Where did Zhao Kuangyin get rich?

After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was finally unified after decades of division in five dynasties and ten countries. The establishment of the Song Dynasty was also related to the post-biography. Chen Qiaoyi, an ordinary post office left over from the Tang Dynasty, was the birthplace of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the death of Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, a great monarch of the later Zhou regime, Chai Zongxun, who was only seven years old, acceded to the throne to pay tribute to the emperor. Because the emperor was young, the military and political power fell into the hands of the imperial commander Zhao Kuangyin.

In the first month of 960 AD, the capital of Bianliang (later Zhou, now Kaifeng, Henan) was immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, with firecrackers ringing and colorful lights shining. Suddenly the meteor galloped into the city, and there was news that the Northern Han Dynasty colluded with the Khitan to invade the border. Emperor Gong ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead an army to the north to resist the enemy. In fact, the so-called "Northern Han colluded with the Khitan invasion" is just a false information created by Zhao Kuangyin's coup.

The army set out from the capital of song dynasty and stopped in Chen Qiaoyi, 20 miles north of the city. That night, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Pu, Shi Shouxin and others staged a farce of "wearing yellow robes". Then, Zhao Kuangyin returned to the capital of song dynasty, and seized the power of the later Zhou dynasty with no effort. In order to commemorate this "yellow robe" land, Zhao Kuangyin also changed Chen Qiaoyi to Lie Hong view, and ordered a Taoist priest to preside over it and burn incense at four seasons. Cha Chubai, a poet in A Qing, wrote a poem describing this incident: the general and the general changed their surnames, and the hero suddenly became famous. Chen Qiaoyi, the mystery of the century, wore a yellow robe.