"It is dark under the lamp, and where there is light, there must be a shadow." Such a sentence applies in any kind of place, not only because of the authenticity of the sentence, but also because most places of "light" have stories. What has happened in history, one thing after another, is in the right history.
Emperors of all dynasties have justified and whitewashed themselves, so they will revise and compile many books and education. This led to the burial of the shadow behind the dynasty, as did the powerful and open Tang Dynasty's Tianbao years – the story of the Vulcan Sea and the Five-Colored Jade.
The strength of the Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty is a dynasty known both chinese and foreign, and China during this period was hailed as the most open and powerful country. Behind its great strength is prosperity and development, tolerance and acceptance of each culture, all of which are the most prominent characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.
Such a strong Tang Dynasty was not smooth sailing, and the inheritance of the Tang Dynasty was also broken. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, a strange woman appeared, Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian relied on his own wrists and abilities to single-handedly cut off the Tang Dynasty and establish his own kingdom, Wu Zhou.
The establishment of Wu Zhou was undoubtedly an insult to the people of the Li Tang clan, insulted by a woman stepping on her face. In this situation, the Li Tang clan would inevitably not let Wu Zetian slaughter, so they often blackmailed Wu Zetian's policies.
How could Wu Zetian ignore his actions in the face of such a situation? Under the operation of Wu Zetian, the people of the Li Tang clan died one after another, and the Tang Dynasty also slowly weakened in the struggle between the Wu clan and the Li clan, and there were many signs that the neighboring countries were eroding the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Wu Zetian did not care about the wanton behavior of the neighboring countries, and in her eyes, only the internal strife and hostile forces in the DPRK and China were the main goals. As long as the disorder in the DPRK is pacified, then the problem of neighboring countries will no longer be a problem, and it is possible to send troops to attack and retake it when the time comes.
Therefore, during the reign of Wu Zetian, many of the territories around the Tang Dynasty were captured and invaded, and this situation did not change until Li Longji launched the "Tang Long Incident". Li Longji took the tang dynasty's political power into his own hands and let the Tang dynasty unfold an era - the Kaiyuan prosperous era.
Under the rule of Li Longji, the Tang Dynasty achieved great social stability. Li Longji not only has extraordinary courage, but also has a lot of competitive spirit. Under the leadership of Li Longji, the Tang Dynasty brought a lot of pressure to its neighboring countries, and finally presented a situation in which all countries came to the dynasty.
A bustling scene does not mean absolute harmony. The coming of all nations to the tang dynasty can indeed show the strength of the Tang Dynasty, but this does not represent the loyalty and ambition of neighboring countries. This phenomenon is only deliberately manifested by small and weak States, and its ambitions are self-evident.
Five-colored jade and Vulcan Sea
The ambitions of the vassal states of the Tang Dynasty are enough to see their ambitions from their tributes. Once, countries paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and one of the many gifts made Tang Xuanzong very excited, and that gift made the Manchu Dynasty's cultural relics ministers envious - five-colored jade.
After a belt-shaped five-colored jade fell into Tang Xuanzong's hands, it immediately became Tang Xuanzong's favorite treasure. The five-colored jade not only has the effect of exorcising evil spirits, but also very eye-catching, in the eyes of the ministers, Tang Xuanzong saw envy and love.
This look of the courtiers made Tang Xuanzong more and more fond of the five-colored jade, but when Tang Xuanzong set his eyes on the corner, he found an old man with lonely eyes and no spirit. This old man was not happy that Tang Xuanzong had obtained the most precious treasure, but was very worried.
Tang Xuanzong was very curious about the old man's attitude, so he deliberately announced the old man. Tang Xuanzong asked the old man who he was, and the old man replied that he was a very senior eunuch. Then Tang Xuanzong asked why he was not happy that he had obtained the five-colored jade, but instead looked lonely.
The old eunuch looked embarrassed in the face of Tang Xuanzong's problems, but forced by Tang Xuanzong's majesty, the old eunuch still expressed the doubts in his heart. The old eunuch said to Tang Xuanzong: Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the five-colored jade has been one of the many tributes, and it is not a rare object.
After Tang Xuanzong listened to the old eunuch's words, the joy in his heart turned into a question. Then he asked the old eunuch why he saw it and why. In the face of Tang Xuanzong's rebuke, the old eunuch immediately had the act of kneeling down, trembling and speaking his guess.
The old eunuch said: Neighboring countries may think that the Tang Dynasty is no longer as strong as it was then, so it has been deceived. When Tang Xuanzong heard this answer, he was very angry and immediately asked his men to thoroughly investigate the matter. Under the operation and investigation of the korean and Chinese people, an answer was finally reached -- the threat of the little Bury State.
According to the envoys of the lai dynasty, most of the five-colored jade in their tribute ceremonies was snatched away by Xiao Boluguo, and in the face of the threat of Xiao Boluguo and the guilt of the loss of tribute, the envoys of various countries did not report to the Tang Dynasty, which also led to why there was only one five-colored jade in the tribute.
When Tang Xuanzong heard this answer, he was extremely angry and decided to send someone on an expedition to the Kingdom of Xiao Bolu. Tang courtiers vigorously prevented Tang Xuanzong's choice. The expedition to the small Burudo country is undoubtedly a measure of labor and wealth, in which the benefits are not large, and the harm and drawbacks are not small.
Just when Tang Xuanzong and the courtiers were tug-of-war, Li Fulin appeared. As chancellor, Li Fulin chose to fully support Tang Xuanzong's choice, believing that this move was necessary, otherwise it would make neighbors look down on the Tang Dynasty more and more, which would damage the face of the Tang Dynasty.
With the support of Li Linfu, the Tang Dynasty army successfully made an expedition to the state of Xiao Bolu. The general who led the Tang dynasty army was a military general named Wang Tianyun, who was known for his bravery and unscrupulousness, and he was able to reach this position today thanks to the support of this Li Linfu.
The military expedition to the Xiaobolu Kingdom also showed Wang Tianyun's own incompetence. It took the Tang army a year to reach the State of Xiaobolu, and in the process many Tang soldiers had been damaged, but the remaining soldiers alone were enough to attack the State of Xiaobolu.
The king of Xiao Boluguo was very afraid of the Tang soldiers, and he wrote a surrender letter before the Tang soldiers attacked the city, and after seeing the Tang soldiers, he handed it over to Wang Tianyun. However, Wang Tianyun did not care about the arrival of the letter, and he chose to slaughter the city in order to make meritorious contributions after occupying the small Bury kingdom.
Both men, women, young and old fell under Wang Tianyun's war horse, but Wang Tianyun dismounted in front of the people and turned pale. In the encirclement and suppression of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, there was an old man who was not in danger, and this old man was not timid in the face of the soldier's blood knife.
Wang Tianyun dismounted from his horse to check, and the old man immediately said a word to Wang Tianyun about Xiao Boluguo, and in the translation of his subordinates, Wang Tianyun got an answer - the soldiers who went out to attack Xiao Boluguo would all fall in the land of non-fire and non-sea.
The old man said that he immediately fell down in front of Wang Tianyun and died. Wang Tianyun suppressed his fear and ordered the men and horses to return to the court and not to stop, but they would still come. Wang Tianyu's troops encountered the Vulcan Sea on the way back to the Dynasty, and the final result was, as the old man said, all dead.
When Tang Xuanzong heard about this, he immediately sent someone to investigate, but the results brought back by groups of people were the same--Wang Tianyun and others were missing.
brief summary
The Vulcan Sea Incident that occurred because of the five-colored jade was hidden behind the king's selfish desires, and the facts were unknown. There will always be mysterious and wonderful stories after all kinds of stories, which may be made up or modified, but these stories have a meaningful purpose.