At the end of April of the eighth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, Xixia, southeast of Gaofu City, Xie'en Mountain.

Xie Enshan was originally named Xie Darwaza Mountain. After Zhao Ganshun welcomed his mother, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, from the Song Dynasty, changed his name to Xie Enshan in order to express his gratitude to the Song Dynasty.

While changing the name, Zhao Ganshun also ordered the construction of a Song Dynasty-style palace on this mountain that overlooks the entire Gaofu City, named Xie En Palace.

The name of the Palace of Thieves is not very impressive, but the palace is magnificent and luxurious. When compared with the Guangmingding on Ceylon Island, Madam Mo will inevitably become a little petty.

Xie'en Palace is a stepped palace built along the slope of Xie'en Mountain. From a distance, you can see Song-style pavilions and towers, stacked up along the slopes, and built to the top of the mountain.

The materials used to build the Xie Palace are also luxurious. Not only are precious stones (marbles) produced in Afghanistan, but also transported precious wood from India from thousands of miles away.

As for the furniture placed in this Xiege Palace, all of them are made of the most precious small-leaf red sandalwood in India and are carefully crafted by the most skilled carpenter in India. Each piece is an exquisite work of art.

Although this thank-you palace is only a royal palace of a vassal state of the Song Dynasty, its luxury is far beyond that of the Qionglin Palace in Kaifeng Prefecture.

To be honest, every corner of this Palace of Thanksgiving is filled with the smell of luxury and decay. Even the guards guarding the palace are full of wealth and imposing atmosphere. Even the armor they wear is made of exquisite crafts and inlaid with gilded decorations. The guys in their hands are all fine products made of wuz steel. The scabbards and hilts are also decorated with gold and gems.

Originally, the Western Xia army was a very poor and poor army. Only kings could own gold and silver decorations. Ordinary Western Xia soldiers could not even see copper coins. Now, they all turned into nouveau riche wearing gold and silver.

If such an army of gold and silver meets the Western Song Dynasty and Eastern Song Dynasty, will the knights in the Eastern Song Dynasty become the target of robbery?

However, in India, this army wearing gold and silver is an invincible existence of heavenly soldiers.

Zhao Ganshun, Zhao Zhongshun and Li Heda (Xiao Heda) all became soldiers like military gods. They led their troops to invade the hinterland of India more than once, and defeated all the sultans, emirs, kings, and lords, all knelt down and begged for mercy. Countless gold, silver and treasures and beauties became spoils and were brought back to the courts of Lahore and Kabul.

The warriors of the Western Xia and Han people who followed Zhao Ganshun and Zhao Zhongshun crossed mountains and crossed mountains to India and Afghanistan all made a fortune and became noble master soldiers - but real masters! Every family has hundreds of acres of land, and they are all high-yield and high-yield good fields. They don’t have to plow the fields themselves, but they are all handed over to the lowly caste Indian untouchables to plant. Each master soldier has more than a dozen or twenty untouchables to enslave them.

In the plains on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the rich Xindu River, there are farms of the masters and soldiers everywhere!

More than 100,000 veteran soldiers and their families lived a good life there.

It's all "happy here, I don't want to leave"...

Oh, by the way, the current Xixia Master Kingdom has not conquered the entire India.

If you can't do it, there is no need for this.

It is not because it cannot be defeated, but because the climate in India is too tormenting. Now the men occupy Afghanistan, the Xindu River basin in the northeast corner of India, and the area around the Big and Big Bolu (Kashmir) is relatively cool. Going east and south, it will be hot and dead.

Therefore, the land ruled by the two brothers Zhao Ganshun and Zhao Zhongshun went east to Punjab in later India. Further east, the area of ​​Delhi (Dilu), now belongs to the Polo Kingdom, an ally of Xixia in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The "Pala" in this Pala Kingdom means "protecting the Dharma", which means protecting Buddhism, so it is naturally a Buddhist kingdom. The Buddhist Tantric Buddhism believed in by the Pala royal family has common beliefs with the Xixia. They fight against the Tianfang Sect and Brahmin Sect in India, and become natural allies, and they also marry each other and rely on each other.

In addition, the Xiliang Kingdom, which ruled Tubo, also entered India, occupied the Nibharati region on the southern slope of the Himalayas, and joined the alliance between the Xixia and the Polo Kingdom, forming a Three Kingdoms Alliance in India.

What this Three Kingdoms Alliance fought against was the Gur Sultanate of the Tianfang Sect and the Zhunian Kingdom of the Brahmins that were expelled to the central and southern parts of India, as well as some other small Indian countries that believed in Brahmins.

However, the confrontation between these two alliances on the land of India is not a life-and-death battle.

Because the people in Xixia and Xiliang could not stand the heat in central and southern India, there was no motivation to completely conquer India, so they were naturally satisfied with obtaining wealth.

On the one hand, the Tianfang Sect and Brahmin Sect were attacked from both sides. The maritime powers of the Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou posed a serious threat to the Tianfang Sect and Brahmin Sect in the Atlantic.

In contrast, the threat of the Xixia, Polo and Xiliang three-country alliance is smaller.

So Guer Sultan and the Zhunian Dynasty would rather pay tribute to Xixia and Xiliang to avoid meaningless losses - of course they could not defeat Xixia and Xiliang.

For the current Xixia, on the one hand, we can obtain a lot of taxes from the Xindu River Basin; on the other hand, we can get gifts from the Polo Kingdom. Life is too leisurely! How great would it be if we could survive in a constant state?

But why did the Central Plains suddenly change?

The great Song Dynasty was divided into two! And both sides sent envoys to the Palace of Xie'en...

Where should Xixia kowtow to?

This is not a trivial matter to deal with!

Because the Eastern Song Dynasty was very strong in the West, it could attack the estuary area of ​​the Xindu River at any time. Moreover, the Eastern Song Dynasty was also an international arms dealer! It was in control of the weapons of mass destruction of this era - Hua Guns and Hua Cannons! If sold to the Guer Kingdom and the Turks, it would be enough for the Western Xia to suffer.

And there is another vassal state of Xiliang in the Western Song Dynasty. If Xixia was the wrong emperor, would Xiliang send troops to attack Xixia? Xiliang is not as corrupt as Xixia, and he is a damn master soldier.

It's hard to deal with both ends!

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"Not only two emperors, but also one Xiao Wu Yuan must deal with it!"

In the Xie En Palace, Li Heda, who had just rushed back from Hekou Prefecture (Xindu Hekou), brought additional bad news to Zhao Ganshun and Zhao Zhongshun.

"Head of First Minister Xiao Wu also wants us to surrender?" Zhao Ganshun asked with a frown.

"He doesn't want us to surrender. He wants money and opens a concession!"

It turned out that Wu Yijiu also sent an envoy to Gaofucheng. The request was to open a concession in Kawaguchi Prefecture, and to ask Xixia to pay protection fees, which cost 100,000 taels of gold a year!

"Why don't we give it?" Zhao Zhongshun asked with a humming voice, "He is so far away from us, can he even send troops to attack?"

"This won't be," Li Heda smiled bitterly, "but he will sell cannons and gunpowder to Zhunian and Guer!"

"What? He actually..." Zhao Zhongshun breathed heavily, "Give it, give it... At worst, you can collect more taxes from the Indian untouchables!"

This is not a joke!

Zhao Ganshun frowned and said, "It doesn't matter if 100,000 taels of gold, but the concession... they won't have any plans, right?"

"It should not be," said Li Heda, "I heard that the Zhou delegation also sent envoys to Xizalou and obtained the power to establish a concession in Goa from the Xizalou people."

The Xizhalo Kingdom is a powerful country on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent. It also believes in Brahminism. It has hostile relations with Zhunian, Guer and Baltic countries. Of course, its relationship with Xixia is not good. The Tianfang scholars on the other side of the Arabian Sea are of course also enemies.

However, this country is relatively friendly to the Eastern Song and Great Zhou. It has too many enemies. If you want to add the Eastern Song and Great Zhou, don’t just live.

Therefore, the Eastern Song and Great Zhou have now obtained the privilege of establishing concessions in Goa.

By the way, the Great Zhou not only obtained the power to establish a concession in Goa, but also established a concession in Gaolangbu, Ceylon, and proposed to the Polo Kingdom to set up a concession at the mouth of the Ganges River.

In addition to taking over the Song Dynasty's concession in Gaolangbu and its sovereignty over Ceylon Island, the Eastern Song Dynasty is now actively seeking colonial strongholds and concessions in various parts of the West.

The Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty have now started colonial competition around the world!

"The Great Zhou is easy to deal with," Zhao Ganshun sighed, "What should I do with the two Song Kingdoms? Do you want one servant and two masters?"

"Give Xiliang another tribute!" Li Heda said, "Chang'an cannot reach us... The one who can really cause trouble for us is the Xiliang Zhang family.

In addition, we have to send envoys to Taoli Temple to ask the Emperor of Xiliao to come forward to coordinate the relationship between us and Xiliang. As long as our three families are united, we will be afraid of nothing."

Taoli Temple is Tabriz, located in the northwest of Persia, close to the Caspian Sea, and is now Xijing, the Western Liao Empire. The full name is Tabriz Mansion, Xijing Road.

In addition to the Tabriz Mansion in Xijing, the Western Liao also has the Shuye Mansion in Shangjing Road, the Hezhong Mansion in Zhongjing Road, the Khurashan Mansion in Tokyo Road and the Avashi Mansion in Nanjing.

It’s still the pattern of Wujing Road!

However, it can be seen from the location of Wujing Road that the current focus of the Western Liao rule has shifted from Central Asia to the former land of Persia.

The Taoli Temple in Xijing, which is close to the Asia Minor Peninsula and Baghdad, is the main residence of Yelu Dashi.

The distant Shangjing Suiye Mansion and Zhongjing Hezhong Mansion were both handed over to important officials of the Western Liao Dynasty to stay behind.

After moving to Tabriz, Yelu Dashi's main energy was transferred from Central Asia affairs to his interactions with the Middle East and Europe.

It was not to conquer the Taishan Sects of the Middle East and the Christian Roman Kingdom in Europe, but to place its Western Liao in its original position as the Great Liao Kingdom, and to regard the Dashi and Rome as weak Song, hoping to demand annual tribute from these two aspects.
Chapter completed!