A 5,000-strong rebel army led by butchers fled south after being chased by the officers and finally came to Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. In the army, Wang Chao, Wang Zhenjue, and Wang Zhenzhi brothers eliminated the butchers and led the troops themselves, and began to expand their territory in Fujian. He first went down to Quanzhou and then swallowed Fuzhou, and finally took advantage of the opportunity that the imperial court could not take care of the soldiers and horses to get a "comfortable" canon.
The eldest brother Wang Chao first served as an envoy to Fujian, and later the imperial court upgraded this army in Fujian to a mighty army, and Wang Chao served as an envoy to Jiedushi. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the emissaries were basically at the level of kings, and whoever was appointed as a deputy envoy was basically equivalent to appointing who would be the successor, and the imperial court would never dare to "make other arrangements." Wang Chao had a total of four sons, but he chose to make his third brother Wang Zhenzhi his deputy envoy, on the one hand, on the military merits, wang Zhenzhi had the greatest merit along the way, on the other hand, he had just established a foothold in Fujian, and if he established a person without prestige, it would be easy to make the situation turbulent.
After Wang Chao's death, Wang Xianzhi still did not dare to make a mistake, because he still had a second brother in front of him, and at least he had to make a formal appearance. As a result, his second brother is also a very knowledgeable person, self-aware that military merit is not as good as the third brother, and repeated resignation is finally Wang Zhenzhi to succeed. If it is in another family, it is very likely that a pot of porridge has long been made, first of all, the predecessor does not stand up, the eldest son is prone to mutiny, even if the brother and the brother and the turn can not turn the third, the eldest son and the second uncle may rebel, even if these do not happen, the third elder in power in order to consolidate his position, will often remove the potential threat of more priority inheritance in the legal system than himself.
But none of this happened in the Wang family, and after Wang Zhenzhi succeeded to the throne, he not only did not harm his brother's four sons, but also took the initiative to appoint the eldest of the four of them as his deputy envoy, as if declaring, "Although my brother trusted me and handed over the military and political power to me, I only took care of the eldest brother's family and will pass it back in the future." It is said that the Wang family was so peaceful at that time because the old mother of the three Wang brothers was still alive, and no one in the family was willing to do something that killed each other and made the old mother angry, just in response to the sentence "There is an old family like a treasure."
But later, when Wang Zhenzhi's ass was also sitting firmly, his nephews were hollowed out, and his old mother died, it was no longer the case. In the end, it turned out that Wang Zhenzhi was still passing on his own descendants, which was an afterthought.
However, the internal affairs of Wang Zhizhi during his reign alone were very well done. He could clearly see the chaotic situation of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and although the Min Kingdom was partial to an, at least there was still a word "An" to enjoy. Unlike the Central Plains, which has been in turmoil for many years, if anyone becomes an emperor, he will not have time to rest with the people and resume production, and others will not give him a chance to breathe. Only like the Ten Kingdoms, especially the southern States of Wuyue and min, who do not claim to be emperors to pay tribute honestly in peacetime, even if Zhongyuan Zhengshuo knows the facts of their division, he will not be able to send troops to fight. In this way, social stability has been gradually achieved in the territory of Fujian, and agricultural production has been greatly restored and developed.
In 907, Zhu Wen destroyed the Tang dynasty and established Hou Liang, although he could only actually control the Central Plains, but nominally zhengshuo, in order to stabilize these small states, Zhu Wen was enfeoffed one by one, and Wang Zhenzhi was crowned the king of Min. This is why the founding monarch of the Min kingdom was not Wang Chao but Wang Zhenzhi, and it was only here that he was officially crowned the King of Min. In addition to internal affairs, Wang Zhenzhi adopted a marriage strategy against the two nearby Wu Yueguo and the Southern Han regime, who were also crowned kings, although both of them later bullied the Min state, but at least for a period of time played a role in stabilizing the external environment.
In 925, Wang Zhenzhi died, passed on to the eldest son, and as a result, his descendants were not as friendly and peaceful as his generation, and the killing of his father and brother was constantly staged, and the state of Min was not far from being divided up by neighboring countries.