Chapter 65 Section 2 Trabecular Empress Dowager

In the battle of Yongle City, although Xixia won the Northern Song Dynasty, it was also a tragic victory.The war greatly reduced the national power of Xixia, and the people were in dire straits. Therefore, the anti-Liang forces in the Xixia court pointed their finger at the empress dowager Liang who was the main battler.So, what will the Empress Dowager Liang do at this time? Although the Queen Mother Liang won both big battles, Xixia was a miserable victory.Inside the imperial court, the forces against the Liang Clique are getting stronger and stronger, and it is your Liang brothers and sisters who monopolize the power, tossing the country like this.In this case, the Empress Dowager Liang had to return the power to her son, Huizong Li Bingchang.The power is returned to you, but the queen is my niece. Although your uncle Guoxiang Liang Yibu is dead, Liang Yibu’s son must succeed him as Guoxiang, and the Guoxiang will be hereditary from the Liang family.As long as the Xixia Kingdom survives, people from our family will always be the prime minister and queen of the country, so that I can rest assured when I return to power.

In the second year, Empress Dowager Liang died.Her niece is the queen, her nephew is the prime minister, and the power is still in the hands of the Liang brothers and sisters.Bingchang was very depressed, and soon followed his mother. He was twenty-six years old when he died.The second emperor of Xixia lived to be 21 years old, and the third emperor lived to be 26 years old. They all died young under the pressure of their mother and relatives.When Bingchang died, his son came to the throne at the age of three. This was the fourth emperor of Xixia——Chongzong Li Qianshun.The little emperor's uncle is the prime minister, and his mother is the queen mother. The Xixia regime is still in the hands of the Liang family.This empress dowager is not that empress dowager, this empress dowager is Xiaoliang empress dowager, different from the old Liang empress dowager who attacked Yongle City, both aunt and nephew are empress dowagers.The Liang family has two empresses and two ministers, which is rare in all dynasties.

Xiaoliang Empress Dowager Xiaoliang deliberately wanted to inherit the mantle of her aunt, the old Empress Dowager Liang, and she wanted to be a strong woman in the war, to expand the territory of Xixia, and use war to lay the foundation for the Liang family's foundation.However, there is a price to be paid for fighting wars. Since ancient times, anyone who wants to use foreign wars to quell internal troubles and divert domestic conflicts must end up losing both internally and externally.If a foreign war is launched under domestic instability, the result will definitely be that foreign countries cannot cope with it, and the country will still be in disarray.Empress Dowager Xiao Chuo of the Liao Dynasty attacked the Song Dynasty completely out of a public heart, and really for the sake of the country's long-term stability, she can be regarded as a strong woman.Compared with Xiao Chuo, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang is more like a female hooligan, playing a rascal.She raised troops repeatedly, all for the benefit of the Liang family.As long as the Liang family is suitable, it is not in her eyes at all as far as Jiangshan Sheji and Limin people are concerned.Therefore, the roles played by the two empress dowagers in the history of the two countries are completely different.

After a few battles, although the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang made some achievements, she was opposed by more people, and her younger brother broke up with her.Her younger brother is the Prime Minister of the country, and he always wants to monopolize the government. Of course, Xiaoliang Empress Dowager can't allow it. She preemptively kills her younger brother and her whole family.In this way, the Liang family became even more isolated.The more isolated the Liang family is, the more they need to launch foreign wars to improve their prestige.Therefore, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang took her son Chongzong Li Qianshun and led an army of more than 300,000 to conquer the Song Dynasty and attack Pingxia City in the Song Dynasty.Since the Song Dynasty gave the city such a name, we know that this is another important place for military strategists, located outside the mouth of Shimen Gorge.