The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 184 The truth about sending Jing Niang off thousands of miles away
Chai Rong, Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, can be regarded as the most heroic emperor that has ever appeared in China from the late Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.

To use Ouyang Xiu's evaluation: "In the five or six years of King Sejong's reign, he took Qinlong, leveled Huaiyou, and restored the three passes. The sound of power shocked the Yixia, and scholars in Fangnei Yan Confucianism studied the system and revised "Tongli" , established "Zhengle", and discussed "Xingtong", the methods of their production can all be used in future generations...."

The only shortcoming of this guy is similar to Zhe Zong, the last heroic leader of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, he lived too short.

Emperor Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty ruled personally. He died of illness at the age of 25 and was in power for seven years.Chai Shizong was even worse. He ascended the throne at the age of 33 and died at the age of 39. He ruled for six years, one year less than Zhezong.

The key is that Chai Shizong was not a sick man like Zhezong. He had an extraordinary appearance since he was a child, was good at riding and shooting, and had a good knowledge of calligraphy, history and Huang Lao's skills.And he was not an impatient person. He once set the ambition of "expanding the world in ten years, raising the people in ten years, and bringing peace in ten years."

As a result, he died early.

This is not only a pity in the eyes of historians, but also a fatal disaster for demon suppressors.

Not only did [Mulanji] of the Demon Suppressor lose the new leader she had finally found, but the subsequent "Chenqiao Mutiny" completely destroyed the foundation of strategic cooperation with the Demon Suppressor in the following week.

During the rebellion of Song Taizu to seize the throne, out of the principle of non-interference in the change of political power in the world, the demon-suppressing people did not stand up to help the Chai family to protect the Later Zhou Dynasty, but they strongly protected Chai Shizong's heirs.

This made the newly ascended Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin full of scruples about the existence of the Demon Suppressor, and directly banned the cooperative relationship with the Demon Suppressor that he had received from the Later Zhou Dynasty.

Maybe some people have said, is Song Taizu stupid?
He's really not stupid.

It's just that Song Taizu and his think tank misjudged the stubbornness and determination of the Demon Suppressor.

Taizu of the Song Dynasty believed that the general trend of the world was in his hands (in the Five Dynasties, people mostly regarded those with strong soldiers and horses as the general trend), or he knew the weaknesses of the demon-suppressing people, openly or covertly, and thought that he could subdue the demon-suppressing people for his own use through some means, and Zhao Zhao for others. Protect your family and your country.

Through certain connections, Song Taizu knew very early on that the demon-suppressing people had been under tremendous pressure since the vassal towns were separated in the late Tang Dynasty.

After all, the world is in turmoil, wars are going on, people are dying, and there are many evil spirits in the world. In order to fight against these evil spirits that have emerged while taking advantage of the unrest in the world, the demon-suppressing people have made sacrifices that are unimaginable by ordinary people.

Song Taizu believed that the demon-suppressing people, whose personnel and combat power had been reduced and were almost unsustainable, could choose to cooperate with Zhou Shizong Chai Rong in order to restore their strength. They could also choose to cooperate with his new king.

There is a saying that goes well, you can't be a demon-suppressor on the outside.

The bounden duty of a demon suppressor is to fight against evil spirits, and the biggest difficulty in this job is that when facing evil spirits, it also tests one's inner perseverance.

This is a true zero-sum game with death and degradation at stake.

There may be some who are cheating on their abilities in terms of strength, but there will never be those who are cheating on their abilities in terms of mind and character.

Song Taizu deliberately banned the cooperation between the imperial court and the Demon Suppressor. On the one hand, he was angry at the Demon Suppressor's behavior of protecting Chai's mother and son. On the other hand, he also wanted to learn how to control the Demon Suppressor in order to easily conquer him.

What Zhao Kuangyin didn't expect was that the Demon Suppressors neither succumbed nor resisted in the face of the imperial court's suppression, but the main combat force [Demon Suppressors] directly retreated to the bottom of the civilian population and hid themselves.

Song Taizu punched the air, unwilling to do so, and then he unleashed his second move that he believed could control the Demon Suppressor: the missing Emperor Ji reappeared, but she wanted to conquer another one of the Demon Suppressors. One force - [Mulan Ji] is for his own use.

But this move exposed the fact that Zhao Kuangyin controlled the emperor, and also caused great trouble for the Zhao and Song court.

The original intention of establishing [Mulan Ji] is indeed to protect the emperor, but this does not mean that the members of [Mulan Ji] will be loyal to a certain emperor.

It should be noted that the members of [Mulan Ji] are all women - elites - who are selected based on their ideals and beliefs and have gone through many tests. Compared with men who naturally occupy a dominant position in society, they have a greater sense of mission and spirit of sacrifice. Most of the time The means of doing things are also more fierce and decisive than those of male demon slayers.

Song Taizu released the Emperor Ji to recruit [Mulan Ji], which not only solved the mystery of the Emperor Ji's mysterious disappearance on the front line of the Liao Dynasty, but also revealed his understanding of the internal secrets of the Demon Suppressor.

For the Demon Suppressors, this is undoubtedly a more serious disaster than the loss of Di Ji.

The three major organizations within the Demon Suppressor, [Demon Suppressor], [Mulanji], and [Sitian Daoting] (the body of Sitian Dark Platform) immediately mobilized all their forces to investigate the source of Song Taizu's intelligence.

And the final result is not complicated.

It turns out that the problem lies with the biological mother of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, Empress Dowager Zhaoxian Du.Du was born in troubled times and lived through the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Friday dynasties. His father, Du Shuang, was a wealthy family in Anxi County, Dingzhou, and Du Shuang's wife, Fan, who was Zhao Kuangyin's grandmother, was also a [Mulan] Ji] member.

In the generation of Empress Dowager Zhaoxian, the Du family produced two very outstanding talented women.

The eldest daughter (Empress Dowager Zhaoxian) is smart and courageous, has lofty aspirations, and has a mind and tolerance that are not inferior to those of men; the second daughter is gentle, graceful, versatile, but has a slightly weaker personality.

Mrs. Du's mother, Mrs. Fan, believed that these two daughters, especially the eldest daughter, would become rare heroes in "Mulan Ji" in the future, so she never avoided them when discussing the secrets of the Demon Suppressor.

I never thought that when the Du family’s daughter was in her teens and accepted the [Mulanji] inspection, the eldest daughter was ruled out from the beginning, and then was married at the age of 15 to Zhao Hongyin, who was just a young player at the time, that is, Zhao Kuangyin's father.

However, Zhao Kuangyin's aunt Xiao Du successfully joined [Mulan Ji].

Because of their respective circumstances, the two sisters of the Du family embarked on different paths in life.But the connection between the two has not been interrupted, and the relationship is even closer than when they were children.

The eldest Du family (Empress Dowager Zhaoxian) was naturally not reconciled to not being able to become a member of "Mulan Ji". What made her even more unwilling was that her younger sister's success reflected her failure.

Due to his mother's teachings and his own careful investigation in the past, the eldest Du Shi knew the power of "Mulan Ji" and even the entire Demon Suppressor, as well as the vast significance of its existence.

Therefore, the elder Du family maintained close contact with his sister as much as possible, while at the same time carefully cultivating his children.

In this process, both the eldest son and the eldest daughter of the great Du family died young due to her inexperience.

It was naturally the second son Zhao Kuangyin who really grew up.

When he was young, Zhao Kuangyin was ordered by his mother to travel around the world, hoping to find the hidden demon-suppressing people in order to obtain the inheritance.

It's a pity that Zhao Kuangyin, like his mother, is not lacking in talent, but fails in the demon-suppressing character test, so this blind search is doomed to be in vain.

But then a huge opportunity appeared in front of Zhao Kuangyin and his son. A newly born Emperor Ji was discovered.

Little Du Shi, who was the female crown prince of Qingyouguan in Taiyuan at that time, secretly revealed the news to her elder sister, Du Shi.

The shrewd Du family immediately came up with an idea, but specially arranged a drama for her son in which a hero saves a beauty.

And Zhao Kuangyin lived up to his mother's expectations and personally performed a famous drama of "Send Off the Lady from a Thousand Miles Away" that will be passed down through the ages.

In this drama, people praised Zhao Kuangyin for not being afraid of the hardships of the long journey, for being brave enough to do what was right, not being flirtatious with women, and for not committing any crime against the beautiful Jing Niang Qiu during the long journey.

In fact, that Lady Jing was the Emperor's Concubine, who was born to be disliked by others. Even if Zhao Kuangyin wanted to do something wrong, he couldn't think of it.

With the help of this big show, although Zhao Kuangyin failed to join the Demon Suppressor as he wished, he won the heart of Emperor Jingniang (although he did not want this heart). At the same time, his aunt Xiao Du also rose to power because of his achievements and became [Mulan Ji] 】One of the powerful fairy aunts.

The power fairy aunts include the five great aunts, the great-grandmother, and the great-grandmother, who are respectively in charge of the five responsibilities of [Mulan Ji]. Each type of power fairy aunt is not unique, and there is no fixed number. Everything depends on ability, merit and actual needs.

Later, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong invaded Liao Dynasty and invited Emperor Ji to appear. For this purpose, six top warriors were specially selected to protect Emperor Ji personally. The leader of these six top warriors was Zhao Kuangyin himself.

It was only because of Zhao Kuangyin's intervention that Di Ji cooperated so well that she disappeared. Otherwise, she would not only be protected by six top warriors, but also by several of the most powerful demon-suppressing and [Mulan Ji] masters. Guard, who can take her away quietly.

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　　The seal that will be unlocked tomorrow morning will be replaced with Chapter [-].

　　


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