Anshi Rebellion
After the Anshi Rebellion in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty began to decline. Although the monarch intended to solve the problems of the regime, it was not so easy to combine the forces of the feudal town to divide the eunuchs. In the end, it still can't change the wheel of history moving towards the strange road of the Tang Empire. Especially after Wang Xianzhi's Huangchao Rebellion crushed the Tang Empire's most powerful Divine Strategy Army, the Tang Empire no longer had the ability to compete with the emissaries of the local feudal towns, and the equilibrium was broken, which finally opened the prelude to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. In this turbulent era, the big brother is no longer able to do it, and the little brothers all want to come out and be the new big brother. So the east hit the west and the south hit the north. The war is constant. In 875, Xuanwu's emissaries Zhu Wen and Qianfu joined the peasant rebellion led by Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, and successively captured Luoyang and Chang'an, greatly shaking the dominance of the Tang Dynasty. In the second year of Zhonghe (882), he attached himself to the Tang army Wang Chongrong and Yang Fuguang, and jointly suppressed the Huang Chao army with Li Keyong and others. Because of his meritorious efforts in suppressing Huang Chao's army, he was given the name "Quan Zhong" by Emperor Tang and served as a deputy envoy to the Zhonghang camp in Henan. In the following year, baibei prefecture assassinated shi out of Xuanwu's army, and then entered the liang king. With Henan as the center, he tried his best to expand his power, and gradually became the largest separatist force at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
Yellow Nest Uprising
In 907, Zhu Quanzhong was no longer willing to make an army rise against the Tang and establish Hou Liang. Zhu Wen is a very person, as long as it is the woman he wants to get, no matter who this person is, he will never care about any ethics and morality, he must take it all for himself, and sometimes he will send his son out to fight, and then recruit his daughter-in-law to serve the scoring system. Which lady does well in the future is more likely to be made the heir. Zhu Wen was particularly jealous, in 909 AD, he saw everyone as a traitor, killed Wang Chongshi, who was defending Chang'an, and exterminated the Nine Tribes, he formulated a very beastly rule in the army, the leader of the army was killed in battle, and the remaining subordinates were executed. He didn't live long in this way, and sure enough, he was killed by his own son Zhu Youjue, who succeeded him. The other brothers of his succession stopped working and led their troops to beat him. Li Cunxun, a Shatuo man, took advantage of the infighting among the sons of Elder Brother Zhu and led an army to attack Liang. The Zhu family forces were suppressed. After the establishment of the Tang.
Li Cunxun stills
Li Cunxun's father, Li Keyong, can be said to have a vendetta against Zhu Quanzhong. In that year, Li Ke used a major defeat of Huang Chao's army, forcing Huang Chao to abandon Bian Prefecture and go north, Li Ke chased after him with all his strength, and chased after him to the northwest of cao county in shandong Province, which is today' Shandong Province, and Li Ke used hundreds of Shatuo cavalry to travel day and night, trapped and tired, and camped and rested outside the city of Bianzhou. Zhu Wen set up a banquet for him. During the banquet, Li Ke used arrogant words, causing Zhu Wen's dissatisfaction. That night, Zhu Wen took Advantage of Li Da drunk to besiege Li Keyong's army, killing more than 300 people, and Li Keyong escaped from the city. Later, Li Ke wanted to send troops to attack Zhu Wen, but his wife dissuaded him, so he went to the imperial court to ask the imperial court to dispose of Zhu Wen. In view of the urgency of the war, the Tang government ordered Li Zhu and Li Zhu to reconcile. Li Keyong had no choice but to lead the army back to Jinyang, and he still had hatred in his heart. Since then, Zhu and Li have formed a deep vendetta. As the saying goes, the emperor takes turns to sit next year to my house. Li Ke used his son Li Cunxun after his death to fight with Zhu Wen, because he firmly believed that this opportunity would really come to my house. Li Cunxun was particularly fierce in fighting, since he was a child, he went out with his father, he was brave and good at war, military strategy was displayed from an early age, and he was also appreciated by Emperor Zhaozong of Tang as "this son can be his father" and therefore called "Li Yazi" by the world. He was very strategic when he followed his father in battle, and when his father Li Ke's army was undisciplined and the army was scattered, he advised his father to reorganize the army, otherwise the army would become a mess. But Li Keyong did not listen to his opinion, believing that the child was still young and did not understand the military, and the facts proved the right and wrong of both sides. Although military ability is a genius, but the political strategy is very lacking, after sitting on the throne of the emperor, it becomes comfortable and hedonistic, coupled with the ability to control the death of his mother, Li Cunxun began to live an absurd and unscrupulous life, only coveting pleasure regardless of political affairs, ren favored people in the palace and holding power, like to perform on the same stage with the people, Li Tianxia's name is because of a performance on the same stage. The great opportunity to unify China at that time was lost. Because of his absurdity, he spoiled the people and connived at the empress's interference in politics, which consumed the sense of battle. He eventually died in a mutiny. The Gan brother Li Siyuan rebelled with the support of his subordinates and was a yellow-robed man. Li Siyuan was Li Keyong's adopted son, and continued to use the Tang state name after coming to power. Li Siyuan was a relatively enlightened emperor who served as a temporary buffer against the stability of the country. Realize the people's well-off life, but the good times are not long. In order to compete for the throne, his sons first rebelled and died!
Li Siyuan stills
Li Siyuan also died of excessive sadness. The remaining son and son-in-law continued to play the chair game. Or his son-in-law is more powerful, with a thicker face, he directly found the Khitans to ask for foreign aid, of course, to reinforce must pay a certain price. Shi Jingyao agreed. So the Khitans sent troops to cooperate in destroying the Later Tang and establishing the Later Han. Then he said that the price that had just been promised to the Khitans was to cede the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and the loss of the territory of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun would be equivalent to the desert without sand belts. From then on, the barbarians in the north who wanted to invade the Central Plains were a horse flat river, which could be driven straight in. There is no defensive area, and if you push it south, you will get the Yellow River. The later Song Dynasty suffered many losses because of this, and the alliance of Tanyuan and the shame of Jingkang were inseparable from this.
Stills of Shi Jingyao
In addition, Shi Jingyao called himself a child to the Khitan and passed on the millennium that the child emperor was also. Did he remember that he was also a bloody boy, who had saved Li Keyong's life many times in the rebel army and fought for Li Siyuan's ascension to the throne. None of this matters, because our people cannot forgive the impact of his actions on future generations. After Shi Jingtang's death, his nephew Shi Chonggui succeeded to the throne as Emperor Jin. Calling The Khitan Sun a vassal. Yerushalayim thought it was disrespectful to him and led his troops into attack. The Khitan invaded the Central Plains twice, but suffered a crushing defeat under the fierce resistance of the Jin Dynasty soldiers and civilians. But in the end, due to the betrayal of the traitors, the Khitan soldiers invaded Fenjing, and the Jin Emperor took prisoners and was escorted to the Khitans. Shi Jingyao had a subordinate Liu Zhiyuan who had a relatively tough attitude toward foreign tribes, and Sima Zhang Yanwei and others on the hedong march, citing the lack of a lord in the Central Plains, elected Liu Zhiyuan to be emperor in Taiyuan, and in June of the same year, after entering Beijing, after claiming to be Liu Xun, the eighth son of Emperor Xianzong of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Prince of Huaiyang, changed the name of the country to "Han".
Guo Wei
The Later Han dynasty only existed for four years, a relatively short time. Liu Zhiyuan did not have the ability to rule the world, and the punishment for the common people was very severe, stipulating that if the people had cattle to die, the government would collect the cow skins, and those who violated the order would die; "those who committed salt, alum, and wine and koji would not be able to resist death." In the era of his rule, the people were miserable; Liu Zhiyuan promised to surrender to the Khitan army and civilians when he recovered Youzhou, but then killed them all. After Liu Zhiyuan's death, his second son, Liu Chengyou, took the throne, the Emperor Yin of Han. In 950, Li Shouzhen and other feudal towns rebelled, and Emperor HanYin ordered Guo Weipingzhi, but Emperor HanYin was jealous of Guo Wei and wanted to kill him, Guo Wei had no choice but to rebel, And Emperor Hanyin was killed by the defeated army, and later Han was destroyed, and the state was only four years old. At this time, Guo Wei was proclaimed emperor and the state name was Zhou. is for the following week. Because his wife and children were killed by Emperor Yin of Han and had no heirs, he accepted his nephew Chai Rong as a righteous son. Born in a chaotic world, Guo Wei grew up in the military, Kong Wu was powerful, Hao Shuang Renyi, a little master of the art of war, and a good general, and he was moved to a high position as a privy councillor with military merit. In the end, backed by military strength, he took the place of the Later Han and replaced it, and was a representative figure of the military dictatorship in the Five Dynasties period. Guo Wei also implemented some beneficial measures in advocating frugality, severely punishing corrupt officials, and strictly prohibiting the army from disturbing the people, so that the northern society that had been extremely chaotic since the end of the Tang Dynasty began to embark on the road of stability. Under his careful management, China's long-term war and chaos began to turn to unification, showing signs of going abroad to strengthen the people and become rich, and laying a solid foundation for the Later Zhou and Northern Song Dynasties. It is said that the prototype of Lu Zhishen's novel in the Water Margin is Guo Wei, and the drama of Lu Ti's fist beating the town of Kansai is to describe his jianghu atmosphere of that year.
Zhou Shizong Chai Rong stills
After Guo Wei's death, his adopted son Chai Rong, who passed the throne to himself, was for Zhou Shizong, during his reign, the whole army was trained, redundant, exiled, and taxes were reduced, so that later Zhou's politics were clear, the people were rich, and the Central Plains began to recover. The young and powerful Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, ambitious, is determined to follow his adoptive father's will and do a great job. He asked Wang Pu, the Left Counselor, "How many years will it take?" Wang Pu, who was exquisite in magic, replied: "The subject is stubborn and ugly, and he deduces it according to what he has learned, and after thirty years he will not know it." After hearing this, Chai Rong said with great joy: "If as Qing qing said, it is enough to open up the world in ten years, to feed the people in ten years, and to bring peace to ten years!" In order to achieve this goal, Chai Rong, during his reign of more than five years, exerted great efforts to govern and reform, conquered the northern war in the south, defeated Houshu in the west, and captured the four prefectures of Qin, Feng, Cheng, and Jie; the southern expedition to the Southern Tang and recovered the 14 prefectures of Jiangbei and Huainan; and the northern attack on the Khitan and the three passes of the second prefecture. He fell ill while taking Youzhou and died not long after, at the age of 39. Later that year, Emperor Yin of Han killed Guo Wei's entire family, even Chai Rong's son, chai Rong's death only had a seven-year-old son Chai Zongxun, chai Zongxun's second year of succession, the Liao state marched to Later Zhou, and Later Zhou sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead the army to resist, and went to Chen Qiaoyi to be added by his subordinates to establish the Great Song Dynasty. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are, to put it bluntly, some emissaries and local officials of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. When the power of the main country is weak or is entangled in conquest, there is no time to ask these emissaries, and they will go their own way. There are a few that are more interesting.
The Southern Tang Dynasty was established after Li Ben usurped power in the Ten Kingdoms, and was the strongest of the Ten Kingdoms. Li Yu was the last of the three monarchs of the Southern Tang Dynasty, because he was the king of the fallen country and did not have a title. He could only be modeled after Chen Hou's lord Chen Shubao to give him the name of Tang Hou Lord. Therefore, he was called the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and his predecessor was called the Lord of Tang. The words of the Tang Dynasty Lord are very well written, and it can be said that he chose the wrong profession. It was later destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty. The State of Wu yue (893–978) was one of the Ten Kingdoms of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, founded by Qian Wei. The capital city is Hangzhou. At its peak, it had a territory of thirteen prefectures, about the province of present-day Zhejiang, southeastern Jiangsu, and northeastern Fujian. There were five monarchs in the State of Wuyue. In 978, it was surrendered by the Northern Song Dynasty. Former Shu, founded by Wang Jian, had its capital in Chengdu (present-day Sichuan). At its peak, the territory was about most of present-day Sichuan, southeastern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, and western Hubei, with a total of eighteen years. Wang Jianben was a scoundrel in the city, who later blended into the Shen Ce army and became a confidant of the Li Tang imperial family, and when Chang'an fell, he escorted the emperor into Shu for refuge. Relying on the trust of the imperial court to occupy Sichuan Prefecture and County, he became the Emperor of Tu long before the fall of the Tang Dynasty, saving Sichuan from disaster in the chaos of the late Tang Dynasty and the early Five Dynasties. Because of the social stability of the Former Shu he founded, he attracted a large number of Zhongyuan scholars to settle here, which promoted the development of the local economy, and the prosperity of the Sichuan Basin from the Five Dynasties to the Two Song Dynasties came largely from Wang Jian's operation here. Later, he was eliminated by meng Zhixiang of the Zhuang sect for not listening to the teachings. Meng Zhixiang established Hou Shu in the local area and lasted for 2 emperors. Meng Zhixiang and Meng Chang attach more importance to the development of culture, shuzhong people have always been advocating reading, including the Three Sus of the Song Dynasty, all influenced by it, China's first pair of Spring Festival: New Year NaYu Qing, good festival Changchun is also from Meng Chang's hand. The founder of Southern Chu, Ma Yin, was made an envoy of the Wu'an Army in 896 by Tang. After the establishment of Liang in 907, Ma Yin took the initiative to submit to the central government and was crowned king of Chu. The part of present-day Hunan was finally destroyed by the Southern Tang. The Min of the Ten Kingdoms was founded by a man named Dynasty, and it didn't mean much. The whole one is emotionally controlled, rebel only. One of the divided regimes of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of the Southern Han Dynasty. It is located in the three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, as well as northern Vietnam, with an area of about 400,000 square kilometers. It was later destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty. The lord of the country, Liu Ling, was a strange man, who believed in eunuchs, and his ministers he did not believe, as long as people with families were easy to be distracted. And the eunuchs had no family and no worries. Thus in the Southern Han Dynasty, a wave of eunuchs arose. Scrambling to be a eunuch, you say strange is not strange. Ten Kingdoms zhongnanping. In 907, Hou Liang appointed Gao Jixing as the envoy of Jingnan Jiedushi. In 924, Emperor Zhuang of Later Tang made him the King of Nanping, all in Jiangling, with only one place in Jingzhou, and only returned to Xia Erzhou by the time of Emperor Mingzong of Tang, which was the weakest of the Ten Kingdoms. He died in the Northern Song Dynasty in 963.
The Northern Han Dynasty was the only regime that existed in the north, and it was established by Liu Chong, the younger brother of the Later Han Emperor Liu Zhiyuan, who was killed by the defeat of the Hidden Emperor's soldiers. Guo Wei welcomed Liu Chongzi Liu Yun. In the first month of the first year of Guangshun (951), Guo Wei declared himself emperor, changed the name of the country to Zhou, and the history called Later Zhou, killing Liu Yun. Liu Chong, who occupied the twelve prefectures of Hedong as emperor, liu chong, aided by Liao, and emperor Of Liao as emperor. The Northern Han Dynasty united with the Liao army and attacked HouZhou twice, but failed both times. In the fourth year of the Taiping Revival, Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, repelled the Liao reinforcements and successfully took the Northern Han Dynasty. Since then, the situation of china's internal division has been ended and national unity has been completed. However, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which had been let out by Emperor Shi Jingyao, were still a hard wound at this time, and it was difficult to recover in a short period of time.