The envoy of the Liao Dynasty quickly brought the news, and also accompanied by a handwritten letter from Xiao Manhui, the envoy of the Northwest Road Railway, which was a shot of a heart-warming shot for the Western Regions. With the support and assistance of the Liao Dynasty, the Western Regions could unite the Liao Dynasty to deal with the Song Dynasty and even achieve victory.

The people of the Western Regions did not know that this was the beginning of attracting wolves into the house, nor did they know that this was the battlefield for the duel between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty. In their eyes, there was only a short-sighted future. The people of the Song Dynasty would not care about the people of the Western Regions, and the same people of the Liao Dynasty would not care about them.

The Liao people helped the Western Regions not for other reasons, but because of the simplest things and interests of human beings. When interests become the main line, no one can give up.

So when the Liao people came, the Northwest Road Zhaodansi, led by Xiao Manhui, rolled in with 80,000 cavalry to support the Western Regions.

The battlefield in the Western Regions immediately became a place of interest dispute between the Song and Liao dynasties. In addition to the Kingdom of Khotan, which stood in the Yellow-headed Uighurs, this country had actually perished in the diplomacy of the Song Dynasty, but strangely it suddenly appeared again, and it appeared in the name of Chinese bloodlines and close relatives of the Han family.

The reason is that the king of the country, Yuchi, had once entered China. There were many Han people in this country of Khotan. The etiquette used was Han rituals, the characters used were Chinese characters, and the words spoken were Chinese, which were basically the same clan and origin as the Chinese.

Since the great ethnic integration of the Tang Dynasty, the bloodlines of the Hu people have blended with the Han bloodlines. Among them, the Yuchi family is one of the bloodlines that have been integrated into the Chinese bloodline. It is hard to imagine a Han civilization standing in the Western Regions for hundreds of years.

The Kingdom of Khotan appeared as early as the Han Dynasty because of the rise of the Yuchi tribe, which officially became a part of China in the Tang Dynasty and was recognized and enfeoffed by the Li Tang Dynasty, which already had the Hu bloodline.

Zhao Zhen summoned an envoy from the Kingdom of Khotan in the army of Yizhou, and was full of affection for this fellow Han dynasty, because this country basically regarded itself as Han people, recognized and endorsed the Han culture and dynasty.

Since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains had the idea of ​​the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Yuchi Poba succeeded to the throne as King of Khotan. He called himself "the clan of Tang Dynasty" and took the surname Li of the Tang Dynasty as his surname. It can be seen that he obeyed the Han Dynasty.

Because the Kingdom of Khotan, after his surname changed, was considered the Li dynasty, but the good times did not last long. Musa Khan, who was adjacent to the Karakhanate Kingdom, declared the *** religion as the state religion. A religious war that lasted for nearly forty years broke out between the Yuwen Kingdom, a Buddhist country and the Karakhanate Dynasty, which believed in the *** religion.

Zhao Zhen learned from the envoy the process and degree of tragic war. This was a collision between faith and a stern fight. Both sides did not agree with each other's beliefs, so faith became the biggest factor in war.

Zhao Zhen has seen the fanaticism of faith. Once people in this era recognize a certain belief, the power of this belief will drive people to go crazy, and the war launched from this is also the most irrational and crazy killing war.

The original words of the envoy were: The two countries fought against each other, and the victories slaughtered the villagers, nine out of ten families were empty, and those who were wearing strong and held sharp eyes killed the unarmed people, without reason. The elderly, young, women and children, pregnant and sick people were not spared, the bones of children can be seen everywhere, and the bodies of women are in the wild!

Even if he was not present at the scene, the tragic tragedy could be heard through the crying and bloody accusation of the envoy of the Khotan envoy. Wang He clenched his fists and silently spoke, while Wang Tiebian and Cao Kang were glaring at him.

Zhao Zhen sighed without saying a word. The reason was simple. The year when the war between the two countries began was the first year of Jianlong. A lot of things happened this year. The two most important things in the East and West were the Chenqiao Mutiny of the Song Dynasty, and the other was the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire in the West.

As for the two small countries in the Western Regions, no one will care about the lives and deaths of the local people.

The war between the Kingdom of Khotan and the Black Khanate lasted for forty years. In the early days of the war, the Kingdom of Khotan had the advantage. After repelling the attack of the Karakhan Dynasty, they rushed to advance westward and once captured Kashgar.

Although the Karakhan dynasty regained Kashgar with the support of the reinforcements, it did not turn the situation around. Ali Khan himself died in the war with Khotan.

Unfortunately, the financial, material and manpower of Khotan were not as good as that of the Karakhan Dynasty. The protracted war greatly reduced its strength and gradually became at a disadvantage. In the end, the Karakhan Dynasty completed its conquest of Tanaka.

But the Kingdom of Khotan did not disappear. They still survived in the area south of the Pamir Mountains, but their contacts with the Central Plains dynasty were cut off. This is also why it was believed that the Kingdom of Khotan was destroyed in the documents of the Honglu Temple of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the Kingdom of Khotan has maintained good relations with the Central Plains dynasty in all dynasties, and is even willing to take the initiative to recognize the orthodox nature of the Central Plains dynasty and act as a vassal.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty had much more understanding of the Kingdom of Tantan than Hei Khan, and even Zhao Xu could tell the general national conditions of the Kingdom of Tantan in public. Through his narration, everyone knew what kind of kingdom this Tangtan was.

This dynasty mainly focuses on agriculture and planting, and even the first country among the Western Regions to obtain the Central Plains silkworm breeding technology, so hand-made textiles are developed. Jade is the most famous for its specialty.

Since the introduction of Buddhism, Khotan gradually became the center of Mahayana Buddhism. From the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Kingdom of Khotan has always been one of the sources of Buddhism in the Central Plains. The people of Khotan love music and drama, and have a mixed style of the Indian and Western Regions in painting. The painter Yuchi Yiseng went to Chang'an in the early Tang Dynasty and painted many murals, as famous as the Tang Dynasty's people Wu Daozi and Yan Liben.

Cultural equality greatly promoted their commonality with the Central Plains and made the Central Plains dynasty very much recognize it. Therefore, the Kingdom of Khotan has maintained a good relationship with the Central Plains since its establishment.

However, because the Black Khanate had just been established, it immediately paid tribute to the Song Dynasty and became a tribute country for the Song Dynasty. This kind of tribute was to recognize the status of the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was naturally full of joy.

Zhao Zhen smiled bitterly. Now it seems that it is probably a means used by the Black Khanate to worry that the Song Dynasty was aiding the Kingdom of Khotan. They didn't know that at that time, the Song Dynasty was busy with the Northern Expedition under the leadership of Emperor Taizong and had no time to take care of the Kingdom of Khotan.

Although the Kingdom of Khotan asked for help from the Song Dynasty, they also knew that the Song Dynasty had the will but lacked strength, so they did not maintain hope. However, after that, the Hei Khan paid tribute every year and visited the Song Dynasty every year, which made the Kingdom of Khotan disheartened. They believed that the Central Plains dynasty no longer cared about the Kingdom of Khotan.

The reversal of the war situation made the Kingdom of Khotan increasingly difficult to support. In the end, it had to give up its original land and migrate southward and survive. It was not until the rise of the Song Dynasty began to show the influence of the Celestial Empire in the Western Regions that the Kingdom of Khotan saw hope.
Chapter completed!