In the small meeting room of the Constitutional Council, contrary to usual practice, the prime ministers did not discuss the direction of national development, but fell into silence.
Piles of information were placed in front of everyone, and the old men, wearing reading glasses, lowered their heads to study.
In fact, the news of Li Yuanhao's death had already come as early as the middle of last month.
This kind of thing must be reported to the central government as an urgent report as soon as possible. Therefore, not long after Zhao Jun learned the news, the court also received the news.
However, they only got a rough overview of the situation at that time. They did not know how Li Yuanhao died or what happened inside Western Xia.
Now all kinds of spies, secret agents and detectives inside Xixia have passed on the news and compiled it into complete information, so that everyone knows what is going on.
Since May of the sixth year of the Qingli period, when Li Yuanhao led a large army to raid Qingtang and successfully defeated Zuosiluo, Li Yuanhao's reputation has soared.
The dispute between Qingtang and Western Xia has a long history, and the two sides can be said to be sworn enemies. Conquering Qingtang means that Li Yuanhao has once again established his status and prestige in the country.
However, this situation only lasted for less than a few months. With the Song Dynasty sending troops in August, things took a turn for the worse, and Li Yuanhao fell to the bottom.
He originally hoped to make a feint to the west and attack the east, using Qingtang as bait, while he himself led the main force in the country to raid the border of the Song Dynasty.
However, they never expected that the Western Xia army guarding Qingtang was defeated so quickly, which meant that even if Li Yuanhao repelled the feint attack troops sent by the Song army in the east, he was unable to save the situation.
Although Ren Fu in the east was repelled, Zhang Kang, Jingtai and other troops in the west had already brazenly marched north, posing a serious threat to the Western Xia capital, Xingqing Prefecture.
For this reason, Li Yuanhao had to run around and turn back to seek help, but was defeated by the Song army and ended up fleeing north in panic.
The loss of Zhuola and Nan not only meant the loss of Western Xia territory, but also meant that the Song army had the ability to directly threaten Xingqing Prefecture, so that Li Yuanhao was trapped internally and externally and fell into an extremely embarrassing situation.
This situation became more and more serious with the end of the Liao-Song War.
The Western Xia was not a monolithic entity. For example, Li Yuanhao's uncle Shan Yu Weiliang was pro-Song. He left the Western Xia during the Baoyuan period and fled to the Song Dynasty, where he was protected by the Song Dynasty.
Seeing that Li Yuanhao was going further and further on the road of anti-Song, and the strength of the Song Dynasty was also frightening, the voices of opposition in Western Xia naturally became louder and louder.
If Li Yuanhao had chosen the right approach, such as personally going to the State of Song to apologize, or abdicating to thank the world and then obtaining forgiveness from the Song Dynasty, perhaps things would not have come to this.
However, he had always been stubborn and self-willed, and the repeated failures made him completely lose his mind. He even made a stupid move and killed the brothers Yeli Yuqi and Yeli Wangrong.
Because in his opinion, it was the Yeli brothers' rapid defeat in Qingtang that led to such a defeat.
But the problem is that the Yeli brothers have always been loyal to him, and they have a high prestige in the army. This failure itself cannot be blamed on them.
The gap in weapons between the Song army and the Western Xia was too great. It was already good enough that they could hold out for half a month. It was obviously unfair to put all the blame on the two of them.
The killing of the two men caused an uproar. Both the army and the people were outraged, and the situation in Xixia, which was already dissatisfied with Yuan Hao, became even more turbulent.
Many leaders of the Tangut tribe of Western Xia led their tribes to withdraw from the Western Xia army, and the vast Western Xia fell apart overnight.
Starting from the end of the seventh year of the Qingli period, tribes began to rebel one after another, and even Li Yuanhao's own Weiming tribe was in turmoil.
It was not until this time that Li Yuanhao realized something was wrong and hurriedly led the troops that were still loyal to him to fight.
However, war and rebellion broke out everywhere in Western Xia, which was no longer under his control. Even many other ethnic groups that he had conquered in his early years began to revolt on a large scale.
By the end of May this year, the exhausted Li Yuanhao was finally defeated and fled from Xingqing Prefecture in a panic. On his way to Dingzhou, he was caught up by the rebels and eventually drowned in the Yellow River. Even his body disappeared.
"I never thought that Li Yuanhao, after all, was the founding emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty in history and a great leader, would die in such a way."
After reading the information, everyone was moved.
Fan Zhongyan knew this old rival quite well. He shook his head and said, "Li Yuanhao was stubborn and self-willed. This outcome is quite normal."
"In the final analysis, it's because the Song Dynasty was too weak. Li Yuanhao wasn't some wise god, so the fact that he was able to establish a country was just a foil to his peers, wasn't it?"
Zhao Jun spread his hands and told the cruel truth without mercy.
Everyone has long been accustomed to it.
Song Shou said, "In history, Yuan Hao died of fear after his son cut off his nose. Now, this is his end, which can be considered a decent one."
"The most urgent matter now is how the Song Dynasty should respond."
Cai Qi said, "Weigening Ling has already taken the throne. If he continues to coordinate the Tanguts, the northwest will eventually be plagued by border troubles."
Wei Ge Ning Ling was not Li Yuanhao's son Li Ning Ling Ge, but his cousin.
During this internal rebellion of the Dangxiang, various forces competed with each other, Li Yuanhao was deserted by his friends and relatives, and many internal contradictions became prominent.
Among them, Weigening Ling joined forces with Nuoyi Shangdu, Maiyi Xiangre, Weiming Langbu, Yemei Langluo and other generals and leaders to launch an expedition against Li Yuanhao.
After Li Yuanhao's demise, Weigeningling was the strongest among the remaining forces, with an army of more than 20,000 and tens of thousands of tribesmen following him.
Under such circumstances, many people supported Weigening Ling, so he succeeded to the throne in early June and became the ruler of Western Xia.
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