In the fourteenth year of Tang Xuanzong Tianbao (755 AD), the famous "Anshi Rebellion" broke out. The male number one of the "Anshi Rebellion", An Yishan, was written by posterity because of his scandal with Yang Yuhuan, while Shi Siming, the other protagonist of the "Anshi Rebellion", was downplayed by posterity, like a floating cloud. In fact, Shi Siming in history, but the all-rounder of literature and martial arts, his talent and wisdom are far above Mount An.
A generation of heroes Shi Siming
Shi Siming was a Turkic man with the surname Ashina and the name Zaigan. He was born in 703 in Liucheng, Yingzhou (present-day Chaoyang, Liaoning Province). He was a fellow countryman of An Lushan and was born a day before An Lushan. The history books record that he was thin and weak, with bald hair, bent over his shoulders, and his appearance was ugly. In his youth, Shi Siming was familiar with six minority languages and ate the difference as a middleman, and this experience cultivated Shi Siming's sinister and cunning character of being good at observing words and colors. After growing up, he defected to the troops of Mount An, in which Shi Siming was known for his bravery and resourcefulness in battle, and Zhang Shoujue, the official of youzhou jiedu at that time, also valued him.
First, Shi Miao tricked the king and escaped from the predicament and became a general
In 736 AD, Shi Siming was desperate because of the official debts owed by business, and fled to the territory of the Xi people in the north, who thought that he was a "bandit" Han and wanted to kill him. Shi Siming was not in danger, and said solemnly: "I am an emissary sent by the Tang Dynasty to make peace with King Xi. If you kill me, you will cause great trouble. When King Xi saw that Shi Siming was very confident, he really regarded him as an envoy of the Tang Dynasty, so he entertained him with VIP etiquette.
Fearing the power of the Tang Dynasty, King Xi decided to send 100 people to worship the Tang Emperor with Shi Siming. Shi Siming said to King Xi, "Although you have sent many people, but there are no high people, I heard that you have a person named Zou Gao, who is talented and intelligent. Why not send him with me?" King Xi thought about it and agreed, so he sent 300 people led by Zou Gao to accompany Shi Siming to worship the Tang Emperor.
Shi Siming knew that no matter how heroic and martial, he could not resist 300 Xi people, but he was scheming and decided to "borrow a knife to kill people". When the group was about to reach Pinglu, Shi Siming sent someone to report to Pei Xiuzi, the general of Pinglu, saying: "The Xi people sent Zou Gao and elite soldiers to come, and they said that they were worshipping Tianzi, in fact, they were secretly attacking Pinglu, and you had to hurry up and prepare for war;" Pei Xiuzi did not know that Shi Siming was using a plan, so he believed it to be true, and killed the 300 people without any defense from the Xi people, and Shi Siming also offered a plan: "This is their leader named Zougao, don't kill him first, I want to take him to Youzhou and let Jiedushi personally deal with him", Pei Xiuzi agreed to his suggestion. Just leave a tall man. Shi Siming tied up Zou Gao and escorted him to Youzhou and sent him to Zhang Shoujue, the envoy of Jiedu.
When Zhang Shoujue saw it, Shi Siming had captured the most prestigious general of the Xi people, Zhuo Gao, and believed that he had made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, so he greatly praised him in his compromise to the imperial court. Tang Xuanzong personally summoned him, gave him a seat, and in the conversation he thought that he was a world wizard, gave him the name Shi Siming, and granted him the positions of Great General and Beiping Taishou, and Shi Siming was from then on.
Second, show strange schemes to earn An Qingxu
In November 755, Shi Siming, as the vanguard of An YiShan, falsely claimed to be under the guise of a secret order against Yang Guozhong, and raised an army in Fanyang to go south against the Tang, which was called the "Anshi Rebellion". At first, everything went well, until 757 AD, when Shi Siming was defeated by the famous Tang dynasty general Li Guangbi. In October of that year, An Yishan was killed by his son An Qingxu, and Shi Siming suddenly thought of establishing himself on the mountain.
After An Qingxu killed his father An Yishan and seized the throne, he was dissatisfied with Shi Siming's many practices and wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of Shi Siming. Shi Siming was also aware of this, but knowing that his current strength was not enough to compete with An Qingxu, he sent troops to ambush and kill three of An Qingxu's generals, and used this as a greeting ceremony to repair the Tang Dynasty and express his willingness to submit to the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty was very pleased and made him the Prince of Guiyi, serving as the envoy of Fanyang Changshi and Hebei Jiedushi.
Shi Siming pretended to surrender, but in fact he recruited troops and horses, intending to rebel again. The matter was discovered and reported to Tang Suzong. In May 758, Emperor Suzong of Tang sent men and horses to raid Shi Siming, but he was discovered by Shi Siming. Shi Siming immediately launched a rebellion and repaired An Qingxu, pretending to make an alliance with An Qingxu to jointly oppose the Tang Dynasty. An Qingxu did not know what the plan was, when the two met, they were beheaded by Shi Siming and his subordinates, and from then on all the rebels were taken under Shi Siming's command, and Shi Siming's power reached its peak. In 759, Shi Siming was proclaimed emperor at Fanyang, with the name of Dayan and Jianyuan Shuntian. In 761, Shi Siming was killed by his son Shi Chaoyi, and at this point, the era of Shi Siming, a generation of tyrants, finally came to an end.
III. Conclusion
Throughout Shi Siming's life, from the merchant of the city to the Emperor of Great Yan, his life was full of ups and downs, and in the middle, he cheated and killed the leader of the Xi people in exchange for his meritorious name, and then rebelled with An Yishan. After the defeat of the army, pretending to surrender, TaoGuang raised obscurity, rebelled again, and planned to kill An Qingxu, the son of An Qingxu, the power reached its peak, and established himself as the Emperor of Great Yan, its developed history can be said to be a history of the counterattack of villains, Shi Siming applied Houheixue to the extreme, and is a well-deserved generation of tyrants.