Talk about the history of five dynasties and ten States

With nothing to do, I decided to describe the history of the Five Dynasties and ten kingdoms in concise, humorous and easy to understand language, without time travel or fiction, and try my best to recall and restore that wonderful and powerful history according to historical facts.

After the Huang Chao Uprising, the once great empire, our great Tang Dynasty, collapsed, and the whole Central Plains was split into a large square in an instant. The previously arrogant vassal towns became even more brazenly and became independent states. Now, never mind the emperor's face in the capital, Chinese history entered a period of great division: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

When many people read history, they think that the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are really difficult to remember. So in order to make it easy to understand, we need a lot of pictures. Let's take a look at how chaotic it was at that time.

There were many countries densely distributed, but at that time, the core of China was still in the Central Plains with Henan as the center. Moreover, with the opening of the Grand Canal, Kaifeng, where the Yellow River and the Grand Canal meet, became an important economic town. Therefore, most powerful vassal towns chose to establish their hegemony here.

At that time, the two most powerful fan towns, one named Zhu Wen, and another named Li Keyong. Zhu Wen's brain is more flexible, the first to control the emperor, using the name of the emperor everywhere, do you think the routine is familiar, right, hundreds of years ago, Cao Cao also played the same game.

Then Zhu Wen began to enjoy the good fortune, the method is more special, let the sons of the daughter-in-law to sleep, this one of the anxious, stabbed the father to death, several sons began to chop, Liang Dynasty slowly began to decline.

But at this time, Hou Liang Mian met Li Cunxu, the son of his old rival Li Keyong. Lao Zhu and Lao Li had a grudge before. Specifically, Lao Zhu arranged a game at his home and tried to beat Lao Li. The two families became enmity and fought each other for decades.

However, Lao Li could not defeat Lao Zhu in his whole life, while his son was quite vigorous, and he destroyed the rear beam in a few years. Because Lao Li's surname was given by the Tang Dynasty emperor, he was also very grateful to the Tang Dynasty, so he founded the country and called it the Tang Dynasty. Of course, in order to distinguish it from the Tang Dynasty, it was called the Later Tang, and its capital was determined to be Luoyang.

Li Cunxu was mainly focused at first. Just after defeating the Later Liang, he sent troops to attack the Former Shu. Wang Yan, the king of Shu, surrendered, and the Former Shu was defeated.

According to this trend, maybe China will be unified in advance. It is a pity that Xiao Li's play is a secret crime. By the way, Xiao Li only likes to watch plays in his life. As a result, there were a lot of actors in the court, and the ministers had to curry favor every day. As I said before, there were 13 Taibao under Lao Li. One of them, Li Siyuan, saw the opportunity and launched a rebellion.

Li Siyuan was a good man, but in his later years he had an old habit of delaying the creation of a crown prince, which made his sons impatient, and the crown prince wanted to kill his father and become emperor as soon as possible. Li Siyuan was well prepared, so he lived, but his rebellious son died.

Then the Li family began to put on a good play, dry son and son-in-law. Li Siyuan has a very can play dry son and son-in-law, several other sons are not successful, so, later dry son Li Congke invaded Luoyang, he became the emperor, but he is very virtual, on a person is very virtual, Lao Li's son-in-law Stone Jingthang. Because he was born to the throne in the wrong way. People who have been guilty of doing things is more dirty, he has been trying to find ways to pick up the stinking Stone Jingthang's military power, finally contradictions erupted, dry son and son-in-law went to war.

Here to add, the Central Plains chaos, finally recovered Sichuan independent again.

Stone Jingthang is really honest, he really didn't want to play with the emperor, people can mobilize the national forces to deal with you, but now can't, the emperor to die in the whole him. So he came up with a solution, a solution that will never be remembered. Since the competition was fists, I went to someone with stronger fists for help. At that time, only the Khitan in the north could do better than Li Congke. Of course, they will not help you in vain, Lao Shi is very generous, directly ceded the whole 16 states of Yanyun, which caused a headache for the later emperors of the Central Plains, the Khitan people could directly cross the Great Wall to enter.

However, the Khitan people were more honest and effective in their work. As soon as the treaty was signed, they sent troops to help Li Congke, who was attacked by Lao Shi. Li Congke was destroyed soon after. The Khitan chief Yelu Deguang awarded Shi Jingang the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, known as the Later Jin and the end of the Later Tang Dynasty.

When a big country in the south wu upheaval and xu know letters patent reigned south Wu Zhengquan qi, occurred just before long, he saw the central plains, the later tang dynasty was destroyed, just want to take the tang dynasty's flag, so he immediately changed a li, called li Bian, and change of name to tang. So the Tang Dynasty still existed formally.

Back to the Later Jin Dynasty, after Lao Shi's nephew became the emperor, one of his ministers was not very clear and wanted to make war with the Khitan people. The result was that the Khitan people were angry. The White-eyed Wolf let you know how bad I was. After killing small stone, Yelu Deguang also want to taste the taste of the emperor in the Central Plains, he changed the name of the "Liao". However, the Khitan was essentially a nomadic people with a different mode of governance from the Han nationality. They were predatory and grabbed wherever they went. The people of the Central Plains became angry and attacked them, driving the Khitan back home.

Although the separation of vassal towns and cities divided the country, the only advantage was that the commanders in all regions were very good at fighting against the Khitan people in the north on such a piece of land as the Central Plains. Recall the Southern Song and Ming Dynasties, when half of the country was still under the control of foreign clans.

After the Khitan departed, Liu Zhiyuan, one of the most able to fight in Fanzhen, proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan, because his family name was Liu, so he thought he was the descendant of the Great Han, and the state name was later Han.

He was very lucky. His own son didn't try to murder him (better than Zhu Wen), and there were no good sons fighting for the throne with him (better than Li Cunxu). I see how difficult it is to be emperor. But his only mistake was to appoint his son with a few bad ministers. Several old men relied on their elders and looked down on the little emperor. Xiao Liu was angry and killed all the ministers. Guo Wei, who was usually a good person, had good luck. Guo Wei became angry and sent troops south to destroy Xiao Liu.

However, Guo Wei was a man of good face and was embarrassed to become emperor directly, so he went to the front line with his troops under the guise of the Khitan invasion and made himself look as if he had been forced to become emperor. This trick was later learned by a man named Zhao, who also brought down Guo's descendants.

Turning back to Guo, his subordinates said that your ancestors should be related to King Wen of Zhou, so the title of the state was "Zhou", which was called the Later Zhou in history. At this time, there was a fish in the net in the Later Han Dynasty, so that Liu Chong fled to Taiyuan in the east of the river, which was called the Northern Han Dynasty.

Although Guo Wei usurped the throne of others, he was essentially a good emperor, thrifty and diligent, and the Great Zhou Dynasty enjoyed a revival under him. But he was very old when he became king, so he died after four years on the throne.

He was succeeded by his adopted son Guo Rong (born Chai), as all of Guo Wei's own children had been killed by Xiao Liu. Chai Rong, known as the first emperor of the Five Dynasties, had never been defeated in the northern and southern wars in his life, and his internal performance was better than Guo's. However, Old Chai exhausted his strength by doing this, so he was exhausted when he was about to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. Leaving two seven-year-old children, what a coincidence, at this time the Khidan invasion again, this time to General Zhao Kuangyin led the army, and then a mutiny, and yellow robe, how familiar the script, so the Zhou Dynasty ended. Now it was under the reign of the Emperor of the Zhao family, named Song. The Song Dynasty, the richest dynasty in Chinese history was born!

In addition, the next ten countries, in fact, is also very simple.

Of the ten states, except for the Northern Han, which had slipped through the net, in Shanxi, the other nine were all south of the Yangtze River. Let's take a look at the numbers:

- 1, 9 is Wu Guohe later generations down south, wu wu pioneer wu taizu, south Tang Li Bian, position basic in jiangsu, anhui, jiangxi.

--2 Ma Yin, the founder of the State of Chu, was in Hunan.

--3 The state of Wuyue, the pioneer of Qian Liu in the area of Zhejiang Province.

--4, 8 The former Shu was founded by Wang Jian, and the later Shu was founded by Meng Zhixiang, king of Shu, who was the planning envoy of the two rivers in the South of the Jiannan in the later Tang Dynasty.

--5 The kingdom of Min, founded by Wang Shenzhi, is located in Fujian.

--6. A pioneer named Liu Yan, king of the South China Sea, in Guangdong and Guangxi in the Southern Han Dynasty.

--7 Nanping, the founder of Jingnan made Gao Jixing, in part of the northern Lake

-- Liu Chong, the founder of Hedong Province in the late Han Dynasty, was in some areas of Shanxi.

There were nine small states in the south and one in the north, called Ten Kingdoms.

They were Southern Wu, Wuyue, Former Shu, Later Shu, Min, Southern Han, Nanping, Machu, Southern Tang, and Northern Han in the north. I won't go into the details of the history of the Ten Kingdoms, which were basically destroyed intermittently over the five generations. Their main task is green leaves, in order to sudden this five generations can!

Five generations ten was then a child patricide, the father killed the son, brother to brother, king and minister suspicion chaos era, this short fifty years there were fourteen emperors, the northern central plains was affected by the war economic recession, and the most important is to let the minority nationality in the north of the opportunity to grow.

The five Dynasties and ten kingdoms chaos, general regicide and seize power often happen, Zhao Kuangyin himself is the mercenary seized power, he learned the lessons before, the cup of wine release the military power, cancel a number of accounts under the general's military power. This action ended the chaotic situation, but also brought a negative effect to the Song Dynasty. Although the Song Dynasty was strong in economy, its military was always weak. Whenever a general rose to the fore, it was ruthlessly suppressed by the court, including Yang Jiye, Yue Fei and others.