"Winter!" The strong man who broke in knelt straight on the ground. He didn't see any soldiers holding swords or guns behind him, but the sad crying and howling became more and more permeable the more he listened.
After all, Shi Jingtang was also a warrior in the battlefield when he was young. He was much more courageous than Sang Weihan. He plucked up the courage to take a closer look and found that the strong man kneeling in the hall, crying out of breath, was his righteous man.
Zi, Zuo Jinwu Guards General Shi Chonggui.
Only then did Shi Jingtang feel relieved. Shi Chonggui was not only his adopted son, but also the son of his elder brother Shi Jingru.
Moreover, he has always been an honest and straightforward person, and he is very filial to his adopted father and uncle, and will never start a rebellion.
"Why are you so alarmed, Erlang? How do you behave? As a general of the Jinwu Guard, don't you know what the crime of breaking into the forbidden palace without permission is?" Shi Jingtang, who felt a little embarrassed in front of Pei Yuan, cursed in embarrassment.
But Shi Chonggui didn't care about Shi Jingtang's scolding at all. He let out a long howl, knelt down on the ground and kowtowed until his blood flowed. He let out a whimpering cry, as if he had lost his temper.
My puppies are average.
At this time, not only Shi Jingtang, but also Sang Weihan who came out from behind the screen and Pei Yuan who was behind the fight also knew that something was wrong.
Shi Jingtang felt that his heart was beating so hard that something terrible must have happened if Shi Chonggui, who had always been honest and steady, could cry like this.
Sang Weihan trembled violently, and suddenly thought of a very bad thing. Fan Yanguang of Yecheng led the Tianxiong army to go south to cause trouble. According to time, the troops may have reached Huazhou and Weizhou on the north bank of the Yellow River.
However, Yang Guangyuan, the requisition envoy, has already led his army to advance towards Huazhou. Only a few days ago came the good news of Fan Yanguang's severe defeat, so it shouldn't be a big problem!
Could it be that Yang Guangyuan was defeated in Huazhou? No! No way!
Sang Weihan was well aware of Fan Yanguang's weakness and strength. Whether it was in terms of military strength or logistics, even if Yang Guangyuan could not defeat Fan Yanguang's troops immediately, it would not be a disastrous defeat.
"Could it be that Yang Guangyuan is a thief?" Sang Weihan felt like he was trembling when he spoke. After thinking for a long time, he felt that this was the only possibility.
When Shi Chonggui heard what Sang Weihan said, he finally stopped sobbing and raised his head. Pei Yuan looked up and saw that Shi Chonggui's forehead was already a lake of flesh and blood, with blood mixed with tears flowing all over his face. It looked extremely terrifying.
"It's not that Yang Guangyuan surrendered to the enemy, but that something has changed in Xijing!"
Sang Weihan just felt relieved, but when he heard that Xijing had changed, he immediately felt his head pounding.
Xijing was Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Later Tang Dynasty. After Shi Jingtang entered Kaifeng, his second son Shi Chongxin was left as General Zuo Xiaowei and the military governor of the three cities in Heyang to guard Xijing. His third son Shi Chongyi stayed in Xijing as General Zuo Xiaowei.
If something changes in Xijing, is there something wrong with them?
The muscles on Shi Jingtang's sallow face trembled for a while. He walked towards Shi Chonggui. After taking a few steps, a layer of unusual-looking red clouds rushed up to his face.
Then, he shook a few times as if he was about to faint. The situation was extremely scary. Pei Yuan quickly stood up, and Sang Weihan, one on the left and one on the right, sandwiched Shi Jingtang.
"Sir, there was a mutiny in Heyang. Zhang Congbin, who was patrolling the eastern capital, rebelled! Fan Yanguang allowed him to deploy a deputy envoy and fifty carts of goods, so the dog slave mobilized all the troops in Heyang and attacked Xijing.
There were also many Heyang soldiers in Xijing, and they cooperated with each other. Xijing fell, and Brother Xin and Brother Yi were both killed by Zhang Congbin!"
'boom!'
This news, like a thunder, exploded in Shi Jingtang's mind. The nearly fifty-year-old, shameless son-emperor screamed, his body trembled violently, and he pulled out a few times as if having a seizure, and his expression quickly changed.
From red to like gold paper.
With a sound of 'Wow!', a mouthful of blood spurted out from Shi Jingtang's mouth. Even Pei Yuan and Sang Weihan couldn't hold him up. Their fat bodies rolled directly to the ground, and the three of them suddenly fell into a ball.
Shi Jingtang had six sons, of whom the fourth, fifth and sixth sons died young.
The eldest son Shi Chongying was originally in Luoyang, the eastern capital, as a hostage. When Shi Jingtang raised troops in Jinyang, Shi Chongying and Shi Jingtang's adopted son Shi Chongyin were killed by the last emperor Li Congke.
Only the second son Shi Chongxin and the third son Shi Chongyi grew up and followed him. After Shi Jingtang entered Kaifeng, one of them served as the governor of the three cities of Heyang to defend Xijing and control the Yellow River, while the other stayed behind in Xijing to prevent accidents.
As a result, Zhang Congbin turned against Shi Jingtang, and in order to stabilize the Yellow River and Luoyang, he actually sent his two sons to a dead end.
Of the six sons, three died young and one was killed by Li Congke, the late emperor of the late Tang Dynasty. The second son Shi Chongxin and the third son Shi Chongyi are the only remaining descendants of Shi Jingtang.
Therefore, after Zhang Congbin killed Shi Jingtang's two sons, considering that he was already forty-seven years old, it was almost certain that Shi Jingtang was extinct.
Of course, historically, Shi Jingtang still had a son, Shi Chongrui, but he would not be born until next year, and he is probably not even pregnant now.
"Oh my God! Do you insist on my death? Guoqiao! I didn't want to be the emperor of Laoshi. You know, it's Wang Twenty-san who keeps pushing me hard.
I pretended to be crazy and acted like a fool. I kowtowed and knelt down to him, but he refused to let me go. During the banquet, if I took one step early, he would ask me if I wanted to go back to rebel. Guoqiao, I had to do this! My son
Ah! It was someone who harmed you!"
After a brief silence, Shi Jingtang, who was vomiting blood, rolled over on the ground. He kept hammering his chest, rolling and crying on the ground. His nose and tears were mixed with blood, and it flowed all over his body.
They are all, even Pei Yuan has a lot of them.
Do you want to say that Shi Jingtang was miserable? It was really miserable! Maybe he never thought about becoming emperor in the first place.
But who said that he has a heavy army and is still serving as the Hedong Jiedushi. In this era, the Hedong Jiedushi basically represents the leader of the rebels!
He pretended to be crazy and begged, and even interceded through Li Congke's mother, the Queen Mother Cao, but Li Congke never gave up monitoring him and even wanted to kill him directly several times.
Although Li Congke once said that as long as Shi Jingtang was willing to move to another place, he could die a good death, but Shi Jingtang simply couldn't believe it. The day he had no soldiers in his hands would be the day he died without a burial place.
Li Congke was emperor for three years. During these three years, Shi Jingtang spent every day in fear.
The only way he and Sang Weihan found to save their lives was to recognize Khitan Yelu Deguang as their father, cede the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and use a very decisive approach to sell the country to the extent that future generations could no longer sell it, and obtained the Khitan.
He asked for help from others in order to save his life.
However, when he was appointed as the governor of Hedong, he was afraid that Li Congke would kill his whole family. When he entered Kaifeng and became emperor, he was also afraid of being killed by arrogant soldiers at home and abroad.
The bottom is not hot, all the sons are dead, and there is no successor. Even the adopted son is only left with Shi Chonggui in front of him.
While weeping, Queen Shi Jingtang from the harem, the third daughter of Zhuangzong Li Siyuan, the mother of Shi Chongxin who was killed, and Princess Yongning of the Later Tang Dynasty also came to the main hall.
At this time, Shi Jingtang had collapsed to the ground crying. He even vomited out the braised pork he had just eaten. Blood, food residue, snot and tears were all over his body. He didn't look like an emperor at all.
Princess Yongning has also received the bad news. The couple's eldest son Shi Chongying was killed by Li Congke, and their second son Shi Chongxin is also dead.
"Yongning! Why should I be an emperor? Why should I fight for this? Why can't Wang Twenty-san, this bitch slave, trust me?
If he had no intention of killing someone, how could Brother Ying, Brother Xin, and Brother Yi have lost their lives?"
At this time, the sunset was about to set, and the dim sunlight shone into the Daning Hall. Shi Jingtang and Empress Li held each other's arms and cried.
Shi Chonggui, Sang Weihan, and the servants and palace people who were waiting nearby all cried together.
Pei Yuan suddenly felt a little desolate and sad. In his heart, he hated and despised Shi Jingtang extremely.
The Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun is the Pingfan of China. With this territory, if the Khitan and other barbarians want to enter the Central Plains, just climbing over the mountains and ridges will cost them half their lives.
After crossing the mountain, if it goes well, you may get some benefits, but if it goes wrong, you won't even be qualified to run away.
Therefore, after the decline of the Tang Dynasty for so many years, the Khitans went south many times and were severely defeated. The Central Plains had been fighting for more than a hundred years, and the Khitans could only watch from a distance.
But now that the sixteen states of Yanyun have returned to the Khitan, they can farm and station troops in the land of Yanyun, and go south whenever they want.
The land in You, Ji and other states is fertile, and the Khitans can plunder it freely, giving them sufficient financial resources and the ability to withstand losses, which will definitely cause great trouble to China in the future.
But currently, the Shi Jingtang in front of Pei Yuan is just a poor man who only wants to save his life, but has been pushed step by step by fate to reach where he is today.
Although he sat on the throne, he was surrounded by domineering and powerful ministers both inside and outside. Living in the palace, he always had to worry that he would be beheaded by the insurrectionary soldiers inadvertently.
I rebelled until I was almost fifty years old, I have been infamy for a long time, I recognized a man who was more than ten years younger than me as my father, and now my queen is dead, so why bother to become this emperor?
He suddenly remembered what Zhang Zhao once told him. In these troubled times, the reason why the feudal towns were divided and the tooth soldiers were lawless.
All because the top and bottom have lost their glory, the left and right have lost their faith, and they take it for granted that the weak and the strong lead beasts and cannibalize people.
Looking at Shi Jingtang in front of him, Pei Yuan suddenly understood what Zhang Zhao meant by the tragedy of the times.
'I, Zhang Erlang, am not a noble person, nor a beautiful woman, but I am here to end this troubled world and restore the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties!'
At this moment, Pei Yuan felt that Zhang Zhao's words hit his heart like a drum in the evening and a bell in the morning. He decided that he would also go crazy!
"The saint cries till dawn, and till dawn, can he cry to death? Can he avenge his two sons? If you agree to Zhang Sikong's request, I have a plan that can avenge the saint's great revenge!"