Taiyi Fled the Wedding, Dijun Took Over the New Tang Dynasty.
The third year of Qingtai.
That year, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi were already ten years old.
The two young children had practiced martial arts and studied since they were little. They were astonishingly clever, each accomplished in both letters and arms, yet to the outside world they hid their depth and showed only mediocrity.
It was also in this year that Shi Jingtang, a great general of the New Tang Dynasty, rebelled.
Ever since Emperor Qingtai, Li Congke, ascended the throne, he had constantly suspected the great general Shi Jingtang.
Shi Jingtang secretly contacted the Khitan people and, at the price of ceding the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, obtained Khitan support.
A hundred thousand iron cavalry charged!
They rebelled against the New Tang Dynasty.
On the court's side, morale had scattered and they were powerless to resist. In the end, defeat came like a mountain collapsing.
The New Tang Dynasty fell.
Shi Jingtang established the Jin Dynasty.
He ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Khitan Kingdom.
"This Li Congke, a mere reincarnation of a low-rank god and devil, thinks himself worthy to contend with you and me? Friend Mandi, many thanks for this."
Shi Jingtang, or rather the reincarnated body of the God and Devil of Ceding, said to the current new Khitan ruler, Mandi.
Mandi, just like his name, was all savagery and blood. He glanced sidelong at Shi Jingtang and said, "He is a low-rank god and devil, but what about you? In my eyes, you are only a low-rank god and devil as well.
Remember your promise. From now on, you and your Jin Dynasty are slaves of I, the God and Devil of Man, and of my Khitan!"
Mandi—this was his name