In the summer of the ninth year of Baotian's reign in Dali, auspiciousness descended on Dali!
In just one month, the news about "the emergence of the Southern Emperor and the rise of Dali" spread throughout the eight prefectures, four counties, four towns, and thirty-seven departments of Dali. All the prominent people in Dali Kingdom know that Dali Kingdom is about to rise!
This is not unscrupulous nonsense, it is what the auspicious fish belly book says! Moreover, the fish with the book in its belly was not caught in the Erhai Lake, but in the Pearl River in Guangzhou, two thousand miles away. Then, envoys from the Song Dynasty court traveled thousands of miles to Yangjume City, the capital of Dali.
Therefore, it is impossible to forge the books in the fish belly... Even if the emperor of the Song Dynasty wanted to forge the books in the fish belly, it would be "the official family will prosper the Song Dynasty"!
Therefore, the possibility that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty forged this kind of fish belly book and sent it all the way to Dali to show it to the Southern Emperor Duan Yu was almost non-existent... So the Emperor of the Song Dynasty sent an envoy to deliver the book (the Fish Belly Book) This action is tantamount to endorsing Xiangrui.
And this true and reliable auspiciousness can be used to deceive the ignorant barbarians in Dali. The territory of these thirty-seven barbarians is located in the east and northeast of Dali, which is just in the middle of the Song Dynasty and into the heart of Dali. The main road of the land. Since the Nanzhao era, these barbarians have been a headache.
When the Dali Kingdom ruled Nanzhong, neither the Duan royal family, the Gao family's powerful ministers, nor the Yang family, which had risen earlier than the Gao family, had nothing to do with these barbarians. These barbarians were unstable in their rebellion. They would often obey when the Dali regime was strong, and rebel and cause trouble when the Dali regime was weak.
However, it was precisely because of the existence of these thirty-seven barbarians that the Duan royal family and the Gao family's powerful officials had to tolerate each other. If these thirty-seven people had always been submissive, then the Duan family and the Gao family would have fought to the death.
As for Duan Yu, the Gao family has been greatly weakened by internal strife. Therefore, the thirty-seven tribes of Wuman became the main threat-when the Gao family was weakened, the military force of the Dali court was also weakened. Therefore, more than ten years ago, several of the thirty-seven tribes rebelled. Duan Yu sent troops to attack them but failed to win, so he had to resort to appeasement and marriage.
But recruitment and marriage still need to be backed by strength!
But Duan Yu's hard power is insufficient, and he won't be able to make up for it in a short while... If his family had enough hard power, his uncle Duan Zhengming would not be the emperor and should not become a monk! His father, Duan Zhengchun, would not be so afraid of his wife. Therefore, Duan Yu could only find ways to supplement his soft power and package himself as a benevolent monarch with both civil and military skills. This was a way to increase his soft power.
And the "auspiciousness" that Lu Daqi brought to his door was also taken by him and added to himself.
Of course, he didn't use other people's auspiciousness in vain. He agreed to the conditions of the Southern Song Dynasty - to conquer Annan Kingdom together! However, Lu Daqi first had to cooperate with him in performing all the tricks, and he had to make the leaders of the thirty-seven Wuman tribes believe in the auspiciousness of "when the Southern Emperor comes out, Dali will prosper".
In this way, he can mobilize the manpower and material resources of the thirty-seventh department to deal with Ananguo... No matter whether he wins or loses, it will not hurt him!
So in June of the ninth year of Baotian, the city of Yangjumei, the capital of Dali, was already crowded with thirty-seven nobles who came to pay tribute with gifts.
It seems that Xiangrui, who was endorsed by the Song Dynasty envoy, is still very good at deceiving people...Duan's own credibility is not good, but the Song Dynasty is a state, and he will not go all the way to replace Duan Yu. Fake?
But at this moment, Duan Yu and Duan Zhengyan, who were in the highlight moment of their lives, would never have thought that his old enemy Wang Chongyang had already led the Luzhou Xiang Army to the Zunyi Army with a general!
Oh, then Wang Zhongfu is actually Wang Chongyang, Chongyangzi is his Taoist title after he became a Taoist, and Zhongfu is his famous name.
Wang Chongyang in history was originally a contemporary of Duan Yu. He was twenty-nine years younger than Duan Yu, but he died six years earlier than Duan Yu...Wang Chongyang had practiced immortality for so many years before he became an immortal. Lived to the age of fifty-eight. And Duan Yu had so many wives, he had been slutty for decades, and finally lived for ninety-three years!
Therefore, Wang Chongyang is not very good at cultivating immortals. Fortunately, he no longer cultivates as immortals this time. He has prospered as an official, and now he has an opportunity to rise to great heights, so what else can he do to become an immortal?
And this opportunity to rise to prominence was given to him by Duan Yu... It turned out that Duan Yu's "Southern Emperor" was randomly planted by Zhao Kai, and there was no real evidence. As for arrogantly proclaiming himself emperor, although it is wrong, when Duan Siping, the sacred civil and military emperor of the Dali Kingdom, won the country and proclaimed himself emperor, the Song Dynasty did not exist yet!
Later, Zhao Kuangyin used a jade ax to demarcate the boundary, declaring that "anything else is not owned by me" and fully recognized the sovereignty of the Dali Kingdom. Since the territory of the Dali Kingdom was "not owned by me", what name should Duan Yu use? Can Zhao Kaiguan control it? ? Even though Dali later professed its vassalage to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty never cared about the Duan family of Dali professing its vassalage to the Song Dynasty!
Therefore, it would be difficult for Chen Ji to use this as an excuse to force Duan Yu to go to court to plead guilty...Chen Ji was actually making blind suggestions. As the prime minister, he was just a big steward. In terms of strategy, he was worse than Lu Yihao. Too much.
But this time he and Wang Zhongfu, who was in charge of this matter, were both lucky!
This Duan Yu was so obsessed that he even claimed that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty sent envoys to send him auspicious auspiciousness... He also wanted to celebrate "the Southern Emperor came out and Dali prospered", and even asked the thirty-seven tribes in eastern Yunnan The barbarian went to give him a gift.
This clearly shows that the barbarians from the Thirty-seventh Division of Eastern Yunnan are being deceived as fools!
And he even got the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to endorse him... There was no way the Emperor of the Song Dynasty would do such a thing!
So Wang Zhongfu made a prompt decision to lead his troops to slap him in the face!
The thirty-seven tribes in Eastern Yunnan must know that the Dali Emperor Duan Zhengyan was deceiving them as fools, and he also offended the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Now the emperor wants to send troops to investigate the crime!
However, the number of soldiers in Luzhou was not large, and there were many barbarians nearby who needed to be on guard. Therefore, Wang Zhongfu could only draw one general and more than 2,000 men at most, which was not enough.
Fortunately, there is Yang Xuan, the Zunyi army envoy, who can help. The chieftain of the Yang family in Bozhou has a grasp of the local area that is not comparable to that of an official like Wang Zhongfu. The Bozhou and Zunyi armies combined are equivalent to a low-configuration Jieduzhilu... Weapons and equipment training is very poor, and there are no high-quality officers, but their mobilization ability is first-rate. All the strong men in the territory are registered, and the master of the Yang family can immediately pull out 20,000 to 30,000 people with a single order.
Moreover, south of the Zunyi Army, there are many barbarian tribes in Jisi Prefecture, and there are a lot of chieftains. Every family will pull out a large group to build up their momentum.
Because Yang Weicong was seriously ill, Yang Xuan, who had actually taken charge of the affairs of the Bozhou and Zunyi armies, also felt that this was an opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune.
So while gathering troops, he asked Wu Jie, the Sichuan Road pacifier stationed in Gongzhou (Chongqing Prefecture), to fight.
And Wu Jie had already received an imperial edict from Zhao Kai, ordering him to send troops to put pressure on Dali to cooperate with Wang Zhongfu and Yang Xuan. Therefore, military orders to send troops were immediately issued to Bozhou, Zunyi Army, Luzhou and Jisuzhou south of Zunyi, and Yang Xuan was appointed as the temporary capital commander.
The commotion was huge now. The Luzhou, Bozhou, and Zunyi armies sent out a total of 30,000 troops, and a dozen Jisuzhous also sent out 30,000 troops. The total number was said to be 100,000, so they went to scare Duan Yu.
At the same time, Yang Xuan also asked people from Mujiachuan of the Zunyi Army to send the news that the Song Dynasty Tianbing was going to attack Dali and inform Duan Yu's Concubine Mu - Duan Yu's Concubine Mu was not from Dali, but Mu Guifei, a wealthy family in Zunyi. The woman from his family somehow got close to him...
The crusade by one hundred thousand Song Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers is no joke!
Although the border between the Song Dynasty and Dali has been relatively stable in recent years, the legend of the battle between Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty still spread to the 37 Wuman tribes in Dali.
Such a powerful Song Dynasty is now going to attack Duan Zhengyan, who forged auspicious signs and found someone to pretend to be an angel!
These nobles from the thirty-seven tribes of Wuman gave up and all rushed to the palace to ask for an explanation - they had made Duan Yu miserable, not to mention giving him gifts in vain, and now their homeland was still facing the invasion of the Song army.
This was all Duan Yu's fault, and the people of Song Dynasty wanted Duan Yu, so it had nothing to do with them.
At this time, Duan Yu also received the news from the imperial concubine Mu Wanqing that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was furious and wanted to send troops to conquer Dali and capture him, the Southern Emperor, to question...
Duan Yu was now in a state of chaos, and had no intention of dealing with the barbarian leaders gathered at the palace gate. He immediately asked Prime Minister Gao Shunzhen and General Dingyuan, who came to congratulate Yangjumei City, to stay behind in Tokyo (Shanchan Mansion, also That is, Kunming) Gao, Ming and Qing all called to the palace to discuss countermeasures.
"This, this, what should we do? Mr. China, General Dingyuan, you are talking!"
Seeing that the two Gao family members had lost their opinions, Duan Yu asked anxiously.
what did you say?
Gao Mingqing and Gao Shunzhen looked at each other with helpless expressions... It was impossible to start a war with the Song Dynasty! And now all the 37 Wuman tribes feel that they have been deceived, and no one is willing to support Duan Yu.
If a war really breaks out, those people might switch sides...
"Your Majesty," Gao Mingqing shook his head, "One hundred thousand Song troops... If the Thirty-seven Barbarians are willing to help us, we may be able to rely on the geographical advantage and the Song army's weekly selection, but now..."
Gao Shunzhen was so anxious that she was sweating, "No! Your Majesty, we can't defeat the Song army. Why don't we tie up the envoy of the Southern Emperor of the Song Dynasty and give it to the Song army, maybe they will retreat."
"What Southern Emperor?" Duan Yu stamped his feet, "It's a false emperor...a treasonous King of Nanyue!"
He had long figured out what was going on with Nan Emperor Zhao Chen. He didn't reveal it before because the other party could cooperate with him in acting, but now he couldn't and he had to hand them over.
"That's not enough, right?" Gao Mingqing shook his head and said, "That Lu Daqi didn't say that Your Majesty is the Southern Emperor..."
"Here, what should we do?" Duan Yu had no idea. He really didn't expect that things would turn out like this.
"It's better, it's better..." Gao Mingqing seemed to have another clever trick.
"General Dingyuan, tell me quickly!"
Gao Mingqing gritted his teeth and said, "Why don't you retreat and become a monk?"
