The year was magical, and the four emperors were born.
In 852 AD, in the sixth year of Tang Xuanzong's reign, as an outstanding emperor in the late Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong advocated cutting feudal domains and reusing talents during his reign, which was praised"Xiaozhenguan"。
However, in his later years, he was obsessed with immortality and died at the age of fifty-two. Subsequently, Yizong and Yizong were arrogant and lascivious, and appointed traitors and villains, which led to the destruction of the prosperity of the Xuanzong Dynasty, the rise of feudal towns in various places, and the Tang royal family once again lost the right to speak.
Soon after, the Huangchao Uprising broke out, and Chang'an was full of first-class armor, opening another era of troubled times.
The four young people in the sixth year of junior high school each got different opportunities and started their own road to hegemony. Among them, Zhu Wen became the Taizu of Later Liang and led a new chapter in history.
Zhu Wen was born into a commoner family, his father died young, and his mother took the three brothers to take refuge with a landlord surnamed Liu in Xuzhou. Among the three brothers, the eldest is down-to-earth and steady, the second Zhu Cun likes to dance with guns and sticks, and Zhu Wen also loves the military.
After the outbreak of the Huangchao Uprising, Zhu Cun and Zhu Wen joined the rebel army, and because of their bravery and good fighting, they were reused by Huangchao and became important generals of the rebel army. With the defeat of the rebel army, they took refuge in the Tang royal family, and together with Li Keyong, the king of Jin, and others quelled the Huangchao Rebellion, and Zhu Wen was named King of Liang and became one of the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty.
As his power grew, so did his ambitions. In the end, he forced the Tang Emperor Li Zhu Chan to the throne by force, established himself as emperor, and established the Liang Dynasty with the era name Kaiping, when he was 56 years old.
The second Wu Yue Taizu Qian Biao.
Qian Biao, a wealthy merchant in Hangzhou who was born as a smuggler of salt, joined the army during Wang Ying's rebellion and was appointed as a partial general, and later made great contributions when Huang Chao marched into Hangzhou, and was appointed as the defense envoy of Yuezhou, and the history of Hangzhou assassination.
However, when Dong Chang established the Dayue Luoping Kingdom, Qian Bi advised many times in order to protect the people from the war, but Dong Chang was unmoved. In desperation, Qian Biao had no choice but to admonish him, and Dong Chang was forced to ask the emperor for his guilt, and from then on, Qian Biao actually controlled the Wuyue region.
In the third year of Houliang Longde, Qian Biao officially established Wu Yue Guo at the age of 71. And Wu Taizu Yang Xingmi is another important figure in Wu Yueguo.
Yang Xingshu was the first general of Luzhou, and he worshiped the history of Luzhou for three years, and then returned to Huainan Jiedu to make Gao Yu. In order to cast the name Gao Biao, Yang Xingchou changed his name to Yang Xingmi. In the second year of Qianning, he was named the king of Hongnong County.
Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue, sent troops to attack Yang Xingmi until Suzhou. Yang Xingmi sent Zhou Ben to resist, but the result was defeat, and Suzhou fell. After full preparation, Yang Xingmi sent Li Shenfu to attack Qian Biao, defeated Qian Biao's army in Hangzhou, and captured his general Gu Quanwu alive.
In the long-term melee, Yang Xingmi gained a firm foothold in the Jianghuai region. In the second year, Yang Xingmi was promoted to King Wu. He raised the banner of secession in Jianghuai, stopped Zhu Wen's southward advance, and successfully avoided greater turmoil throughout the country.
His state of Wu laid the foundation for the transformation of feudal towns into kingdoms, and the coexistence of separatist forces in the south and the Central Plains regime in the north was realized, laying the foundation for the Southern Tang Dynasty, opening the precedent of political integration and economic and cultural center southward expansion at the turn of the Tang and Song dynasties, and was known as the "first person of the Ten Kingdoms".
In the second year of Tianyou, Yang Xingmi died at the age of fifty-four. The Tang Dynasty posthumously crowned him as the king of Wu Wuzhong, and changed the name of Wu Xiaowu during the Wuyi period of Wu State, and his son Yang Pu posthumously honored him as Emperor Wu when he ascended the throne, and the temple name was Taizu.
Yang Xingmi's successor was Ma Yin, the king of Chuwu.
Ma Yin claimed to be a descendant of General Han Fubo, and although he was a carpenter, he was promoted several times for his outstanding combat skills and courage in Qin Zongquan's troops.
By the time Later Liang Zhu Wen was proclaimed emperor, he had taken full control of the entire territory of Hunan. Zhu Wen appointed him as the envoy of the Wuchang Festival, and later named him the king of Chu. In the fourth year of Kaiping, Ma Yin established his own country and became the Southern Chu of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
The fates of these four young men are surprisingly similar. They were all born in prosperous times and came from modest families, but they rose to prominence by suppressing the rebels and eventually established their own country.
This can't help but remind people of Chen Sheng's famous saying: "Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind?" "Their stories tell us that birth doesn't mean everything, as long as you have talent and courage, it is possible to create your own glory.