During the Anshi Rebellion, why did Li Heng usurp his father Emperor Xuanzong's throne?
After the Outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Chang'an fell and the Tang Dynasty was in jeopardy.
However, the crown prince not only did not follow his father, but instead claimed the title of emperor without authorization.
Why is the prince so rebellious?
Forced by the situation, if Li Heng did not usurp the throne, he would undoubtedly die.
Ge Shuhan's 200,000 troops shed blood at Tongguan. At this time, the imperial capital Chang'an was definitely unable to hold on. Not only is Chang'an unstoppable, but Guanzhong is also unstoppable. Therefore, yang Guozhong, the chancellor, rushed to Sichuan to protect Tang Xuanzong.
Why Sichuan?
Because between Guanzhong and Sichuan was the Qin Mountains, Fan Yang's cavalry at An Lu Mountain could not break through the Qin Mountains no matter how strong they were. Also because Yang Guozhong's base was in Sichuan, Yang Guozhong led the Jiannan Jiedushi from afar. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong must go to Sichuan.
However, the Guanzhong people retreated. The emperor has run away, what will happen to the people? Is it all for the rebels? However, at this time, it was not the turn of the Guanzhong Elders to appear. The first to attack was Prince Li Heng.
Ma Songyi's change had a purpose, that is, to kill Yang Guozhong, the chancellor.
It doesn't matter whether Yang Guozhong is a traitor or loyal. But one thing is important: he was a favorite of Emperor Xuanzong. Since Li Linfu, the chancellor, the relationship between Tang Cheng and the crown prince has been not good. After Li Linfu became the prime minister, he began to make him crown prince. Yang Guozhong asked the dead Li Linfu to cut open the coffin to get the beads, and then began to get the prince.
Li Heng's usurpation of the throne of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was purely an outbreak of years of repression
In his later years, Tang Xuanzong felt that his first half of his life was indispensable. He was satisfied with his results and looked proud.
Ancient Chinese emperors reigned for more than 40 years, or turned 60 years old, suffered from a disease called the old emperor syndrome.
In ancient times, there were also many emperors who did not like politics in old age, and gave up the throne to their sons to take care of the country. It's not a bad choice either.
But Li Longji was too afraid that once he handed over power, he would die without a place to die, because this was the Tang Dynasty.
In order to seize power, Emperor Taizong of Tang forced his brother to force his father, and Li Jiancheng, the crown prince, forced Li Yuan to pass the throne to himself. Eventually, he died of depression. In the later years of Emperor Taizong of Tang, the self-taught crown prince Li Chengqian betrayed him. Although Li Shimin did not kill him from the perspective of father-son affection, he also set a precedent for the contradiction between the Emperor and the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Zhi's sons had a hard time, until Li Longji, as the crown prince, was disappointed, killed his aunt, forced his father to abdicate, and finally became the holy lord of the Tang Dynasty. Fighting ground fighting, fighting ground fighting, human fighting, fun is endless. In the political struggle of the first half of Li Longji's life, he was never defeated. Not because he was a benevolent emperor, but because he was cruel enough.
After Li Longji came to power, Kaiyuan was made crown prince for three years, reigning for more than twenty years. As a result, because of the frame-up of Li Longji's favored concubine Wu Hui, Li Longji did not even check and took Li Ying and Li Yao and Guang Wang of Hubei away. Wang Liju was reduced to a commoner and died soon after.
Tiger poison still does not eat children. Tang Taizong killed his brother and persecuted his father. When his son rebelled, he could not bear to carry it out. Speaking of Li Longji, a good man, he killed three sons in one day. Throughout the history of Chinese emperors, no matter how cruel the emperor was. Not a single day killed three sons.
Li Heng became the prince in such an environment, and you can imagine how anxious he was in his heart
Throughout Chinese history, you will find several of the most difficult to be king. The first is prince Mingjun. Because Mingjun is so smart, he can see through you at a glance. If you're inferior to him, he's not happy. If you're worse than him, you have a little insight. , he thinks you are not compatible with him; There is also a kind of prince, that is, the crown prince of the emperor, who is still alive when he is old, and such a person is too hard, and he can even boil the prince to death; There is also a kind of Datang Prince, all The Tang Princes are not easy!
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In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. In the fifteenth year of Tianbao, the rebel army pointed directly at Chang'an.
On June 13, Tang Xuanzong led the harem and guards to flee Beijing.
On the 14th, a mutiny occurred at Mawei Station.
Emperor Xuanzong fled in a hurry. There were about three thousand guards, and Li Heng led two thousand people behind the palace, including the elite unit of the Forbidden Army, the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army. In addition, Li Heng's two sons, Li Chu the Prince of Guangping and Li Chi the Prince of Jianning, both had close associates.
A perfect opportunity was placed in front of Li Heng.
In the wilderness, the emperor fled for his life, holding absolute military power in his hands, and was an upright prince.
Li Heng, who broke out from the battle of the power field, could not have failed to see this opportunity, and it was even more impossible to miss this heavenly opportunity.
Even if he wanted to let go, the prince's advisers would not let go of this opportunity.
In the end, the soldiers of the imperial army broke out in a riot due to hunger and cold at the right time, and hacked Yang Guozhong's father and son and other members of the Yang family to death. Chen Xuanli then stepped forward and asked Xuanzong to rule Yang Guifei, but Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to kill Yang Guifei.
Li Heng was the biggest beneficiary of the Maweipo Mutiny. In one fell swoop, he eliminated the suppression of the Chancellor clique in the Xuanzong era and completely stabilized the position of prince.
After the mutiny, Li Heng bid farewell to Xuanzong at Maweipo. Li Heng divided his troops and sought development, and did not follow Xuanzong into Shu. He completely got rid of Tang Xuanzong's shadow, and even got rid of the possible future liquidation.
On July 12, 15th year of Tianbao, Li Heng ascended the throne of Lingwu City and honored Emperor Xuanzong as Emperor Taishang. After taking the throne, he sent someone to inform Tang Xuanzong, who had just settled in Sichuan, and asked for seals and other artifacts symbolizing imperial power.
The general trend was gone, and Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to accept the fact that he had become emperor and hand over the seal.
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