In today's generally peaceful and stable environment in the world, the change of power in modern countries is actually just a change of power and political parties, and most of the leaders who have completed their terms of office can begin to enjoy a more peaceful "retirement life" and live a long life.
But for the replacement of ancient dynasties, all this is not so peaceful.
From many historical dramas, modern people can also have a more or less impression of the internal killings or forces of the royal family in the past, and when they ascended the throne, hundreds of officials came to the dynasty, but when they abdicated, they were inevitably bloody and rainy.
The Tang Dynasty, the status in ancient Chinese history is well known to the world, since the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Yuan built the capital Chang'an, after successive generations of Li family heirs, it has gone through the "Rule of Zhenguan", "Rule of Yonghui", and the most prosperous period created the "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era".
But the prosperity of the pole will decline, this is indeed an inviolable law of history, by the late Tang Dynasty, the downhill li rule was already crumbling in the wind and rain,
In the end, it ended in a really tragic end.
Today, let's take a closer look at how this generation of prosperity fell.
The development of the Tang Dynasty
In fact, from the reflection of the final demise of the Sui Dynasty, it can be reflected that the dismal end of the later Li Tang Dynasty can be reflected, because in the same way, their ends were seized by people with hearts at the time of the great chaos in the world.
However, Li Yuan did have a certain political strategy for governing the country and the world, and in 618 AD Li Yuan set the capital in Chang'an, and the founding name was Tang.
During his reign, Tang Gaozu can also be said to have worked hard to govern, and also made great improvements in the people's livelihood problems.
Although his reign was indeed relatively short, it is undeniable that his policy of political performance did lay a solid foundation for the later "rule of chastity".
During the Zhenguan period, Li Tang was already an image of economic recovery and political clarity, during which time, whether it was agricultural rest, cultural and educational revival, and the improvement of the imperial examination, they all watered and fertilized the flower of the "Kaiyuan Prosperous World" that bloomed with buds.
Later, Tang Xuanzong, who came to power in the early days of the reign, also inherited the legacy of his ancestors and further improved and upgraded all aspects of the Tang Dynasty, which also created the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, which had to be applauded by people in this view:
Lush commercial exchanges, accessible transportation and trade, brightly lit night Chang'an and the grandeur of foreign dynasties!
But after this flourishing dream-like beauty, it also gradually embarked on the road of decay. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had a chaotic and uncontrollable situation of feudal division, and the emergence of this situation was also an important reason for its eventual decline.
The protracted partisan struggle within the ruling class has long forgotten the future of the country, and the people's grievances have been rife but can no longer attract the attention of the emperor and ministers, because such struggles have greatly disrupted the establishment of the country's major policies.
Therefore, resistance can save themselves, heavy taxes have caused great dissatisfaction among the people, and successive years of natural disasters have made their lives worse, peasant uprisings have risen one after another, and the central and local governments have fallen into a mess of chaos and barbarism.
And this also gave the dying Tang Dynasty a fatal blow.
The Curse of the White Horse
In this scene of disintegration, zhu Wen, a rebel who harbored the confidence of usurpation of power, made greater strides on his road to usurping Tang, and as the most powerful force in the local division, he had fully grasped the initiative to control the life and death of this world.
The fundamental purpose of his helping Tang Zhaozong restore the throne was only to exchange the trust and support of more forces and lay some foundation for his successful usurpation of power in the future.
At this time, Tang Zhaozong was already completely controlled by Zhu Wen in the applause, in short, a puppet emperor.
Zhu Wen, who held real power, began to focus on eradicating the troubles of his seizure of power, which was also the scourge of the white horse in history. He was afraid that Tang Zhaozong's son would make a comeback after gathering other forces, so he simply gathered the royal families who might oppose him and killed them quickly.
This is also a famous Hongmen banquet in history, at that time, Zhu Wen set up a grand banquet in Jiuqu Pond, and ordered someone to summon Tang Zhaozong's son and his brothers a total of nine princes to the banquet, although these nine people must have had a premonition, but at this moment Zhu Wen's "invitation" they all had to go.
Since most of them are already the fateful ending that can be imagined, they simply drink on this parting occasion.
The princes talked and laughed during the banquet, pushed the cups and changed cups, and were not happy.
And just when everyone was drunk and sleepy, Zhu Wen ordered his subordinates to wrap the thickest knot rope around the back of each prince in the future, and the feeling of powerlessness that was exhausted but could not be resisted could be imagined but could not bear to look back.
In the end, the nine were strangled between Zhu Wen's feasts, and their bodies were thrown into the pool.
In fact, before taking this action, The Fading Tang had already changed hands under Zhu Wen's arrangement, and after killing Tang Zhaozong early, he let the nearly 11-year-old Li Li take the throne, that is, Tang Aizong, without changing the soup.
Not only the princes, but even those former ministers of Li Tang in the past, this overly suspicious Zhu Wen was bound to not let go. Only two months after the killing of the nine princes, he summoned a total of more than 30 old courtiers to Baima Yi under the pretext of Emperor Aizong of Tang, killed them all, and threw them into the Yellow River.
Zhu Wen Jianliang
After a thorough clean-up of Li Tang's descendants and his adherents, Zhu Wen finally let go of some of his worries.
However, Zhu Wen, who was already in real power, still did not choose to take Tang and replace him, but still had to wait for Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, and other fierce enemies to really retreat, and he also happened to be able to use this time to continue to cut the enemy for the regime he would build later.
Because he also knew the root cause of Li Tang's current fate, he probably didn't want the people to complain all over the place at the beginning of his reign, and judging from his past divine operations, he was really a face-saving anti-thief.
Two years of continued conquest finally made Zhu Wen no longer have any worries, because at this time, Li Ke's power with these people was no longer enough to threaten him Zhu Wen, so he decided to close the net.
He first forced Emperor Aizong of Tang to ascend the throne, and then in 907 he officially claimed the throne as Emperor Da liang, and he also changed his name to Zhu Huang, and people later called this period of power he established Hou Liang.
However, the few "performances" that Zhu Wen spent several years staging, in the end, could not be exchanged for the recognition of the people.
People still regard the Li Tang Dynasty as orthodox, and do not want to regard this rebellious cholera as emperor.
Therefore, after the second year of his reign as emperor, Zhu Wen simply poisoned Tang Aizong and completely cut the grass and root out the Li Tang Dynasty.
In fact, leaving aside some of Zhu Wen's brutal acts, people mostly regret and hate Li Tang's decline, regret the prosperous era that shocked the whole world with grand scenes, and hate even more the people's livelihood in the later period of the ruling class.
Therefore, throughout the ages, the most important thing for rulers is always the people!