In the middle and early period of the Tang Dynasty, only the emperor's close relatives could be crowned kings, and ministers with different surnames could not become princes no matter how much merit they had. Among the earliest 24 heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion, none of them had a king with a different surname. At that time, all the princes, whose surname was either Li or Wu, were the sons and nephews of the emperor.
The only exception was that Zhang Kamzhi, who ended Wu Zetian's rule and brought Emperor Zhongzong of Tang to power, was made the king of the county, but their kingship was special, and it was the political enemies who did not enjoy any royal glory in order to kill them.
In the following decades, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji came to power, worked hard to rule, sang and danced, nothing major happened, no one made any immortal achievements, and naturally there was no heterosexual king.
The chaos of An Shi buried the prosperous Tang Dynasty
This situation continued until the end of the new century and the beginning of Tianbao, when a small in the northeast rose strongly, not only the first true king of the opposite sex, but also a foreign king, but also a king who later ascended to the throne.
This little bastard is not only a Hu person, but also a bastard. This is not an disrespect to the great man who later became emperor, because the Old Book of Tang says so:
Yingzhou Liucheng hybrid Hu people also, originally without a surname, the name of The Rolling Mountain
The Hu people called the God of War the Rolling Mountain, so his parents named it after the God of War, probably hoping that he would also have the courage of the God of War in the future - similar to the capture zhou that The political father asked Baoyu to do.
His father was originally a Kangguo, Kangguo is Kangjuguo, located in what is now Central Asia, Kangguo contributed greatly to Chinese culture, the three kingdoms of the famous monk Kang Monk Association is Kangguo people, jingzong classic "Immeasurable Life Sutra" translator Kang sangjiao is also related to Kangguo. Because the country of Kang is also called Sogdian in history, if you want to fill out the census form, this small nation should be the Sogdian people.
The image of An Lushan created by Yan Peter in "Emperor Tang Ming"
The Sogdian gangsters had a Kangguo father, but the mother was of Turkic origin and was a life science researcher (wizard). Therefore, the child was born with both his father's business talent, the special skill of pit deception and the mother's god and god, which is not the end, and later he also has the good qualities of being brave and fierce, and drawing a sword without a word, because his mother later married the Turkic general An Yanyan. Because of this layer of reasons, the little bastard who was originally called the God of War changed his name and transformed into a famous person in Qingshi (unfortunately, it is not a good name left): An Lushan.
An Lushan's childhood life was actually quite miserable, first he died his father, and then his father's tribe was scattered, becoming an out-of-school child who wandered around all day, and his friends were naturally not three good students, they were all problem teenagers like him who stole chickens and dogs all day long. The best relationship with him is a child named Shi Siming, and the two hit it off and did everything together.
Wuhu Chaohua: Great Turmoil, Great Division, and Great National Integration
Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a four-hundred-year history of great division, great chaos and great integration of nationalities in China, and various ethnic groups and various races coaxed you to sing and Sing I appeared, and the Five Hu Chaohua was very popular with the authority of foreign nationalities. Later, the Northern Dynasty was completely foreign, the Northern Wei and Eastern Wei and Western Wei were both Xianbei dynasties, the Yuwen family of Northern Zhou was a Xianbei Xiongnu, and the Gao family of Northern Qi, although Han, was already 100% Huhua. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, although both yang and Li families were Han Chinese, they had Hu ancestry, and the grandfather of the Sui Emperor Yang Guang and Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was the same person, that is, the Xianbei nobleman Du Lonely Xin, one of the military aristocrats who shocked Chinese history. Emperor Gaozong of Tang's mother, Li Zhi, was the daughter of Sun Sheng, a famous expert on ethnic issues in the Sui Dynasty, and the sister of Sun Wuji, the first hero of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and this family of changsun was also a traditional humble nobleman.
Moreover, with the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, all nations came to the dynasty. Chang'an is full of all kinds of Hu people, doing business, paying tribute, worshipping, sightseeing, coming to learn, bustling and rubbing shoulders, to select the most open and inclusive dynasty in Chinese history, it must be the Tang Dynasty to win the championship. Therefore, the streets are full of Hu people, there are Hu officials in the imperial court, there are Hu Ji who accompany the wine, and they are drunk and talk nonsense...
At that time, the center of the world: Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty
Unfortunately, the young An Lushan has not yet had a chance to see the prosperity of the international metropolis of Chang'an, and he is worried about his livelihood. Fortunately, God is not hungry and blind, and Anshi and the two become mutual market yalangs with their ability to observe and observe colors and be proficient in many foreign languages. The so-called mutual market is the place set up by the Tang Dynasty on the border to do business with the surrounding ethnic minorities, and the mutual market yalang is the translator at the negotiating table, but it is not so tall, at best it is two brokers. Proficiency in many foreign languages did not help much, the Tang Dynasty Huhua was so serious, it was an individual who could speak English from several countries. Therefore, the little brothers live a very difficult life, there is no work to do, there is no old to nibble, what to do? After much deliberation, the two came up with a proper channel: stealing sheep.
Since then, Anshi and the two have lived a happy life as translators during the day and as sheep thieves at night. The two complement each other's advantages and complement each other, An Lushan is white and fat, like a big white pig; Shi Siming is black and thin, like a small black monkey, and the two are like black and white impermanence in the northeast between the white mountains and black waters.
At that time, Zhang Shoujue, the envoy of Youzhou Jiedushi
But happy life is always short, and the ultimate fate of the sheep thief must be to be caught and beaten to death, and then sent to the official, which is the fate of the sheep thief. An Lushan was like this, after being beaten by a fat meal, he was sent to Yamen, and Shi Siming ran away because he was thin and flexible in both body and brain, and An Lushan was escorted to the local highest official, Youzhou Jiedushi, in front of Zhang Shoujue. I have never known why a thief in An Lushan wanted such a big festival to come to trial, the only possibility was that he stole more than one sheep.
Zhang Shoujue did not intend to talk nonsense with him, and was ready to kill him according to the law. An Lushan suddenly had the courage to say loudly, "Dr. Zhang, aren't you about to destroy the two chambers?" Why kill the brave man? ”
"Doesn't the Doctor want to destroy the two yês?" What is killing Lushan! ——" The Biography of An Lushan in the Old Book of Tang
Zhang Shoujue's central official position was that of a royal historian, and the emissaries of Jiedushi were only "envoys", that is, part-time errands. The Tang Dynasty's emissaries were all part-time, similar to the Chincha ministers, with no rank. The two ethnic minorities, the Khitan and Xi, often made disturbances in the northeast, and the purpose of Fanyang Jiedushi was to prevent these two tribes.
Schematic map of the northern border of the Tang Dynasty
Zhang Shoujue was stunned, and looked at An Lushan carefully, only to see that An Lushan was white and fat, and his attitude was cute, and the boy was quite likable. So a decision was made: an An Lushan was released and he was made a catcher. Catching the life of the general, as the name suggests, is the scout who grabs the tongue, belongs to the special forces.
An Lushan's move is quite similar to that of Li Jing in those days, he wanted to kill his head after being captured by Li Yuan, but also because "Don't you want to win the world?" How can you kill a strong man", won The praise of Li Yuan, but also won the opportunity for himself to flow fang hundreds of lifetimes - but in exchange for An Lushan's move, it was not Liufang hundreds of lifetimes, but a legacy of ten thousand years.
It was said that An Lushan, who had been blessed by misfortune, spent half a day trying to find Shi Siming, who was hiding in Tibet to escape the pursuit of officers and soldiers. Shi Siming, who was preparing to handle the aftermath for An Lushan, saw his old friend, his eyes were straight, this boy had not been seen for a few days, how did he suddenly shake up? The military uniform was also put on, and the saber was stepped on, is this still the fat man who was almost beheaded two days ago? An Lushan did not consider Shi Siming's unrighteous behavior of throwing him alone at the critical moment, but also let Shi Siming become a catcher.
The border defense army of the Tang Dynasty was mainly cavalry
The development of the two people's career students is very smooth, with the contacts and skills trained by many years of mutual market yalang and sheep thieves, the position is constantly rising, and the authority is constantly expanding. During the period, An Lushan also did one thing, which won the favor of Zhang Shoujue: Zhang Dashuai, as a feudal official, was personable, so he paid special attention to a person's demeanor and temperament, An Lushan made up his mind to grit his teeth and insist on slimming down, and finally controlled his weight within 300 pounds. This move made Zhang Shoujue particularly moved, and he promoted An Lushan to his own son.
After An Lushan was reused, he was gradually overwhelmed by success, and finally suffered an unprecedented defeat in a battle, and almost the entire army was destroyed. Zhang Shoujue, who was sad and angry at his misfortune, tied him up and sent him to the central authorities for handling. When The Prime Minister Zhang Jiuling interrogated An Lushan and decided to sentence him to death, he wrote a comment on the file:
If the Shoujue army ordered it, LuShan should not be spared death. (Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian")
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Kaiyuan famous and famous poet Zhang Jiuling
With superior intuition, the upright Zhang Jiuling instinctively realized that the fat man in front of him was not a good thing, so he decided to behead him. But An Lushan was once again blessed by misfortune, and if the last time his nobleman was Zhang Shoujue, this time the nobleman was Li Longji, the current emperor. Li Longji liked An Lushan's white, chubby and cute appearance, so he pardoned him. He did not expect that many years later, it was this great white fat man he pardoned, who set off a monstrous wave, not only forcing himself to flee to the end of shuzhong with an old body, but also losing the love that had been passed down through the ages, and the prosperous tang dynasty that hundreds of generations had worked hard to create was also buried by the smoke and war of An Lushan.
With the emperor's love and trust, An Lushan rose straight up from then on. Having experienced all kinds of things and seen a variety of people, An Lushan understood, there is learning, there are political achievements, there are battle achievements, that is useless, the key is to understand how to be a person, understand the heart of the emperor.
The suddenly enlightened An Lushan smoked from his ancestral tomb, the emperor was comfortably served by him, and the officials were dizzy by his compliments, so his official position rose to the spring festival in 742 AD, that is, the first year of Tang Xuanzong's reform of Yuan Tianbao, the imperial court set up nine festivals in the northwest, north China and northeast Wanli fronts to make the town guard the frontier, and An Lushan was appointed as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, becoming a feudal official, and in this year, An Lushan was only 40 years old. Forty confusion seemed to be true, because An Lushan was no longer Huo Huo himself, he wanted Huo Huo Tang.
Tianbao ten knots of position distribution and troop strength comparison chart
In his second year as an envoy to Pinglu Jiedushi, An Lushan came to the imperial capital of Chang'an, which was equivalent to New York at the time, to meet the emperor, which was his first visit to Chang'an, the second time he met Tang Xuanzong, and the last time he was tied to the center was in Luoyang. This time he once again gained the emperor's extreme trust, because he told the emperor a story that because of his loyalty to the emperor, the locusts that had been overwhelmingly prepared to eat the crops had disappeared. Tang Xuanzong listened to the extreme excitement, immediately accepted the letter, recorded in the annals of history, jin feng story king An Lushan as a great general of the horse riding (from a pin of the big member).
In the next two years, An Lushan continued to soar in the workplace, and in 744 AD, the imperial court appointed Pinglu Jiedushi to make An Lushan concurrently serve as the envoy of Fanyang Jiedushi, and in 747 AD, he also took charge of Yushi Dafu (deputy prime minister), Tianbao for ten years, and served as An Lushan as the emissary of Hedong Jiedushi. This means that, counting Lingnan, in the Ten Festivals of Tianbao, An Lushan alone occupies three parts, and the current Liaoning, Hebei, central Inner Mongolia and Shanxi have all become the territory of An Lushan. The Tang Dynasty had more than 500,000 border guards on the border, and An Lushan alone accounted for one-third, reaching 185,000 people.
Schematic diagram of the Anlu Mountain Basin
Not only that, An Lushan also received a title unprecedented for the Tang Dynasty: the King of Dongping County.
With a Hu man, a border guard commander with a heavy army, and a feudal official with the responsibility of defending the territory, An Lushan was the first in the Tang Dynasty.
The triumphant An Lushan has since run rampant in the imperial court, and when he sees the prince, he pretends not to know and refuses to worship, and the new prime minister Yang Guozhong is even more unsympathetic, and in addition to Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, An Lushan only serves Prime Minister Li Linfu alone, because old Li's cunning is even higher than That of An Lushan, An Lushan opens his mouth, and Li Linfu knows what he wants to say, it is simply a roundworm in his stomach! The person An Lushan respected the most was Li Longji, the person he feared the most was Li Linfu, the person he despised the most was Yang Guozhong, and the person he hated the most was Ge Shuhan, who was also a border general with him, equally favored, and later crowned as the king of Xiping County.
Li Linfu film and television image in "Tang Ming Emperor"
An Lushan, the king of Dongping County, also recognized a ganma in Chang'an, this person was Yang Guifei, who was many years younger than him, and recognized Yang Guifei as a ganma with only one purpose, that is, to further please Tang Xuanzong Li Longji. In the wild history novels, a large number of bad memories of An Lushan and Yang Guifei are described, but the zhengshi does not record a word, because there is no record at all, and there is nothing to remember, at most it is speculation and conjecture. Even the Zizhi Tongjian only says:
"Lushan can't help but go in and out of the palace, or eat with noble concubines, or stay up all night, quite ugly and heard outside, and there is no doubt about it!"
If the increasingly aging Tang Xuanzong thought that the King of Dongping Commandery + the Three Towns Jiedushi was the peak of An Lushan's career, it would be too small to look down on An Fatzi. In fact, on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the fifth year of An Lushan's reign, An Lushan sat on the emperor's throne in Luoyang and became the founding king of the Great Yan Empire, and among the group of courtiers who worshiped and danced below were several important ministers of the Tang Dynasty: The Chancellor Chen Xilie, Zhang Ya of the Horse, and Ge Shuhan, the King of Xiping County, who he hated the most.
Yang Yuhuan artistic image
However, when An Lushan ascended the throne, his body was no longer good, not only was he overweight, but his eyesight had also dropped sharply. He died the following year, not because he was obese and blind, but because he was killed by his son.
The An Shi Rebellion he launched lasted for a total of eight years, of which only one year was really led by An Lushan, and the rest were mainly Shi Siming. Therefore, we may as well give him a proper name, the chaos of An Shi, it is better to call it the chaos of Shi Siming, so that An Lushan can be blinded by the Nine Springs, and Shi Siming is also good at balancing in his heart.