Chapter 59: Emperor Shi Jingtang
"Give me a little honest!"
A team of light cavalry captured the secret seeds who had been mixed into the valley alive and returned to Xia Village, which was covered in dust.
He was originally ordered to enter the valley for investigation, but was discovered by herdsmen and captured alive by cavalry sent by Xia Village.
"Kneel down!"
Xizuo was brought to Zhang Hua, and Zhang Hua scolded her. Xizuo was startled and knelt in front of Zhang Hua with a thud, and kowtowed repeatedly: "Sir, please spare your life! There is an eighty-year-old high school above and a three-year-old child below to support him. You can spare your life!"
"You just need to answer my questions truthfully, and may spare your life."
"Sir, please ask."
"Where are you coming from?"
"The villain comes from the valley basin in the southeast, about a hundred miles away from this place."
It's a valley again.
A surrounding topographic map gradually formed in Zhang Hua's mind.
Surrounded by mountains, there are several rivers in the mountains. Each river forms a small valley basin where it passes. Several rivers converge and form a vast alluvial plain downstream, which is the eastern plain where forces such as Huang Taiji and Zhang Shicheng compete.
The valley where Xia Village is located is located on the west side of the plain.
This fine work comes from the valley south of the plain.
"Who did you come from the power established?"
"Shi, His Majesty Shi Jingtang..."
"Shi Jingtang?"
When Zhang Hua heard this name, a hint of harshness flashed across his eyes.
He really knew Shi Jingtang.
When the Tang Dynasty was destroyed, the governors from all over the country ruled one side, and entered the period of the melee between the princes of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Shi Jingtang was a military general of the Later Tang Dynasty. Later, he rebelled and was besieged by the imperial army.
In order to survive and become emperor, Shi Jingtang asked for help from the northern Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang, and promised him that he would ced the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the Khitan, and would pay a large amount of money and property every year, claiming to be his son's country.
Shi Jingtang obtained the help of the Khitans, successfully destroyed the Later Tang Dynasty, established the Later Jin Dynasty, and became a famous son emperor.
Shi Jingtang performed father-son rituals to the Khitans. It was a trivial matter to insult his reputation. The most important thing was to ced the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the Khitans, so that there was no danger to guard the North China Plain.
This incident directly affected the Northern Song Dynasty established by Zhao Kuangyin later that it was unable to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. After the Song Dynasty, it was generally suppressed by nomadic civilization.
"How many people are Shi Jingtang and how many soldiers are there?"
Zhang Hua had no good feelings for Shi Jingtang.
Although military generals raised troops in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Shi Jingtang cedeed land to the Khitans, which destroyed the rules, and even Shi Jingtang's subordinates were dissatisfied with Shi Jingtang.
Now Shi Jingtang has established a village in the valley basin southeast of Xia Village, and sent people to go through mountain roads to explore his own virtuality and reality. His intention is already very obvious.
Shi Jingtang did not necessarily dare to advance to the great plain where dragons and tigers fought, so he had the idea of Zhang Hua from another valley.
The two people's forces are separated by mountains and are connected by mountain roads.
As long as you control two valleys, it will be much easier to capture the plains.
Shi Jingtang's detailed work quickly replied: "There are twenty-three villages, a population of 30,000 and more than 2,000 soldiers."
Zhang Hua, Chen Gong and Chen Qiao looked at each other with a serious expression.
Shi Jingtang's valley gathered more people and had stronger troops, which was enough to pose a threat to Xia Village.
"What generals are Shi Jingtang's subordinates?"
"There are Liu Zhiyuan and Du Chongwei and several generals."
The secret book shook out all Shi Jingtang's family.
No wonder Shi Jingtang could plunder 30,000 people and dominate a valley. It turned out that Shi Jingtang also brought a few capable generals to cross here.
"Sir, can I leave?"
After explaining Shi Jingtang's strength in detail, he asked carefully.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Hua changed his face: "Come here, take it out and kill it!"
"Wait, this person is still valuable." Chen Gong stood up and whispered in Zhang Hua's ear, "Maybe you can use a counter-espionage plan!"
"It's better that the military advisor is considerate, so I'll leave this person to you for training."
Zhang Hua handed over the detailed work he captured alive to Chen Gong for handling.
This fine work was about to be killed by Zhang Hua, but was rescued by Chen Gong. He couldn't help but be grateful to Chen Gong, and he repeatedly thanked him, and his scalp was bleeding.
Chen Gong and Xiaodian continued to brainwash the detailed work, and used Shi Jingtang's detailed work to deal with Shi Jingtang.
Zhang Hua asked someone to mark the approximate scope of Shi Jingtang's power on the map.
There are dozens of forces of all sizes in the eastern plains.
The valley to the west of the plain is Zhanghua's Xia Village, and the valley to the south is Shi Jingtang's sphere of influence.
Zhang Hua and Shi Jingtang were both peeping at the Great Plains, and Shi Jingtang attempted to annex Xia Village.
"According to Shi Jingtang's detailed work, Shi Jingtang has 30,000 people, and our valley should have more than 20,000 people, and the population is still lingering everywhere. Send additional personnel to search for the population in various parts of the valley and register it."
Under Zhang Hua's order, Xia Village sent additional personnel to search for the population everywhere.
Zhang Hua mainly developed the land on the north bank, and there were some scattered villages on the south bank, and there were also many refugees and mountain barbarians in the mountains and forests in the north and south.
The refugees or barbarians gathered in these villages were migrated to the valley plains to enrich the population.
The number of registered population gradually increased from 15,000 to 16,000, 17,000, and 18,000, approaching the 20,000 mark.
Chen Gong locked Shi Jingtang's fine work in a small dark room for seven days and brainwashed it before he put the fine work back.
Zhang Hua looked at Sezuo and left, asking Chen Gong: "Most people can't stand such torture when Guan Qiri's small black room. Has he agreed to cooperate with us?"
Chen Gong showed a harmless expression: "How can he not agree?"
Shi Jingtang's detailed work followed the mountain road to Shi Jingtang's territory and reported to Shi Jingtang: "The population of the northwest valley is less than 1,000, and the soldiers are less than 1,000. As long as Your Majesty sends troops, it is easy to get it. The villain is willing to be a guide and open the way for Your Majesty!"
"Oh? There are less than ten thousand people?"
Shi Jingtang sat on the tiger skin throne, with several generals standing on the left and right, with swords hanging around his waist, full of murderous aura.
Shi Jingtang took several military generals to sweep across the southern valley. After harvesting a batch of food and grass, Shi Jingtang's ambitions expanded.
In the north of Shi Jingtang, there was the Huang Taiji force. Huang Taiji sent troops to guard the key pass. Shi Jingtang could not defeat Huang Taiji, so he turned his attention to Xia Village in the western valley.
There are mountain roads connecting the two valleys, so you can march.
"Not ten thousand people can be taken down."
"If there are not even a few thousand soldiers, how can we be our opponent?"
"Your Majesty, send troops, we will rebuild the Great Jin Dynasty and sweep the world!"
Several subordinates of Shi Jingtang encouraged Shi Jingtang to send troops to attack Xiacun.
After Shi Jingtang became emperor, he traveled to this world, with only a few generals and 300 imperial guards beside him, and he captured this valley.
Shi Jingtang still regards himself as an emperor and has 30,000 subjects under his rule.
Although he became a local emperor with a population of 30,000, Shi Jingtang was able to escape his fate as a Khitan son: "A group of cavalry is still being trained, and the second group of cavalry will be recruited, and I will personally lead the army to destroy Xia Village."
The back Seizu's eyes flashed, and Chen Gong instructed him to lie to Shi Jingtang about Xia Village's troops.
Chapter completed!