In the first year of Shenlong, Wu Zetian, who was already eighty-two years old, fell ill.
At this time, she has been an emperor for 15 years, and after reading thousands of sails, she is no longer the girl who was accepted as a talent by Li Shimin and carefully walked in the deep palace.
She has spent her life gorgeously, she has no desire or desire, what rivers and mountains, what power, what wealth, for her, after all, has become something outside her body.
She originally planned to completely change the power of the Tang Dynasty and pass her throne to their old martial artists, but under the persuasion of the courtiers, Wu Zetian finally gave up this plan.
Jiang Shan went around in a circle, but he still had to return to Li Tang, and Wu Zhou was just a flash in the pan after all.
However, looking at the seriously ill Wu Zetian, the courtiers who supported Li Tang Jiangshan could not bear it, and the opportunists led by Prime Minister Zhang Kamzhi immediately supported the restoration of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, killed Wu Zetian's favored brother Zhang Yizhi, and forced Wu Zetian to abdicate.
Wu Zetian understood that this step would come sooner, but she didn't expect that these courtiers would be so presumptuous, and they dared to force the palace when they were alive, but she thought about it in a blink of an eye, and could only let it go, after all, she had a hunch that her limit was coming.
The bloody storm in the palace seems to be normal to adults, but at this time, a prince with a weak crown witnessed the coup with his own eyes, his name is Li Longji, Wu Zetian's own grandson.
Born in the imperial family, how can there be any peace and security, this coup d'état had a great impact on Li Longji, and after he became the emperor and became the famous Tang Xuanzong, he deeply understood that power still had to be controlled in his own hands, and his courtiers and sons were unreliable.
In the first half of his life, Tang Xuanzong was a good emperor who worked hard to govern, and with his martial arts skills, he created a prosperous era in the first century, but in the second half of his life, he began to indulge in pleasure, and the glory of the Tang Dynasty gradually faded at this time.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, a total of 26 prime ministers were appointed, many of whom were talented, and there was no shortage of traitors, and Zhang Jiuling was a representative of the talented people.
And when he saw An Lushan for the first time, he left an eight-character prophecy, and the consequences of 22 years were really fulfilled, almost overturning the entire Tang Dynasty.
Few talents
No one will succeed casually, but what makes people very indignant is that there are always some people who are born close to success, and Zhang Jiuling is such a person.
Zhang Jiuling was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, his great-grandfather Zhang Junzheng served as a driver in Shaozhou, his grandfather Zhang Ziqian served as a Douzhou recorder to join the army, and his father Zhang Hongyu served as a county magistrate in Solu County, Xinzhou.
Zhang Jiuling has been smart and agile since childhood, and he can write extremely outstanding articles at a young age, and by the age of 13, he was already a famous local talent.
Wang Fangqing of Guangzhou also received his letter, and gave it a high evaluation after reading it, namely:
This son will go far.
Wang Fangqing's encouragement made Zhang Jiuling more confident, and he has always taken Wang Fangqing's encouragement as his goal, determined to get ahead in the future.
He was diligent and studious, he could write poetry and good writing, and what was in front of him was already the Avenue of Stars, and when he was in his twenties, he was already a scholar, and when Prime Minister Zhang said that he offended Wu Zetian's favored minister Zhang Zongchang and was degraded to Lingnan, he stayed in Shaozhou, and by chance, he read Zhang Jiuling's article and was deeply impressed.
Zhang said that he was a scholarly leader at that time, and under his strong affirmation, Zhang Jiuling's career was smoother.
After Tang Xuanzong became emperor, Zhang Jiuling also became a great reputation in the political arena, and later even became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and for a time, the scenery was infinite, and he made his own contributions to the prosperity of the new century.
It can be said that the reason why Kaiyuan can become a prosperous era is inseparable from Zhang Jiuling, but the beautiful scenery of the prosperous era makes Tang Xuanzong addicted to it, and when he is content to enjoy, Geng Zhi's Zhang Jiuling began to be out of place, and Tang Xuanzong no longer respected and treated this meritorious minister.
On the issue of An Lushan, Tang Xuanzong directly vetoed Zhang Jiuling.
First meeting Hu people
In the twentieth year of the first century, Zhang Shoujue, who served as the envoy of Youzhou Jiedu, caught a sheep thief and prepared to beat him to death.
Unexpectedly, this sheep thief issued a cry in the face of the worry of life:
The doctor does not want to destroy the two Fanya? What is killing Lushan!
After hearing this, Zhang Shoujue felt very interesting, he did not expect that a sheep thief could still say such a big husband's words, and during the torture, he learned that this person's name was An Lushan.
Zhang Shoujue saw that he was white and fat and full of arrogance, so he released him, then left him in the army, and arranged for him to go with Shi Siming to capture prisoners.
Not to mention, An Lushan really has two brushes, and every time he can complete the task on time, Zhang Shoujue promoted him to be a partial general, because An Lushan is still very pleasing to people, so much so that he was also accepted as a righteous son by Zhang Shoujue.
With a backer, An Lushan also embarked on a road of soaring, and under Zhang Shoujue's promotion, he even personally went to Chang'an to enter Beijing to meet him.
According to the practice at that time, if you want to see the emperor, you must first meet the prime minister, and in this case, An Lushan and Zhang Jiuling had their first meeting.
Zhang Jiuling can be the prime minister, his eyes are like a torch, he can see at a glance that An Lushan is a treacherous person, and he also concludes that this person will commit chaos in the future, so he said his eight-character prophecy to Pei Guangting, the attendant:
Those who are in chaos will be this nonsense!
Prophecy fulfilled
In the twenty-fourth year of the Kaiyuan, An Lushan was already a general of Pinglu, and under Zhang Shoujue's arrangement, he led his army to attack the Khitan, but the battle was unfavorable and he returned with a great defeat.
Failure, there are always people to pay for this, of course Zhang Shoujue will not bear the pot for this godson, and he is full of thoughts that he has raised his godson for so long, it is time for him to make a return, so without thinking, he asked the imperial court to behead An Lushan.
According to the laws of the Great Tang Dynasty, beheading is not a local official to decide, and it is necessary to escort the Jingshi and ask the imperial court to decide.
An Lushan was escorted to Chang'an, Zhang Jiuling did not hesitate to approve the text, in order to be serious military discipline, An Lushan should be beheaded for public display, in addition, he also wrote a special letter to Tang Xuanzong, the text is written like this:
When the army is sent out, Zhuangjia will be beheaded; Sun Wu ordered and beheaded the palace concubines. If the order of the Shou Jue army is carried out, Lushan should not avoid death.
To put it bluntly, it is to say to Tang Xuanzong that no matter what others say, it cannot exempt An Lushan's death penalty, in Zhang Jiuling's view, as long as An Lushan loses his head, then his prophecy will not come true.
However, at this time, Tang Xuanzong did not listen to Zhang Jiuling's advice at all, and he directly said this:
Qing didn't think that Wang Yifu knew Shi Le, so he assumed that Lushan was difficult to subdue Ya?
It means that there is a difference between people and people, and you say that An Lushan will be chaotic and unrestrained, that is all your guess, and it cannot be true.
Therefore, Tang Xuanzong waved his pen, in order to reflect the emperor's mighty grace, he directly released An Lushan, and after that, An Lushan secretly accumulated strength in the border pass and gradually had the capital to rebel.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang summoned An Lushan to Beijing, but he deduced that he was ill, and An Lushan felt that the time was ripe, so he rebelled from Fan Yang, and an Anshi Rebellion that almost overthrew the Tang Dynasty began.
At this time, Zhang Jiuling had passed away, and 22 years had passed since he first saw An Lushan, and the prophecy he had made had really come true, but Tang Xuanzong had taken it as a deaf ear...
References: "Old Book of Tang", "New Book of Tang", etc.
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