The An Shi Rebellion was not completely quelled, and The old departments of An Lushan and Shi Siming still divided Hebei and Shandong, but for more than 120 years, the imperial court and the fanzhen maintained a delicate balance, and if the imperial court attacked the fanzhen, the fanzhen would swear to resist to the death. However, on the other hand, it was difficult for the clan towns to attack the imperial court, because many of the clan towns had their own intentions and did not want others to control the imperial court.
This balanced situation was broken by the peasant revolt led by Huang Chao in 874, which shocked the old pattern to pieces, so the Tang Dynasty ended, and Zhu Wen, who had been Huang Chao's subordinate, replaced the Tang Dynasty and established Hou Liang, thus opening up the colorful five generations of chaos.
The Later Liang were not a great unified dynasty, and even in the north, the area it actually controlled was very small. The rest of the dynasties were basically the same, and the speed of dynastic change was dizzying, but after the Zhao Kuangyin Chen Qiao mutiny and the addition of the yellow robe, we found that a new dynasty was born that was very different from the Tang Dynasty. So in fact, from the Anshi Rebellion to the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was a period of great change.
Then we can trace the starting point of this matter, we can look at a sentence circulated during the Five Dynasties period, called "Chang'an Tianzi, Wei Bo Ya Bing", which means that Wei Bo's tooth soldiers are very powerful. We can briefly talk about why Wei Bo jiedu made it necessary to build such a force. Wei Bojiedu controlled the area basically equivalent to the area around present-day Handan in Hebei and Anyang in Henan, which was the main battlefield of the Anshi Rebellion, basically without the protection of the mountains, a place of four battles, and did not produce horses, so it was an army system dominated by infantry. When the first Wei Bo jiedushi made Tian Chengsi control this area, he immediately set about building his own army, and soon built up an army of 100,000 people, and then he chose 10,000 strong people out of these 100,000 people to form his own tooth soldiers, so this was actually the establishment of an elite division under his control. But why would he want to build an elite division of his own? In fact, as a jiedushi envoy, although he divided one side, the six states he controlled, in addition to his own state, the generals of the other five states were actually semi-independent, so he had to have such an army not only to go out to fight a hard battle, but also to prevent rebellion in the other five states.
However, Wei Bo's fame was not for this reason, but because after the end of the six generations of Tian's reign, wei Bo's abolition was actually in the hands of Ya Bing, which was somewhat contrary to tian Chengsi's design. In the end, Luo Shaowei had to use Zhu Wen's power to kill his own tooth soldiers, which relieved them of their threat, of course, Wei Bo Town was reduced to a second-rate domain town from then on.
Wei Bo's tooth soldiers are not a case, but a common phenomenon, each clan town festival makes them actually have their own elite troops, but the names are various, it is impossible to remember clearly, anyway, see the good ones on the line. Later, after Zhu Wen controlled several feudal towns in the Central Plains, he scattered and reorganized the elite troops of these clan towns, thus strengthening his own pro-military strength. Later, every time a dynasty was changed, it was reorganized, and finally the army directly under the emperor was continuously strengthened, and when Shi Jingyao wanted to launch a rebellion, he found that the gap between his strength and the army of the imperial court was too large, so he joined forces with the Khitan to seize power through the method of emperor Er and ceding Youyun Sixteen Prefectures. In the week after Guo Wei's establishment, the foundation of his successful reversal was that he was a privy envoy who could mobilize the forbidden army rather than a local emissary, and Guo Rong was of course very aware of this, so he designed many measures to prevent his forbidden army command from seizing power, but he still could not prevent Zhao Kuangyin.
Of course, the people who took advantage of the loophole knew how to plug the loophole, so after Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he no longer put the power of the forbidden army in the hands of one person, but was divided into three ya to manage, and the three ya only had the power to lead the troops and not the power to transfer troops, and this power was in the privy council. As for the 200,000 forbidden troops, half of them were arched to defend the Beijing Division, and half were placed in important places throughout the country, so that no one in the imperial court could seize power, and the local envoys no longer had the strength to oppose the imperial court, and Zhao Kuangyin could achieve the right to release the army with a cup of wine. However, his throne was still not passed to his son, and it is not known whether he succeeded or did not succeed.
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