are cavalry mobile and flexible, although I have the heart to encircle and suppress, but I also have more than enough strength to do so, my Xia army soldiers have long been exhausted from continuous battles, and their combat strength has long been much worse than before; In this case, the main force of our Xia army has already invaded Nanjing Road, and Yelu Nerugu, who has no lair, is a lost dog and will not live long. ” As soon as Song Shenzong heard Li Liangzuo say this, he knew that Li Liangzuo was perfunctory in his early excuses, and Song Shenzong was not stupid, he knew what kind of combat power the Xia army under Li Liangzuo was, if Li Liangzuo was willing to destroy Yelu Nerugu at any time, the reason why Li Liangzuo was unwilling to do this was nothing more than to make more benefits, a little money was nothing to the rich Great Song Dynasty, as long as the price was right, Song Shenzong could even agree immediately, in a sense, the current Li Liangzuo and Xia Jun are more like mercenaries.

Song Shenzong said to Li Liangzuo: "Now that the Liao thieves are raging in my Great Song Dynasty, and the people of Hebei in my Great Song Dynasty are suffering from war, if the Xia army can exterminate the Liao thieves as soon as possible, in addition to paying all the logistics supplies and military expenses of the Song army, I am willing to give 100,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of silver, 100,000 horses of brocade, 1 million stones of grain and grass in the Great Xia Kingdom, and 100 Jiangnan women, I don't know what the Xia Emperor thinks."

Li Liangzuo didn't speak, just kept laughing; However, Song Shenzong's words surprised the Xia and Song ministers below.

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