"Song Ting's son, you are bullying others too much!"
A young man with a strong build and slightly dark skin slammed the table in front of him in anger.
"Dad, please take 50,000 troops and horses. After the spring begins, we will drive directly to Qingzhou!"
This angry young man was none other than Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao.
Half a month ago, after the court meeting, in order to make the officials change their minds, Wang Zeng quietly let the outside world know.
For a time, the discussion of banning salt suddenly became noisy.
Scholars and officials were discussing this matter, and it didn't take long before the topic of salt ban reached the ears of Xixia spies.
Before his death, Li Jiqian left his last words and asked his son Li Deming to restore friendly relations with the Song Dynasty.
After all, Dang Xiang’s enemies are not limited to the Song Dynasty.
The Tibetans in Hexi were also great enemies.
In addition, although Dangxiang captured Lingzhou from Song Ting, Song Ting gave up on his own initiative.
After Li Jiqian captured Lingzhou, he attempted to expand his victory and continued to march eastward, launching a siege on Linzhou (today's Shenmu, Shaanxi).
As a result, Linzhou not only failed to defeat it, but also suffered a huge loss.
After that battle, Li Jiqian immediately realized that the Song Dynasty should not be provoked at will, even if the Song army's field combat capabilities were weak.
However, the Song Dynasty has thousands of miles of mountains and rivers and a population of tens of millions of households. If the Song Dynasty really angers the Song Dynasty, the Dangxiang tribe may be in danger.
Therefore, Li Jiqian left his last words not to offend Song Ting easily.
After Li Deming succeeded as the leader of the tribe, he strictly abided by his father's last words. Like his father, he first continued to surrender to the Liao Kingdom, and then negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty.
It is not difficult to surrender to the Liao Kingdom.
When Li Jiqian was in power, he paid tribute to the Liao Kingdom and became a vassal, and also took Princess Yicheng of the Liao Kingdom.
With this origin, it was only a matter of course that Li Deming continued to pay tribute and become a minister.
As for Song Ting, it's actually not difficult at all.
Song Zhenzong didn't want to start a war with Dang Xiang at all. All his thoughts were on "self-proof" that destiny is on me.
Therefore, Song Dynasty and Dangxiang also hit it off immediately when negotiating peace.
However, although Li Deming professed his submission to the Song Dynasty, he knew very well that this was just a temporary measure.
Only in this way can he let go of his hands and feet and secure the two states of Gan and Liang with peace of mind.
Of course, while attacking Tibet in the south and the Uighurs in the west, Li Deming also did not forget to place spies in Song and Liao.
Although the Song and Liao countries both claim to be great powers, they should not break their promises and rashly attack Dangxiang territory, but they are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.
What if in the process of attacking Tubo and Uighurs, the Song Dynasty or the Liao Kingdom would tear up the agreement and attack their rear areas.
Then, the Tubo and Uighurs in the Liugu tribe joined forces to attack.
At that time, the party may only be defeated.
Therefore, Li Deming placed many secret agents in the capitals of the Song Dynasty and Liao Kingdom.
These secret agents don't need to be too active, they just need to inquire about some relatively public information.
For example, whether the army will be deployed, and another example, whether there will be any changes in the relationship between the two countries, etc.
Not long ago, there was a lot of fuss about the salt ban, and the party spies got the information about the salt ban without any effort at all.
Then, the spies traveled eight hundred miles to spread the news about the salt ban back to Xingzhou.
"Shut up!"
Li Deming banged the table and said angrily.
"Have you read all the military instructions I gave you and gone into the dog's belly?"
"ah?"
"And drive directly to Gyeongju?"
Li Deming became more and more angry as he spoke. As he spoke, he stood up. After looking around, he walked straight to the weapons rack aside and pulled out a stick angrily.
"come over!"
Then, he waved to Li Yuanhao with an angry expression.
Seeing this, how could Li Yuanhao not understand what his father wanted to do? He just wanted to beat him up, but even though his face was full of dissatisfaction and stubbornness.
But his body was still very honest, and he obediently moved a few steps to the side and came to Li Deming.
"Get down!"
Hearing this, Li Yuanhao didn't waste any time and just lay down on the desk in front of him on the left.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Here, just as Li Yuanhao lay down, Li Deming raised his stick and struck his son three times with the stick.
"Attack the Song Dynasty?"
Li Deming shouted angrily while beating him.
"Attack the Song Dynasty?"
"What did you hit with?"
"ah?"
"In the fourth year of Tianxi (1020), the emperor of Liao personally led an army of 500,000 to attack Liangdian. Have you forgotten this traitor?"
"Although we won that battle, we also won miserably!"
"But for the Liao Kingdom, did it hurt the muscles and bones?"
"No!"
"No!"
Li Deming roared twice in succession, which did not scare Li Yuanhao, but frightened the palace people outside.
"Zi Zhong, tell me, what did your eldest father give you before his death?"
Li Yuanhao, who was lying on the table, still looked unruly, gritted his teeth and remained silent.
He doesn't believe in the saying that "Song Ting is a sleeping tiger". Is the Song army very powerful?
Wasn’t he beaten to pieces by the Liao Kingdom?
And the Liao Kingdom.
Haha, wasn’t the Xia Kingdom completely defeated three years ago?
Even the Liao Kingdom was their opponent, so what could Song Ting do?
In his opinion, his father and eldest father (Li Jiqian) were too conservative. If it were him, he would directly lead the army, attack the Song court directly, and defeat the Song people!
Anyway, the Song army did not dare to fight in the field. With the Xia people's cavalry and shooting, they could come and go freely. The Song people took everything they wanted.
"hehe!"
"Okay, very good!"
Seeing that his son refused to speak, Li Deming laughed angrily, then waved the stick in his hand and hit Li Yuanhao hard on the body.
boom!
boom!
boom!
After a few strokes, the clothes on Li Yuanhao's back were stained with blood.
However, from beginning to end, Li Yuanhao never asked for mercy, and even when his skin was torn to pieces, he never cried out.
He is like an unruly wolf cub who would rather die than let go of his self-esteem.
After a while, Li Yuanhao, who was about to fall into coma, suddenly discovered that the stick blows seemed to have stopped?
This is not Li Yuanhao's illusion, but reality.
Li Deming is very satisfied with Li Yuanhao's son. Today's punishment is just to make his son have a better memory.
Despite his overwhelming anger, he was actually very measured in his strikes, hitting areas that were very painful but not harmful to the muscles and bones.
A beating and education would be enough. He had no intention of beating Li Yuanhao to death.
How could he be willing to beat him to death?
"Someone is coming!"
Before he fainted, Li Yuanhao vaguely heard a rush of footsteps beside him, and then he felt that he was being lifted up.
Daddy is going to lock me up?
As soon as this thought arose, the next moment, he lost consciousness and passed out directly.
Looking at Li Yuanhao being carried away by the doctor, Li Deming sighed.
This kid is good at everything, but he is too unruly.