The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 554 Shi Jingtang
"Your Highness, later the late Tang emperor asked Shi Jingtang to come to see him, but Shi Jingtang was willing to go there, so he became angry and sent Jianxiong Jiedu envoy Zhang Jingda as a recruiter to attack him, and killed Shi Jingtang's two sons and his younger brother."

Tao Gu, who was sitting on the horse, was still talking to Zhao Xu without listening. Since Zhao Xu likes to listen to these courtiers, he should do his best to talk.

"Although this Shi Jingtang also has a lot of soldiers and horses, but in the face of the court's elite soldiers, Shi Jingtang can't resist, Jinyang is very critical. At this time, another important person offered him a strategy that will last forever..."

"Is this person called Sang Weihan? Is this strategy asking Khitan for help? I remember this person. It is this person who came up with an idea that has caused my Central Plains to be threatened by the Khitan."

Zhao Xu had seen this name in history books, a name he called a traitor, how could he not remember this person?

It was this guy who said in Shi Jingtang's ear, asking Shi Jingtang to look for foreign aid. If there is any foreign aid at this time, he is clearly pointing to Khitan.

Zhao Xu knew the following things very clearly, because when Chai Rong was in power in Yanyun sixteen prefectures, he hoped to recover them.

So he still knew about the fact that Shi Jingtang personally did the ceding of the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

In fact, Shi Jingtang didn't think of this cession at the beginning, and he didn't think of it all at once.

After all, I am quite an emperor and I don't want my country to become smaller, but Shi Jingtang has no choice.

Because at that time Shi Jingtang had another opponent, and that person also wanted to be emperor, especially Zhao Yanshou, the Jiedu envoy of Youzhou.

Coincidentally, this guy also wanted to be emperor, and even more coincidentally, this guy also found Khitan.

He also wanted to borrow troops from Yelu Deguang to help him. Of course, this was not for nothing. He also took out his own chips.

The happiest thing now is Yelu Deguang. He has always been spying on the Central Plains. Wouldn't it be better if someone took the initiative to contact him now?

For him, when someone comes to compete, of course it depends on who offers the highest price. This is the same as doing business. I will cooperate with whoever offers the highest price.

Shi Jingtang was "very generous" and offered the conditions of "referring to his son, paying tribute, and cutting the land", which moved Yelu Deguang.

Because he knew that Zhao Yanshou would not make such a condition, and according to what Lao Shi said, I wouldn't feel bad about ceding Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.

Because that place is not mine in the first place, but the political enemy Zhao Yanshou's. The Yanyun Sixteen States are still in Zhao Yanshou's hands!

But at that time, Shi Jingtang's subordinates were also dissatisfied with his claiming to be a minister. Among them, Liu Zhiyuan, the later Emperor Gaozu of the Later Han Dynasty, still stood up and expressed firm opposition.

He persuaded: "It's fine to be a minister, it's too much to be called a son. Give more money to bribe the Khitans, and he will send troops to help. There is no need to promise him land. Otherwise, it will become a serious disaster for the country in the future, and it will be too late to regret it. "

"I'm Li Siyuan's son-in-law. Li Siyuan should call Yelu Deguang his uncle. There's nothing wrong with calling me Er now, nothing wrong."

Shi Jingtang hastily dispatched his secretary, Sang Weihan, to go north with a meeting gift of "cede the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, donate 30 pieces of silk every year, call him a minister and son, and serve Khitan as a father."

Yelu Deguang, the Lord of Khitan, was overjoyed and dispatched [-] elite soldiers to aid Jinyang. They defeated the Tang army together from inside and outside, and killed Zhang Jingda.

In November of 930 AD, the Khitan canonized Shi Jingtang as the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty and changed it to Yuan Tianfu.

In this way, Shi Jingtang wore the yellow robe that his "father emperor" personally put on him, and finally became the emperor.

In the leap November of the same year, with the help of Khitan, Shi Jingtang conquered Luoyang and mastered everything in the Later Tang Dynasty.

Li Congke, the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty, had no way out and felt that his life was exhausted. He took the Li family members to the Xuanwu Tower and burned himself to death.

In the summer and April of the second year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty, the capital was moved to Bianliang in the Later Jin Dynasty, and Kaifeng became the capital for the third time. In the following year, Bianliang was promoted to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo.

Shi Jingtang has become the emperor, and this matter is not over yet, because he has not done anything to make his father happy.

Next, Shi Jingtang was going to fulfill his promise to his father, Emperor Yelu Deguang, to cede the sixteen prefectures of Youyun.

The sixteen prefectures of Youyun include You, Shun, Confucianism, Tan, Ji, Zhuo, Ying, Mo, Xin, Wei, Wu, Wei, Ying, Huan, Shuo and Yunzhou.

It runs 12 kilometers from east to west and [-] kilometers deep from north to south, covering an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers.

The Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures with a large area are originally nothing, why are there not other places that are much larger, but why is it so special?
Because of the status of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, it is located in the north and is a natural barrier to the north. It can be attacked and retreated.

It is a very important strategic location. If you guard it, you can look at the Central Plains from the inside, and you can monitor the ethnic minorities outside the customs.

In the past, these places were firmly controlled by the Central Plains regime, so the attacks of these ethnic minorities were well contained.

So even if the ethnic minorities are invading the regime in the Central Plains, there is no way to capture the regime in the Central Plains.

It is an important production material supply base, and it is also a natural dividing line between the Han nationality and other nomadic peoples in the Central Plains.

With his Central Plains regime, a large number of troops can be deployed here, and those nomadic peoples can't go south.

Back then, An Lushan was the envoy of the three towns including Fan Yang and Pinglu, and it was precisely because of this land of Yanyun that he became a famous figure.

Shi Jingtang ceded them to Khitan, and the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures were separated from the control of the Central Plains regime. The northern frontier defense was almost impossible to defend.

No matter what happened to Shi Jingtang later, Zhao Xu didn't like him because of this. Now that the Central Plains is under the Khitan's iron heel, it is Shi Jingtang's "credit".

"It's lucky that Shi Jingtang died early, otherwise I would be ashamed of people like us in the Central Plains. Let's go and see the envoys from Khitan. I want to see what they do when they come to Song Dynasty."

The three of them were talking like this and they had already arrived at the guest house in the blink of an eye, so he told everyone to cheer up.

This is already the second time he has come here, and it is very different from the last time he came here. This time he came here as a prince.

What he said represents a country, not himself, but he still has his own thoughts, which he will bring up in the meeting later, and you think he asked Shi Jingtang and You Youyun The affairs of the sixteen states are for fun, and he is still of great use.

(End of this chapter)