From the Start, Livestreaming Emperor Wu of Han's Later Years [Historical Livestream]

So how did the highlight of Li Xiang's life come about, the reconquest of the two capitals? Oh, in exchange for using Princess Ningguo as collateral and promising to let the Huihe people plunder the two capitals wantonly after the event was completed. Of course, Huihe was not the only one who burned, killed, and looted afterwards. Shence and other Tang troops also used Luobian as a bandit territory and looted wantonly. This "necessary price" also became one of the original sins of feudal imperial power, and eventually gave birth to the wave of thought that "the emperor will do great harm to the world" in the late Ming Dynasty.

Li Linfu blocked the road to the imperial examination. Loyal ministers like Du Fu struggled to seek office. Those who were not so loyal went to Hebei to encourage Anlushan to rebel. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty started the imperial examination with the intention of preventing talents from defecting to hostile forces. Li Longji was really smart.

I don't think it's necessary to mention Yang Yuhuan during the Anshi Rebellion. She was just dragged out and blamed. The only thing worth mentioning is that Yang Yuhuan's Princess Shou was treated well and gave birth to her eldest son. She was forced to become a monk and become a concubine for the old immortal. Isn't it Li Longji's stupidity to appoint Yang Guozhong? There are also lychees, which is a good excuse. Li Longji doesn't eat them himself, right? Offering him something would not waste the people or money. Finally, there was a lychee that Yang Yuhuan loved to eat, which could be used to cover up other tributes. As Princess Shou and Hemei, couldn't they just go to the place where it was produced to eat? It wasn't because he was forced into the palace by Li Longji and couldn't get out.

Logically speaking, the genes of the Li family would have a high probability of producing generals. The fact is that there seems to be no emperor who can even read the art of war, let alone go to the battlefield, and some other princes and clans have a few. This fact proves that no matter how talented you are, it is useless if you don't learn or practice it. It also reflects that even in the Tang Dynasty, which advocated the promotion of generals and prime ministers, under this atmosphere, there were big problems with royal education, especially the education of princes. They seemed to have only learned how to carry out coups. Compared with the Qing Dynasty, it was indeed a kingdom of ethnic minorities. At least the martial arts education of the princes far exceeded that of the Han Dynasty. Yongzheng was a representative of military strategy rubbish.

There is also Du Fu's poem (The wine and meat smell of wine and meat in the Zhumen, and the bones on the road are frozen to death). Since it was mentioned in the previous chapter, there is one place that was not pointed out: the entrance hears the howling, the young son is hungry and has died. I would rather give up and mourn, and I will sob in the alleys. I am ashamed to be a father, and I will die young if I don't have enough food. Little did he know that when the autumn harvest came, there would be poverty and haste. They are exempt from rent and tax, and their names are not subject to conquest. [Families of privileged officials in the Tang Dynasty would starve to death during the agricultural harvest period. You can imagine the living conditions of civilians] This poem was written in the same year that the Anshi Rebellion broke out. What is the history of poetry? The cicada wakes up before the autumn wind moves.

Ahhhhh, every time I see Zhang Xun asking for support, but being rejected, and eating each other in order to defend the city, I feel bad.

The writing is shallow. In Heshuo area, Dou Jiande was worshiped before Anshi period. Worshiping Li Jiancheng, worshiping Anlu Mountain after Anshi, and Shi Siming are just to disgust Guanlong. After Anshi, the success rate of Hebei scholars' imperial examinations increased significantly. The salt tax in Heshuo after Anshi was extremely light compared with other regions at the same time. Of course, the price is the fall of Beiting in Longyou'an, Hexi, the war in the Central Plains, and the increase in taxes in Jiangnan.

Han tribe generals are not compared with naturalized tribal chiefs. This is compared with people such as Guanlong Clan and other people who have mastered Han cultural and political resources and can become prime ministers. People like An Lushan would not come to Beijing to threaten Li's prime ministership if they did not have the corresponding cultural qualifications and political connections and could only serve as military governors. Even if they came to Beijing to become prime minister, they would only be puppets like Niu Xianke.

The more I look at it, the sadder it becomes. The Tang Dynasty, the prosperous Tang Dynasty where all nations came to dynasty... Thousands of years later, it would be sad to watch this episode through a screen, not to mention the people who actually lived at that time...

In the early stage, Li Longji abandoned the city and fled, and later the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor fought for power. Suzong of the Tang Dynasty himself was not a wise emperor. Moreover, if the rebels were not also fighting for power and civil unrest, it would not have been possible to put it down in eight years.