In history, there have been two political dramas with yellow robes and bodies, and they have been successively, with a certain internal relationship. The yellow-robed generals immediately became kings, established a new imperial court, became the new emperor, and became Taizu. In this way, the role of the yellow robe and the body is not so simple.
The first time the yellow robe was added to the body was Later Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, who had not yet established Later Zhou, but was only the Later Han's Tianxiong Army Jiedushi envoy, who was also a privy envoy, holding heavy troops and controlling the counties of Hebei. Guo Wei' original surname was Chang, and he remarried with his mother to the Guo family at an early age, and his father Guo Jian served as the Assassin of Shunzhou by Li Keyong, the King of Jin, and was later killed by Liu Rengong, who was the jiedushi of Youzhou. Guo Wei was only a few years old at the time, and went to Luzhou with his mother Wang Shi, and wang shi died of illness halfway through. Guo Wei relied on his aunt Han's promotion and upbringing to grow up. When Guo Wei was eighteen years old, he was conscripted into the army and served as a soldier of Li Jitao, the envoy of Zelu Jiedushi. Guo Wei is aggressive, likes to gamble, and is good at drinking, but sometimes he also likes to fight unevenly. One day, Guo Wei went to the street to hang out, there was a butcher bullying the market, very stubborn, everyone was very afraid of him, guo Wei, who drank some wine, was not convinced, walked to this butcher, let him cut meat, and then looked for stubble to scold him, but the butcher also knew that Guo Wei was not good, but finally couldn't help it, he ripped open his clothes and pointed at his stomach and said: "If you have the courage, you can stab him here!" Guo Wei grabbed the knife and stabbed him in the stomach, resulting in the butcher screaming for his life, and Guo Wei was arrested and imprisoned. Li Jitao admired his courage and boldness and let him go again. Later, Li Jitao was attacked and destroyed by Li Cunxun's troops, and Guo Wei was incorporated into the Later Tang army and joined The Pro-Ma Zhi of Zhuangzong Li Cunxun.
In the twelfth year of Tianfu, Liu Zhiyuan declared himself emperor in Shanxi and established the Later Han Dynasty. Guo Wei helped Liu Zhiyuan claim the title of Emperor Yougong, and was promoted to deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Inspector Situ, and became a general in command of the army. Soon, Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of later Han Gaozu, died of illness, and Guo Wei and Su Fengji were ordered to succeed Liu Chengyou as Emperor Yin of Later Han. Guo Weiguan paid homage to the Privy Counsellor and was in charge of the military power of the whole country. At that time, Li Shouzhen was made of the Hezhong Festival, Zhao Sixuan, and Fengxiang were made wang Jingchong rebel one after another. The imperial court repeatedly sent troops to fight, but they did not return.
In the first year of Qianyou, Liu Chengyou ordered Guo Wei to lead an army. After Guo Wei reached the middle of the river, he built a fortress and divided his troops to besiege it. Li Shouzhen repeatedly broke through, but they were all defeated, and they held out for a long time, and the food and grass in the city were exhausted. Guo Wei 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 that, Guo Wei moved to the Northern Expedition, defeated the Khitans, and stayed behind in Fengyi Capital with merit, Tianxiong Army Jiedu envoy, and privy envoy, and all the counties of Hebei obeyed Guo Wei's moderation.
Although Guo Wei was an old vassal of the Later Han Dynasty, the Later Han Emperor Liu Chengyou was not at ease with Guo Wei and was suspicious. In the third year of Qianyou, Liu Chengyou conspired with his close associate Li Ye to order Ma Jun to command Guo Chongjie to kill Xuanhui's envoys Wang Jun and Guo Wei, and ordered The Zhenning Army to kill Li Hongyi, the commander of the guards' infantry, Wang Yin, in an attempt to eliminate the former generals in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, Li Hongyi secretly expressed the edict to Wang Yin. Wang Yin immediately sent someone to warn Guo Wei of his anxiety. 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 anger of the crowd and pushed Guo Wei to raise an army to fight, in order to "qing jun's side".
When Liu Chengyou saw Guo Wei rebelling, he sent troops to resist. On November 14 of the third year of Qianyou, Guo Wei led his troops across the river, and Liu Chengyou sent Kaifeng Yin Houyi, Bao Dajun Jiedu to make Zhang Yanchao, and Yan Jinqing, the envoy of Ke Province, to lead troops to resist Guo Wei, and also sent eunuchs to reconnoiter Guo Wei's movements. Xuan Tuo was caught by Guo Weijun, who asked Liu Chengyou to tie Li Ye and the others to the army. Liu Chengyou showed Li Ye and the others the Guo Wei song chapter, and Li Ye and the others all said that Guo Wei's reaction was clear, so he killed all of Guo Wei's family members in Beijing. They ordered that all members of the Guo Wei family be brought to the execution ground, including Guo Wei's infant son. The later Han court's approach cut off Guo Wei's back road and made him single-mindedly embark on the road of resistance.
The Later Han court was defeated at the Battle of Qilipo, and the Hidden Emperor Liu Chengyou was killed by Guo Yunming on his way out. Guo Wei brought troops into Beijing, met with Empress Li (Li Sanniang), made the empress dowager listen to the government, and pretended to support Liu Yun's clan and Make Liu Yun emperor. When everything was stable, Guo Wei carried out his plan to claim the title of emperor: he had his generals send false information that the Khitan were going to attack south. Then, on the orders of the empress dowager, he led the troops out of the city, and when they reached Lanzhou, thousands of soldiers mutinied, and they put yellow robes on their bodies and proclaimed him emperor.
Guo Wei's yellow robe plus body was actually planned by himself, and at that time, he was the only one who could resist the imperial court's moderation, and only he could save the decline of the imperial court and re-establish a new imperial court.
Guo Wei returned to Kaifeng and forced the empress dowager to appoint herself as a "prison state" and seize state politics. On the first month of the first month of the first year of Guangshun, Guo Wei was officially called emperor, the state name was Great Zhou, the capital was Beijing, and the history was called Hou Zhou.
Guo Wei's yellow robe plus body is actually just a form, that is, he does not play the role of the yellow robe plus body, and he can also naturally become an emperor. Later, he deposed the Later Han Emperor, poisoned the emperor, and liquidated the imperial family.
The protagonist of the second Yellow Robe Plus Incident is Zhao Kuangyin. After Guo Wei became seriously ill, he passed the power to Zhou Shizong Chai Rong. Chai Rong is Guo Wei's adopted son and is actually his nephew. Zhao Kuangyin had followed Guo Wei's conquest of the Han rebel general Li Shouzhen, who was promoted to the post of envoy of ma zhijun in Kaifeng Province, and may have seen or heard of Guo Wei's yellow robe and body drama, and knowing the significance of this political drama, he should follow suit. Zhao Kuangyin followed Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong to conquer the world, and made many military achievements, winning the trust of Sejong. However, Zhou Shizong was not thin to him, and after experiencing the Battle of Gaoping, he was promoted to the post of Yu Hou (虞候) in front of the palace and the assassin of Yan Prefecture (严州刺史), and after conquering Huainan, he appointed him as the envoy of the Dingguo Army and the envoy of the Zhongwu Army. In the sixth year of Xiande, Chai Rong's Northern Expedition, and Zhao Kuangyin served as the deployment of the land and water capital. Arriving in Mozhou, he first reached Waqiao Pass, where the defender Yao Neibin surrendered; he repelled several thousand Khitan cavalry and pacified Guannan. On the march, Chai Rong reviewed the documents from all over the place and got a leather pocket with a wooden board more than three feet long, which read, "Dian Dian is the Son of Heaven", which Chai Rong felt was very strange. At that time, Zhang Yongde was appointed as the head of the palace, and Chai Rong returned to Beijing due to illness, and ordered Zhao Kuangyin to be the inspector and the inspector of the palace to replace Zhang Yongde. In the same year, Chai Rong died, and the seven-year-old Chai Zongxun (Later Zhou Gong Emperor) succeeded to the throne, and Zhao Kuangyin was reappointed as an envoy to the German army and a lieutenant of the inspection school.
The proverb of "point inspection to be the son of heaven" made Zhao Kuangyin have the intention of usurping the throne, and he wanted to imitate Guo Wei's scene of false military intelligence and leading a large army to go out, and then add a yellow robe. On the first day of the first month of the seventh year of Xiande, the Later Zhou imperial court heard the news that the Khitan and The Northern Han combined forces were going south, which was likely to be false information spread by Zhao Kuangyin. Prime Minister Fan Qian and others did not distinguish between true and false, and hurriedly sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead the armies north to resist.
On the second day of the first lunar month, Zhao Kuangyin led a large army to leave the capital and stay overnight at Chen Qiaoyi, twenty kilometers northeast of Kaifeng, and the mutiny plan was put into practice. 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 govern pro-government, and who knows if we serve the country and destroy the enemy; if you 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 (later renamed Guangyi, that is, Emperor Taizong of Song Zhao Jiong) 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 worshiped him in 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 do it for the Lord." The proponents unanimously said, "Only fate is to listen." Zhao Kuangyin publicly announced: "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, the treasury of the imperial government must not be plundered, those who obey orders will be rewarded, and those who violate orders will be punished." All the soldiers answered the "promise." Zhao Kuangyin then led the mutinous team back to Kaifeng.
The main forbidden generals Shi Shouxin and Wang Zhenqi of the garrison capital were zhao Kuangyin's past "brothers of association", and after learning of the success of the mutiny, they opened the city gate to meet them. At that time, among the generals of the Later Zhou Forbidden Army in Kaifeng, only the deputy commander of the guard pro-army Ma Bujun wanted to lead the troops to resist in a hurry, but before he could gather the army, he was killed at home by the military academy Wang Yansheng, and the whole family was slaughtered by Wang Yansheng. Chen Qiao's mutinous generals took control of the capital city of Kaifeng without a bloody blade.
At this time, Fan Tian and the others knew that it would be a big fool to rush to dispatch them without distinguishing between the true and false military situations, but they had no choice, and before they could speak, the general Luo Yanhuan rose up according to his sword, pulled out his sword and stepped forward and said: "Those of us who do not have a monarch, today we must cultivate a son of heaven." Fan Qian and the others panicked, Wang Pu first knelt down to worship, Fan Qing had no choice but to kneel down and say long live, leading hundreds of officials to obey orders. Tao Gu, a Scholar of Hanlin, took out a Zen edict prepared in advance and announced the Zen position of Chai Zong. Zhao Kuangyin then officially ascended the throne as emperor, easily seized the power of Later Zhou, and renamed Chai Zongxun as King Zheng.
Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe plus body scene is completely imitated guo Wei's yellow robe plus body play, and even the plot of leading soldiers out of the city is the same, all of them lie about military information, and they all instigate the ministry to drape the yellow robe on himself. Guo Wei did not pretend to be sorry, but Zhao Kuangyin went all the way, performing the scene of a cup of wine and releasing the military power, performing the scene of visiting the sick generals, performing the scene of carrying Murong Yan's sword to the battlefield, and performing the scene of crying and weeping after the death of the general, which can really be called a performing artist.
Guo Wei's yellow robe plus body was forced to be helpless, the family was killed by the Later Han court, and could only rebel, but Zhao Kuangyin was not like this, Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was very good to him, but after Emperor Gong took the throne, the imperial court was weak, Zhao Kuangyin held heavy troops, and when the time came, the idea of usurping the throne arose. He retained the members of the Later Zhou royal family and treated them kindly, but he was still a little wary.
Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe plus body completely imitated Guo Wei's yellow robe plus body, in fact, the nature is the same, they are all generals with heavy soldiers mutiny, their own dynasties changed, and became emperors. Guo Wei said that after the emperor did not exercise restraint on the military power of the generals, and Zhao Kuangyin mutinied, he would be suspicious of the emissaries of the subordinates with heavy troops, and tried to get them to surrender their military power to avoid another incident of adding the yellow robe to the body, so he performed a play of a cup of wine to release the military power, cut the military power of the subordinates, and stopped the occurrence of the third yellow robe plus incident.
No matter what the nature of the mutiny is, and no matter how well the yellow robes are played, as long as they can claim the title of emperor, they will respond to the historical logic of "the winner, the prince, the loser, the thief", and this "law of the jungle" of heroes who argues about victory and defeat seems to be lacking in all dynasties and dynasties...