Seeing our emotional expressions, Juekong slowly spoke, and the words pointed out the maze for us, eliminating some information that we didn't need to think about carefully.

"In the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, although the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms are called together, the focus is only on the Five Dynasties, the so-called Ten Kingdoms is only the self-reliance of the princes of the Ten Directions, and there is no force mixed in it, you can put it aside for the time being when you think about it."

Five generations and ten countries can't be treated as equals?

And when you think about it, there does seem to be some truth in it.

For thousands of years, countless people have recognized that the gap between the five dynasties and the ten kingdoms is actually only in the place where it is located.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Five dynasties with their capitals in the Central Plains appeared in the Central Plains, as well as ten regimes that were divided into various parts of Shenzhou.

For thousands of years, historians have always believed that the Central Plains is the orthodoxy of Shenzhou, so it is generally called the five dynasties with their capital in the Central Plains as the Central Plains Dynasty, and the remaining ten countries are just ten secession regimes.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this reason that whether it is Guanshan, Weak Water, or the extremely mysterious Emperor Xudu, these forces choose to start with one of the five generations, and no one has ever secretly supported the Ten Kingdoms.

After figuring it out, I suddenly remembered that magnificent era.

As mentioned earlier, the Later Liang established by Zhu Wen was destroyed by the Later Tang Dynasty led by Li Cunxuan, and then the Later Tang Dynasty was willing to sink, and the first two dynasties in the Five Dynasties disappeared in the torrent of history.

However, the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is still not over, but has just begun.

In the Later Tang Dynasty, Hedong Jiedu made Shi Jingjiao collude with the Khitan, and even recognized the Khitan Emperor as his father, and at the cost of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, he ascended the throne in Taiyuan with the support of the Khitan and called the emperor, the country name was Jin, known as the Later Jin Dynasty in history, and soon invaded Luoyang and destroyed the Later Tang Dynasty.

Naturally, Shi Jingjiao's practice of cutting the land and calling him a child was invisibly opposed by many people, including even his own past cronies and his chosen heir, Shi Chonggui.

After Shi Chonggui registered, he claimed to be the grandson of the Khitan Emperor, but not a minister, so the Khitan invaded Jin, the two sides fought in Lanzhou, each other won and lost, when the Khitan went south again, Shi Chonggui personally conquered, and defeated the Khitan again.

When the Khitan went south for the third time, due to the surrender of Du Chongwei, a heavy minister of the Later Jin Dynasty, the main force of the Later Jin Dynasty was lost, Shi Chonggui was forced to surrender, and the whole family was captured to the Khitan, and the Later Jin Dynasty was destroyed.

After the fall of the Jin Dynasty, of course the Khitan will occupy the Central Plains, but because the Khitan lost the hearts of the people in the Central Plains, and finally had no choice but to retreat north, Hedong Jiedu made Liu Zhiyuan seize the opportunity to claim the emperor in Taiyuan, and then conquered and set the capital in Bianzhou, known as the Later Han Dynasty.

In the second year, Liu Zhiyuan died of illness, and his second son succeeded to the throne, which was Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty, and there was a rebellion in the town during the reign of Emperor Yin, and Emperor Yin ordered Guo Wei to levy, but he was jealous of Guo Wei and wanted to kill him, Guo Wei had no choice but to rebel, and Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty was killed by the rout, and the Later Han Dynasty perished.

After the fall of the Later Han Dynasty, the so-called Five Dynasties were left with only the last Later Zhou. fresh

And it is naturally impossible to mention the Later Zhou Dynasty, because Zhao Kuangyin, the Song Taizu who finally established the Song Dynasty, was from the Later Zhou Dynasty.

The Later Zhou Dynasty is the last Central Plains Dynasty in the Five Dynasties period, from the Later Zhou Taizu Guo Wei destroyed the founding of the Later Han Dynasty, the capital of Kaifeng, to Zhao Kuangyin Chenqiao Mutiny to establish the Northern Song Dynasty, a total of three emperors, but its national Zuo is only a short decade.

However, although it was Guo Wei who established the Later Zhou regime, when later generations mentioned the Later Zhou Dynasty, the first thing that came to mind was often not Guo Wei, but Later Zhou Shizong and Chai Rong.

Because for thousands of years, countless people have recognized that during the long period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the most benevolent monarch among the princes of all walks of life, and the monarch who is most likely to be the same day, should be the Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong.

Guo Wei reigned for only four years, because his sons were killed in Bianliang by the Later Han Dynasty as early as when he raised his army in Yedu, so the Later Zhou Guozuo could only be inherited by his adopted son Chai Rong, and the top priority encountered by Chai Rong after his accession to the throne was how to resist the attack of the Northern Han.

The Northern Han Dynasty saw Guo Wei's new funeral, Chai Rong had just ascended the throne, and he united the Khitan to send troops south, in a vain attempt to destroy the Hou Zhou in one fell swoop.

The Northern Han saw that Chai Rong's troops were insufficient, so he launched an attack without waiting for the Khitan army, between the confrontation between the two armies, Chai Rong stood still, led his own soldiers to supervise the battle, and under the bloody battle between the two sides, the Northern Han army gradually could not support and began to retreat, with heavy casualties and corpses filling the mountain stream.

This battle, known as the Battle of Gaoping in history, was due to the heavy casualties of the Northern Han Dynasty, so from then on, the Northern Han Dynasty no longer dared to speak lightly about the Zhou.

After the Battle of Gaoping, Chai Rong initially rectified the corrupt military discipline, and after returning to Bianliang, he used a large number of young generals to eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled in the forbidden army, and recruited the world's heroes to select the good fighters in the army of the feudal town into the forbidden army.

In addition, Chai Rong started from the aspects of taxation, production, and official style, and carried out relatively perfect reforms, and it was precisely because of these reforms that Zhao Kuangyin was finally able to successfully establish the Song Dynasty.

In the second year of Xiande, Chai Rong recovered the land of Sizhou, and through this battle, Houshu was blocked within the range of Liangchuan, so that it did not dare to easily harass the western border of Houzhou, and then Chai Rong made three personal expeditions, and finally defeated the Southern Tang Dynasty, occupied the fourteen states of Huainan, and drank the Yangtze River.

After this series of wars, the Later Zhou expanded its territory, the Northern Han did not dare to attack the Zhou, and the Southern Tang could only bow down to the vassals, and the situation in the Later Zhou was extremely stable, so the Northern Expedition could be carried out without any worries.

In the sixth year of Xiande, Chai Rong officially used troops against the Khitan, he personally led the army to Cangzhou, tens of thousands of elite soldiers went straight into the territory of the Khitan, and the Khitan army either fled or surrendered, the momentum was like a broken bamboo, and the soldiers were not bloody.

And just when Chai Rong was preparing to march to Youzhou, he suddenly fell seriously ill, and had to return to the dynasty helplessly, and in the summer of that year, Chai Rong died of illness in Bianliang at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, leaving behind a regret for the ages.

For thousands of years, countless people have sighed for it, if Chai Rong is given another ten years, Shenzhou will definitely be pacified by it, and the next week will rule the world, Chai Rong's benevolence is also destined to not be a short-lived dynasty after Zhou.

But as the so-called jealousy of talents, at the age of only thirty-nine, Chai Rong passed away, leaving behind eternal regrets, which made countless people look forward to and remember.

And since Guanshan, Weak Water, and Emperor Xudu have all entered the game, the last King of Yama will definitely not sit idly by, in this case, after excluding the two meaningless periods of the Later Jin and the Later Han, the only option for the King of Yama to start is only the Hou Zhou.