Li Congke (885-937): Li Siyuan's adopted son, raised troops in Fengxiang in 934 AD, and entered Luoyang as emperor after the deed. However, only two years later, Hedong Jiedu envoy Shi Jingjiao led the Khitan soldiers to rebel, and after Li Congke's army was defeated, he set himself on fire and set himself on fire, known as the late Tang Emperor.

Zhang Chengye (846-922): A famous loyal eunuch of the Tang Dynasty and the second person in the Jin Kingdom. During the years of Li Cunmiao's Jiahe War, thanks to Zhang Chengye in the rear, he planned major policies for him and collected taxes, and he was a figure like Xiao He. However, Zhang Chengye wanted to be the lonely son of the Tang Dynasty, so after hearing that Li Cunmiao intended to be the emperor, he hesitated and died.

Zhou Dewei (?) - 918): One of the four famous generals of the Jin army, famous for his bravery. At the beginning of the five dynasties, he served as the head of the Jin army, the Han and Mabu, and was the first general in the army. In 918 A.D., he died in Huliupo.

Li Cunxun (862-924): One of the four famous generals of the Jin army, he was calm and spicy. He once scared off Zhu Wen's 150,000 army in Hebei with thousands of suspicious soldiers, and made great contributions to the Jin army. After Zhou Dewei's death, Li Cunxian succeeded him as the head of the Fan Han Mabu and was the head of the Jin army. In 924 A.D., he died of illness in Youzhou.

Hei Zhao (?) - 922): One of the four famous generals of the Jin army, since 907 AD, he led the Zhaoyi Festival envoy and sat in Luzhou to stand alone for the Jin army. In 922 AD, when Li Sizhao led his army to attack Zhenzhou, he was unfortunately wounded by a cold arrow, and Jin Chuang burst out and died that night. During the later Tang Tiancheng period, Tang Mingzong's edict Li Sizhao and Zhou Dewei and Li Cunxian enjoyed the Zhuangzong Temple together.

Guo Chongtao (?) - 926): The founder of the Later Tang Dynasty, who once offered Li Cunqiao a surprise attack on the Great Liang, and finally succeeded in the first battle. A.D. 925. Guo Chongtao was ordered to destroy Shu and won a complete victory. It only took seventy-five days to destroy Qianshu, but he was suspicious of Li Cunqiao. And at the beginning of the following year, Li Cunxuan's empress Liu sent a fatwa to kill, which directly caused chaos in the world.

Later Promotion:

Shi Jingjiao (892-942): Gaozu of the Later Jin Dynasty, the son-in-law of Li Siyuan of Tang Mingzong, and the first traitor of the five dynasties. In 936 AD, Shi Jingjiao rebelled in Hedong, in order to get the support of the Khitan, he did not hesitate to recognize the thief as his father, and ceded all the sixteen states of Yanyun. Since then, the land has been ruled by foreign races for more than 300 years. A.D. 942. "Emperor" Shi Jingjiao died in suspicion and fear, but the crimes he committed will never be forgotten by the world.

Shi Chonggui (914-964): Shi Jingjiao's adopted son, the last emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty. In 942 AD, Shi Jingjiao died of illness, and Shi Chonggui was proclaimed emperor by the prime minister Feng Dao and the guard Ma Buduyu Hou Jing Yanguang. At the end of 946 AD, the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang sent an army to break through the Great Liang, and the Later Jin Dynasty perished, and Shi Chonggui was escorted to live in the Khitan territory. Until 964 A.D., he died of illness, and the temple number was promoted to the emperor.

Sang Weihan (898-946): The founder of the Later Jin Dynasty and the accomplice of Shi Jingjiao's betrayal. He successively served as the prime minister and privy envoy of the Later Jin Dynasty, and was in charge for many years. After the fall of the Later Jin Dynasty. Sang Weihan was killed by the general Zhang Yanze.

Jing Yanguang (892-947): One of the great generals of the Later Jin Dynasty, the main contributor to the succession of Lishi Chonggui, single-handedly provoked the war between the Later Jin and the Khitan. After the fall of the Later Jin Dynasty. Jing Yanguang committed suicide on the way to Khitan.

Du Chongwei (?) - 948): One of the generals of the Later Jin Dynasty, Shi Chonggui's uncle. Won their trust. In the final battle between the Later Jin and the Khitan, Du Chongwei led the whole army to surrender to Yelu Deguang. directly led to the demise of the Later Jin Dynasty. Subsequently, Du Chongwei was appointed by Yelu Deguang as the envoy of the Tianxiong Festival, and when Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was dying, he was executed.

Hou Han:

Liu Zhiyuan (895-948): The founding emperor of the Later Han Dynasty and the first lucky person of the Five Dynasties. In 947 AD, Yelu Deguang was forced to withdraw to the country because he was unable to rule the Central Plains, and Liu Zhiyuan took advantage of the situation to raise troops. In just one month, it entered Daliang from Hedong, and in less than half a year, the territory was basically restored to the state before the war between the Later Jin and Khitan. The founding of the Later Han Dynasty and the prosperity of Emperor Liu Zhiyuan's fortune are unmatched by the five generations. However, the good times did not last long, Liu Zhiyuan died of illness in the second year of becoming emperor, and was known as Han Gaozu in history.

Liu Chengyou (931-950): The second emperor of the Later Han Dynasty and the son of Liu Zhiyuan. In 950 AD, Liu Chengyou was dissatisfied with the dictatorship of the military party and launched a coup d'état in the court, causing Guo Wei, the privy envoy of the Later Han Dynasty, to raise troops in Weizhou and return to the capital.

Su Fengji (?) - 950): Prime Minister of the Later Han Dynasty, one of the ministers of the Four Ministers, and leader of the Wen Party. After Su Fengji lost power with the military party, he provoked the contradiction between his relative Li Ye and the military party, which eventually led to a coup d'état between Liu Chengyou and Li Ye, Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty, and massacre the people in the military party. After Guo Wei returned to the capital, he beheaded him in the city.

Shi Hongzhao (?) - 950): Later Han guards and pro-army commanders, one of the ministers of the four orders, and one of the three giants of the military party. Shi Hongzhao has a brutal personality, is domineering, and has bullying behavior. In 950 AD, Emperor Yin of Han staged a coup d'état and killed him at the palace gate.

Yang Wei (?) - 950): Prime Minister and Privy Envoy of the Later Han Dynasty, one of the ministers of the Four Ministers, and one of the three giants of the military party. Yang Wei is domineering and domineering, and has bullied the king. When Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty staged a coup d'état, Yang Wei was killed along with Shi Hongzhao and Wang Zhang, the three envoys.

Next week:

Guo Wei (904-954): The founding emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, the privy envoy of the Later Han Dynasty and the envoy of the Tianxiong Army, one of the ministers of the Four Lives, and one of the three giants of the military party. Guo Wei was brave and fierce when he was young, but as an adult, he became generous, calm and sophisticated. In 950 AD, Emperor Yin of Han staged a coup d'état, Guo Wei took advantage of the situation to raise troops in Weizhou, and then invaded the capital, and then through the Lanzhou mutiny, officially ascended the throne and became the emperor, and established the Hou Zhou. In 954 AD, Guo Wei died of illness, and the temple name was Zhou Taizu.

Chai Rong (921-959): Guo Wei's adopted son, later Emperor Zhou, the first Ming monarch of the five dynasties. During the reign of Chai Rong, he reprimanded the internal water conservancy, the development of fields, the reduction of taxes, the expansion of the capital, the revision of the calendar, the tuning of the law, the streamlining of the administration of the army, the wide opening of the way, and the reprimand of the monks, so that the national strength became stronger and stronger. After the expedition to the west, he recovered the four states of Qin, Cheng, Feng and Jie, and conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty three times, and won the land of the fourteen states in the north of the Yangtze River. In 959 AD, Chai Rong personally led a large army to the north to attack the Khitan, and the army was only 42 days old, and not a single battle was fought, and not a single soldier was lost. It lightly took the three states (Ning, Mo, Ying), the three passes (Yijin Pass, Waqiao Pass, and Sikou Pass), and the seventeen counties, and the prestige shook the world. It's a pity that God is jealous of talents. During the Northern Expedition to the Khitan, Chai Rong fell seriously ill. He died soon after, at the age of thirty-nine, with the temple name Zhou Shizong.

Chai Zongxun (953-973): Chai Rong's eldest son, the emperor of the later three dynasties, and the last emperor of the five dynasties. After Chai Rong's death, Chai Zongxun, who was only six and a half years old, succeeded to the throne. Half a year later, Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, and the Later Zhou perished, and the Five Dynasties ended. A.D. 973. Chai Zongxun died in Fangzhou, and the temple name was Emperor Zhou Gong.

Miscellaneous:

Yelu Abaoji: The founding emperor of the Khitan, a national hero, and the honorific title "Emperor of Heaven".

Shu Luping: The wife of Yelu Abaoji, she is known as the "Queen of the Earth" and has the reputation of "Queen of Broken Wrists".

Yelu Deguang: The second son of Yelu Abaoji, the second emperor of the Khitan, in 947 AD, changed the name of the Khitan country to "Liao".

Wang Rong (873-921): A famous feudal town in Hebei. Cheng German Army Festival Envoy. In his early years, he took refuge in Zhu Wen, and later followed Li Cunmiao. In 921 AD, Wang Rong died in a rebellion in the military city.

Wang Chuzhi (?) - 922): a famous feudal town in Hebei, the envoy of the Yiwu Army. In his early years, he took refuge in Zhu Wen. After following Li Cunxuan. After Wang Rong's death, Wang Chu wanted to lead the Khitan soldiers to protect himself, but he was held by his adopted son Wang Du. Depression ends.

Luo Shaowei (876-910): A famous feudal town in Hebei, the envoy of the Tianxiong Army. Follow Zhu Wen all his life. Do your best. In 910, Roshowe fell ill and died. Zhu Wen took the opportunity to order the warlords of the three towns in Hebei to change their defenses, which directly triggered the Battle of Baixiang.

Liu Shouguang (?) - 913): a famous feudal town in Hebei, and an envoy of Youzhou Festival. Liu Shouguang was ignorant and brutal, and once established a puppet Yan regime, but was destroyed by Li Cunqiao two years later, and then sent back to Taiyuan to be beheaded.

Feng Dao: Five generations of political evergreens, the strongest official record holder in history, self-named "Changle Elder", known as "tumbler", five dynasties, eight surnames and eleven emperors, the position is not separated from the three divisions and three dukes. In 954 AD, Feng Dao died of illness, and after his death, he was posthumously named King Ying by Chai Rong, nicknamed Wenyi.

Zhao Kuangyin: The founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty and the terminator of the five generations of troubled times.

From here, we can see the contradiction between Chai Rong and Wang Jun, Chai Rong is the most promising heir to the throne in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and Wang Jun is the second real power figure in the Later Zhou Dynasty, there is a certain power competition in this, and Wang Jun is very easy to get power, I am afraid that Chai Rong will affect his status in the court, he is very jealous of him, and does everything possible to suppress him.

After Guo Wei rebelled, in the process of leading the army back to the court, he ordered Chai Rong to stay in Yedu, which was also a very reasonable arrangement. But more than a month later, Guo Wei has already been proclaimed emperor, so Chai Rong, as Guo Wei's only son, should also return to the court immediately, but Wang Jun was afraid that Chai Rong would pose a threat to him after returning to the court, so he desperately obstructed in the court, and finally failed to do this.

Wang Jun's doing this is actually very inauthentic, because first of all, the Hou Zhou has just opened the country, and the country has been created, and it is very necessary to have a trustworthy and useful cadre like Chai Rong to contribute to the court, and then Guo Wei's whole family died in this turmoil, so he must have been hit a lot emotionally, so he also needs a relative to come to his side to comfort him, so Wang Jun should not obstruct this matter whether he is public or private.

But Wang Jun not only obstructed this, but also did a great job, and even refused to let Chai Rong enter Beijing to show his face. You must know that Liu Chengyou killed Guo Weimanmen at the same time, he also killed Chai Rong's family and killed all his three sons, so in other words, Chai Rong couldn't even handle the funeral of his own family because of Wang Jun's jealousy.

What reason Wang Jun used to stop Chai Rong's request to enter Beijing is not clearly recorded, and analyzing the situation at the time, it seems that he did not have any very good reasons, so it can basically be judged that he used his power to forcibly obstruct it. The history contains "Taizu (Guo Wei) practiced Zuo, and the emperor (Chai Rong) begged to enter the Hajj, and suddenly dreamed of the river and could not cross." Chai Rong knew that this matter was difficult, so he didn't insist.

It can be seen from this incident that Wang Jun is still very domineering, and Guo Wei will definitely not be very satisfied with his approach. However, after all, Wang Jun was the number one hero of the founding of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and Guo Wei had no choice but to make Chai Rong the envoy of the Zhou Festival nearby, and inspect the school Taibao.

During Chai Rong's work in Lanzhou, his performance was still very good, and history called him "clean up the government, stealing and not violating the border", showing a strong work ability. In addition, the city was severely damaged due to repeated wars. Chai Rong personally led people to carry out post-war reconstruction, so he won the support of the people. At the same time, he also pays attention to the selection of talents. For example, Wang Pu, who can be called an all-rounder, and Wang Zan, who is good at the legal system. Zhang Mei, who is good at financial management, is all working in Lanzhou at this time.

Chai Rong's behavior, Guo Wei saw it in his eyes, was happy in his heart, and he was even more important to him. In the second year of Guangshun (952), the imperial court crusaded against Murong Yanchao, which was not very smooth at first, and Guo Wei was also very anxious, and intended to drive the expedition in person, so the left and right persuaded him not to go. At this time, Guo Wei remembered Chai Rong. said to the ministers: "If it is not feasible for me, I should make the son of Lanzhou fight the thief, and then I will do my business." In the end, because Wang Jun didn't want Chai Rong to lead the troops, he turned his head and encouraged Guo Wei to personally conquer Yanzhou, so he gave up, but this is enough to see Chai Rong's status in Guo Wei's mind.

Chai Rong worked in Lanzhou for more than two years, and he was always restrained by Wang Jun and could not return to the dynasty. During this period, Guo Wei's patience with Wang Jun has also reached the limit. At the beginning of the third year of Guangshun (953), the Yellow River breached, and Guo Wei sent Wang Jun to inspect the disaster. Previously, Chai Rong had repeatedly asked to return to the Hajj for a meeting, but he could not make the trip because of Wang Jun's obstruction in the court, so when Chai Rong heard the news that Wang Jun was sent to inspect the Yellow River. Immediately submitted another request to return to Beijing, and Guo Wei immediately approved.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the leap month, Chai Rong arrived in Beijing. Wang Jun was very nervous when he knew it, and immediately set off from the station. He also returned to Beijing two days later. However, after he returned to Beijing, he found that there was nothing to do, because Chai Rong's return to Beijing was approved by Guo Wei. It was due process, and he could not be convicted of false accusations. Guo Wei and Chai Rong, one is the emperor and the other is the prince, and they both have mouths and feet, they can meet wherever they want, and they can say whatever they want, why should he interfere as a prime minister?

At this time, Chai Rong felt that he was still very old and spicy in politics, and he did not take the opportunity to speak ill of Wang Jun, nor did he reach out to Guo Wei to ask for power, but only lived in the capital for more than ten days, and left very chicly. This move seems ordinary, but it is actually a very powerful move, because this is equivalent to showing Guo Wei that his son returned to Beijing this time without any political purpose, just to visit his father, but if someone is unwilling, then I have to leave.

In this way, how can Guo Wei not resent Wang Jun? It is obvious that the son is so close, it is because of Wang Jun's obstruction that the father and son have not seen each other for several years, and it is easy to wait for an opportunity for Wang Jun to go on a business trip, and the son took the opportunity to come back to do his filial piety, but before the bench was hot, he was driven away again. Such a domineering courtier, which courtier can tolerate him?

However, on the surface, Wang Jun won another game, so he didn't know how to restrain himself. On 10 February, Wang Jun again asked Yan Xun, a scholar of the Duanming Palace, and Chen Guan, a privy counselor, to take over the positions of prime ministers of Fan Zhen and Li Gu. Guo Wei also has four prime ministers in the court, headed by Wang Jun, and the rest are Fan Zhen, Li Gu, and Feng Dao. Among them, Feng Dao doesn't care about anything, Fan Zhen and Li Gu's rights are actually not very big, but they are a slight threat to Wang Jun, so Wang Jun also has the intention to dispose of the two of them and replace them with two of his own.

This matter is not in line with the rules in the first place, Wang Jun is the prime minister, what qualifications does he have to decide on the appointment and dismissal of cadres at the same level? Of course, Guo Wei will not agree, because if even this matter is dependent on Wang Jun, then what will he rely on to curb him in the future? So a bite to refuse. But at this time, Wang Jun has always been obedient to him, and he has been arrogant to the point of no return, and he refused to give in after being refused, dragged Guo Wei to stalk, tried his best to argue, and his attitude was arrogant, and his words were very inferior.

The two argued from morning to noon, Guo Wei couldn't even eat, but Wang Jun still refused to stop. At this time, Guo Wei's patience had exceeded the limit, and he had the heart to attack him, so he said to him: "Okay, you are all right, but today is the Cold Food Festival, it is not suitable to work, and as soon as the Cold Food Festival passes, I will immediately do what you want." ”

Wang Jun thought that he had won another game, and he was very proud and retreated happily. As a result, as soon as the Cold Food Festival passed, Guo Wei sent a decree to take him down, and then demoted Wang Jun to Sima of Shangzhou (now Shangzhou, Shaanxi). A month later, Wang Jun died of illness in Shangzhou.

Guo Wei disposed of Wang Jun, and immediately recalled Chai Rong to Jingshi, served as Kaifeng Yin, and named him the king of Jin, so that his identity as the heir to the throne was fully revealed. But at this time, there was another person in the country of the Later Zhou Dynasty, who posed a threat to Chai Rong's status and even Guo Wei's status, this person was the second hero of the founding of the Later Zhou Dynasty - Ye Du stayed behind, and the Tianxiong Army was the commander of the guards and the pro-army, and Wang Yin was the same as Ping Zhangshi. (To be continued.) )