Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 512: The troops of Pingxi South fought hard, and an unexpected guest arrived at Xixia Palace

But this matter is also very interesting.

The interesting thing is that Zhao Mu insisted on enforcing military law, and everyone in Xixia, including the civil and military officials of the Xixia King, pleaded for Zhao Mu's mercy. They all felt that it was unnecessary to kill so many people for such a small matter.

In the entire Xixia country, only Li Qinglu and Li Qiushui supported Zhao Mu's decision. Although Li Qinglu also felt that Zhao Mu's behavior was a bit exaggerated, she still supported her husband's decision.

However, Zhao Mu had no choice. This was a necessary measure to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. If these children of high-ranking officials who violated military law were not dealt with, then the new laws of the court would not be able to convince the people in the future.

Only an army that follows orders and has clear rewards and punishments can maintain its combat effectiveness. And if this trend is not stopped, then the occupying army will occasionally have such incidents, and the Song army will not be able to stay here.

Yongliang has been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty for more than a hundred years since the end of the Tang Dynasty. It will take a long time to completely change it back. It may even take dozens or even hundreds of years.

Moreover, this place is the only way to the Western Regions and the key point for re-establishing the Western Regions Protectorate. If we want to maintain long-term peace and stability, we must win back the hearts of the people.

Now that these bastards are causing trouble, Zhao Mu will certainly not show mercy.

As for the officials in the court, Zhao Mu never took them seriously. They were good at writing poems and cooking, but it was not their turn to make decisions on military affairs.

Zhao Mu spent more than a month in Western Xia Kingdom and did not even go back to attend his daughter's full moon banquet.

He was so busy during this period that he almost used up his hands and feet. It was only now that Zhao Mu realized how tiring it was to be a king. He didn't even have the mood to enjoy the beauty's soft jade and warm fragrance.

However, the experience during this period also gave Zhao Mu the initial ability to handle major military and political affairs, so he would have no problem being a governor of the northwest.

During this period, the emperor sent Fang Shisan to Lingzhou City because the Liao envoys came to the Song Dynasty again. However, the envoy this time was not Yelu Yanxiu, but someone else. And they came to the Song Dynasty this time to explain a little bit about the dispatch of reinforcements to Xixia during the previous Song-Xia war.

However, the Liao Kingdom's explanation was very unique. It said that it was the former general Xiao Ye who led his troops to rebel and secretly led troops to support Western Xia, which had nothing to do with the Liao Kingdom's attitude of alliance.

Emperor Zhezong wanted to ask Zhao Mu's opinion, after all, this was a rare opportunity. If Zhao Mu said yes, then the Song Dynasty would continue to fight against the Liao. If Zhao Mu said no, then Zhezong would just turn a blind eye to the Liao envoy and brush the matter off.

Zhao Mu’s attitude was also very clear, that is, the main battlefield of the Song Dynasty now was to clip the wings of the Liao Kingdom.

Although the Western Xia Kingdom had been conquered, Tubo had not yet surrendered, and the Western Xia Kingdom had not yet been completely occupied. It was still too early to go to war with Liao. So Zhao Mu also asked Fang Shisan to report to Emperor Zhezong, telling him to just send the Liao envoy away and not to cause any trouble.

It was at this time that Zhao Mu learned from Fang Shisan that the civil and military officials of the court had slandered him. In fact, there had been rumors in the army during this period that someone in the capital had falsely accused Zhao Mu of taking advantage of the situation to eliminate the "Zhongliangzi" in order to establish his own rebellion in the Western Xia Kingdom.

It's just that Zhao Mu never dared to believe it. Although the civil servants of the Song Dynasty have always been shameless, Zhao Mu never thought they could be so shameless.

After hearing what Fang Shisan said today, he really believed those rumors.

Zhao Mu also sighed. Fortunately, he and Emperor Zhezong were of one mind. If it were any other general, even if he had no intention of rebelling, he would be driven to rebellion by the spit of these censors. However, this time when Fang Shisan came to Xixia, in addition to conveying the imperial edict and asking for advice, he also brought Zhao Mu a letter from home and the imprint of a little foot. The letter from home was naturally the family members expressing their longing for each other, and the imprint of the little foot was their daughter's.

Li Qinglu was also very fond of the cute foot mark, even though the child was not hers. But this was Zhao Mu's first child, and as an aunt, she had to show some appreciation. Li Qinglu immediately took out her childhood longevity lock and asked Fang Shisan to take it back and give it to the child.

After more than a month of handover, the household registration, population, capitation tax, cities, and troops of the Western Xia Kingdom were finally handed over.

Now the whole territory of Xixia Kingdom is flying the flag of the Song Dynasty, and the difficult Xixia script has been completely abolished, and all Chinese characters have been adopted. However, the currency of Xixia Kingdom is still used for the time being. Zhao Mu is just waiting for everything to settle down before collecting it from the people.

Zhao Mu also posted a notice to reassure the people, allowing the people of Xixia to choose whether to stay or leave. Those who chose to stay, everything remained the same. Those who chose to follow the king of Xixia in the future have already started selling their property.

In order to avoid a price collapse in the market, Zhao Mu also intervened. The government was willing to pay to redeem real estate such as land and houses. Zhao Mu used the official price as a benchmark. If private individuals wanted to buy from the people, they had to pay a higher price than the official price. This way, the people who were about to leave would not suffer any loss.

Although the Western Xia Kingdom had been pacified for more than a month, the war was not over.

Although the war with Western Xia was over, the Song army also directed its troops in two directions, one was the Gaochang Uighurs in the Dunhuang and Yumen line, and the other was the Tubo in the southwest.

Now the Xixia army and the Song army were fighting together. The Gaochang Uighur tribes who wanted to take advantage of the situation were repelled by the Xixia army and the Song army, and suffered heavy losses. However, the Song army occupied Dunhuang and Yumen and stopped advancing, but stayed there.

As for the Tibetan direction, the Tibetans are now under attack from three sides.

In the north, the Western Xia army and the Song army attacked on all fronts and easily surrounded more than 100,000 Tibetan troops.

In the east, the Song army stationed in Bashu also began to encroach on the Tibetan territory layer by layer.

In the south, the Dali army had already crossed the obstacles and headed straight for the capital of the Tubo Kingdom.

Previously, Tubo had dreamed of joining forces with Liao and Xia to attack Song, but now it was itself that was being beaten up by the three kingdoms. The Tibetan king had repeatedly sent envoys to negotiate with the three kingdoms.

But without exception, no one paid any attention to him.

After the Song army and the Xixia army jointly eliminated the main force of Tubo, the Song army retreated across the board. After that, all the looting and spoils were given to the Xixia army. After all, to establish a new country, a lot of labor and wealth are needed. And where did these labor and wealth come from? Of course, they came from Tubo.

The Song army sent more than 100,000 captured Tibetan soldiers to the Xixia people as slaves. Now these unfortunate Tibetans are wearing iron chains on their feet, and the Dangxiang people are building a new "Xingqing Mansion" in Qingtang for the Xixia survivors to live in.

Just when everything was going well on the front line, an uninvited guest came to the Xixia Palace where Zhao Mu lived.

(End of this chapter)