In August 685, a baby boy was born in the home of Li Dan, the fourth son of Wu Zetian. No one would have thought that this baby boy was the famous generation of heroes in Later Chinese history, Tang Xuanzong.
He ruled China for nearly half a century, and personally created the Golden Age of the Tang Dynasty and the entire ancient Chinese history - the Kaiyuan Dynasty.
If we can summarize the image of Tang Xuanzong in four words, that is, "the son of heaven in the wind" is "
However, this "wind flow" must not be understood as the romance of private life, and the wind flow becomes the "wind flow", but should be understood as Su Dongpo's "the great river goes to the east to the waves, and the characters of the ancient wind and current" are understood as this "wind flow"; or it is understood as Chairman Mao's "all the past, count the popular characters, and look at the present dynasty" and understand this wind flow.
So Tang Xuanzong is a merry son, what are his "merry" places?
The first, career flow; the second, the love flow; the third, love flow.
Tang Xuanzong was the emperor for 44 years in his lifetime, and after that, he became the Emperor Taishang for another 6 years, so he was known as the Taiping Tianzi for 50 years. Under his rule, the Tang Dynasty reached a peak state at all levels.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first landmark achievement was the political air of Junmingchenxian. </h1>
In the early years of the new century, tang Xuanzong had just become emperor for not too long, and he had just appointed the old minister Yao Chong as the prime minister.
One day, Yao Chong's work came to Tang Xuanzong to report on his work. Yao Chong came to Tang Xuanzong with a list of Lang officials, Lang Guan was a Wupin official, not a big official, he asked Tang Xuanzong if it was okay to ask Tang Xuanzong to appoint these people as Lang officials? Emperor Xuanzong sat down in the palace, and Yao Chong read out the list of Lang Officials below. When he finished reading, he looked at Tang Xuanzong. Tang Xuanzong did not react, nor did he speak, looking at Fang Liang. Yao Chong's heart was not in the book, why did the emperor ignore me? Is it that my voice is small, the emperor did not hear clearly, I read it again, and read the list of these lang officials again. After reading it, I looked at Tang Xuanzong again, or looked at Fang Liang without reaction, this time Yao Chong's heart was not scored, what happened, where did I offend the emperor? He withdrew from the hall curtly.
As soon as Yao Chonggang left the main hall, there was a great eunuch Gao Lishi next to Tang Xuanzong, who spoke: You have not been emperor for too long, how come you have put up a shelf? The prime minister will report to you on the work, whether you can do it or not, you have to give people an explanation.
Tang Xuanzong: You don't understand, I am the emperor, I appointed him Yao Chong as the prime minister, I hope he will help me to do things, then these small things, he can handle it himself, he encounters a big matter and consults with me, I will naturally give him a reply, but if this kind of small matter also needs my approval one by one, then what is the difference between me and him?
As soon as Gao Lishi heard it, he understood that the emperor thought so, this is not to ignore the prime minister, but to trust the prime minister. Quickly, Gao Lishi went out, found Yao Chong, went to Yao Chong's office and told him: Yao Xianggong, you don't have to worry too much just now, the emperor's mental journey is like this, he is at your disposal, let you let go of the work.
Yao Chong's hearing was also a sudden realization, and he would have more backbones in doing things in the future. So why can we talk about this matter reflect the political atmosphere of Junming Chenxian? Let's first see if Li Longji Tang Xuanzong is a Ming Jun.
Of course, he is a ming jun, don't look at him only thirty years old, is a young emperor, but he knows the general situation, he knows what the emperor should do, what the emperor should not do, he knows that if he wants to be a good emperor, he must be able to trust his subordinates, he must be able to delegate power, and he must let the prime minister have a certain amount of power. We say that Tang Xuanzong was a Ming Emperor, and so was his minister. You see Yao Chong was more than sixty years old at the time, that was the elder of the Three Dynasties, an old minister who had been the prime minister since the time of Wu Zetian, and his reputation was so high, but he did not bully the young emperor, although the reputation was very high, but he did not have exclusive power, he knew that he should ask the emperor for advice in case of trouble, this is a good prime minister.
Yao Chong is a sage, and Gao Lishi is also a sage. In ancient China, the general image of this eunuch was not very good, that is, between the emperor and the prime minister all day long, but you see That Colliers did not provoke trouble, he took the initiative to communicate the feelings between the emperor and the ministers, which is very valuable. So he's also a good minister. It is precisely because there is such a political atmosphere of the emperor, the imperial court and the inner palace that have been particularly difficult to balance since ancient times, and only then can the forces between the emperor, the imperial court and the inner palace be able to be balanced and harmonious, so at that time, not only a generation of heroic lords Tang Xuanzong emerged in the political arena, but also this sage Yao Chong, Song Jing, and even the eunuch Gao Lishi, who was known as Qianqiu Zhongyi.
The whole political arena is shining with stars, so this is an iconic achievement.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second signature achievement is the canonical system of the history books. </h1>
At present, we should pay attention to governing the country with ethics and to handling affairs according to law. You say that the progress of society, if you rely only on a few virtuous people and good looks, this is unreliable, it is likely that people are in power, people die in the government, and only by institutionalizing this kind of decree that condenses the wisdom of mankind and even the brilliance of human nature can you make it benefit the people for a long time and stably.
Therefore, Tang Xuanzong also carried out large-scale compilation of the canonical system in that era, for example, the oldest administrative code in China, the Tang Liudian, and The Most Complete Etiquette Regulation in China, the Tang Kaiyuan Ceremony, were all cultivated in the Xuanzong era. It is precisely because of such a system of rules and regulations that good decrees can ensure the long-term stable and orderly development of society, which is the second landmark achievement in the political field that we say.
The third landmark achievement is lofty international standing.
At that time, the Tang Dynasty was a superpower in the absolute sense. Chang'an was also the heart of the world, and at that time, a large number of merchants, envoys, students, learned monks, etc., gathered in the Tang Dynasty through various channels by sea and land, and gathered in international metropolises such as Chang'an and Luoyang. To give an example, everyone knows that Li Bai has a poem called "Crying Chao Hengqing", he wrote like this: "Japan's Chao Qing resigned from the imperial capital, and the sails were wrapped around the pot." The bright moon does not return to the blue sea, and the white clouds and autumn colors are full of sky. ”
This Chao Heng, who affected Li Bai's feelings and made Li Bai cry, was a Japanese student, whose Japanese name was Abe Nakamaru. When I came to China to study at 19, I worked in China after studying abroad, and I became an official in the Tang Dynasty, and I was always in the imperial history, which is equivalent to us now being the minister of supervision.
He lived in China for 54 years until he died in the Tang Dynasty at the age of 73. At that time, there were too many people like Chao Heng, so the poet had a literary expression called "Nine Heavens open the palace, and all the nations are crowned with crowns." ”
Saying that the envoys of ten thousand countries all came to the Tang Dynasty to worship the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is naturally the language of poetry, it has its exaggeration, so what is actual? How many countries were associated with the Tang Dynasty? According to the records of the "Six Classics of Tang", there were more than 70 countries that had tributary relations with the Tang Dynasty at that time, which is a particularly remarkable number. According to the current estimates of scholars, two percent of Chang'an's population is foreigners, so let's think about this number, which is no less than that of Beijing today.
We may all know the story of the Tang monks taking the scriptures from the Western Heavens, but in fact, at that time, more people came to the Tang Dynasty to learn the scriptures and came to the Tang Dynasty to learn the canon system. As far away as West Asia, Muhammad, the founder of Islam, also said that knowledge should be sought even if it was far away in China. This is called lofty international status.
After Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ascended the throne, he appointed Yao Chong, Song Jing, and other sages as ministers, widely administered moral government, attached importance to the people's livelihood, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the country's prestige spread overseas.