Duan Rui looked at the other party with a somewhat dull expression and asked weakly, he even wondered if he had heard it wrong, the purpose of the other party kidnapping him here was to let him help!

"What I really value in this operation is the six-vein spirit sword in your hand! I need it to help me confirm the location of an artifact!" Master Tianci snorted angrily and seemed to hesitate for a moment, then added. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Confirm the location of the artifact, what artifact?" Duan Rui exclaimed in surprise when he heard Master Tianci's words, and hurriedly asked.

"Fortune Mountains and Rivers!" This time, Master Tianci chose to use the method of divine consciousness transmission to directly transmit the words into Duan Rui's mind, obviously worried that his words would be accidentally overheard by someone with a heart, so he was very cautious.

"Fortune Mountains and Rivers, your target is the Imperial Family of the Great Song Empire!" Duan Rui shouted in surprise after hearing the other party's divine sense transmission.

And Tianci seemed to have expected Duan Rui's reaction a long time ago, and at the same time as his divine consciousness transmission ended, he had quickly placed a layer of prohibition in the room, blocking Duan Rui's shouting from being heard by outsiders.

"That's right, our target was the royal family of the Great Song Empire, but so what?" Master Tianci asked with a contemptuous smile after seeing Duan Rui's reaction.

"Yes...... However, isn't it perfidy for you, the Western Fan Kingdom, to be dependent on the Great Song Empire all along, and to point the finger at your own royal family as a courtier of the empire......?

At this time, Venerable Tianci first completely betrayed the Buddhist faith in dealing with people, and then wanted to make an unrighteous move that threatened the imperial royal family, and it was no wonder that Duan Rui couldn't control his emotions and scolded him sharply.

At the same time, Duan Rui was also shocked by Tianci Fangcai's words in his heart, and he faintly realized that he seemed to be inadvertently involved in a huge conspiracy and it was difficult to get out.

"Hmph, treachery, then let me ask you, do you know who the founding emperor of the Great Song Empire is today?" Master Tianci asked with a sneer when he heard this.

"Hmm, you mean Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. Speaking of this ancestor of the Great Song Empire, it is very legendary, he was born more than 6,000 years ago after the wealthy family of the Tang Empire, the ancestor once followed the human emperor Fuxi to resist the invasion of the demons.

Later, when Fu Xi passed away, he left the luck mountains and rivers in the Bafang artifact to Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Empire at the time, and the luck mountains and rivers map had the magical ability to guide and use the luck of the entire human race.

Since the death of Fu Xi, the Zhao family has assisted the Jiangshan Sheji of the Tang Empire for generations, and the strong men of the Zhao family have a pivotal position in the imperial army, among which Zhao Kuangyin is the most representative.

The army of the Tang Empire can be divided into five levels according to its rank: the gray shirts, the red shirts, the purple shirts, the silver shirts, and the golden shirts, which represent the royal power.

The Grey Shirt Army is the lowest level of troops composed of the acquired warriors; the Red Shirt Army is the grassroots force composed of innate warriors; the Purple Shirt Army is the main offensive force composed of super-first-class masters of the True Yuan Realm; the Silver Shirt Army is a general-commanding force composed of strong people in the Tianyuan Realm, which plays a mainstay role on the battlefield; while the Golden Shirt Army is the commander of the imperial army composed of the strong people of the Puyuan Realm, and is directly responsible to the imperial family, and every member of the Golden Shirt Army has an unparalleled status and power in the empire.

The Imperial Army has always practiced the decimal system of governance, that is, each Red Shirt is in charge of 100 Gray Shirts, known as centurions, and each Purple Shirt has 100 Red Shirts as subordinates, which is 10,000 people.

The Silver Shirt Army and the Golden Shirt Army are governed by the decimal system, and the members of the Silver Shirt Army are respected as the commanders, and they have at least 100,000 acquired second-rate masters and 1,000 innate first-class masters and ten super-first-class powerhouses in the True Yuan Realm.

At its peak, the Tang Empire once had more than fifty Silver Shirt troops, and the leader of this powerful military force was the leader of the Golden Shirt Army, who was the highest ruling class of the imperial army.

Each leader of the Golden Shirts has no less than ten Silver Shirt troops under his name, and they all have a very high voice within the Empire, and are the symbol and guardian of the Empire's power.

However, the excessively strong force is also prone to the situation of self-respect, so in order to avoid the excessive expansion of the power of the leaders of the Golden Shirt Army, the Tang Empire will generally give priority to the allocation of the Silver Shirt Army units with strong individual combat ability, sophisticated weapons and equipment, and high loyalty to the members of the royal family, which also causes the phenomenon that there is a huge difference in the strength of the troops under the command of the same leader of the Golden Shirt Army.

By the time the Zhao family arrived, Zhao Kuangyin's generation had occupied a pivotal and advantageous position in the high-level royal family of the entire Tang Empire, especially in the imperial imperial army, and the Zhao family was even more dominant.

Zhao Kuangyin, as the patriarch of the Zhao clan, the Silver Shirt Army under his command far surpasses other Silver Shirt troops by several grades in terms of individual strength and weapon configuration, and the number of Silver Shirt troops under his command is far more than others, almost one person controls nearly forty percent of the combat effectiveness of the imperial royal army!

The dominance of the Zhao family is not something that the royal family wants to see, but at that time, it was a sensitive period of demon invasion, and the royal family had no energy to suppress Zhao Kuangyin's forces.

The tragic war led to the death of the only god-level powerhouse of the imperial family at that time, and the demigod-level powerhouse also fell by two, and the number of silver-shirted troops was also sharply reduced to less than forty percent of its peak, and the vitality of the imperial family was greatly damaged.

After the demon invaders retreated, the Terran continent was in ruins, but the imperial family lost the god-level powerhouse, not only the vitality was greatly damaged, but the reigning emperor at that time was mediocre and incompetent, and after the war, he was not busy restoring economic construction, but wantonly increased the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which made the people miserable and greatly affected the stability of the imperial family's rule.

It is in line with the old saying: "The times make heroes".

The corruption and incompetence of the royal family in the last years of the Tang Empire directly led to the collapse of the entire empire.

At this moment, the appearance of a person changed everything, and this person was Zhao Kuangyin.

After the end of the war with the demons, Zhao Kuangyin began to eliminate and reorganize his troops as soon as possible, and forcibly incorporated the elite soldiers who survived the war into his own team.

Zhao Kuangyin's cultivation had already reached the late stage of the Puyuan realm, and after the end of the war, he was recognized as the first master within the imperial family, and his actions were not greatly resisted and suppressed by the imperial family at that time, which made the combat effectiveness of his troops have been restored and improved significantly.

And when many people with lofty ideals in the martial arts took the lead in the uprising, Zhao Kuangyin responded as soon as possible, and received the support and help of many martial arts cultivators and families.

Before the Zhao clan followed the human emperor Fuxi to conquer the demon clan, it was a famous family belonging to the second genus in the martial arts at that time, and later played a pivotal role in the confrontation with the demon clan, and enjoyed a high reputation in the martial arts.

In the uprising, it is very appealing to be able to get such a new force to join the rebel army, of course, everyone has selfish intentions, and no one wants to work for a long time but ends up making wedding dresses for others, so although the rebel army accepted Zhao Kuangyin but was not ready to make him emperor.

But contrary to his wishes, Zhao Kuangyin seemed to have the order of the emperor, and he couldn't stop it, and the rebel army ran into walls everywhere at the beginning of the uprising, especially in attacking the city and grabbing the land, and it seemed that there was heaven in the dark to do it against it.

With the addition of Zhao Kuangyin, the rebel army can be said to have passed all the way through the hurdle and smashed the Yellow Dragon, but when the rebel army attacked the imperial city of the Tang Empire, an unexpected scene was staged again, which directly caught the Tang royal family and the rebel army off guard......