If we want to talk about the history of the Song Dynasty, we have to start with a teenager who ran away from home.

Who is this young man, we all know, Zhao Kuangyin. How old was Zhao Kuangyin when he ran away from home, twenty-one. not only has a wife and children, but also has a good appearance and a good martial arts.

The first twenty-one years of Zhao Kuangyin were unremarkable, at least there was no record in the history books. The only thing is that Zhao Kuangyin used to tame a horse, and he was thrown off his body by a fierce horse, and his head hit the stone pier, and others thought he was dead, but he didn't expect Zhao Kuangyin to jump up from the ground all of a sudden, and jump on the back of the horse again to tame the horse. Some superstitious people write about this, believing that Zhao Kuangyin is the reincarnation of the golden armor god of war and is invulnerable. We don't know, and it's not good to comment.

You can still see such words in some historical materials, saying that Zhao Kuangyin was born with colorful divine light, fragrant and fragrant, and full of color and fragrance. And Zhao Kuangyin's mother dreamed before Zhao Kuangyin was born, and dreamed that the sun drilled into Zhao Kuangyin's fucking belly. To tell the truth, let's turn to the historical data, almost all the emperors who founded the country in ancient times had visions when they were born, such as Nurhachi had a big eagle to protect him, Liu Bang was born with purple gas, either the dragon came or the phoenix came. We all know now that this is feudal superstition, and it's all nonsense, but the people in ancient times believed it, which often played a good propaganda effect.

Zhao Kuangyin's first twenty-one years, as a child who grew up in a military camp, just such a thing, we can imagine how well-behaved Zhao Kuangyin was when he was a child. Let's make TV series now, generally from childhood, like "Young Marshal", the first few episodes are all when they play children. I estimate that filming Zhao Kuangyin will end Zhao Kuangyin's childhood in ten minutes. Then it's time for the big actors to come up.

As for why Zhao Kuangyin ran away from home, most of the history books record that Zhao Kuangyin was born a talent and went to the rivers and lakes. What is in fact, Zhao Kuangyin's family can't support him, so Zhao Kuangyin went out to beg for a living.

Some people said, no, Zhao Kuangyin is not an official in his family, yes, yes, Zhao Kuangyin is an official in his family. But when is he in, five dynasties and ten countries, do you ask the emperor if there is any surplus food in his family? Don't talk about Zhao Kuangyin, a petty official. You open the history books and take a look, five generations and ten countries eat people, wars are everywhere, even the emperor doesn't dare to say that he has eaten enough, and Zhao Kuangyin's family has raised Zhao Kuangyin for 21 years, until he was twenty-one years old, Zhao Kuangyin was forced to go out to beg for a living, which can really be said that Zhao Kuangyin's family is still quite rich.

Zhao Kuangyin's family is really a little powerful, Zhao Kuangyin's father was a leader of the forbidden army in the post-Tang Dynasty Li Cunmiao period, his ancestors held different official positions in different forces for the last two generations, and his grandfather and grandfather were also subordinate officials of different feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and they belonged to the figures with heads and faces in Kaifeng City.

In order for us to better understand Zhao Kuangyin, we have to talk about one person, who is it, the terminator Zhu Wen. If we want to talk about Zhu Wen, we have to talk about one person, Huang Chao. It's the inner one that I killed after spending a hundred flowers.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huangchao rebelled, and after Huangchao succeeded, eunuchs were appointed to balance the generals under him. Zhu Wen was very tired of the eunuchs. Zhu Wen was a native of Dangshan in Songzhou (now Dangshan County, Anhui), and Tang Xizong gave the name Zhu Quanzhong, to be honest, this name was to scold him for Zhu Wen.

After Huang Chao became emperor, he appointed eunuchs. Zhu Wen constantly advised Huang Chao to exterminate the eunuchs. Huang Chao didn't listen, and Zhu Wen launched a mutiny and defeated Huang Chao. and united with the prime minister to force the palace so that the eunuch lost a more important body part. and elected the descendants of the Tang Dynasty to restore the throne. In 904 AD, Zhu Wen hijacked Tang Zhaozong and moved the capital to Luoyang, and soon after killed Tang Zhaozong and restored Tang Aizong. In 907 AD, Zhu Wen forced Tang Aizong to abdicate and changed the name of the country to Liang, which was for Liang Taizu and set the capital of Kaifeng. The Tang Dynasty finally perished both politically and practically, for a total of 290 years.

When Zhu Wen defeated Huang Chao, he appointed a Shatuo general, Li Keyong. After the two defeated Huang Chao, Zhu Wen invited Li Keyong to a banquet, and Li Keyong drank too much at the banquet, saying that Zhu Wen was not good at fighting. We all know what alcoholics say.

Facts have proved that when two drunkards who are accustomed to dancing knives and guns must not drink together, Zhu Wen said two words fiercely that day, "Close the door, let the dog go" The two of them were in a fire, and Li Ke used to fight out of the encirclement, but several of his favorite generals and guards were all inside, and the two of them have formed a bond since then.

After that, Zhu Wen completely defeated Huang Chao, fought in the east and west, and became a major overlord, becoming a combination of Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao, the most powerful warlord in the Central Plains.

After the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty hoped that Huang Chao would enter Beijing to rescue the driver, Zhu Wen led his troops into Chang'an, ignoring the emperor at all, and rushed directly into the palace to kill all the dead eunuchs, including two extremely unlucky forbidden army generals, because they did not have long beards. Since then, the incomparably powerful eunuch group at the end of the Tang Dynasty, which has been in power for more than 100 years, has been completely finished.

Then Zhu Wen ordered the demolition of the Chang'an city wall, and since then the glorious Chang'an City has been completely destroyed, and it has never been the capital of the Central Plains Dynasty again. And the civilians of Chang'an were sacked and mourned all over the wilderness.

Since then, Zhu Wen has been lucky and has risen all the way until he became the emperor of Houliang. We'll talk about the rest of the story next time.