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Short-lived country during the Five Dynasties and Ten States. Part 1

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the smoke was everywhere.  For a time, that history of the festival, the history of the thorns, etc., have embraced their own strength and stood on their own feet.  In China, there have been several small countries.

 During this period, Wang Jian and Meng Zhixiang, who were entrenched in Sichuan, also followed the practice of the Central Plains princes and established their independent kingdoms here: the front and the back.  However, these two independent kingdoms existed for 18 years and 32 years respectively, and they collapsed.

 Formerly the country has disappeared.

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 In September 907, Wang Jian, who was sealed by Shun Zhaozong as Situ and Yu Wang, separated from the Tang Dynasty and became the emperor himself.

 Why was the country so short-lived during the Five Dynasties and Ten States?

 The Yongling Museum, now located in the Jinniu District of Chengdu, is the tomb of Wang Jian, the founding emperor of the Former Shu Kingdom.  The exquisite stone carvings left in the tomb are represented by the "Twenty-four Music".

 In June 919, Wang Yan, 18, was on the throne of the emperor.  Just after the summer of the second year, Wang Yan proposed to conduct a "Northern Tour."  On the day of departure, the entourage team "Gengqi Gejia, a hundred miles."

 Of course, the North Tour is a fake, and it is true to swim in the mountains.  After arriving in Guanghan, he stopped and went all the way to “boating and playing, and banqueting the day”. After a few months, Wang Yan’s team went to the middle of the town of Sichuan.  He lingered and returned to the city on the Jialing River to enjoy the fun of drinking and drinking until he returned to Chengdu in March of the following year.  The northern tour lasted for 8 months.  During this period, I did not go to see the border soldiers, nor did I understand the local government.
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 Yongping Yuanbao - the coinage of Wang Jianyongping during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten States

 Just before Wang Yanbei’s tour, he instructed the ministers to build a “Yihuayuan” for themselves and to complete the work before he returned to Chengdu.  Sure enough, when Wang Yan returned to Chengdu, the Yihua Court, which was “long ten miles, civil engineering, and extremely luxurious”, was completed.  Since then, it has become a place for his banquet.  Wang Yan is still not satisfied, often "night to promote the family, drink in the wine shop", when leaving, but also on the wall titled "Wang Yilai also" words.

 Because Wang Yan was not doing business, he ignored the political affairs, and the country that claimed to be the land of abundance, in the seven or eight years of his rule, "the trees were all dry, and the land was a thousand miles away." The people were not happy, and they were hungry.  He heard that the people of Wang Yan under the rule of Wang Yan were scattered. In 925 AD, Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunzhen decided to reclaim the land, dispatched Wei Wang Li Jiyu, and the priestly secretary Guo Chongzhen led a soldier of 60,000 to crusade.  Wang Yan decided to fight.  It is said that when he left Chengdu, "the world is in ruins, the soldiers are not in the ranks, and there are a group of crows on the flagpoles, and they are very sad."  But it didn't take long before I heard that my soldiers did not dare to fight Tang Jun, and he had to return to Chengdu.  Seeing that the Tang army was not far away, Wang Yan had to declare his surrender, and was replaced by Tang Zhuangzong as An Legong, and ordered him to move into Luoyang.  Wang Yanyu took his thousands of family members to Luoyang.  Only after walking to Xi'an, Wang Yan, who was only 28 years old, was killed at the station.

 The former country has disappeared.

 Five generations and ten countries

 What is the fate of the country?

To be continued.