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The death of Liu E

After all, what made Liu E most worried was her "son". On November 6, the imperial palace was built, but her "son" changed the year name of the "Tian Sheng" that demonstrated her supreme status on this day! The last month was called the first year of Mingdao. The so-called Mingdao is still the same as the sun and the moon, and the mother and son are the ones. But how can the light of the moon be compared with the sun? Liu E has retreated to the second seat.

Liu E didn't know what the truth was that her "son" knew, so she didn't kiss her anymore? But she no longer had the energy to pursue her.

The last thing in 1032 was not only Liu E, but also the nightmare of the monarchs and ministers of all dynasties since the Northern Song Dynasty. In September, Li Yuanhao went on an expedition again and recaptured Xiliang Prefecture. The Liugu tribe of Tubo completely collapsed, half surrendered to Li Yuanhao, and the other half surrendered to another Tubo force, Li Yuanhao's life-long enemy, Ossiluo. In November, Li Deming passed away, and the 30-year-old Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne.

Li Deming seemed respectful, but he kept making small moves. After he had money, he became even more greedy. In 1010, the palace was built in the Aoma Mountain area, and in 1020, the capital of Huaiyuan Town was established. The palace community was extremely spectacular. When the Song envoy arrived, he would order the palace list to be removed and maintain a subordinate posture. But the things were placed on the steps of the palace gate, and no matter who could recognize it at a glance. The Song envoy left and hung it up immediately. He put it on the ochre yellow robe that the emperor could only wear. Everything was in line with the emperors of the Song and Liao countries, completely deviating from the style of the chief of the nomadic peoples... And what would Li Yuanhao, who was young and energetic and loves to fight, be a person? The whole world will soon know... This young man, the founding emperor of the Western Xia, was simply a war madman, and he would make both Song and Liao countries sleepless at night.

Li Deming's funeral specifications were completely aligned with Zhao Zhen's biological mother. The Song Dynasty stopped court for him for three days, posthumously conferred the title of Grand Tutor, Shangshu Ling, and Zhongshu Ling, and sent Zhu Changfu to mourn as the commemoration envoy. Zhao Zhen and Liu E also wore mourning clothes in the palace to mourn Li Deming.

But all this still cannot reduce Li Yuanhao's anger by half. His anger began with his ascension to the throne of the Dangxiang King, because his identity must be accompanied by two confirmations: the canonization of the Khitans and the canonization of the Song Dynasty.

The Khitans came to enthrone, and he was King Xia. On the 25th, the Song Dynasty also came, holding a yellow silk, standing facing south, chanting and talking, no matter whether you can understand it or not, you have to lower your head and kneel down and listen!

A great humiliation! Li Yuanhao was so angry that he was so humiliated that he actually knelt down on a piece of yellow silk from the Song Dynasty... Is it inertia? Or has he not lost his clean slave nature? Song envoy Yang Zhao finished reading the enthronement edict. He was the governor of Dingnan, King of Xiping, the chief magistrate of the prosecutor and the chief magistrate.

However, as soon as the Song envoy's reading ended, Li Yuanhao suddenly jumped up and shouted to everyone: Such a country is still bent to others. This is the big mistake of the previous king!

I believe that Yang Gao and others were shocked at that time. In the Song Dynasty, no one dared to say that their father had a typo. But Li Yuanhao was so rebellious and accused his father in public!

What was even more exciting was still behind. Li Yuanhao prepared a special banquet for Yang Gao and the others. The banquet was very ordinary and the sound was too special. Yang Gao and others were having dinner in the hall, and the bells kept ringing behind the hall. The sound was clear at the sound that was forging weapons!

It is obvious that Li Yuanhao is provoking! But Yang Gao and others are very silent, burying their heads to eat, as long as the task is completed... Eat and drink enough, go home, and leave Li Yuanhao to continue to be angry. Maybe you will be angry to death? That will save a lot of trouble in the Song Dynasty...

Li Yuanhao was furious and became more and more impulsive as he thought about it. He skipped the envoy of the Song Dynasty and directly asked the Emperor of the Song Dynasty - refusing to use the Song Dynasty reign title. And ask why you changed the Yuan Dynasty Mingdao? Don’t you know what my father’s name is? The Han people don’t even understand taboos?

The result was that the people of the Song Dynasty did not understand. Is Li Yuanhao really crazy? He wanted the emperor of the Han Dynasty to avoid being the chief of a foreign tribe? You Li Deming is my father of Zhao Zhen? The people of the Song Dynasty did not pursue this matter with deep sympathy for the Dangxiang people. They seemed very generous and fraternal, and they also won the admiration and loyalty of a large number of Dangxiang people.

But it does not include Li Yuanhao. In his opinion, this is a kind of contempt! He even didn't even bother to give him a scolding! He immediately ordered to change "Mingdao" to "Xiandao" and abandon the Song Dynasty's reign from then on! He took the first step to establish his own business. But he had to wait 6 years to become an emperor...

On December 3, the Empress Dowager Liu E, who was both physically and mentally, wanted to realize her last dream in her life. She wanted to go to Jitian and worship Taimiao! She ordered the emperor's crown to enter the Taimiao and sit on an equal footing with them in the final soul habitat of the emperor of the Song Dynasty! On the 4th, the ritual officials ordered the etiquette to be formulated in detail. As expected, countless opposition immediately aroused. Two political affairs officers: Yan Shu took out the "Liu of Zhou" to correct the limit of the queen's highest etiquette. Xue Kui asked jokingly, "Will your Majesty be a worshiper on the day of his grand visit to the Han son or a daughter?" But no matter what, it could not shake Liu E's determination! What kind of secret is hidden in the pursuit of top honor?

On February 9, 2nd year of Mingdao (1033), in the bone-broken cold wind, Liu E forced herself to hold a sick body and took a jade cart that the emperor could only ride, and walked into the most sacred Taimiao of the Zhao Song royal family!

In front of the ancestors, Liu E wore a set of emperor's robes with a slightly modified sutra, wearing a ritual crown on her head, and sacrificed to her daughter-in-law, or as an emperor: I am your daughter-in-law, but I am also the emperor. Born in humbleness and raised in poverty, but I proved myself. Just like Your Majesty Taizu, you are all born into a commoner.

For more than 10 years, Liu E has been obsessed with fighting for her reputation, but she has resolutely refused to follow the footsteps of Wu Zetian, who killed her son and usurped the throne. This contradiction seems to have finally come to an answer. Although the Song Dynasty political system is perfected, the heroine will no longer be allowed to be a country, but the more important reason must be found in Liu E's spiritual background: maybe she never thought about usurping the throne and letting the Zhao family change her surname to Liu, all she wants is an admission...

The daughter of Shuchuan is old now, and she bid farewell to this life in the temple. This is her explanation to her soul. After being admitted to Tianli on the 11th, Liu E's condition quickly became worse. She wished that she had finally come to an end. On March 25th, on March 29th, at the age of Wu Zetian changing Tang to Zhou, Liu E, the 67-year-old Wu Zetian of the Northern Song Dynasty, passed away.

The last record of her life in the history of the Song Dynasty is probably still full of misunderstandings or deliberate distortions.

Song Renzong asked the ministers: When the empress dowager was dying, she could not speak, but she held her clothes with her hands several times, as if she had some advice. What did that mean? The ministers were puzzled. Finally, Xue Kui stood up and said: The empress dowager wanted to remove the emperor's robe. If she was wearing it, how could she meet the late emperor? History says that Song Renzong suddenly realized that when Liu E was still awake, she removed the emperor's logo and changed into the empress dowager's robe.

Liu E died. The last wish in the world finally left flaws, and her identity as emperor was not maintained until the end...

After leaving Taimiao on February 9, Liu E should have been wearing the emperor's clothes. Even when she could speak, she never ordered her to take it off. So she needed to get rid of it before she died. So what kind of persistence was she wearing it for 40 days? In the end, she held her emperor's clothes with her hands. Could it be interpreted as if she had to keep it until she was buried in peace?

Renzong's question and Xue Kui's answer were completely a tacit understanding between the monarch and the ministers. In addition, the interpretation of the Chinese feudal historian who put patriarchal power first...

"History of the Song Dynasty" commented that "the day was wise and the emperor was rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the mother and queen were in charge, while the inside and outside were solemn, the disciplines were carried out, and there was no major loss in the government." I basically agreed. But although there were no major loss in the government, Liu E still had the greatest regret in the past 10 years in power. Like her husband, she failed to curb the expansion of the Dangxiang people. During this period, the father and son of Li defeated the Ganzhou Uighurs, the Guazhou Cao family, and the Tubo Liugu tribe, and already had Xing, Xia, Yin, Sui, You, Jing, Ling, Gan, Gua, Sha, Su, Yan, Hui, Liang, and won 15 states... This regret is not only from Liu E, but also from the Northern Song Dynasty and the entire Han nationality.

The remaining question is whether she is friendly, respectable and cute. Some people say that she suppressed her "son" for 10 years and was too greedy and cool, but compared to Wu Zetian killing her biological son, was Liu E cruel or kind? When she summoned her mortal enemy Li Di in her later years, she asked, "What do you think I am protecting the emperor today?

Li Di replied, "I didn't know about the Empress Dowager's virtue or even this at the beginning." I believe this is the truth.

Is Li Yuanhao really uncontrollable? No! Just the month when Liu E died, Li Yuanhao's lifelong enemy, Yu Siluo, appeared!

Praise - strong; Pu - man, this is the title of Tubo emperors of all dynasties. Since the fall of Tubo in the late Tang Dynasty, this title rarely appears. But Yu Silu got it!

In Tibetan, the Tibetan historical materials can prove that he is really a descendant of the Tubo Zamp (there is also a saying: the prototype of the Tibetan epic "Biography of King Gesar" is this one). But when he was discovered, he was a poor and helpless young man who was stranded in Gaochang. At the age of 12, he was discovered by a large merchant and brought back to Hehuang, a gathering place of various Tubos. The local Tubo people have been fighting for more than a hundred years, but they cannot find out who is the leader. As soon as Yu Siluo appeared, he was immediately used. Li Lizun, a Tubo monk of Zongge, and Wen Boqi, the chief of Tubo in Miaochuan, recommended him as the supreme Zampu. Although he was just an authentic puppet, he was not in a hurry. After nearly 20 years of time, he was persevering and silent, defeating Li Lizun and Wen Boqi one by one, becoming the real Tubo Zampu!

Li Lizun fell, purely because he was seeking death by himself. This foreign monk was not greedy and was not satisfied with the Tubo in Hehuang (Tibetan) who became the prime minister of Tubo. In order to overwhelm Wen Qi, he was fantastic and sent people to the Song Dynasty to seek official positions. He wanted to be Zanpu on the condition that he could teach Li Deming a lesson for the Song Dynasty. However, his life was miserable, and the Song Dynasty would agree to him in the early years or later years. But at this time, Li Jiqian died, and Li Yuanhao was still too young. Why did a very obedient Li Deming go to provoke? Moreover, it was during the famous Dazhong Xiangfu period, and it was too late to worship the gods, and the fool went to war.

So Li Lizun started a war against the Song Dynasty. All he needed was victory to increase his prestige. As for who his opponent was, he didn't care. In 1016, he led 30,000 Tubo cavalry to attack Qinzhou, an important northwest of the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, it was General Cao Wei's defense area!

The decisive battle took place in Sandu Valley. On that day, the Tubo people rushed over, but Cao Wei was busy having dinner. He threw away his chopsticks and led his army to attack, but the number was only 6,000. With this little force, it was not easy to come.

Before this, Cao Wei accurately predicted that the war would break out and asked the emperor for troops. However, Zhao Heng's reaction was to ask a minister, "I will remove Cao Wei from his post, what do you think?" A soldier who is self-respecting is not allowed. Fortunately, the minister was Li Di, who guaranteed his life with his capital, so that Cao Wei's field war was strong outside the Sandu Valley.

There was nothing, only a head-on confrontation. 100 cavalry rushed out of Cao Wei's army, approaching the target, and suddenly scattered. A knight called Li Chao to shoot his bow and hit the enemy's chief general with one arrow. Later, Cao Wei drove his troops forward, and the Tubo people collapsed completely, with more than 10,000 casualties... Thanks to Cao Wei and Wang Shao, who later became Wang Shao, the Tubo people dared not invade the border for the Song Dynasty.

The Battle of Sandu Valley also brought a turning point in fate to Ye Siluo. The failed Li Lizun lost all his prestige and was abandoned by Hehuang Tubo. In 1023, Ye Silu moved the royal city from Zongge City under the power of Li Lizun to Miaochuan, but this was the hometown of another strongman Wen Qi, who became the prime minister of Tubo. Then Ye Siluo's life became even more miserable than when he was in Zongge City...

****'s style is very feminine. Li Lizun's failure told him that he would never start a random war. So Miaochuan entered an extremely peaceful period. There was no foreign war, no civil war, and even no small disputes. Especially the young lady was very obedient and never made any small moves to expand his strength and influence. He was very polite to be a puppet.

But Wen Qi suddenly launched a coup and locked up Li Si Luo into a dungeon. He was cruel and immediately killed Li Si Luo's only confidant.

At this point, based on the struggle experience of the Han people, there is no suspense. Yu Siluo is dead, and Wen Qi will soon become the next Tubo Zamp. But the fact is the opposite. The legendary nature of the process and the inevitability of the results deeply reveal the psychological state of the Tubo people at that time and the ethical concept of staying together for generations.

The desperate situation was quietly released by a guard. After escaping from the dungeon, he did not escape, but immediately came to his subjects, "I am Zanpu, I quell the rebellion for me" and ended Wen Qi's life, the life of his entire family, and this coup... clean and neat, without any ambiguity. It should be emphasized that this happened in the hometown where Wen Qi stayed together for generations: Miaochuan City.
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