Late one night in 762, a murder occurred in Chang'an City.
Li Fuguo, the king of Bolu County, who had just ascended the throne of Tang Dynasty, was killed by a masked assassin in the palace of Bolu County, and his head was cut off and thrown into the pigsty, while also losing an arm.
The next day, this arm was placed in front of the Temple of Enjoyment of Emperor Tailing of Tang Xuanzong, and Li Fuguo's head had been crushed by a group of pigs. At this time, Tang Daizong's heart was full of joy, because the mastermind of this murder was Tang Daizong, and the murderer was a bodyguard beside him. After Li Fuguo's death, Emperor Tangzong also pretended to bury him and give him a gift.
This story is like a martial arts novel, but it really takes place in the Tang Dynasty.
Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty is an emperor who is easily overlooked in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and this time we will talk about the Tang Dynasty.
Emperor Tang put an end to the Anshi Rebellion shortly after he ascended the throne, ending the eight-year crisis. However, with the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion, two more problems were brought about—namely, the appeasement of the fan town and the invitation of Hui Hui to send troops to quell the rebellion, which caused the Tang Dynasty to be controversial.
To be fair, neither of these issues should be a reason to negate the Tang Dynasty.
After quelling the Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Tang adopted the suggestion of the servant Gu Huai'en and appointed Tian Chengsi, Li Baochen, Li Huaixian, and Xue Song, who had returned to Tang, to serve as envoys to Wei Bo, Chengde, Lu Long, and Xiangwei Jiedu, respectively, and led their troops to hebei. Among them, The Wei Bo Jiedushi, chengde jiedushi, and Lulong jiedushi were collectively known as the three towns of Heshuo, and their division of one side caused the division of the country, and its influence continued until the Five Dynasties period.
The reason why Emperor Tang dynasty appeased Fanzhen was mainly because the Anshi Rebellion had just subsided, the Tang Dynasty's national strength had not yet been restored, the Tang Dynasty needed to rest and recuperate too much, and at this time Tubo was looking at the Tang Dynasty with a tiger's eye, so it was helpless for Tang Dynasty To adopt a tolerant attitude towards Fanzhen.
As for asking Hui Hui to send troops to quell the chaos, the Hui hui soldiers took advantage of the opportunity to plunder property after the war, which did cause certain losses. However, it is not all bad to ask Hui Hui to send troops to quell the chaos, at least Hui Hui has accelerated the speed of quelling the rebellion, which should also be seen, so asking Hui Hui to send troops to quell the chaos can only be said to be the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Therefore, how to evaluate the Tang Dynasty Emperor mainly depends on his actions during his reign.
Before Li Fuguo was made the Prince of Bolu, Emperor Tang used the eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen and others to deprive Li Fuguo of his power, and later cut Cheng Yuanzhen to an official, and then conspired with Yuan Zai to remove Yu Zhao'en, who was in power, and finally killed Yuan Zai. It can be said that Emperor Tang's political skills are absolutely first-class.
In terms of employing people, the Tang Dynasty Emperor used Guo Ziyi and Liu Yan. Guo Ziyi resigned several times after sheji settled down, but Emperor Tang reused him several times, because Emperor Tang knew the importance of Guo Ziyi to the Tang Dynasty, which was worried about internal and external troubles at that time. Liu Yan was appointed because Emperor Tang needed to solve the financial crisis, and Emperor Tang knew that Liu Yan had this ability.
With the appointment of Guo Ziyi and Liu Yan, the internal and external crises of the Tang Dynasty were partially alleviated, especially Liu Yan's reforms brought the Tang Dynasty back to life.
In order to ensure the profits of private merchants who sold official salt and thus ensure the profitability of official salt, Liu Yan replaced the "official patent" prohibition system with the "official and commercial profit sharing" system, thus mobilizing the enthusiasm of private merchants in selling salt, doubling the profits earned by the official salt industry, and the reform of the salt administration can be said to be successful.
At the same time, Liu Yan began to reform caoyun, deliberately increased the price of shipbuilding, tried to ensure the quality of the official ships, and then hired sailors, and stationed troops in the Yellow River for 600 miles to prevent the grain from being robbed, and then divided the whole process into four transportation sections and established a transfer station. Thus improving the facilities for supervision and escort, the reform of caoyun has also achieved miraculous results.
Therefore, under the rule of Emperor Tang dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was relatively stable, and the national treasury was fully used, so that the Tang Dynasty, which had experienced the Anshi Chaos, stopped the trend of continued collapse and gradually recovered its national strength.
Although the Tang Dynasty has been unable to restore the prosperous situation in the Kaiyuan period, in the 17 years under the reign of emperor Tang Dynasty, the people were able to live and work in peace and contentment, and gradually came out of the shadow of the Anshi rebellion, so we can say that the Tang Dynasty was an important transition period after the Anshi chaos. We should also give a fair evaluation of The Tang Dynasty emperor and his time.
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