Rebirth of the Five Generations: the Age of Common People's Prosperity

Later Liang Zhenming three years (917) The struggle for hegemony between the Liang and Jin Dynasties intensified. Hebei was corrupted, Huaibei suffered from severe drought, and people died of hunger thousands of miles away. The vassal towns were divided, warlords were wanton, taxes were heavy, and banditry was rampant. The next few years: the fall of the Later Liang Dynasty, the establishment of the Later Tang Dynasty, the Yedu Rebellion, the separatist rule of the three towns of Heshuo, the Khitan invasion to the south, and the melee of the ten kingdoms. It was the darkest and most chaotic century-old era of division in China in the past five thousand years.