Tang Xuanzong Li Chen is also a small Internet celebrity level in the Tang Tianzi, before the well-known Hong Kong drama "Gong Xin Ji", the current hit "Royal Gifts of Small Servants", and the yet to be broadcast "Dream Awakening Chang'an", so although his popularity is not as good as the second high Taixuan, but compared with other Li Tianzi's appearance rate, it is still quite high.
In TV dramas, Tang Xuanzong is always portrayed as a good emperor who is stoic, decent, and effective, of course, this is due to the excessive praise of Tang Xuanzong by historians in the traditional old history, so he is always a positive and tall and glorious image in the play.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Chen, was the son of Emperor Xianzong of Tang, the younger brother of Emperor Muzong of Tang, the thirteenth uncle of Emperor Jingzong of Tang, Li Ang of Emperor Wenzong of Tang, and Li Yan of Emperor Jingzong of Tang, and his birth mother, Zheng Shi, was originally a concubine of Li Kun of Zhenhai Jiedushi, who was killed because of Li Kun's rebellion against the imperial court and was killed.
Due to the low status of the Zheng clan, Li Chen, who was named the King of Light, was also small and transparent, and he was usually silent and discriminated against, and everyone thought he was a fool.
According to the Two Tang Dynasties, the eunuchs were because king Guang was not smart, so after the death of Emperor Wuzong, they supported this uncle Guang to take the throne, thinking that he was better controlled! As a result, Li Chen, who had become emperor, was unusual, and the eunuchs suddenly realized that his stupidity was all pretending.
Tang Xuanzong was touted by historians as Little Taizong, that is to say, he was similar to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, diligent in government affairs, courteous and simple, clearly distinguished between public and private, not favoring selfish feelings, and liked to emulate Tang Taizong and take Emperor Taizong as an example and strive to revitalize the Tang Dynasty.
But in fact, Tang Xuanzong's name of Ming Jun, but the big man in the short, was set off by the late Tang Emperor and Xuanzong's mediocre and incompetent descendants, which made Tang Xuanzong not bad.
First of all, Tang Xuanzong's ascension to the throne was not that he was foolish enough to be chosen by the eunuchs, but that he colluded with the eunuch forces, took advantage of Emperor Wuzong's illness, corrected the power of the military and state, and took the throne after Emperor Wuzong's death.
This conclusion comes from the epitaphs of eunuch families such as the Tang Dynasty Wu, xuanshi, and Yang, and found that Xuanzong did not ascend to the throne because he was not wise and easy to manipulate, but colluded with the remnants of the Qiu clan such as Ma Yuanzhen and Meng Xiurong and other eunuch families. (Frozen Guodong, Huang Lou, "Tang Eunuch Group and the Political Situation of Dazhong")
It was precisely because Xuanzong took the initiative to collude with the eunuchs that he had to share imperial power with the eunuchs after he ascended the throne, and the remnants of the Qiu Shiliang clique, which had previously been suppressed by Emperor Wuzong, were revived in the Great And Middle Dynasty.
Throughout his life, Emperor Xuanzong was unable to cut off the powerful eunuchs like his nephew Wuzong, and could only move the small eunuchs to engage the eunuchs outside, and even so, he was also boasted by historians to suppress the eunuchs, and Wuzong, who really effectively suppressed the power of the eunuchs, fainted in the toilet.
Some people may say, who said that Xuanzong did not suppress the eunuchs, did you not see him depose Ma Zhi, the prime minister who married Ma Yuanzhen as a brother? Isn't that counting the suppression of Ma Yuanzhen?
Count, and do not count, it is said that Xuanzong made it clear to everyone through the removal of Ma Zhi that he did not want to see the eunuchs colluding with the foreign ministers; it was not because this idea was only Xuanzong's wishful thinking, in fact, he did not cut off internal and external traffic, until the eleventh year of the middle school, wei Ao pointed out that the eunuch clique was too arrogant to install personnel, if Xuanzong suppressed effectively, would this kind of atmosphere still prevail?
Three years after Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, he forced the eunuch Qiu Shiliang to retire, and Emperor Xuanzong did not consult with the chancellor Ling Huxiu to engage the eunuchs until the eighth year of the middle school, so that the eunuchs did not dare to cooperate and did not say anything, and was also detected by the eunuchs, and finally failed.
Faced with the eunuch's inability to do anything, Xuanzong could only close his eyes and shake his head in hatred and say to Wei Ao, "Quan wei! Not at all! It's still fearful. Wei Ao could only give him the method of "castration by castration", which showed the inability of his monarchs to do anything about eunuchs. Even for the selection of the crown prince, Xuanzong still could not get rid of the eunuch's restraint on him.
According to the old System of the Tang Dynasty, most of the princes were the eldest sons of Emperor Xuanzong, but Emperor Xuanzong's eldest son Li Wen (Yizong Li Yi) was a mediocre and incompetent cub who was easily manipulated by eunuchs, and Xuanzong wanted to set up a clever old Third Prince Li Zi (or Old Fourth).
Emperor Xuanzong knew that the eunuchs did not like Li Zideli, and could only quietly win over Li Zi's forces, giving Li Zi the option of serving as a prince, and co-opting and shielding the Yang eunuch family in exchange for their support for Li Zi, etc., but in the end he was vetoed by the eunuch Wang Zongshi, and Li Zi was killed and Li Wen took the throne.
It can be said that in the less than fourteen years of Xuanzong's reign, while enjoying the achievements of Emperor Wuzong's huichang zhongxing, he wantonly ostracized Emperor Wuzong's old subjects, but the policies of the Wuzong Dynasty, whether good or bad, were all overthrown, but the ministers that Emperor Wuzong denounced, regardless of their wisdom and foolishness, were all promoted and promoted, and they were jealous and mean and liked to play with power, and finally overturned the ship.
During his reign, although he was touted by historians as the rule of Xiao Taizong and DaZhong, in fact, the Tang Dynasty at that time was not very peaceful, the rebellion in Fanzhen was frequent, there was a military coup in Xuzhou in the early stage, and a military coup in Lingnan in the later period; it seemed to end the Niu-Li party dispute, but in fact, the partisan dispute was intensifying, and the Manchu Dynasty was dull.
It was precisely because of the corruption and chaos of Xuanzong's court that a large number of peasant uprisings were finally triggered, and even larger uprisings broke out in the Yizong Dynasty, so historians put the responsibility for the decline and fall of the Tang Dynasty on Xuanzong's children and grandchildren, in fact, Xuanzong's great and middle age was the source of the disaster!
Saying that Xuanzong was Xiao Taizong, what could he compare with Taizong? The same is not the normal ascension to the throne, the people Tang Taizong is trying to engage in career to save the reputation, the famous courtiers are gathered, the merits are visible to the naked eye, even if the advice has an element of performance, it is not comparable to xuanzong who is rigid and self-conscious.
Xuanzong, who was narrow-minded, mean-spirited, incompetent, and extremely inferior, that is, more capable than his children and grandchildren, not to mention that compared with Emperor Taizong, even compared with Emperor Wuzong, he was inferior to him, and the cause of the Tang Dynasty that Emperor Wuzong had worked hard to revive was destroyed in the hands of Tang Xuanzong, who was clever and clever, and it was really heart-wrenching for Emperor Wuzong!
That's it.
Author: Li Shaoqing
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