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Chapter 240 - Western Xia

From the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, Zhao Chen was constantly inspecting the various armies and at the same time, inspecting the condition of the Production and Construction Corps.

Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen had always been by Zhao Chen's side, explaining the important matters that had happened during this year to him!

The current situation in the Guan Shan was getting more and more dangerous. Other than the Priestess and the Emperor Kang, according to the information obtained by the's staff officers, the Western Xia of the north was also getting restless! If the Western Xia were to descend south, then the Guan Shan would face a three-sided pincer attack! According to the analysis of the staff officers, the situation in the north was becoming more and more dangerous, and under such circumstances, if Zhao Chen did not return in time, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, Curved End, Yue Fei and the rest would have no choice but to make their own decisions and think of a way to deal with the Western Xia people!

"Is there any possibility for us to negotiate with the Western Xia?" Zhao Chen said as they walked on the snowy ground.

"I am afraid it will be difficult to negotiate! Actually, last winter we sent people to the Western Xia, but our people never saw the Western Xia Emperor at all, and the Western Xia ministers also ignored us! "Ever since Xixia was defeated by the female true spirit, she has been restraining herself for the past few years. We also did not expect them to suddenly move against us!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Western Xia … …" Zhao Chen muttered to himself.

He was thinking about what had happened in the Western Xia in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't think of an answer! It seemed that after arriving in the Southern Song Dynasty, Xixia didn't do anything and didn't even participate in the history of the East Asian Continent! It was not until the rise of the Mongols that Xixia was exterminated by them!

During the Northern Song, the Western Xia often invaded the northwest to fight the Western Army! In the Southern Song, there were very few wars between the two sides!

In fact, in this magnificent era, Xicha had indeed not participated in the history of the East Asian Continent! From the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty until the rise of Mongolia, the Western Xia people had been causing internal strife!

When the Kaifeng City was broken that day, countless officials from the northwest of the Song Dynasty sided with Western Xia, and one of them was named Ren Dejing! This man was originally just a general judge of the Song Dynasty. After he defected to the Western Xia Dynasty, his position was not very high, but he had a daughter who was incomparably beautiful. He gave his own daughter to the Western Xia Emperor, Xia Chongzong! After that, his daughter was doted upon and became the Empress of the Western Xia! After Xia Chongzong's death, his daughter became the empress dowager, while Ren Dejing soared to the heavens. As a Chinese, he became the Western Xia's imperial edict, the middle book edict, all the way until he became the Western Xia's Prime Minister. Of Ren Dejing's three younger brothers, one was the former Grand Commandant of the Western Xia Palace, the other was the official from the Xingqing Mansion's residence in the Western Xia Capital, and the last was the Western Xia Southern Courtyard's envoy! Ren Dejing's sons and nephews all assumed important positions in the military and political field! After that, Ren Dejing forced the Western Xia Emperor to give half of the Western Xia territory to him, and the country's name was Chu! The Western Xia Emperor had no choice but to agree to the military power in his hands! After that was the battle between the Western Xia Emperor and Ren Dejing! From the moment Ren Dejing pledged his allegiance to Western Xia until Ren Dejing's death, nearly fifty years had passed. After Ren Dejing's death, the Western Xia Nation's power was exhausted, and they had no way to head south!

This was the history of the Western Xia after the Southern Song was established!

At this moment, Zhao Chen thought for a long time, but could not think of what Western Xia had done in the Southern Song Dynasty! He immediately shook his head. There was no history left to judge, so he could only make his own judgment based on the current situation!

"I'm afraid we have to fight against Western Xia!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Use force?" Zhao Chen frowned, and said: "Right now, we do not have the conditions to fight on three fronts!"

"Your Majesty, the military has drawn up a plan for the battle. I think it's feasible!" Yu Yunwen said.

"When I get back, I want to have a look!" Zhao Chen said.

That afternoon, they had just returned to Wu Gong County and Yue Fei had come to report. He said that a messenger from Western Xia had arrived in the morning and was waiting for Zhao Chen!

"Who are the Western Xia's envoys?" Zhao Chen said.

"It's the younger brother of the current Emperor of the Western Xia, King Jin, Li Qianming!" Yue Fei said.

"Good!" Let him see me! " Zhao Chen nodded and said.

Yue Fei immediately gave the order, and not long later, an extremely luxuriously dressed male from Western Xia entered the town under the protection of more than ten Western Summer Warriors.

At this moment, he was actually speaking in Chinese!

When he said those words, all the surrounding Managed soldiers glared at him, but he looked at them with contempt. In the end, he even spat at them!

The soldiers of the Managed were extremely angry, if they did not meet the military discipline, they would rush up to fight with him!

"Chinese!" Weak and useless thing! Now I want to meet the Emperor of the Han Dynasty! " The man of the Western Xia was naturally the Jin Emperor, Li Qianming, of the Western Xia, and he laughed heartily.

He strode forward. When he reached the front of the house, he wanted to bring his subordinates in. However, at that moment, dozens of guards rushed over! All the guards glared at them with their pikes raised, Li Qianming snorted and ordered his subordinates to stay behind, then he walked in alone!

At the moment, in the house, Zhao Chen, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, Yue Fei were all there, and all of their gazes were fixated on Li Qianming!

Under the gazes of the four people, Li Qianming's expression did not change, and his gaze swept for a while before landing on Zhao Chen! Zhao Chen was dressed in bright yellow robes, which only the emperor could wear, he immediately recognized Zhao Chen's identity!

"Emperor of the Han Dynasty, kneel down and receive the edict!" Li Qianming took out an imperial decree from his sleeve, and immediately shouted it loudly.

"What did you say?" Zhao Chen was stunned, Wang Shu and the rest were also stunned!

"I say, Emperor of Han Dynasty, kneel down and accept our Western Xia Emperor's decree!" Li Qianming coldly snorted.

"Kneel down?" Zhao Chen was in disbelief!

Back then, when the woman had yet to invade, Western Xia had always been a side effect of the Song Dynasty! However, both sides had been fighting for a hundred years, and there were always victories and losses. In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Army defeated the Western Xia over and over again, foiling the invasion of the Western Xia! In terms of comprehensive national power, the Northern Song Dynasty definitely surpassed the Western Xia! No matter what was said, the Northern Song Dynasty was above the Western Xia! The emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia Emperor had always been on the same level! But now, with the Western Xia Emperor's decree in Li Qianming's hand, he actually wanted to make Zhao Chen, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, kneel down and receive it!

"That's right!" Kneel down! Your Song Dynasty is no longer the Song Dynasty you used to be, especially you, the little emperor. You must now live by the breath of our Western Xia! Our Western Xia Emperor has sent a decree, shouldn't you kneel down to receive it? " Li Qianming laughed.

"Very good!" Zhao Chen's face revealed a mocking smile, he stood up, and Wang Shu and the rest all stood up.

"Looks like you, as a Emperor of Han Dynasty, are not very stupid. Not bad, not bad! When the time comes, you will receive the imperial edict of the Western Xia Emperor, and that will be our Western Xia's vassal state, and our Western Xia will protect your safety! " Li Qianming laughed loudly.

Zhao Chen rushed forward, and as he got closer and closer to Li Qianming, the smile on Li Qianming's face became more and more complacent!

Just then, Zhao Chen suddenly raised his leg and kicked towards Li Qianming!

With a dull thud, Li Qianming fell to the ground! He could not believe that the Chinese emperor would dare to kick him! Does he think that Emperor of Han Dynasty is crazy? Before he came, he had already enquired about the difficult situation the Emperor of Han Dynasty was facing. Now that the Emperor of Han Dynasty had been attacked by the Primal and Emperor Kang, if Xi Xia were to make a move in this situation, the Emperor of Han Dynasty would definitely die! Under these circumstances, the Emperor of Han Dynasty would definitely bow his head in submission, but now he actually dared to attack the noble Duke of Western Xia!

"You're courting death!" Li Qianming shouted in fury.

"Men, beat him half to death and expel him! Kill all of his Western Xia warriors, leave no one alive! " Zhao Chen said coldly.

"Are you tired of living?" Li Qianming said in fear.

Just then, the surrounding Managed warriors, who could not bear Li Qianming's way, had already rushed over! This Li Qianming was the prince of the Western Xia Empire, he was usually pampered. Even though he looked strong on the surface, how could he be a match for these soldiers who walked out from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood! Screams could be heard from the courtyard below. That was the sound of Western Xia's martial artist falling into a pool of blood!

"What is written in the imperial edict?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty … This humble subject truly does not dare to say what is written in it! " Wang Shu had already picked up the decree, opened his mouth, and said.

"Read it!" Zhao Chen said.

"The Western Xia Emperor wants us to bow our heads to them. He wants us to cede Weizhou, Huanzhou, Qingzhou, Yan'an Prefecture, and many other places to him. He wants us to give them five hundred thousand silver taels as currency every year! Also, the Western Xia Emperor wants you to … He called him grandpa, and even made His Majesty offer the empress up to the Western Xia! " Wang Shu said.

"Damn it!" Zhao Chen was furious!

was furious in his heart, while Yu Yunwen, Yue Fei and the rest were furious in their hearts. This was an undisguised insult to the Song Dynasty, an undisguised insult to the Chinese! Zhao Chen was the emperor of the Han people. In the ancient times, he was the representative of the Han people, but the Western Xia Emperor actually dared to say such words. In the history of Western Xia, even though there was chaos caused by Ren Dejing, but right now, Ren Dejing had just joined Western Xia, so Western Xia was relatively safe, but right now, Western Xia was still very strong! The Western Xia Emperor judged the current situation of the Han people. Writing such an imperial edict was actually very normal! In the history of the Song Dynasty, it was common for emperors to address foreign emperors as "uncles" and "grandfathers". Zhao Gou had even addressed the Jinguo's two generations of emperors as "uncles". Unfortunately, Zhao Chen was definitely unable to accept such an insult! Furthermore, there was the so-called offering up of the empress! The Empress was Zheyue Ru, how could Zhao Chen offer it up?

"Your Majesty, the Western Xia War is inevitable!" Yu Yunwen said.

"But we still have Emperor Kang and Valkyrie in front of us! If we were to start a war with Western Xia, with the sudden attacks of the Emperor Kang and the Female True, we would not be their match! Right now, we do not have the qualifications to fight against the three families! " Zhao Chen remained silent for a long while, and said.

"Your Majesty, we have already discussed this matter many times! We've been discussing this ever since we found out last year that there was a southern trend in the Western Xia! "The staff officer has also been making a battle plan for the current situation. Your Majesty can take a look!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Alright!" Zhao Chen nodded!