In the second year of Qin Kaiyuan, early summer.

The news that Emperor Qin drove his own expedition and pacified Hedong in one fell swoop came out, and the world was shaken.

Shannan.

At the foot of Tongbai Mountain, the local Haoqiang Yang Shilin invited another Haoqiang Tian Zhan.

Both of them are wealthy families in Handong, what is a wealthy family, it is rustic and arrogant. The two were originally strong and strong of the Han nationality, but in the area of Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, there are many uncivilized barbarians, these barbarians are barbarian tribes, with the strength of the Han people, they are constantly being assimilated by Sinicization, and a few tribes retreat to the mountains and live in the mountains.

The ancestors of Yang Shilin and Tian Zan were actually naturalized barbarians in the early years, and gradually became a wealthy family in the same place, rich and powerful in the local area.

Previously, they were also local officials, and when the Sui Rebellion occurred, they first voted for Meng Rang, then Li Mi, and then Xiao Mi.

Although Xiao Milling is called Emperor Liang, but in fact, the power of the Liang Dynasty is in the hands of the eight kings, it can be said that he is an emperor without soldiers and no power, before the Song King Yang Daosheng attacked Yiling Xu Shao, but Xu Shao was defeated, and most of the soldiers were killed and wounded. Later, the general of the Qin army attacked Fangling County from the south of Wuguan, and beheaded its Dongping king Jati. ”

"Now the Qin Emperor first swallowed Henan, and then set the east of the river, I heard that the Qin Emperor drove to Luoyang, this world should be Luo Luo, everyone can see it. Emperor Qin from Liaodong outside the Guan, since the beginning of the army, invincible, invincible, into Shandong, to seize Huainan, occupy Fanyang, and now to capture Henan, Pinghedong, most of the world has been returned to the Great Qin, the army has not been blocked, the hero admires and climbs. Moreover, Emperor Qin treats people and things openly, appoints good people, encourages meritorious people, does not remember the old evil, and competes for the world according to the winning momentum, who can match it? ”

He sighed.

"Our family is also a wealthy family of Han Bai for hundreds of years, and now they are in a place where they shouldn't be, and they can only sit and wait to be wiped out. Now that all parts of the country have attached themselves to Daqin, such as Xu Shao and other officials of the four counties in Yiling in our west, they have led the four counties to annex, and I think we must also seize the opportunity and raise troops to annex. ”

Previously, Xu Shao and others had led the four counties of Yiling, Jingyi, Lingling, and Liyang to be attached, and Shan Xiongxin won Fangling County.

The four counties of Handong controlled by Yang Shilin and Tian Zhan, the four counties of Handong, Yiyang, Anlu, and Yong'an, are now occupied by the Qin army on the north and east sides, and only the south across the Yangtze River is owned by Xiao Milling generals.

The situation is getting more and more intolerable.

For a strong man like Yang Shilin, after all, they were born in the barbarians, so although they have a strong appeal in Handong, the imperial court has never completely trusted them.

They have voted for Meng Rang Li Mi and Xiao Milling, but they have not gained any real trust, and they do not have the ambition to fight for the world like Li Mi and Meng Rang.

Now seeing that the general trend of the world has returned to the Qin Dynasty, he began to plan a retreat.

Now Xiao Mo looks very strong on the outside, but the core forces are only Nanjun, Xiangyang County, Chuyang County, Jiangxia County, Qingjiang County, Baling County, Changsha County, as for the more remote southern area, in fact, although the land is vast but remote.

And now as Liang Chen, Yang Shilin knows very well that the current Xiao Mill is far from being as beautiful as he looks.

At the beginning of the uprising, Xiao Mo was actually just a puppet set up by the local generals of Jianghan after the uprising. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was a great chaos, and the captains Dong Jingzhen, Lei Shimeng, Zheng Wenxiu, and Zhang Xiu conspired to raise troops against the Sui.

So in the end, it was proposed to push out Xiao Mill from Luochuan County to be the leader, after all, Xiao Mill was a descendant of the emperor of the Liang Dynasty.

Later, Xiao Mill recruited people and horses, ready to respond, coincided with the attack of the Yingchuan thief Shen Liusheng, Xiao Milling was defeated, and simply persuaded him to raise troops with him against Sui, and also said that many generals were willing to support him to restore the Liang Dynasty, so Shen Liusheng attached himself to Xiao Mill.

Xiao Mo also appointed him as the general of the chariot and cavalry, so Shen Liusheng recruited his old gang members, and within a few days, bandits and bandits from near and far rushed to join him, reaching tens of thousands, and then went to Baling County with Xiao Miao.

Dong Jingzhen sent people to greet him, but he saw most of the forwards led by Shen Liusheng first.

Shen Liusheng consulted with his subordinates, and felt that he was the first to belong to Xiao Miao, and he was the first, and at this time, there were many soldiers in Baling County, and his strength was still above him. He agreed with his subordinates that it was better to kill the generals sent by Dong Jingzhen to meet him, detain his soldiers and horses, and then coerce Xiao to seize and enter Baling, so that no one would want to sit on his head.

Subsequently, Shen Liusheng did the same, he and Xiao Milling entered the city, Dong Jingzhen and others were very dissatisfied, very angry, and asked Xiao Mill to kill Shen Liusheng.

Originally, things had come to this point, but it was actually very beneficial to Xiao Miao, after all, Dong Jingzhen and the others were not his subordinates, they just wanted to use his name to welcome him. If there are no soldiers and no generals in his hands, then after entering the city, he will become the puppet of Dong Jingzhen and others.

And now there is Shen Liusheng, the thief leader who was personally recruited by him, leading tens of thousands of horses to follow him, which is just a balance between the two sides, no matter what, Shen Liusheng can also be regarded as his descendant, and if the two sides are balanced, his status as the lord will be stable.

However, Xiao Mo made a big mistake, he was asked by Dong Jingzhen and other Baling generals, so he really ordered Shen Liusheng to be killed.

Shen Liusheng was killed, and tens of thousands of horses and horses were scattered overnight.

So Xiao Mo has completely become a lonely man since then, and the power of the soldiers and horses is in the hands of Dong Jingzhen and others.

So after that, although he was supported by everyone as the emperor, set up a hundred officials, and restored the Liang system, he was then forced to crown Dong Jingzhen as the king of Jin, Lei Shimeng as the king of Qin, Zheng Wenxiu as the king of Chu, Zhang Xiu as the king of Qi, Yang Daosheng as Song Sheng, Xu Xuanche as the king of Yan, and Wan Zan as the king of Lu.

Eight kings with different surnames were sealed in one go, all of them were Dong Jingzhen and Zhang Xiu's group, and none of Xiao Miao's henchmen were followed.

Although Xiao Mo moved the capital to Jiangling, he actually didn't even have a soldier and horse that really belonged to him.

Up to now, the Eight Kings have 400,000 soldiers and horses, each owning several county territories, and they have long operated their own territories like personal fiefdoms.

And although these eight kings were also military academies before, they are now arrogant and domineering, good at soldiers, and they don't pay attention to Emperor Liang in Jiangling.

Even the younger brother of the great Sima Dong Jingzhen was a general of Wuwei, but after being reprimanded by Xiao Mo for his lawlessness, he was so heartbroken that he simply wanted to kill Xiao Miao, but he was summoned into the palace by Xiao Miao's order and then killed by the eunuchs around him.

After killing Dong Jingzhen's brother, Xiao Mo was worried that the situation would become more and more difficult to control, so he simply listened to the advice of a civil servant beside him, and ordered the kings to disband the soldiers and horses on the grounds of suspending the army and farming, and the kings were only allowed to keep 10,000 horses each, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were all cut back to the township.