Seeing Xue Rengui clearly, you can understand why there are no more famous generals in the Tang Dynasty, and where have the young people gone
In China's ancient history, the Tang Dynasty, a feudal dynasty, was really worthy of a big book, especially some deductive stories, such as "Sui and Tang Yanyi", "Saying Tang Biography", etc., all show that during the Tang Dynasty, there were some very famous generals and heroes, such as Qin Shubao, Wei Chigong, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin of the Great Ren And Righteous.
At that time, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty wrote one magnificent tragic song after another.
At that time, the Tang Dynasty seized the world from the hands of the Sui Dynasty and opened the tang dynasty, and Li Shimin finally got his wish and became emperor after the change of Xuanwumen.
During Li Shimin's reign, he attacked the Turks to the north, attacked the Xiongnu, and expanded his territory to the west, which was really a heavenly kingdom, and Li Shimin was also called "Heavenly Khan" by these ethnic minorities.
Tang Taizong's civil rule and martial arts and governance of the country are also very capable, and Datang has finally created a prosperous era, the country has unprecedented prosperity, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
However, with the gradual stabilization of the world, some problems gradually appeared in the entire imperial court, and the descendants of those founding heroes brought some hidden dangers to these societies, officialdoms and armies.
In some deductive stories, everyone has heard the name Xue Rengui, Xue Rengui was a very famous general during the Tang Dynasty, he is legendary, using soldiers like gods, extraordinary martial arts, and such legends as "three arrows to fix the Heavenly Mountain".
During this period, Xue Rengui's popularity was really indistinguishable, and no general in the same period could match him, and some people even said that with Xue Rengui's ups and downs in the official field of the Tang Dynasty, it was possible to understand why there were no more famous army leaders in the Tang Dynasty.
In the history of Xue Rengui's life, he was a commoner, and Li Shimin broke through the rules and constantly promoted him, and Xue Rengui also lived up to the expectations of the public, and constantly made military achievements to achieve a certain period of prosperity.
At that time in the Northern Liao, Xue Rengui also made great achievements, smoothed him out easily, and later attacked goguryeo, which was very resistant, Xue Rengui also used a very clever strategy to win the battle, and his battle achievements were very prominent in attacking the Turks and Tubo to the west.
Although there was no Xue Rengui among the 24 founding generals of Li Shimin's Lingyange, he rose after these veteran generals, and as a new generation of generals, he was very powerful.
And Li Shiping also attaches great importance to cultivating a new generation of young generals, after all, those founding generals in the early Tang Dynasty were already very dazzling, and if they wanted to cover their limelight, there was really no way, only from these young generals, more training and promotion.
Although there were many external factors to support Xue Rengui, he still encountered many problems, first of all, within the army, there were many obstacles within the army, and many military orders could not be implemented.
This obstacle is the aristocratic class formed by those founding heroes and royal families in the early Tang Dynasty, these people rely on the kind of cuteness of the previous generation and ancestors, holding important positions in the army, and they are often unambitious, shallow and shallow, but they want to make meritorious achievements and break out of the world, which is their stumbling block for Xue Rengui.
They often abandon Xue Rengui to make up their own minds to carry out some military strategies, but they often do not obey the general's orders, miss the fighter plane, and are seized by the enemy to seize the opportunity to attack, and some of the advantages originally created by Xue Rengui are reversed, turning the scourge of war into a defeat.
In particular, a person named Guo Beifeng was the son of Guo Xiaoke, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, who was very spoiled and habitual, and his family origin was very good, and he did not take Xue Rengui in his eyes. Xue Rengui had originally prepared to raid the Tubo army and ordered Guo Beifeng to guard the base camp, but Guo Beifeng was very proud and arrogant, attacked without authorization, and finally was seized by the Tubo army to break through the camp, and such a failure also made Li Shimin very shocked, but he was very good to these founding heroes, although Guo Beifeng made a serious mistake, but Li Shimin still did not blame him too much.
In addition to Guo Beifeng, there are Li Xiaogong's son Li Han, and Cheng Yaojin's son Cheng Huailiang, who all rely on the scenery of their ancestors and constantly pick quarrels and provoke troubles, causing a lot of losses.
Xue Rengui was also defeated in the later Dafeichuan War, and he was condemned by Li Shimin as a civilian.
In the later period, Emperor Gaozong of Tang succeeded to the throne and became emperor, and was harassed by the rebellion of those displaced people in Goguryeo, so he used Xue Rengui, and after using Xue Rengui, he still found that there were many problems in the imperial court and the army, which led to the decline in the combat effectiveness of the army, which made him very tied hands and feet, and could not really carry out some military layout.
In fact, from the perspective of the whole society, the society at that time had begun to turn from prosperity to decline, because after Tang Gaozong succeeded to the throne, the destruction of the equalization system of those peasants who had originally prevailed, the destruction of the equalization system, caused a lot of peasants to have no land to plant, and concentrated in the hands of large landlords, and later these displaced people increased day by day, so the number of supplementary troops has not been a very stable source.
Now that society is beginning to be turbulent, there are displaced people everywhere, and social stability is threatened, so the army is also conscripting these displaced people into the army, and as these chaotic people enter the army, the combat effectiveness and influence of the army have also been affected, and it is impossible to achieve the uniformity of the excellent army, which is explicitly prohibited.
And Xue Rengui led the army out in such a chaotic world, it took up to two years to quell the rebellion of these displaced people, and Xue Rengui also found a problem, it is because of the implementation of this conscription system, so that these local moderations make more and more powerful, and the moderation is able to control the military, political and economic affairs of this place, equivalent to a local emperor.
With the passage of time, in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the emissaries of Jiedushi were really very powerful, not only had a large number of soldiers, but also very rich, and their comprehensive strength was even more powerful than that of the emperor.
Later, after Emperor Tang Ming and Li Longji ascended the throne, in order to prevent the incident of Wu Zetian from happening again, the rights of the emissaries in various localities were increased, and the increase in the power of the emissaries of the festivals caused excessive concentration of power, so that they had some inflated ambitions, and only then did they produce the late Tang Dynasty, and only then did the late Tang Dynasty make the emissaries divide the territory, cut off the land for self-respect, gather the masses to rebel, the peasants did not care about their livelihood, and the peasant revolts were generated. It has caused many years of strife between the five generations and ten kingdoms.
It can be said that the Tang Dynasty was destroyed at the hands of these tail-to-tail masters, which is really very sad.
We can understand from Xue Rengui's body that in fact, during Xue Rengui's period, the right to make a temperance was not like that, but there were already signs of development in a bad direction. And Xue Rengui wanted to recruit some high-quality talents into the army, it was very difficult, carefully analyzed, by the middle of the Tang Dynasty, why some very outstanding military leaders did not emerge, is because inside the Tang court, there are still some nobles and the descendants of the founding generals, where they blocked the way to suppress some of the new generation of generals, in the outside, and these conscription system system, so that many outstanding talents ran to the account of the envoys of jiedushi and became their guests of honor, the imperial court at that time, there was really no one available.
Some people are thinking of such a point of view, many emperors after the founding of the country, will always for some meritorious ministers to carry out the policy of "running dogs", then imagine, if these meritorious ministers are all taken down, will the country be better?
No one can say for sure about this question, everyone is thinking deeply and expressing their own opinions.