In the fourteenth year of the Tang Dynasty,That is, in September 779, the seventy-five-year-old Wei Bo Jiedu caused Tian Chengsi to die, and the imperial court posthumously gave Tian Chengsi the title of Taibao, and Wei Bo Jiedushi's throne was inherited by Tian Chengsi's nephew Tian Yue.
Taibao, one of the Three Dukes of the Ancients, was second only to Taifu in status. So who is Tian Chengsi? What great contribution did he make to the Tang Dynasty? So that after death, can he be posthumously given as a Taibao? The answer was: first rebelled with An Lushan, then divided Wei Bo (the main territory was in present-day Hebei), and then rebelled three times, and finally was "forgiven" by the imperial court, and finally died.
Tian Chengsi, a native of Pingzhou (today part of Hebei), was born in 705 AD in a military family of the Lu Long army, whose family had been a general of the Lu Long army for generations, and his father's name was Tian Shouyi," who "smelled the Liao and Jie with heroic heroes", and Tian Chengsi became the vanguard soldier and horse of the An Lushan army in the last year of the new century, and made many military achievements in the battles against the Khitan and Xi people. In fact, whether it is a small people in cloth clothes, or a high official and a prince, even if it is a Li Shengren who is high above, he has his own set of survival philosophy. The Border Army, especially the Northeast Tang Frontier Army during the Kaiyuan Tianbao period, did not have a good life.
"In May (18th year of the new century), the Khitan official Ke ke killed his master Li Zhaogu, led the tribe to surrender to the Turks, and the Xi tribe also rebelled with the west."
(June of the eighteenth year of the new century), Bingzi, ordered Shan Yu to be the marshal of the Hebei Province, and li chaoyin and Jingzhao Yin Pei Lingxian to serve as deputies, and led the eighteen governors to curry favor with khitan and Xi. It couldn't work. ”
"In the spring of the twentieth year of the new century, on the first day of the first month, he led an army to fight the Khitan with The Rebbe Shangshu and The King of Xin'an."
"In March of the 21st year of the new century, Wang Yi of Xin'an and Shi Zhao, the governor of Youzhou, broke xi and Khitan in the northern mountains of Youzhou."
"In August of the eleventh year, (An) Lushan led an army of 50,000 or 60,000 and 150,000 in Hedong to curry favor with the Khitans. Go to Pinglu for more than a thousand miles, to the Tuhuzhen River, that is, the North Yellow River. He traveled another three hundred miles to the Khitan tooth tent. It was a long rain, the bows and arrows were wet, the soldiers were extremely trapped, and Xi attacked them again, and the killing and wounding were slightly exhausted. Lu Shan was shot, folded his jade hairpin, and more than twenty people under Xi Xiao'er walked up the mountain, fell into the pit, and his male Qingxu and other support. Will night, untie, throw flat Lu City. ”
In this situation of repeated turmoil, the soldiers, especially the border armies everywhere, as an important tool of the Tang Dynasty to maintain its rule, part of the army, in such a place, no one knows how long they can live, people stay in this environment for a long time, different people will change differently, it is obvious that Tian Chengsi has evolved a set of more suitable for his own survival code of conduct, what can be trusted in the world? It is the horizontal knife in his own hand, the armor on his body, the iron helmet on his head, the brother under his command, and a reliable military leader. As for being loyal to the king and loving the people and serving the imperial court, what is that? Can I eat it? You can work for the imperial court, as for which court? Doesn't matter! In fact, this is also the consensus of the soldiers in the post-feudal era, after all, Zhang Xiaojing is very few, and there are very few Xiao rules, and the most important thing in this world is Tian Chengsi.
In the fifteenth year of Tianbao, that is, in December 755, Tian Chengsi followed his superior An Lushan to raise an army, on the way to Chang'an, Tian Chengsi and Zhang Zhongzhi and others were the forwards, later, Shi Chaoyi attacked Luoyang again, Tian Chengsi was still the vanguard, charging for the Great Yan Dynasty, but by 763 AD, that is, the first year of the Tang Dynasty Zong Guangde, the "Great Yan Dynasty" was already in the Western Mountains, and Shi Chaoyi (Shi Siming's son) entrusted his family to Tian Chengsi, but when Shi Chaoyi went to Youzhou, Sweet Orange immediately sent more than 100 mouthfuls of Shi Chaoyi's family members directly to the camp of the Tang Army.
Tang Law: "All those who conspire against and rebel against the great will be beheaded; Fathers and sons over the age of sixteen shall be beheaded, and those under the age of fifteen and mothers and daughters, wives and concubines, grandchildren, brothers and sisters shall not have officials, and those who are eighty years old and have a duilious illness, and those who are sixty years old and have a disability are exempted; Uncles and brothers' sons flow for three thousand miles, regardless of whether they are similar or different. ”
Just like when Lao Tian rebelled with his old boss An Lushan, which imperial court was not working with? At this time, it is the same, for the Great Yan Court, and for the Tang Dynasty Court. alas? After a while, Lao Tzu has soldiers, so why should he listen to other people's orders?
After the Anshi Rebellion was put down, the Tang court, under its own lack of strength and the operation of the servant Gu Huai'en and others, divided the old land of Hebei among four anshi generals: Tian Chengsi, Li Huaixian, Zhang Zhongzhi, and Xue Song (a descendant of Xue Rengui). Tian Chengsi added the inspection of the School Hubu Shangshu and the Zhengzhou Assassin History. The Russians moved to Wei Prefecture, Beibo Cangying and other state defense envoys. Soon after, Wei Bo was appointed as an envoy. During Wei Bo's tenure as envoy, Tian Chengsi "increased the tax rate and repaired the armor of the army; the number of people counting the hukou was widowed, while the old and weak cultivated crops, and Ding Zhuang was conscripted, so within a few years, his people were 100,000." Still choose his mighty and powerful people to defend themselves, called soldiers. The county officials are all self-signed. The household version is not registered in the Tianfu, the tax is not included in the imperial court, although it is known as a vassal, there is no courtier. The Old Book of Tang commented on him as "not accustomed to doctrine, deep guessing and courage, although external subject to the will of the dynasty, and the yin map is self-reinforcing." Again, Lao Tzu has soldiers and money and territory, and the surname Li has the ability to fight!
Sage: Okay, here comes the master.
In the eighth year of the Tang Dynasty Emperor's calendar, Xiang Wei Jiedu made Xue Song die, and his brother Ji wanted to invite Xue Jie (who wanted to inherit his brother's position); and li Chengzhao was used to replace Song, and Pei Zhiqing plotted to drive pei Zhiqing out of chaos, and He led the crowd to Chengsi. In the tenth year of the (Gregorian calendar), Xue Wei returned to the dynasty, and Chengsi made the pro-party fan the Xiangzhou generals to plot rebellion, so the generals attacked, falsely claiming to be rescued. Emperor Daizong sent Sun Zhi to make Wei Prefecture consolation and ordered each of them to guard the territory. Chengsi did not follow the edict and sent the general Lu Ziqi to attack Huanzhou, and Yang Guangchao to attack Weizhou.
Soon, the imperial court reacted: "Wei Hedong Jiedushi made Xue Jianxun, Chengdejun Jiedu made Li Baochen, Youzhou Jiedu Left Hou Zhu Tao, Zhaoyi Jiedu Li Chengzhao, Ziqing Jiedu Li Zhengji, Huaixi Jiedu Li Zhongchen, Yongping Junjie Made Li Mian, And Feng Song Jiedu Tian Shenyu, and so on, and marched to the corner. If the heir takes office from time to time, he will be punished according to military law! ”
The imperial court gathered so many people to fight, and Wei Bo's town was certainly unmatched, so Lao Tian instigated "Nai Ya to ask Hao Guangchao to plead guilty and beg to return to the dynasty." ”
But what? It was impossible to pay for it, and the imperial court also knew this boring trick, so it did not let him see it. In the eleventh year of the Gregorian calendar, the general Li Lingyao of Bizhou occupied the city and rebelled against Wei Bo, Tian Chengsi sent Tian Shuo to lead the army to rescue, the result was defeated by the imperial army, the loss of soldiers eighty-nine times out of ten, the imperial court hated Tian Chengsi for sending troops to rescue the rebel general, and ordered him to be recruited, in the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, Tian Chengsi repeated the same trick, again wrote to the court to ask for his guilt, the imperial court pardoned him, a year later, he fell ill and died, at the age of 75.
In the middle and late Tang Dynasty can live to the age of 75, it is really not easy, especially such a veteran who has repeatedly jumped three times, created three rebellions, and returned to the imperial court three times, although it depends on the weakness of the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion at that time, but it is inseparable from Tian Chengsi's own chameleon behavior, falling into the well when the old boss is at the end of the road; when the Tang Dynasty gathers a large army to prepare to kill him, he promptly writes to plead guilt; when the nephew eats a defeated battle, he writes to ask for guilt in time. This kind of human spirit will probably be very moist in any era.
Yan Gaoqing, a loyal minister who was "straight in nature and has cadres", ended up being executed by the rebel Ling Chi, and finally when his younger brother Yan Zhenqing came to find his brother's corpse, he only found his foot bones. However, the warlord Tian Chengsi, who rebelled twice in succession, lived to the age of 75 and died well, and finally was posthumously given to Taibao by the imperial court, which is called "killing people and setting fire to gold belts, repairing bridges and roads without corpses".