When autumn comes on September 8th, my flowers will bloom and all other flowers will die.
The fragrance of incense permeates Chang'an, and the whole city is covered with golden armor.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the dynasty was already in a state of terminal decline; Huang Chao, a failed scholar, wrote this poem when he failed the imperial examination in Chang'an, expressing his ambitions. Not long after, in 874 AD, Huang Chao led his people to join Wang Xianzhi in an uprising. The Tang Dynasty, which was already deeply mired in warlord separatism, exhausted its last national fortune in this war.
Huang Chao eventually failed and died. The Tang Dynasty survived for more than 20 years in a precarious situation, but was usurped by Zhu Wen in 907 AD. The once glorious Tang Empire, the center of world civilization, officially perished, and Chinese history entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Zhu Wen established the "Liang", known in history as the Later Liang, which became the first Central Plains regime during the Five Dynasties period, which lasted for 53 years.
Zhu Wen was originally a general under Huang Chao. After surrendering to the Tang court, he turned around to suppress the rebels and then usurped the Tang Dynasty to establish the Liang Dynasty. He had a mortal enemy, the governor of Hedong and the Prince of Jin, Li Keyong, who had fought against the rebels together in the late Tang Dynasty. After the establishment of the Later Liang Dynasty, the two sides continued to fight; when Zhu Wen and Li Keyong died, their sons continued to fight. Finally, in 923 AD, Li Keyong's son, the Prince of Jin, Li Cunxu, proclaimed himself emperor and named the country "Da Tang", known in history as the Later Tang Dynasty, and then destroyed the Later Liang Dynasty. History entered the second period of the Five Dynasties: the Later Tang Dynasty.
Shi Jingtang, the governor of Hedong in the Later Tang Dynasty, was a founding hero and was highly regarded by the court. Emperor Li Siyuan even married his daughter to him. But after Li Congke ascended the throne, due to the objective threat of the generals, the emperor and his ministers became suspicious of each other. Shi Jingtang decided to rebel against the Tang Dynasty. At the cost of ceding the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, he became a vassal of the Liao Kingdom and asked Emperor Taizong of Liao for help. Then he joined forces with the Liao army to attack and destroy the Later Tang Dynasty. In 936 AD, Shi Jingtang proclaimed himself emperor and named the country "Jin", which is known in history as the Later Jin Dynasty.
Shi Jingtang's act of recognizing his father humiliated many people in the country. The rebellion never stopped, and his two princes were killed because of the rebellion. When Shi Jingtang was dying, he passed the throne to his adopted son Shi Chonggui, who decided to gradually break away from the dependence on the Liao Kingdom. However, this act immediately led to a war with the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom launched a total of three large-scale attacks. Shi Chonggui lost everything in the last war, his entire family was captured, his wives and concubines were played with, and the Later Jin Dynasty perished.
But the Khitans, due to long-term burning, killing and looting
The evil deeds of plundering were not welcomed by the Han people in Hebei, Henan and other places. After the Khitan leader ascended the throne in Kaifeng, he found that he could not rule. It was too dangerous to stay in the Central Plains and decided to retreat. The Central Plains was without a ruler. Liu Zhiyuan, the governor of Hedong in the Later Jin Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan and led his army south to take over Luoyang, Kaifeng and other places. He also successively recovered the states in Henan and Hebei. In 947 AD, he established the "Han", which is known as the Later Han Dynasty in history.
Guo Wei was a founding hero of the Later Han Dynasty and was also highly valued by the emperor. After the death of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Zhiyuan, Guo Wei also helped the Later Han emperor to quell rebellions many times; among them, Li Shouzhen, a general of the Later Han Dynasty and the governor of Hezhong, proclaimed himself emperor and rebelled, which was a great threat to the court. Guo Wei was able to suppress it. However, Emperor Yin of Han was afraid that Guo Wei would learn from his predecessors, and they did not trust each other. In the internal struggle, Guo Wei's family was killed, but Guo Wei was not eliminated. So Guo Wei's army returned to Kaifeng and killed Emperor Yin of Han. The Later Han Dynasty perished. In 951 AD, Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor and named the country "Zhou".
When Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor and founded the country, Liu Chong, the governor of Hedong in the Later Han Dynasty, also proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan, and the country was called Northern Han in history. It became one of the "Ten Kingdoms" that ruled the local areas other than the Central Plains Dynasty. Liu Chong wanted to borrow the Khitan troops to go south, copy the Later Zhou Dynasty and destroy it, and become the ruler of the Central Plains, but he failed; the Later Zhou Dynasty also failed to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, and the two sides fought continuously. In addition to the Northern Han Dynasty, there were many local separatist regimes in Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangnan and other places in the south, which were called the Ten Kingdoms.
The Later Zhou Dynasty, which had two emperors, Guo Wei and his adopted son Chai Rong, gradually became stronger and began to implement the strategy of unifying China. However, the third emperor, Chai Zongxun, was only a few years old when he ascended the throne, so Zhao Kuangyin, who was a general of the Later Zhou imperial army, launched a mutiny in Chenqiao and proclaimed himself emperor in 960 AD to establish the Song Dynasty, which ended the Later Zhou Dynasty. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms thus ended, and Chinese history entered the Northern Song Dynasty.
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Fu family.
Fu Yanqing was a figure who was active in the late Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He was born into a family of military generals. His grandfather was King Wu Fu Chu, and his father, King Qin Fu Cunshen, was the adopted son of Li Keyong. By the time of Fu Yanqing's generation, he was named King Huaiyang, King Wei, and King Wei. His nine brothers were all garrison generals with military power.
But the most famous people in Fu Yanqing's family were his daughters. His three daughters were queen mothers and empresses. Among these three queens, the eldest daughter Fu was the queen of Zhou Shizong Chai Rong.
In 947 AD, Liu Zhiyuan established the Later Han Dynasty, the fourth dynasty of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. In that year, Fu was 16 years old. Because her father moved to Yanzhou, she moved with her father. In Yanzhou, she met a young man who was dying of hunger and cold. Fu felt sympathy for him and begged her father to save the young man named Guo Shao.
Soon after, Fu married the son of Li Shouzhen, a great general of the Later Han Dynasty, and went to Hezhong Prefecture. Guo Shao accompanied her as a guard.
In 950 AD, a wandering Taoist priest met Fu and said that she had the potential to be an empress. This further stimulated Li Shouzhen's ambition: if his daughter-in-law had the potential to be an empress, wouldn't his son be the emperor? Li Shouzhen then made up his mind and raised an army in Hezhong.
The court of the Later Han Dynasty sent Guo Wei to lead the army to suppress the rebellion. Li Shouzhen was defeated, and the rebel army broke into his mansion, killing his entire family; his daughter-in-law Fu did not want to be buried alive with him, so she hurriedly fled to the inner palace to hide, and all the guards and servants around her ran away. Only Guo Shao was willing to block the pursuers for her.
Guo Shao was grateful for Fu's life-saving grace and other reasons, and wanted to repay Fu with his death... He was hit on the head by a blunt object in the chaos, and then thrown into a mass grave outside the city with countless corpses. At this time, some accidents happened in time and space. The young man of the Fifth Generation had just died, but by chance he was possessed by a soul from the modern era and woke up with difficulty.
Fu Shi did not die. Instead, she was adopted as Guo Wei's adopted daughter by virtue of her father Fu Yanqing's friendship with Guo Wei. Soon after, Guo Wei and Fu Yanqing hit it off and arranged a marriage. Fu Shi was adopted as his daughter-in-law and Fu Shi was remarried to Guo Wei's adopted son Chai Rong.
The family of Emperor Taizu of Zhou Guo Wei was killed in the internal struggle of the Later Han Dynasty, and his son was gone, so he had no choice but to let his adopted son Chai Rong be the heir, and finally passed the throne to Chai Rong three years later. Fu was Chai Rong's wife, so she became the first queen from the Fu family.
However, a butterfly seemed to appear in the long river of history. When Li Shouzhen of Hezhong Prefecture rebelled, a guard who was supposed to be dead came back to life, just like a butterfly of unknown origin, flapping its wings and gradually affecting the face of history...
(The six levels of the Great Zhou Imperial Army in the early stage: Fire Chief, Ten Generals, Captain, Commander, Army Commander, and Wing Commander. Then there are the ranks of senior generals)