Chapter 147: The Situation Around the Perimeter

Chapter 147: The Situation Around the Perimeter

The next thing was much simpler, the "Birth Pill" was not a vulgar thing, and Yunlong did not give them a container, obviously asking them to take it on the spot. The two demons also had great confidence in Yunlong, and under the protection of Yunlong, they immediately took the "Rebirth Pill" and spent a day to transform their luck.

After being reborn, the qualifications of the two demons have been greatly improved, and Yunlong has taught the first method of the "Lingyuan Wonderful Sutra", so he is grateful to Yunlong. Yunlong didn't ask for anything, just asked them to protect Zhao Kuangyin well and not be taken advantage of by others. The second demon naturally happily agreed, and the more loyal he was to Zhao Kuangyin.

Then Yunlong left Zhao Kuangyin and his party again to continue to travel the world, and Zhao Kuangyin and they found the nearest city and returned to the Northern Han Dynasty with their subordinates. After returning to the Northern Han Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin immediately reported the news of the invasion of the Southern Tang Dynasty to Liu He, and Liu He was immediately furious and angrily reprimanded the Southern Tang Dynasty for taking advantage of the fire to rob, but after all, Liu He had been a leader for decades, and in anger, he still controlled himself and did not act irrationally.

After he got angry, he still smiled bitterly and told Zhao Kuangyin the reason why the Southern Tang Dynasty dared to invade semiblatantly: "All countries in Shenzhou have established a country to claim the emperor and change the dynasty, but I have not had the Northern Han Dynasty; if it weren't for the fact that our country's strength is not weak, the rest of the countries need our country to fight against the Later Jin, Northern Liao and other countries, and our country claims to maintain the orthodoxy of the Han people and occupy the name of righteousness, I am afraid it would have been carved up long ago." ”

"In that case, why don't you establish the country as early as possible, claim the emperor, and achieve a hegemony?" Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but ask, very puzzled. Liu He shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It would be a lie to say that I didn't have a mind." However, Daoist You Longzi once instructed me: 'If the Ten Kingdoms compete for hegemony today, and the emperor of Tianding has not appeared, if he ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, he will give birth to dragon qi and stand on the opposite side of Tianding and the emperor, although he can be majestic for a while, but he has no heaven and earth to care for him, and sooner or later he will be destroyed by the emperor and his relatives. Therefore I have not been crowned emperor. ”

After listening to Liu He's explanation, Zhao Kuangyin was also silent and speechless, since Shizun once had a fine advice, he had his own reasoning, and he still believed in Shizun's words very much. He then confessed his guilt and got up and withdrew from Liu He's residence. When Kankan left the door, a voice came into his ears: "According to the Taoist chief's prediction, the emperor of heaven will appear in our country, and he must be a military general, so he can sweep the Quartet and set the world in the future!" Zhao Kuangyin heard this, his body was shocked, and all kinds of thoughts flashed in his heart, but then he calmed down and left as if nothing happened. In the house, Liu He looked at the figure of Zhao Kuangyin leaving, his eyes showed relief, envy, love, fear, and even jealousy, and all kinds of complicated eyes turned into a sigh: "Providence, providence." ”

In the following days, the Northern Han officials took Liu He as the military general, Zhao Kuangyin as the internal political repair, and the external military rectification, and in just three years, they digested the vast territory and hundreds of millions of trillion Li people gained from the annexation of the Jin Dynasty, and their strength grew day by day. The rest of the Middle-earth countries are not without greed and covetousness, but the example of the Southern Tang Dynasty is there, and they rashly make a move, but they hit their heads, broke their blood, and retreated back in ashes, becoming the laughing stock of the cultivation world, so there are no cultivators who are willing to offend the Northern Han Dynasty, which is in full swing, for a little secular dispute.

As for those lords, although they also had the intention of taking a piece of the pie, they were afraid that the Northern Han Dynasty occupied the righteousness, and the Later Jin Dynasty was captured by his family, so it stands to reason that it should be incorporated into its territory, and the rest of the countries were unknown; second, because the Northern Han is now strong, if they forcibly invade, they are likely to lose both sides and be profited by the rest of the countries; third, because the Northern Han is surrounded by only the five kingdoms of Northern Liao, Tubo, Houshu, Nanping, and Southern Tang, as well as the nomadic peoples who take the party as the item.

Among them, the only countries ruled by the Han people were Houshu, Nanping, and Southern Tang. The strength of Nanping was weak, and he relied on paying tribute to the surrounding countries to maintain his position; the lord of the Later Shu State was intellectually dull, only wanted to be comfortable and enjoyable, and had no enterprising heart; not to mention the Southern Tang Dynasty, because he was anxious to grab food, he suffered a loss in the Northern Han Dynasty, was caught, and had no face to attack the Northern Han again. If the rest of the countries wanted to attack the Northern Han, they had to pass through the territory of the Three Kingdoms, which was also impossible. Whether it's the fear of being wiped out by the rest of the country, or the fear that their own army will be dumpled, these countries will not do such a stupid thing. Therefore, the powerless and powerful country of the heart of the country has maintained this strange balance of the various Han forces in the heartless land.

In addition to the Han Chinese state, there are also movements of foreign countries. Tibet was in the midst of civil strife, and there was no time to take care of it, and the nomadic peoples such as the party and the Xiang were all scattered and had not yet been unified, and could not form a joint force, and could not do much harm to the Northern Han Dynasty, and could also be ruled out. Only the Northern Liao, established by the Khitans, is not only strong and vast, but also has nomadic soldiers, who are brave and good at fighting, and are much stronger than the Han people. Successive generations of rulers in the country are not enough, but they are not mediocre, and their rule is relatively solid. Moreover, the Later Jin Dynasty, which he supported, was destroyed by the Northern Han Dynasty and lost part of its source of income, which caused dissatisfaction throughout the country and clamored for revenge against the Northern Han.

It's just that a few years ago, the emperor of Northern Liao was seriously ill, several princes competed for the throne, and the methods were repeated, and the major domestic forces also chose one to take refuge for a while, and the political situation was chaotic for a while, and there was a danger of falling into civil strife, and there was no time to take care of the fall of the Later Jin Dynasty. After sending a wave of reinforcements but the whole army was wiped out, no one wanted to do such a self-destructive thing.

The year before last, Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang died of illness in Luancheng, Hebei, because it was too far away from the capital of the Northern Liao Kingdom, and died of illness suddenly, there was no edict left, so the domestic royal families then led troops to attack each other to fight for the throne. (At this time, the Liao State had just transitioned from a tribal clan society to a slave society, and the qiē system was still very primitive and barbaric, so if the acting leader died suddenly and did not designate an heir, his subordinates would be in chaos, and the domestic chaos would fall apart.) This is far inferior to that of the Central Plains countries. ）

In the end, it was the Northern Demon Sect that did not want Northern Liao to excessively consume its own strength in the civil strife for its own interests, and after consulting and compromising with the major Xiuzhen sects in China, it chose Yelu Ruan, who had great military achievements and was a disciple of the Northern Demon Sect, as the emperor and Liao Shizong. Under the pressure of Liao Shizong and the Northern Demon Sect, the civil strife in Northern Liao Suiping once again set his sights on the hinterland of the Central Plains, which is now the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty.

(The first thing I do when I go home after the night shift is to catch up on sleep, so I wake up in the afternoon.) This chapter is so hard to find information, it seems that Rulong is really not suitable for writing about the army, and in the end, I have to make up a piece of history. Fortunately, this book is mainly Xianxia, and you don't want to pursue the historical facts too much, and you will just do it, hehe. The next chapter may be very late, probably at eleven or twelve o'clock, if you think it's too late, you can save it up and read it tomorrow. ）

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