There are two most famous turmoil in the history of the mainland, one is the shame of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty, and the other is the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, and the names of these two turmoil are just right, the shame of Jingkang is definitely a great shame of the Song Dynasty, and the Anshi Rebellion is really a pot of porridge.
The reason for the Anshi Rebellion must be very clear to those who know history, that is, An Lushan sent troops to riot, Li Longji had no choice but to flee, leaving the people of Luoyang behind him as a shield, so why did Li Longji, as the initiator of the "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era", finally come to this point? In fact, it is largely due to his personality.
The decay behind the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty
Li Longji's character is actually not as decisive as his ancestor Li Shimin, but it is no wonder, after all, Li Shimin is fighting all the way to the east and west, and he really stepped on the throne on the corpse of his brother, and Li Longji, as the emperor of Shouye, naturally does not need to do more killing.
It's just that when Li Longji took over the Tang Dynasty, it was just in time for his relatives to interfere in politics, that is, the end of Wu Zetian's era, which made a large part of the court belong to Wu Zetian's subordinates, but fortunately, Wu Zetian is also a wise empress, and most of the courtiers she left behind are capable ministers, such as Fang Xuanling, Pei Yaoqing and others.
Here I have to mention Li Longji's first character trait, that is, he is simple enough, relying on the help of Fang Xuanling and others, Li Longji can be said to be very frugal in the early stage, it can be said that among the emperors of all dynasties, he can be ranked first, plus Wu Zetian laid a good foundation for him in the Tang Dynasty, so the Tang Dynasty ushered in the grand occasion of "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era".
It's just that Li Longji is really a little too simple, and he will listen to anyone, if such an emperor is a loyal minister, then the country will definitely be governed very well, but in China's 5,000-year history, there is no shortage of traitors and corrupt officials.
Therefore, the appearance of Li Linfu is the beginning of Li Longji's decline, to say that Li Linfu has no other skills, patting the sycophants is a must, he often slipped in Li Longji's ears and patted the horse, making Li Longji think that the Tang Dynasty is strong enough, and he can have enough food and clothing without thrift, so the simple Li Longji believed Li Linfu's nonsense.
How could Zhang Jiuling be indifferent to Li Linfu's slander, but as the old saying goes, it's not easy to learn well, and if you learn badly, you slip away, plus Zhang Jiuling and others are very upright, so they can't fight Li Linfu who has a belly of flowers, so Datang was hollowed out by traitors like Li Linfu.
Li Longji's simplicity is not only reflected in the villain and Yuan Xianchen, but also in Yang Yuhuan's body, everyone knows that Yang Yuhuan has a part of the blood of the Hu people, so he has a very advantage in singing and dancing, which makes Li Longji, who also loves music and dance, love her.
Because of Yang Yuhuan's relationship, Li Longji pays special attention to the appointment of generals, among which the most famous figure is An Lushan, to say that this An Lushan is also a thoughtful person, he knows Yang Yuhuan's position in Li Longji's mind, so he tried every means to please Yang Yuhuan, for which Yang Yuhuan also begged Li Longji to give An Lushan a sign that he could enter and leave the palace at will.
Once Li Longji went to Yang Yuhuan to learn dance skills, and happened to see An Lushan sleeping in Yang Yuhuan's arms, and was immediately furious, but An Lushan said that he had recognized Yang Yuhuan as his mother, and in the tradition of the Hu people, the mother can sleep with her child in her arms at any time.
With the continuous consumption of An Lushan, Li Linfu and Yang Yuhuan, the Tang Dynasty became precarious, and finally in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan decided to send troops to rebel, seize the Tang Dynasty, and occupy Yang Yuhuan.
The Anshi Rebellion turned the Tang Dynasty into a Shura field
When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, An Lushan led the army to drive straight into Luoyang, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, but at this time Li Longji was still drunk in the arms of the beauty and couldn't help himself, and when he found out that An Lushan rebelled, An Lushan's army had already killed Tongguan, and Luoyang City was separated by a line.
Li Longji was furious when he knew it, and ordered his generals to resist desperately, but the generals under his command took refuge in An Lushan one after another, and the Han generals who could fight well were also marginalized because they were excluded, and they had more than enough strength to do so.
At this critical moment, the general Ge Shuhan, who guarded Tongguan, led the defenders to resist the pace of An Lushan's advance, although he was also a general, but he was concerned about the Tang Dynasty, but his soldiers did not think so, so before An Lushan attacked Tongguan, Ge Shuhan's army had a military admonition.
Although Ge Shuhan tried his best to suppress it, and immediately sent a request to Li Longji to send troops to help, but at this time, Li Longji did not believe in any generals at all, and in desperation, Ge Shuhan could only repay the country with death, delaying Li Longji's escape from Luoyang for some time.
Li Longji led his courtiers and royal family members to flee all the way south, and the soldiers under his command in front of Ma Weipo rebelled, they thought that the Tang Dynasty would be in such a situation because of the red face and trouble, so Li Longji had to give Yang Yuhuan to death in order to save his life.
Although he came to Sichuan safely under the escort of everyone, what he did had completely lost the support of the people, and no one was willing to listen to his dispatch, so many generals supported the prince who went north to ascend the throne and become the emperor, which was for Tang Suzong.
After Tang Suzong ascended the throne, he immediately united the surrounding vassal kings and wanted to raise troops to counterattack An Lushan's army, but was rejected by the vassal kings everywhere, because these people saw the decline of the Tang Dynasty, so they also wanted to taste the taste of being the emperor, so they rebelled one after another, the more famous is the Yongwang Li Lan, Li Bai wrote a lot of anti-poems for him.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty at that time can be said to be full of wolf smoke and constant wars, in addition to An Lushan's army, there is also the continuous division within the Tang Dynasty, and it is no wonder that the Anshi Rebellion will be crowned with the word "chaos".
However, after the army of Lushan sacked Luoyang City, they wanted to take advantage of the situation to go south to arrest Li Longji, but when they went south to Suiyang, they were blocked by Zhang Xun, which is the famous bloody battle of Suiyang in Chinese history.
Zhang Xun led less than 6,000 people, shook the local army of more than 100,000 people, and held on for 10 months, eating bark rats when the grain and grass were exhausted, and finally using his wives and concubines, slaves and even the people in the city as rations, which won precious time for Tang Suzong to quell the rebellion in the south, and when Suiyang City was destroyed, there were less than 400 people left in the city, and Suiyang was just the tip of the iceberg in the Anshi Rebellion.
But fortunately, Tang Suzong was wise enough, he appointed Guo Zixing, Gao Shi and others to suppress the rebellions one by one, after his death, Tang Dynasty Zong ascended the throne, and it took two generations eight years to restore the Tang Dynasty to peace, but after this battle, the Tang Dynasty was also greatly injured, and never regained its former glory, and a generation of empires has since declined. What do you think about this, welcome to leave a message and discuss in the comment area.
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