In ancient times, there were many heroes and talents, but most of them did not end up well, only because the emperor was worried that the general would be high and the throne would be unstable.
Han Xin helped Liu Bang win the world, but because of his strong military power, he was suspected by Lü Hou and others, and was eventually designed to die in Changle Palace, which is not uncommon.
The Tang Dynasty has maintained inclusiveness since Emperor Taizong, which has led to a long period of prosperity in Chinese history, but by the time of Emperor Xuanzong Andi Longji, the Anshi Rebellion caused the Tang Dynasty to begin to turn from prosperity to decline, and the Li regime was also in jeopardy.
In the end, the general Guo Ziyi successfully quelled the Anshi Rebellion, causing the Tang Dynasty to have a period of zhongxing situation, after the stability of the country, Guo Ziyi was unusual, and at the age of 80, he indulged in alcohol all day, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Han Xin and other good generals.
What did Guo Ziyi do for Datang ZTE? How carefully did he spend his later years?
Opportunities for Wu Zhuangyuan
Guo Ziyi was born in the first year of Wu Zetian's shengong, coinciding with Wu Zetian's opening of the martial arts examination, Guo Ziyi took the martial arts after a little older, and won the Wu Zhuangyuan with an unusual score, but was only assigned to a nine-pin official position.
In the following decades, Guo Ziyi was promoted step by step by his own personal ability, and by the time he was more than fifty years old, he had already risen to the rank of General of Zhengsanpin.
From the Tang Dynasty to the xuanzong Li Longji period, the prosperity of the world reached its peak, and Li Longji's early efforts to create the Kaiyuan prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, and the emperor who was immersed in such a situation did not try to maintain it.
By the end of his reign, Li Longji was increasingly obsessed with beauty, and spent his days with the noble concubine Yang Yuhuan in the harem, and arbitrarily appointed traitors Yang Guozhong and Li Linfu.
The faint-hearted Li Longji no longer cared about the affairs of the court, which gave An Lushan an opportunity, he threw himself into his favor with Guifei and Li Longji, gained the trust of the imperial court, and because An Lushan was a foreigner and had a miraculous effect on defending against foreign enemies, Li Longji began to delegate power to him, and the power in An Lushan's hands slowly grew.
The Tang Dynasty set up ten knots of envoys to maintain peace in the frontier situation, and recruited troops in the border areas every year, so the festival made the power extremely great, and An Lushan actually served as the envoy of Fan Yang and other three towns, and he had extremely heavy military power in his hands.
In the end, the emperor's fainting and the rebellion of his courtiers caused the outbreak of the An Shi Rebellion, and An Lushan and Shi Siming led their troops to fanyang, all the way south, destroying several cities and pools, and soon attacking the eastern capital Luoyang.
At this time, Guo Ziyi was serving as a Taishou, his mother happened to die, he was guarding filial piety in his hometown, and after the news of An Lushan's breakthrough through Luoyang reached the imperial court, Guo Ziyi was appointed as the envoy of Shuofang Jiedushi to fight against the rebels.
Guo Ziyi's rise and fall
At first, Guo Ziyi led his troops to fight bravely, and together with Li Guangbi, he broke shi Siming's tens of thousands of troops and captured thousands of enemy troops, and after several battles, An Shi's troops were seriously damaged, and Guo Ziyi's army was on a day and night crusade, and it seemed that it was about to march north to Fanyang.
However, because Li Longji had not paid attention to political affairs for many years, he was stunned and ordered the general Ge Shuhan to meet the enemy at Tongguan, which eventually led to the loss of Ge Shuhan to Tongguan, and An Lushan's army went straight into Chang'an, and Li Longji had to flee to Chengdu, the tianfu with his family and cronies.
Seeing that Li's throne was not secure, Li Longji was old, and it was difficult to serve as emperor again, so the crown prince Li Heng immediately took the throne in Lingwu and took over his father's throne to eliminate the rebels.
Guo Ziyi was heavily used by Li Heng, who led his troops to retake Chang'an and Luoyang successively, causing the rebels to retreat to Yecheng.
Li Heng was very satisfied with this, and he praised Guo Ziyi's wisdom and courage, but at this time the rebel army had weakened, An Lushan was killed, and his son An Qingxu served as the leader of the rebel army, and the means and majesty in the army were far inferior to An Lushan.
Li Heng secretly worried that Guo Ziyi would be highly respected, so when the Nine Roads Festival made a crusade against An Qingxu, he deliberately did not appoint Guo Ziyi as the main commander, and only let him hold an unimportant position in the army.
However, Li Heng did not expect that the reason why the rebels were gradually defeated and retreated, and the crusading army could be overwhelming, all depended on Guo Ziyi's talent, so in the Battle of Yecheng, the generals did not succeed in conquering.
Yu Chao'en and the general Li Guangbi had always been jealous of Guo Ziyi's merits, and when the opportunity came, they immediately blamed Guo Ziyi for the defeat in the war, which was also in Li Heng's arms.
Guo Ziyi did not argue, he immediately asked the emperor to resign, unloaded his armor and returned to the field, but without Guo Ziyi's army, the crusade army led by Li Guangbi was defeated in a battle, and at the same time, the soldiers in Shanxi disobeyed discipline and killed the commander, and the imperial court once again fell into an unfavorable situation.
In the midst of the crisis, Li Heng had to reactivate Guo Ziyi, confess his foolish mistakes to him, and make him the King of Fenyang.
Guo Ziyi still maintained the courtesy of the monarch, but he instead showed a grateful look to the emperor, which not only saved the emperor's face, but also made the emperor trust himself more.
At the same time, Guo Ziyi always showed respect for Yu Chao'en and Li Guangbi, and his attitude towards the two of them regardless of their previous suspicions greatly touched the two, Li Guangbi was willing to be driven by Guo Ziyi from then on, and Yu Chao'en no longer made enemies of him and defended him everywhere from then on.
After Guo Ziyi was reinstated, he put down the rebellions in various places in a short period of time, but as Li Heng fell ill and died, Emperor Daizong took the throne, he was seduced by the eunuchs in the court, and Guo Ziyi was removed from his official position.
At this time, Guo Ziyi no longer backed down, he had a very high prestige in the army, and many people in the DPRK had become his cronies, so he immediately took out more than a thousand edicts that Li Heng had sealed himself before his death, and presented them to defend himself one by one.
When Emperor Daizong saw this, he was ashamed and embarrassed, and immediately ordered Guo Ziyi to be reinstated, and personally decreed that guo Ziyi would no longer be suspected.
The general's mind
After taking over the military power, Guo Ziyi eliminated the remaining rebels with great speed, and the eight-year-long Anshi Rebellion was finally put down, but the storm resurfaced, Tubo came to invade, and Emperor Daizong hurriedly left Beijing for refuge, leaving Guo Ziyi alone.
Guo Ziyi was deposed several times, and at this time there were very few troops available around him, but he did not retreat, but instead used tactics against Tubo, summoning militia in many places to charge the royal division, making the army look huge.
Tubo had already invaded Chang'an, but after seeing Guo Ziyi's army, they thought that the Tang Dynasty had arrived to help, so they had to withdraw their troops, and Guo Ziyi successfully defeated the enemy army with a dangerous move.
After Tubo retired, Emperor Daizong was able to return to the capital, and he was greatly moved, rewarding Guo Ziyi with an iron scroll and hanging his portrait in Lingyan Pavilion, where he was blessed by the later emperors of the Tang Dynasty.
In the years that followed, Guo Ziyi grew old and strong, repeatedly repelling the Tubo thief Kou and enabling the Tang Dynasty to reach a ZTE situation, but the suspicions of several emperors made him feel threatened at all times.
At this time, Guo Ziyi's prestige and authority reached its peak, but Guo Ziyi retreated in a rapid stream, and after the Tang Dynasty's territory was stable, he immediately asked Daizong to retire, but Daizong knew that the stability of the country could not be without Guo Ziyi, so he rejected him again and again.
In desperation, Guo Ziyi had to pretend to be addicted to wine, And When Emperor Daizong died, Emperor Dezong took the throne, and Emperor Dezong once again recalled Guo Ziyi to the imperial court and gave him the title of "Father Shang".
Guo Ziyi did not get complacent about this, and he continued to indulge in wine all day, which allowed him to live peacefully until he died naturally at the age of 85.
After Guo Ziyi's death, the emperor ordered him to perform a funeral with the highest etiquette and increase his tomb by ten feet to show his immortal deeds during his lifetime.
Guo Ziyi's subordinates held important positions in the imperial court, and his family members all died well, all of which stemmed from Guo Ziyi's caution in his later years.