<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Niu monks and children and Li Deyu are the main figures of the "Niu-Li Party Struggle". This struggle lasted for forty years, causing the strength of the Tang Dynasty's central government, which was already in the midst of repeated rebellions in the feudal towns and the four frontiers, to be greatly damaged. </h1>
Niu monks and children were the descendants of the former Sui Dynasty servant Niu Hong, but by the Time of the Tang Dynasty, the Niu family had already fallen into the middle of the family, and the niu monks and children were able to enter the official field completely by relying on hard reading.
The cattle monks and children who have just entered the official field have lofty ambitions, are outspoken and dare to advise, dare to take responsibility, and dare to be responsible.
Unlike the cattle monks and children, Li Deyu was a veritable son of an official eunuch, and his father was Li Jifu, the chancellor before Tang Xianzong.
Li Deyu has both talent and strong ability to do things, and he also wants to contribute to the crisis-ridden Tang court.
It is said that since both the cattle monks and children and Li Deyu have the heart of Kuang Shi and the people, they should work together to help the imperial court through the difficulties of the times, but why did they make a different furnace of ice charcoal?
In fact, this decades-long infighting actually stemmed from the dispute over righteousness and anger, which was completely the result of resentment!
The "poison" between the cattle monks and children and Li Deyu was "planted" by Li Deyu's father, Li Jifu. The New Book of Tang says that "... At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, with the correct countermeasures of the virtuous and the virtuous, (cattle monks and children) and Li Zongmin and Huang Fu Xiang were the first, and the article referred to the failure of government, and his words were ridiculous, and he did not avoid the prime minister. The prime minister was angry, so Yang Yuling, Zheng Jing, Wei Guanzhi, and Li Yi sat down and took the examination, and they were all transferred..." The gist of this passage is: Tang Xianzong intended to revitalize the Tang Dynasty, so he asked the courtiers to bluntly accuse the court of its mistakes. As a result, the cattle monks and children and other flesh-and-blood people ruthlessly pointed out the faults of the prime minister! Unexpectedly, he angered Li Jifu, who was proud of his old qualifications and wide connections, and where could he bear the robbery of the late generation in the public? Thinking that cow monks and children and others are deliberately rude and offensive!
Li Jifu was ashamed and angry!
In order to save face, he ran to Tang Xianzong to cry and complain about his grievances, and clamored for the emperor to uphold justice for himself.
In the face of the complicated situation, where did Tang Xianzong dare to offend a minister like Li Jifu?
Since you want to defend the old ministers, you can only sacrifice the cattle monks and children!
Therefore, Tang Xianzong relegated all the cattle monks and children to other places...
Later, with the continuous changes in the situation, the cattle monk and Li Deyu, the son of Li Jifu, successively presided over the overall situation at the imperial court. However, the cattle monks and children were resentful, so he and Li Deyu had different furnaces.
Therefore, the bull party is bound to suppress the Lee Party, and the Lee Party will also suppress the Bull Party. As a result, the two parties fell into the strange circle of when the unjust retribution was over and could not get out. The two parties are in the waves of the eunuch sea, sometimes floating, sometimes sinking, sometimes proud, sometimes frustrated...
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > in the end, after decades of competition, the "Cow-Lee Party Struggle" still ended with Li Deyu's loss of power. </h1>
The "Niu-Li Party Dispute" is the product of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, when the imperial court ministers only cared about the interests of the "small circle" regardless of the overall situation, and thus became sick and infighting! The "Niu-Li Party Struggle" aggravated the internal friction of the Tang Court, causing the ministers to waste in vain the energy they had supposed to save the decline of the Imperial Court in the party struggle, thus making it more difficult for the Imperial Court, which was already plagued by frequent internal and external troubles due to the eunuchs' great power and the feudal towns.
Reference: New Book of Tang