In the early morning, Guo Hao woke up from his sleep.

I looked at the sky outside and it was just a little shiny. At this time, the chicken was not chirping, and my parents were still sleeping soundly.

His body was wet and covered in cold sweat. When he recalled his dream just now, he was almost strangled to death.

Guo Hao didn't know why he had this dream, but he vaguely felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

After a night of healing, the pain slowed down a little. Guo Hao got off the kang, walked to the yard, dug some wells and washed his face.

The cold well water was a little stimulating, but it made his mind particularly clear.

"I wish this was a dream, but unfortunately it wasn't. Now I can't go back. It seems that I have to take it seriously, otherwise I will die if I don't do it well.

Fortunately, I know this history very well. In theory, if you don’t leave Kaifeng, you may also escape the war, but there are certain risks and it is not the best choice.”

Guo Hao recalled this history again. This time he recalled it very carefully. The reason why the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms became Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was because the Central Plains had experienced five dynasties.

There is no need to mention the dynasties of the past. Later Jin was the Later Han, Later Han was the Later Zhou, and then Lao Zhao's Song.

Bianliang was quite safe during the Later Jin Dynasty, but the Later Han Dynasty was different.

The founder of the Later Han Dynasty was Liu Zhiyuan, the governor of Hedong of the Later Jin Dynasty. Liu Zhiyuan was from Shatuo, with a poor family background and a surname named Liu.

In his early years, he was a minor general under Emperor Mingzong of Tang Dynasty. Because he saved Shi Jingtang's life in the war, he became Shi Jingtang's confidant.

When Shi Jingtang was appointed as the governor of Hedong, Liu Zhiyuan was the governor of the Jieduya.

When Shi Jingtang conspired to rebel, Liu Zhiyuan also participated. After becoming the Emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty, he was appointed as the Duke of the Guards and the governor of the Rebels. Later, he was soon promoted to the commander of the commander of the Cavalry and Infantry Army of the Guards and became the supreme commander of the imperial guards.

In the sixth year of Tianfu (941), he served as the governor of Hedong and stayed in Beijing.

After Shi Jingtang's death, Liu Zhiyuan had a premonition that the world was about to be in chaos, so he focused on managing Taiyuan. In order to strengthen his strength, he executed Bai Chengfu, the leader of Tuyuhun, and seized a large amount of wealth and thousands of good horses.

When the Khitan army went south to attack the Later Jin army approached Bianliang, Liu Zhiyuan neither sent troops to rescue or resisted the Khitan, but watched coldly and watched the changes.

After the Khitan captured Bianliang and destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty, he sent people to express his views to the Khitan master Yelu Deguang. Yelu Deguang called him a son and gave him a wooden crucible, which was equivalent to the several rods given to important ministers by the Central Plains dynasty.

Yelu Deguang proclaimed himself emperor in Kaifeng and officially established the country as Liao.

When Emperor Shi Chonggui and his party were escorted north by the Liao soldiers, he pretended to be sad and angry and led his personal soldiers to rescue Shi Chonggui. In fact, he went to Shouyang and then turned back to Taiyuan.

Then he personally led a large army to cross the Yellow River while the Central Plains was empty, entered Luoyang, and killed the puppets Li Congyi and his son, who were supported by Liao, to exorcise people. He then set up the capital in Bianliang.

After Liu Zhiyuan became emperor, his former officials and subordinates became important officials of the court and occupied major key departments.

Yang Bin, Guo Wei was appointed as the Chief and Deputy Privy Councilor, Su Fengji, Su Yu was appointed as the Prime Minister, Wang Zhang was appointed as the envoy of the Three Divisions, and Shi Hongzhao was appointed as the commander of the cavalry and infantry commander of the guards and the pingzhang office.

Except for Guo Wei, the rest of these people were arrogant, ignorant, greedy, violent and cruel. For example, Prime Minister Su Fengji, when he was Mu Liao in Hedong, Liu Zhiyuan ordered Qi Jingzhu to pray for blessings, but in fact he wanted him to release the prisoners, but he executed all the prisoners, called "Jingzhu".

After becoming prime minister, he still did not change his old habits. He once drafted an edict to kill the family and neighbors of the thief, and some people refuted: "It is no longer in line with the law of the king, let alone the neighbors of the neighbors. Isn't this too much?"

Su Fengji had no choice but to delete the word "all clan".

As for Shi Hongzhao, he was even more brutal. He held the military power of the imperial guards and guarded the capital. He was sentenced to death if he violated the law and discipline without regard to the severity of the crime.

Even Taibaixing appeared during the day and was beheaded because someone looked up. A commoner had a conflict with a soldier because of drunkenness, and was beheaded for being beheaded.

As for tortures such as broken tongue, broken mouth, cramps, and broken feet, they are constantly being done almost every day.

Wang Zhang was appointed as the three officials to manage their finances, but he knew that the people would go bankrupt because of the violent concession.

In the old system, when the two taxes were collected, two liters were added to each hu of grain, which was called "rat and bird consumption", while Wang Zhang ordered two tumblers to be collected, which was ten times the previous one; in the old system, the official treasury paid only 80 cents per stake, and the people paid taxes the same, and only 80 cents per 100 cents per 100 cents, which was called "short money". Wang Zhang stipulated that the official treasury paid only 77 cents per 100 cents per 100 cents, but the people still paid 80 cents per 100 cents per 100 cents.

The Later Han Dynasty also stipulated that those who sell salt, alum, or wine and music in private will be punished for death regardless of the quantity.

The central officials were like this, and the top was effective, and local officials became even more cruel. The Qingzhou Jiedushi Liu Zhu was cruel in the enforcement of the law. When he was executed, he put his two sticks on his feet, which was called "Hehuan Staff"; he also decided the number of sticks based on the age of the prisoner, without regard to the severity of the crime, which was called "Sui Nian Staff".

When Ye Renlu, the governor of Weizhou, arrested thieves, he often regarded ordinary civilians as thieves, or slaughtered their legs and abandoned the valley, causing these people to "speak in a whisper and die for a long time."

In order to accumulate money, Wang Shouen, the left-behind in Xijing, collected taxes randomly. The number of taxes was so large that he had to pay taxes, including going to the toilet and begging on the street. Even if the coffin of a dead person was not paid, he was not allowed to go out of the city to bury him. Sometimes he indulged his subordinates and forcibly rob or steal other people's money.

Therefore, the rule of the Later Han Dynasty was the most brutal among the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the people were extremely distressed, so even the women who sold children could not live.

Liu Zhiyuan died of illness after only one year of emperor. His son Liu Chengyou succeeded to the throne and was known in history as Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty.

Emperor Yin was young, and his government was controlled by the old ministers Yang Bin, Shi Hongzhao, Wang Zhang and Guo Wei. Wu Fu was in power and discriminated against civil officials, causing constant internal conflicts.

These martial arts and powerful generals were all domineering. When discussing the government, they clamored and shouted, and did not take the emperor seriously at all, making it difficult for Emperor Yin to bear it.

These people only know how to dance guns and knives, but they don’t understand the principle of stabilizing a country. Sometimes they quarrel, or even draw their swords and move their swords, almost causing death.

All kinds of domineering behavior made Emperor Yin of Han unable to bear it, so he discussed with his confidants and ambushed the palace gate. While Yang Bin, Shi Hongzhao and Wang Zhang were in court, they killed them in one fell swoop and destroyed their clan.

He also sent people to assassinate Guo Wei, who was guarding Yedu. When Guo Wei heard the news, he raised his troops to resist and led a large army to Bianliang, defeating the imperial guards of the Later Han Dynasty. Emperor Yin of Han fled in panic and was killed on the way.

After Guo Wei entered Bianzhou, he asked the Empress Dowager to take charge of the dynasty and decided to embrace Liu Yun, the nephew of Liu Zhiyuan, the governor of Wuning, as the emperor.

Just when Liu Yun set out for Bianliang, Guo Wei instructed someone to falsely report the Khitan invasion, and he led a large army out of the capital to meet the enemy. On the way, the soldiers mutinized and put their yellow robe on Guo Wei, supported Guo Wei as the emperor, and then turned back to Bianliang.

When Liu Yun arrived in Songzhou, Guo Wei had already entered Bianliang first, forcing the Empress Dowager to issue an edict to grant himself the title of "the state supervisor" and take charge of the government power. In the name of the Empress Dowager, he issued an edict to depose Liu Yun, and demoted Liu Yun to Kaifu Gongsan, and prosecuted the Grand Tutor Shangzhuguo and Xiangyin Duke. He also sent his general Guo Chongwei to Songzhou to imprison Liu Yun in the local area.

In 951 AD, Guo Wei officially ascended the throne of emperor, with the year name Guangshun and the country name Zhou, known in history as Later Zhou.

The Later Han Dynasty only lasted three years from its establishment to its demise. It served two emperors and was the shortest-lived regime in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Guo Hao knew very well about this history. The Khitan invasion and the Later Han Dynasty were cruel. Even if Guo Hao had luckily passed these two hurdles, when Lao Zhao entered Kaifeng, he seemed to have robbed the troops for two days.

Thinking of this, Guo Hao instantly felt that Kaifeng was very unsafe. Compared with the Five Dynasties, the Ten Kingdoms were much better.

The Central Plains regime changed, but there was no major turmoil in the ten countries. Even several countries in Jiangnan were still vigorously developing their economies, especially the Southern Tang, Wu Yue, Fujian and others.

After Lao Zhao established the Song Dynasty, he began to unify the world and recovered the ten countries respectively. This is also the reason why the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms were coexisted. In fact, the ten countries existed a little longer than the Five Dynasties.

Jiangnan is a good place. You must go if you have the opportunity. If you really can't do it, run to the coastal city, then secretly build a big boat to go out to sea to avoid war, and wait for peace in the world to come back.

At this time, Guo Hao had no intention of competing for dominance in the world. He had 360 professions and had the highest scores in every profession. Only the emperor was the most difficult to be, especially the founding emperor, who was not done by humans at all.

As the founding emperor, I have endured too much, and this is a road that cannot be turned back. Once I set foot on it, I can't come back.

So Guo Hao didn't want to fight for the world at all. He just wanted to be a rich man and then gain a fame in the literary world. He could also protect himself to a certain extent. There was no need to become an official in person.

Guo Hao is a history expert and is still very confident in this regard. If he really can't go back, it seems good to live in the Song Dynasty!
Chapter completed!