Police pillow powder tray

Statue of Qian Biao

Qian Biao has lived in a chaotic and turbulent environment for a long time, and has developed a habit of staying vigilant, which can be described as a constant alarm bell and horn sounding. He slept at night, and in order not to let himself sleep too deeply, he used a round piece of wood to make a pillow, called a "police pillow", and when he was tired, he leaned on it to rest; If you fall asleep and your head slides off your pillow, you wake up. In order to prevent the guards from snoozing at night and neglecting their duties, Qian Biao often fired projectiles outside the city walls in the hope that they would be more vigilant. In addition, Qian Biao also put a plate with flour in the bedroom, and when he remembered something at night, he immediately got up and wrote it down on the flour plate, so as not to forget it during the day.

The story of Qian Biao's sleeping on a police pillow has evolved into not sleeping all night, so that he has earned the nickname "The Dragon Who Never Sleeps". During the Later Jin Dynasty, the Khitan mission was sent to the Central Plains. A judge once asked Li Yong, the attendant in charge of the reception: "How is Wu Yue's Qian Biao, or haven't you slept all night?" Seeing that Li Yong was puzzled, he explained: "I once heard Master Wutai Mountain Prince say, 'Zhejiang does not sleep dragons, and now it has returned!'" I just want to make sure. "Actually, Qian Biao had already passed away at this time, but due to the lack of news, the Khitans did not know about it.

Punch lines and slander

After Qian Biao was named the king of Wuyue, he built a large number of buildings, day and night, and the soldiers all complained. Someone wrote on the gate at night: "There is no deadline, get up early and return at dusk." When Qian Biao saw it, he was not angry and happy, and ordered the little official to add another sentence next to him: "There is no deadline, spring clothes and winter clothes." The grumbling disappeared suddenly.

Mo on the flowers

According to the record of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", Qian Biao loved his princess Zhuang Mu and Mrs. Wu very much, and the princess would return to Lin'an every spring, and Qian Biao missed it very much. In the spring of one year, the princess did not return, and the spring will be old, and the flowers on Mo have been released. Qian Biao wrote: "The flowers on Mo are blooming, and they can return slowly. "It means that the flowers on the field have bloomed, and you can slowly return?

Later, Su Shi made three quatrains entitled "Mo Shanghua" based on this story.

Piercing the eyes and cutting off the head

After Qian Biao unified the two Zhejiang, the main opponent was Yang Xingmi. The two have repeatedly fought each other and regard each other as enemies. Yang Xingmi asked people to use a big rope to make Qian Guan (a rope that wears money), which is called "wearing money eyes". Not to be outdone, Qian Biao asked people to cut down willow trees with big axes every year, calling it "chopping poplar heads". It was not until the rebellion of Wuyongdu that Qian Yang married and cut off his head was stopped.

Appointment of Luo Yin

Luo Yin was depressed in the Central Plains,

Tomb of King Qian

In his later years, he returned to his hometown of Hangzhou, attached to Qian Biao, and once wrote a poem to send to Qian Biao, which has two sentences: "A You Heng can't tolerate it, thinking about Huang Zuman's hero." He compared himself with Youheng, and wanted to test whether Qian Biao was Huang Zu who couldn't tolerate people. Qian Biao laughed, and immediately replied to the poem: "Zhong Xuanyuan entrusted Liu Jingzhou, all because of troubled times; The master was Lu Sikou, only for his hometown. He gave Luo Yin high praise and reused it.

Qian Biao likes to eat fish, and once ordered the fishermen of West Lake to pay a few catties of fish to the palace every day, called "making house fish". After Luo Yin knew, he took the opportunity to write a poem for Qian Di's "Panxi Fishing Map" and wrote a poem: "Lu Wang was a temple in the past, and the country was even more like a straight hook fishing; If the students are on the West Lake, they must also be offered to the house fish. What he meant was that if Mrs. Jiang came to West Lake to fish, he would have to give Qian Biao fish every day, which was obviously a sarcasm for Qian Biao. Qian Biao was not only not angry, but ordered the cancellation of the "house fish".

After the establishment of the Later Liang usurpation of the Tang Dynasty, he worshiped Qian Biao as the king of Wuyue, and recruited Luo Yin as a counselor. Luo Yin refused to be called, and persuaded Qian Biao to raise troops to attack Liang, saying: "The king is a minister of the Tang Dynasty, and he should enter the Northern Expedition. You must not be a subordinate to the thief Liang and be ashamed for eternity. Although Qian Biao did not adopt Luo Yin's words, he respected him even more.

Concubines are corrected

Qian Biao had a favorite concubine Zheng, whose father committed a capital crime, and both left and right interceded for it. Qian Biao said, "How can I disturb my law because of a woman?" He immediately dismissed Zheng and beheaded his father.

Reward the doorman

Qian Biao once traveled in micro-service, and only returned to the city until the city gate was closed. He shouted outside the north gate to open the door, but the gatekeeper ignored it and said, "Even if the king comes, I won't open the gate." Qian Biao had no choice but to enter the city through another city gate. The next day, Qian Biao summoned the guards of the North Gate and rewarded him heavily.

Poems are presented

The late Tang Dynasty monk Guan Xiuya was good at reciting poetry, and was known as a poet monk. According to the "Biography of Tang Caizi", Guan Xiu once went to celebrate when Qian Biao was called the king of Wuyue, and presented a congratulatory poem. This poem is called "Offering Money to the Father", which has the sentence "A full house of flowers and drunk 3,000 guests, a sword and frost and 14 states". Qian Biao praised it greatly, but asked him to change the "fourteen states" to "forty states". Guan Xiu replied: "It is difficult to add a state, and it is difficult to change a poem. I am a lonely crane in the clouds, why can't I fly? With that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

However, according to the research of scholar Fu Xuancong, Guan Xiu met that Qian Biao should go to Jingnan in the summer of the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (895), not after Qian Biao was crowned king. And the battle of Qian Biao's crusade against Dong Chang had just begun at that time. Guan Xiu's "One Sword Frost and Fourteen Prefectures" is actually wishing Qian Biao victory in this war, not to indicate that Qian Biao has occupied the land of the Fourteen Prefectures. And at the end of the poem, "His name is on Lingyan Pavilion, how can he envy the marquis of Wanhu at that time" shows that this poem is a blessing.