The Tang Dynasty, one of the most prosperous periods in Chinese history, stood proudly and stood proudly, with a land area of 12.37 million square kilometers, an area equal to the Arab Empire at that time, and was called the most powerful empire in the world. The GDP of the Tang Dynasty accounted for 58% of the world economy. The main hall of the Tang Dynasty, Daming Palace, was the most splendid palace complex in the world at that time. The area is equivalent to the four Forbidden City in Beijing; It can be described as extremely prosperous, there are emperors who guide the rivers and mountains, there are arrogant civil servants, and military generals who use soldiers like gods. There are graceful and noble concubines, more radiant poetry and poetry saints and the backbone that will never fall after thousands of years, this is the Tang Dynasty, and the Qingshi volume describes for us the prosperous era that lasted 289 years and began in 618 AD.
In May 617, Li Yuan of Taiyuan City set up an empty city plan to scare off tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers, and at this time Li Yuan was still a migrant worker under Emperor Sui! The Sui Emperor failed in his three conquests of Liaodong, and the Sui Dynasty also fell into turmoil in the country, complaining that the people were not living! At this time, Liu Wuzhou, a captain under Li Yuan, raised troops against Sui, and Emperor Sui also wanted to punish Li Yuan for this, and Li Yuan's second son Li Shimin had been looking forward to his father Jackie Chan for a long time, and he took the opportunity to persuade Li Yuan to raise troops against Sui. In just three years, Li Yuan fought from Taiyuan to Chang'an, successfully opening the prelude to the Tang Dynasty in 618 AD!
After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin defeated Li Rail of Longxi and Xue Ju of Western Qin, and then eliminated Dou Jiande the King of Xia and Wang Shizhong of Luoyang to stabilize the situation of the Tang Dynasty.
After Li Yuan ascended the throne, his eldest son Li Jiancheng was smashed by the prince's throne that fell from the sky, but this prince's position was Li Shimin, the king of Qin, who had laid down most of the rivers and mountains for Li Yuanxu! Seeing that the hand-cooked duck flew, Li Shimin took his soldiers and horses to find his brother Li Jiancheng to ask for explanations! On July 2, 626, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Rebellion. Li Jiancheng was sealed by a sword, and Li Yuanji could not escape death. After disposing of competitors for the throne. Li Shimin forced Li Yuan to retire early, and after that, Li Shimin became the chairman of the Tang Empire.
In order to make the Tang family business bigger and stronger, Li Shimin worked diligently after taking the throne, he pacified the Turks, conquered Goryeo, sent Tang monks to learn scriptures, and sent Princess Wencheng and his relatives. Under his rule, the Tang Dynasty became the big brother of all countries in the world, and Tang culture penetrated into neighboring countries such as Koryo in Japan, and its fame spread far and wide! But Li Shimin could not have imagined that a five-rank talent in the future palace would take the rivers and mountains of the auditorium for himself! In Li Shimin's later years, both the crown prince Li Chengqian and the Wei king Li Tai took a fancy to their father's throne, and both sides were kicked out of the throne candidates in the open and secret battle, and the result was that the cowardly and incompetent Li Zhi became the final winner, in 649 AD. Li Zhi ascended the throne and sat on the throne, and also tried to arrange for Wu Zetian to be the queen. With this to attack the old ministers Sun Wuji and Chu Suiliang, he truly achieved a monopoly of power and expanded the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the maximum! However, due to poor health, Li Zhi often asked Empress Wu Zetian to deal with imperial affairs, and the imperial power gradually fell, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang died Li Zhi. Prince Li Xian ascended the throne, and soon after was deposed as the King of Luling, the throne was handed over to Li Zhi's fourth son Li Dan, and after the sons took turns to go around on the throne, Wu Zetian decided: roll up your sleeves and do it yourself! In 690 AD, she demoted Li to the throne and became emperor herself! Wu Zetian created the martial arts system, reused imperial examination talents, and employed people regardless of origin, Di Renjie, Zhang Xiangzhi, Yao Chong and other famous ministers were all accepted into the talent warehouse during Wu Zetian's period. But on the other hand, she appointed cool officials and built the Vientiane Divine Palace, which also caused panic among the people in the imperial court! In 696 AD, the Khitan people raised troops under the pretext of supporting Li Tang, and she deposed Li Xian the King of Luling. Under the double pressure of internal and external. Ah, Wu Zetian had to use his son Li Xian to quell the rebellion! In his later years, Wu Zetian was addicted to pleasure and had no intention of dynasty, and Li Xian, who had restored his status as a prince, was not willing to be a mom boy all the time, and under the support of the minister, Li Xiang launched a Shenlong coup in 696 AD and was restored to the throne as emperor! Among all the emperors of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xian's throne was the most special, his father was the emperor, his younger brother was the emperor, his son was the emperor, and his nephew was the emperor, so history gave him a very loud nickname: "Liuwei Dihuang Pill". The status is so prominent, but Li Xian's own life is very humiliated, just got rid of the identity of Ma Baonan, and fell into the shadow of his wife's strict management, he disposed of many ministers who participated in the Shenlong coup during his reign, and at the same time allowed Empress Wei and Princess Anle to interfere in imperial politics, and finally died at the hands of Empress Wei.
On July 21, 710 AD, Princess Taiping and Li Longji, the king of Linzi, joined forces to launch the Tanglong coup, killed Empress Wei and Princess Anle, and supported the prime minister Li Dan, for Li Dan, the throne is like a hot ass potato, from her mother to now his sister and son all stared at his dragon chair, the burning gaze stopped the throne until it was hot, sure enough, Li Longji quickly got rid of Princess Taiping! Li Dan is also very familiar with Li Longji, the son of the Zen position of current affairs, and then greeted his sunset red life.
At the beginning of ascending the throne, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji worked hard to govern, and Li Tang Company was renewed! After that, he opened up the territory to revive the economy, and finally won the reputation of the Kaiyuan era, Chang'an's population and grain production grew rapidly, such as: Tang Sancai, Tang Kai and other handicrafts and cultural development also flourished! At this time, the Tang Dynasty, Haiyan Heqing. The capital city of Chang'an is worthy of the capital of the Son of Heaven! It is 5 times the size of the city of Rome, and Bai Chang'an's study abroad has also become a world fashion, and the famous Li Bai was contaminated with immortal qi in the prosperous era of the New Century, and wrote ink and exported poetry. Du Fu did not hesitate to praise Chang'an: rice is fat and corn is white, and public and private warehouses are abundant! Every word is a praise for the prosperous era of the New Century. When life goes well, pleasure becomes justified.
In the later period of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang slacked off the imperial government, indulging in Yang Guifei's neon dress and feathering dance, Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong took advantage of the void to enter, the dictatorship misled the country, the central government gradually weakened, and the local power quickly expanded. Three towns festival envoy, An Lushan quietly moved the mind, in 755 AD An Shi Rebellion broke out, An Shi Rebellion broke out, Tang Xuanzong pursued a strategy of running away if he couldn't fight, the emperor fled in a hurry, and Yang Guifei was also in Ma Weipo Xiangxiang Yuyun! In order to defeat the rebels, the crown prince Li Heng ascended the throne as Emperor Suzong of Tang. At this time, An Lushan did not know that his son An Qingxu had long been dissatisfied with his father and top boss, and that others killed pigs and killed his father in the first month, and finally snatched the position of his father Yan King into his hands. At this time, the Tang army fought to the death, Zhang Xun held Yuyang, Li Guangbi held Taiyuan, Li Yu the King of Guangping led Guo Siyi, Li Siye and other generals to subdue Chang'an and Luoyang, and finally saved the country from danger, which lasted for eight years. This werewolf killing called Anshi Rebellion is completely over! At this time, Emperor Suzong of Tang had already died, and the emperor's turn was Li Yu, the emperor, and the foundation of the Li and Tang dynasties was also destroyed by half in this century-old disaster, and the once prosperous Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline.
During the reign of Emperor Daizong of Tang, the chaotic administration of eunuchs and the attack of Tubo dealt the first blow to the still cultivated Tang Dynasty, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty recovered the twelve prefectures of Ziqing in 819 AD, which ended the situation of the clan and town since Emperor Daizong and created the Yuan and Zhongxing. This is the first time that the Tang Dynasty returned blood after the Anshi Rebellion, but after Tang Xianzong, the quality of the monarchs of the Tang Dynasty was not as good as a generation, Tang Muzong Li Heng, Tang Jingzong Li Zhan, Tang Wenzong Li Ang are all the kind of faint kings who can't pass the quality inspection, they caused the three towns of Heshuo to rebel again, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty continued to decline, although the writing ability is insufficient, but the dream is still there. In 835, Emperor Wenzong launched the Manna Revolution, ostensibly allowing the eunuch group to go to see the manna from the sky, but in fact secretly ambushed at the manna, intending to kill the eunuchs, but the plan failed, and it was not until Tang Wuzong Li Yan ascended the throne that he attacked the eunuchs to weaken the domain, defeated Hui, and let the Tang Dynasty return the second blood.
In April 846, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang succeeded to the throne with the support of eunuchs, who stabilized the political situation internally, defeated Tubo externally, stabilized northern Saibei, pacified Annan, and accepted Hehuang, which returned to Tang, known in history as the rule of Dazhong. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was thin and dying, and the Zhongxing at this time was also a return to the light before the fall of the Tang Dynasty.
In 878 AD, the outbreak of the Huangchao Uprising directly led to the rapid decline of the national strength of the late Tang Dynasty, and the once powerful Tang Dynasty was fragmented, and there was no possibility of repair, and in 907 AD, the general Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, drawing a complete end to the Tang Dynasty, and the 289-year-old Tang Dynasty was finally submerged in the long river of history.