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Speaking of the yellow robe plus body, the first thing you may think of is Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. But you know what? The yellow robe was not the first creation of Zhao Kuangyin, but the masterpiece of his "master" Guo Wei, but it was learned by Zhao Kuangyin and applied to what he learned.
Guo Wei zi Wenzhong, Xingzhou Yaoshan people. Founder of the Later Zhou Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He is tall, full of culture and martial arts, and has courage and strategy.
When Guo Wei was young, he was called emperor by helping Later Han Liu Zhiyuan, and in his twenties he had become the founding hero of Later Han, promoted to deputy envoy of the Privy Council, inspector and situ, and became a general in charge of the army, holding the military and political power of the imperial court.
However, the good times did not last long, and in 948, Liu Zhiyuan died of illness, and his second son Liu Chengyou took the throne. Because Liu Chengyou was still young, the auxiliary ministers held real power, especially Guo Wei, who held the power of military horses, which made Liu Chengyou very suspicious.
At this time, Li Shouzhen, together with Zhao Sixian and Wang Jingchong, launched a rebellion. Liu Chengyou sent Bai Wenke, Guo Congyi, Chang Si and others to fight. After they defeated Li Shouzhen, Li Shouzhen retreated to Hezhong City and closed the door.
Bai Wenke, Guo Congyi, Chang Si and others besieged the city and attacked from spring to summer, but they never attacked the city in the river. Seeing that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, the soldiers were exhausted, and in desperation, Liu Chengyou had to ask Guo Wei to go out on the expedition.
Guo Wei went to the middle of the river and built a fence and besieged it. Li Shouzhen repeatedly broke through, but was defeated. Guo Wei then ordered an attack on all sides, and in one fell swoop attacked the city, and Li Shouzhen set himself on fire and died. Yongxing Zhao Sixuan and Fengxiang Wang Jingchong surrendered one after another, turning the stormy Later Han regime into a safe place.
After the Khitan invasion, Guo Wei moved to the Northern Expedition, defeated the Khitan and stayed behind with meritorious service, the Tianxiong army was envoy, and the privy envoy, and the counties of Hebei all listened to Guo Wei's moderation.
Seeing that Guo Wei's power was growing, Emperor Liu Chengyou had no choice but to issue a secret order to kill Guo Wei. However, the news leaked, and after Guo Wei received the rumors, he forged an edict and contacted the chancellor general who had the same experience as himself, claiming that Liu Chengyou had let him kill many generals. For a time, the crowd was indignant, and Guo Wei was elected to raise an army to fight against him, in order to "qing jun's side".
Soon the four armies rushed to the capital, Guo Wei entered the capital effortlessly, and Liu Chengyou was also killed by the rebels. The clever Guo Wei did not immediately claim the title of emperor, he knew that although the great trend of the Later Han Dynasty had gone, the situation was still unstable, and the old ministers of the Liu clan would not let the jiangshan fall into his hands in vain.
At this time, he needed a puppet emperor, and if the Liu family was the most powerful, it had to belong to Liu Chong, who was stationed in Taiyuan.
Liu Chong, the younger brother of Liu Zhiyuan, was a gambling scoundrel in his early years, but because of his brother's protection, his military career was smooth. After Liu Zhiyuan was founded, Liu Chong, who was responsible for staying in his hometown in Taiyuan, served as a beijing retainer. Soon after, he was also awarded the Title of Envoy of Hedong Jiedushi and Tongping Zhangshi.
After Liu Chengyou was killed, Liu Chong raised an army from Taiyuan and prepared to fight against the rebel Guo Wei. Guo Wei then installed Liu Chong's son Liu Yun as emperor and made the empress dowager obedient to the government.
Just as Liu Chong was preparing to send troops, he received news that Guo Wei had supported Liu Yun's ascension to the throne. Clear-eyed people can see that this is just Guo Wei's blindfold. However, the ignorant Liu Chong, believing it to be true, dreamed of being emperor taishang and killed li jun, who had reminded him of it.
When everything was stable, Guo Wei asked his generals to send false information, falsely claiming that the Khitan were going to attack south. When the empress dowager was anxious, she could only send Guo Wei to lead the troops out of the city.
Shortly after leaving the city, when passing through Liaozhou, the soldiers launched a mutiny, and the yellow robe was added to the body, and Guo Wei was proclaimed emperor. Guo Wei returned to Bieliang and forced the empress dowager to make her a "supervisor of the state" and seize state politics.
In 951, Guo Wei was officially proclaimed emperor, with the state name of Great Zhou, the capital of Fenjing, and the history of Later Zhou. Guo Wei single-handedly founded the Houzhou Tianxia, and also created the "Yellow Robe Plus Body".
As early as when Guo Wei was working hard for the Later Han Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was already working as an errand under him, and it can be said that he had great respect for Guo Wei, and Guo Wei's literary and martial strategy was fully learned by Zhao Kuangyin.
Guo Wei claimed that the emperor died young in the fourth year, and since he had no children under his knees, he established his righteous son Chai Rong to inherit the throne. In 954, Chai Rong ascended the throne and promoted Zhao Kuangyin to the helm of the Forbidden Army.
In this year, the combined forces of the Northern Han and Khitan invaded, and Chai Rong personally marched, and the two sides opened a battlefield in Gaoping, Zezhou. When the battle was about to unfold, the Ningjiang army made Fan Aneng and others flee first, and the Later Zhou army was very critical.
At this critical juncture of death and death, Zhao Kuangyin shouted with his arms: "The Lord is facing a dangerous situation, I am waiting for a desperate battle!" He also let zhang Yongde, the general of the forbidden army, lead archers to seize the left high ground. Zhao and Zhang each led two thousand elite troops, attacked left and right, fought to the death, and suddenly defeated the enemy's front, plus Chai Rong personally came to supervise the battle, and morale was greatly boosted.
In the end, the Northern Han army was defeated and fled. Zhao Kuangyin took advantage of the victory to attack Hedong City, burning the city gate, and his left arm was shot by a stray arrow, and Chai Rong stopped him from attacking the city again. After returning to the division, Zhao Kuangyin was appointed as the capital of the palace and led the Yan Prefecture Assassin History.
After Chai Rong became seriously ill, he paid homage to Zhao Kuangyin in front of the palace and took charge of the forbidden army in front of the palace. Soon after, Chai Rong also died in the west, and his son Chai Zongxun was young, and the empress dowager bowed to the government.
In 960, when the Khitan and Northern Han combined forces to move south, the chancellor Fan Qian and others hurriedly sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead the armies north to resist. Zhao Kuangyin led a large army out of the capital and stayed overnight at Chen Qiaoyi, twenty kilometers northeast of Kaifeng.
On this night, some of Zhao Kuangyin's cronies spread the word among the generals, saying, "The current emperor is young and weak, and he cannot personally govern, and who knows if we serve the country and break the enemy; if we first support Zhao Kuangyin as emperor, then set out on a northern expedition."
The generals' mutiny mood was soon instigated. The next day, Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Kuangyi and his close associate Zhao Pu saw that the time was ripe, so they instructed the generals to put a yellow robe prepared first on Zhao Kuangyin, who pretended to be drunk and just woken up, and all of them worshiped in the court and proclaimed him emperor. The cries of the crowd could be heard for miles.
Zhao Kuangyin pretended to be forced and said, "You are greedy and rich, and you have established me as the Son of Heaven, and if you can take my life, you can do it, otherwise, I can't be the Lord." "
Proponents unanimously said, "Only fate is to listen." Zhao Kuangyin announced in public: "After returning to Kaifeng, the empress dowager and young lord of Later Zhou must not be alarmed, the secretary of state of Later Zhou must not be invaded, no plunder of the treasury of the imperial government, and those who obey orders will be rewarded, and those who violate the orders will be punished." All the soldiers answered the "promise." Zhao Kuangyin then led the mutinous team back to Kaifeng.
From Guo Wei's yellow robe to Zhao Kuangyin's re-implementation of his old skills, less than ten years, if Guo Wei was still alive at that time, what kind of mood would it be to see the apprentice he brought out with him so "outstanding"?