The Tang Dynasty is a very beautiful period in the entire ancient history, there is tang Taizong Li Shimin's hard work, there is Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei's lingering love, and there is no ancient person after the first empress Wu Zetian, Tang Dynasty, it is really yearning.
To look at the Tang Dynasty, we are going to look at Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. It seems that his popularity is smaller than that of his son Li Shimin, but his merits are also not cheap. However, some people said that if he did not die, it would not be Li Yuan's turn to be emperor, and this "he" was Dou Jiande, what kind of story did they have?
First, Li Yuan called the emperor's way
As the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan withdrew the Sui Dynasty from the stage of history. However, Li Yuan's relationship with the Sui Dynasty was very good. Li Yuan's mother, Du Gushi, was later Empress Yuanzhen, and was the fourth daughter of Du Guoxin.
The daughters of the Dugu family are all powerful, the eldest daughter is the Northern Zhou Empress, the younger daughter is the Wen Empress of Sui, the fourth daughter is the mother of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and in the whole Du lonely family, Li Yuan's mother can be said to be the last person to laugh.
Li Yuan was the nephew of the Sui Dynasty Wen Dynasty Wen Emperor, and he was not a clumsy disciple, so he was deeply loved and valued by Emperor Wen of Sui and Empress Wen, but he did not know whether Emperor Wen of Sui had regrets when the Sui Dynasty fell.
Emperor Yang Jian of Sui was actually a good emperor, in the eyes of Westerners, he and Qin Shi Huang were the top two in the ranking of all emperors, and he took the lead in creating the sub-discipline examination, which was later the imperial examination, which was definitely far-reaching for future generations.
At this time, Li Yuan did not want to oppose it, but when the Sui Emperor Yang Guang came to power, it was different. The Sui Emperor Yang Guang was the son of Empress Wenwen, and li yuan was still a cousin, and he was adrift after he became emperor.
During the Sui Dynasty Emperor, the Construction of the Grand Canal seems to be a measure conducive to the people's livelihood, but at that time, where there were these modern equipment, all the work was done by the people, and the oppression of the people by building such a large project can be imagined. Moreover, Yang Guang is usually arrogant and lascivious, how comfortable and how to come, the result is that the people do not talk about life.
Wherever there was oppression, there was resistance, so there were many peasant uprisings at this time. At this time, Li Yuan was still a minister of the Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Emperor sent him to suppress it, and the suppression was suppressed, but Li Yuan's troops were constantly growing.
In 615, Li Yuan encountered a peasant revolt in Shanxi, and after suppressing it, he absorbed nearly 10,000 rebels. In 617, another peasant revolt was encountered in Taiyuan, which did not increase the strength of the army.
Later, Li Yuan attacked more and more people, and at the end of 617 AD, he attacked Chang'an. At this time, Li Yuan did not claim the title of emperor, but in the next year, Emperor Gong of Sui was forced to take the throne, and Li Yuan was officially proclaimed emperor.
Second, Li Yuan's fierce enemy Dou Jiande
Li Yuan's process of becoming emperor was not smooth sailing, and he also met Dou Jiande, a lifelong rival. Compared with Li Yuan, Dou Jiande's life was more bumpy, and when he was a child, his family was relatively poor and he made a living by farming.
When the Sui Dynasty Emperor wantonly recruited troops to attack Goryeo, Dou Jiande was elected as two hundred people because of his bravery and excellence, and later he always accepted those who fled or had no money at home, and slowly the team grew.
At that time, there were many bandits and thieves in Zhangnan County, burning and looting and robbing the people, but the only thing that did not rob Dou Jiande's hometown made the government have to suspect that Dou Jiande had colluded with the bandits, and as a result, dou Jiande's family was killed without evidence.
Can this Dou Jiande endure? So he stopped doing it and took his own people to cast Forstach. Gao Shida was also a good man, and knowing that his skills were inferior to those of others, he gave military power to Dou Jiande. Dou Jiande did a good job in leading troops to fight.
At that time, Zhuozhou Tongshou Guo Xuan led more than 10,000 horses to attack Gao Shida. At this time, Dou Jiande had just taken over the military power, and it was a good time to play, so he offered a plan to Gao Shida, pretended to fall out with Gao Shida, and voted for Guo Xuan.
He told Guo Xuan that he was willing to be the vanguard and take Guo Xuan to attack Gao Shida. This Guo Xuan was also, and he believed it without thinking much. After following Dou Jiande to the border of the Yangtze River, he planned to attack Gao Shida, but as a result, Gao Shida and Dou Jiande came to meet the outside world, taking advantage of their lack of preparation, killing thousands of Guo Xuan's men, capturing more than 1,000 warhorses, and capturing Guo Xuan's first rank, and Dou Jiande's reputation became famous for a while.
Among these heroes at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Dou Jiande was a man of benevolence and righteousness, and in a confrontation with Li Yuan, Dou Jiande captured Li Shiji's father and son, originally wanting to leave the two for his own use, but Li Shiji found the opportunity to flee back to Li Yuan's troops alone, leaving his old father alone at Dou Jiande's place.
At this time, Dou Jiande's men all advocated killing Li Shiji's father to make an example, but Dou Jiande said that Li Shijie left to be loyal, and had nothing to do with his father. It can be seen that Dou Jiande did not exterminate the enemy, and even admired his loyal subjects.
Dou Jiande was a peasant and a general who came out of the field, so he could better appreciate the hardships of the people. After occupying a certain amount of territory, he was very good to the local people, light taxes, and the people lived relatively well.
What is even more commendable is that his life is very simple, even if the conditions are good in the later period, he still maintains his previous habits, wearing ordinary clothes, eating food eaten by ordinary soldiers, and never treating it specially. If he hadn't died, it really wasn't certain who Jiang Shan was!
The reason for Dou Jiande's failure is inseparable from several of his major mistakes. Among them was the wrongful killing of Song Zhengben and Wang Fubao. Song Zhengben is a bit like Wei Zheng in Li Shimin's time, always advising Dou Jiande, and has given advice to Dou Jiande many times.
But Song Zhengben was a bit broken, and once annoyed Dou Jiande. Originally discouraged or a good courtier, but could not help but have a villain stir up dissension, Dou Jiande was provoked by the villain, even more angry, impulsively killed Song Zhengben.
Wang Fubao's situation is similar to that of Song Zhengben, except that Wang Fubao is a military general, who was jealous because of his obvious military achievements and was framed for rebellion. As soon as Dou Jiande heard this, this did not kill him again. He personally killed two major generals, one article and one martial artist, and it is not surprising that he will go downhill in the later stage.
By the way, if you want to gain Jiangshan, you still need to have a good son, seeing that Li Yuan also has a powerful son Li Shimin, when Li Yuan has not officially begun to seize Jiangshan, Li Shimin began to envelop haojie from all sides. More importantly, Li Shimin helped Li Yuan kill his strongest rival, Dou Jiande.
At the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass, Li Shimin led thousands of soldiers and horses against Dou Jiande's tens of thousands of people, and in the first battle, the two kings captured Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong to help Li Yuan unify the world. In the end, the world fell into the hands of Li Tang.
3. Summary
The world's major events, together for a long time, for a long time will be united, all the dynasties and dynasties have been like this, because Li Yuan became the emperor, there was the later Sheng Tang, if Dou Jiande became the lord of the world, what do you think will happen? Come and discuss it with everyone in the comments section.