He said to the ministers: "I was born in a slight cold, suffered from human sufferings and experienced disasters at home and abroad." Now that I am the emperor, how can I be pampered and drag down the people of the world! " Not only did he not allow treasures to enter the palace, but he also had dozens of palace jewels and jade articles, luxurious beds and stools decorated with gold and silver, and tableware made of gold and silver smashed in public. Guo Wei often said to his courtiers, "How can those emperors use such things!"

In governing the country, although Guo Wei has certain abilities, he still modestly shoulders the responsibility of being a capable civilian and takes actions to change the ugly image of the military regime since Hou Liang. He said to these talented ministers: "I grew up in the army, and I don't know anything about learning, and I'm not proficient in running the country and keeping the country safe." Civil and military officials should write directly about things that benefit the country and the people, and don't just write some useless words to whitewash the peace. " Guo Wei's careful management led to the emergence of a prosperous country and a strong people in a short period of time, which laid a solid foundation for Zhou Shizong to continue his career.

How did Guo Wei die? In the first month of the first year of Xiande (954), Guo Wei was seriously ill. Knowing it was hard to recover, he told Chai Rong (the future Zhou Shizong), "I can't do this. Please build a mausoleum for me quickly, and don't let the coffin stay in the palace for too long. Mausoleum must be simple, don't disturb the people, don't use many craftsmen, don't send imperial secretary to guard the mausoleum, and don't need to set up a stone man and beast in front of the mausoleum, just use paper clothes as coffins and tile coffins as coffins. After burial, people from 30 families near the tomb can be recruited to guard the tomb without their corvee. Set up a stone tablet for me in front of the tomb, engraved with a few words, saying that I have been used to frugality all my life, and the testament ordered me to use paper clothes to tile the coffin. "

He also warned Jin (that is, Chai Rong): "When I was on the Western Expedition, I saw that all the eighteen tombs of the Tang Dynasty emperors were excavated and stolen. This is because there are many treasures hidden in the tombs. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty has always been frugal and simply buried in the original site of Baling, and the tombs are still intact. Every year at the Cold Food Festival, you can send someone to sweep my grave. If you don't send someone, you can also sacrifice in Beijing. But you should have a sword buried in He Fu (now Hejian County, Hebei Province) and Fu Wei (now southeast of Daming City, Hebei Province), a purple gauze robe with a celestial crown buried in Yizhou (now Puyang County, Henan Province) and a dragon robe with a flat celestial crown buried in Tokyo. You must not forget this matter. "

Then, he appointed Chai Rong as his successor and said, "I don't think there is anyone in the world who is more literary than Fan Ju and wang pu. Now they are tied for prime minister. If you have a good assistant, I will die peacefully. "

That night (non-birthday), Guo Wei died in Zide Hall of Bianjing Palace at the age of 5 1. Emperor Gong Su, the holy spirit of posthumous title, is filial piety. April. Buried in Songling.

Guo Wei tomb

Guo Wei, the Emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, was buried in Songling after his death. Songling is about 500 meters south of Zhouzhuang Village, Guodian Town, xinzheng city. The mausoleum is high in the north and low in the south, with a small ridge in the east and 1000 ditches on each side of the mausoleum. The tomb is about 9 meters high and has a circumference of 103 meters. It is well preserved.

According to a poet who wrote poems after visiting Songling, "Old clothes and armor are full of thorns, and the sunset shines on the dragon robe. The crescent moon is still in the thick sky, and the iron riders are vertical and horizontal into wheat seedlings. " Probably in the evening of autumn and winter, the poet saw a pile of soil in the wheat field, covered with thorns and weeds, which was particularly cold and desolate under the setting sun. "

Chai Rong's life story was in the fourth year of Tongguang in the later Tang Dynasty (AD 926), when Li died of factional rebellion, and Li Siyuan ascended the throne, becoming the Ming Sect in the later Tang Dynasty. After Emperor Mingzong ascended the throne, he fired the maids in Zhuang Zong's harem, including one surnamed Chai. On her way home, she met Guo Queer, a hero who stepped on colorful auspicious clouds. Later, she didn't even go home, so she bought herself a dowry and married Guo Wei. She is Mrs. Chai, and later she was named the Virgin. Mrs Chai has a nephew named Chai Rong who sells tea for a living. Later, he followed Guo Wei's expedition to the north and became Guo Wei's adopted son and eldest son.

Guo Wei played for Liu Zhiyuan in the later Han Dynasty in his early years. In 948, Liu Zhiyuan's second son, Liu Chengyou, ascended the throne, and Guo Wei became the Tang envoy in charge of the military. He also led troops to quell the rebellion of Li Shouzhen, Wang Jing and others, and made great contributions to the later Han Dynasty. But Liu Chengyou never trusted Guo Wei, and finally Guo Wei was given a yellow robe, betraying the later Han Dynasty and establishing the later Zhou Dynasty. But in the capital of song dynasty incident, his family was also killed by Liu Chengzuo.

Fortunately, in history, Guo Wei's only two biological sons, Guo Dong and Guo Xin, were killed. The closest ties with Guo Wei are adopted son Chai Rong, nephew Li Zhongjin (the son of Guo Wei's fourth sister) and son-in-law Zhang Yongde (Ma Xu, Guo Wei's fourth daughter, An Gong Zhu). These three people are all important ministers of the Zhou Dynasty and have great prestige in the ruling and opposition circles. Among them, Chai Rong's ability is the most outstanding, he can make good decisions and be polite to corporal. After comprehensive consideration, Guo Wei chose Chai Rong. Facts have proved that Guo Wei's decision is also a historical luck.