In 617, the 52-year-old Li Yuan raised an army from Taiyuan, invaded Chang'an in the same year, and the following year declared himself emperor in Chang'an, establishing the Tang Dynasty, with the era name Wude. In the seventh year of WuDe, the Tang Dynasty unified the whole country, and in the ninth year of Wude, the Xuanwumen Incident broke out, and li Shimin was forced to be made crown prince, and in the same year, he took the throne and proclaimed himself Emperor Taishang. Zhenguan died in the ninth year at the age of 70, and the temple number was Gaozu. There are both the scenery of the founding emperor and the fall of the Taishang Emperor, and the first article of the Tang Dynasty Character Chronicle comes to tell Li Yuan's life.
Gao Zu guan tu
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the honor of the duke</h1>
Li Yuan, from the Li clan of Longxi, is a famous and prestigious family, whose ancestors can be traced back to the general Li Xin of Qin Shi Huang, and the flying general Li Guang during the Han Wudi period was also its representative, and the highest glorious moment was during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, when Li Huan established the Western Liang regime and Li Shi produced the first emperor. However, the greatest influence on Li Yuan's social status was his grandfather Li Hu, who was a fierce general of Northern Wei, and later followed the powerful minister Yuwen Tai to establish the Western Wei regime, gui was one of the eight pillar states of Western Wei, and after Yuwen clan usurped Western Wei and established Northern Zhou, he posthumously named Li Hu the Duke of Tang, and the title was inherited by his son Li Xun. Li Xun married Dugu Shi, who was also one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms, and married the fourth daughter of Du Guxin, who was named DuGu Mantuo, and her sister Du Gu Jia Luo married Yang Jian, which was later Emperor Wen of Sui, and Du Gu Jia Luo was the Empress of the Sui Literature. Dugu Mantuo gave birth to Li Yuan, and when Li Yuan was 7 years old, Li Xun died, because Li Yuan's two older brothers died prematurely, so Li Yuan inherited the title of Duke of Tang. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian and his wife took good care of their nephew Li Yuan, and all the way to the official fortune.
Li Yuan's wife Dou gave birth to Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, Li Yuanji and Princess Pingyang, each of whom was a dragon and phoenix among men. Dou Shi is also from a famous family, his father Dou Yi is a Northern Zhou heavy minister, in order to choose a son-in-law for his daughter, he ordered people to draw two peacocks on the screen, who can stand outside the door and shoot the peacock's eyes, he will marry his daughter to whom, Li Yuan's two arrows just shot, Dou Yi on the spot gave his daughter Xu to Li Yuan, this is the "Que Ping Zhongxuan", and Wang Xizhi's "East Bed Fast Son-in-Law" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is comparable.
Folding fan of the selected theme in the screen
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > times to create heroes</h1>
If history runs smoothly, Li Yuan will guard the title of grandfather of other countries for a lifetime, who knows that history has given him the opportunity. After the Sui Dynasty Emperor ascended the throne, he first spent huge manpower and material resources to build the luxurious eastern capital luoyang, and then excavated the Grand Canal, three expeditions to Goguryeo, which made the people angry and resentful, and the people were not happy, and the peasant uprising forces such as Wagangzhai and Dou Jiande rose up one after another, and the vigorous wave of peasant uprisings at the end of the Sui Dynasty broke out. However, the Sui Emperor did not realize the imperial crisis, did not heed the dissuasion and still took a dragon boat to Jiangdu to enjoy the flowers, and finally was cut off by the rebels in Shandong and Jianghuai and trapped in Jiangdu.
At this time, Li Yuan stayed behind for Taiyuan, was the highest administrator of Taiyuan, and the situation in the world was turbulent, and he was also eager to move. It happened that a rebellion broke out in Mayi under Taiyuan's rule, and Liu Wuzhou, a lieutenant of Yingyang, killed Taishou and established himself as the son of heaven, and the Sui Emperor was very dissatisfied with this and wanted to arrest Li Yuan to Jiangdu for punishment, Li Yuan was quite afraid, and under the persuasion of everyone, he killed Taiyuan's deputy remainer and rebelled against Sui. Taiyuan crossed the Yellow River and was the land of Hexi, directly pounding Guanzhong, and the Sui army in Guanzhong escorted the Sui Emperor to Jiangdu, so Li Yuan, with a force of 30,000 troops, unexpectedly took Chang'an and had a base for the world.
The Sui Emperor who stayed in Jiangdu to enjoy the flowers
There has been controversy about who was the mastermind of the Taiyuan uprising, and the mainstream view is that Li Shimin was the mastermind. Li Shimin took the lead in seeing that the Great Sui Mansion would fall, plotted with his friend Liu Wenjing to raise an army, and feared that Li Yuan would not agree, so he pulled Pei Huan into the gang and set up a "beauty plan". Pei Huan is the deputy superintendent of Jinyang Palace, Li Yuan is the superintendent of Jinyang Palace, the two are both colleagues and friends, often drink together, and as usual, this time Li Yuan is drunk again, Pei Huan picked out two outstanding-looking waiters from the Jinyang palace women, Li Yuan can distinguish after drinking, and he went to Wushan Yunyu with the palace women. Jinyang Palace is Yang Guang's palace in Taiyuan, the palace women are Yang Guang's people, staying in the palace is equivalent to the harem of fornication, is the major crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, Li Yuan woke up drunk and was scared half to death, at this time Li Shimin put out the plan to raise the army and put it out, stretching out the head is a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife, Li Yuan had to agree to Li Shimin's plan. Of course, there is also a saying that the Taiyuan uprising was entirely Li Yuan's plan, from the earlier secret recruitment of troops to buy horses, to the killing of officials and incidents, it was Li Yuan's decision-making, and Li Shimin, Pei Ning, and others were only executors, and this kind of speech came from the "Notes on the Entrepreneurship and Living of the Tang Dynasty", which was Recorded by Li Yuan's "confidential secretary" Wen Daya in the 357 days from Taiyuan to Chang'an, which clearly recorded various actions and was more convincing.
Regardless of whose strategy it was, Li Yuan's political adventure was successful, and after taking Chang'an, he established Yang You, the grandson of the Sui Emperor, as emperor, and Yang Guang as emperor, which was equivalent to deposing Yang Guang. In the same year, Yang Guang was killed by Yu Wenhua and Killed in Jiangsu, and Li Yuan, who received the news, was "overjoyed" and forced Yang Youchan to be located on his own, officially calling himself emperor, with the national name "Tang" and the era name Wude. From the Taiyuan army to Chang'an to be called emperor, in one year, Li Yuan created a record for the fastest emperor to be called emperor by the founding emperor of the Great Unification Dynasty.
Tang Gaozu, played by Li Xuejian
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > no compromise in the face of imperial power</h1>
Although he became emperor, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was still only shrunk in Guanzhong, with Dou Jiande in North China, Wang Shichong in the Central Plains, Du Fuwei in Jianghuai, Xiao Milling in Jiangnan, Xue Ju in Longxi, Liu Wuzhou in the north, and more powerful Turks, Li Yuan clearly knew that it was not yet time to rest, so he sent Tang troops to fight everywhere. His arrangement was for him and the crown prince Li Jiancheng to sit in Chang'an, taking command in the center, and Li Shimin, the King of Qin, led an army to kill the enemy. Seemingly reasonable arrangements, but for the future Xuanwumen Incident laid the groundwork.
Li Shimin was too good, Xue Ju, Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong perished at his hands, especially the capture of Dou Jiande alive and the forced surrender of Wang Shichong, which laid a solid foundation for the unification of the whole country by the Tang Dynasty and also won great prestige for Li Shimin.
Li Yuan also realized that Li Shimin's ever-expanding military merits had affected the balance of the court, especially Li Jiancheng's position as crown prince, and he had also considered reducing the opportunity for Li Shimin to lead troops, for example, when Liu Wuzhou attacked Taiyuan, Li Yuan sent Li Yuanji to lead the troops, but after losing the battle, he sent Pei Huan to lead the army, and then lost the battle, and also lost Taiyuan, Taiyuan is Li Tang's land of Longxing, which is of great significance, and in desperation, Li Yuan had to send Li Shimin out again, and Li Shimin also lived up to the expectations of the people and recovered Taiyuan. The complete elimination of Liu Wuzhou's forces also allowed Li Yuan to gradually develop "Li Shimin dependence". In the seventh year of Wude, the Turkic army invaded the border, panicked all over the court, and talked about moving the capital, and at the moment of crisis, Li Yuan still had to hold Li Shimin's hands and affectionately entrust the war to him.
Li Yuan was powerless to stop Li Shimin's rise
Although Li Yuan gave Li Shimin the title of general of Tiance and allowed him to open the palace, he took back the military power of the kings, and after a series of military reforms, the command weight of the army was vested in the imperial court, that is to say, in Chang'an City, Li Shimin had no military power except for the hundred guards of the royal palace, and there were more than three thousand prince guards in the Eastern Palace, Li Shimin could not turn over the waves no matter how powerful, Li Yuan also believed that his arrangement was very appropriate, that is, he gave Li Shimin great honor, and put an end to his threat to the position of prince.
But rabbits will bite people when they are anxious, let alone Li Shimin, who is majestic and strategic? He will never sit still. Li Shimin used his influence in the army to gradually control the palace guards, and in the early morning of the Xuanwumen incident, he led more than seventy guards of the Qin Dynasty palace to smoothly enter the palace from Xuanwumen to set up an ambush in advance, and when Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji entered the Xuanwu Gate, they attacked in groups, and after killing the two, Li Shimin ordered Chi Jingde to take over the palace guards and force Li Yuan to accept reality. Seeing that Wei Chi Jingde was free to come and go in the palace with his whole body armor, Li Yuan knew that his palace had been lost, so he had to announce the appointment of Li Shimin as the crown prince.
In fact, at this moment, Li Yuan was not completely dead-hearted, he wanted to see if there was any Qin Wang's army in the world, and the result was that he was disappointed, his Tang army had all become Li Shimin's Tang army, and his court was gradually occupied by Fang Xuanling, Du Ruqian, and others in the Qin King's Palace, and he finally understood that he had no hope anymore, and after struggling for two months, he overshadowed the Zen throne. From the first year of WuDe to the ninth year of Wu De, Li Yuan was the emperor for 9 years, and at this time he suddenly fell from the peak of power, and how this 60-year-old man was dead and silent in his heart was probably impossible for ordinary people to understand. As Empress Taishang, Li Yuan was completely "isolated from the world", except for the occasional appearance to attend a state banquet, he stayed in his palace, focusing on creating people, and died in the ninth year of Zhenguan.
Affection and power are lost
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary</h1>
Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, although the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but for the Tang Dynasty's founding merits are far inferior to Li Shimin, in addition to attacking Chang'an, "did not make an inch of merit", this is the most essential difference between him and Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, which also led to his lack of help in the army, this is the objective reason for his eclipse, subjectively, Li Yuan is an indecisive person, in the face of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's struggle for the concubine, he did not have thunder means to stop, but repeatedly delayed, eventually led to irreconcilable two, brothers you die and I die, In the end, not only to face the pain of losing a child in old age, but also to lose their power, sadly and regrettably.
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