On this day, Liu Jien, who became the emperor, invited everyone to dinner. His cronies and guards were so drunk that they did not come to protect him. In the evening, Hou Barong led more than a dozen people, and went straight to Liu Jien with a knife. Liu Jien fled and began to play hide and seek with Hou Barong around a screen. Hou was very angry, "If you have the ability, don't go" Liu, "If you have the ability, don't chase" Liu Jien can't outrun Hou Barong, historical records: Liu Jien is long at the top and short at the bottom, burly when riding a horse, and dwarf on foot.

Congenital deficiencies caused Liu Jien to be caught by the assassin Hou, and then stabbed Liu Jien in the chest with a knife. Liu Jien, who had just been the emperor for more than 60 days, died like this.

Killing people with such fanfare in the palace, and there is no movement at all? No one came to save the emperor? Some. Guo Wuwei came, of course he came late, the emperor was dead, and he had to catch Hou Barong, cut it without saying a word, and "avenged" Liu Jien

The facts of this case are clear, and the murderer has been brought to justice on the spot, and it seems that the case can be closed. But the most important reason for not being clear is motivation. Why did Hou Barong kill Liu Jien? Song Shi gave the answer: Hou wanted to take Liu Jien's head to give it to Zhao Kuangyin.

In this way, Hou Barong is a double agent, who surrendered to the Song Dynasty for the Northern Han Dynasty, and later returned to the Northern Han Dynasty for the Song Dynasty? Sounds reasonable. There is no need to compare who is strong and who is weak, so Hou Barong finally chose Zhao Kuangyin.

But if the case is closed slowly, there are still doubts here.

Imagine, Hou Barong entered the palace with great fanfare, then cut off the emperor's head, and then fought with the guards who rushed to hear the news, and fought a bloody way. This is too difficult, unless Hou is a superman and a flying man, otherwise he will never be able to escape into Kaifeng.

And cutting off the emperor's head is actually not a big merit, if you kill someone else's emperor, they will immediately set up another one. What is the biggest credit? It was a trick to open the city gate and let the Song army enter the city. This is the biggest and most needed credit for Zhao Kuangyin.

And there is still a suspicion, that is, this Guo Wuwei came too untimely and too timely. He didn't arrive in time that the emperor was dead, so he came, and he was the first to rush to the scene of the crime in time to catch the assassin, and without even interrogating, he killed the murderer with a knife. This is obviously suspected of murder.

At this point, Guo Wuwei has become a key figure in this murder case.

This person's surname is Guo Wuwei, the word is everything, the name is very low-key, but the word is very arrogant. This is undoubtedly a portrayal of him, and of many of us, in his life: doing everything, but doing nothing.

This man has a peculiar appearance, a beak as sharp as a bird, and a wide forehead. He once worked as a Taoist priest in Wudang Mountain, and Zhang Sanfeng, a strange man of that generation more than 300 years later, is still his junior. But he is obviously different from ordinary Taoist priests who practice alchemy, this person is very good at speaking, and he is like Zhuge Liang to talk about some things in the world. It seems that being a Taoist priest is just a way for him to escape the world, perhaps he was born in a noble family, and his family escaped into the Taoist sect only after his family fell into the Tao. Or did he not study and turned to Taoism to seek a way to become an official?

Escapism is naturally for the sake of being born. Sure enough, he went out of the mountain and went to take refuge with someone: Guo Wei.

At that time, Guo Wei took the opportunity of quelling the three rebellions to recruit a large number of employees, including Zhao Kuangyin, who also 'met Guo Nai'an' during that period. In order to become his own trend of accepting all rivers, Guo Wei does not choose a trickle, but also a little bit of a dirty stream.

Guo Wei was immediately moved by the bird's beak of Guo Wuwei, a master of the world. But the bad is also bad in this mouth, someone said to Guo Wei, "Boss, this person can't stay, he is too good at talking, and what he says is all the truth of winning the world." We've got a lot of troops. Wouldn't it be obvious to keep this kind of person to make the emperor suspect us?"

People like Taoist priests, monks, and warlocks generally can't be kept at home, otherwise people will think that they have a heart of disobedience. Guo Wei endured the pain and asked Guo Wuwei to leave.

This blow was undoubtedly heavy, and Guo Wuwei lost the best opportunity in his life. He was very sad and deflated, and he didn't even go back to Wudang Mountain, but ran to the belly mountain in Taiyuan and shrank up. gave himself the honorific name of hugging the belly mountain man.

Guo Wuwei's days in the belly mountain were depressed, Guo Wei won the world, and he still regretted in the mountain. Zhao Kuangyin replaced Zhou Jiansong, he estimated that he was a little gloating, and hugged his stomach and sneered: If I am here, I will definitely be able to protect the Zhou Dynasty for thousands of generations. But after sneering, he was still a little sad. Because of such a big political upheaval, he was just a bystander.

The poor belly-hugging mountain man Master Guo has been hidden in the mountains and forests for ten years. Finally, when the time came, Liu Chengjun was going to perform major surgery on his Northern Han Dynasty after Li Yun's incident and carry out a major election. He was fortunate to be recommended to Liu Chengjun by Guo Chang, the minister of the Northern Han Dynasty. This will make his mouth more serious, and Liu Chengjun suddenly realized that he regretted it, and he hated to meet Guo Gaoren early.

Guo Wuwei was promoted to privy envoy, a top executive in the Northern Han Dynasty. He and the great monk Liu mentioned earlier, one is in charge of finance, the other is in charge of political affairs, and the monks are in harmony. Became the second immortal of the Northern Han Dynasty and the minister of the humerus.

In the end, it was concluded that this was a person who was greedy for power, and an old Taoist priest who had lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests for more than ten years suddenly became a big official and had power, so he naturally did not want to lose it.

Now Guo Wuwei's motive for committing the crime came out, because Liu Jien wanted to cut Guo Wuwei's power! Shi Zai: The first thing Liu Jien wanted to do after he ascended the throne was to remove Guo Wuwei's officials. Because Liu Chengjun, who was dying that day, was worried about the succession to the throne, he took Guo Daochang's hand and said, "Jien is very simple and filial, but he has no great talent, I'm afraid that we can't maintain our family business" Guo Wuwei was silent. Maybe Guo Daxian agrees with the master's words very much. But he couldn't figure out what Liu Chengjun meant when he said this. Hesitating to agree or disagree. So this usually articulate and eloquent guy finally chose to be silent. But it's like doing a multiple-choice question in an exam, and not choosing it is the same as choosing the wrong one.

Liu Jien, who became the emperor, was very unhappy about this matter. thinks that Guo Wuwei didn't speak for him at a critical time, and almost made himself an emperor, of course he wants to take revenge on Guo Wuwei.

Before we can speculate that the whole process of the crime is reconstructed, we should also bring one person to trial, so the person behaved strangely in this case. Hui Lan, and Hou Barong are colleagues of the worship officer, and what is even more suspicious is that he also surrendered from the Song Dynasty, claiming to have been the commander of the forbidden army palace in the Song Dynasty, and fled to the Northern Han Dynasty, which did not sign an extradition treaty with the Song Dynasty, because of his crime. And said that he acted strangely because when Hou Barong killed Liu Jien, he quietly left Taiyuan to find the Song army who had entered the country. Obviously, he must have some important information to pass on to Song Jun. What is the information? Combined with the time of his escape, we can conclude that the message he wants to deliver is that Guo Wuwei is going to surrender and Hou Barong is going to kill Liu Jien.

Now, let's speculate on the whole case: 1 Hou Barong is a double agent and an important chess piece planted by Zhao Kuangyin in the Northern Han Dynasty; 2 Hui Lan was also an excellent intelligence worker in the Song Dynasty, and he came to assist Hou Barong; 3, there is a gap between Guo Wuwei and Liu Jien.

So we outlined the original story of the case: Liu Chengjun died, the army of the Song Dynasty came over, and the latent Hou Barong felt that the time had come. So he took advantage of the contradiction between Guo Wuwei and Liu Jien, successfully plotted against Guo Wuwei, and promised to kill Liu Jien, and Guo Wuwei would come out to preside over the overall situation and set up another puppet emperor. At that time, the city was opened and surrendered to the Song Dynasty. And Hui Lan sneaked out of Taiyuan to inform Song Jun of this plan.

Perfect plan! If it weren't for Guo Wuwei, this guy was too cunning. Hou Barong thought about everything, but he missaw Guo Daochang. According to the plan, he killed Liu Jien, and Guo Wuwei should come to pick him up and let him go. But as soon as Guo Wuwei responded, he took him to the Netherworld Mansion.

For Guo Wuwei, this is the perfect criminal plan. Not only did he not get involved in the crime, but he avenged the emperor, which increased the weight of his speech in the court. So in the selection of the new emperor, he changed from silence to a war of tongues.

All the ministers said that they should welcome Liu Chong's grandson, Liu Jiwen, who sent an envoy to Liao, to return to China and succeed to the throne. Guo Wuwei vetoed it with one vote, and then he voted to let Liu Jien's half-brother, Liu Chengjun's other adopted son Liu Jiyuan, succeed to the throne, the reason? Guo Wuwei did not hide it at all: Ji Yuan Yi system.

Well, Guo Xianren has finally become the controller of the current situation, and he can advance and retreat freely. If the Northern Han Dynasty could block the Song army, he would then be the first powerful minister of the Northern Han Dynasty. And once it is wrong, he can take Liu Jiyuan, who is easy to make, to change the company, and go to the Song Dynasty to continue to be a high-ranking official.

Perfect for crime execution! Is it really perfect? Perfection is always a pursuit, not a reality. Guo Wuwei has at least two loopholes in this matter.

First, he killed people too quickly, at least he should have made a scene where Hou Barong resisted being killed, instead of stabbing him immediately after he was caught. In this way, Guo Wuwei's heart is known to passers-by. The history of the new five dynasties says: and people are suspicious of inaction and instruct Barong, and kill them urgently.

The first is just the masses talking about gossip, which is useless, and the second is a real fatal loophole: Is Liu Jiyuan easy to make? Of course, there is a good reason for Guo Daochang to think so: 1 Liu Jiyuan is a beautiful man, which often gives people a feeling of weakness. 2 Liu Jiyuan is a Buddhist. He had a close relationship with Monk Liu and respected other monks. Such a good-looking person who recites Buddhist scriptures will make people feel that he is a figure who is easy to play and manipulate like a Tang monk for a while.

But Guo Wuwei was wrong. Liu Jiyuan can no longer be defined by "suitable system or not", he is completely unable to system.

As soon as Liu Jiyuan ascended the throne, he opened the killing ring.

The first victim was Liu Chengjun's wife, Liu Jiyuan's aunt, and the Empress Dowager Guo of the Northern Han Dynasty. Because once she reprimanded Liu Jiyuan's wife Duan, Duan died of illness after returning home. Liu Jiyuan felt that there were ghosts in it, maybe his wife was killed by his aunt. So as the emperor, he rushed into the palace and strangled the Empress Dowager Guo to death in front of Liu Chengjun's mourning hall.

Then, he arrested Liu Chong's son, his uncle, and the princes of the Northern Han Dynasty, locked them in their rooms, and starved them to death. It would be understandable if Liu Jien did this, after all, the Liu family indirectly killed Xue Zhao. But Liu (He) Jiyuan has no enmity with the Liu family, how can he be so ruthless? Liu Jiyuan's answer was: They are the former ministers of the first emperor, and they will not be used by me in the end. This is not over, as long as the ministers of the Northern Han Dynasty are dissatisfied with him, they will be directly dragged out of the Lu to be killed, and then the whole clan will be destroyed. When he reached the end of the day, he killed his best friend as well. The great monk Liu Da, who made outstanding contributions to the country's finances, was also strangled to death by Liu Jiyuan, a Buddhist friend who talked about the scriptures and Zen.

And that's not all. **It's also a mess, because Liu Jiyuan rushed in. When he saw a beautiful woman, he went up. Is this a Buddhist? People put down the butcher's knife and became a Buddha on the ground, while he Liu Jiyuan put down the Buddhist book and became a beast.

It is estimated that even Guo Daochang did not expect that this new emperor was so wild and untamable.

And this may be good news for the Song Dynasty, the more chaotic the Northern Han is, the easier it will be to recover this territory. He Jiyun's vanguard Song army defeated Liu Jiye and Ma Feng's Northern Han troops in Tuanbai Valley, captured the Fenhe Bridge, attacked the city of Taiyuan, and burned Yanxia Gate. But then they were at a loss in the face of Taiyuan City, which was high and deep. There was no progress for 2 whole months, and he finally retreated in front of the Liaoguo Iron Cavalry.

On November 24, 968, Song Taizu decided not to use the era name Qiande used by Wang Yan, and changed it to Yuan Kaibao. On December 2, Zhao Guangyi's third son Zhao Yuankan (the future third emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhenzong Zhao Heng) was born.