The Xuantan River Valley is a treasure land, located at the junction of Cuizhu Country, Niuling Country and Linshi Country, the three countries have competed for this treasure land over the years, because this river valley is surrounded by several mountains, the river valley is formed by the Xuantan River through a long history of alluvium, Niuling Country and Linshi Country are in the upper reaches of the Xuantan River, and Cuizhu Country is in the lower reaches of the Xuantan River. Except for the Xuantan River Valley, which is a flat land, the rest of the country is full of mountains and mountains, which is very unfavorable to the development of agricultural production. The Xuantan River valley has abundant water and fertile soil, and is a high-yield land for grain crops, and the Xuantan River in the lower reaches of the adjacent Cuizhu country becomes open to form a large lake, which is very rich in aquatic products. Whoever owns this treasure land in these three countries will be able to sit back and relax and be able to achieve a strong country and rich people. However, according to the geographical location of the valley and the direction of the surrounding mountains, the Xuantan River Valley should belong to the Cuizhu Country in terms of ownership, and in the process of historical evolution, the Cuizhu Country has always kept this treasure land in its own country's territory, because with the fertile land of the Xuantan River Valley, the Cuizhu Country has basically become richer than several surrounding countries, but in recent decades. Because the Cuizhu Kingdom did not pay attention to the development of the armed forces because of the kingdom itself, several surrounding countries, especially the Niuling Kingdom and the Linshi Kingdom, because their own land is also close to this treasure land, but let the Cuizhu Kingdom monopolize it, and they are very unconvinced, these two countries have been secretly making trouble, waiting for an opportunity, ready to defeat him in one fell swoop when the Cuizhu Kingdom is vulnerable, and then take this river valley for themselves.

The weakening of the Cuizhu Kingdom actually stemmed from the romance of the old king in the years when he first sat on the throne. When the old king was still the crown prince, because his old father was still alive, the old king's father worked hard in the Cuizhu Kingdom, resulting in all the development of the Cuizhu Kingdom flourishing, and the old king's father was in the battlefield of soldiers and horses after a desperate struggle for the foundation of the future Cuizhu Kingdom to continue to survive. The old king Rong Ma had been riding all his life, and his heart was filled with the safety of the Cuizhu Kingdom and the production and life of the people of the kingdom. Unlike his own son, he did not focus on enriching the harem, and after a few decades of reign, the old king's father only accepted two concubines and a queen of the main palace. The old king's father never went out to war, unlike his own son who wanted to bring a group of beauties, for the sake of the kingdom's thousand years, the old king's father can be said to have basically achieved a pure heart and few desires. Perhaps it was because the old king's father did not devote due energy to reproduction of offspring, so that the queen gave birth to the son of the old king, and the other concubine gave birth to the prince. The old king's father died after laying the foundation of the kingdom because he had been in the wind and rain all his life, and he had worked hard for a long time on the battlefield. Then the old king naturally became the king, and at that time, the Xuantan River Valley was completely under the control of the Cuizhu Kingdom, and the rich products made the Cuizhu Kingdom almost rich. The old king sat on the throne without any worries. The neighboring kingdoms of Linshi and Niuling have been conquered by the old king's father by force, because of their own lack of strength, these two countries can only face the reality, secretly accumulate strength, wait for the opportunity, and fight again with the Cuizhu Kingdom in order to compete for the river valley.

After his father died of illness, the old king thought that the two nations had been greatly damaged by his father's conquest, and that it was impossible for them to be divided again. Therefore, at the beginning of his accession to the throne, he spent all day drinking, electing women and enriching the harem. In order to paralyze the old king, the kings of Niuling and Linshi often visited the Cuizhu Kingdom in person, sending wine and delicacies to express their sincerity. They learned that the old king valued beauty, and each selected a lot of beauties in their own kingdom to give to the old king of the Cuizhu Kingdom. The old king liked it very much, and he played with endless beauties all day long, and he did not think about the affairs of the kingdom and let it develop naturally.

As the saying goes, "knowing a son is better than a father" The father of the old king knew his son's temperament, and when he went out to fight, he also took his son to the battlefield for exercise, he volunteered to lead his troops to fight several battles, but he was a loser and returned defeat. In order for his kingdom to continue to reproduce after a hundred years, the old king's father was almost very disappointed in him, and several times the old king's father was ready to abolish the elder and let the old king's younger brother inherit his mantle, but several important forces of the ministers of the court were favored by the old king's mother and strongly opposed, so that the old king could later sit on the throne of the king. The old king is an old man who governs the country, and he knows that his son can't do it, so he can only enrich his auxiliary strength in the future. Therefore, the old king carried out the layout in advance, selected a queen mother who could be called a heroine among the women for the old king, and also made Miao Wenanza, who basically has the talent of governing the country in Anbang, a close confidant of the old king, and made him the prime minister of the kingdom. In order to prevent the prince, who was slightly higher than the old king in all aspects, from causing trouble in the struggle for power and causing chaos in the kingdom when he was not alive, the old king's father always placed his youngest son in an unimportant position in the kingdom, preventing him from getting involved in military power, and not arranging some important officials of the kingdom around his work, so as to prevent him from forming a party for personal gain. For the future of the kingdom, the old king's father can be said to have put a lot of effort into it.

In the first few years after the old king became the king, the Cuizhu Kingdom lived relatively peacefully, and several surrounding countries fought for the Xuantan River Valley for a long time, which caused a lot of losses in national strength, and they were all seizing the old king based on his own country has a certain strength base, but the old king did not know that in the past few years, he recuperated, recruited troops, enriched the army, and practiced martial arts. At the same time, these countries adopted the strategy of retreating and retreating all the armies originally arranged around the Xuantan River Valley, causing them to completely die and no longer get involved in the illusion of fighting for the river valley. The old king, who was confused by their illusion, thought that he had peace of mind, and that his main duty as a king was to spend his days drinking and dreaming of death.

Although the old king was confused, his father's auxiliary force for him was not confused, and Prime Minister Miao Cheng, who had made great contributions, knew it well, and often reminded the old king of the current potential risks when he was in the court, and the wind in the ears of the queen mother also played a role. With the support of the powerful products of the Xuantan River Valley, and under the layout of the Queen Mother and Prime Minister Miao Cheng, although the strength of the army is not as strong as that of the old king's father when he was alive, it has also achieved some development. In particular, Prime Minister Miao Cheng had great foresight, drew lessons from many years of war in the river valley, and according to the requirements of the terrain and strategic needs, he unknowingly built some fortifications in the dangerous position of the mountains and ridges around the river valley to cope with the war. At the suggestion of the Queen Mother, Prime Minister Miao Cheng organized personnel to build a dam in a suitable section of the upper reaches of the Xuantan River Valley, forming a reservoir with a large water storage capacity in the upper reaches of the river valley.

If it weren't for the future of her son, the Queen Mother looked at her husband who was drunk and dreaming all day long, intoxicated in the gentle township, but she rarely cared about herself, and even couldn't survive with her a few times a year and a half. The Queen Mother really wants to give up, at most she is just a resentful woman in the deep palace. The Queen Mother was born into a family of eunuchs. 's father was the original military secretary of Cuizhu Kingdom, and when Prime Minister Miao had not yet debuted, the queen mother's father made great contributions to the kingdom's siege. Later, in a dangerous war, in order to help the old king's father break through the encirclement of the enemy soldiers, the queen mother's father rode a war horse, brandished his spear, sacrificed his life to death, killed the enemy to break through, and finally died of exhaustion on the battlefield, was robbed of the body by the enemy, and hung the head of the queen mother's father on the city gate. The father of the old king, in order to thank the queen mother's father for saving his life, made her the crown princess, of course, the most important thing is that the old king's father values the queen mother's personal qualities as a soldier.

The Queen Mother and Prime Minister Miao Cheng had already seen the wolf ambitions of the Niuling Kingdom and the Linshi Kingdom, and they also expected that based on their men's consistent clumsy performance as the king of a country, they were ready to move, using blindfolding methods to paralyze others, waiting for opportunities, snatching the river valley, and even destroying the Cuizhu Kingdom. The queen mother will make a plan, on the one hand, let her men continue to be muddy, but to paralyze them, and on the other hand, she and Prime Minister Miao Cheng are secretly preparing to deal with it, and they all know that a vicious battle is inevitable sooner or later.

Later, when the Linshi Kingdom and the Niuling Kingdom thought that the time was ripe to start a war, on a windy and moonlit night, the alliance organized an assault army like a bamboo, and rushed straight to the river valley of the Cuizhu Kingdom with a overwhelming force. The queen mother and the prime minister Miao Cheng planted military intelligence spies on the mountains above the river valley all the year round, and immediately reported to the kingdom as quickly as possible, and the Cuizhu Kingdom launched the old king's personal expedition, and the queen mother and Miao Cheng entourage, mobilized elite soldiers, and began to fight for the war in the river valley.

The battle for the river valley lasted for several years because it was basically evenly matched, and then because the old king did not understand military affairs, without consulting with the queen mother and Prime Minister Miao Cheng, the old king in order to save the king of his own country and always could not be the master on key issues, and was almost at the mercy of others, leading the soldiers, in the middle of a stormy night, to go to the enemy camp to carry out a sneak attack, but fell into the trap. The team led by the old king was almost wiped out, but fortunately, the queen mother found out in time, and Miao Chengxiang immediately led troops to the rescue, and only then did they save the old king who was running wildly on the valley road. In this battle, because of the wrong decision of the old king, the loss of strength was too great. In the subsequent wars, the Cuizhu Kingdom was defeated and retreated, showing that it was absolutely impossible to win by relying on strength.

The Queen Mother and Prime Minister Miao Cheng are not vegetarians at all, and they have long been prepared for the possibility of failure to turn the situation around. At this time, as a last resort, the fortifications built by the Queen Mother and Prime Minister Miao Cheng on the mountain ridge and the reservoir built in the upper reaches of the river valley played an important role, and when the enemy country did not know about it, the Queen Mother first ordered the people in the low-lying areas around the river valley to evacuate through the old king, and then made the illusion of defeat and retreat, and led the enemy into the depths of the river valley. When the enemy army rushed to the depth of the river valley with great momentum, Prime Minister Miao Cheng let the ambush soldiers hidden in the mountain fortifications roll stones, and the huge stones fell from the enemy's heads, making the enemy cry wolf howl, and the enemy troops who tasted the bitterness hurriedly retreated, and when the enemy troops withdrew to the vicinity of the reservoir in the upper reaches of the river valley, the queen mother ordered the soldiers to take the blasting prepared in advance, destroy the reservoir embankment, and the accumulated flood water surged, and most of the enemy army shouted father and mother, and drowned. In the end, after several years of war, the Cuizhu Kingdom won the victory by extraordinary means and undignified.

After the victory of the old king, he was happy for a while, and he had fun with his concubines all night, which eventually caused his death. The defeated enemy army thought that it was necessary to seize the opportunity and raise troops again to be ashamed.