The Southern Han Dynasty and Dali have always been in contact, but the relationship between the two parties was not good at that time, and they even fought over the control of Guilezhou (Baise area of Guangxi) and Jinghaihai.
However, after Dachanghe, who ruled Nanzhao at that time, was violently beaten by the former Shu king Jian, the two families began to choose to get closer.
Emperor Zheng Renmin of Dachanghe State also proposed to the Southern Han Dynasty, and Liu Sui, the emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, married his niece Zengcheng County Lord to him. However, Zheng Renmin died suddenly and the contact between the two parties was severed.
But today, when Dong Mohe, the envoy from Dali, saw the envoy from the Southern Han Dynasty, his heart skipped a beat, and he naturally felt a sense of closeness.
Over time, the world has changed. Dali and the Southern Han Dynasty, which had been competing with each other before, have fallen into the same crisis. Now among the countries in the world, those who have not yet surrendered are the only ones left, Dali and Han.
Dong Mohe is not an idiot. He naturally understands the strength gap between Dali and Dazhou, but it is precisely because of his intelligence that he 'discovered' a hidden truth.
That is, now that Zhou Dynasty is busy conquering the Western Regions and subduing the remaining Khitan dynasties, he has no choice but to squeeze the land of Shu with all his strength, making the people of Shu miserable and unpopular.
Now the Zhou people are showing weakness in Nanxi Mansion and preventing the Dali people from going deep into Shu. All this is to cover up the truth about Shu.
This is the last chance for the Dali Kingdom. Once the Zhou people have settled the Western Regions and Liaodong, they will attack Dali with all their strength.
Of course, the biggest source of confidence for Dong Mohe came from the conflict between Nanzhao, the predecessor of Dali, and the Central Plains court after the founding of the country. Although most of them were at a disadvantage, they were not without the ability to fight back.
With the great power of the Tang Dynasty, it could only restrain the empire. The newly built Great Zhou Dynasty was far inferior to the old Tang Dynasty. Dong Mohe believed that it was time for the Dali Kingdom to use war to promote peace and make it admit that it was located in the south of the country and would not listen to the propaganda.
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However, Dong Mohe would never have thought that Zhang Yan would completely monitor their Dali envoys and not allow them to contact merchants. The real purpose of the people was not to cover up the conquest of the Western Regions and to subjugate the Khitan.
It was precisely because these two things had already been completed, and they were just waiting to deal with the Wang family that Gaoli would come to deal with them, so they deliberately released the smoke bomb.
Zhang Yan rushed to Xuchang Mansion and then stopped leaving. The envoys from Dali and the Southern Han Dynasty were also required to go as far as Xuchang Mansion and were not allowed to go to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo and Luoyang, the sacred capital.
Because these two places, under Zhang's policy of light corvee and low taxes and the revitalization of trade routes, have begun to show a little bit of the prosperous times.
Let them go to Tokyo and Luoyang, there will be too many people, especially the people in these two places are fond of talking about politics. They keep talking about the great army of Zhou Dynasty killing the barbarians in the river and conquering the tribe in the northern part of the desert. Maybe when
It's revealed.
Zhang Gao did not quickly summon the envoys from the two countries. He waited until Zhang Lieming came to report. Under the clever arrangement of the Jinyi guards, the deputy envoys of the two countries' envoys had already met before Zhang Gao summoned Dong Mohe.
The Emperor of Zhou in Dong Mohe's eyes was actually not young. Although he seemed to be in good health, he blocked his mouth with a brocade handkerchief from time to time and coughed lightly.
Thinking that the sage emperor was about to turn thirty-eight years old, Dong Mohe felt that the emperor Zhou only had ten years left to live.
After destroying the Southern Han Dynasty with a high probability and barely leaving the country intact, it's time to enjoy yourself. Otherwise, being an emperor for ten to twenty years would be a huge loss.
The main reason that prompted Dong Mohe to think this way was that the lifespans of emperors in the past dynasties were not very long.
According to later statistics, the average life span of Chinese emperors was only about forty years old.
Although there are extreme cases like Emperor Shang of the Han Dynasty, at this time we must also exclude the eighty-nine-year-old I Shiquan, the eighty-one-year-old Wanyan Jiumei, the seventy-year-old Hongwu Emperor, and the sixty-nine-year-old Brother Ma.
Plant a long-lived emperor.
The profession of an emperor requires him to face not only the ever-troubling political struggles, but also the most powerful temptations in the world.
As long as you have a little bit of self-control, spend every day eating and drinking, and have a threesome or foursome with beautiful women every night, it's amazing how long you can live.
Historically speaking, among the long-lived emperors, Emperor Hongwu and Brother Mag were the ones with extraordinary talents, energy and abilities in some aspects far beyond ordinary people.
For the rest, I am completely a health master, with a wide range of hobbies, a strong resistance to female sex, and the quality of my harem in the Qing Dynasty, so I understand everything.
At the same time, after Monk Xiao firmly believed in the Buddha, he did not get close to women. After Wanyan Jiumei was frightened, she could not use it because she was direct. Wu Zetian was simply a woman.
Obviously, if a man wants to live longer, he still needs to exercise moderation in certain aspects!
So overall, Dong Mohe's opinion that I, Zhang Shengren, can live another ten years and barely reach the age of fifty is absolutely a very normal and fair judgment.
Thinking of this, Dong Mohe felt relieved for the first time. After he kowtowed, he said loudly:
"The Dali Kingdom is located in the south of the sky. It has been a vassal state in the Central Plains since the Nanzhao period. Now my lord is willing to follow the example of the previous dynasty and regard the Great Zhou Dynasty as the Zhengshuo and the Holy Emperor as the lord."
If he were an indigenous founding emperor, hearing these words would have stopped thinking about continuing to conquer Dali.
At this time, Duan's Dali was just like Wang's Korea. Even if it was conquered, it would be a place where it would lose money. It was better to collect some tribute and save face.
But Zhang Yan was not. He came from later generations and deeply understood the importance of the location of Dali, that is, Yunnan.
Yunnan, our country, is like Mount Tai, pressing on top of Southeast Asia. Dozens of large rivers run from here to Southeast Asia. With a little effort, we can flow down the river and establish a large number of small states.
Although it is tasteless to eat now, please claim that it can expand the living space and seize it for future generations!
Therefore, I, Saint Zhang, snorted coldly, "You are speaking respectfully here, but I heard that Duan Siliang claimed to be emperor in China, and also gave Duan Siping the posthumous title of Holy Civil and Military Emperor.
Huh! Do you in Dali know that there are no two days in the sky and no two masters in the house?"
Dong Mohe knew that Zhang Yan would be dissatisfied in this aspect, but it was not a big deal, it was completely negotiable. As long as the central court gave enough or the fist was big enough, it would only take a matter of minutes to cancel the imperial title.
But at this time, Dong Mohe thought of Nanxi Mansion, which had Dali in a chokehold. Although Guo Rong felt that he was already weak, the gap between Dali and the central government was still too big.
Guo Rong used salt and sugar cloth to lure the various tribes in Dali in Nanxi Prefecture. In order to bring them back, Dali had to either bite the bullet and give them rewards, or send troops to fight.
This was very costly for Dali, whose strength had not yet recovered to that of the Nanzhao period.
So Dong Mohe also said to Zhang Yan with a little anger: "Since Da Zhou is the head of the Dali Kingdom, why did he recruit the Abang, Adu, Mangbu, Shama and other tribes of the Dali Kingdom in Nanxi Prefecture?
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Zhao Ying, the councilor and political officer who was sitting under Zhang Xian, smiled coldly, "Since Dali is the nephew of the family, we should also ask the envoy to go back and report to King Duan to return Yueqi and other prefectures that were invaded during the Nanzhao period.
, there is no reason for a nephew to embezzle his father’s assets.”
Dong Mohe's anger also rose, and Yueqi Mansion was called Jianchang Mansion in Dali, which was later known as Xichang City.
What can I say about this place? The dozen or so tribes around it are actually just grassroots. Sometimes they submit to the imperial court, and sometimes they submit to Nanzhao. They cannot be strictly regarded as belonging to anyone at all.
But whenever the imperial court wanted to repair Nanzhao, it would use the Yue Xi Mansion as an excuse. Over the past few hundred years, the people in Nanzhao (Dali) had become a little neurasthenic.
The term "嶲" connotes a sense of anger and helplessness that one is about to be beaten.
"Is Mr. Zhao threatening you? Although Dali is small, it is not a piece of meat on the chopping board. If the court is willing to treat us with courtesy, we will still be loyal vassals of the great court.
If the imperial court wants to be rude and oppressive, then the millions of soldiers and civilians in Dali are not foolhardy. My ancestor, the great king of the Duan family, was the guard general of Taihe City. Today, Dali has a good government and is as strong as Wang Darong."
Of the two people Dong Mohe mentioned, one was Duan Jianwei, the ancestor of the Duan family in Dali, who accompanied Ge Luofeng to defeat the 80,000 Tang army led by Xianyu Zhongtong outside Taihe City.
The second one is Wang Cuodian, a former powerful minister of Nanzhao who was honored as Darong (meaning brother of the emperor) by the king of Nanzhao.
During the Changqing reign of Emperor Mu Zong of the Tang Dynasty, this man led a 60,000-strong Nanzhao army in the Northern Expedition, conquering Xi (Xichang), Rong (Yibin), Qiong and other prefectures, and fought all the way to Chengdu and captured the outer city of Chengdu.
This was the most glorious battle since the entire Nanzhao Kingdom. According to historical records, within 800 miles south of Chengdu and north of Yuexi, there were no humans or animals.
The Nanzhao army kidnapped at least 150,000 to 200,000 people, and killed even more people. Emperor Mu Zong of the Tang Dynasty could only quickly transfer Prime Minister Li Deyu to Chengdu to guard the city, and he could barely stabilize the situation.
Zhang Yan was waiting for this. When he heard this, he became furious and threw the brocade handkerchief to the ground.
This action was actually a bit girly, because the brocade handkerchief was so light and fluttered in the air twice before falling to the ground. It was not as powerful as throwing other heavy objects, but this was the effect Zhang Yan wanted.
As soon as Dong Mohe said the words, he felt that he had gone too far. When he saw Zhang Yan getting angry, he thought that his life would be destroyed, and his thighs began to tremble, but he heard Zhang Yan shouting loudly:
"Duan Siriang takes this arrogant and rebellious person as his envoy. He doesn't really want to surrender. Come on! Beat this thief with a stick and order the knights in brocade to escort him back to Dali and hand him over to Duan. He is not allowed to stop along the way."
Dong Mohe felt a burst of ecstasy. Although he had been beaten several times, he felt that he had accomplished the task of finding out the reality of the Han Dynasty in the Zhou Kingdom.
He said such excessive words, but Emperor Zhou did not dare to kill him. It must be that the army was deeply trapped in the northwest and northeast, and was not prepared for a war with Dali at all.
I have to go back quickly and report the situation to His Majesty. Maybe I can take the opportunity to seize the Nanxi Mansion of the Zhou people, and also encourage the Liu family in Lingnan to send troops to fight.
If the Zhou people invaded with a large army, they could bargain with the return of Nanxi Mansion. If the Zhou people wanted to attack the Southern Han Dynasty again, they would be able to achieve a situation similar to that of Nanzhao.
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