What is the background of Zhao Kuangyin's birth?

A baby was born in the home of a soldier in Jiamaying, Luoyang, the ancient capital of Zhongzhou, on February 16th, the second year of Tiancheng in the late Tang Dynasty, that is, on March 21st, 927. This baby may be the same as thousands of babies in Qian Qian, and there is nothing unusual. However, due to his position in the future, later historians are always reluctant to describe him as a mortal. So in their works, with the birth of this baby, there are some strange signs: "Red light around the house, strange fragrance lingering, golden body, unchanged for three days" and so on.

When Zhao Kuangyin was born, Weah's century-old Tang Empire had disappeared in the world for twenty years. A balance is broken, followed by lasting turmoil. In the first year of Kaiping (907), Zhu Wen, who started in the peasant uprising and the scuffle between warlords in the buffer region at the end of the Tang Dynasty, abolished Tang Aidi, which had existed in name only, and established the Hou Liang Dynasty in Kaifeng. Taking this as a symbol, the unified Tang empire formed a fragmented and fragmented situation and began the period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in history. Zhu Wen, which established the Later Liang Dynasty, was not satisfied with its narrow ruling area. The successful usurpation of the Tang Dynasty expanded his ambition to unify the world. And the warlords around him, of course, don't have much respect for this upstart who is not strong enough to covet Zhu Wen's rule in the Central Plains. As a result, various forces have been fighting for the Central Plains. "Attack the city, kill the city, attack the land, and kill the wild." The tragic scenes described by Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms Period reappeared on the land of the Central Plains:

"White bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles." The social economy has been severely damaged, and the Lebanese people have suffered greatly. Lund for three years (923) was finally destroyed by Shatuo Li. On this ruin, Li Jianli established the later Tang Dynasty. In the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, not only warlords scuffled, but also farce of usurping power, killing people and seizing power was constantly staged within various forces. Li Xucun, the emperor at the end of the Tang Dynasty, was overthrown by his righteous brother Li Siyuan in a coup after only a few years in office. Perhaps he accepted the lesson of the previous dynasty, and the new emperor Li Siyuan of the late Tang Dynasty temporarily stopped his foreign campaign. These practices of his have achieved certain results in a few years. Historians have recorded that during this period, "young and strong, soldiers rarely used it." Compared with the five dynasties, it is roughly a well-off society. " Zhao Kuangyin was born in such a period of temporary peace in troubled times.

Zhao Kuangyin's family is a military family. His father, Zhao, was the commander-in-chief of Feijie in the later Tang Dynasty. He is a middle-ranking leader of the empire. Maybe it's because he was in peacetime, maybe it's because Li Siyuan, the usurper of the Ming Dynasty, regarded him as a Zhuang Zongren. In short, Zhao's career is very poor and he has not been promoted for many years. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin's family did not arrange a bright future for the future son of heaven, but just sent him to study for a few years like a well-off family. However, due to the exposure of military families, Zhao Kuangyin was very interested in knives and guns, but Confucius said that he could not remember a few words. With the growth of age, Zhao Kuangyin has developed a martial arts.

Several years passed, and Zhao Kuangyin was twenty-one. As the father of a military commander, he can only marry a daughter in a robe, but he can't think of a better way to plan his future career. Zhao Kuangyin, who is adventurous, decided to take a risk himself. So at the age of 2 1, I resolutely bid farewell to my parents and wife and began to wander around the world.

Zhao Kuangyin went all the way west along the Yellow River to Guanlong (now Gansu, Shaanxi), where the Tang Dynasty rose, looking for a chance of a storm, but found nothing. Zhao Kuangyin, who was wandering around, arrived in Yuan Pan County (now Pingliang East, Gansu Province) in Yuanzhou, and was probably cash-strapped. But seeing a group of gamblers gambling, they joined in, hoping to make a windfall. Sure enough, he won several bets. But those street hooligans bullied him as a foreigner, but besieged him and were outnumbered. Zhao Kuangyin was beaten black and blue, and his money was robbed.

There was no hope for Guanlong, so Zhao Kuangyin went south to Fuzhou (now Xiantao West, Hubei Province) and went to Wang Yanchao, the national defense envoy who had an old friendship with his father. But Wang Yanchao didn't take him in. For the sake of his father, he gave ten dollars and sent Zhao Kuangyin away. Zhao Kuangyin went to Suizhou (now Suixian County, Hubei Province) to find his father's old friend Dong Zongben. Dong Zongben took him in, and Zhao Kuangyin was relieved that he had a stable life. Unexpectedly, Dong Zunhui, the son of Dong Zongben, who is about the same age as Zhao Kuangyin, bullied Zhao Kuangyin, who was so poor that he was sent to the fence. Zhao Kuangyin felt that there was no way out in Suizhou. At the same time, he couldn't swallow this tone, left angrily and began to wander again.

Zhao Kuangyin went to Xiangyang and lived in a temple. Perhaps because there were many pilgrims and passers-by, the old monk in the temple knew a little about the general trend of the world, so he said to Zhao Kuangyin, who was at a loss, "I'll give you some travelling expenses. If you keep going north, you may be lucky. " At that time, Liu Zhiyuan died just one year after he proclaimed himself emperor, and the young Yin Di Liu Chengyou succeeded to the throne, which aggravated various contradictions within the ruling group of the later Han Dynasty. Zhao Siwan, a military academy, launched a mutiny in Chang 'an, joined Fengxiang to make us rebel in Jingchong Wang, and Li Shouzhen, a lord protector, was also closely related to the Liao Dynasty, claiming to be the king of Qin and rebelling in Tongguan. Three towns even rebelled, and Bianjing shook. Guo Wei, the special envoy of the Tang Dynasty, was sent to crusade. Before and after the Three Towns Rebellion was put down, Guo Wei recruited troops and expanded his power. The old monk of Xiangyang Temple instructed Zhao Kuangyin to go north, that is, to go to Guo Wei, the capital of Yedu (now northeast Hebei).

According to the rough experience of going to Wang Yanchao and Dong Zongben before, Zhao Kuangyin is quite uncertain about the future of going to Guo Wei this time. One day, when he passed the Gaoxin Temple in Guide (now Shangqiu, Henan), he saw someone divining bad luck. The poor are more concerned about their own destiny. Zhao Kuangyin also went into the temple, picked up the bamboo grate used for divination on the incense table, prayed silently, and then threw it away. Zhao Kuangyin, who has been wandering for a year or two without good luck, doesn't expect any miracle to take refuge in Guo Wei this time. He first asked if he could be a primary school, which was unlucky. Then I asked a few unlucky questions. Asked if we can be our time, bamboo screens are still unlucky. Go up is the son of heaven, Zhao Kuangyin some nasty, is not the son of heaven? He asked. Sure enough, as if joking with him, bamboo barnyard grass shows a good omen. The result of Zhao Kuangyin's divination was purely accidental coincidence, but later historians said it was due to fate, which was obviously absurd. However, this is undoubtedly a stimulant for ambitious Zhao Kuangyin. Although the result of this divination seems elusive, it is like a seed, buried in Zhao Kuangyin's heart. Later, he became strong, and this seed swelled and sprouted, full of ambition.

Ambitious people who have nothing to do with fate will always talk differently from ordinary people. When Liu Bang, the ancestor of Emperor Gaozu in history, was humble, he looked at Qin Shihuang who was patrolling in the crowd with great majesty and sighed: "Hehe!

A gentleman should be like this. Seeing this, Xiang Yu said, "He can take his place!" When Zhao Kuangyin was roaming, one day, he saw several literati chanting poems to the rising sun. After listening to it, I feel that although these people's poems are gorgeous in language, they have very shallow meanings.