Six days have passed, and the Nether is already the first year of Later Zhou Guangshun (951).

Chen Tan, a big fennel dealer, and Li Shuang, a vine whip fairy, are six years old, and they are both ninety-nine years old, and they no longer sell in person fifteen years ago.

In the past fifteen years, Chen Tan has found a job for himself, carefully examining the collection of Yaokun jade carvings, and recording its origin, carving process, the name of the craftsman and the status of the industry, the appreciation from the jade rough to the jade carving, the main purchase objects, etc. wrote a "Yao Kun Pipe Voyeur".

Li Shuang personally made the rattan whip, thinking of some strange appearances, and made it extremely exquisite, which provoked many high-ranking officials to come to the door to admire her rattan whip. I'll take one or two with me before leaving.

The couple was immersed in such pleasures, using their hands and brains, day after day, envious of others.

As a result, there were many high-ranking and low-ranking visitors to their homes, and many elderly wealthy businessmen would often talk with their couples about business and gossip about the past. Of course, it is indispensable to talk about some national hatred and family hatred, and the current affairs of the Son of Heaven will be the prime minister.

On this day, Mrs. Bingguo took the children and escorted a batch of black pottery to Yangzhou for sale. Rushing all the way from Taiyuan to this side, passing through Shanyang County, Chuzhou, Gong Buxi naturally wanted to visit the third uncle and the fourth aunt, and of course Ying Wufang followed. The children just take the goods to Yangzhou.

Li Shuang personally prepared the dishes, and Chen Tan chatted with them, naturally thanking Chen Fang and Chen Candle was indispensable. is his own person, the more he talks about the topic, although Chen Tan always doesn't like to talk, he can't hold it as soon as he opens his mouth. This did not begin his rambling again.

Speaking of current affairs, Chen Tan is often indignant as he was when he was young: "You say that this Khitan is nothing more than that, why do you play with the Central Plains Dynasty in the palm of your hand?"

No, a year ago, Yelu Deguang used troops in the Central Plains for the third consecutive year, and the first two times Yelu Deguang fought against the Jin army at all. This time, Du Chongwei, the commander of the front army, dreamed of becoming the emperor, and deliberately did not move, and was played by Yelu Deguang.

The Khitan lord Yelu Deguang called Du Chongwei and Zhao Yanshou, who had surrendered to the Khitan in advance, and at the same time put on ochre yellow robes in two places, promising to be emperors on both sides. Du Chongwei and Zhao Yanshou became Yelu Deguang's playthings.

Due to the surrender of the main force of the Later Jin army, Yelu Deguang soon entered Bianliang, established the Liao Dynasty in imitation of Han Yi, and called the emperor to change the Yuan. However, because the soldiers and horses of the Liao Dynasty only knew how to plunder, and did not have the slightest mercy for the Han people, they soon aroused the people of the Central Plains to fight everywhere. ”

In order to prevent the Khitans from being killed by the people of the Central Plains, Yelu Deguang, the Taizong of Liao, ordered a quick withdrawal from the Central Plains. Emperor Shi Chonggui of the Jin Dynasty, Empress Feng, Empress Dowager Li and other captured members of the royal family were escorted all the way to the fiefdom of the Liao State, where they were humiliated and tortured.

Fortunately, Yelu Deguang died of serious illness after withdrawing from Bianliang, and his nephew Yongkang Wang Yelu Ruan won the throne for Liao Shizong.

Although Gong Buxi is an old lady, she knows the current affairs and the situation along the way of trafficking goods.

After listening to Chen Tan's words, he sighed: "The Liao soldiers have withdrawn, and there is no owner in the Central Plains." The marshals of the towns and towns everywhere pushed the envoy of the Hedong Festival and the famous anti-Liao general Liu Zhiyuan as the emperor. At the beginning of Liu Zhiyuan's reign as emperor, the world quickly returned to his heart. Soon there were three major sources of chaos. ”

Chen Tan couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean by the three sources of chaos?"

Gong Buxi said: "The first chaos is the method of Prime Minister Su Fengji's continuous sitting, which caused unjust souls to be everywhere. The second chaos was that the guards and pro-army Ma Bujun commanded Shi Hongzhao, who abused torture and capital punishment, causing the people's hearts to collapse. The third chaos was that the three divisions made Wang Zhang manage the money and grain, and the violent collection reached ten times that of Shi Jin, and the common people and peddlers and merchants went bankrupt everywhere. For example, the Later Han Dynasty stipulated that those who smuggle salt, alum, and wine koji, regardless of the quantity, will be punished with death. ”

Chen Tan laughed: "Liu Zhiyuan's generation of emperors, his henchmen and ministers actually acted like this, which made him sick and angry, and he drove the crane to the west in a year after being called the emperor." Even ordinary people are estimated to be angry. ”

His son Liu Chengyou succeeded to the throne and was known as Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty. After working for two years, because of excessive suspicion, he unjustly killed the entire general Guo Wei and forced Guo Wei to rebel. The Later Han Dynasty perished.

In the first year of Guangshun (951), on the first day of the first month of Ding Mao (the fifth day of the first month), Guo Wei was officially called the emperor, the country was called the Great Zhou, the capital was Bianjing, and the history was called the Later Zhou. Guo Wei was later Emperor Taizu of Zhou.

Liu Zhiyuan and Guo Wei are both from humble backgrounds, and it is indeed not easy to become emperors. In contrast, Guo Wei's character under the account is much stronger than Liu Zhiyuan's three chaotic ministers, which is directly related to Guo Wei's character.

Speaking of Liu Chengyou's forcing against Guo Wei, it really makes people laugh and cry.

After Liu Chengyou killed the privy envoy Yang Wei and the commander Shi Hongzhao, the two generals, he wanted to kill Guo Wei, who was left behind in Yedu, the envoy of the Tianxiong army, and the privy envoy. And Guo Wei assisted Liu Zhiyuan, Liu Chengyou and his son, fought against rebellion, and defeated the Liao State, which is called a loyal.

Even Liu Zhiyuan's wife, Liu Chengyou's mother-in-law, and the empress dowager Li Sanniang thought: "Guo Wei's own family is not in danger, how can he come here! Wei Bi said, then when the monarch and the minister, the concubine is still complete. ”

Li Sanniang thinks that Guo Wei is a member of our own family, and if you mess around like this, who else will be your courtier? This Liu Chengyou just didn't listen, and according to the instigation of his favorite ministers Guo Yunming and Li Ye, he had to kill Guo Wei and kill Guo Wei's whole family.

So much so that four years after Guo Wei became emperor, in the first year of Xiande of the Great Zhou Dynasty (954), he died of illness in the Zide Hall of Bianjing, and there was no son to pass on the throne, and the throne was passed to his adopted son Chai Rong, that is, Zhou Shizong.

Guo Wei is indeed very accurate in seeing people, this Zhou Shizong is quite capable and has unified most of China. The level of governing the world is also very high, and the nine emperors in the past five generations, combined, are not as good as his ability alone. The Central Plains Dynasty quickly saw a revival.

In the book, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong governed the country in an orderly manner, and was later steadily caught by Zhao Kuangyin, and achieved the 319th year of the Song Dynasty.

The most ridiculous Liu Chengyou cut off the Han dynasty in just two years, and Guo Yunming, who he favored, turned out to be the executioner who killed him. The souls destroyed under the instigation of Guo Yunming are innumerable, and the Hou Han Dynasty will not die, and his father Liu Zhiyuan's soul in the sky will not agree.

That Yelu Deguang was proclaimed emperor in Bianliang, changed the Khitan and established the Great Liao Dynasty, why did he die of illness on the way to withdraw his troops?

The bad things that his Liao soldiers and generals did were unbearable for himself, not to mention the people of the Central Plains. Let you beat the iron King Kong, get angry every day, and don't get sick.

As the folk proverb goes, you can't do things and you can't say anything. Liu Chengyou is the Son of Heaven, and he holds the power of life and death in the whole world, so who said it, he can be called "Lao Tzu's first in the world", but he will perish faster.

Yelu Deguang of the Khitan Kingdom has been his father emperor for more than ten years, and he oppressed the people of the Central Plains through Shi Jingjiao's hands, which is unprecedented cool. Once you attack Bianliang, you feel that you Central Plains people are not as good as pigs and dogs, and you and your Khitan people are too high, and you are about to float to the sky.

Who knows, if the officers and soldiers do not take action, the people of the Central Plains will kill the Khitan soldiers everywhere, and they will not be able to prevent it. As a result, the Khitan army could not sleep, so they had to withdraw from the Central Plains.

On the way to Yerod's retreat, he was also attacked and robbed by the people who were frightened every day.

It is especially worth mentioning that the "Bloody Uncle" who was shocked by the ghosts and gods led forty bloody warriors, and four of the ten god kings under the light tent of Yerod were killed.

There are also six heroes of the Chu State led by the Soul Destroying Tiansha, who organized people to intercept and kill the emperor of the Liao State in Xiangzhou, and killed as many as 37 of Yelu Deguang's personal guards.

I saw with my own eyes that my brothers who were born and died with me, countless fierce generals who were even the princes, fell one by one in a pool of blood, and their condition was unbearable. Every time he died, his heart tightened, his hair stood on end, and he was overwhelmed with grief. Wouldn't his illness get worse and worse, and he died of illness halfway through.

No one should think that they are great, just like the Liang, Tang, Jin, and Han dynasties, can you do nonsense as an emperor? Liao Taizong thought that he was looking at the world, and he forgot that no matter where he was, he was raised by his father and mother just like yourself, and he must not treat human life as a mustard, and finally retribution should be on himself.

To be honest, if this history of the peddling industry is really rolled out and written, I am afraid it will be difficult to write 10 million words. The story of the five generations of traffickers, every peddler and every rich merchant has a history of resounding heart, or bankruptcy, catastrophe, or taking advantage of the chaos to cause trouble, rich and invincible, or open-minded, rich and benevolent, or martial arts, all over the world for profit, or to help the army and the emperor, the king and the marquis, will inevitably emerge in endlessly.

However, for such a chaotic and bloody story of the peddling world, I really can't bear to lay it out too carefully, every tael of silver is stained with bitter tears, every copper plate is soaked with the bitterness of the peddler, and every commodity is painted with the blood of the merchant.

For a few money, in order to support his family, in an instant, corpses strewn across the countryside, or the family was ruined, or even exterminated by the tyrannical guys.

But this is also a big wave of sand, after five generations, all the giant merchants and dealers are all practicing martial arts since childhood. This is the lesson of the blood left by the five generations to the traffickers, and even the lesson of exterminating the family and the surname.

Before the demise of the Tang Dynasty, he worshiped in the Eight Tigers of the Selling Gate, the Five Heroes of Lishan, the Seven Sons of the Xuangong Palace, the Ten Tigers of the Antang Dynasty, the Seventeen Generals of the Selling Gate, the Eight Horses of Zhenzhou, the Five Elders of Khotan, the Eight Swords of Chaoge, the Nine Envoys of Chongxin, the Three Heroes of the Selling Mountains, the Fourteen Wings of Pingnan, the Six Heroes of Fuling, the Three Heroes of Erhe, the Four Elephants of Nanzhao, the Four Angs of Nanzhao, the Eight Immortals of Chuzhou, the Thirteen Uncles of Baoying, and the Five Tyrants of the Northern Capital.

However, most of the peddlers who fought alone and had never practiced martial arts disappeared.

Mrs. Bingguo was not jealous of talking with the third uncle Chen Tan very happily, and her daughter-in-law Ying Wufeng was also very interested in their conversation, interjecting from time to time, and the more they chatted, the more lively they became.

Gong Bu was jealous of listening to the third uncle's discussion that many small businesses had died out, and he also sighed: "It is said that Yuan Bufu, a famous wealthy businessman in Chang'an at the end of the Tang Dynasty, was born as an orphan, lost his father at the age of six, lived with his mother in his stepfather's house, lost his mother at the age of ten, and his stepfather's family was also poor and had to live on the streets. The wealthy businessman who grew up like this, and in the end, his whole family was destroyed, but it is a pity, a pity. ”

Ying Wufang sighed: "Isn't Yuan Bufu a disciple of the Gongfu? Why didn't he learn the martial arts of selling the door?"

Gong Buyan said: "Speaking of which, Yuan Bufu did worship under his father's door, but it was just to decorate his façade. I didn't even learn a word, and I didn't want to learn it at all, let alone sell martial arts. ”

Chen Tan thought of the sixth sister Jiang Yi and the seventh brother Gongliang, and couldn't help asking: "Don't be jealous, your father has been gone for 20 years, has your mother been gone for 15 years? ”

Gong Buyan bowed slightly: "The third uncle remembers it accurately, the eldest brother has already informed him during the New Year, and this year he is going to hold a few tables of banquets to worship the second elder." ”

Chen Tan asked: "Gong Bu is not obsessed with that kid should be seventy-five this year, right?"

Gong Buxi smiled: "Third uncle, I am seventy-six, and my eldest brother is seventy-seven." ”

Chen Tan nodded, and couldn't help but laugh: "Jiang Yi is really leather, you brothers and sisters are only one year apart." ”

Gong Bu was jealous and angry: "Third uncle, my mother is not as real as you and the fourth aunt, or she will live so big." ”

Ying Wufang asked: "Tell me what happened to Yuan Bufu? ”