On November 29, the third year of Qianyou (950), Empress Dowager Li came to the court. Guo Wei's partner Wang Jun was appointed as a privy envoy. Wang Yin, Guo Chongwei, and Cao Ying, who rose up together, were appointed as the boss, second, and third of the Central Forbidden Army Guards Division respectively. Everyone was waiting in the capital for the new emperor Liu Yun to start work. Suddenly, a good opportunity fell from the sky and smashed in front of Guo Wei again: after a year, the Khitans came to invade the border again! This incident is easy to associate with the military situation report before the Chenqiao Mutiny nine years later, but there is a difference. Guo Wei's urgent report is true. Not only is it recorded in the history of the Five Dynasties, but also in the "History of Liao: Shizong Ji" that "in October of the fourth year of Tianlu, he went on a southern expedition." capture Anping, Neiqiu, Shulu and other cities" and the urgent report before the Chenqiao Mutiny is likely to be fake, and it is a tribute to the teacher by Zhao Kuangyin, a good student of Guo Wei (there will be a more detailed analysis in the Chenqiao Mutiny chapter of this book).

Let's calculate an account: On November 15, Guo Wei led a large army to the side of Qingjun, went to Shanzhou on the 16th, and arrived in Huazhou on the 17th. On the 20th, they arrived in the northern suburbs of Kaifeng. It took just 5 days to reach the capital. And now? On December 1, Guo Wei's army left Beijing, arrived in Huazhou on the 15th, and arrived in Lanzhou on the 16th. In this way, when will you be able to go to the border, and when will you be able to fight back against the Khitan invasion? What is Guo Wei doing? He is grinding this group of soldiers who only have money in their eyes!

The soldiers began to get restless. started in the city, only caring about grabbing money, and didn't think about supporting Guo Wei as emperor. thinks that Boss Guo can be the emperor logically, and he is ordered to rob money, and he is innocent and meritorious. But at this time, a person named Liu Yun was hurrying to Kaifeng. Even if you are a turtle like yourself, you will climb to Kaifeng one day. When the time comes, after settling accounts, I'm afraid that I won't be able to keep my head. This is not? On the 15th, Liu Yun, the future emperor who came west with Feng Dao, had already sent someone to Huazhou to draft the army. Wang Yin looked at Guo Wei, who was eating meat and drinking in a big bowl, and whispered: It is rumored outside that the Liu family will be reinstated, and the whole army will be planted. Guo Wei hummed, still drinking wine and eating meat. After eating and drinking, he ordered: the whole army will be drawn and go to Lanzhou.

After resting for three days in Lanzhou, on December 19, Guo Wei ordered to cross the river and continue to advance.

At noon on the march, Guo Wei suddenly called Wang Yin, the commander of the Ma Bujun of the Guards Division (that is, the Central Forbidden Army) (the official rank of the boss of the Guards Division): Xiao Wang, do you see that thing in front? Wang Yin's eyes widened: No. Didn't see it. Guo Wei asked again: Look carefully, there seems to be something in front of my horse. Wang Yin looked at it again and asked again: What is it? Guo Wei glanced at Xiao Wang, and then said: It's like a ball of gas hovering over my horse's head. Wang Yin understood: Indeed. I see it. Guo Wei asked again: What color is it? The clever Wang Yin immediately replied: Purple.

Guo Wei smiled silently and rode his horse forward. Wang Yin also smiled.

Day 2. An unnamed post station, maybe it can be called Guoqiao. Thousands of soldiers outside were clamoring loudly, Guo Wei heard it, but he didn't move, and ordered the door to be closed. It fully shows his three no's attitude, that is, not taking the initiative, not refusing, and not being responsible. The soldiers used all their skills to grab money that day, and they climbed the wall and entered the house. Guo Wei pretended to be surprised: What are you doing? Do you still know the Emperor Law? Everyone laughed: Naturally, the general was invited to establish the imperial law. With that, he hugged forward. A person rushed up from behind, tore open a yellow flag, and quickly wrapped it around Guo Wei. All the soldiers fell to the ground and shouted long live. Guo Wei was helpless, and sighed: You are trapping me in injustice. That's it! For the sake of your lives, I had to lay down myself.

This scene, 24-year-old Zhao Kuangyin saw it all. Maybe he was the one who climbed over the wall, maybe he was the one who closed the door, or maybe he was the one who tore the yellow flag......

Guo Wei returned to Beijing. On December 25, he returned to Qilidian outside Bianliang City. On the 20th, there was a mutiny, and in just 5 days, Guo Wei returned to Bianliang from Lanzhou. On that day, Guo Wei spent 15 days from Bianliang to Lanzhou, plus 3 days of rest, a total of 19 days......

What the? What about the Khitan army, you ask? Hell he! We have more important things to do – we must first settle down inside if we are outside. And can you imagine that the soldiers who have just looted their capital will empathize with the suffering of the people of the frontier?

Now that Bianliang City is in chaos, Guo Wei has come back to kill. And this time it's not the Qingjun side, it's the emperor himself. Empress Dowager Li tried her best and calculated everything, thinking that she could avoid this difficulty, but the time to come still came. What to do? Recruit hundreds of officials to discuss. But no one can find it. Hundreds of officials went out to welcome the new monarch. This time, they don't have to do multiple-choice questions, they only need to submit a proposition essay to make a difference. The topic is persuasion. It's not difficult. Many people have a manuscript in which the name of the protagonist can be copied out and handed in.

Liu Yun, who was proud of the spring breeze, followed Feng Dao all the way to the west, and now he is in Songzhou. Someone else came to pick him up. It was the commander of the guard Sima Jundu (the official rank of the second guard division) Guo Chongwei and the seven hundred cavalry "Lanzhou mutiny, Guo Gong sent me to protect His Majesty." Please rest assured, there is no malice" However, Liu Yun asked Guo Chongwei to enter the city, but he didn't dare to come in. It wasn't until Feng Dao came out of the city to invite him that Guo and Feng went to the city together. Guo Chongwei's cowardly and cowardly appearance has been noticed, and it is clear that Liu Yun can only send sheep into the tiger's mouth if he goes to Bianliang again. Liu Yun's secretary Dong Yi judged the situation for him: there must be a conspiracy; pointed out the danger of advancing: His Majesty went deeper and deeper, and the disaster was terrible; It also provided a contingency strategy: seize the troops (order Zhang Lingchao to rob Chongwei with soldiers at night), rob money (loot Suiyang gold silk tomorrow), recruit troops (recruit soldiers), and retreat (go north to Taiyuan)

It's a pity that Liu Yun, who was blinded by the huge temptation of the throne, is still fantasizing: Guo Chongwei called Guo Wei's name just now, which shows that Guo Wei did not really become the emperor. That night, Zhang Lingchao's soldiers had all been taken over by Guo Chongwei, and Feng Dao, who came to pick him up, wanted to return to Beijing alone. At this moment of the change of dynasty, there are too many etiquettes that need to be presided over by an old man like Feng Dao. At this time, Liu Yun still did not give up, and pinned his most regrettable hope on Feng Dao, "The widow is here, and the one who is relied on is the old appearance of the public for thirty years." Therefore, there is no doubt that "before entering the Bianliang Palace, he has already claimed to be a widow." But this widow only knows the glorious history of Feng Dao for 30 years, but he doesn't understand that Feng Dao has been a big official for 30 years without falling down by relying on his tactfulness and sophistication.

After the last moment, Liu Yun rejected the suggestion that his subordinates would kill Feng Dao. Feng Dao left. Liu Yun, who was alone, was invited by Guo Chongwei to a small black house and imprisoned. On the 26th, Empress Dowager Li officially issued an edict, and Liu Yun was demoted to the Duke of Xiangyin. His emperor did it only halfway. It's just that the journey from Xuzhou to Songzhou has run his whole life.

In fact, Liu Yun is not the worst one, because Liu Xin, one of the four major candidates, has hanged himself.

At the time of Guo Wei's mutiny, his closest partner Wang Jun was staying in Bianliang City. The brothers really have a heart-to-heart connection. After learning the news of the mutiny, he immediately sent two lines of soldiers and horses, one was Guo Chongwei, who went to "protect" Liu Yun, and the other was Ma Duo, who went to Xuzhou (Liu Xin's station) to inspect it. Originally, when Liu Xin heard that Guo Weiqin had entered Beijing, he panicked for a while. But within two days, I heard that Guo Wei had retired, and the throne was in the hands of his nephew Liu Yun. Liu Xin, who was secretly glad, hurriedly ordered his son to go to Xuzhou to welcome the new emperor. But the situation took a turn for the worse again, there was a mutiny in Lanzhou, Guo Wei was proclaimed emperor, and Ma Duo came to inspect. What is there to check? Don't you want me to die? Liu Xin, who couldn't sleep, couldn't think about it and committed suicide.

On the night of December 29, before the establishment of the following week, there was one thing that must also be explained. That night, someone in the guard Sibu barracks got drunk and threatened: Guo Wei was supported by the guard Sima Jun, and now the infantry army also plans to support a new emperor, everyone pk. Guo Wei beheaded the leader of the guard Sibu Army who didn't know the importance of the night that night. However, looking back on myself, there have been five generations of incidents in which the sergeants arbitrarily deposed the emperor. So Guo Wei, who wanted to prevent trouble, carried out a thorough reform of the Central Forbidden Army, dividing it into two: one was still the original Guard Division (the boss official title was called the Guard Sima Bujun Commander), and the other was called the Palace Front Division (the boss official title was called the Palace Front Inspection), and the two divisions checked and balanced each other. However, people are not as good as heaven, and Guo Wei, who has exhausted the organs, never expected that it was the official position of the palace front division and capital inspection that he set up single-handedly, which would become a nightmare for his successor Chai Rong and his later Zhou Dynasty.

On the fifth day of the first month of the first month of 951 AD, Guo Wei ascended the throne as the emperor, changed the name of the country to Zhou, changed the Yuan Guangshun, and moved the Empress Dowager Li to the West Palace.