A Brief History of Jiangsu

By the fourteenth century, jing shang had become a virtually uninhabited, ungoverned wasteland. The bandit leaders of the region began banding together under this thousand cadilio and by the mid 14 sixties, decided that they should set their energies on an even grander cause than simply eking out a bare existence at the edge of the civilized world. And so they seized control small city, raised a yellow banner and declared themselves a new imperial lin acclaiming leo tong as the prince of han. Titles were created and handed out to the bandits turned rebel lords, while leo's two sons were given the command of the left and right imperial armies