In the five generations of imperial succession, often bloody and short-lived, even if the unification was laid, the heroic Later Zhou Shizong Guo Rong (Chai Rong), in a short period of time after his death, his son gave up Jiangshan to others. As we all know, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty who snatched away the Later Zhou Jiangshan, was a close confidant of Guo Rong (Chai Rong) before him.
During The reign of Emperor Sejong for a few short years, the spring breeze was triumphant as the army in front of the palace soared; during chai rong's reign, he quickly overtook Li Chongjin, Zhang Yongde, and other meritorious generals who were far above him; when Chai Rong died, he became the capital of the palace army, but in all fairness, the success of Zhao ErZhao Kuangyin can be said to be very accidental, so if this kind of accident does not occur, can the later zhou continue the state?
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Chai Zongxun's dilemma
Later Zhou's founder Guo Wei only raised an army to rebel when his family was killed, therefore, he did not have a son to inherit his family's throne, Chai Rong was only Guo Wei's adopted son and nephew, at that time, the head of the army Li Chongjin and Zhang Yongde were also Guo Wei's nephew and son-in-law, Respectively, Chai Rong's throne could not sit very stable, until Guo Wei died, even uneasy about Li Chongjin to ask him to perform the courtesy of Chai Rong.D.
At the time of his death, Chai Zongxun was only seven years old, and during the five generations period, the central government did not form enough authority to make these warriors who crawled out of the pile of dead people obey a small emperor who was born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of women.
For the cultivation of successors, it takes a lot of time to cultivate their own team, send some human feelings to the subordinates... Chai Zongxun was too young to have any available cronies, and his father's cronies were not his cronies, otherwise Zhao Kuangyin would not have bullied him, and the situation he faced was much worse than that of Liu Xie, the commander of the light pole in history, and Li Ye, the wandering heavenly son.
After all, Both Commander Liu and Li Tianzi had the appeal of hundreds of years of imperial orthodoxy, and when Chai Zongxun ascended the throne, the Later Zhou dynasty was only established for nine years, so don't expect many people who are loyal to the Zhou Dynasty.
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The stand of the army
During the Later Jin Dynasty, An Chongrong, then the envoy of the Later Jin Dynasty, said a sentence that was far more famous than himself: "Heavenly Son, those who are strong in soldiers and strong horses are for it. This sentence also speaks to the essence of the five generations of power, in which legitimacy is not so important, and the taking sides of the army is particularly important.
The main force of the later Zhou campaign during Chai Rong's reign consisted mainly of two armies, one was the bodyguard army that had descended from the Later Tang Dynasty, and the other was the Dianqian army that had risen after the Battle of Gaoping. In the Battle of Gaoping, the performance of the guards turning into the wind made Chai Rong extremely dissatisfied, and after this battle, Chai Rong began to build the army in front of the palace and suppress the guards, and Zhao Kuangyin was also promoted and reused, which became a hidden danger for the later Zhao Dynasty.
In Chai Rong's eyes, the threat of Li Chongjin and his nominal brother-in-law Zhang Yongde in the system of the guards was far greater than that of the newly rising Dianqian Army, which had no foundation, so in the Sejong dynasty, Chai Rong was constantly balancing and mediating Li Zhang and the two, and he also succeeded in doing so, before and after he swallowed, Zhang Yongde was removed from his military post, and Li Chongjin was transferred to Huainan. But this seemingly successful arrangement actually dug a huge pit.
As the trader of the later week, Chai Rong completed a wave of fierce operations before his death, which is a classic case of playing balance and playing off, let's see how he operates.
The system of guarding the army was suppressed by Emperor Shizong for the rest of the dynasty, and with the temper of the generals in the five generations period, it was impossible to say that there was no dissatisfaction, and in the system of the guard army at that time, Zhao Kuangyin's political enemies or festivals were Li Chongjin, Yuan Yan, and Han Tong.
After Chai Rong's operation, Li Chongjin ran to Huainan to take up his post, Yuan Yan was dismissed from his military post, and The pro-Zhao Kuangyin Han Lingkun, Gao Huaide, and Zhang Lingduo ascended to the throne, so that in fact, only Han Tong was the only one in the guard army who was different from Zhao Kuangyin.
And the palace front army, which should have been grateful to Chai Rong, also had resentment and uneasiness in Chai Rong's wave of operations. For the sake of checks and balances, Han Tong of the bodyguard system was actually promoted by Chai Rong to the rank of general of the Palace Front Army, and Han Tong, who was born as a serious guard, was promoted to such a high position in the Palace Front Army, which naturally greatly deepened the dissatisfaction of the soldiers of the Palace Front Army System.
The system of the former army of the palace should avoid falling into the general fate of the lost guards, and the generals of the front army of the palace had to choose to hold Zhao Kuangyin's thigh, and the top brass of the former military of the former palace were mostly in close contact with Zhao Kuangyin, so they ignored the changeable Chai Rong of human nature, and let Zhao Kuangyin's market rise and stop continuously before he died.
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Zhao Kuangyin's chances of winning
After Chai Rong's death, in fact, Zhao Kuangyin was not unstoppable, not to mention Liu Yu Yang Jian, that is, Liu Zhiyuan Guo Wei, if there is a chance to meet Zhao Kuangyin, he can't help but sigh at the ease of the country. Before he ascended the throne, his power in the court was arguably the lowest among his predecessors.
Lack of seniority, speed to make up, after the Chen Qiao Mutiny, his speed of action, but the best of his predecessors, this is also because he is actually very unconfident in himself. After all, in terms of seniority, the Later Zhou Dynasty was above him fu Yanqing, Zhang Yongde, Li Chongjin and others.
When the Later Zhou Gong Emperor Chai Zongxun ascended the throne, it was not impossible to stop Zhao Kuangyin, and it was a good way to check the relations between the two dynasties and China, and to prevent pro-Zhao forces from gathering in the Gyeonggi area. As long as it was more reasonable to maintain the balance between the palace front army and the guard army, Zhao Kuangyin did not dare to grab the yellow clothes and forced his subordinates to put them on his body.
However, at that time, Zhao Kuangyin had become a climate, and he could only use Li Chongjin or Zhang Yongde to balance him, but Li Chongjin and his ilk should also have Sima Zhao's thoughts, not mentioning that after Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he said that he would oppose him, that is, Guo Wei was quite uneasy about him long before Chai Rong took the throne, let alone asking him to be loyal to a seven- or eight-year-old child.
Once the palace front army loses power, Li Chongjin will rebel, and what Zhou Mu can do is only painstakingly maintain the balance of these two people, and once the two start fighting, no matter who wins or loses, according to the unspoken rules of the Qing dynasty side in history, the king's fate will generally not be too good.
Unlike the later Xuan Ye who captured and killed batulu Aobai, the first Manchurian minister, it was not realistic to lure Li Chongjin, Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin, and other military leaders to a place and a pot at that time. Under the Eight Banners system in the early Qing Dynasty, the monarch was highly centralized, and the difficulty of the Five Dynasties was too high, and after this incident, the Han Yin Emperor Liu Chengyou tried the water, and due to the failure, he directly restarted, and the next life will be goodbye.
The formation of Chai Zongxun's death situation came from the instability of the five dynasties of imperial power and political power, which gave Zhao Kuangyin the opportunity and also gave others the opportunity, but Li Chongjin and others did not grasp it or grasp it well.
In that period of dissolution, the kingdom relied on the changjun. Not to mention the young Chai Zongxun, that is, the last emperor of the five dynasties before and after the Tang and Later Jin, Li Congke and Shi Chonggui, are also mostly people who are well versed in battle and skilled in bow and horse, even they have not been able to extend the life of later Tang and Later Jin, Chai Zongxun is a young child, what he can do is too limited.
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