Tang Wuzong A king with a low sense of historical existence

Emperor Wuzong Li Yan was the eighteenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and before Li Yan ascended the throne, he was not a prince or a son of Emperor Wenzong, but a younger brother of Emperor Wenzong. Emperor Wenzong of Tang died without leaving any heirs. So the chancellor and the eunuchs began a game over the selection of the next emperor, and the eunuch who held the military power at that time was called Qiu Shiliang, who took a fancy to Li Rong, the king of An. So he asked the Shen Ce Army to go to the sixteen kings' residence to pass on the message, and the sergeant who passed the message happened to not know Li Rong, when a woman of the Wang clan pushed Li Yan, the king of Ying, in front of the sergeant shen ce and told them that this was King An, and it was not until the sergeant welcomed Li Yan back to Shaoyang Courtyard that he found that he had received the wrong person, but the matter had come to this point. The people shouted long live Li Yan, the King of Ying, and in this way, Li Yan, the King of Ying, was able to take the throne and become Emperor Wuzong at the age of twenty-seven. And the Wang clan was also awarded the title of talented person for his meritorious efforts in helping Li Yan succeed to the throne.

At the beginning of his reign, Li Yan, persuaded by Qiu Shiliang, put to death potential political opponents such as Emperor Wenzong's Concubine Yang, Li Chengmei the Prince of Chen, and Li Rong the Prince of An. At the burial ceremony for Emperor Wenzong, Qiu Shiliang killed Liu Hongyi, Xue Jiling, and others who had returned to the Spiritual Hall.

Although Li Yan's reading was not as good as Wenzong's, he was more able to understand people and be good at his duties. In the year of his ascension to the throne, the talented Huainan Jiedu was summoned to make Li Deyu an official in the dynasty, and he relied heavily on Li Deyu, and the two monarchs and courtiers were able to calmly cope with and tide over the difficulties at the time when internal and external troubles were intertwined in the early years of Huichang, so Li Yan began to slowly alienate the eunuch Qiu Shiliang. Qiu Shiliang gradually held a grudge against Li Deyu.

After making Li Deyu his prime minister, Li Yan recruited the eunuch Yang Qinyi, and Liu Xing went deep into the dynasty to serve as a privy councillor, and Li Yan ostensibly enfeoffed Qiu Shiliang as the Duke of Chu, sealed two hundred households, and gave him a monument of merit. But in fact, Qiu Shiliang was alienated by Emperor Wuzong, qiu Shiliang tried to incite the forbidden army to expel Li Deyu, but the forbidden army was shocked by Li Yan, after this incident, Qiu Shiliang was frightened and panicked, and some officials asked Qiu Shiliang to be promoted, Li Deyu directly refused, and also degraded people. Although Qiu Shiliang was angry and stared at him, he also knew that his general situation had gone, so he had to push that he was ill and asked for retirement, and Li Yan took the opportunity to relieve Qiu Shiliang of his military power. Emperor Wuzong first killed Qiu Shiliang's cronies, and then raided Qiu Shiliang's home, and Qiu Shiliang died in his own mansion in loneliness.

After Li Yan took the throne, he centered on severe punishment and severe punishment of corruption and corruption. Whoever receives thirty horses of silk and embezzles thousands of dollars shall be sentenced to death. Li Yan has pardoned the world many times, but has never been lenient toward corrupt officials.

After Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, the number of Buddhist monks and nuns was increasing, which greatly weakened the strength of the government and increased the burden on the state, and some Buddhist monasteries were even larger than the imperial palace, and they were very rich, while there were seven or eight Buddhas, and the temples did not pay taxes, which was a major loss to the state finances, and at the same time, too many monks and no one was engaged in arable land and farming, causing famine and famine, seriously affecting the stability of the country. Seeing this chaos, in order to recover the lost land and stabilize the people's livelihood, Emperor Wuzong decided to abolish Buddhism, and immediately ordered the world to demolish monasteries and bronze statues, make money and make money, cast iron into agricultural tools, and let the monks who returned to the world distribute farmland and cultivate land to pay taxes.

Li Deyu served as chancellor during the Huichang period, assisting Tang Wuzong, one was a famous minister of ancient times, and the other was a rare iron-fisted monarch in the late Tang Dynasty. In just five years, he fought back against the Uighurs, recaptured Princess Taihe, quelled the Hedong Rebellion, quelled the Zelu Rebellion, suppressed eunuchs, banned Buddhism, and founded the Huichang Center. The monarchs and courtiers knew and trusted each other, and became the late Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Wuzong died, wang cairen's pain resounded throughout the Daming Palace, after weeping and drying tears, he took out the accumulated treasures and distributed them to the palace people, committed suicide under the sword, at that time, although the concubines were often jealous of Wang Cairen's Wuzong's special favor, but they were all touched by her righteousness, there was a poem that wrote: The gods and immortals have a point of affection, the eight horses are vain with the sunset, and they do not hate the famous Ji ji in the middle of the night, and the king is not immortal.