Chapter 28 second quarter

Chai Rong is the son of Chai Shouli, Chai Shouyu's eldest brother. Chai Shouyu loves this nephew very much and has been with him since he was a child.Of course, Guo Wei also loves Wu Jiwu, adopts him as his adopted son, and treats him as his own. As an adult, Chai Rong was both civil and military, with a mature and steady personality, and became Guo Wei's right-hand man. When Guo Wei became the privy envoy of the Later Han Empire, Chai Rong also became the general of the left prison guard.During Guo Wei's mutiny, Chai Rong served as the governor of Guizhou and the commander of Yanei of Tianxiong Army.

The impact of Liu Chengyou's cut was interlocking. He killed the two sons and one daughter of the founding emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, so that Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, had no biological son, and his country must be passed on to people with foreign surnames. Chai Rong is undoubtedly the most qualified successor. Chai Shouyu's status in Taizu's heart, as well as the talent he showed after following Guo Wei for many years, all prompted Guo Wei to make this helpless choice. In the third year of Guangshun (AD 953), after Chai Rong removed the biggest stumbling block on his way to power—another power minister in the Later Zhou Dynasty, Wang Jun, Guo Wei made Chai Rong the king of Jin and established Chai Rong's successor status.

In the second year after Chai Rong was named Queen of Jin, Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, died of illness at the age of 50. He only sat on the position of the founding emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty for three years. When establishing Chai Rong's successor position, Guo Wei did not think about another problem, that is, Chai Rong's eldest son and second son were also killed by Liu Chengyou during Guo Wei's uprising. He thinks this is not a problem, because Chai Rong is still very young at this time, and he has plenty of time to give birth to a lot of sons and raise them up.

Chai Rong once asked Zuo Jian doctor Wang Pu, a master fortune teller who was known as a half-immortal, how long could he stay in the position of emperor?Wang Pu said he would be able to do it for at least 30 years.Chai Rong was very happy to hear that, and said that he would give me 30 years, 10 years to open up the world, 10 years to recuperate the people, 10 years to bring peace, and 30 years to govern the Zhou Empire into a peaceful and prosperous age. Chai Rong did not speak big words. Under his governance, the Hou Zhou Empire flourished day by day, and he also conquered the northern and southern battlefields and began to unify the Central Plains.

He also worked very hard on the bed. He gave birth to several sons while fighting in the north and south. There is no need to borrow another 500 years from the sky, only 30 years, Chai Rong may be another great emperor who changed the fate of Chinese history. However, he was fooled by Wang Pu, God didn't want to see him, and only gave him five years. In May of 959 A.D., Chai Rong launched the Northern Expedition against Khitan to recover the sixteen prefectures of Youyun. This time, the expedition took only forty-two days, and the soldiers were bloodless. However, he fell down, returned to the imperial court, and died of illness in mid-June, leaving the country to his seven-year-old son Chai Zongxun.

Although the two emperors of the Later Zhou Dynasty were considered by later generations to be the most outstanding emperors in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the time God gave them was pitifully short. They can only be destined to be the best supporting actor for that young man named Zhao Kuangyin.