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In 835 AD, Li Ang tried to trick the great eunuch Qiu Shiliang into the Zuo Jinwu Zhangyuan to be beheaded in the name of Guanlu. Unexpectedly, Qiu Shiliang realized something was wrong and fled, and also took Emperor Li Ang hostage. The court officials were helpless and in chaos.

Qiu Shiliang sent the Shen Ce Army to kill all these people, which was known in history as the "Ganlu Incident". After this chaos, Emperor Wenzong of Tang, Li Ang, became depressed and ill. Fortunately, Qiu Shiliang deposed Li Ang's son and made Li Ang's younger brother the emperor, who was Emperor Wuzong of Tang.

After Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, he found Prime Minister Li Deyu to contain Qiu Shiliang. Qiu Shiliang did not move the imperial guards and mutinied in Weicheng. Emperor Wuzong was not a mediocre person at this time. He was afraid that he would be liquidated, so he resigned and went home in disgrace.

Li Deyu was one of the most famous prime ministers in the late Tang Dynasty. With his assistance, Emperor Wuzong of Tang eliminated long-standing malpractices, developed the economy, and suppressed the power of eunuchs, local vassal states, and monks. The Tang Dynasty once experienced a period of revival, which was called the "Huaichang Restoration" in history books.

However, Emperor Wuzong of Tang, Li Yan, also liked to take elixirs and died at the age of 33. The eunuch Ma Yuanzhi supported Emperor Wuzong's uncle, Li Chen, as the emperor, who was Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. After Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Chen, succeeded to the throne, he also suppressed the power of eunuchs, but the eunuchs still had considerable influence.

In 859 AD, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang died, and the eunuch Wang Zongshi supported Emperor Xuanzong's eldest son Li Yi to become emperor, who was Emperor Yizong of Tang.

Before we knew it, he was already the 18th emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The "Glorious Tang Dynasty" has long been a thing of the past. The two major forces of eunuchs and vassal states became the nightmares of the Tang Dynasty emperors, and eventually they declined together.

During the reign of Emperor Yizong, politics was corrupt and the eunuchs were lawless, even the emperor could not control them.

In 873 AD, Emperor Yizong of Tang died, and the great eunuch Tian Lingzi made Li Xuan, the fifth son of Emperor Yizong of Tang, the emperor, who became Emperor Xizong of Tang. A few years later, the Huang Chao Rebellion broke out, and the Tang Dynasty was severely damaged.

Just as the Anshi Rebellion led to the rise of the Hebei vassal states, the Huang Chao Rebellion not only dealt a heavy blow to the Li Tang royal family, but also led to the rise of a new generation of vassal states such as Zhu Wen and Li Keyong. The eunuchs who had been in power for more than 100 years finally came to an end.

In 888 AD, Emperor Xizong of Tang, Li Xuan, died. The eunuch Yang Fugong supported Li Xuan's brother Li Ye as emperor, who was the second to last emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang.

Fifteen years later, Zhu Wen led his army into the Chang'an Palace and massacred all 15 eunuchs, thus completely solving the eunuch dictatorship problem that had plagued the Tang Dynasty for 700 years. However, Tang Zhaozong also became Zhu Wen's puppet and was killed by Zhu Wen four years later.

Tang Zhaozong's son Li Yu became the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty. In 907 AD, he was forced to issue an edict to abdicate to Liang Wang Zhu Wen. The Tang Dynasty was declared extinct, and Chinese history entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period when many heroes competed for hegemony.

——"Because of Li Bai, I always thought Gao Lishi was a very bad eunuch. After learning more about him, I found that he was a rare virtuous eunuch in history."

——"The main thing is that eunuchs are in control of the military power, which is a bit scary. Originally, people like them had no descendants, so they were not afraid of them taking power. But the emperors messed up themselves, and there was nothing they could do."

——"These emperors love to take elixirs so much, could it be the effect of the little blue pill?"

[Detailed interpretation of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was a turbulent period in history]

This was an era when emperors were least valuable, and even time travelers were afraid to avoid them. In the chaotic period after the prosperous Tang Dynasty, a total of 56 emperors appeared, 14 in the north and 42 in the south.

The rate of wise rulers is very low, while the rate of abnormal deaths is very high. In the chicken-eating battlefield of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, who will win in the end? In this video, let us interpret the whole process of this Huangquan chicken-eating competition in detail in chronological order.

In 878 AD, the Huang Chao Rebellion broke out, sounding the final death knell for the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Wen, Li Keyong and others rose to power one after another, marking the beginning of the Five Dynasties of hegemony.

At the same time, Yang Xingmi and Wang Jian also came to the south, ushering in the era of the Ten Kingdoms. Zhu Wen was born in poverty, and later joined the Huang Chao rebels and became a general under Huang Chao. When he saw that Huang Chao could not accomplish anything, he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Xizong of Tang, who had fled to Sichuan at that time, was already in a state of panic. He did not care whether Zhu Wen surrendered sincerely or not. He directly gave Kaifeng to him and gave him the name Quanzhong, hoping that he would be loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

But judging from the final result, the name is simply a huge irony.

Zhu Quanzhong quickly expanded his power in the process of fighting Huang Chao and became one of the most powerful vassal states at that time. In addition, there were also Li Keyong, the governor of Hedong, and Li Maozhen, the governor of Fengxiang and Longyou, who were also very powerful.

They fought against each other, conquered cities and territories, and ignored the emperor, who was powerless. Not only could he not control these vassal states, he could not even control the eunuchs around him.

In 903 AD, Zhu Wen led his army into the imperial palace in Chang'an and killed 700 eunuchs, thus eradicating the 147-year-long problem of eunuchs' disorderly politics. He completely turned Emperor Zhaozong of Tang into his puppet and moved the capital to Luoyang.

Zhu Wen was worried that Emperor Zhaozong would contact other vassal states to attack him, so he killed Emperor Zhaozong and established the young prince Li Yu as emperor. In order to completely clear the obstacles to his usurpation of the throne, Zhu Wen purged all the officials of the aristocratic families in the court and dumped their bodies into the Yellow River, which is known in history as the White Horse Post disaster.

The noble families also completely withdrew from the stage of history and could no longer have any influence on Huangquan.

In 907 AD, Emperor Ai of Tang, Li Yu, issued an edict to abdicate to Prince of Liang, Zhu Wen, and the Tang Dynasty was declared dead. Zhu Wen ascended the throne and established the Liang Dynasty, with Kaifeng as the Eastern Capital and Luoyang as the Western Capital, which was known in history as the Later Liang Dynasty.

At this time, the territory actually controlled by Later Liang only included Henan Province. Southern Han, Ma Chu, Wuyue, Min Kingdom, and Nanping in the south only submitted to Later Liang in name. Wang Jian in Sichuan established Former Shu on his own, and Yang Xingmi in Jianghuai still regarded himself as the King of Wu of the Tang Dynasty and refused to submit to Later Liang.

The two most powerful vassal states in the north, Li Keyong, the Prince of Jin, and Li Maozhen, the Prince of Qin, still regarded the Tang Dynasty as the orthodox, and attacked Zhu Wen in the name of revenge for Emperor Zhaozong of Tang. Zhu Wen was furious, saying that when the Tang Dynasty was still there, you didn't respect Emperor Zhaozong of Tang much, but when the Tang Dynasty fell, you all became loyal ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

After Li Keyong died of illness, his eldest son Li Cunxu inherited the throne of King of Jin. Li Cunxu was brave and good at fighting and strategy. As soon as he succeeded to the throne, he defeated Zhu Wen in the Battle of Luzhou.

——"The first war god of the fifth generation has arrived. His father left too few arrows. If he had left two more arrows and given him something to do, he wouldn't have been acting all day. I guess he would have unified the country long ago."

Zhu Wen, 57 years old at the time, had realized that it would be difficult to unify the north in his lifetime, so he set his sights on his sons. At that time, the feudal lords had the habit of adopting adopted sons. Li Keyong had 11 biological sons and 13 adopted sons, known as the Thirteen Guardians.

Zhu Wen had 8 biological sons and 5 adopted sons. Zhu Wen's favorites were his adopted son Zhu Youwen and his wife Wang. It was rumored that Zhu Wen had affairs with his daughters-in-law. When Zhu Wen was seriously ill, he wanted to pass the throne to Zhu Youwen, but this secret was told by his daughter-in-law Zhang to her husband Zhu Yougui, who was also Zhu Wen's oldest biological son.

When Zhu Yougui learned that his father did not want to pass the throne to him, he was very angry. He led his troops into the palace, killed his father and ascended the throne, and also forged an imperial edict to execute Zhu Youwen.

However, after Zhu Yougui ascended the throne, he was extremely licentious, and the clan generals were not convinced by him. His other biological son Zhu Youzhen took the opportunity to launch a coup and ascend the throne. After this internal strife, the Later Liang Dynasty was severely damaged, while Li Cunxu in the west was growing stronger.

In 923 AD, Li Cunxu, the Prince of Jin, proclaimed himself emperor and named his country Tang, marking the beginning of the second Tang dynasty. It is worth mentioning that although later historical books considered the Later Tang to be the successor to the Later Liang, at the time the Later Tang still claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Tang dynasty and did not recognize the Later Liang.

Later Tang conquered Kaifeng and destroyed Later Liang, and then annexed Li Maozhen's Qi State and eliminated Qian Liu of Sichuan, making the territory of Later Tang reach its peak. Li Cunxu was complacent and did not want to make progress. He spent all day hanging out with actors and gave himself a stage name, Li Tianxia.

After fighting all your life, can't you enjoy yourself?

However, in the Five Dynasties, when powerful vassals were everywhere, this was really not an option. In 926 AD, 42-year-old Li Cunxu died in the Xingjiao Gate Incident. After Li Siyuan quelled the rebellion and succeeded to the throne, the Later Tang Dynasty was seriously damaged.

——"Oh, it's such a pity. When I watched The Bad Kids, he was my favorite. I didn't expect him to die so suddenly. It's really hard to accept."

——"There's nothing we can do about it. His death was so sudden in history. Little Emperor Taizong, what a pity."

Although Li Siyuan was considered a wise ruler before he ascended the throne, the government was in chaos in his later years. General Meng Zhixiang took advantage of the civil strife in the Later Tang Dynasty to seize Sichuan and establish the Later Shu.

Li Siyuan's third son Li Conghou ascended the throne, but soon Li Siyuan's adopted son Li Congke followed his adoptive father's example and rebelled, deposed Li Conghou, and became the fourth and last emperor of Later Tang.

Li Congke was very suspicious of Shi Jingtang, the inner court official, so Shi Jingtang simply started a rebellion. However, due to his own lack of strength, he was besieged in Taiyuan by the Later Tang army. In order to become emperor, Shi Jingtang sent people to contact the Khitan, saying that he was willing to cede the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and take the Khitan emperor as his godfather.

The Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang was overjoyed and led his army south to support Shi Jingtang in destroying the Later Tang Dynasty. He obtained large tracts of territory in Hebei and northern Shanxi. From then on, the Central Plains dynasty had no strategic location to defend.

——"The puppet emperor Shi Jingtang is also a shameless person. Because of him, the Central Plains is no longer safe."

——"It's OK. He is not a Han Chinese, so he doesn't care. He is happy and doesn't care about the flood in the future."

Shi Jingtang's act of selling out his country for personal gain was reviled by later generations for a thousand years. In 936 AD, the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang canonized Shi Jingtang as the Emperor of Jin, and China entered the third Jin Dynasty among the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

In the same year, Xu Zhigao, the actual ruler of Yang Wu, proclaimed himself emperor and changed the country's name to Qi, which was soon changed to Tang. It was known in history as the Southern Tang, the ninth regime among the Ten Kingdoms. In the following decade, the Southern Tang successively eliminated the Min Kingdom and the Ma Chu, becoming the most powerful separatist regime in the south.

. It is worth mentioning that Li Yu, the last emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was the best poet and composer among the emperors, was the grandson of Xu Zhigao. The Later Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains directly became a puppet of the Khitan. Shi Jingtang was obedient and respectful to his father, Emperor Yelu Deguang, who was 10 years younger than him.

The generals of the Later Jin accused him of selling out his country for personal gain and they all rose up in rebellion. Shi Jingtang was unable to suppress the rebellion and died in depression at the age of 51. As Shi Jingtang's biological son was too young, his adopted son Shi Chonggui succeeded him.

Shi Chonggui, contrary to Shi Jingtang's respectful attitude, did not want to be a vassal of the Khitan. Yelu Deguang went south to attack the Later Jin Dynasty. Three years later, the Khitan army surrounded the Later Jin capital Kaifeng. Shi Chonggui opened the city and surrendered, and the Later Jin Dynasty was destroyed.

Although Yelu Deguang wanted to annex the Later Jin Dynasty, he encountered strong resistance from the people of the Central Plains. Later Jin general Liu Zhiyuan proclaimed himself emperor, and the old generals of the Later Jin Dynasty responded one after another. Yelu Deguang had no choice but to lead his troops back north. He died of illness while passing through Sha Hulin.

Liu Zhiyuan established his capital in Kaifeng and changed the country's name to Han, marking the beginning of the fourth Han dynasty. However, Liu Zhiyuan died of illness less than a year after he became emperor. After his son Liu Chengyou ascended the throne, he became suspicious of General Guo Wei, who rebelled and the Han dynasty was destroyed.

Liu Chong, a member of the Later Han royal family, proclaimed himself emperor in Jinyang, which was known in history as the Northern Han, the tenth of the Ten Kingdoms.

In 951 AD, Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor and named his country Zhou, which is known in history as the Later Zhou. Since all of Guo Wei's biological sons were killed by the Later Han, Guo Wei had no choice but to make his adopted son Chai Rong his heir.

——"Chai Rong was also a man of great ability and could unify the country. It's a pity. All we can say is that there are too many regrets in troubled times."

——"It is true that during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were Gao Huan, Gao Cheng, Yuwen Tai and other regrets, and during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there were Li Cunxu, Chai Rong and other regrets."

After half a century of chaos, the dawn of unification finally came to Chai Rong, the Emperor of Later Zhou. After Chai Rong ascended the throne, he successively conquered the four states of Later Shu, the fourteen states of Southern Tang, and the three passes and three states of Liao within six years, laying the foundation for unification.

The five generations of chicken-eating competition is about to decide the final winner, but this winner is not Chai Rong, but Chai Rong's good buddy Zhao Kuangyin. In 959 AD, Chai Rong died of illness at the age of 39, leaving his 7-year-old son Chai Zongxun to inherit the throne.

On the third day of the first lunar month of the following year, the Chenqiao Mutiny broke out, and Zhao Kuangyin was crowned emperor. The Queen Mother of the Later Zhou Dynasty had no choice but to issue an edict of abdication in the name of Chai Zongxun. Chinese history entered a new period, the Song Dynasty.

At this time, there were still Northern Han, Southern Han, Southern Tang, Nanping, Later Shu, and Wuyue in the regime. Could Zhao Kuangyin eliminate them in one fell swoop?

——"I am late but I am here!"

——"The Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, choose a copy for yourself."

——"From the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, it seems that there are only a few strokes of A-nian, but in fact, there are only more than 40 years between them."

——"More than 40 years was a lifetime for many people in that era. Only those who lived in that period can understand how hard it was and how long the days were."

——"Actually, if you think about it, the system of the Song Dynasty makes sense. Although it was not good at fighting wars, it was good at maintaining stability. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were too chaotic."

——"The plot of the fifth season of The Bad Guys has suddenly become much clearer."

——"The Sui and Song dynasties were the easiest to gain control of the world. After so many years of war, they came to take advantage."

——"I saw it when I was using the toilet, but in order to break this rule, I resisted the urge to look at it and only looked at it after I got up! (dog head)"

——"If you don't understand, just ask, why are they called Hou Liang, Qian Shu, etc. Why not Qian Liang, Hou Shu?"

——"In fact, Liang is Liang and Shu is Shu. There is no difference between the two. We just added them later because we didn't want to confuse them."