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Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

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Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

Yang Zhi sells knives, the classic bridge section of "Water Margin".

Guo Wei, in the five generations and ten kingdoms of cattle people, is indeed counted as the first good man with great deduction color!

It's a name that's unfamiliar to many people.

However, his story is particularly wonderful, and it has long been famous all over the world, and almost everyone knows it.

Speaking of this, we must mention the water margin of Shi Nai'an.

It is said that the third time Shi Dalang, who is well-known in the Water Margin, walked to Huayin County at night, Lu Ti ruled over the fist beating town of Kansai; the twelfth Time Liangshan Polin rushed down the grass, and Yang Zhi sold knives in the capital city.

These two times, he told the story of the water margin good Han Lu Zhi who was deeply upset, punched and humiliated the weak and evil forces town of Guanxi Zheng Tu, and the water margin good Han Yang Zhi was angry, and he took a knife and slaughtered the bull and two.

Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, Xiangdang, are both iconic good men of Liangshan.

Unfortunately, they are all characters created by art, just like Yang Guo and Zhang Wuji. Fake.

However, the stories of their fists and humiliation of weak and weak evil forces and the slaughter of hooligans with knives are true.

Guo Wei is the main lord of these stories.

Guo Wei was born into poverty, and his neck was a flying finch, known as Guo Queer.

At that time, Guo Que'er was physically strong, bold and courageous, making a good fist stick, beating no opponent in the army, and made Li Jitao liked for Ze Lujie, and he took it by his side as a tooth soldier.

Tooth soldiers, similar to personal guards.

Guo Wei joined the army, since the fist is invincible, the heart of the teenager, of course, bold and conceited, quite chivalrous.

It is rumored that one day, Guo Wei went to hang out on the street after drinking, and encountered a butcher bullying and dominating the market, arrogant and arrogant, and the commoners were afraid.

Therefore, Guo Wei was drunk and provoked the butcher, asking for fine meat, cutting the fine meat to make a cheek; wanting fat meat, cutting fat meat to make a shame.

The butcher was afraid of Guo Wei, and he swallowed his breath and cut his hands and feet sour. However, in the end, he still couldn't help Guo Wei's language deception, ripped open his clothes to expose his stomach and shouted, if you have the guts, you will come to a knife.

Guo Wei did not say a word, copied the knife and stabbed it directly, and the butcher was killed on the spot.

Sure enough, the water margin is a good man.

Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

The classic bridge section of "Water Margin", Lu Ti's fist fight in the town of Kansai, can be said to be based on Guo Wei.

It is difficult to say that Shi Nai'an wrote with great interest that he punched the town of Kansai and Yang Zhi killed Niu Er, and there was no shadow of Guo Que'er floating in front of his eyes.

Back to the point.

Guo Wei killed people in anger, and was not convicted because he was admired and protected by Li Jitao.

Later, Li Jitao was attacked by the later Tang Emperor Li Cunxun sent troops, and Guo Wei was known for his Xiao Yong, so he was incorporated into the Later Tang Emperor's personal army from Ma zhi.

Li Cunxun's horse was the elite of the elite of the Later Tang army, and there were many powerful characters.

Among them, the Shatuo warriors Ah Tuo and Ah Tan father and son are quite famous for their bravery.

Ah Tanduo made military achievements, and was favored by Li Siyuan of the Later Tang Dynasty, and was given the surname Yang, the name Ofe, and later changed his name to Guangyuan.

Yang Guang traveled far through the Later Tang and Later Jin Dynasties, stationed in the north of Qin and Jin for a long time, mainly fighting against the Khitans, causing headaches for the Khitans, and was one of the five generations of famous generals.

According to the Zizhi Tongjian, the Continuation of the Zizhi Tongjian, the History of the Song Dynasty. Yang Ye's biography and other related records, about after Guo Wei claimed that emperor established the Later Zhou Dynasty, Yang Guangyuan's son Yang Xin died of illness.

Subsequently, Liu Chong, the younger brother of Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty, disobeyed Guo Wei and was also proclaimed emperor in Taiyuan according to the Twelve Prefectures of Hedong.

The so-called Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms occupied the Five Dynasties dynasties of the Central Plains, such as Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou. And the ten independent kingdoms in the middle of the Central Plains, in the corner of Wai'an, which coincided with the Five Dynasties.

Liu Chong, who claimed that the emperor established the Later Han Dynasty, was the last state of the Ten Kingdoms.

At that time, Yang Xin's two young sons, Zhonggui and Chongxun, surrendered to the Northern Han Dynasty in Linzhou, northern Shaanxi.

Yang Xin's second son, especially Zhonggui, was good at military affairs, and Ren Jianxiong led many troops to fight with the Liao state, and the Liao people were afraid and afraid.

Yang Chonggui was deeply loved by Liu Chong, and he accepted him as a righteous son, ranked among the sons of the Northern Han imperial family, and named Liu Jiye.

Later, Guo Wei died of illness, and Guo Wei's adopted son Chai Rong succeeded to the throne, that is, Later Zhou Shizong.

In 959, Chai Rong died, and Later Zhou passed the throne to the Seven-year-old Later Zhou Gong Emperor Chai Zongxun.

The following year, the brothers who were deeply trusted by Chai Rong, who controlled the Palace Of guards, made Zhao Kuangyin careless, and planned to launch the Chen Qiao Rebellion, deposing Emperor Gong of Houzhou overnight and establishing the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, the Northern Song Dynasty swallowed up the Northern Han Dynasty, and Liu Jiye surrendered to Zhao Kuangyin's brother Zhao Guangyi, the Emperor Taizong of Song, changed back to his original Yang surname, and led his family to change the court to loyalty to the Song dynasty.

Liu Jiye is the prototype of the head of tianbo province in the most widely circulated traditional literature, "Yang Jia Will Yanyi", Yang Linggong Yang Jiye.

From this, at the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Shatuo people who originated from the Turks have gradually sinicized, whether it is surnamed Liu, surnamed Yang, surnamed She, surnamed Li, surnamed Shi, etc., after continuous wars, political turmoil, drizzle and silence, has long been integrated into the Central Plains.

Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

According to the Zizhi Tongjian, the Continuation of the Zizhi Tongjian, the History of the Song Dynasty. Yang Ye Biography and other related records, the well-known Yang family will be Hanhua Shatuo people.

Just as the Turks, Xianbei, Xiongnu, etc. faded out of history during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Tang people appeared in the Central Plains, after five generations of war, the Shatuo people were in the limelight, killing and killing, and the Song people were also vaguely preparing to turn out.

——Originally, the Central Plains culture and the northern culture collided and were compatible, the ancient Qin yin Han law was almost legendary, and the new Turkic, Khitan and northern nomadic cultures entered the Central Plains, and the same light wind and drizzle affected the traditional Central Plains civilization.

The Song people are good at words, and the relatively free long and short sentences are a sign of fusion culture.

Of course, when it comes to the emergence of the Song people here, the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty originated from the story of Zhao Kuangyin Chen Qiao's mutiny of yellow robes, which naturally everyone knows.

However, few people know that the old guerrillas who were the first to skillfully play the yellow robe were actually not Zhao Kuangyin but the boss of Zhao Kuangyin.

That is, the protagonist of this article, Guo Wei.

Previously, although Guo Wei was born as a shogun, his family lineage had long been decadent.

From punching the town of Kansai, wielding a knife to kill Niu Er, and then entering the Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxun pro-army from Ma Zhi to join the army, Guo Wei in this history was originally a reckless man who drank and gambled and did not do anything about the industry.

However, in due course, Guo Wei met a young woman.

Love changed him.

After the death of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, Emperor Mingzong of Later Tang dismissed Li Cunxun from the palace.

As a result, Li Cunxun's concubine Yu Chai was on her way home when she met her parents who came to greet her.

It was a rainy day, and Chai saw Guo Wei passing by.

Although Guo Wei's clothes were worn, he was majestic and majestic, which attracted the attention of the Chai clan, so he casually asked the owner of the inn and learned that it was Guo Que'er, a low-level officer and horse infantry officer.

Chai's discernment is a noble man, and his future prospects are unlimited.

Therefore, after giving half of the belongings he carried to his parents, chai took the other half as a dowry and married Guo Wei in the hostel that night.

To tell the truth, now the beauties of various blind date programs are desperately trying to find a good wife on TV, and no matter how anxious they are, they can only find a young local tycoon.

However, look at the Chai family, also as a beautiful woman, people's eyesight, wait for a leisurely look, a glance through an era, infinite rivers and mountains.

Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Tuguhun people began to integrate into the Central Plains on a large scale.

By the way, speaking of the Chai clan, it is actually a foreign ethnic group.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Tuguhun, who entered the Central Plains, relied heavily on the Khitan and Central Plains Dynasties due to its good war and independent power.

Over time, Tuguhun also gradually integrated into the Central Plains.

The Achai clan and the Achai clan of the Tuguhun people are simplified to the single surname Chai and The Zhao clan, which have been passed down to this day and are the fundamental source of the Han Chai clan.

It can be seen that the Central Plains civilization has been driven back to a new height of the feudal civilization of the two Song Dynasties, but in fact, it has the inseparable shares of the Turks, Shatuo, Khitans, Tuguhuns and other nomadic peoples.

When Guo Wei was poor and lowly, he encountered this first-class peach blossom luck, and in addition to the joy of wealth and color, he naturally obeyed his daughter-in-law's words.

Since then, with the help of his new daughter-in-law, this fierce and reckless husband has changed from evil to righteousness, stayed up all night to read history books, read military books, and finally jumped to upgrade, when he was a great cattle man in Chinese history.

Unfortunately, Chai's follow-up and care for Guo Wei did not abandon it, and before Guo Wei was upgraded all the way and the yellow robe was crowned emperor, Chai had already died of illness.

Guo Wei was grateful to the Chai clan, and although he had concubines, he never made an empress again.

Finally, in order to repay the Chai clan, Guo Wei took Chai Rong, the nephew of the Chai clan, as his adopted son, and issued an edict posthumously honoring his late wife Chai Shi as empress.

In the history of domestic emperors with multiple wives and faithless, ruthless, and unrighteous books, the spirit of the contract between Guo Wei and Chai's love and marriage makes people sigh when reading history.

In May 947, the Khitan destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty and entered Kaifeng and changed its name to the Liao State.

At that time in the Central Plains, the military and the people experienced multi-ethnic integration, quite bloody, once encountered Liao Taizong's arson plunder and killing, the resistance immediately dried firewood and burned on all sides.

When Liu Zhiyuan, the most powerful king of the Later Jin Dynasty, commanded Liu Zhiyuan in the north, Guo Wei offered Liu Zhiyuan a strategy: from Fenshui to the south to take Henan, and then to the world.

In this regard, Guo Weixiang helped Liu Zhiyuan to achieve the great cause of the Later Han Dynasty.

In the five generations of the Later Han Dynasty, Guo Weishi was one of the most important founding heroes of the Later Han Dynasty.

When Emperor Liu Zhiyuan died less than a year later, Guo Wei was entrusted by Liu Zhiyuan to be orphaned, and he quelled the rebellion in San Fanzhen for the Later Han Emperor Liu Chengyou.

Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

Guo Wei commanded the army, there are Xiping Pusaka, Beizhen Yitai, the General Tiger Brigade with the record of The Divine Capital, and is actually a good general of the five generations.

However, after the successor Ton Han Emperor Liu Chengyou killed the powerful ministers Yang Ying, Shi Hongzhao, Wang Zhang, and others, he turned around and looked at his own meritorious servant Guo Wei sitting with xiongbing, and he also began to be very dissatisfied.

In 950, after liu chengyou killed Yang Ying, Shi Hongzhao, Wang Zhang, and other imperial court officials, he had a sudden idea and sent emissaries to Wei Prefecture to kill Guo Wei.

Liu Chengyou was unlucky.

Five generations and ten countries competed freely, and that was really not an era of loyalty to the country.

Guo Wei held his breath, refusing to bow down and let the emissary kill him, and of course he was not willing to commit suicide.

Therefore, Liu Chengyou even believed that Guo Wei was rebelling, and in a fit of rage, he raised his knife and fell, simply clicked and clicked, and killed Guo Wei's sons and family members who remained in Kaifeng, and there were no babies and children.

Guo Wei finally had a seizure.

In the winter of that year, Guo Wei led his army to defeat the Later Han army at the Battle of Qilipo, and the Later Han Emperor Liu Chengyou fled and was killed by Guo Yunming of the Later Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Guo Wei brought troops into Beijing, visited the empress dowager, and established Liu Yun as emperor of the Liu clan and Wuning Jiedu, and made the empress dowager obedient to the government.

At that time, Guo Wei was mourning for the family members of the Later Han Dynasty, but he did not draw his sword in anger at the Later Han royal family and ministers.

In the cold winter month when Guo Wei entered Beijing, Pegasus suddenly reported that the Khitan had gone south.

Guo Wei asked the empress dowager and the emperor to personally lead the army against the enemy.

Passing through Lanzhou, the soldiers cheered and cheered, and the general was dressed in yellow robes, so Guo Wei led his troops back to Bieliang.

Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

Qing Dynasty painting of Later Zhou Taizu Guo Wei.

In the first month of 951, Guo Wei was officially called emperor, the state name was Great Zhou, the capital was Beijing, and the history was called Later Zhou.

In this regard, Guo Wei successfully completed the counterattack from a plagiarized mangfu to a famous general and emperor in his life.

Chinese history is known for producing emperors.

However, Guo Wei, who had only been emperor for more than three years, seemed to be directly following liu Xiu, the emperor of Han Guangwu, with his generosity, closeness to the people, and open-mindedness.

Of course, in the five generations and ten kingdoms of cattle people, the reason why Guo Wei was the first good man of that era, the period of bitterness, naturally far from an inspirational chicken soup article from grassroots to emperor can be reasoned.

Guo Wei was born in a chaotic world, born in fabric, grew up in the army, brave and courageous, bold and negative, knowledgeable and good at war, according to military merit, he moved to a high position, and finally added a yellow robe, and created the last generation of the fifth generation of Hou Zhou, which seems to be a real generation of tyrants.

However, Guo Wei rose from the lowest level to become emperor, and then, contrary to the traditional entrepreneurial emperor's extremely extravagant and self-absorbed style, during his short three-year reign, he focused on breaking the old and innovating, and implemented reforms in politics, economy, culture, etc., with remarkable achievements.

Especially under the extreme pressure of national defense, Guo Wei still issued several edicts to abolish the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes and harsh punishment laws of the former dynasty, strictly prohibited the imperial court from competing with the people for profits, and implemented the reform of the government and government that was lenient with the people and the rich and the people.

It was also Guo Wei who hid wealth from the people in three years and exerted great efforts to govern, so that the later Zhou Dynasty entered the track of national prosperity and people's strength from a chaotic world in a very short period of time.

As a result, Guo Wei spent three years, not only laying the foundation for the rise of Zhou Shizong, but also laying the foundation for the political framework and governance logic of the two Song dynasties that "the culture of the Chinese nation, which has evolved over thousands of years and was created in the world of Zhao and Song Dynasties".

It can be said that enjoying the country is not long, but also the foundation is abundant.

Guo Wei took the cloth as the emperor, eliminated the maladministration of the month, and overstepped the age and the crowd was convinced.

-- The short time of Guo Wei's reform and the excellent effect of this remark are completely two concepts compared with those in the history books that have glorious records of the achievements of the Qin Emperor Han Wu and the Kangxi Qianlong on paper.

Throughout the thousands of years, the endless founding emperors have almost all been a burden of humanistic evolution in history for pure fighting.

Oak tree | Five generations - Emperor Zhou Taizu of the Ancients

Part of the Qingming Upper River Map. To some extent, Guo Weican was the founder of the civilization of the two Song Dynasties.

However, Guo Wei is an exception.

After three years as emperor, according to the current view of history, Guo Wei has neither the so-called achievements of the emperor who opened up the territory and expanded the territory, nor the golden and brilliant records of the golden and brilliant prosperity of the history books, and basically will not let the people who worship the Qin Emperor Han Wu and the Ming Dynasty Kangxi full of xiaomin Emperor's heart pay attention.

Therefore, in textbooks and television, Guo Wei is certainly inferior to those emperors and emperors who make ordinary people believe in the truth and prostrate themselves as gods for generations.

However, in his lifetime, Guo Wei's leniency, meritocracy, selection of the throne, and the simple aftermath of the paper-clad tile coffin behind him were rare for ancient emperors.

Speaking of this, Guo Wei's story is over, and he can't help but sigh:

Historically, entrepreneurial emperors arched above textbooks, and all of them were nouveau riche faces.

Only Guo Wei, who is little known in textbooks, has a life of heroism, boldness, enlightenment, and tranquility, but like the big brother next door, he is respectable and amiable.

Unfortunately, there are only one or two emperors of such temperament in Chinese history for thousands of years.

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