The sunset is infinitely better, just near dusk. --Don Lee Shang-yin.
This is the obscure poet Li Shangyin, after seeing the obscene development of the Tang Dynasty all the way and completely abandoning treatment, he made a hazy and sad sigh about the future of his home country. So when did Datang fall freely? Many people will definitely blurt out - the Anshi Rebellion, which is listed as one of the ten great catastrophes in human history, is like a realistic version of the Wrath of the Lich King, which completely broke the backbone of the Tang Dynasty, so that the former majestic Datang entered the era of the division of the town, and the middle-aged stroke was half-dead.
In fact, no, after the Anshi Rebellion, Datang was still alive and lived for 144 years. Because during this period, there were also generations of heroes Hao Jie, who still flowed this blood of the Tang Dynasty in their bones, they did not lie flat under the inner scroll, but all the way to the blue wisps of the road, suitable for the Development of the Tang Dynasty, they carried the crazy attack of An Lushan and Shi Siming, beat the remnants of An Shi all the way, and ignited the An Shi rebellion from the wildfire, and threw it into a spark of stars, trying to recreate the glory of the Tang Dynasty in the past. In those days, Datang did not completely decline.
In fact, on the road to death, Datang ran wildly all the way, and could no longer be reversed, and should start from a murder, the death of a young and powerful emperor.
In 820 AD, Tang Chang'an, Daming Palace and Temple, a king's man, suddenly died violently, the time is the evening of February 14, black Valentine's Day, when this person left, the eyeballs burst and prominent, not at all peaceful, a look to know, completely dead. There are so many emperors of the Tang Dynasty, who is he? Who dares to kill like this, the king of a country? Why is it said that this murder almost destroyed Datang?
This slain Tianzi, known in history as Yuan and Tianzi, is also known as the Third Heavenly Son of the Tang Dynasty, a rare and promising prince. Why? He appointed a large number of good ministers and fierce generals, worked hard to govern, and forcefully cut the domain, creating a glory rarely seen since the Anshi Rebellion - Yuan and ZTE. Emperor Wenzong Han Yu once advised Dong Sheng and others in the "Preface to Send Dong Shao to the South to Hebei", "Tomorrow the son is on top, you can come out and be a soldier", and the "tomorrow son" mentioned refers to him. Xianzong's life was quite a fierce life, when he was a child, his grandfather Dezong cut the town of The Domain, due to improper measures, there was a "Four Kings and Two Emperors" incident comparable to the Anshi Rebellion, Chang'an City was captured, Dezong fled in a hurry, 77 princes and grandsons were killed, and then had to make a decree, openly confessed his mistakes to the Heshuo domains in exchange for an armistice, he was able to return to the devastated Chang'an City, saw xiao Xianzong who lived the rest of his life after the disaster, hugged his knees and amused, Wen Whose child are you, so on my knees? Unexpectedly, the young Li Chun actually said amazingly, "I am the third son of the Tang Dynasty", his grandfather is the son of heaven, his father is the prince, and he will also be the son of heaven in the future, and the answer is seamless.
Later, history proved that Emperor Taizong, Xuanzong, and Xianzong deserved to be the third heavenly son of the Tang Dynasty! After the death of Dezong, who failed to cut the domain and some self-abandonment, his father succeeded to the throne, but his father had already suffered a stroke and was lying in bed, dying, the military power was in the hands of a group of eunuchs, and the government was controlled by Wang Shuwen and another cadre, he decisively contacted a group of people, promoted the "Yongzhen Inner Zen", followed the glorious tradition of the family, and pushed away my father to do it - to ascend the throne. His life was almost a life of death with Fan Zhen, and as soon as he succeeded to the throne, Liu Pei, the head snake of the Shu land, jumped out and not only asked to take over as the envoy of Jiedu, but also asked to take over the three rivers at the same time, and everyone was frightened by the slashing galleon during Emperor Dezong's years, and they all asked to go along with the trend and agree to Liu Pei's request. But the heroic Li Chun did not agree. Lu Long, Cheng De, Wei Bo, Ziqing, Huaixi, and Zhenhai, one by one, either divided or on the way to making a fuss, and now that They have just taken over the position, this Liu Pei will jump out to threaten me, if he agrees, how will he order the four sides in the future to revitalize the Chao gang? This Tang Dynasty Jiangshan, is he still surnamed Li? Thanks to his discerning prime minister Du Huangsheng, he helped him accurately judge the situation, sit in the center, strategize, and recommend the "brave and superior" divine strategist army to make Gao Chongwen, the result was that Gao Chongwen lived up to expectations, and the Shu army won all the way, and finally captured Liu Pei alive, sent him to Chang'an to be beheaded, and also engaged in a popularization of law education, solemnly declaring that the king's man- Datang did not impotence!
In the years that followed, he was either cutting the domain, or on the way to cutting the domain, Xia Suiyin wanted to rebel, and he was cut three times five divided by two. Zhenhai Jiedu made Li Qi want to rebel, and after being pacified, he was sent to Chang'an to behead him! The highlight is known as the world's strongest feudal town, located in the center of the Grand Canal Huaixi Town, this hard bone, enough to fight for four years, even if other clan towns also sacrificed such means as assassination, when the street killed the main war of the current dynasty prime minister - Wu Yuanheng, the group of ministers for various reasons unanimously wanted to strike the army, he was still unmoved, immediately promoted to the main battle of the imperial history of Pei Du as the prime minister, personally went to Huaixi, the famous general Li Yu in a snowy night, with Huaixi descending as the vanguard, suddenly launched an attack, snow night down Caizhou, hit Wu Yuanji a surprise, Wu Yuanji was captured and taken to Chang'an to be beheaded.
Huaixi, the world's strongest vassal, was flattened, and Wu Yuanji was escorted to Chang'an by the Five Flowers, which greatly shocked those who were eager to move, and Henghai Jiedushi invited him to enter the dynasty as an official and gave up the division. The Tongtian old chengde wang family sent two of them into Chang'an to show their submission, before Wei Bo had already submitted to the Tang Under the leadership of Tian Hongzheng, at this time, the largest feudal town, Li Shidao, was still stubbornly resisting, and under the order of Tang Ting, all the large armies gathered in Ziqing, and Li Yu, who had entered CaiZhou at night, threatened to defeat, with the help of all roads, bulldozers generally pushed past, the twelve battles were won, and under the internal and external difficulties, the soldiers and horses made Liu Wu kill Li Shidao and his son against the water, and the head was sent to Chang'an for the people.
Huaixi, the world's strongest clan, was forcefully flattened, and Ziqing, the largest clan town in the world, was instantly "wiped out", which made Liu Zong, the most remote and always unsatisfactory town of Youzhou, always fidgety, and also asked Tang Ting to accept Youzhou and sincerely and seriously help the imperial court to split Youzhou.
Liu Zong's submission marked the peak of Yuan and The Cause of Cutting Domains, a period also known as Yuan and Zhongxing.
Unfortunately, the most dangerous time is often not the period when the blue wisp of the road is struggling to start a business, but when you reach the peak of victory and are complacent, the crisis is often approaching at this time. At this time, Tang Xianzong, the "son of tomorrow," was inexplicably killed.
According to the Old Book of Tang and the Book of Xianzong, on the night of the black wind in that month, he was killed by a eunuch named Chen Hongzhi. "Yuan He fifteenth year of the first month of Gengzi, is the sunset, collapsed in the Daming Palace and the hall. When the time came to a violent collapse, it was said that the internal official Chen Hongzhi rebelled, and Shi Shi was secretive and did not write. "What is strange is that a big thing, God knows you know me. But this eunuch, for a long time, has been like no one else, in the Tang Dynasty Chang'an City, the horse runs and dances. It was not until 15 years later that he was assassinated by the next successor of Emperor Xianzong, secretly at Qingniyi. Rao is so, the official of Datang, or has been secretive, avoid talking about it. "With the sin of rebellion also." Old Book of Tang and Wenzong Benji
Who is behind it? According to the principle of who benefits the most and who is the most suspicious, the great thinker Wang Fuzhi replied in the "Reading Through the Commentary": "After the traces of rebellion are exposed to the conclusion, then the thieves of The Xian Sect are not Guo And Mu Zong, but who is it?" "He locked in Guo's.
Who is this Guo? He was the concubine of Emperor Xianzong, the most expensive one, and he was the granddaughter of Guo Ziyi, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, who had married her in order to gain the support of the Guo family, who was influential in the dynasty. However, after the position was gradually consolidated, he was worried that the Guo family's foreign relatives were too powerful, and they never made her empress. Obviously, Emperor Xianzong did not like the Guo clan, nor did he like their common son, and he once had the idea of deposing Li Heng's crown prince, and he was still putting it into action, which upset the Guo mother and son, and on the night of the black wind in that month, Tang Xianzong, the male lord of the generation, died so inexplicably.
Until 26 years later, one of Xianzong's "stupid sons" Tang Xuanzong was supported by eunuchs to come to power, and suddenly, he had been on the former Guo Guifei who had been sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, and now Empress Guo was pressing step by step, once forcing Empress Guo to want to jump off the building to commit suicide, and publicly sat down to confirm Tang Xuanzong's crime of "not filial piety to his mother".
Empress Guo died in her own palace, and her death was so inexplicable and wonderful, Xuan Zai refused to bury her with Emperor Xianzong, and the Taichang official Wang Yusong asked for this, and was reprimanded by the Tang Xuan Sect's chancellor and demoted to a county order.
What hatred and hatred have to do this step? Xuanzong has always had a godless posture, and he believes that when datang has come to this step, Guo's mother and son and others have to pay a lot of responsibility for their own selfishness and perverse behavior. Looking at the 26 years since Xianzong was killed, this statement is really not unreasonable, Muzong's four years, not only squandered, but also fainted and incompetent, so the people entrusted to him, resulting in the three towns of Heshuo rebelling one after another and returning to their original state, and the loyal generals looked at them with cold hearts. In the year of Emperor Jingzong, the government was even more full of black smoke and miasma, and in the wenzong period, there was a "change of manna", the eunuchs led the divine strategy army, killed more than a thousand courtiers, the court was empty, and the eunuch leader Qiu Shiliang could also point at Wenzong's nose and scold.
The majesty of the Tang Dynasty has plummeted, and the people of the world are even more ridiculous, and many clan towns are even more foolish.
What about Empress Guo? She is very able to live in the deep palace for a long time, can also enjoy the glory and wealth, and occasionally she can point out the country and mountains, stir up the words, and enjoy the filial piety of her children and grandchildren.
Is this group of turtle kings really the descendants of the wise and divine xianzong? Emperor Xuanzong felt sincerely suspicious, if it were not for Empress Guo and her children and grandchildren, so blindly tossing and turning, Tang Dynasty would have reached the state of exhaustion in this mountain and water today? Therefore, he was willing to risk the "crime" of filial piety, but also to completely eliminate the Guo mother and son and their descendants, which led to the scene after Xuanzong came to power, step by step, until Empress Guo suddenly died violently.
But when datang arrived here, it was already difficult to return, even if Emperor Xuanzong's curtain taizong and the rule of Emperor Sixianzong tried to revitalize datang, but after repeated tossing and turning, the foundation of the empire had already been hollowed out, everything was just a return to the light, and it was only a matter of time before Datang completely collapsed.
To be fair, Guo Ziyi's life was a great life, and it was admired by countless future generations, and the legendary hero died as early as the early years of Tang Dezong, and his granddaughter had nothing to do with this matter. The real reason should also be the descendants of the Li family, except for Tang Taizong, the woman who is looking for is so tossing and turning, and tossing and turning her own Jiangshan with all her strength.
Author: Xiao Yunan, our special guest author