A Brief History of Tang: Why did this monk plot rebellion?
preface
We will only lament that time has flown by, and that beauty is late, but when we are old, we will be old, paint our youth as a painting, and give it to time. Looking around, time is like a gallery, which is full of famous paintings for people to admire.
cause
Tang Xianzong's conquest of Huaixi: In 815, the chancellor was killed, so Tang Xianzong decided to deal with the forces of The Domain first, which led to Jiedu causing Li Shidao and Yuanjing to rebel.
▲ Huaixi, that is, Huai right
outcome
Yuanjing's death: In 815 AD, yuanjing was killed because the rebellion was leaked in advance.
▲ Round net stills
disposal
1. Either a monk or a monk
The identity of the monk seems to be a bodhisattva of pudu sentient beings, crossing people and crossing themselves, but some people hide it through the identity of the monk.
During the Tang Dynasty, there was a vigorous rebellion, the Anshi Rebellion. The occurrence of the Anshi Rebellion was able to force Tang Xuanzong out of Chang'an, which showed the strength of the rebellion.
▲The Anshi Rebellion
However, in the end, the Anshi Rebellion was still quelled by Tang Suzong, and one of the soldiers in the Anshi Rebellion was not satisfied with the current ending, so he decided to hide his identity, secretly wait for the opportunity, and once again send troops to rebel against the imperial court.
So he chose Yue Temple in Songshan, and changed his name and surname to become a monk named Yuanjing.
Now that Tang Xianzong was in power, he believed that the anshi rebellion was that the power of the fanzhen was too strong, and in order to avoid the occurrence of this kind of thing, Tang Xianzong decided to weaken the power of the fanzhen.
▲ Tang Dynasty fan town
However, this move also worried Jiedushi, after all, no one wanted to snatch half of the fat meat from his mouth, so Pinglu Jiedu made Li Shidao send someone to assassinate Wu Yuanheng, the current chancellor, in order to force the emperor to stop cutting the domain in this way.
However, he did not expect that the emperor would instead try more vigorously to cut the domain, which made Li Shidao suddenly lose his mind.
▲ Wu Yuanheng
2. The occurrence of rebellion
However, Li Shidao knew that there was a monk hiding in SongShan, who was the remnant of the Anshi Rebellion, and Li Shidao was not good at rebelling, otherwise he would be captured by the imperial court and would not even save his life, so he found Yuanjing and hoped to persuade Yuanjing to rebel, and he provided Yuanjing with people behind his back.
Although Yuanjing was a monk, even eating the Buddha did not dispel his desire to rebel against the imperial court, and at this time, Li Shidao's help was an opportunity from heaven, and Yuanjing must firmly grasp it.
So Yuanjing didn't say a word and agreed. Although Yuanjing was the defeated army of the Anshi Rebellion, he hid in this place in Luoyang, where everyone could fight a good war, and because the hiding places were all mountains and forests, they were not very good at agriculture, only hunting, which increased their skills.
Li Shidao was very satisfied with the situation, so he pretended to repair the Golden Buddha as the purpose, gave Yuanjing ten million yuan, and let Yuanjing and the local people launch a mutiny.
Subsequently, Yuanjing proposed to buy more houses at the bottom of the mountain, so that people living in the mountains and forests could have a place to stay at the bottom of the mountain, and they could also provide food here.
▲Map of Luoyang City
Li Shidao also readily agreed, and when everything was ready, he sent an army to rebel. Tang Xianzong was now cutting the pace of the domain faster and faster, and the imminent Li Shidao and Yuanjing decided to start a rebellion in Luoyang now, and the two of them had a clear division of labor, Li Shidao raised an army in Luoyang City, and Yuanjing gathered the mountain people on the mountain.
The two sides finally converged and the rebellion officially began. Lü Yuanyi, who was staying in Dongdu at that time, was not in the city, which was also the news that Li Shidao had already inquired about, so they quickly occupied Luoyang.
That night, he cooked sheep and slaughtered cattle to enjoy the joy of victory, but Li Shidao did not expect that the two soldiers who were punished ran out of the city to complain to Lü Yuanbing because of their internal dissatisfaction.
▲ Lü Yuanbin
3. Find hiding because of meat
When Lü Yuanbing heard about this, he was shocked, so he hurriedly led his people to Luoyang and surrounded Li Shidao. When the rebels in Pinglu discovered that the Tang army had attacked, they rushed to fight, resulting in a stalemate between the two sides.
However, Lü Yuanping's subordinates were brave and good at war, and the number of rebels in Pinglu was inferior to that of the Tang army, so with Lü Yuanping's efforts, he quickly succeeded in breaking through the city gate and entering the city.
The Pinglu rebels fled in a hurry, and many of them ran into the mountains and forests. At this time, Yuanjing in the mountain was still holding a torch waiting for the confluence, but when he found that there had been no movement for a long time, he knew that this matter had been exposed, and Li Shidao might be arrested, so Yuanjing could only hide on Mount Song.
Lü Yuanping finished dealing with the rebels in Luoyang City and decided to arrest Yuanjing with him, but he did not expect that Yuanjing was hiding in the mountains, and no one had been able to find him.
However, later, the people of Songshan went down the mountain to buy meat, and as a result, they were robbed, so after the people reported to the officials, led by the people, the official clothes could find a clean hiding place.
After everyone's identification, it was determined that this was Yuanjing and the rebels, so they were all executed, as for Li Shidao, because he held the military power, he was also a jiedu envoy, and the war in Huaixi was imminent, so Lü Yuanyi did not attack Li Shidao.
▲Li Shidao (stills)
brief summary
Yuanjing's rebellion also reflected from the side that the rights between the central and local governments of the Tang Dynasty had already been confrontational, and could not be reconciled.
【References】
Shibata Chronicles
History of Tang