In the previous article, we mentioned the rebellion of the warlord Li Changfu that occurred during the reign of Emperor Tang, and the person who put down this rebellion was Li Maozhen, the envoy of Fengxiang Jiedu.
Quelling Li Changfu's rebellion was the first pot of gold That Li Maozhen had earned in the chaotic world, which also helped him embark on the road of warlordization.
After the eunuch Yang Fugong supported the army to disobey, Li Maozhen immediately volunteered to attack Yang Fugong, Tang Zhaozong knew that Li Maozhen was not a good thing, and when he destroyed Yang Fugong, it was likely that the situation in Guanzhong would get out of control, but at this time Tang Zhaozong was powerless to prevent all this from happening.
Sure enough, after Li Maozhen destroyed Yang Fugong, he immediately applied to Tang Zhaozong to take over the territory that Yang Fugong had recently occupied.
Tang Zhaozong's attitude toward this was simple, if you wanted to take over the territory that Yang Fugong occupied not long ago, you had to hand over the Fengxiang you now occupied.
Mao Zhen sent troops to attack Xingyuan, and Fugong father and son were killed. Mao Zhen's son succeeded to the secret power to know the affairs of the Xingyuan Military Government, and Emperor Zhaozong was the emissary of the Southern And Western Province of Mao Zhenshan, with the chancellor Xu Yanruo zhen Fengxiang.
Li Maozhen was not at all interested in this suggestion, so he refused, and then began to forcibly annex Yang Fugong's territory, and Tang Zhaozong could do nothing about it.
When things got to this point, Tang Zhaozong's control over Guanzhong was challenged as never before, because it meant that guanzhong's warlordization was out of control.
After Li Maozhen further warlordized, he began to continuously extend his hand to the central government. He taught the emperor a big lesson at every turn, and taught the emperor how to do things.
Li Maozhen was arrogant and arrogant, and the above table and the testament of Du Rangneng could write, and the words were not inferior.
When Tang Zhaozong saw that Li Maozhen was so arrogant, he was so angry that he only wanted to send troops to attack him, at this time, the chancellor Du Rangneng said to the emperor that the territory occupied by Li Maozhen was too close to Chang'an City, and if we could defeat him, naturally we could say anything, and if he defeated him, it would be a bad thing.
Shang Yi was angry, decided to rebuke Mao Zhen, and ordered Du To let him take charge of his affairs, so that he could advise: "Your Majesty has just arrived at the Great Treasure, the country has not yet been destroyed, Mao Zhen is close to the gate of the country, and the subject is foolish to think that it is not appropriate to complain about it, in case he does not refrain, he will not be able to regret it." ”
Tang Zhaozong said to Du Rangneng that you are the prime minister, as long as you do a good job in logistics, as for how to fight, this is the matter for which the military director should be responsible. The meaning of these words is to say: If I don't give Li Maozhen some color to see, I really can't swallow this breath!
Shang: "The royal family is becoming inferior, and ordering not to go abroad is the autumn of the indignation of the heroes." The medicine is dizzy, and the disease is dizzy. He could not be willing to be the lord of cowardice, to live his days, and to sit back and watch the tombs. If the Qing Dynasty dispatches soldiers to feed and entrusts the kings with troops, then the Chinese and foreign ministers should coerce their forces to become holy wills, and should not be appointed as their subjects alone. ”
Du Rangneng told the emperor that Emperor Jing of Han was bent on cutting the domain, and as a result, Liu Hao, the king of Wu, was beaten precariously, and finally he could only hand over the wrong head. I'm just afraid now, when Li Maozhen gets out of control, even if you hand over my head, you won't be able to keep Chang'an City away from the fire. However, since you are bent on encircling and suppressing Li Maozhen, I will not find a reason to shirk it.
Jean Neng cried, "How dare the minister avoid things!" As for those who His Majesty desires to do, The Aspirations of Emperor Xianzong are also indispensable to the times, and they are unable to hear them. However, he was afraid that his disciples would be cursed by the mistakes of shaking, and they could not overcome the calamities of the Seven Kingdoms. Dare not obey the commandment, and follow it to death! ”
The result? As soon as the emperor's army went out, Li Maozhen was defeated, and Li Maozhen's army soon approached Chang'an City, and the entire Chang'an City was in chaos.
Yi Li Maozhen and Wang Xingyu combined nearly 60,000 troops, and the army refused to do so. The forbidden army was all newly recruited city well teenagers, Mao Zhen and Xingyu generals were all border troops in a hundred battles, Nongwu, Mao Zhen and others entered Fuxingping, the forbidden army all looked forward to the wind and fled, Mao Zhen and others took advantage of the victory to attack the three bridges, the capital was shaken, and the soldiers and people scattered.
At this point in the development of the situation, the two sides had little face to take care of, and Li Maozhen's attitude was simple, asking Tang Zhaozong to kill the prime minister Du Rang to atone for his sins.
Tang Zhaozong said that Du Rangneng could be punished, but he could not be executed, but Li Maozhen did not budge in the slightest, and if you do not kill Du Rangneng, the prime minister, we will continue to fight. In this context, Tang Zhaozong could only kill Du Rangneng in the end.
Li Maozhen was puzzled, and asked Du Toneng to return to the town, and Cui Zhaowei fu attacked it. In the winter, in October, Shirō and his brother Hubu Shilang Hiroshi committed suicide.
Li Maozhen's intention in doing so was very simple, that is, he hoped that the senior officials of the central government would have a clear understanding of the situation and would never help the emperor to oppose him in the future, and if Tang Zhaozong wanted to oppose him, the senior officials would also have to find a way to stop it. Otherwise, if Li Maozhen turned his face, they would definitely not have good fruit to eat.
Since the imperial court moved and moved, the southern and northern divisions often attached themselves to the two towns to invite favors.
After Du Rangneng was killed, Li Maozhen also sent two political commissars to the central government, and the central government had to get their consent to make any decision. Otherwise, Li Maozhen will be angry, and the consequences will be very serious.
There are Cui and Wang Chao, who are the judges of the second town, and those who have the son of heaven have something to do, and those who do not succeed in it, they sue Yu and Chao, and the two teach Mao Zhen and Xing Yu to discuss it in the upper chapter, and the imperial court rarely violates it, and its words are not inferior.
Up to this point, the largest powerful faction in Guanzhong was no longer the central government represented by Tang Zhaozong, but the Fengxiang warlord clique represented by Li Maozhen.
If that's the end of the day, the central government can maintain a little bit of basic decency. The problem was that a few years later, Tang Zhaozong and Li Maozhen clashed again, and Li Maozhen once again led an army to attack Chang'an City, which once again dealt a blow to the authority of the central government.
Tang Zhaozong couldn't bear it and wanted to leave Guanzhong to seek opportunities for Li Keyong, and when he was about to walk out of Guanzhong, Han Jian of Shaanzhou came over and persuaded that Li Maozhen was indeed not a thing, but do you think that Li Keyong is a thing? The world is as black as a crow, you just bear with it, if it really can't work, just stay in Shaanzhou, I am the great loyal minister.
Tang Zhaozong didn't say anything after listening to it, but he knew in his heart: Li Maozhen is not a thing, Li Keyong is not a thing, you Han Jian is also not a thing, you only have one sentence in the whole article, that is, the world is as black as a crow.
Although he understood in his heart, at this time, Tang Zhaozong had already entered Han Jian's territory, what to do? Naturally, he could only pinch his nose and thank Han Jian.
Not long after, Han Jian of Shaanzhou pulled Tang Zhaozong over and bullied him as much as he wanted, and Tang Zhaozong was bullied miserably, but he had no choice but to return to Chang'an City again and accept Li Maozhen's bullying.
Although Tang Zhaozong at this time was not the Han Xian Emperor, compared with the Han Xian Emperor, I am afraid that he was really not much stronger.
In general, from the perspective of the central government represented by Tang Zhaozong, the unity of the emperor, eunuchs, courtiers, and central army is the most in line with their interests.
The problem is that this kind of reasoning is very simple, but the specific operation is extremely complicated, Tang Zhaozong is not a master of tai chi, he just wants to break the game hard, and the result is to make things worse and worse.
Even more frightening is that the struggle between the courtier system and the eunuch system will not end. In the end, everyone had to blush, and the eunuch system fell to Li Maozhen's side, and the courtier system fell to Zhu Wen's side.
Initially, Zhu Wen defeated Li Maozhen, and the eunuch system was killed in a mess, and so far, it seems that the courtier system has won. And then what? Zhu Wen turned his head and killed the courtier system again.
So far, Tang Zhaozong had become a standard puppet. If time could be returned, what would he do? What would the heads of eunuchs and courtiers do? This is too hard to say.
Many times we like to say that people cannot learn any lessons from history. Yes, in the face of interests, there is really no warmth to speak of. The point is that the prisoner's plight is never easy to get rid of.
Don't talk about bystanders, that is, the parties go back again, I am afraid that they will continue to walk along the old road again. All in all, the last time the car rolled over, it was only because when I turned left, the curve was a little bigger. When I turned left this time, as long as the bend was smaller, I could cross this hurdle.
When the brothers Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were fiercely fighting and bent on merging, it was inevitable that someone would teach them a big lesson. In short, brothers are like brothers and sisters, and if they kill each other, people are ruined. There are too many examples of the fall of the country in history, brothers with one heart, and their profits are broken. So, if you two brothers take a step back, you can do whatever you want. The question is, who of the two brothers would take that step back?
More importantly, Li Shimin did not believe in evil, and even more used practical actions to tell future generations a truth, internal fire and merger, as long as the fire is good, it is possible to fire and produce a powerful empire. In other words, if you fire within and bring the Empire to pieces, it's because you're not good enough.
Fire between brothers is not so, not to mention fire between the eunuch system and the courtier system.
In the grandiose theory, only by firing the eunuch system and getting out of the game can the empire have a chance to ZTE, so can the courtier system compromise at will?
After the end of the Huangchao Rebellion, the basic disk owned by the emperor, although it still seemed to be very large, but because of the internal contradictions, it was tossed weaker and weaker, and finally made the Tang Dynasty a history.