This is a rewritten history of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Taizu Chai Rong met a very virtuous and capable Empress Fu, with her assistance, ended the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and created a prosperous Great Zhou with a vast territory and strong national strength.

The Liao people were also beaten to the desert steppe further north to build a small country of Northern Liao, and bowed to the Great Zhou, and the King of Liao even claimed to be the border guard general of the Great Zhou.

Taizu and Empress Fu have a son and a daughter, the two have always been in love, there is only one person in the harem for life, and the number of palace maids and eunuchs is much less than that of the previous dynasty, the two died of a long life, and passed on the throne to their sister-in-law Chai Zongxun.

Taizu no longer died young as in history, leaving a young son, was usurped by someone in a yellow robe, and was bullied by foreign tribes with half of the country, and the rewritten Great Zhou not only has a complete country, but also wise rule and strong national strength.

The government is lenient, the monarchs and ministers are concentric, the entire Great Zhou Dynasty is open, the national strength is strong, the people's lives are stable, and it has truly reached the heart of the world.

Taizong Chai Zongxun is a master of the Ming Dynasty, with a solid foundation laid by his father and mother, and they have been carefully taught since he was a child, as well as the assistance of loyal ministers and good generals, and the Great Zhou Guozuo is extended.

But there are always a few unscrupulous descendants who want to destroy the ancestral inheritance.

Some people feel that the power in their hands is thinned by the lenient government, and those who act arbitrarily and even obey me prosper and those who disobey me die, some are extravagant and ignore the government and the government and lose their family business, and some are reckless and reckless in fighting everywhere.

The consequence of the unworthy descendants in power is that the traitors are in power, the villains gain power, the loyal ministers are good and the deaths are degraded, and the government is very chaotic and even absurd.

Many of the laws and decrees made by Taizu and Empress Fu at the beginning have almost become a dead letter, although no one dares to change the ancestral system, but most of them exist in name only, either shelved in the cabinet, or all kinds of adaptations of yang and yin.

Not only is the administration of officials very corrupt, but government decrees are also seriously incompatible, land annexation is very serious everywhere, and the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming more and more serious.

Gradually, the Great Zhou Dynasty, like all feudal and autocratic dynasties, was almost struggling to get rid of all kinds of evils.

The imperial power passed to Emperor De'an, which is the seventh generation, and the Great Zhou Dynasty has lasted for more than 300 years.

After Emperor De'an succeeded to the throne, it was even more absurd and extravagant, and the entire imperial aristocratic officials and gentry class also became extravagant, bullying and oppressing ordinary people in various ways, and the people everywhere were miserable.

In addition, natural disasters are frequently superimposed on man-made disasters, and it really reached the point where Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there were frozen bones on the road, and the officials forced the people to rebel, and soon the people in various places were in turmoil.

Northern Liao, which seemed to be in the rules but secretly developed and expanded, also unilaterally tore up the covenant, gathered 200,000 cavalry and took the opportunity to raise troops to the south, burning, killing, plundering and committing evil deeds along the way, and the entire Great Zhou was shocked.

At this time, the traitors are in charge, and the loyal ministers and good generals are either degraded and killed, or they are discouraged and stay away from the court.

At this time, Cai Di, a deputy general in the southwest, took the opportunity to kill Wang Shizhong, a treacherous and greedy boss who refused to send troops to meet the enemy, and seized military power.

It also merged with the surrounding forces, gathered 300,000 troops, and quickly repelled the attack of Northern Liao.

The entire Northern Liao State was lost, and after the death of the Liao King, it fell into a struggle for power and throne, and it could not be slowed down for hundreds of years.

The border of the Great Zhou Dynasty was peaceful, the people praised each other, and Cai was praised by the world for his first prestige.

Emperor De'an was very jealous, and was even more worried that Cai Di's soldiers were strong and wanted to rebel, so he plotted with his henchmen and traitors to deceive Cai Di into Beijing in the name of reward, and tried every means to punish him.

After a check, it was found that Cai Di did not have any clans and in-laws in the land near Beijing, and his resume was very simple, and his family and friends were all in the place where he worked.

His ancestral home in the northwest is ordinary, with his military merits and martial arts, he is usually humble and low-key, just an ordinary deputy general with no name, and this time his actions are simply beyond everyone's expectations.

Cai Yi repeatedly found an excuse and refused to return to Beijing to be sealed, and Emperor De'an panicked even more, and immediately summoned the world's soldiers and horses to execute Cai Di in the name of rebellion.

After hearing the news, Cai Di not only did not retreat, but immediately raised troops to rebel, and exposed a shocking thunder.

He claimed to be the grandson of Taizu Chai Rong VIII, his real name was Chai Di, implying the lineage of the Chai family, and he was also the imperial nephew of Emperor De'an.

It is claimed that his grandfather is the sixth grandson of Emperor Taizu, and after his death, he was posthumously named the first prince of Emperor Gongxiao Chai Cheng, and his biological father is Chai Cheng's eldest son, the king of Qinjun who faked his death and escaped.

Soon Chai Nuo appeared, and ascended the throne in the northwest in the name of the eldest son of the Taizu lineage and the first prince Chai Chengyan, with the year name Emperor Renxian, and Chai Di was named the crown prince.

It is said that after the young Chae Nuo escaped from the capital, he hid in Tibet and was frightened again, and his body has always been relatively weak.

After giving birth to two sons in adulthood, the second son of the concubine died young, and now only the eldest son Chai Di is left around, and Chai Di will lead the army and handle all affairs with full authority.

Under the banner of "exterminating the evil and returning the lineage", Chainuo and his son led the assembled army of 500,000 to raise troops, and soon occupied all parts of the northwest, and their power became stronger and stronger.

In order to prove his identity, Chai Nuo claimed that he had all the human and material evidence in his hands, and that he could be verified by the clan and important ministers in person after entering Beijing in the future, and he also welcomed people of insight from all over the world to vote and verify the identity of their father and son.

The first physical evidence is the prince's official seal and dragon seal of the former prince Chai Cheng, and Chai Cheng's handwritten and double seal back then, explaining how to send away the love letter of the eldest son Chai Nuo.

The second is the royal jade of Chainuo and the official seal of the king of the county, and Chainuo as a witness.

Although nearly 40 years have passed, there are still many old ministers and old servants in the court, and Chai promised that after entering Beijing, he would like to confront the old ministers and old servants face to face to prove his identity.

The first witness is an inconspicuous little eunuch, two guards and a strategist beside Chai Cheng back then, and they still have old acquaintances in the capital, and they also have to prove their identity.

It turned out that after perceiving his father's sinister intentions, under Chai Cheng's arrangement, they and some other people hiding in the shadows escorted Chai Nuo to escape from the capital quietly.

Later, Chai Nuo was taken care of by eunuchs, the advisers were mentors, the guards taught martial arts, and people in the shadows also appeared to help them.

But there must be old people in Beijing who recognized the three of them back then, and they are also willing to confront each other after entering Beijing to prove their identities, and after verifying, their identities are indeed true.

Things have come to such a point that almost all the world believes in the identity of Chai Nuo's father and son, and there are rumors that the crown prince Chai Di looks very similar to his great-grandfather Emperor Qiming, and acts in the style of Emperor Qiming.

In addition, the whole world has been dissatisfied with Emperor De'an's father and son and the government for a long time, and more and more people have come to take refuge and join them, and for a while, their prestige has become more and more powerful.

The truth of what happened back then was also revealed.

Chai Cheng is the eldest son of Emperor Tianyou, the fifth emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and his wife Empress Zhen.

He was intelligent, capable, broad-minded, and deeply loved by his grandfather, Emperor Qiming, and was named the emperor's grandson since he was a child, and he was carefully taught by his side, claiming that he was enough to entrust the people of the country.

No one expected that his excellence and favor would arouse the uneasiness and jealousy of his biological father, who was then the crown prince.

Emperor Tianyou is mediocre and incompetent and narrow-minded, he not only wants to use Chai Cheng's solid favor to sit firmly on the throne of the prince, but also fears that Emperor Qiming will pass the mediocre and incompetent him directly to Chai Cheng.

After the death of Emperor Qiming, Emperor Tianyou succeeded to the throne, and Chai Cheng became the crown prince from the emperor's grandson, and finally felt the jealousy and deep malice from his biological father.

The situation at that time made him unable to resist, so he made arrangements in advance, such as letting his only son Chae Nuo claim to be sick and have been weak and unable to show up in front of others.

Before everyone knew it, he found a suitable opportunity to let Chai Nuo fake his death and send his henchmen away with him.

He also arranged for someone to secretly protect his two daughters, because in the royal seizure of power, the women of the clan can generally escape their lives, and at worst, they can die peacefully in the royal monastery.

Sure enough, after Emperor Tianyou gradually took control of the country and the court, he weakened his wings while finding fault with Empress Zhen and Chai Cheng in every possible way.

On the one hand, he did everything possible to promote the second prince of Qi, Chai Chang, who was born to his favorite concubine, and finally spoiled the ambition of King Qi and wanted to replace Chai Cheng.

There were even traitorous ministers in the court who figured out the holy will and colluded with the king of Qi to murder the prince.

With the acquiescence of Emperor Tianyou, he first fabricated charges to behead Chai Cheng's maternal ancestor Zhenhou Zhen's family and exiled the entire clan to the army, and then slowly liquidated the prince's close ministers and henchmen to break their wings.

After the conditions were ready, Emperor Tianyou threatened the lives of Empress Zhen and Chai Cheng's two immature daughters, forcing Chai Cheng to claim that he was seriously ill and his time was short, and he was willing to give up the position of prince.

In order to save the lives of his mother and daughter, Chai Cheng was forced to agree to the tragedy of the father killing the son.

He proposed to be willing to take special drugs to make the appearance of "death", in the name of becoming the "loving father" of Emperor Tianyou.

But he must die as the crown prince and posthumously crown the throne and enjoy the posthumous glory, otherwise the net will be broken.

Now it seems that he had made arrangements at that time.

It is precisely because the crown prince's position was not abolished when he was dying, and he was posthumously crowned the emperor after his death, that Chai Nuo was able to raise troops to seize the throne in the name of his lineage, so that he would not bear the name of a rebellious minister and a thief.

Emperor Tianyou did not want to lose his notoriety, and there were still many forces in the court that he could not balance, so he agreed after weighing the pros and cons.

So after Chai Cheng died of illness, he was posthumously named Emperor Gongxiao, and the crown princess Luo committed suicide by taking poison and was posthumously crowned Empress Wenshu.

Empress Zhen had long been disheartened, and in order to save the lives of her two granddaughters, she was forced to resign as queen in the name of praying for the blessing of the first emperor.

Emperor Tianyou was worried that something would happen, but he still kept his promise, and named Empress Zhen as a Jing'an monk, and his two granddaughters as county lords, and the three of them were kept in captivity in the harem.

After the matter calmed down, Emperor Tianyou found an opportunity to help his favorite concubine ascend to the throne and set up his second son, Chai Chang, the king of Qi, as the crown prince.

Chai Cheng's two daughters grew up peacefully in the palace, and they were raised by their grandmothers with good looks, but they have been ignored by everyone, and no one dared to ask for marriage.

Emperor Tianyou refused to give them marriage, nor did he dare to let them get married, nor did he care about their reputation and refused to let them shave, so he let his two granddaughters pass away in the deep palace.

After the death of the Jing'an monk, the two county lords led the practice in the royal monastery.

Since then, everyone in the world thinks that the first prince Chai Cheng has been extinct, after the death of Emperor Tianyou, the crown prince Qichang ascended the throne and the year is dry, and the Great Zhou Dynasty has since fallen into the vein.

Emperor Tianyou and Emperor Zhengqian, father and son, one is mediocre and incompetent, the other is stubborn and self-serving, the government is becoming more and more corrupt, and the national strength has plummeted.

When Chai Chang's son Emperor De'an succeeded to the throne, he didn't think that the government was very absurd and extravagant, and the Great Zhou Dynasty was crumbling after accumulating heavy difficulties, even if there was no Chai Di to raise troops, the country was about to be unable to be saved.

At that time, it was rumored in Beijing that Emperor Qiming was dissatisfied with his son, so he was extremely important to his eldest grandson Chai Cheng.

Not only was he named the emperor's grandson personally taught, but before his death, he also handed over the two dark forces controlled by each generation of emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty to him, and did not hand them over to Emperor Tianyou.

Although there are many rumors about these two dark forces, no one has ever really seen them, and legend has it that this is the real hole card of each generation of emperors of the Great Zhou, and without them, the country will definitely not be able to sit steadily.

Emperor Tianyou was worried that the rumors were true, and he didn't find out anything until he forced his eldest son to die.

Later, he regarded it as a rumor and did not allow anyone to mention it again, but he has been arranging for people to secretly find it.

Now everyone believes more and more that these two dark forces are in the hands of Emperor Renxian, who has just been proclaimed emperor, otherwise he would not have been able to become strong enough to fight against the imperial court from an unknown young general.

The country was already crumbling, Emperor De'an was more and more unpopular, and Emperor Renxian's father and son responded to the hearts of the world.

Although the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty is very vast, there are also Wenchen generals who are loyal to Emperor De'an's father and son who resist desperately, and there are other forces from all walks of life who also want to seize the country to support their own troops, and there are four emperors in the same period, and the road to Emperor Renxian's father and son is not easy.

It took them almost five or six years to gather the entire Great Zhou, all the way to the vicinity of the capital Chang'an.

On the eve of the destruction of the city, Emperor De'an was hanged to death by eunuchs, and only four of the five sons escaped to become kings, and the remaining four were beheaded to ask the new emperor for credit.

Emperor Renxian was lenient and benevolent, regardless of the past, and remembered that he was also a descendant of Taizu, and allowed the father and son to be buried in the imperial mausoleum, and all the concubines were buried.

And because of its calamity to the country and the people is extremely arrogant, the father and son two generations caused the Great Zhou Dynasty to almost overturn, so he was posthumously named the luxury emperor to show a small punishment and a big commandment, and the four sons were also posthumously crowned the county king.

He also promised that as long as King Cheng was willing to show his body, he would no longer pursue his crimes, and he would be crowned King Chengjun, enjoy the honor of the clan, and continue the line of Emperor Luxu.

It's just that King Cheng never appeared again, until half a year later, someone found his body on the southeast border, and there was a gold medal to confirm his identity, which was verified to be true, and he was also posthumously named King Chengjun and buried in the imperial mausoleum.

The two daughters of the first prince Chai Cheng did not want to return to the world, although they were named the eldest princess, they practiced for life.

Emperor Luxury's two daughters were also named county lords and raised in the harem, and later invited themselves to become monks to atone for their fathers and ancestors.

After the smooth replacement of the old and the new, and the gradual straightening out of the court, Emperor Renxian's physical strength could not bear the burden of the emperor, so he took the initiative to retreat to the position of the emperor, and the crown prince Chai Di succeeded to the throne, and the year name was Emperor Chengzong.

He not only presided over the smooth transition between the old and new courts to appease the hearts of the subjects, but also worked diligently and loved the people, and the world was supported by all the people, and he was dedicated to creating a new peaceful and prosperous era, so that the Great Zhou Dynasty would extend infinitely.

Da Zhou is equivalent to a broken tail and reborn again, and it has a new vitality.

If there is someone who knows the business, he will definitely say, oh, it turns out that Empress Taizu has crossed over! (End of chapter)