Tang Qizong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang Empire, was also the famous Huangchao Uprising in history during his reign, although the Huangchao Rebellion was suppressed, but the Tang Dynasty also came to an end, and the last vitality of the Tang Empire was consumed during the counter-rebellion.
The last Ming emperor of the Tang Dynasty was Tang Xuanzong, who was the grandfather of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, who was known as the "Rule of the Great Middle" during his reign. The "rule of the Great Middle" is known as the last afterglow of the Tang Empire, which is a manifestation of the return of the Tang Empire, and in the "Rule of the Great Middle", the center of the Tang Empire has once again regained power.
Emperor Tang
Unfortunately, Tang Xuanzong, like his most admired person, Tang Taizong, became obsessed with alchemy in his old age, and eventually died of Dan medicine, and the achievements of the thirteen years of "great rule" were inherited by his son Tang Yizong, but tang Yizong's late reign was extravagant and lascivious, and he did not govern state affairs, and the fruits of the rule of great middle were completely consumed by him.
By the time of Emperor Tang, the Tang Empire was already in decline and could not be sustained.
Emperor Tang ascended the throne at a young age, only twelve years old when he ascended the throne, and the power was completely controlled by the eunuch Tian Lingzi, who was close to exhaustion after the profligacy of his father Emperor Yizong of Tang, and the central finances were about to collapse.
eunuch
However, after Emperor Tang ascended the throne, the treasury was empty, the Tianzi was young, the eunuchs held great power, and Tang Emperor was also a good hand at eating, drinking, and having fun, and he liked to play polo very much, and his talent for playing was very superb.
Tang Xianzong is keen on fun, very fond of cockfighting ("Tang Yulin" said to be "fighting ducks"), gambling on geese, riding and shooting, sword and mallet, arithmetic, music, Go, gambling, playing almost all of his livelihood is exquisite. He was not only fascinated by polo, but also highly skilled.
Tang Xianzong once said to the Youlingshi wild boar next to him very conceitedly: "If you take the batting jinshi examination, you should be a middle rank." ”
Emperor Tang was very experienced in having fun, that is, he was not interested in state affairs, he trusted the eunuch Tian Lingzi very much, and the government was entrusted to him, but Tian Lingzi could not govern the country.
polo
When Tang Yizong was added, the central authority had already begun to lose, and the local moderation gradually disobeyed orders, and when it came to Tang Yizong, it was even more so, but at that time, the central government had a strong army in hand, and the situation could still be controlled.
This strong army of the central government is called the "Divine Strategy Army", and the military strength is still quite strong, but this army is controlled by the hands of eunuchs, who lack foresight, so by the time of Emperor Tang, this army has been very seriously corrupt, and this army has a lot of pressure on the central finances.
The Shen Ce Army demanded three times the military salary, which was really very much pressure on the central finances, and by the time of Emperor Tang, the treasury was empty and it was no longer able to support this army, so the Tang Central Committee, under the instruction of the eunuch Tian Lingzi, levied a higher tax on the working people at the lower levels.
Tang Jun
Originally relieved in the "rule of the great middle", the people who were struggling to survive fell into a desperate situation.
In the first year of Qianfu, Wang Xianzhi revolted, and for a time the Tang Empire was full of smoke and peasant uprisings, and although the Wang Xianzhi clique was overthrown by the Tang Central Committee, Huang Chao, who responded to Wang Xianzhi's uprising, turned to the south.
The south of the Tang Empire is the money bag of the Tang Central Committee, and the finances of the Tang Central Committee basically rely on the South, and when the South is in chaos, the Already Stormy Tang Empire begins to collapse.
The Yellow Nest ravaged the south, and those festivals in the south made each one comfortable for a long time, and they could not withstand the attack of the Yellow Nest Rebel Army, and the Yellow Nest Rebel Army and the Tang Empire Counterinsurgency Army fought a pot of porridge throughout the south, and with great effort, they finally failed to quell the Yellow Nest Uprising.
Yellow Nest Uprising
In the first year of the Guangming Dynasty (880), the Huangchao rebel army captured Chang'an, and Emperor Tang was escorted by Tian Lingzi and fled to Sichuan, and the Tang Empire lost face. In September of the second year of Zhonghe (882), Huang Chao's trusted general Zhu Wen surrendered, and the HuangChao rebellion was extinguished under the backstabs of his own people.
Although the Huangchao Rebellion was put down, the Tang Empire also exhausted its national strength in this rebellion, and the domestic moderation made them clearly see the nature of the weakness of the central government, and the festivals in various places began to fight chaotically. Zhu Wen, the man who put the coffin on the Tang Empire, also developed and grew in the midst of chaotic warfare.
When Tang Xianzong was alive, the Tang Empire was still hanging on, dead but not stiff, and when Tang Xianzong died, the trend of the collapse of the Tang Empire could not be contained.
In the fourth year of Tianyou (907), Zhu Wen forced the Tang Emperor Li Yu to take the throne, and the Tang Dynasty collapsed.