The opening chapter introduces that Xixia was founded by Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Xixia, a party member. Due to decades of wars and disputes between the Song, Xixia and Liao kingdoms, the people of the Song, Liao and Xixia kingdoms suffered from the wars and were displaced and miserable. Later, the emperors of the three kingdoms formed an alliance and no more wars occurred, so that the people of the Song, Liao and Xixia kingdoms could communicate with each other and do business. The Song Dynasty, Liao Kingdom, and Xixia Kingdom experienced decades of development and changes; while history was moving forward, the Xixia Emperor Li Qianshun witnessed the rapid rise of the Jin Kingdom in the east of the Liao Kingdom, and he knew the truth of death. So they sent people to Kaifeng of the Song Dynasty and Yanjing of the Liao Kingdom to issue documents to Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty and Emperor Yeluhui of the Liao Kingdom stating the intention of an alliance to fight together against the rising Jin Kingdom.
However, Emperor Zhao Ji of Song Dynasty and Emperor Yeluhui of Liao Kingdom did not agree with the alliance, so Emperor Li Qianshun of Xixia had to give up. In order to win the favor of Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty, Tong Guan, one of the four major bandits of the Northern Song Dynasty,...
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