As for Ren Dejing, he also felt that Li Renxiao was too lenient, but lacked skill and courage.
After being the emperor for so many years, he failed to cultivate his own cronies, nor did he have the political skills to win over one faction or another.
When he was young, the royal family's important minister, Brother Richard, had military power, while Li Renxiao had no military power. He watched Brother Richard show off his power and be arrogant and domineering, but he never fought against him.
So Ren Dejing used to please Brother Richard as his political capital, and gradually entered the Xixia Central Committee and gained great power.
After finally surviving Brother Richard, Li Renxiao was about to take a breather. Ren Dejing came up from behind and took over Brother Richard's power. He also went a step further and took control of the actual political power, gradually taking away the power in Li Renxiao's hands. Grabbed it.
During this period, it was not that there were no party ministers who tried to fight against Ren Dejing and protect Li Renxiao's power, and Li Renxiao also deliberately condoned it.
But when Ren Dejing showed a little bit of his military power to Li Renxiao, Li Renxiao immediately softened.
He dismissed the ministers who tried to speak for him in an attempt to gain Ren Dejing's understanding. However, this only made those who were willing to help him no longer dare to help him for fear of being betrayed by him.
He was always tolerant and tolerant of Ren Dejing, and he was promoted to the rank of King of Chu. This did not change Ren Dejing, but it only made him see through Li Renxiao's cowardly and fearful nature.
So Ren Dejing completely ignored Li Renxiao, leaving Li Renxiao with only a negligible amount of claiming power and diplomatic power.
Ren Decong, the Taiwei in front of the palace, is Ren Dejing's younger brother and is in charge of the palace guards.
Ren Degong, the governor of Xingqing Prefecture in the capital, is also his younger brother and controls the administrative and military power of the entire Xingqing Prefecture.
Ren Deren, the younger brother of the clan, served as the envoy of the South Courtyard and was in charge of eunuchs, chamberlains and all matters in and out of the palace.
The nephew Ren Chunzhong was appointed as the Deputy Privy Councilor, and he controlled the military agency Privy Council's transmission and distribution on behalf of Ren Dejing.
These are just a few of the specific manifestations of Ren Dejing's nepotism.
All the real power positions in the court were held by Ren Dejing, and those who held the main military and logistical power were all Ren Dejing. Ren Dejing was almost equal to the "Standing Emperor" of the Xixia Kingdom.
Where is Lee In-hyo?
Huddled in the inner palace, the only thing he could do was to send someone to ask Su Yonglin for help when the diplomatic mission arrived in Zhongdu, asking Su Yonglin to help him deal with Ren Dejing, just like when the Liao Kingdom helped his father Li Qianshun deal with the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang. Same.
Incompetent to this point.
Now even the serving eunuchs around Li Renxiao are Ren Dejing, who monitor Li Renxiao's every move around the clock, leaving him with no living space of his own, and his life is no easier than that of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.
Ren Dejing handled national military and political affairs in a grand manner as the King of Chu. Ren Dejing was the first to know about the Liberation Army's elimination of the Jin Army on the border and the bordering with Xixia from the Guanzhong area.
When he learned about this incident, Ren Dejing was handling daily state affairs in Xingqing Mansion. As soon as he finished handling the matter of transporting grain to border areas to support military exercises, he received a note from the Liberation Army.
The Jin Army in Guanzhong was defeated by the Liberation Army and was about to lose Guanzhong.
The Liberation Army will sweep through Guanzhong and occupy Guanzhong.
The Liberation Army informed Xixia and thanked them for their border military exercise. Now the military exercise can be ended and there is no need to continue to spend money and food.
Ren Dejing sighed, ordered the previous order to be intercepted, and rewritten the order to withdraw the border troops to their original positions, so that there was no need to continue military exercises.
The person who escorted the news to him was his younger brother, Ren Degong, Yin of Xingqing Prefecture. Ren Degong was very surprised to see Ren Dejing's series of actions.
"Brother, has Guanzhong been captured by the Liberation Army?"
Ren Dejing nodded.
"It's not far away. The Liberation Army sent troops in early June. In just over a month, it has already broken through Tongguan and Daqing Pass, swept through half of the pass, captured Yan'an Prefecture and Qingyang Prefecture, and the remnants of the Jin Army were defeated. However, if my prediction is correct, Guanzhong will definitely change its owner in two months."
Ren Degong took a breath of air.
"It is said that the Liberation Army has only been in power for three years. How can it have such strong combat power? How can the Jin Army fight? How come it is just like paper in front of the Liberation Army?"
Ren Dejing was much calmer.
"When Emperor Shenzong was Emperor Shenzong, the Western Army of the Song State was able to defeat the Xia people and expand their territory. How powerful was the Western Army at that time? Then what? Wasn't the Western Army just like paper in front of the Jin people? Is there a difference?"
After hearing what he said, Ren Degong felt that it made sense and stopped worrying about the matter.
"Brother, the situation in Guanzhong has changed now. It is destined that the Liberation Army will sweep into the Central Plains and replace the Jin Kingdom. No changes are likely to happen. Should we make some preparations?"
Ren Dejing glanced at Ren Dejing.
"What the superiors hate the most is those below who commit crimes against their superiors. Although Su Yonglin was born in a rebel army, the more he is like this, the more he will dislike those below who commit crimes against his superiors."
Ren Degong was stunned and asked doubtfully: "Brother, didn't he accept the gift we gave him before? Su Yonglin couldn't see such an obvious hint?"
"I'm not afraid that he won't be able to see it, but I'm afraid that he will see it and say nothing. Isn't that tantamount to rejection in disguise?"
"But didn't he collect our things?"
"That's a greeting gift. Can a country's ownership be determined by tens of thousands of livestock?"
Ren Dejing rolled his eyes: "He is the overlord of the Central Plains. How can he allow the following to commit crimes just because he has tens of thousands of livestock? If it were you, would you?"
Ren Degong stopped talking.
After a long time, Ren Degong whispered again: "What are you going to do, brother? If it continues like this, I'm afraid it will be bad. If we don't have a suitable name, it will be difficult for us to control the government all the time. Changes will happen later. There are still many people in the government. A person whose heart is devoted to the emperor."
"I know, aren't I thinking of a solution?"
Ren Dejing closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. After a while, he whispered: "At this point, we can only use the reason that we are Han people to persuade Su Yonglin. A Han vassal is better than a Yi Di." Is it necessary for the vassal state to feel comfortable?
Su Yonglin started an uprising under the banner of "Expelling the Huru and Restoring China", which shows that he still cares about Chinese orthodoxy. The Xia Kingdom's territory originally belonged to Chinese orthodoxy, but now it is controlled by party members. Su Yonglin may not be happy, but if it were us , it’s different. "
Ren Dejing thought about it and felt that what Ren Dejing said made sense.
"Wonderful, by paying tribute to Su Yonglin in the name of China, maybe we can get Su Yonglin's acceptance. In this way... wait a minute, brother, the Liberation Army is sweeping through Guanzhong with such force, will they have any influence on us... …”
Ren Dejing understood what Ren Degong meant.
"I can't say no, and if I say no, I don't believe it, but I think that the Liberation Army will probably be like the Jin Kingdom, with more than enough ambition but not enough power. Not to mention us, there is the Song Kingdom to the south. How powerful was the Jin Kingdom at the beginning? Sweeping the world with unstoppable force, wouldn’t it be better to cross the river to rule in the end?”
Ren Degong nodded.
"That's what I said, but brother, you must be on guard against others. No one knows what Su Yonglin is thinking. We must always be prepared."
"That makes sense, what do you want to do?"
"Let's unite with the Song Dynasty in the south. If the Jin Dynasty is destroyed, the lips will die and the teeth will be cold. The Song Dynasty will understand."
"Song Kingdom..."
Ren Dejing was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "If I didn't have no choice, I wouldn't want to join forces with Song Guo."
"Brother, although the Song Dynasty does not have a strong military, it is still a big country. If the Liberation Army has this restriction, our safety will be more guaranteed. At the same time, if the Liberation Army plots against us, the Song Dynasty will definitely respond, right?"
Ren Dejing's persuasion made Ren Dejing think carefully for a while, and then he came to a reasonable conclusion.
They decided to wait until Guanzhong was completely pacified, and then organized a caravan to go south to Sichuan to buy Shu brocade from the Song people, and secretly discussed an alliance with the Song Dynasty.
They can hide it from the Liberation Army and form an extraterritorial alliance. Once the Liberation Army takes action against one party, the other party will definitely send troops to help.
The army was weak and the Liberation Army was strong. If Su Yonglin's ambitions were uncontrollable, Xixia and the Southern Song Dynasty would not be defeated individually without assistance.
Ren Dejing secretly organized reliable personnel to start drafting the contents of the treaty, preparing to take action as soon as Guanzhong was pacified.
If Su Yonglin just planned to build another Jin Kingdom, of course everything would be fine.
But if Su Yonglin didn't just plan to build another Jin Kingdom, then his preparations were not meaningless.
