釋氏稽古略 4.392

4.392

西夏自五代唐明宗天成間。縱亂剽掠而州城被擾。且河西諸鎮言定難節度使李仁福潛通契丹。朝廷慮其連兵併吞河右南侵關中。長興四年三年癸未仁福卒。遷其子彝超為彰武留後。彝超不奉詔。遣其兄阿羅王守青嶺關。集境內黨頊諸胡以自守而輕朝廷。廢帝清泰二年二月丁丑。夏州（赫連勃勃所築之城拓跋氏世居焉）節度使李彝超上言疾病。以兄行軍司馬彝殷權知軍州事。彝超尋卒。晉出帝開運元年二月壬子。詔以彝殷為契丹西南面詔討使。漢乾祐二年正月甲寅。詔以靜州隷定難軍。二月辛未。彝殷上表謝。彝殷以中原多故有輕傲之志。每藩鎮有叛者。常陰助之邀其重賂。朝廷知其事。亦以恩澤羈縻之。周顯德二年正月庚寅。定難節度使李彝興恥與折德扆並列節度。乃塞路不通周使。二月癸未。世宗遣供奉官齊藏珍。齎詔往責之（司馬通鑑）至宋太宗太平興國七年十月。李繼棒來朝。太宗嘉之。詔授彰德軍節度。賜姓趙名保忠。留京師奉朝請。仁宗寶元戊寅。趙元昊僭稱帝。至是丁亥七月二十七日。北朝大軍滅之。止一百九十年（宋鑑）。

Western Xia, from the Tiancheng era of Mingzong of the Later Tang during the Five Dynasties onward, indulged in disorder and pillage, disturbing the prefectures and cities. Moreover, the various garrisons of Hexi reported that Li Renfu, the military commissioner of Dingnan, was secretly communicating with the Khitans. The court feared that their combined forces would annex Heyou and invade Guanzhong to the south. In the third year of Changxing [which was actually] the fourth year, the year guisi, Renfu died. His son Yichao was transferred to serve as the acting military commissioner of Zhangwu. Yichao refused to comply with the imperial edict, dispatching his elder brother King Aluowei to guard the Qingling Pass, and gathered the various barbarian Tanguts within his territory to defend himself, defying the court. On the day dingchou in the second month of the second year of Qingtai under the Deposed Emperor, Li Yichao, the military commissioner of Xia Prefecture (the city built by Helian Bobo, where the Tuoba clan had resided for generations), submitted a memorial reporting his illness and recommending that his elder brother, the adjutant of the army Yiyin, provisionally supervise the affairs of the military prefecture. Yichao died soon afterward. On the day renzi in the second month of the first year of Kaiyun under Emperor Chu of the Later Jin, an imperial edict appointed Yiyin as the commissioner for summoning and attacking on the southwestern front of the Khitans. On the day jiayin in the first month of the second year of Qianyou of the Later Han, an imperial edict assigned Jing Prefecture to the Dingnan Army. On the day xinwei in the second month, Yiyin submitted a memorial expressing gratitude. Because the Central Plains suffered many troubles, Yiyin harbored arrogant intentions; whenever a regional command rebelled, he would often secretly aid them to solicit heavy bribes. The imperial court was aware of this, yet also placated him with favors. On the day gengyin in the first month of the second year of Xiande of the Later Zhou, Li Yixing, the military commissioner of Dingnan, felt ashamed to be ranked alongside Zhe Deyi as a military commissioner; he therefore blocked the roads and severed communications with the Zhou emissaries. On the day guiwei in the second month, Shizong dispatched Qi Zangzhen, an attendant official, carrying an edict to reprove him (Sima [Guang]'s Tongjian). Down to the tenth month of the seventh year of the Taiping Xingguo era of Song Taizong, Li Jipeng came to court. Taizong praised him, issuing an edict appointing him military commissioner of the Zhangde Army, bestowing the imperial surname Zhao and the personal name Baozhong, and having him remain in the capital to attend court audiences. In the year wuyin of the Baoyuan era of Renzong, Zhao Yuanhao arrogantly declared himself emperor. Down to this year, on the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month of the year dinghai, the great army of the Northern Dynasty annihilated them. It lasted for only one hundred and ninety years (Songjian).