Luo Guanzhong once said,
The general trend of the world, for a long time will be united, a long time will be divided,
That is to say, no dynasty has absolute long-term peace and stability, and always alternates between the chaotic worlds in the division and integration of the world, and even the most prosperous dynasties will eventually decline one day.
However, whenever the dynasty changes, there is always a war, in the face of the Heavenly Son's throne that commands the world, even at the cost of bleeding thousands of miles, the world is in chaos, and the great Tang Dynasty, which was very prosperous, has not been able to avoid such a great reincarnation after all.
At the time of the destruction, it was extremely tragic, and the rebels openly killed the king, nine princes were strangled to death, and the ministers were thrown into the Yellow River.
From prosperity to decline of Datang
Tang Dynasty, as the most prosperous period of China's feudal dynasty, its influence even reached the world, Chinatown, Tang costumes, etc. all reveal the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
The rule of Zhenguan, the prosperity of Kaiyuan
It's still talked about. It was such a prosperous world that eventually went into decline.
In the later period of Emperor Xuanzong, the appointment of eunuchs led to the fall of military and political power, and it was also because of this that it led to later generations
Anshi Rebellion
In the outbreak, even the capital Chang'an was captured, and Xuanzong was forced to retreat to Chengdu, and then said
It has subsided, but the already weak Tang Dynasty coupled with years of war and chaos can be said to be the strength of the Li Tang royal family
The roof leaked during the overnight rain.
Due to the late Tang Dynasty mainly to quell
The main force did not focus on economic development, so it aggravated the social contradictions at that time, the turmoil in the four sides, and even the usually inconspicuous foreign forces were eyeing the tiger, which can be said to be internal and external troubles.
Later, although Emperor Xianzong Li Chun succeeded to the throne and recovered the areas divided by the feudal towns, he acted arbitrarily and arbitrarily, not believing in loyal words but believing in yu language, which led to the rise in the status of eunuchs, and even became a presence beyond the emperor.
The misery before the demise
In fact, as early as after the eunuchs came to power, the final outcome of the demise of the Tang Dynasty was doomed, but the demise was only the result, but the process was tragic, and after the eunuchs' power reached its peak, it was already rampant to the point of openly killing the king.
Tang Xianzong Li Chun, grumpy, in his later years vainly sought the art of immortality, ate the so-called Immortal Immortal Dan, and often executed eunuchs for not having a spiritual experience, and was finally killed by eunuchs such as Chen Hongzhi.
Li Zhan, Emperor Jingzong of Tang, during his reign ignored the government, indulged in fun, and excluded dissidents.
It even triggered a series of riots, allowing the eunuchs to collude with each other, and at the age of seventeen, he was victimized by the eunuch Liu Keming. Of the next ten Emperors of the Tang Dynasty, only three died in pursuit of immortality.
With such frequent changes in the throne, so arbitrarily murdered and executed by the emperor, the Tang Dynasty at this time had reached the brink of the abyss, and the eunuch family was dominant, and even summed up how to manipulate the emperor into experience and taught other eunuch colleagues.
The tragic collapse of the Li Tang royal family
Eventually, due to the intensification of social contradictions, the peasant revolt at the end of the Tang Dynasty broke out.
Wang Xianzhi
and
Yellow Nest
Successive uprisings, and
Yellow Nest Uprising
It lasted the longest, the most influential, and even half of the Tang Dynasty at its peak.
Huang Chao's youth has poetic talent, proficient in pen and ink articles,
The incense of the sky penetrated Chang'an, and the city was full of golden armor
It was from his handwriting that he repeatedly raised the name of Sun Shan, facing the chaotic rule of the Tang Dynasty, and finally decided to respond to the uprising
Wang Xianzhi,
Began an uprising against the Tang.
First turned to Jiangnan, and then used troops to go north, although the Tang court also sent troops to suppress it, but it did not help at all. In 881, Huang Chao's army invaded Chang'an, and once bribed people's hearts and minds to deceive the people, saying,
The Yellow King's soldiers, originally for the people, not as Li did not love Ru Cao, Ru Cao but lived in peace and fear,
The implication is that I have come to liberate the people, and the people are assured.
But then began a horrific massacre, the men
Murderous streets,
The royal nobles who remained in Chang'an City were exterminated, and the cruelty of the means was heinous, even the officials who were not of the blood of the Tang Dynasty
Panic can not last forever.
Qin Woman Yin
Zhong once described the scene as saying that the treasure house of the former imperial palace had been burned to ashes, more than half of the rich families had been slaughtered and robbed, and the streets of Chang'an were trampled by the skeletons of the gongqing nobles
Shop for things
In the name of robbery and tyranny, all the bloodlines of the Li Tang royal family and related personnel were executed at the same time.
Juwen's brutality
However, the cruelty to the Li Tang royal family was far more than that. Zhu Wenben, as Huang Chao's subordinate, was ordered to attack Tongzhou, and in the midst of constant stalemates and changes of lordship, Zhu Wen was defeated by Wang Chongrong, and then Zhu Wen repeatedly asked Huang Chao for help, but to no avail, and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty under the persuasion of his subordinates.
Later, it was reused by Emperor Tang, and then not only quelled the Huangchao rebellion, but also led troops to fight everywhere, lifting the siege of Chen Prefecture and quelling it
Yun Yan
Even leading troops to attack Fengxiang, the conquests over the years can be said to have made countless achievements and growing strength, and then in the face of the Li Tang imperial family, which had no chicken power at this time, he also moved his mind.
In 904, Zhu Wen wanted to take Emperor Zhaozong Li Ye to Luoyang, and in order to have no objections from the emperor, he killed a series of officials of the court, such as Cheng Xiang, and then drunk more than 200 of the emperor's close associates at the banquet, and died in exchange for his own side.
Later, the local forces were dissatisfied with Zhu Wen's actions, and the alliance was requisitioned, Zhu Wen sent troops into the imperial palace to kill Zhaozong before sending troops, and then made his ninth son Li Zhu emperor, at this time the Tang Dynasty royal family had become a puppet of others, and the next year Zhu Wen ordered that all nine of Li Ye's sons be killed.
As for the remaining officials and other officials of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Wen believed that many of these people were still loyal to the Li Tang imperial family, and that if he wanted to become emperor, these people were the biggest obstacles, so he killed all these people in the Baima Yi area of Huazhou, and then, in order to vent, all these cadres and others were thrown into the Yellow River.
The former Tang dynasty royal family was actually left with Li Zhu after such a brutal purge by Zhu Wen
Surface Emperor
At this time, the Tang Dynasty was also a nominal emperor, and in 907 Zhu Wen accepted the Zen throne of the Tang Emperor Li Zhu, that is, the emperor's throne, changed the name of the country to Liang, and the Tang Dynasty was counted to the end, and The following year Li Zhu was also killed. The last bit of Datang's bloodline disappeared.
It can be seen from this that the Tang Dynasty was extremely tragic from the beginning of the late period, from the beginning of the eunuchs to power, they were constantly killed, and then they were slaughtered in rebellion, and zhu Wen was even more ruthless after he took power.
The once-prosperous Li Tang imperial family was ultimately a result of an extinct heir, however, Zhu Wen, who finally sat on the emperor's throne, did not end well.
His son was far more vicious than he was, and Zhu Youjue led an army to rush into Zhu Wen's bedchamber and killed Zhu Wen with a knife in his hand.
Then he falsely passed on the holy will, forged the will and killed his brother Zhu Youwen, and ascended to the throne himself, and finally Zhu Youjue also died at the hands of his own people.
It can be seen from this that the reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao, the death of Huang Chao, the murder of your father by Youjue, and the tragic demise of the Tang Dynasty finally happened to themselves.
Despite this, the tragedy of the late Li Tang royal family and even its demise is still creepy to this day.