#Legend of Ancient History# In 948, after the death of Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty, Guo Wei was succeeded by his son Liu Chengyou, the Emperor of Han, and was an official who worshiped the Privy Councillor, took charge of the national military power, and served as an auxiliary chancellor with Yang Ying, Shi Hongzhao, and Wang Zhang.
The Han Yin Emperor first ascended to the throne, and the world was unstable. The Hezhong Festival made Li Shouzhen, the Yongxing Festival made Zhao Sixuan, and the Fengxiang Festival cause Wang Jingchong to rebel one after another. Guo Wei stood up at this time and tried to turn the tide. He first sent troops into the river and besieged him on all sides. Li Shouzhen broke through several times without success, and when the morale of Li's army was at its lowest, Guo Wei launched a general attack, Li Shouzhen could not be guarded, and the city head set himself on fire and died. Zhao Sixuan and Wang Jingchong, both terrified, begged one after another! Later, he moved to the Northern Expedition, and then defeated the Khitan and threatened to shake hebei.
At this time, Liu Chengyou, the Emperor of Han Yin, had gradually reached adulthood and was very suspicious of the four auxiliary ministers. Therefore, he conspired with his favorite minister Guo Yunming to send Guo Wei to defend the city of Ye on the grounds that the Liao army was about to go south. After that, he found an excuse to kill Yang Yangxing, Shi Hongzhao, Wang Zhang, and other auxiliary ministers, and summoned Murong Yanchao and others of the Taining Army to enter Beijing quickly. When Guo Wei saw that the matter was urgent, he adopted the strategy of the strategist Wei Renpu and forged an edict, claiming that Liu Chengyou had ordered Guo Wei to kill the generals, which caused the crowd to be indignant, and pushed Guo Wei to raise an army to fight against him, in order to "qing the side of the king". When Liu Chengyou saw guo Wei rising up and marching south, he used Guo Wei's conspiracy to rebel as an excuse to behead the three tribes of Guo Wei. Guo Wei's adopted son Chai Rong escaped the attack because he was in Yecheng.
The following year, Guo Wei defeated the Taining army and took Kaifeng in one fell swoop, and the Han Emperor Liu Chengyou was killed by Guo Yunming on his way out. After Guo Wei led his troops into Beijing, he first pretended to support liu clan and Wuning Jiedu to make Liu Yun emperor, and let Empress Li listen to the government. Then just as the Liao army invaded again, Guo Wei's army met the enemy, the large army passed through Liaozhou, the soldiers launched a mutiny, the yellow robe was added, and the army returned to Kaifeng. In 951, Guo Wei officially claimed the title of emperor, and the state name was Great Zhou, that is, Zhou Taizu, and later the Han Dynasty died.
In 954, Zhou Taizu died of illness and was passed down to his adopted son Chai Rong, known historically as Chai Shizong. Chai Rong was also a male lord after Zhou Taizu. Soon after succeeding to the throne, he was attacked by the Northern Han Emperor Liu Chong, who and the Liao general Yang Gun united to move south to Luzhou and Zezhou, and Zhou Ting was shaken. This was Zhou Shizong himself dressed up in the town, defeated the Han Liao army at the Battle of Gaoping, and then slashed the incompetent generals who were retreating. Since then, the military has been vigorously developed, and the army has been banned in front of the palace; the displaced people have been recruited and reduced taxes; and the government has been rectified and corrupt. In 955 AD, the Tianxia Buddhist Temple was abolished, and a large amount of gold and silver land was acquired to enhance the national strength.
After stabilizing the situation, Zhou Shizong aimed to unify the world. Chai Rong led an army to defeat Later Shu in 955, occupying the area around Hanzhong in QinZhou. In 956, he led his troops to defeat the Southern Tang, obtained the land of Jiangbei, and forced the Southern Tang to become a vassal. In 959, Zhou Shizong led a large army to the Northern Expedition to the Liao State and prepared to retake Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures. The Zhou army was full of momentum and continuously attacked Yingzhou, Mozhou and other places, but when he was preparing to retake Youzhou, he suddenly fell ill and was forced to return to the dynasty, and soon died of illness, failing to complete the recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and unify the hegemony of the world!
After The death of Emperor Shizong of Zhou, his youngest son Chai Zongxun took the throne as Emperor Gong of Zhou. In 960, Zhao Kuangyin, the commander of the Forbidden Army, led an army on the pretext that Erzhou was invaded by the Liao State, and a Chen Qiao mutiny occurred at Chen Qiaoyi, which passed through Kaifeng, and was added to the yellow robe. Zhao Kuangyin returned to Kaifeng and forced Emperor Gong of Zhou to make concessions, and Later Zhou perished and the Five Dynasties ended. Zhao Kuangyin established the Northern Song Dynasty, known in history as Song Taizu.
After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, in order to prevent history from repeating itself, there was the famous allusion in history that "Song Taizu's cup of wine released military power"!