strictlysupreme Chapter 204
Chapter 204
Qi Cheng stretched and stood up from the sofa. The tablet kept playing other videos while he went to the kitchen to cook.
People from all dynasties have made wishes, hoping that the skylight can play their favorite videos.
Alliances are indispensable for any dynasty or people. Some dynasties succeeded because of alliances, while others failed because of them.
【It was also a dynasty that fell twice in the same place. 】
Huh? The emperors of all dynasties were shocked. He fell twice in the same place. Which dynasty was so unlucky? Is there not a single wise man in the entire court?
The emperors after the Song Dynasty suddenly understood and returned to drinking tea and watching plays.
Let's first discuss the more favorable situation: the alliance between the Han Dynasty and the Wusun in the Western Regions. Together, they attacked the Xiongnu, ultimately causing the powerful Xiongnu to fall apart.
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When Emperor Jing of Han saw this, he immediately summoned his ministers. At this time, the Wusun were still on the side of the Xiongnu. Since Tianmu said so, it meant that they could talk.
"Your Majesty, if you want to reassure each other, there must be some measures. I think it is most likely a marriage alliance, so..." the minister whispered.
After all, the host on the sky curtain looks down on marriage alliances. What if the emperor is influenced by the sky curtain? So it is better to ask in advance.
"Marriage? Let's send someone to check things out first, and then we can discuss it later."
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[Having discussed this relatively successful alliance, let's move on to a less successful one, which we often refer to as the Song Dynasty alliance, which failed twice in the same place.]
The first alliance the Song Dynasty formed was with the Jin. At that time, the Jin rose up between the White Mountains and the Black Waters and began to fiercely attack the Liao Dynasty, but the Liao Dynasty's fighting power was already weak.
[Let the Jin Dynasty be defeated step by step! ]
Later, Liao sent envoys to the Song Dynasty, hoping that the two sides would form an alliance to jointly deal with Jin. However, the emperor at the time was Song Huizong, who discussed the matter with his ministers.
Ma Zhi, a man from the Liao Kingdom, objected and suggested joining forces with the Jin Kingdom to attack the Liao Kingdom. Zheng Juzhong, the then Prime Minister, opposed this idea.
However, Cai Jing and other treacherous ministers agreed and subsequently arranged for Ma Zhi, Guo Yaoshi and others to contact the Jin. The two sides agreed that the Song would attack south of the Great Wall, and the Jin would attack north of the Great Wall.
[The 500,000 yuan in tribute given to the Liao was transferred to the Jin, and the states of Ping and Luan among the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun remained under the Jin's control.]
Tang Dynasty
Li Shimin looked at the sky several times and still felt that he didn't understand. He didn't know what the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty was at that time. Considering that Song Huizong was the emperor, the combat effectiveness could basically be ignored.
So when two tigers are fighting, why should he lean forward? Wouldn't it be better to just sit on the mountain and watch the fight?
"Maybe he was flattered by the ministers and wanted to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun." Wei Zheng laughed. The Song Dynasty was really weak. It couldn't even recover Yanyun.
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Zhao Kuangyin touched his head and thought to himself, these are not my descendants, these are not my descendants.
Are all the ministers in the court bastards? How could they agree to such conditions? This is not an alliance with Jin, this is just putting it in someone else's mouth.
Doesn't he know that he can't beat anyone?
"Father, please calm down. Our Song Dynasty will not be like this again in the future." Zhao Defang said in a low voice.
However, there was one thing that the Song Dynasty's rulers and ministers hadn't anticipated: their own fighting power was truly weak. The Jin had already attacked from outside the Great Wall, and the Song Dynasty hadn't even been able to capture the Liao's Nanjing city.
After being blackmailed by the Jin and plundering the Liao and Nanjing areas, they withdrew from within the Great Wall.
[Everyone should know the final result, which is the Jingkang Shame.]
Ancient people from all dynasties shook their heads. This alliance was indeed a failure. They wanted to realize the wish of many generations, but in the end they even lost the capital.
This Jin is not polite at all. How can he treat his allies like this?
Next, let's talk about the Song Dynasty's second alliance. However, this alliance was not initiated by the Song Dynasty. Instead, it was the Mongols who took the initiative. Of course, this initiative was somewhat oppressive.
The Jin Dynasty occupied a vast area south of the Yellow River, and subsequently engaged in intermittent warfare with the then Southern Song Dynasty. Behind the Jin, the Mongols rose up, and just as they had previously attacked the Liao Dynasty, within a few years the Jin Dynasty was forced to retreat to the Henan region.
[The Southern Song Dynasty had already noticed this at the time, but due to their deep blood feud with the Jin Dynasty, an alliance was impossible. Therefore, when the Mongols asked for an alliance, they did not put up much resistance.]
After the Jin Dynasty was destroyed, the target of the Mongol attacks became the Southern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin sat on the throne and pondered what he would do if he encountered this situation. Practically speaking, he should form an alliance with Jin and strive to maintain this situation.
"Your Majesty, there was the Jingkang Incident after all. If the emperor at that time had allied with Jin, I'm afraid he would not be able to explain to his subordinates." A minister said.
"Give an explanation? If the country is destroyed, he won't be able to find anyone to explain to even if he wants to. I think we should not take sides and just support the weaker side."
"Don't you think there's anyone who understands over there? Your idea is totally unacceptable!"
Seeing the ministers below starting to quarrel in low voices, Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and returned to the harem.
Qing Dynasty
Emperor Kangxi was in Changchun Garden with several princes. He pointed at the sky and said, "See? When forming an alliance, we must clearly consider our own strength."
"Whoo."
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The Empress Dowager Cixi smelled the fragrance of fruit in the palace and asked several ministers who had come over, "Have you finished watching the video on the screen? Those America and Germany are trying to form an alliance with us. They don't want to act in the same way, do they?"
A minister immediately knelt on the ground and replied, "I have carefully checked, and these two countries are very far away from us..."
"England is far away from us, and they are also attacking us. I think these foreigners are full of wicked ambitions, so we must be on guard. Why not summon the Mongolian cavalry to enter the pass and kill them without a single survivor?"
The other ministers sighed. After looking at the sky curtain for so long, this prince still didn't have a good brain. He just thought about riding and shooting all day long. He was almost the same as Xu Tong.
"Queen Dowager, it's said that Germany is planning to send the Crown Prince here. With someone like this acting as a liaison, it's clear they still have some ambitions to form an alliance."
"Yeah, you guys should keep in touch."
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After Qi Cheng came out of the kitchen, he saw the video playing on the tablet. He felt that he should be very careful when it comes to things like forming alliances.
Some allies may not bring any benefits but may bring some disadvantages, such as creating many more enemies out of thin air.
Sometimes you have to choose some allies, but you must be careful not to be stabbed in the back when getting along with them.