About Chapter 42 Story Introduction: After Zhang Xuanliang inherited the position of the lord of the former Liang State, the power of the former Liang Dynasty was held by Zhang Qiang, the hands of Song Ming, Zhang Qian relied on his hard work in the counterinsurgency, squeezed out Song Chao in the court, and gradually became disobedient, causing the dissatisfaction of Xuan Liang and the minister Song Ming, Song Ming, Song Cheng brothers and Zhang Xuanliang conspired to take the opportunity to eradicate Zhang Xuanliang, and the Song brothers monopolized the power of Qianliang, after Song Chao died of illness, Song Cheng, who was in charge of the affairs of Qianliang State, once again caused the dissatisfaction of Xuanliang, and Zhang Xuanliang conspired with the minister Zhang Yong, Destroy the Song family, and order the clan Zhang Tianxi and Zhang Yong to take charge of the government, as a result, the high-flying and domineering Zhang Yong was killed by Zhang Tianxi, Zhang Tianxi monopolized the power of Qianliang, directly abolished Zhang Xuanliang, and established himself as the lord of Qianliang.

In this story, as we said before, the infighting of the Zhang family has intensified with the succession of Xuanliang as a young person, although Zhang Xuanliang, who is growing up, intends to use the clan Zhang Tianxi to restrain the powerful minister Zhang Yong, but he doesn't want Zhang Tianxi to kill Zhang Yong, so he completely hollows himself out, and Zhang Xuanliang ends up with the fate of being abolished.

With the continuous change of the ruling core within the former Liang regime, the local defenders of the former Liang regime also saw the opportunity to get ahead, and there were constantly situations of supporting troops and standing on their own. The ruling upper echelons of the former Liang regime were too busy with infighting to take care of the local rebellions, which eventually planted the root cause for the demise of the former Liang regime.

The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is somewhat similar to the situation of the Sixteen Kingdoms period that we focus on, there are many feudal states that alternately appear in turn, forming a period of great division in our history, but these two historical periods are fundamentally different, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period is only the warlord secession caused by the defects of the political system implemented in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the Sixteen Kingdoms period is because China's feudal society is in the transition period of the ruling class, which in turn has triggered the great integration of nationalities and the great social turmoil. The defects of the political system are very easy to make up for through reform, and the transition period of society needs to be completely completed by revolution, and the means of reform are easier and simpler than the means of revolution, so the existence time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period is much shorter than that of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the situation of each country is also briefer than that of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, but these two periods are due to the coexistence of countries, and the existence of countries is short, and it is far from being easy for people to be familiar with the great unified dynasty. Therefore, modern people know very little about the situation of each country in these two periods, and we will start with the five dynasties and ten kingdoms period.

The five dynasties are the five stronger feudal dynasties that appeared in the Central Plains in turn after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, and the country names are Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou, and later historians have added a prefix in front of their country names in order to distinguish the difference between them and the previous feudal dynasties, so our people now call these five dynasties Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou.

The first dynasty of the five dynasties of the Later Liang, is the late Tang Dynasty general Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty of nearly three hundred years of the founding of the Tang Dynasty and created a feudal dynasty, but since the end of the Tang Dynasty Huangchao uprising was extinguished, many local generals of the Tang Dynasty held local power, for Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, many people were not convinced, simply also built a country, called the king and the emperor, alternately appeared ten local secession regimes, known as the Ten Kingdoms, these local secession regimes according to political needs, for the Central Plains Dynasty from time to time rebellion, Yang Feng Yin violated, In just about 50 years, the Northern Song Dynasty, which replaced the Later Zhou Dynasty, reformed the system of festival envoys formed in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, put an end to the situation that local generals held local power, and strengthened the centralization of power.

The second dynasty of the five dynasties in the Later Tang Dynasty, that is, after Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, Li Ke, the leader of the Shatuo tribe who was favored by the Tang Dynasty, was dissatisfied with Zhu Wen's actions, and raised troops against the Later Liang, and the Later Liang Dynasty when Zhu Wen was critically ill, his sons seized the heir, causing chaos in the court, the seriously ill Zhu Wen was killed by his son Zhu Youqi, and Zhu Wen's other sons were dissatisfied with Zhu Youqi's murder of his father and usurped the throne, and Zhu Youzhen raised troops to kill Zhu Youqi and seize the throne of the Later Liang Dynasty. Defeated the Later Liang Dynasty, in order to demonstrate the legitimacy of his family, although Li Cunmiao was born in the Shatuo tribe, he still changed the name of the country to Tang, known as the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Cunmiao's behavior is very similar to the early Han Zhao Empire founder Liu Yuan's move to raise the country's name, it can be seen that as a branch of the Khitan tribe that dominated the northern Mongolian steppe at that time, the Shatuo tribe is also very sinicized, and with their entry into the Central Plains, it will inevitably be integrated into the Han ancestors. After Li Cunmiao occupied the Central Plains, he defeated the former Shu regime that divided the Shu land, and he thought that he had done a great job, and began to worship the Lingguan, greedy for pleasure, which caused the dissatisfaction of the generals in the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Ke used his adopted son Li Siyuan to launch a coup d'état, killed Li Cunmiao, who loved to watch the show, and usurped the throne of the Later Tang Dynasty, although Li Siyuan was born as a military general, but his hard work made the Later Tang Dynasty strong, but in his later years, the tragic situation of the sons seizing the heirs reappeared, Li Siyuan on the sickbed was frightened and died in the palace coup, and his young son Li Conghou succeeded to the throne, but, The elder Li Congke was not convinced, and the army was difficult, Li Conghou was captured by Li Congke's general Shi Jingjiao, and was later killed, and after Li Congke usurped the throne successfully, he was very suspicious of the brave and warlike general Shi Jingjiao, Shi Jingjiao was also afraid that he would end up with the fate of the bird's bow and hide, so he simply raised troops to stand on his own, in order to resist the powerful Li Congke, Shi Jingjiao was more powerful by the Liao Dynasty established by the Khitan tribe, with Youyun Sixteen Prefectures and obeying the Liao Dynasty Emperor Yelu Deguang as the father emperor, and he was the son of the emperor as a bargaining chip, leading the Liao Dynasty to send troops south, Helping himself defeat the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Congke's army was defeated like a mountain, so he had to set himself on fire in a desperate situation, and the Later Tang Dynasty perished.

Shi Jingjiao established the third dynasty in the five dynasties with the help of the Liao Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, but with the delivery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun in the current Beijing area, the Later Jin Dynasty was simply unable to fight against the increasingly powerful Liao Dynasty, and the Liao Dynasty Emperor Yelu Deguang wanted to take advantage of the Central Plains chaos and completely occupy the Central Plains, so after the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty army as a reinforcement did not leave the Central Plains, and the generals under Shi Jingjiao wanted to replace Shi Jingjiao with the power of the Liao Dynasty, and the political situation of the entire Later Jin Dynasty was complex and changeable. Shi Jingjiao's sons were also slaughtered in the rebellion of the feudal towns under his rule, and the helpless Shi Jingjiao died in anxiety, and his nephew Shi Chonggui succeeded to the throne, Shi Chonggui was far more backbone than Shi Jingjiao, refused to call the Liao Dynasty Emperor Sun, and tried his best to drive out the Liao Dynasty troops stationed in the Central Plains, which triggered a confrontation between the Liao Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty, but the Later Jin Dynasty was not the opponent of the Liao Dynasty army after all, and under the blow of the Liao Dynasty army, Shi Chonggui had to surrender the whole country, Liao Dynasty Emperor Yelu Deguang was full of confidence and thought that he had owned the Central Plains, but the generals of the Later Jin Dynasty with heavy troops were unwilling to accept the enslavement and drive of the Liao Dynasty, and the Later Jin Dynasty generals led by Liu Zhiyuan rebelled and won the support of the people of the Central Plains.

The Later Han Dynasty founded by Liu Zhiyuan took this opportunity to become the fourth dynasty in the five dynasties that occupied the Central Plains after the Later Jin Dynasty, but after Liu Zhiyuan's death, his son Liu Chengyou inherited, Liu Chengyou was shallow, and he was afraid that the generals with heavy troops left by his father would threaten his rule, and he tried every means to cut off the auxiliary ministers and the generals with heavy troops, and the general Guo Wei, who was guarding the field, was afraid that he would cause trouble to himself, so he simply united with other generals to resist, Liu Chengyou was furious, and destroyed Guo Wei's whole family, and went all out to crusade against Guo Wei, As a result, Liu Chengyou was not willing to be in the army, and soon the army was defeated and killed, Guo Wei supported the Later Han Dynasty Liu Yun to succeed to the throne, and he was willing to be the Duke of Zhou, and soon after the news of the invasion of the Liao Dynasty came from the frontier, Guo Wei led the troops to attack, and the soldiers mutinied halfway, Guo Wei was in a yellow robe, and then the class returned to the dynasty to seize the throne of the Later Han Dynasty, and established the last dynasty in the five dynasties Hou Zhou.

After Guo Wei's mutiny, diligent and simple, continuous development of the Zhou national strength, laying the foundation for the future unification of the country, Guo Wei because of the heirs were killed by Liu Chengyou, after his death, passed on to the talented adopted son Chai Rong, Chai Rong is the famous Hou Zhou Shizong in the history of our country, Chai Rong also inherited the will of his adoptive father Guo Wei, and constantly eliminated the maladministration, diligent work, so that the national strength of the Later Zhou Dynasty reached its peak, but unfortunately Chai Rong went on the horse to fight, dismounted to manage the government, overworked, and died young, the successor Chai Zongxun was young and ignorant, Empress Fu was young and powerless, and Zhao Kuangyin, the general of the Later Zhou Dynasty, imitated the mutiny when Guo Wei usurped the throne, directed the very famous Chenqiao Mutiny in the history of our country, seized the power of the Central Plains Dynasty from the orphans and widows of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and established the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song Dynasty ended the turbulent period of alternation of five dynasties in just more than 50 years on the Central Plains, and then had to face the various secession regimes outside the Central Plains, which also appeared alternately in turn, collectively known as the Ten Kingdoms, and the naming of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the Ten Kingdoms are not only ten countries, but the more influential are ten countries, in the previous we talked about the former Shu and the later Shu in the Ten Kingdoms, and we will not say more in the future.

Regarding the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there are many countries involved, we also focus on the formation and end of each dynasty in the Five Dynasties in this chapter, and the characters and events involved in the Ten Kingdoms are more complex, and the story in the next chapter also revolves around the Qianliang regime during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, so we will focus on some things in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in the next chapter.