Li Siyuan
After Li Siyuan ascended the throne, he changed tongguang's four years to the first year of Tiancheng, becoming the second emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty. On the one hand, Li Siyuan wantonly purged the local clan commanders who were from Zhuangzong's cronies and appeased the lesser jiedushi envoys of other factions; on the other hand, he began to use the Daibei clique personnel who had been suppressed by Zhuangzong in the past.
In May of the first year of Tiancheng (926), Li Siyuan was promoted to former Xiangzhou Assassin History, and Beijing Left and Right Van Du commanded An Jinquan to be the protector of Anbei, the envoy of Zhenwu Jiedu, and the envoy of Tongping Zhangshi." AnJin is a generation of northerners, generations of border generals, Xiao Yong is good at war. Since the beginning of The Era of Li Keyong, An Jinquan has been a fierce general of the Hedong Group, "repeatedly consulting". Li Cunxun's Battle of Luzhou and the sweeping of Heshuo, An Jinquan all had military achievements and was promoted to the history of assassination. Later, because of his old age and illness, An Jinquan retired to the old capital of Taiyuan. In the last year of Zhu Liang' reign, the Liang general Wang Tan led an army of 30,000 men, and while Li Cunxun's army was in The capital of Yidu, he launched a large-scale attack on Taiyuan.
In this critical situation, An Jinquan, with the support of Zhang Chengye, the overseer of Taiyuan, "summoned his sons and retired generals, and obtained hundreds of people", and unexpectedly defeated the Liang army. Soon after, Shi Junli led an army from Luzhou back to Jinyang. Without An Jinquan's decisiveness and hard work, Jinyang City would most likely have been captured by the Bian army. However, Emperor Zhuangzong Li Cunxun was always estranged from the Daibei clique, and "sexually reserved, where the great generals made meritorious deeds, from time to time to reward." Therefore, An Jinquan was "not in a position of fame" in the era of Emperor Zhuangzong, and always hovered at the level of assassin history. After Li Siyuan ascended the throne, he immediately promoted An Jinquan to the rank of commander of the domain, which showed his attitude towards the Daibei Wu clique and also showed a different political stance from Thato zong.
The Brave Army
In addition to An Jinquan, Li Siyuan also promoted a number of old daibei people who had made considerable military achievements, "After Zhang Wen of the Former Weizhou Assassin Was appointed as Zhenwu, Kang Yicheng was commanded by the Left and Right Van Raids as the History of the Fenzhou Assassins, and Suo Zitong was made the Assassin of Xinzhou with the command of the Left and Right Xiang Ma Jundu"; "Fu Yanchao was left behind in Jinzhou, Wang Jian, the deputy envoy of Zhenzhou, was left behind in Zhenzhou, and An Chongruan was left behind in Jinzhou."
These personnel arrangements of Li Siyuan led to the promotion of a large number of Daibei group personnel who followed Li Keyong and Li Cunxun in the early days, but many of them were Li Siyuan's old generals. Li Siyuan actively co-opted the various groups and greatly expanded the basis of his rule.
During The reign of Emperor Zhuangzong, he rushed to promote the centralization of power and restored the Tang Dynasty eunuch supervision system; in addition, Zhuangzong's policies such as setting up tenant envoys also effectively deprived the feudal town of financial power. Although in the long run, Zhuangzong's centralized policies were valuable for the truly imperial development of the later Tang Dynasty, these policies led to the centrifugation of the generals of the feudal towns on a large scale, and were one of the reasons for the rapid collapse of the Later Zhuangzong regime.
After the Tang Army
Li Siyuan learned the lesson of Emperor Zhuangzong, and after taking office as a supervisor, he "dismissed the envoys of the Various Dao Supervisors" and won the support of the local feudal towns to the greatest extent. After ascending the throne as emperor, Li Siyuan officially issued an edict through Zhongshu Menxia Province:
Please stop and abolish the envoys of the various provinces, the inner goug division, and the dacheng officials of the renting courtyard, and send out pigs, sheep, firewood, charcoal households, and field poles, and according to the ZhuLiang system, the three divisions of temperance and stabbing Stone Shen must not be sent to the inspection. The money and goods of the state envoys were first leased by the Yuanyuan, and now the data is returned to the state capital, and the state capital is not allowed to lead the people.
Li Siyuan returned to The Town of Fang the military and financial power that Zhuangzong had seized from the local jiedushi, which was a compromise under the decision of the situation. Li Siyuan's policy was a kind of détente, and he also readjusted the division of power between the central government and the feudal towns, won the support of the towns and emissaries, and expanded his power base.
However, Li Siyuan was not unsuspecting of the clan town, nor was he without the will to cut the clan. As soon as he ascended the throne, Li Siyuan issued an edict stipulating that all localities should be envoys and defensive envoys, "except for the four festivals of the right, the solstice, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the birth of the birth, and the number of things to be served, only to achieve affection, and to be harmonious in the state capital, and not to discipline the people." This edict of Li Siyuan was intended to prevent those feudal towns that were divided into one side from taking advantage of the opportunity of tribute to plunder the people's wealth and form a support with the eunuchs and ministers of the imperial court, and to serve the imperial court.
Since the late Tang Dynasty, the degree of moderation has inflated its power, and there has been little reverence for the central court, and many ritual politics have been abolished. According to the Tang system, When Yushi Dafu and Yushi Zhongcheng took office, the envoys of the Various Dao Festivals were to send officials to the Imperial History Terrace to perform the ceremony of praise. Since the late Tang Dynasty, when the Heavenly Sons were weak and powerful, Yushi Dafu and Yushi Zhongcheng, who were officials of law enforcement, did not dare to be praised by the officials of various festivals.
In the era of Li Siyuan, Lu Wenji took up the post of Yushi Zhongcheng, insisted on practicing the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty, and sat on the bed in the Yushitai, and ordered the jinju officials of the Jiedu envoy to perform the salute to him. Arrogance has become a habit of moderation, so that the officials of the musician are furious, noisy, and refuse to worship. When Li Siyuan learned of this, he angrily said, "Judge Andrew, Judge Andrew", and "sent these rude envoys from the clan town with a staff". Li Siyuan's attitude was not only to safeguard the dignity of central government officials, but also to safeguard the authority of the imperial court. This also means that Li Siyuan did not give up centralized power, but his approach was not as radical as Zhuangzong's.
After Tang
Since the late Tang Dynasty, the arrogant generals of the Fanzhen army have always been a dangerous force that threatens the authority of the imperial court, and even the Commander of the Fanzhen Festival is difficult to control, of which Wei Boya's soldiers are the most difficult to control. In March of the second year of Tiancheng (927), thousands of Wei prefecture soldiers who had established Li Siyuan on the throne were sent from The Capital of Yi to Lutai. On the way to defend, a mutiny was launched under the leadership of the military academy Long Hao, and the deputy recruit just appointed by the imperial court caused Wu Zhen to be killed before handing over the seal. The rebellion was soon suppressed by the Qi prefecture defense envoy An Zhentong and others with elite cavalry, but the imperial court was shaken.
For this rebellion, Li Siyuan's suppression was very ruthless and bloody, and he issued an edict that "the Lutai rebel army Long Hao's subordinate Yidu Fengjie and nine other commanders were flesh and blood in Yingjiakou, and the whole family could be beheaded." When the edict was sent down to the capital of Yi, in order not to let the families of the rebels slip through the net, it was "the gate of the nine command, driving more than 3,500 families and more than 10,000 people to the lime kiln, and beheading it, and the Yongji Canal became red." One person rebelled, the whole clan was cursed, and Li Siyuan was indeed a butcher of the Northern Dynasty!
The group of soldiers led by Long Yi who rebelled were the silver spear army recruited by Yang Shihou, who had previously made Yang Shihou of Zhu Liang Wei Bojiedu, only 8,000 people, "all of whom were brave men in the world." In the process of Emperor Zhuangzong's destruction of Liang, this elite army defected and surrendered, which played a key role in the later Tang Dynasty's destruction of Liang. Li Siyuan's ability to seize the throne was also not unrelated to their support. But the existence of such a politically dynamic and arrogant army has always been a threat. Therefore, in the suppression of the mutiny, Li Siyuan did not remember the old, bloody massacre, "Wei's proud soldiers, to the end."