A war that lasted for more than seven years directly led to the disappearance of two-thirds of the population of the Great Tang. At the time of the Anshi Rebellion, there were only 200 million people in the world, and if you convert it proportionally, the Anshi Rebellion occurred in the 20th century, and 429 million people would have disappeared from the earth. After this war, the people's psychology has undergone qualitative changes, and the concept that people who are not of our race and whose hearts must be different has influenced future generations of people.
The then emperor Tang Xuanzong - Li Longji was still very enlightened in the early days of his tenure, building water conservancy and attaching importance to agricultural production. With the joint efforts of the monarchs, the Tang Dynasty in this period was politically stable, economically prosperous, civilized, and powerful, and the Tang Dynasty entered its heyday. Before the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the country's population was about 52.92 million, and the country's annual grain output could reach 600 million bags, converted into today's unit of measurement, and the per capita grain output was above 700 municipal levels. What is this concept? China's grain production reached this figure in 1983. The condition for the Tang Dynasty people to take fat as beauty was that the common people could eat fat.
All nations come to the dynasty
In the later period of Tianbao, Li Longji thought that he had entered the peaceful and prosperous era, gradually lost his enterprising spirit, and concentrated on poetry, song and dance. Li Longji first deposed the honest and capable prime minister Zhang Jiuling, and successively appointed the traitors Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong as prime ministers. And this Yang Guozhong is Li Longji, the clan brother of Yang Guifei, who is pampered.
In the eighth year of Tianbao, Li Longji abolished the prefectural military system, adopted the mercenary system, and set up the Jiedu Envoy, in order to facilitate the use of the Jiedu Envoy, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji began to delegate power, and the Jiedu Envoy could not only hold military power, but also have the administrative power of the jurisdiction. An Lushan is one of the many festivals. An Lushan was originally a war criminal, but because of his good dancing, he made Yang Guifei and Li Longji happy, and was later recognized by Yang Guifei as a godson, but An Lushan has always had the idea of revenge in his heart, and the fuse was on Prime Minister Yang Guozhong.
An Lushan danced for Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei
Yang Guozhong shouted every day that An Lushan wanted to rebel, and in 755 AD, An Lushan gathered 150,000 troops, in the name of plotting against Yang Guozhong, he raised troops in Fanyang, he had 150,000 mercenaries, equivalent to nearly 1/3 of the total strength of the Tang Dynasty at that time, the army went all the way south, destroyed the decay, almost encountered no resistance, and easily crossed the Yellow River. What is Tang Xuanzong Li Longji doing at this time? He soaked in the hot springs with Yang Guifei in the palace, completely not believing that An Lushan would rebel, until the news from the front kept coming that Li Longji recognized the reality.
An Lushan Army
In December 755, Luoyang fell, and on the first day of the first lunar month of the following year, An Lushan was declared emperor in Luoyang, and the state name was Dayan. Chang'an, the capital of the Great Tang Dynasty, soon defended, the once prosperous Chang'an City instantly became a purgatory on earth, the rebels burned and robbed crossbows in the city, all evil, anti-thieves searched house to door, not to mention the gold and silver soft, even a copper plate was not left for the people, after looting, but also set fire to the house, in the eyes of the rebels, people are no longer people, but prey. For a while, the corpses in Chang'an City were piled up, blood flowed like rivers, and mourning was everywhere, which was miserable.
Chang'an Tucheng map
On June 14, 756, when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled to Ma Songpo, the forbidden army soldiers accompanying him were dissatisfied with the high spirits of Prime Minister Yang Guozhong, and rushed up to kill Yang Guozhong, and then forced Yang Guifei to hang herself, which is the famous Ma Songpo Incident.
The Ma Peng Po Incident
According to official statistics, the population of the Great Tang was 52.92 million, and in the second year after the Anshi Rebellion, the population was only more than 16.9 million. Since then, the feudal dynasty, from the ministers of the Son of Heaven to the ordinary people, has a full sense of vigilance in the face of foreign races, treating all foreign objects as ominous, and it is difficult to reproduce the spectacular scene of all nations, an open China gradually moved towards closure, from the position of the center of the world to a state of derailment from the world.