Chapter 389

The next day, Zhang Jie, who had been working hard all night, still got up early with high spirits.

He ordered the palace maids in Li Shishi's palace not to disturb her, who was overly tired last night,

let her rest well, and had Li Dequan instruct the Imperial Kitchen; after Li Shishi stewed the hydrating soup,

Zhang Jie walked leisurely to the Chuigong Hall and began to handle the day's government affairs.

"Hmm, it's a battle report from Western Xia."

Opening the report placed on the very top, he checked it casually for a few glances, and Zhang Jie said casually.

As for why such an important thing as a battle report wasn't sent to him at the first moment,

but instead placed in the Chuigong Hall, waiting for him to have time to handle it one by one,

wasn't he afraid of delaying the war opportunity, or even triggering a major event involving the peace of the Northwest like 'our army's defeat'?

The reason why the Five Armies Governor's Office made such a decision was naturally because the war to conquer Western Xia had already entered garbage time.

Western Xia's capital, Xingqing Prefecture, had already been broken, and the Western Xia King and his harem queens, concubines,

and Western Xia's royal family, important officials, etc., as long as they didn't die in the war, were all captured and are now being packed and sent to Bianliang;

I think it won't be long before Zhang Jie can see the last emperor of Western Xia, Li Shun, in Bianjing.

This Western Xia Chongzong was the eldest son of Western Xia Huizong Li Bingchang, and his mother was the Liang clan.

He ascended the throne after his father passed away in 1086, at the age of only three, with his mother, Empress Dowager Liang, acting as regent.

In 1099, the grandfather of Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi, Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji, couldn't stand Empress Dowager Liang's dictatorship in Western Xia,

acting recklessly, giving the Southern Song Dynasty an opportunity for a northern expedition,

and sent people to Western Xia to plot to poison Empress Dowager Liang and ordered Li Shun to take personal control of the government; he was only 16 years old at the time.

During Li Shun's reign, Western Xia adopted a strategy of relying on the Liao Dynasty

and making peace with the Northern Song Dynasty, reducing wars year by year and recuperating.

Internally, he vigorously advocated Han culture, established a "National School" to teach Han studies,

and selected children of royal relatives and nobles for training, making Western Xia society stable,

politics clear, and national strength gradually strong; for Western Xia, he could be called a wise monarch of a generation.

Unfortunately, he met Zhang Jie, who didn't talk about martial virtue, and directly fell from a wise monarch to the monarch of a fallen Western Xia.

However, it's not that he didn't bring trouble to Zhang Jie:

Lu Zhishen had to take a near-massacre approach to solve the future troubles, just because Western Xia had too many die-hards.

And the reason why there were so many die-hards is inseparable from Li Shun's clear governance.

It can only be said that in the feudal era, the quality of the monarch himself had too great an impact on the country.

If he is diligent and loves the people, the court is politically clear, and the people's lives are barely better.

If he is greedy for pleasure and ignores things below,

the officials below him will naturally go from bad to worse, and the people will live in misery.

Of course, the emperor's own wrist and wisdom must also be mentioned a little.

A certain emperor who was brainwashed by sage books, broke one of his own crutches as soon as he took the throne,

but didn't find a new crutch as a substitute, and finally hung himself on the old crooked neck tree,

not becoming Yao or Shun, but becoming the monarch of a fallen country, Emperor Chongzhen, tells us that

sometimes, if the direction and choice are wrong, no amount of effort is in vain.

"From now on, there is no more Western Xia in the world!"

Zhang Jie, full of ambition, approved the battle report he had read and made a big check mark with a vermilion brush.

With the praise of this boss, the Five Armies Governor's Office could let go and do the subsequent merit rewards.

"Sigh, I am still too soft-hearted."

Zhang Jie, who put down the battle report, suddenly sighed faintly.

To say that making Western Xia disappear completely was done thoroughly by the Mongol cavalry led by the Heaven Emperor Wolf Temujin who swept across Eurasia later.

After a cleansing by the Mongols, the dignified Western Xia, which had gone through ten emperors, initially stood alongside the Northern Song and Liao,

and later stood alongside the Southern Song and Jin, historically known as "occupying one-third of the world,

dominating the Northwest for two hundred years", finally didn't even have a few classics passed down,

and the Western Xia language became an undecipherable dead language; the only surviving relics in the 21st century

are the Western Xia Imperial Tombs that are hard to destroy, becoming one of the so-called 'most mysterious dynasties'.

If it weren't for the fact that Song, Liao, and Jin all had many records about Western Xia,

I'm afraid that after this thorough cleansing by the Mongols, which was even more thorough than plowing the court and sweeping the caves,

the name 'Western Xia' would have been directly buried in the long river of history.

And to discuss why the Mongols were so brutal to Western Xia, almost wishing to destroy everything in Western Xia,

then we have to design a wild history that doesn't know whether it's true or false.

This wild history is also related to the cause of death of the Heaven Emperor Wolf Temujin.

Temujin was full of desire for conquest and plunder all his life;

he once said: "The greatest joy for a man is to suppress the chaotic crowd, defeat the enemy,

seize everything they have, ride their fine horses, and take their beautiful wives and concubines."

He said so, and he did so; countless enemies' fine horses were ridden by him,

and beautiful wives and concubines were taken into his harem to be favored daily.

When the Western Xia Kingdom feared the Mongol military edge and chose to submit to the Mongols just as they had submitted to the Liao Dynasty in the past,

he did the same: ordered the submissive Western Xia King to offer the Western Xia consort known for her beauty.

No matter how unwilling the Western Xia King was to suffer such a great humiliation, for the sake of his country,

he had to humiliatingly wash his consort clean and send her to Temujin.

And it is rumored that this unknown Western Xia consort was also unyielding; when Temujin favored her...

The subsequent things can be imagined: a generation of heaven's pride, Genghis Khan, became a humanoid like Li Dequan.

Later, because he hurt his bloodline, he bled continuously and died from excessive blood loss.

A generation of heaven's pride lost his life for such a ridiculous reason.

This wild history doesn't look authentic no matter how you look at it; first, Genghis Khan was already sixty-six when he passed away,

which was already considered extremely long-lived in ancient times when one could call oneself 'old man' after thirty,

and the average lifespan of emperors of past dynasties was only thirty to forty years old.

At such an age, even if he supplemented with delicacies and rare treasures every day,

without the blessing of modern Viagra-like drugs, he should have already lost secular desires.

It's not that this greedy Genghis Khan became pure-hearted and few-desiring, but that he should have been willing but unable.

Second, Temujin had taken hundreds of enemies' wives and concubines in his life,

and should have already formed a mature system,

so he shouldn't have made such a low-level mistake, right?

'Uh...'

'This doesn't seem entirely correct either.'

Zhang Jie, who was thinking, rubbed his chin.

The suspense novel "Journey Under the Midnight Sun" by Island Nation writer Keigo Higashino writes:

"There are two things in the world that cannot be looked at directly: one is the sun, and the other is the human heart."

Looking directly at the "sun" will burn your eyes, while the "human heart" is too complex, dark, and difficult to fathom.

If you are truly determined, what kind of rules can't find loopholes?

Willing to be shredded, dare to pull the emperor off the horse!

As long as you are not afraid of death, who in the world cannot be killed?

A piece of trivia that is not so cold: if a person is killed, they will die!

Even if that person is Genghis Khan, who led the cavalry to sweep across Eurasia and was praised as owning the land and the sea!