After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty not only did not fall, but also rose up because of Tang Xuanzong's Zhongxing, and it is estimated that the Sui Emperor Yang Guang would be deeply indignant when he found out. Because the Anshi Rebellion and the late Sui Dynasty are so similar, they have also reached their peak, and they are also full of smoke, but why can the Li family in the Tang Dynasty survive for more than a hundred years, while the Sui Dynasty cannot?
I once talked about this with an entrepreneur who studied history. He loves history and has a unique view of the nourishing life that has lived for more than 100 years after the Anshi Uprising of the Tang Dynasty.
He said: As the saying goes, there are three nails in the rotten ship, if you tang dynasty as a big enterprise, although the anshi chaos made the Tang dynasty lose a mess, but fortunately, the Tang Dynasty still left some family foundations, and there were several good emperors, almost because of Tang Xuandi's ZTE, let the Tang Dynasty salted fish turn over, survive until the emergence of the Yellow Nest a hundred years later, only to really make the Tang Dynasty hurt the bones, and finally bankrupt Zhu Wen changed to houliang.
However, historical records show that the Anshi Rebellion was more threatening than the situation faced by Yang Guang in the last years of the Sui Dynasty. Its destructive power is not much less than the uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Why did the Tang Dynasty survive in such a context? And many rich dynasties in history can't withstand the toss and fall down at once?
The Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are obvious examples, although the last years of the Yuan Dynasty continued to revolt everywhere, but the overall strength of the Yuan Dynasty still existed, and when the Yuan Shun Emperor left, he took away a large amount of gold and silver jewelry, as well as more than 100,000 Mongolian iron horses, but the Yuan Dynasty was ultimately helpless to the Ming Dynasty, and even in the Fishing Sea was annihilated by the blue jade in one fell swoop, and the same was true at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Only the Tang Dynasty in the Anli rebellion, after such a toss and blow, the entire Chang'an City once became a ruin, still in a short period of time to re-rise, although its influence is not as good as before, but Chang'an is still the world's first city at that time, there are still many people admiring the reputation of the Tang Dynasty to come here, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is still respected by the people,
At this point, after experiencing the Chaos of Anshi, the Tang Dynasty can quickly recover, the reason is indeed worth scrutinizing, understand the reasons for this, or for doing business, or for individuals are proud, compared to life is not satisfactory, how to pass a hurdle, sometimes you have to stand on the shoulders of giants, learn from the experience of the ancients, or you will find this hurdle, the ancients found a chic method, easily crossed the past.
Seeing that I was fascinated, he said: First of all, let's review the Chaos of Anshi in the Tang Dynasty.
The occurrence of the Anshi rebellion, many folk blame Yang Guifei, urban legend Yang Guifei is too beautiful, let Tang Xuanzong indulge in it, because "the six palaces pink dai colorless, from this time the king is not early dynasty" led to the Tang Dynasty in the Kaiyuan dynasty, did not feel the arrival of the crisis, and even more folklore is that because An Lushan and Yang Guifei had a private affair, Yang Guifei not only recognized An Lushan as a dry son, set up to bathe An Lushan, and the source of the Anshi rebellion is also because of the claws of Lushan.
The source of the idiom of Lushan's claw is that An Lushan once entered the palace to visit Gan Niang, and when the two "mothers and sons" were at the banquet, An Lushan joked a little too much, resulting in accidentally putting Yang Guifei's more important places, and was scratched out of a scar by the fingernails, although it did not seem to be a big problem, but the two were frightened and did not know how to be good.
Because he was afraid that Tang Xuanzong would know about this, Yang Yuhuan also thought of a way to cover up, and An Lushan also gave Gao Lishi a lot of benefits, let Gao Lishi say a few good words, this matter covered up the past, but An Lushan knew that the paper could not cover the fire, and his heart was also worried.
One day he was invited by Tang Xuanzong into the back garden of the Daming Palace to chat, Tang Xuanzong let the prince drink with him, but An Lushan did not feel right, and later when he was going to drink Tang Xuanzong's imperial wine, just a leaf fell into the wine glass, and he did not expect that this leaf would bubble up a lot
An Lushan saw that it was obviously poisonous, and quickly asked for forgiveness from Tang Xuanzong, and soon after thinking that he could no longer stay in Chang'an, he took the excuse to return to his fiefdom, which was not only to prevent Tang Xuanzong, but more importantly, An Lushan and Yang Guozhong had a huge contradiction.
After Li Linfu's death, Yang Guozhong was made the Duke of Wei by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang for the sake of Yang Guifei. He also served in more than forty positions. In the end, he was the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty at that time, which can be said to be above ten thousand people under one person, but his achievements were too far away from Li Linfu
During his term of office, the attack on Nanzhao was not successful, but the Tang Dynasty suffered a big loss of soldiers. Moreover, Yang Guozhong knew how to please Li Longji very well, which led to Li Longji's great trust. At the same time, because of his own talent, he was also afraid that the entry of capable border generals into the dynasty would affect his own status, so he had a huge disagreement with An Lushan, who was born as a border general and agreed to be favored by Tang Xuanzong.
At that time, An Lushan returned to the fiefdom, because it was far away from Chang'an, the so-called people took tea cold, An Lushan was afraid that Yang Guozhong would be unfavorable to himself, so Tea Rice did not think about it, rather than sit still, it was better to fight.
On December 16, 755, the Anshi Rebellion suddenly broke out. In the name of crusading against Yang Guozhong, An Lushan raised an army in his old lair Fanyang, and An Lushan was very well prepared, and his men were also able to recruit good warriors, and soon they went all the way south like bamboo, and in just 60 days, they attacked the impregnable eastern capital Luoyang, with Luoyang as the foundation and proclaimed himself Emperor Yan, the state name Yan.
The Tang Dynasty could do nothing about An Lushan, and in just a few months, An Lushan swept up the entire Tang Dynasty, and the rebel army also captured Chang'an, and Tang Xuanzong, who was once high above, even fled to Sichuan in a hurry to avoid its attack.
In less than a year, when the Anshi Rebellion was in various tang towns, there were also generals loyal to the Tang Dynasty who rose up to fight back and retreat. However, the destructive power it caused was so great that people in later generations felt deeply shocked, which can be seen from the grief-stricken "Sacrifice of Nephew Manuscripts" by Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the poem Saint Du Fu's "Wenguan Army Collecting Henan hebei", the famous literati Bai Juyi's "Long Song Line", and the poetry immortal Li Baizhong's works.
In the long song line, it is mentioned that the turning point of the Anshi rebellion was mentioned, that is, in the fifteenth and sixteenth months of Tianbao, Chen Xuanli at Ma Songyi advised Tang Xuanzong and demanded that the people who bear important responsibility for the Anshi rebellion, Yang Guozhong, Yang Guifei and others be dealt with.
At this time, although Tang Xuanzong was a little reluctant, in the face of the embarrassment of the Sixth Army, he still put Jiangshan Sheji first, and had no choice but to kill Yang Guifei. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was able to enter Chengdu safely, and the crown prince Li Heng at this time also ascended the throne as Emperor Suzong of Tang in Lingwu.
Tang Suzong asked the famous general Guo Ziyi to come out of the mountain and lead the army to quell the rebels of An Lushan and Shi Siming, and Guo Ziyi and the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty finally defeated the enemy after several months of fierce fighting, and An Lushan and Shi Siming's men also collapsed completely.
The Tang Dynasty was able to recover the ruined city of Chang'an. Shortly thereafter, An Lushan was assassinated by his son An Qingxu, and the Tang army recaptured the eastern capital Luoyang. After that, the Tang army won victories one after another, but at this time, Tang Suzong was afraid, he was afraid that Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's merits were too great to control, so he ruled out Yu Chao'en to contain, but this almost made the counterinsurgency lose all.
It was not until 762 AD, after Emperor Tang ascended the throne, that the power of the nine surnames Hui qi was mobilized, and finally Luoyang, the old nest of Shi Chaoyi, was finally captured, and the An Shi Rebellion was finally put down.
The Anshi Rebellion lasted eight years from the outbreak to the pacification, causing the Tang Dynasty to lose four-fifths of its more than 53 million people from its heyday, leaving only more than 17 million people, which led to the situation of the Tang Dynasty and never returning. The Tang Emperor, who had lost his prestige, also fell into a series of whirlpools such as the division of feudal towns and eunuchs, and the Tang Dynasty was in a dangerous state of turmoil at that time.
This situation is similar to the uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the late Sui uprising from the source, is Yang Guang's poverty and luxury, but also Yang Xuangan, who supports the army and respects himself, marched into Luoyang, this storm swept the world for 11 years, all the princes were finally attacked by the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was thus established, but the Tang Dynasty after such a toss, there was no smoke everywhere, which had to be envied by Yang Guang.
Why? What caused the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty can still live a good life of more than one hundred and fifty years, if it were not for Huang Chao, it is estimated that the Tang Dynasty would live longer, and the Sui Emperor Yang Guang also wanted to know what was the secret of the Tang Dynasty's continued life?
In fact, I was also very curious about the reason, according to the reason, the Tang Dynasty was the most likely to change hands at this time, but not only did it not, but the Li family's world later sat very steadily, what happened?
The entrepreneur told me that the reasons here are very complicated and many, but the most important thing is only the following points.
First: Discard some of the benefits in hand and redistribute them.
In fact, the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the root cause is the Tang Dynasty Wenwu two-sided clique, a conflict of interest can not be resolved, and Tang Xuanzong because of the lack of energy in old age, the brain does not have the aura of youth, did not achieve a good balance in the two aspects, resulting in an imbalance of power in the court, due to his excessive love for Yang Guifei, let the incompetent Yang Guozhong manage the world,
Yang Guozhong's origin made him a representative of the rich door valve, and at the same time, he also represented the civilian official group, he suppressed the military generals and border generals of the Tang Dynasty in many ways, and even snuffed out the path of the promotion of military generals, and the Tang Dynasty was also a multi-ethnic country, many of which were border generals and military generals from all ethnic groups and places.
The Tang Dynasty was able to win in a short period of time and years of external conquests, the most important of which was to rationally use various nationalities and border generals to let these brave and warlike steppe peoples open up territory for the Tang Dynasty, in exchange for their honor, social status, interests and power.
At the same time, the Tang Dynasty also delegated the power to the generals, let them recruit soldiers on their own, so there was a unique city of the Tang Dynasty, the city is simply the local mercenaries of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty gave the generals how many materials, the generals took these materials, recruited and trained high-quality soldiers. This practice made the Tang Dynasty eat sweet in the early days, many major battles of the Tang Dynasty, there are the figures of the city, and finally to quell the chaos of Anshi, Hui's help is indispensable, Hui Hui in order to commemorate this merit, but also carved the famous nine surnames Hui Hui stele.
However, Yang Guozhong's Hu Lai disrupted the rhythm of the Tang Dynasty, and these military generals and local feudal towns lost the space to rise, and were also suppressed by Yang Guozhong, which eventually led to 180,000 registered Tang soldiers in Hebei, who responded one after another in the midst of An Lushan's arm, and the An Shi Rebellion was more fierce than the peasants under the impetus of the main force of the Tang army, because these were well-trained Tang border troops. But later the Tang Dynasty was good scars and forgot the pain, and later Guo Ziyi did not suspect Tang Suzong, and he could still see the figure of this kind of thinking.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty also saw this, so it was only at Ma Songyi that it was agreed, and Tang Suzong let go in the early stages, giving many famous generals to the high-ranking official Houlu, so that he could complete the counterattack with the efforts of the generals. Moreover, in order to help the envoys of various festivals, the Tang Dynasty did not hesitate to agree to various conditions, so that the Tang Dynasty had to abandon the interests of the fan town, in exchange for a breathing opportunity to turn the crisis into safety. In the later days, although there were occasional anti-water in various feudal towns, they would soon be restrained by the Tang Dynasty, so even if there was an uprising, under the support of the feudal towns, the Tang Dynasty still lived a relatively moist life.
This is equivalent to a large enterprise, when the main project is seriously damaged, with the help of the benefits of other projects, survived the most difficult moments, but it is necessary to give up some benefits to the people or dealers, because without the help of the people, without the efforts of employees and dealers, it is certainly very difficult to survive the difficulties, and the opposite example is Chongzhen, when He li Zichengbing came to the city, he was even reluctant to give up the silver of the Ming Dynasty treasury, which can be said to be a very failed example.
Second: Whether it is the door valve family or the common people, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years and the creation of several prosperous times make people worry, people believe in loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, and also hope that the Tang Dynasty will continue to be brilliant.
The establishment of the Tang Dynasty was based on the Sui Dynasty, in fact, according to the total economic volume, the total economic volume of the Tang Dynasty was not as good as that of the Sui Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty successively appeared several promising emperors, Li Shimin, Li Zhi, Wu Zetian, Tang Xuanzong, these people's more enlightened and relaxed management methods, to the Tang Dynasty brought economic, material, people's livelihood take-off,
And with the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, the combination of the Silk Road on land and maritime trade, the economy of the Tang Dynasty has brought a new atmosphere, and the Kaiyuan prosperity of Tang Xuanzong has made everyone in the Tang Dynasty live a well-off and happy life, whether it is the door valve family that supported the Tang Dynasty, as well as the ordinary people, they are all remembered.
In Chinese history, a dynasty can survive for 300 years, there will be a period of time for the people to rest and recuperate, create and accumulate wealth, and this makes many Tang Dynasty people loyal to the Tang Dynasty, so even after the Anshi Rebellion, there are not too many fan towns to rebel against the water and revolts, which also allows the Tang Dynasty to get a chance to breathe.
At this time, the position of the Gate Valve family is also very important, they did not find Li Yuan to establish the Tang Dynasty and overthrow the Sui Dynasty, just like the end of the Sui Dynasty, but helped to re-stabilize the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, which is extremely important.
These door valve families, similar to the shareholders of large enterprises, as long as the support of these shareholders, the enterprise will not change owners, and how to get the support of shareholders? In addition to good performance, of course, appropriate concessions are made to these people, and as long as they are supported, many plans and policies can be implemented, or they are just on paper.
In addition to the door valve family, the common people are more important, because Li Shimin knows that water can carry boats and overturn boats, so the rule of Zhenguan is relaxed for all kinds of servitude of the people, and the law is not very strict, so gradually let people recognize the Tang Dynasty Li family, more importantly, the strength of the Tang Dynasty, so that as a Tang Dynasty people are very proud, especially some Tang envoys, go back and proudly say, I am not an ordinary person, I stayed in the Tang Dynasty for seven years,
And such a Tang Dynasty, even if it has experienced the Anshi chaos, people will still accompany it to survive the difficulties, which is one of the reasons why the Tang Dynasty can still survive the Anshi chaos, a generation of great people once said: The people, only the people, is the driving force for creating world history." This point is very important, it is equivalent to a company a brand, it is deeply loved by the people and customers, of course, customers will be very supportive of it.
The last point is that the Tang Dynasty also had its own economic ecology, which allowed it to have a steady stream of energy for one hundred and fifty years.
From a practical point of view, even if the interests are abandoned and the people are supported, if there is no continuous power and resources, the Tang Dynasty will still fall quickly.
But the Tang Dynasty was very lucky, he had the Sui Dynasty left behind, after the Tang Dynasty developed the Jiangnan area for a hundred years, and it is the Jiangnan area of the land of fish and rice, a steady supply, as well as the Silk Road, tea, salt and other trade, so that the Tang Dynasty can have a stable economic source, and these sources are also an important basis for maintaining the stability of the Tang Dynasty.
As long as the rich Jiangnan continued to supply, the Tang Dynasty even if the Central Plains feudal towns did not pay taxes, still had a strong strength to go around, and the Gate Valve family could still live a night and night song days, but the emergence of the Yellow Nest completely disrupted the rhythm of the Tang Dynasty's economic supply, coupled with the complacent Tang Emperor and eunuchs, so that the Tang Dynasty was finally busy with Zhu Wen's hands.
A company still has to find the growth point of profits through multiple channels, so as to increase revenue, but also to guard against unforeseen needs, in a time of crisis, new economic sources may be able to help enterprises tide over difficulties.
brief summary:
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was able to survive for one hundred and fifty years, and the reason for this was that it gave up some of the interests in hand and redistributed the benefits. Whether it is the door valve family or the common people, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years and the creation of several prosperous times make people worry, people believe in loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, and also hope that the Tang Dynasty will continue to be brilliant. It is that the Tang Dynasty also has its own economic ecology, so that it has a steady stream of energy for one hundred and fifty years.