Yuyang Nai came agitatedly, startling the neon feather song.
——— Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song"
I once watched a video author talk about the Anshi Rebellion, who believed that the Anshi Rebellion was the infighting of the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty, and even directly regarded martyrs such as Zhang Tour as martyrs of the "Tang", and criticized their cannibalism, believing that their cannibalism and defending the city were just to maintain Li Tang's rule. Both the Tang Dynasty court at that time and the people (there were many activities to commemorate Zhang Tour) respected Zhang Tour, of course, critics were not absent. In fact, this begs the question, what is the nature of the Anshi Rebellion? Or was the Anshi Rebellion a great han-Hu struggle, or was it just an infighting among the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty?
In fact, first of all, to say that the latter "The Anshi Rebellion was an infighting of the Tang Dynasty ruling class" In fact, I don't think it is worth refuting at all, and to describe such a heinous disaster as the Anshi Rebellion as "the infighting of the Tang Dynasty ruling class" should be based on this line of thinking, that... Forget it, think for yourself, cut the Chinese society thousands of years ago into two sections, and directly and rudely summarize the history of the past thousand years as the oppression of the vast majority of people by the feudal rulers, and leave all the details behind, talking and arguing with this kind of netizen is just a waste of saliva, to put it bluntly, this kind of thinking is just the arrogance unique to modern people with no cultural background.
And is the Anshi Rebellion a life-and-death struggle between Hu Han and Hu Han? It can be said that not all, first of all, the An rebel army had a large number of Han soldiers, such as Xue Song, who was appointed as the envoy of Zhaoyi Jiedu after the Anshi Rebellion, this person's grandfather was the famous Tang Dynasty general Xue Rengui, this person was from the Xue clan in Hedong, which was considered to be a northern Han magnate in the Sui and Tang dynasties of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Cui Qianyou, the old man of GeShuhan who fought in Tongguan, was also Han, and Tian Chengsi, who later betrayed Shi Chaoyi, was also Han. An Lushan, who was also the emissary of the three towns of Lulong in the east of the Fanyang River, was influenced by 150,000 troops, of which Han soldiers certainly accounted for the majority.
The supporters of the Tang Dynasty had a lot of Hu people, such as Bai Xiaode, who beheaded Liu Longxian, Guo Ziyi's famous general Gu Huai'en, and even the descendants of the famous Tubo general Yan Qinling, who was a headache in the early Tang Dynasty, who had already served the Tang Dynasty, and Xue Rengui's descendants instead followed An Lushan.
But can we deny the exoticism of the Anshi military group? Of course not, we know that there were many Hu people in the Tang Dynasty army, although the Anshi military group nominally belonged to the Han regime of the Tang Dynasty before the rebellion, its core composition was multi-ethnic, and we take the three towns of Heshuo, the old part of the Anshi rebel army after the Anshi Rebellion.
The so-called three towns of Heshuo refer to the three festivals of Fanyang Jiedushi, Chengde Jiedushi, and Weibo. Fanyang (also known as Youzhou or Lulong, in present-day northern Hebei Province including the area around Beijing), Chengde (in present-day central Hebei Province), and Wei Bo (in present-day southern Hebei Province and northern Shandong Province). Chengde Town was first established in the first year of Emperor Guangde of the Tang Dynasty (763) until the beginning of the ninth century, and none of the several Chengde Jiedushi envoys were Han Chinese, basically from the Khitan and Xi ethnic groups. The Lulong Jiedushi and Wei BoJiedushi envoys were mostly Han Chinese, of which the first Lulong Jiedushi after the Anshi Rebellion made Li Huaixian a Xianbei person.
The core guards of An Lu Mountain are called "Tuoluohe" which is a Turkic word meaning "Jian'er" and "Yang Tongluo and Xiaxi, Khitan Tuoluohe more than 8,000 people as fake sons".
Ordinary soldiers were mostly Han Chinese in Yandi, Hebei, but the proportion of Hu people was still very high. The Old Book of Tang Records of An Lushan records that "in November (the fifteenth year of Tianbao), in response to Fan Yang, he claimed to have been ordered by Grace to use his troops to fight against the thief Yang Guozhong. With 150,000 horses, half a line in the night, flat eclipse, and sixty miles a day. It can be seen that the Hu people who followEd An Lushan are by no means in the minority. When Zhang Patrol was guarding Suiyang, "he divided his people, and The Concubines, Tan, and Hu Bing were all beheaded; Xingyang and Chen Liuwei were subordinate to the army, and all of them scattered and returned to their jobs." From here, we can also glimpse the proportion of Hu people in the Anshi rebellion army.
And An Lushan is not only a mixed-race (Turkic Sogdian) Hu, but also quite exotic, such as Yao Runeng's "An Lushan Deeds" Yun "Every (Hu) Shang arrives, then Lushan Hu sits on a heavy bed, burns incense and treasures, and makes Hundred Hu attendants around." The crowd of HuLuo worshiped below and invited blessings to heaven. Lushan sheng Chen animal prison, the witches beat the drums and sang songs, until the twilight dispersed. Introducing Zhu Jia, Chen Sacrifice, the witch inspired by the former to self-god. "A central Asian smell came over me. Not to mention Shi Siming, Sun Xiaozhe and the like.
Before the Anshi Rebellion, the tendency of Hu in the Heshuo area was already very obvious, and the Old Book of Tang and Geography records that "from the seventeen prefectures below Yan prefecture, all of the northeastern provinces descended to Hu scattered within the boundaries of Youzhou and Yingzhou, and were bound by the name of the state and had no military affiliation" As a result, after an's rebellion, An Lushan "drove them to Kou and disturbed the Central Plains." Even after the Anshi Rebellion, the Heshuo region still had a serious tendency to huize, and Shi Xiaozhang, a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Wenzong of Tang, advised his father that "the north of the great river is rich and strong, but it is quite chaotic to take the land, and the world refers to Heshuo Ruoyi Diran." Now the adult is a marquis, the family is rich, not painfully washed, and in the matter of thrift, I am afraid that I will not turn the calamity. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Heshuo was actually referred to as "Ruoyi Diran".
In fact, most of the border areas of ancient dynasties were mixed areas of farming and nomadic fishing and hunting, and the situation was turbulent, the border people of the Central Plains Dynasty were not only easily abducted by the Hu people, but also more susceptible to the influence of the Hu people's customs, that is, the so-called Huhua, and the Heshuo area was originally scattered with a large number of Hu people who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, coupled with the increasingly strong military strength of the border towns after the Tang Dynasty Tianbao, the Hu people and the Han people were absorbed into these expanding violent warlord groups, which was actually the process of Huization of the local military and civilians. The most painful thing is that after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures fell into the hands of the Liao State, coupled with the rule of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, the Hu people's winds flourished, until the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang recaptured the land of Youyan.
Now we can define the Anshi military group as a chaotic, exotic, multi-ethnic military group that originated in northeast China (noting that the northeastern region of China does not exactly coincide with the three eastern provinces in the modern sense). Such a military group is naturally barbaric, and the evil of the Tang court lies in its own weakness, in order to maintain its own rule by any means, and even at the expense of betraying the people to plunder the Hui people, but in general, the people's hearts are still in Tang.
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