The other party looked frightened and quickly knelt down and said, "Prince, please listen to me, Prince!"

Li Xingzhou didn't say anything, and the room became quiet. The man hurriedly said, "It must be that Li Ji, the dog thief, deceived the country and spread rumors. Please take it clearly, please take it clearly!"

Li Xingzhou and Yan Gu smiled at each other, but they both held back. They didn't know that the Xia civil war was initiated by the royal palace, but only the senior officials of the royal palace knew about this.

At the same time, Li Xingzhou was also very moved. How could the Xia Kingdom get to this point? In the previous life, there were several generations of heroes of Xixia, who were very smart and powerful, defeating the Song army. With the efforts of a group of famous generals such as Fan Zhongyan, Zhong Shidao, Di Qing, etc., the war reversed, and then immediately bowed to Song.

At that time, the senior executives of Xixia had a very strategic vision and gradually realized that it was not a solution to waste. The barren land where the Xia Kingdom was destined to be unable to compete with the Central Plains. It would be better to take advantage of the opportunity to negotiate the conditions quickly.

As a result, the Western Xia praised the Song Dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty, the sect leader, had to "reward" a large amount of silver in the Xia Dynasty every year, and this kind of sect leader and affiliation relationship was unprecedented.

In the north, the Xia Kingdom also surrendered to Liao. In this way, if Song wanted to move Western Xia, he had to worry about Liao. If Liao wanted to move Western Xia, he had to worry about Song. Liao and Song were once a feud, so Xia, which bordered both countries, could be safe and sound.

When facing the rise of Mongolia, the Jin and Song repeatedly gave in and adopted a tolerant attitude. Only Xixia first saw clearly when facing Mongolia. Concessions would only be doomed. So the whole country resisted, while the Jin and Song watched.

Therefore, among the three major southern countries, Jin, Song and Xia, the Xia Kingdom was the most tragic among the army that resisted Mongolia. Seventy or eighty-year-olds of the country were killed and injured, and it also caused terrifying killing and injury to the Mongolian army. The degree of tragic tragedy was far beyond the level of Western battlefields. The Western Xia royal family almost destroyed the country and destroyed the race.

Judging from the results alone, people may laugh at Xixia for overestimating one's ability, but if we put aside success or failure, as a small country that occupies barren lands such as Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai, Xixia has tried its best and can always see the situation in the world first.

At first, they mediated between Song and Liao, and then stood in line between Song and Jin, and then they were affiliated with Mongolia. Faced with the rise of Mongolia, they did not have the flattery and clinging attitude towards Song and Liao at the beginning, but instead fought alone, because they believed that Mongolia's stubbornness would not be beneficial to them like Song and Liao.

It can be said that in terms of key points, the small country of Xia has made almost no mistakes.

This is due to the beginning and end of the Xia Kingdom, which were all wise monarchs, but the monarchs in the middle stage were much worse. Fortunately, the Song, Liao and Jin were all in the north and south at that time, and they had no idea about them because of checks and balances between the north and the south.

Now, Li Ji, the king of Xia Kingdom, is not a capable person, but because Jin Kingdom has checks and balances, Jing Kingdom is also afraid of Jin Kingdom, and there is still a pile of sand on the grassland, so no one dares to touch them.

Li Xingzhou pretended to be serious and said sternly: "King Xia said you are rebels and thieves who committed rebellion. You are so bold that you dare to come to see me!"

"King Jin Mingcha! This is a huge lie. It was Li Ji, the dog thief who made up the trick to deceive the prince. The fact of Xia Kingdom was not what he said!" The visitor kowtowed quickly and said anxiously.

Even if he didn't say it, Li Xingzhou knew it. He must have sold the weapons to Xia Kingdom to achieve success in the north and defeated Zhang Jie's rebels. After Zhang Jie found out the source of the weapons, he also sent someone to come.

He was already laughing in his heart. This was the effect he wanted. Just like in the Middle East, the country Z sold drones to one party and shoulder-mounted air defense missiles to the other party. Both sides were happy. While placing orders, they thought they were their benefactors.

This is the effect Li Xingzhou wants. When Zhang Jie and Li Ji fight for a few more years and the fight is almost the same, it will be when he regained the Hexi Corridor!

Li Xingzhou frowned, pretended to be impatient, and asked coldly: "Oh, you said Li Ji lied to me, Jingguo, what evidence do you have and what basis do you have? Let's hear it."

The man quickly took out a thick folded silk cloth from his arms, which were densely covered with handwriting: "Prince, please read, this is the book of the people of the Xia Kingdom. They are all the books of the people of the Xia Kingdom voluntarily written when they petitioned for Li Jikuzheng!

In fact, it was Li Ji who was brutal and unjust, who privately abolished the Xuantie Order and fled countless people's wealth, resulting in countless people's displaced and destroyed their families. The people could not bear it anymore, so they attacked and attacked Wudao and punished the violent! Please take the prince and ask the country to investigate clearly!"

He was crying when he spoke. If Li Xingzhou didn't know the reason, he would probably have been moved.

Li Xingzhou was funny. This sucker Li Ji was really pitiful. He was a little stupid, but he was not the one who escaped from the wealthy families of the Xia Kingdom, but Qi Fang. Although it seemed that Li Ji ordered the abolition of Xuantie Ling and cheated them, Li Ji stopped the loss in time, and the money that was finally escaped fell into Qi Fang's hands, that is, the prince's mansion.

This is a lot of money, mainly used to support mountain people in the Taihang Mountains such as Black Leopard to expand the scale of cotton planting. By this autumn, everyone in the new army will be able to issue a new cotton coat.

Of course, Li Xingzhou would not tell him these things. He pretended to be shocked and waved his hand to let Yan Gu take Wan Min Book over. Once he opened it, it was more than one meter long and was densely filled with words.

Li Xingzhou is funny. If everyone in the Xia Kingdom could write such words, his level of culture would definitely be unique in the world.

However, knowing that fraud is one thing, he pretended to be shocked on the surface: "Oh my God! So many people in Xia Country petitioned! Are they all voluntary?"

"Prince, the villain guarantees his head, is absolutely voluntary, and they are voluntarily against the dog thief Li Ji!" He said in a hurry to play the emotional card.

"Prince, our lord, Prime Minister Zhang Jie has been Han people for generations, and half of the people in Xia are Han people. Although Li Ji changed his surname to Han name, his ancestors were all Qiang people! We are all the same kind, and we cherish each other, so we came to tell the whole story of the Qing Dynasty and ask for mercy on the great country!" After saying that, he kowtowed repeatedly.

The lights outside were dim and the sounds were crowded. It was the Chinese New Year Festival, but the hut was particularly quiet.

As a later generation, Li Xingzhou was obviously more tolerant in his ignorance of the nation. He admired those heroes, no matter where they came from or what their origins were.

Just like Taizong of Xia State, Taizong, was also a temporary figure. He used both soft and hard power between the two giants of Jing State and Liao State, and maintained the independent status of Xia State. He was entrenched in the northwest, neither humble nor arrogant. Looking at the future generations now, it was really embarrassing.

This was a great opportunity for him. Li Xingzhou slowly handed over the "Shu of Wan Min" to Yan Gu around him and slapped the table: "This King of Xia is so inappropriate! Yan Gu, what do you think."

"Ah, oh..." Yan Gu's eyes rolled around and he quickly responded: "Prince, I think it's too unreasonable. How could King Xia deceive the prince like this? It was him who exploited the people of Xia, but he sent people to say that it was Zhang Jie's rebellion and persecuting the people!

The prince was kind-hearted and could not bear to the suffering of the people of Xia, and was considering the people of the world, so he sold him a strong bow and crossbow. It was so shameless!"

Li Xingzhou nodded. Yan Gu cooperated well. Some words were not suitable for him to say, but Yan Gu would have much better results.

"Your Majesty, it's those powerful arches and crossbows! Li Jijun took advantage of the benefits of this arch and crossbow to defend the deaths and deaths. We took turns to attack and suffer heavy casualties. We had to retreat. Please let the prince decide for us!" Seeing that the time was coming, Zhang Jie's envoy quickly asked again.

Li Xingzhou said: "This may be because I misunderstood this matter, but the things have been sold, so I can't do anything about it." He deliberately bit the sound of "selling": "And at this time we need to be wary of the Northern Jin Kingdom, and there is not so much power..."

"Prince, Li Ji can buy it, we can buy it too! I just want the prince to open a convenient door!"

Li Xingzhou's mouth was raised, and another big fish was caught, but he still pretended to be embarrassed. After thinking carefully for a while, he reluctantly agreed.

This Lantern Festival, without the literary and artistic spirit of poetry, songs, and the jealousy, there are great gains!

......

In the north, heavy snow has stopped, and in the early spring of the north, heavy snow is still frequent.

The temperature difference between day and night on the grassland is very large, and people have long been accustomed to the cold.

After defeating the Tatar people and presided over the rewards of the Liao Kingdom of Jin, the tribes also began to withdraw back to the grassland, but many people in the Qiyan tribe were very unhappy.

The reason is very simple. The Qiyan tribe, who participated in the war against the Tatars, made the greatest contribution and had outstanding military achievements, was only a fifth-rank official, and was given a little gold and silver.

The Khan of the Krei tribe who had not caught up with the war was granted the title of Sun King Khan, and was rewarded with twenty war horses and numerous gold and silver.

Many people are depressed by this, complaining about the Jin Kingdom and the Krei tribe. Some even say whether the Krei tribe colluded with the Jin people to mess with them. This statement has been circulating among people.

Fortunately, the Qiyan tribe did not pass by empty-handed this time. They were revenge, almost killing all the Tatar men, and seizing many Tatar war horse supplies.

But there are always dissatisfactions, the generals complain that the soldiers are unhappy.

......

In the big tent, everyone was looking at Zhebet in shock, but it was not Zhebet, the big and thick man, he had nothing to look good about, but the sword in his hand.

They did not use swords, but they had never seen such a good sword. The fourth prairie scimitar was broken, but the sword was just buzzing, and there were several small gaps on the blade. If you just sharpen it, you can be as intact as before.

"Who else wants to try?" Zhebo asked. He looked around and everyone looked at each other. No one dared to try with his own sword again. The four broken swords thrown on the ground were the end. Several sword masters were already feeling distressed and almost cried.

"Khan, I have said long ago that I didn't lie. This sword is really as sharp as mud. It is a sword that is constantly broken." Zhebi said.

Temujin, who was attending the seat, nodded repeatedly, and was also very surprised.

"When Wanyan Zongbi gave it to me, I didn't pay attention, and I didn't use a sword, so I just took it with me. Later that night, we attacked the Tatars. There were twenty or thirty people who were not afraid of death, and they rushed out in ten layers of cowhide and killed them. They killed our forwards with no chance. They were about to fight in vain.

It was too dark at that time, and I accidentally threw the scimitar while I was hitting it, so I had to pull out the sword. As a result, our grassland bow could not be shot out, and the ten layers of skin that could not be cut by the sword was pierced by the sword!" Zhebe himself said in a little shocked manner, and raised the sword in his hand.

"The Tatars didn't expect that they could be easily pierced with ten layers of skin. I killed seven or eight people through black, and it was very relaxed because they couldn't think I could kill them in one go. As a result, the Tatars striker was scared after a while, and ran back and we also killed in."

After he said this, everyone looked at the sword in Zhebe's hand even more differently.

"The Jin people can still create such magical weapons!" Temujin sighed, and everyone's eyes were filled with worry and fear. Although they were with the Jin Kingdom this time, the biggest enemy of each grassland man was the Jin people. If the Jin people had such weapons, how could they fight in the future?

The armor is useless, and the weapons of the two armies will be damaged if they are in conflict for a few more times.

"No, Khan, this is not a sword made by the Jin Kingdom." Zhebe said.

"Not Jin Renren! That's it?"

Zhebo turned the sword over, and there were a line of square small characters engraved on the other side of the sword body. Everyone frowned because they couldn't understand it, and even Zhebo couldn't understand it, but Wanyan Zongbi told him the origin of the sword.

"What's this?"

"Chinese characters are the name of the sword-making man."

Everyone was shocked and looked at Zhebei, the big and thick martial artist: "You know Chinese characters!"

"I don't understand, but Wanyan Zongbi told me."

"Tsk...you wouldn't have done it before..."

"Yes, why are you pretending to be able to read? I'm scared, hahaha..."

Zhe was not proud, "Anyway, this sword was made by craftsmen from Jingguo. It uses a kind of fine iron called Xiaogang, which is specially used in the Xiaowang Mansion of Jingguo. I also asked the business travelers of Wang Gu's troops on the way. I heard that Jingguo had an army, which is the new army of King Xiao's son, and was equipped with such fine iron weapons."

Everyone gasped: "A army, that's all right!"

Temujin also leaned forward and asked, "Is this true? Or is it the lies made up by those who sell goods."

"It's probably true. I asked a lot of people, and they all said they knew because the royal palace was doing business with many people." Zhebe replied. When he dared to hear this, his expression was exactly the same as the people in the tent.

"How many new troops are there?"

"They said differently, but in total, it should be more than 10,000, less than 40,000."

As soon as these words were said, everyone took a breath, "Jingguo is really rich with tens of thousands of people equip such weapons."

"If we had such a powerful iron to build weapons, wouldn't we have swept the grassland and revenge the Jin Kingdom long ago?" Hesa'er interrupted.

"It seems that Jingguo cannot be underestimated. Their craftsmen are so powerful that they are far from comparable to those in the north. We didn't think wrong when we wanted to buy iron from Jingguo people."

Zhe should not sit back and put away his sword, "I wish there was a way to get such a sword among the people of Jingguo."

Everyone nodded, their eyes still staring at Zhebi's sword. Even though they were jealous, they also knew that Jingguo would definitely not sell them such a powerful thing.

The big tent suddenly became quiet again.

At this moment, people outside the tent came in: "Khan, an envoy from Jingguo said he wanted to see you!"
Chapter completed!