The story takes place twenty years after the Anshi Rebellion! After 785 years. Things in the world!
The release of military power over a glass of wine refers to a political event in the early Song Dynasty in which Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin coerced and induced high-ranking officers to surrender military power through a banquet. [2]
In the seventh year of Xiande of the Later Zhou Dynasty (960), Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was imbued with a yellow robe by his subordinates during the Chenqiao mutiny, usurping the throne and ascending to the throne. On the ninth day of July in the second year of Jianlong (961), Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, in order to prevent history from repeating itself, adopted Zhao Pu's suggestion and coerced Shi Shouxin and other generals at a banquet, forcing them to hand over their military power and go home to retire, thereby taking back the general's military power. After removing the military power of generals such as Shi Shouxin, Taizu selected some easy-to-control people to serve as generals of the Forbidden Army. After the incident of releasing military power over a glass of wine, all the sworn brothers who were in charge of military power at the time were relieved of their imperial duties and would no longer be granted to others.
After Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin usurped the country and state of the Later Zhou Empire, he promoted and reused all the old officials of the Later Zhou Dynasty without killing them. [1]
Just over a hundred days after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, two important generals of the Later Zhou Dynasty - Li Jun, the military governor of Zhaoyi Army, and Li Chongjin, the military governor of Huainan Road (nephew of Guo Wei, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty), started rebellions in Luzhou (today's Changzhi, Shanxi) and Yangzhou one after another because they refused to accept the rule of the new dynasty. Although the scale of the two wars was not very large, they did not subside until the end of the year. [1]
Zhao Kuangyin, the ruler of the Northern Song Dynasty, was deeply worried about this. In the process of ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, he focused on two issues: first, how to rebuild the centralized autocratic rule so that the vassal situation that had existed for a long time since the late Tang Dynasty would no longer appear; second, how to consolidate the new dynasty so that it would no longer become the sixth short-lived dynasty after the Five Dynasties. [1]
Intention: growth