Shi Jingyao was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and he is not Han, he is a child of the Shatuo tribe, his race originally belonged to the branch of the Turkic ethnic group, but due to the outbreak of the Huangchao Uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the power of the Fanzhen was too large, the central government of the Tang Dynasty could not manage, in the face of tens of thousands of peasant rebels, the central government was also powerless, and later Tang Yuzong had no choice, so he could only call on all the clan towns under Guangtian to suppress this uprising together.
It was at this time that the Shatuo, as an independent armed force, began to enter the big stage of history. The power of the clan towns is very large, and they continue to develop their own power in the border areas, and the number of troops they have far exceeds that of the central government, and they can completely chase the Central Plains.
At that time, Zhu Wen of the Han and Li Ke of the Shatuo tribe were the two Qin kings who were relatively powerful in the Fanzhen at that time, and the two of them competed in the Central Plains, and later after Li Ke died of illness, his child Li Cunyao successively destroyed the surrounding Fanzhen forces, and then unified all the forces in the Central Plains in a short period of time, establishing the later Later Tang regime, which was the later Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
After the official establishment of the Tang regime, soon after the society was in chaos, because the imperial government at that time did not attach importance to talents, and wantonly slaughtered the previous meritorious ministers, resulting in the people's life in misery, people's hearts were scattered, and many talents were lost.
Shi Jingyu saw this opportunity and led the Liao troops to attack the capital of the Later Tang Dynasty, Luoyang, and the Later Tang officially declared its demise, Shi Jingyao colluded with the Liao soldiers, he originally did not have the right to lead so many Liao soldiers to attack the ability of other regimes, but he did something very despised by posterity, he ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun at that time to the Khitan, and then brought so many Liao soldiers to attack the Later Tang.
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures has a very important strategic significance in ancient times, its general scope includes today's Beijing, north of Tianjin, and a large area in northern Hebei, at the same time, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is divided by the Taihang Mountain Range, Shanxi and North China Plain are divided, north of Shanxi is nomadic civilization, south of Shanxi is the Han farming civilization, this location is very important, it can completely distinguish the two civilizations, is a natural protective barrier.
Since ancient times, it has been a natural danger used by the Central Plains Dynasty to resist the northern nomads, and once the sixteen states of Yanyun in ancient China were lost, the Central Plains Dynasty would often encounter the attack of the northern nomads, and its strategic location was very important, but Shi Jingyu assigned it to the Khitans.
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, not only has important strategic significance, but also the resources of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are also very fertile, ancient requirements for the quality of cavalry are very high, in that era without cars, horses are the fastest means of transportation, the Central Plains Dynasty's horse farm is located in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.
Because the land of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is fertile and very suitable for horse growth, once the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are surrendered, then it means that the Central Plains Dynasty will lose a large number of horse breeding grounds, which is very uncomfortable for farming peoples, the loss of horses is equivalent to the loss of a steady stream of transportation, at the same time, these resources fall into the hands of the northern nomads, for them, it is a rich property, and the quality of cavalry will be greatly improved.
If the sixteen states of Yanyun did not surrender to the Khitan, then the gap in the Central Plains Dynasty would be difficult to open, but it was precisely because of the existence of Shi Jingyao that the nomads had the opportunity to take advantage of it, and finally repeatedly entered the Central Plains, causing chaos.