Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Loei House.

Li Qi called his son and asked, "Hasn't our family's genealogy been compiled yet?"

Li Song replied: "It's being done, it will take some time."

"Let them hurry up!" Li Qi was a little anxious.

Li Qu's great-grandfather was Li Huan, the founding king of the Li Dynasty.

After the Li family usurped the throne, some of the Li family also died, but they still flourished in the new dynasty. Li Qi even became the Li Dynasty's consort.

Regardless of the Li Dynasty or the Li Dynasty, they all followed the routine of wearing yellow robes.

Li Huan took advantage of the fact that the little emperor was only six years old, hooked up with the queen mother, and proclaimed himself the deputy king. And because Zhao Guangyi sent troops, he shouted and led his troops to resist, and put on a yellow robe as soon as he left the capital.

In fact, if the Northern Song Dynasty had been better prepared, Zhao Guangyi would have recovered Annan long ago.

The Northern Song Dynasty prepared to go to war in July of the previous year, but waited until March of the following year to set off with their troops. They did not understand the climate of Annan at all.

Such a time to send troops coincides with the hot and humid Annan rainy season!

During the war, the Northern Song generals were also very confused in their operations.

The general won a big victory first, and asked the other generals to quickly lead their troops to follow. As a result, the generals did not take advantage of the tail end of the dry season to march, but insisted on staying where they were and waiting for the navy to come and join forces. It was delayed for more than seventy days, forced into the hottest and wettest season, and countless soldiers died of illness due to the hot and humid environment.

The navy side was even more outrageous. Annan planted hidden stakes in the river, and it actually took two months to remove the hidden stakes.

Then Li Huan sent people to pretend to surrender. The Northern Song Dynasty general was already very anxious and ran to accept the surrender with a small number of troops. Then, the Lord of the Northern Song Dynasty was surrounded and killed!

Zhao Guangyi was furious and killed all the generals leading the army, and was forced to recognize Annan's independence.

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A few days passed, and the Li family's "genealogy" was completed.

Li Qi held a thick genealogy and ran to see Zhu Kang: "I went to see His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. I found a genealogy in the Li family's old house."

Zhu Kang smiled and said: "Didn't the Li family have already claimed several generations of ancestors when they were in charge of Annan? At that time, they didn't say they came from China."

Li Qi explained: "At that time, we only traced four generations of ancestors. Now that we have found the family tree of Laozhai, we know that my Li family has moved to Annan since the early Tang Dynasty. My Li family is also from China!"

Zhu Kang nodded and said: "I see, this genealogy must be kept properly."

"I must take good care of it," Li Qi said. "My eldest daughter has been remarried to Your Highness as your concubine. Your second daughter and third daughter are also invited to be taken in by Your Highness. I feel sorry for them being lonely in the palace. All the other daughters of my family have been married. Human, but there is a twelfth girl waiting in the boudoir. If His Highness is interested..."

Zhu Kang interrupted in surprise: "You have so many daughters?"

Li Qi said: "I have eight sons and twelve daughters, none of whom died in infancy. If I can give birth to an heir for Your Highness, they will definitely not die in infancy."

Zhu Kang was noncommittal and just commented: "Awesome!"

How absurd was the dead Annan King Li Yanghuan? He did not allow ministers to marry their daughters. He had to choose them personally and select the remaining adult women before they could marry. The underage girl at that time could not get married until he chose a concubine next time.

Minister Annan actually abides by such nonsense regulations, which shows that there are very few people with backbone.

The three Li sisters entered the palace together at that time.

Zhu Kang only married the eldest son, and now the second and third sons are still widows in the palace.

Li Qi's idea was very simple. He remarried all three daughters to Zhu Kang, and also wanted to marry his underage twelfth daughter to Zhu Kang.

He is afraid!

The Li family belonged to the royal family of the previous dynasty, and intermarriage with the royal family of the Li dynasty was a political collaboration.

Once the Ming Dynasty annexes Annan, they will become the former royal family and will completely lose their last political role.

Moreover, the Li family has always been suppressed by the Li Dynasty, and the descendants of the main clan can only serve as idle officials and cannot develop their own power at all.

They must cling to a big tree, otherwise the family will not survive.

And Daming and Zhu Kang are the big trees.

For this reason, the Li family even forged genealogy and turned their ancestors into Han Chinese who migrated south.

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Since Li was so considerate, Zhu Kang naturally expressed his feelings.

He married all the Li sisters who were widowed in the palace. However, Zhu Kang did not accept Li Qi's twelfth daughter and instead married Han Jing as his concubine.

As soon as the Li family tree was published, the government and the public were shocked!

It turns out that the ancestors of the two consecutive Annan dynasties, the Li family and the Li family, were all Chinese.

Xie Hong took the opportunity to publicize it and even invited an edict to be posted across the country to inform the world. Taking the opportunity to implement the reform of the imperial examination, "Jiaozhi Zhilue" was listed as a required subject.

For a time, the Annan government and the public were all proud of their Chinese bloodline, setting off a wave of compilation of genealogies.

In fact, they have been doing this kind of thing for a long time.

Especially for those aristocratic families, many genealogies have Chinese ancestors, and they like to move closer to the five surnames and seven looks.

The same is true in Dali Kingdom, those families also have Chinese ancestors. Either they are the descendants of a certain general in the Han and Tang Dynasties, or they are the descendants of a certain civil servant in the Han Dynasty, or there are even those who claim to be members of the clan of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Only in this way can they show their noble bloodline and long history.

When Li Yangzhen and Li Qi took out their family trees one after another, those who didn't have a family tree made it up temporarily, while those who had a family tree started looking for relatives.

Regardless of whether their family tree is authentic, they all requested to visit relatives in their ancestral home, and even asked the Ming and Annan courts to reimburse their travel expenses...

Zhu Kang asked: "This is a great thing, but it costs too much."

Xie Hong suggested: "Ignore the other places of origin. Those whose ancestry is in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian can make an appointment to go by boat together. The court is only responsible for free transportation to a few ports, and the rest of the journey to find relatives is up to them."

"Good." Zhu Kang agreed immediately.

Li Yangzhen, the king of Zhiming, was the most active and personally took a boat to Fujian.

Moreover, the process of finding relatives went extremely smoothly. In Zhongcai Township, Anhai Town, Jinjiang County, Quanzhou Prefecture, the Li family ancestral hall is still very popular today.

Li Gongyun, the founding monarch of the Li Dynasty in Annan, was the second son of Li Chunan, the Li family in Anhai, Jinjiang. They were not in Anhai Town originally, but moved there for business. Li Gongyun's elder brother Li Gongzao did not go to sea with his father, but stayed there and became the ancestor of the Li family in Anhai.

The genealogy is clearly written!

Li Yangzhen came here to act, but when she arrived at Li's ancestral hall and saw the ancestral tablets, and even the grandpa's tablet, she immediately knelt there and cried and worshiped.

The patriarch took out the genealogy and said: "We are a branch of the Li family in Quanzhou, and there is a larger ancestral hall over there."

So, Li Yangzhen ran to Quanzhou Li's Ancestral Hall again.

Local officials, gentry and merchants all treated Li Yangzhen warmly. There were also merchants from the Li family who took the opportunity to discuss business. Li Yangzhen agreed and welcomed the people from his hometown to do business in Annan.

Everything he saw and encountered along the way was recorded in detail.

Li Yangzhen also discovered a very exciting news in the genealogy of the Li family in Quanzhou.

His ancestor was Li Ming, the fourteenth son of Tang Taizong Li Shimin and King Cao!

Who knows if this race chart is reliable, but Li Yangzhen takes it seriously.

He asked someone to copy a genealogy, and wrote down a record of what he had seen and heard in Quanzhou, and returned to Annan in a hurry.

After that, banquets were held every now and then.

In the middle of each banquet, he would ask his servants to take out the family tree, point to it and say: "I am the descendant of the Tang Dynasty royal family, and my ancestor is the fourteenth son of Emperor Taizong. Who dares to say that my great-grandfather was a merchant who usurped the throne? The Tang royal family Descendants, does being the king of Jiaozhi count as usurping the throne? Jiaozhi was originally the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but it was divided by those feudal lords. My great-grandfather only took back his power!"

This guy showed off his identity as a descendant of the Tang royal family everywhere. Zhu Kang laughed at the news and was happy to see him continue to publicize the matter.

Don't tell me, this kind of thing spreads very quickly in Annan.

Especially those disillusioned scholars prefer to believe that they are descendants of the Han people and hope that Annan can return to China. Because after returning, they will have more room for development, and they may be able to take exams and become officials!

The Annan imperial examination was controlled by wealthy families, which was only better than that of Goryeo and Xixia. It was difficult for poor people to climb up.

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When Zhu Kang was promoting "Jiaozhi Zhilue", the palace of Xixia was heavily guarded.

Li Qianshun was bedridden for more than half a year. His condition improved for a while, and he was even able to go to court in person. But now he finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Fifteen-year-old Li Renxiao succeeded to the throne, and his biological mother Cao became the queen mother.

The power of the court has basically not changed. Li Renzhong is still the head of the civil servants, and Brother Richard is still the head of the military generals.

But a rebellion is brewing somewhere!

Not only Xiao Heda, a survivor of the Liao Kingdom, was plotting a rebellion, but also the Mu brothers from Tuyuhun.

Their ancestors had intersections with Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan wooed Mu En and the chiefs of other tribes, and rewarded them with clothes, money and silk, in an attempt to get the Mu family to help fight the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Mu family is a simplification of the Murong family and comes from the Tuyuhun royal family.

They have their own territory in Xixia and have always provided war horses for Xixia.

The two brothers Mu Wei and Mu Rong were promoted by Li Qianshun because they did not seek refuge with Brother Richard. Now that Li Qianshun is dead, Brother Richard will naturally take action.

Historically, Mu Wei and Mu Rong were forced to defect to the Kingdom of Jin, but they were caught and executed by Brother Richard.

"Brother, the king is dead!" Mu Rong flew over on horseback.

Mu Wei was surprised: "Is the news true?"

Mu Rong said: "The spies I have deployed in the capital are racing fast horses day and night to deliver the news."

Mu Wei frowned and said: "Brother Richard, I'm afraid he won't be able to tolerate us, but my son and I are all working as bodyguards (disguised hostages) in the capital!"

Mu Rong said: "The clan members should be informed to be alert to the incoming army at any time."

Mu Wei turned around and looked at Dongfang: "If Brother Richard really can't accommodate us, we will have no choice but to defect to the Ming Dynasty. Send someone immediately to contact Xiao Heda. He also has a grudge against Brother Richard. We can make an appointment to surrender together. bright!"

Mu Rong hesitated: "But the Ming Dynasty lured my slaves. We crossed the border to capture the slaves and even fought with the Ming army. If we surrender, won't the Ming Dynasty hold grudges?"

"Confused," Mu Wei said, "If you can help the Ming Dynasty destroy Xixia, what happened before? What's more, it's not like you haven't seen the Ming Dynasty border troops. Dozens of cavalry killed hundreds of us. Escape. With such a strong army, can Xixia stop it? Our tribe is on the border. If the two countries go to war, we will be the first to be attacked!"

The brothers sent someone to contact Xiao Heda, but Xiao Heda's messenger arrived first.

Historically, the time of death of the three people was only one year apart.

Xiao Heda rebelled first and was executed. The Mu brothers were hunted down before they could rebel.

Immediately afterwards, uprising armies broke out across the Xixia border, and many tribes in Weizhou, Jingzhou, and Dingzhou rebelled.

The reason for the rebellion is very simple. With no relief from natural disasters for consecutive years, the border tribes can no longer live happily!