Yan Yunwang: the Unwarred Alliance Between the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty

In Bianliang, where Xian De was in his seventh year, the wind carried the coldness of late winter. Chai Rong's coffin has just passed the Suzaku Gate, and the dragon chair of the young emperor Chai Zongxun has not yet warmed up. In the official history, the Later Zhou Dynasty should have been like the previous four short-lived dynasties, which were shattered into rubble in the arms of powerful ministers. The battlements of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures will whimper under the iron hooves of the Liao people for three hundred years. But this year, something is different. When Han Tong held the newly issued "Legal Administration Examination Law" and put the corrupt grain officials on the execution ground, the price of grain in Bianliang did not rise but fell; Wang Yansheng brought the winter wheat planted by the border troops at Waqiao Pass, which scared the scouts of the Liao camp when it sprouted; even the old woman who sells biscuits at Zhuquemen can say with a smile, "The money I earned this month is enough to buy a new cotton robe for my grandson." The people in the market counted the bundles of silk and found that the tea leaves exchanged by Liao merchants were three times that of last year. They did not know that the number of looms in Da Zhou was already 20% more than that in Southern Tang; The documents delivered by the postmen from the north were no longer an urgent message to "ask for food", but the good news that "the Liao army did not dare to cross the border in March" - they had never seen that the armor left by Chai Rong was now draped on the more powerful border soldiers. Some people said that this was a change of destiny, but Lin Axia stood at the Bianhe pier, looking at the grain ships going by, and just twisted the newly collected tax deed: "Is there any destiny for the country to be destroyed? It's just to finish what Chai Rong has not finished." The clouds of Yan Yun finally drifted towards the Han family's city; the Zhou Dynasty of the later Zhou Dynasty finally became the beam supporting the troubled times. This is not a fantasy soul biography, it is a prosperous age that should have grown out of the cracks in the history books. .....