Zhao Kuangyin

In the second year of Tiancheng (March 21, 927), Zhao Kuangyin was born in Jiamaying, Luoyang (now Dongguan, Hanhe Hui District, Luoyang City, Henan Province). He came from a military family, his grandfather Zhao Jing. He was the second son of Zhao Hongyin, his eldest brother Zhao Kuangji died early, and his mother was Du. When Zhao Kuangyin was born, the red light filled the room, and the strange fragrance remained overnight. There is gold on his body and it has not changed for three days. When he grew up, he looked powerful and open-minded. People with knowledge knew that he was no ordinary person. When learning to ride horses and shoot archery, he was always above others. I once tried riding a fierce horse without putting a halter on the horse. The fierce horse ran to the chute leading to the tower. His forehead hit the lintel and the person fell off the horse. People thought that his head would be smashed. Unexpectedly, Zhao Kuangyin slowly got up from the ground, continued to chase the horse and jumped onto the horse without being injured at all. Once again, in Dr. Han Lingkun's room, they saw sparrows fighting outside the house. They competed with Zhao Kuangyin to catch sparrows, but then the house collapsed.

Six years after Zhou Xiande (959), Zhou Shizong Chai Rong died shortly after returning to Beijing from the Northern Expedition. Before his death, Zhao Kuangyin was appointed as the check-up in front of the palace and was in charge of the forbidden army in front of the palace. On the first day of the first month of the following year (960), the Northern Han and Khitan combined troops invaded the border, and Zhao Kuangyin, who was then the envoy of the returned German army and the captain of the inspection school, was ordered to defend against the enemy. [2] On the night of the third day of junior high school, the army mutinied at Chenqiaoyi, 20 kilometers northeast of Bianliang in the capital, and the soldiers adopted Zhao Kuangyin as the emperor the next morning, which was known as the "Chen Qiao mutiny" in history. The army immediately returned to the capital of the army. After Emperor Zhou Gong, Chai Zongxun was on the Zen throne, Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, and was changed to Yuan

During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, he was committed to unifying the whole country. According to the strategy of "first south and then north" of Prime Minister Zhao Pu, Jingnan, Wuping, Houshu, Southern Han and Southern Tang dynasties were destroyed successively. When his younger brother Emperor Taizong of Song was in power, Zhao Guangyi, after the redemption of Wu Yue, Zhangquan and Northern Han, he completed the great cause of unifying the whole country. In the second year of Jianlong (961) and the second year of Kaibao (969), Zhao Kuangyin "released the right of the army by a cup of wine" twice, lifted the military power of the imperial army generals and local vassals and towns, and solved the situation that the local people had supported the army since the middle of the Tang Dynasty; he set up a "sealed pile warehouse" to store money, silk and cloth, hoping to redeem the sixteen Yanyun prefectures that were later promoted to Gao Zu Shi Jingtang and dedicated to Qidan, but he died before it was completed.