"Often the most secret bane is planted in the most proud moments." Life is like the waves blown by the wind, always in the ups and downs of time, in the joy of climbing and the pain of falling, born a unique touch of life color.
Man always has the momentum of pointing directly at the sky when he climbs to the highest point, but it is easy to get lost in this glory, so that the silent bitter planting becomes the sour and bitter tasted when he falls into the bottom later.
"Huanghuang Taizongye, establish a very grand master." Li Shimin, who was universally praised as the "Ming Emperor" by later generations and even today, established the beginning of the tang dynasty's prosperity by virtue of his wise and divine strategy of governing the country, bringing a brilliant and bright historical process to the Chinese nation.

But it was also in the hands of Tang Taizong that a period of evil was buried deeply with the lucky escape of the wives and children of the rebel generals, and became a huge impact on the subversion of the regime at the end of the Tang Dynasty, almost cutting off all the vitality of the Tang Dynasty.
How exactly was this curse buried? How did the rebels' wives and children escape the death threats from the monarch and become the promoters of the overthrow of the dynasty in the years to come?
The world is in chaos
Since the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains has been torn apart for hundreds of years by the Three Kingdoms, the Western and Eastern Jin Dynasties, the Sixteen Kingdoms, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and has never been able to establish a unified dynasty that takes the world into its arms.
Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou was arrogant and lascivious, blindly indulging in the pleasures of paper drunken gold fans, and was eventually seized by his foreign relative Yang Jian, and in 581 AD was forced to give up the throne to Yang Jian, so northern Zhou collapsed, and the Sui Dynasty was established, and the capital was Daxingcheng.
The Sui Emperor Yang Jian not only owned the Northern Dynasty, but also went south in 589 to overthrow the Chen Dynasty, finally unifying the divided Central Plains and ending this long chaotic world.
"Prosper, the people suffer; die, the people suffer!" However, when the country returned to unity, the real turmoil within society was not eliminated, and it was still stirring up the stability of the entire dynasty, and the people were still miserable.
Until the Sui Dynasty Emperor ascended the throne, regardless of the people's livelihood, he consumed manpower, material resources and financial resources to build the Grand Canal, and the three conquests of Goguryeo failed, which eventually led to the clarion call of the peasant revolt was completely sounded.
The indomitability from the depths of the soul of the Chinese nation always pushes the world into chaos, and there will be comet-like figures standing up on the road of endless resistance.
At a time when the world was in chaos again, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, raised an army in the name of honoring Sui and was bound to suppress the peasant rebel army that was rising up in the wind and water, but the greater ambition was hidden under the name of grandeur, and he not only wanted to curb the chaotic situation, but also wanted to directly replace the Sui Dynasty that was pressing on his head through this time, so that the world could change hands again.
At this time, Li Shimin had already followed his father on the road of military suppression, and he seemed to be born with an unusual talent in conquest and combat, and he already had the talent of commander at a young age, making no small contribution to Li Yuan's struggle for the world.
It was such a natural general, he was brave and resourceful and thirsty for talent, after defeating the leader of the rebel army Wang Shichong in 621 AD, he kept a large number of his men for his own use, but he did not spare a single person, that is, Shan Xiongxin.
Killing is ominous
Shan Xiong believed in his people, and was originally a person from Shan County in Caozhou. When he was a teenager, he appeared to be much braver than usual, and joined the vigorous Wagangzhai Uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, becoming a fierce general in the rebel army.
Sima Guang once wrote in the Zizhi Tongjian: "Xiongxin Xiaojie, good use of horse mallets, the name of the army, the military trumpet 'flying general'." It can be seen that Shan Xiongxin's reputation in both his own strength and in the rebel army is extremely high, he has a good friend named Xu Maogong, and in the ninth year of Daye, he and Xu Maogong defected to Zhai Rang's hands in Wagangzhai and soon became Zhai Rang's confidant.
Subsequently, Li Mi, who was also on the same side, also joined the ranks of the Wagangzhai rebel army, and the peasant rebel army originally composed of grassy mountain bandits gradually changed in nature internally, and after Zhai Rang was killed by Li Mi, the rebel army became a tool used by the noble leadership to chase the deer in the world.
Because Shan Xiongxin's ability is really outstanding, Li Mi, who became the leader of the rebel army, also uses it, but often the strength of one person cannot shake the process of huge history, and the rebel army often does not fail at the starting point, but in the process, because of the limitations of the class, resulting in the choice of both the way of fighting and the ultimate goal is not long enough, and the Wagangzhai rebel army gradually loses to Li Yuan and Li Shimin, and rushes to the road of failure.
As a last resort, Li Mi led the rest of his army to wang Shichong, who was entrenched in Henan, at this time, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Maogong's two friends made completely different choices, Shan Xiongxin still followed Li Mi to become Wang Shichong's subordinates, and Xu Maogong saw the doomed defeat of the rebel army and chose to surrender to Li Tang's army.
In 620 AD, Shan Xiongxin and Li Shimin launched a confrontation with each other, Shan Xiongxin almost killed Li Shimin with a horse gun, and at the critical moment, Xu Maogong turned back to save him, and even used his former brotherhood to lobby, which made Shan Xiongxin retire.
However, in the following year, after Li Shimin completely defeated Wang Shichong and forced Wang Shichong to surrender, almost all of Wang Shichong's men were spared by Li Shimin, but he alone took Out Shan Xiongxin and must be beheaded.
In just one year, the positions of the prey and the catcher were completely reversed, Xu Maogong interceded for his friend, but Li Shimin was unmoved, and finally killed Shan Xiongxin cleanly. As the old saying goes, "Killing is ominous." "Perhaps at this moment, a scourge that could touch the foundation of the entire lifeblood of the Tang Dynasty has been buried."
Left behind a broken tail
Shan Xiongxin's marching ability to fight is so excellent, and even has the reputation of "flying general", why would Li Shimin, who cherishes talents, insist on killing him? The reason for this may lie in two points, one is that although Shan Xiongxin is brave in battle and has the ability to be a general, he does not have the courage of a general, whether Zhai Rang is killed or Li Mi is defeated, Shan Xiongxin always takes the lead in defecting to the new lord, and does not have the quality of loyalty and indomitability, which is useless.
The second reason is that Shan Xiongxin is a representative of the power of the Wagangzhai army, and if you want to completely disintegrate the internal structure of the entire rebel army, you must start from the origin of the leader, so no matter how excellent the talent Shan Xiongxin has, his death is almost doomed.
But as the saying goes: "Cut the grass without removing the roots, and the spring wind blows and grows again." Li Shimin had such a far-reaching plan, but after all, he killed Shan Xiongxin, but after learning that Xu Maogong had secretly hidden Shan Xiongxin's wife and children to support him, he did not make up his mind to "cut the grass and remove the roots", but chose to promote Shan Xiongxin's descendants, so that Shan Daozhen became the Sima of Liangzhou.
It was this broken tail that did not eliminate the clean, and two hundred years later, it became another completely detonated disaster in the late Tang Dynasty.
The Bane of Chaos
Glory and splendor are often like the stars and bright moons, which only flicker briefly in the night sky, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is also the same.
With the outbreak of the "Anshi Rebellion", the Tang Dynasty began the process of turning from prosperity to decline, eunuchs gradually controlled the lifeblood of the entire country, chaos once again seemed to float up like a whirlpool in a deep pool, the people once again entered a miserable predicament, and the land of China seemed to sink into the darkness of chaos again.
"Wait until the autumn comes on September 8, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom." Among the students who came and went in the imperial examination every year, there was a hanmen student named Huang Chao, who, after repeatedly falling from the Sun Mountains and after years of floods and droughts, witnessed the tragic situation of "the people were in exile and had nowhere to complain", so he ignited a heart of resistance, and in Changheng County, he rose up with Wang Xianzhi and others, and once again broke out a peasant uprising full of warm emotions and endless resistance.
History seems to repeat itself again, and the end of each fallen dynasty always means the rise of new forces, "the present looks at the past, and the future looks at the present" But as long as oppression and chaos exist, then the spirit of resistance does not die.
When Huang Chao led a large army into Chang'an, his ranks included four fierce generals: Shan Xing, Shan Wang, Shan Mao, and Shan Sheng, all of whom were descendants of Shan Xiongxin, who inherited the hatred from the previous generation and embarked on the road of revenge, adding a very important firewood to the final collapse of the Tang Dynasty.
brief summary:
"The incense of the sky penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor." When the Sui Dynasty collapsed, Shan Xiongxin was on the wrong side, and because of his identity and personality, he could not escape the fate of death, but history often had a clever causal connection.
Whether it is Shan Xiongxin letting Li Shimin go and eventually causing the disaster of his own killing, or Li Shimin leaving Shan Xiongxin's descendants, which ultimately laid a bane for the demise of the Tang Dynasty, it is the direction that everyone's choice ultimately promotes in the development of the long river of history.
Therefore, it is so important to know history well, to understand the rise and fall of each dynasty, to conform to the trend of history, so that we can stand in an invincible position and get the future we want.