Dragon Scales in Troubled Times

Three years of emperorship, a hundred years of foundation work. He was not only the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but also the light of dawn that ended the troubled times and illuminated the Zhao and Song Dynasties. An emperor who advocated frugality and an adoptive father who had no love for blood. The legend of Guo Wei hides the most sober political wisdom of the Five Dynasties. "Dragon Scales in Troubled Times" This is an era where heroes do not care about their origins, and it is also an era where human lives are as trivial as trivial matters. Guo Wei was an orphan from Yaoshan in Xingzhou. He joined the army at the age of eighteen and started as a low-level soldier. With his bravery and resourcefulness, he successively attached himself to Li Cunxu, Shi Jingtang, and Liu Zhiyuan, and rose to prominence in the light of swords. He assisted Liu Zhiyuan in establishing the Later Han Dynasty, but because of his outstanding achievements, he was jealous of the hidden emperor Liu Chengyou and his entire family was killed. Under the blood feud, he raised troops in Yedu and commanded Bianliang in the name of "Qingjun Side". Liu Zipi won a battle to determine the outcome, but saw his old master dead; when he entered the capital, he encountered soldiers "dressed in yellow robes". From courtier to emperor, this road is stained with blood and helplessness. After ascending the throne, he did not indulge in power. Facing the Central Plains, which was facing a lot of waste, he stopped farming, reduced salt taxes, relaxed skin restrictions, and rested with the people; he reorganized government, revised laws, suppressed vassal towns, and stabilized the government. The emperor, who called himself a "poor man," spent three years personally injecting vitality into the broken world, laying the groundwork for the subsequent "Reign of Expressing De" and the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty. This is not only a history of an emperor's entrepreneurship, but also a man's struggle, revenge and redemption in troubled times. See how Guo Wei sticks to his original intention in the turbulent currents of military rule, how he chooses between the love and hatred of family and country, and how he single-handedly lights a lamp called "hope" for the dark five generations.