Datang Sustainability Record

With the same bloodline as the Li family, the Li family in Longxi created the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but gradually abandoned the legal principles of their ancestors Gao Tao, Li Lizhen's original intention to survive, and the path of balance with Lao Tzu. They allowed the feudal towns to centralize power and annex land crazily. The fate of the dynasty's collapse in three hundred years was approaching. Li Chengyuan, a direct descendant of the Li family in Zhao County, was entrusted by the Tang Dynasty to guard the Western Regions. He used weakly centralized and distributed tactics to reverse the Talas War and preserve the territory of the Western Regions that the Han Dynasty had managed for hundreds of years. The Anshi Rebellion swept across the Central Plains, and the ills of the old Tang system completely broke out. Both the Li family's descendants raised an army to put down the rebellion, and the gentry and common people in the world had no objections to usurping the Tang Dynasty with different surnames. After quelling the chaos and taking control of Chang'an, Li Chengyuan inherited the throne of the Tang Dynasty, and the country's title remained unchanged, truly realizing the sustainability of the Tang Dynasty. In the past, all the Li clan in Longxi were included in the royal family and divided into conservative factions in the court. They formed a long-term check and balance with the revolutionary faction in Zhao County who implemented new laws, laying the foundation for the self-reform of the dynasty from generation to generation. The emperor no longer acts arbitrarily and relies on a weakly centralized distributed governance structure to divide powers and responsibilities: no favoritism for a single family. The two-way collegial system completely broke the cycle of rise and fall of feudal dynasties. This story is not only the official history of the Nirvana and rebirth of the Tang Dynasty, but also the legal origin of all the imaginary civilizational worldviews in later generations. The creation of thousands of families and countries in the future and the underlying system of sustainable governance all originated from this.