The Crowned Emperor of Tang

Wu Zetian turned the prosperous Tang Dynasty into the decline of the Tang Dynasty. His contribution was only to create a female emperor, and there was no major change in history. To be honest, Wu Zetian can only be called a hero, not a great person. She is not worthy. Greatness is the reversal of unique skills, the person who created a prosperous age, the person who ended troubled times, and the person who liberated the people. And she is not, at best, ambitious, a little smart, and can only be called a successful hero instead of great. She is not worthy, so when she died, she did not dare to carve a tombstone for herself.

I don't know why there are so many posts about washing Wu Mei, so I will just post the external military performance of the Wu and Zhou Dynasties. The external military performance of a dynasty is the most direct reflection.

This book is really interesting to read. After all, handsome people always have more or less resonance with each other, right everyone?

It seems that many people don't have the patience to see the later stages, and are extremely disgusted with the political battles in the early stage. Tell me your understanding. (I have read the latest chapter, get on the bus first and then replenish the ticket, eat the dirt, and slowly resubscribe) The advantage of the time traveler in this book is not reflected in the technology tree. The early stage is reflected in the foresight of the general situation. When the strength is weak, it is used to protect oneself and develop talents, and to lay the foundation for the future. The mid-term period is reflected in the super-era insight into the reasons for the decline of the entire Tang Dynasty. After the coup, he took control of the Tang Dynasty's border defense, preserved the military strength left after the collapse of the military system, attacked the Guanlong forces, fought back the Tubo Turks to protect the border from war, and avoided the hidden dangers caused by the Jiedushi system after Tubo's layout was hidden. These are the foundations laid in the political struggle part. You want to say that the tiger's body trembled after the time traveler passed through, famous philatelists, and veterans of the Tang family returned one after another, developed technology trees, and killed nomads with horseshoes and artillery... This is indeed not the case. But he has indeed guided the world better step by step, at least better than when his grandmother was in power in the original history. This has always been the protagonist's psychological pressure and cognition after the coup. Maybe the author's writing is a little obscure, which is not very suitable for readers who pursue entertainment and excitement. In the beginning, the protagonist's style of painting suddenly changed due to great pressure. But it is completely wrong to say that the overall pattern is limited to political struggles for power and profit. The author did not arrange the plot based on the pursuit of pleasure and overall reading experience, but focused on restoring the complex political situation of the Zhou Wu period as much as possible and excavating the most important sources of social contradictions in this period. Let the protagonist step into the current situation from the most dangerous situation and the most marginalized role, and slowly accumulate strength to guide the trend of historical change. The protagonist's profound understanding of the world and his firm pursuit of the future development goals of the Tang Dynasty reflected in this are the true pattern of historical literature. To be honest, this is the first historical novel I read on Qidian. It is really amazing. In fact, if you pursue a sense of reading, the author can completely condense and abbreviate the wretched political struggle stage in the early stages of development, eliminate those points that have lost fans and cause controversy, and focus on the farming development of the protagonist Shuxiaoma's old clothes club, the secret rescue of the persecuted future famous ministers, etc., Which are satisfying and passionate plots that can arouse the national emotions of readers. But the author is very down-to-earth in describing how the protagonist gets rid of the disadvantages caused by his identity and wins a place. In this process, other historical figures are not treated as a simple background panel, like a panel of loyalty and ability like an emperor development game, but a real, three-dimensional person in history, with his own character, stance, and safeguarding the interests of his own group. The sense of reality generated by the interaction between the protagonist and these characters is also a highlight of the author's relatively niche writing style. I am used to reading articles about nine-year-olds, and other historical articles are a bit not to my liking (no derogatory meaning). Please update soon! ps: personal reading experience, do not start a fight, do not accept fishing.

The latest picture is very martial arts style, I think it could be a movie extra. The plot is like this The third son of the former prince secretly formed a society to restore the Tang Dynasty, was betrayed by a traitor, and his entire family was captured and killed by Empress Wu. Hundreds of rangers from the Old Clothes Club learned from the servants of the young prince that Prince Li San had an affair, and went to investigate and rescue him while pregnant with the prince's blood. As a result, Empress Wu's minions who were under surveillance lured the snake out of the hole. After a hard fight, Gu Yishe successfully escaped, but the organization also suffered numerous casualties. Finally, in the process of escaping from the border of the Tang Dynasty, his flaws were revealed, and he fought against Empress Wu's pursuers at Yumen Pass. In the end, hundreds of pursuers and members of the Guyi Society died together The young king's staff were left behind to flee to Nanyang with the young king's orphan who was born prematurely during the escape, and the next chapter of the Orphan of Li family dungeon begins.

It is found that the focus of criticism is that the author praised Wu Zetian. It doesn't matter, right? Which emperor in history didn't have a lot of black spots? Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu also had many black spots. In fact, according to modern people's thinking and point of view, no emperor has a big pattern. The author has his own ideas in writing the book and his own understanding of history. He just hopes that what he writes can be more cunning, that is, he combines it with blackmail and makes it appear that he is very objective and very materialistic.

I quite admire Wu Zetian. Just because a woman became the emperor in the patriarchal era (even though she stole her own son and betrayed her husband's trust. To be honest, so many emperors have heard of sons robbing their parents and mothers robbing their sons). This can be boasted for thousands of years. I guess everyone has forgotten Han Wu, and even Emperor Taizong will not forget her. It is estimated that she will still be the only female emperor in thousands of years. But the more than ten years she was emperor must have been very dark. In fact, if you think about being a female emperor in the patriarchal era, her dreams were all about people trying to rebel against her. Even if the ministers and people were honest, she would be suspicious, because everyone looked like a rebel. After all, she was too different. Living in her time, you might be beheaded if you fought at any time, because you might rebel. Just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they were too different. In order to rule, they could only use high pressure. I think she still regretted becoming the emperor in her later years (leaving a monument without words). She thought that running the country was not as good as her first two husbands, fighting wars was still not as good as her first two husbands, the Turks rebelled because she became the emperor (this is the slogan of the Turks themselves), and when she got old, the ministers asked her to return the throne to the Li family. She probably felt that she had failed. After she died, she would have to be Li Zhi's queen. If Wu Zetian had not been emperor, she would probably have been praised as a sage empress and a supporter of three generations of emperors. She would not be as mixed as she is now. In the end, she would not even dare to erect a monument or write a biography. The spirit of daring to fight against the trend of the times is still affirmative, but it is not recommended to learn because she has lost too much: love, family affection (her son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, sister...), Human nature (emperors are all creatures with indifferent human nature, especially those who want to be the emperor for eternity)...

Map of the Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty Map of Wu Zetian after she became emperor

After hundreds of years of war and before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the status of Confucianism had plummeted. Because of the practical problems brought about by hundreds of years of war, intellectuals from aristocratic families had to find new paths. What Confucianism said simply did not work in reality. The Hundred Schools, which had been severely suppressed since the Eastern Han Dynasty, either came back to power under the guise of Confucianism, or else they didn't even come directly. In the Tang Dynasty, the Huang-Lao School was very popular. Many famous officials in the Tang Dynasty were specialized in the Huang-Lao School. For example, Wei Zheng in the early Tang Dynasty highly praised the Huang-Lao School. The governance policy in the early Tang Dynasty was indeed not much different from that in the early Western Han Dynasty. Follow the trend of recuperation, lenient punishment and simple administration, and use both punishment and morality. Govern by doing nothing, reduce taxes and restrain the people, and do not seize the people. Bai Juyi Li Mi and others are also practitioners of the Huang-Lao School, and Li Longji and Li Shimin are also admirers of the Huang-Lao School. The political ideas of the Huang-Lao School had a far-reaching impact on later generations of China than imagined. In addition to its political ideas, the economics and mathematics of the Huang-Lao School also influenced China for two thousand years. A Guanzi has influenced China's economic and fiscal policies for more than two thousand years. Guanzi is the earliest work in the world to propose indirect taxes and money market theories. Additional currency issuance, trade wars, indirect taxes, circulation of luxury goods, monopolizing markets, market dumping, destroying other countries' economies, and bad money driving out good money. Yantie Guanying and Yantie Theory are just extensions of Guanzi Until now, China is still using the Guanzi indirect tax system. Of course, this book has been heavily criticized by Confucianists. A group of people in the Confucian school all disdain Guanzi's book, which advocates that a gentleman is ashamed to talk about profit. In the end, it was directly considered to be a forgery and swept into the garbage heap of history. Fu Xuan and Ye Shi both believed it was a forgery. Kong Yingda, a descendant of Confucius in the early Tang Dynasty, directly swept it into the garbage heap. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that Confucianism itself was about to be finished (at this time, the Confucian Zuo Zhuan was proven to be a forgery), Guanzi's status was re-established, because the methods used by the West to treat China at that time were not much different from what Guanzi wrote. Nine Chapters on Arithmetic, a masterpiece of Chinese classical mathematics, is also deeply related to the Huang-Lao School itself. People like Zhang Cang are actually practitioners of the Huang-Lao School. Legalism is another thought that has influenced China for two thousand years. No matter how much Confucianism is respected in the future, the actual governance of the past dynasties has been the Huang-Lao School and Legalism. There is nothing new in Confucianism Legalism was restored again during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there were Legalist subjects in the imperial examinations. There were many people who preferred Legalist ideas. Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan both had profound Legalist ideas, and these ideas can be seen in Liu Yuxi's poems. Political strategists also showed their talents in the Tang Dynasty. Frequent wars, the empire's external expansion, and internal power struggles all provided profound soil for the birth of politicos. The Tang Dynasty also saw the last golden stage of foreign diplomacy in Chinese history. People from the Tang Dynasty went to other countries one after another, and some were causing various troubles in other places. One of the most famous strategists at the turn of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was Pei Ju. No one knows how he used words to divide the Turks and cause the Turks to split. He also asked the Turks to send troops to fight against Tuyuhun. Later, he reopened the Western Regions and divided the countries in the Western Regions. He used one method after another. In the Tang Dynasty, the last political strategist Zhao Rui was born. He left the last book of the political strategist, "The Long and Short Classics". Not to mention military strategists, military strategists are actually very popular in this era. The breathless Gongyang School of Confucianism, which was once suppressed by Zuozhuan, Guliang, and Mencius, also revived at this time, because at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the world of Confucianism was dominated by Zuozhuan, Guliang, Mencius, and Xunzi and Gongyang schools were not considered orthodox. The last time the Gongyang School was revived was the Changzhou School in the late Qing Dynasty. It intended to use the Gongyang School to support ancient reforms and save the Qing Dynasty. It believed that the Gongyang School was orthodox and other schools were not (Zuo Zhuan was also considered a forgery), and Neo-Confucianism and Eight-part Writing were trash cans. Of course, Confucianism was about to be finished by this time. The influential Mohist and Yang Zhu schools among the hundreds of schools had no chance to rise in the Tang Dynasty. Not only Confucianism was afraid of them (Mencius was even furious) The words of the world will not return to Yang, that is, return to Mo) The ruling class is also afraid The Yang Zhu School has obvious individualism and liberal ideas The ideas of the Yang Zhu School were completely eradicated and can only be found in a few other indirect records. These two were re-examined in the late Qing Dynasty, because at this time Confucianism and the Manchu Qing were about to become history, and no one was going to restrict anything anymore. To be honest, Huang-Lao School (small government), Legalism (big government centralization), Mohism, Politicians, Yang Zhu School (individualism and liberalism) and military strategists can more or less survive in modern times and even in other countries, but Confucianism has no possibility of survival in modern countries (Japan and South Korea should like the hierarchy promoted by Confucianism).

Don't read it as a historical text~ Read it from the perspective of a modern urban entertainment text, you will have a completely different feeling haha People in the Tang Dynasty also pursued spiritual entertainment. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty and Su Shi of the Song Dynasty were even kings and superstars. Not to mention China, Korea, Japan, Su Shi was a national idol There was no audio software in that era, so singers were not popular. After all, at most they could only be a small fan club and they could sing to dozens of people. Any more feelings will be gone So the most influential people at that time were lyricists, then composers, and finally singers There were not many entertainment activities at that time, unlike now where you can talk about games, movies, songs, variety shows and sports A group of people can probably talk about poetry when they go out to socialize. So imagine that countless boys and girls recite and sing poems written by their idols every day. How honorable would it be if you could recite the latest poems of popular poets when you go out to make friends? It doesn't matter if you don't know the latest poetry. If you don't even know the most popular poetry at the time, you won't be able to go out and socialize. You will be isolated~ How powerful were poetry idols at that time? In the Tang Dynasty, where the power of aristocratic families was still very strong, even a humble citizen like Li Bai, who was completely unborn, could be an official. People could even say in a very hypocritical manner: The official is too young~ I can't use my talents just by writing poems~ There is also an allusion of a strongman taking off his boots~ It is equivalent to asking an elder-level official to help you slip on your shoes~ But Gao Lishi can only hold his nose to recognize it, and he does not dare to go too far in revenge~ Su Shi has friends all over the world~even his political opponents dare not The suppression was too much, and people left in despair after being demoted. When Su Shi was demoted, he was socializing and eating and drinking all the way~ It was like a superstar superstar holding a concert tour, and fugitives were eager to come and see him, and they were willing to be caught~ When he got the place, he became the alluring city and followed the prefect~ From this point of view, this book is more enjoyable~ Our Xiang Zong is now a first-class superstar who created the genre, and it is only a matter of time before he becomes the emperor superstar! Xiang Zong is destined to become the pinnacle of eternal idols! The first idol emperor in Chinese history! Countless fans and fans shouted behind them that Xiang Zong must be the emperor! Do you know how hard Xiang Zong works? ! When encountering countless fans and fans who oppose them, they will get angry and madly smear and spread rumors to attack and slaughter their opponents Refer to the attack power of those fans who are one pink and the other black~ Modern fan attacks are just curses, but ancient fan attacks are not that powerful His name will remain in history and will be remembered for generations~ Look at the reputation of Gao Lishi~Look at Wang Anshi, who still failed to meet the expectations of the world and was beaten into a minister who brought disaster to the country. The cause of the death of the Song Dynasty was rehabilitated in modern times Can you imagine the fighting power of ancient fans, right? Isn't it exciting enough to be an idol superstar of this level? Other entertainment novels can only be written in a dream~ It is simply the best YY entertainment novel in Qidian at present!