"The king wants his subjects to die, and the subjects have to die." This is a line that often appears in costume dramas, but will the ancients really listen to the emperor for everything? Definitely not, otherwise Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Cao Cao and other figures would not have appeared on the stage of history.
After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, there were "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms", and Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou "You sing and I appear", like a marquee. In this period, a magical figure appeared, he was obviously a little, and finally became a great general, and even changed the course of history by lying.
This person is Guo Wei. Guo Wei was born in 904, three years before the fall of the Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, the world was almost chaotic, the so-called chaotic world out of the hero, although Guo Wei was born in a cold and humble background, he also lost his father and mother at a young age, but he inherited his father's good genes, was born strong, and was a good material for a soldier.
At the age of 18, Guo Wei became a soldier of Li Jitao, the envoy of Zelu Jiedu. After Li Jitao was destroyed, he went to the side of Li Cunxun of Later Tang Zhuangzong as a soldier. He did not do this job for long, because after another god man Liu Zhiyuan appeared, Guo Wei turned to Liu Zhiyuan's camp and helped him claim the title of emperor, Liu Zhiyuan established the Later Han, and Feng Guo Wei became a privy councillor and a part-time general.
Although Liu Zhiyuan became emperor, he had a short life, and died after only 1 year on the throne, and his son Liu Chengyou took the throne. Liu Chengyou was only 18 years old when he ascended the throne, he was still a young man, he did not know much about management, and for Guo Wei, who was ordered to assist his former courtiers, Liu Chengyou doubted all day that they were going to overthrow him.
Liu Chengyou himself listened to music in the palace, drank small wine, spoiled the good people, did not listen to the kind advice of the ministers, and looked completely faint. However, there is one point, Liu Chengyou is very imperial, and he is thinking about how to deal with the old courtiers. In particular, a figure like Guo Wei, who has military merits and is expected, who can defeat the Khitan on horseback and can chat with soldiers on horseback, is the focus of Liu Chengyou's thinking.
It was too much for a person to ponder, so Liu Chengyou pulled his close confidant Li Ye over to ponder together. This Li Ye came up with an idea that could not be more dirty: the soldiers were divided into two routes, and on the one hand, they sent the commander of the Ma Army to make Guo Chongjie kill Guo Wei, and on the other hand, they sent the Zhenning Army to kill Li Hongyi, the commander of the infantry army, Wang Yin.
However, Liu Chengyou would not pick anyone, Li Hongyi was timid, and after arriving at Wang Yin's side, he did not dare to follow the edict, but instead let Wang Yin discover that the emperor wanted to kill himself, which was equivalent to saying that Li Hongyi had turned to Wang Yin. And this Wang Yin, who is also a good friend of Guo Wei, knows that these people have a crisis, how can he not tell Guo Wei?
After Guo Wei learned about it, he was a little overwhelmed at first, the so-called "jun wants the subject to die but the subject still wants to live", what should he do? After all, he was a general, Guo Wei had a clever strategist named Wei Renpu, Wei Renpu never gave Guo Wei a bad idea, only a good idea, he came to this like this, Guo Wei understood what he should do.
The next day, Guo Wei began to order people to spread rumors, saying that Emperor Liu Chengyou was suspicious and wanted to kill all the generals of the three armies, but he must have been deceived. Guo Wei deliberately changed the content of killing himself in the secret edict to solve everyone, which really caused the generals to be furious, and one by one they wanted to follow him to the side of the Qing Emperor.
On the way to the march, Guo Wei spread the idea that Emperor Liu Chengyou had failed him, but he was ready to enter Beijing to plead guilty, and the soldiers were talking about it: "What is the crime of the general?" Relying on this way, Guo Wei successfully gained people's hearts, and the generals tore the yellow flag and draped the yellow flag on Guo Wei's body, saying that he had no way out of Liu's place, and it was better to support Guo Wei as emperor.
As a result, the young Liu Chengyou was completely invincible to the scheming Guo Wei and was defeated and killed. Guo Wei put on a yellow robe to replace the Later Han and established the Later Zhou, becoming the Taizu of the Later Zhou. History is always strikingly similar, 6 years after Guo Wei's death, the Later Zhou general Zhao Kuangyin also learned from him to play a yellow robe to add body, replacing Later Zhou and establishing the Song Dynasty.