The general trend of the world, the division of long-term will be united, the combination of long-term must be divided, the change of dynasties and the changes of the times are all the imprints of the wheel of history rolling forward.
In 617 AD, Li Yuan rebelled against the Sui in Jinyang and in the following year said that the emperor established the Tang Dynasty as the capital of Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty is one of the most glorious dynasties in history, and its establishment is to open the arms of the East to the world.
After the change of Xuanwumen, Li Shimin ascended the throne as emperor for Tang Taizong, and in 627, Tang Taizong Li Shimin created the rule of Zhenguan, laying a solid foundation for the arrival of the Sheng Tang. In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong heard that there was a metaphysician Yuan Tiangang, who had been proficient in astronomical geography all his life, and Li Shimin, who had always cherished talents, wanted to include Yuan Tiangang under his command.
There are many folklore about Yuan Tiangang, legend has it that he once showed the tang dynasty prime minister, predicted their future career, and verified them one by one, since then, Yuan Tiangang has become a household name, countless dignitaries and dignitaries have come to see his face, which also includes the then emperor Tang Taizong Li Shimin.
When Li Shimin summoned Yuan Tiangang to the palace, Li Shimin wanted to know how long Datang could last, so he asked Yuan Tiangang: "When will Datang die?" Yuan Tiangang replied, "When the pig goes up the tree, the Tang Dynasty will perish." Hearing this answer, Li Shimin was very puzzled and even secretly happy in his heart, because according to common sense, pigs cannot go up trees, so Datang will not perish.
But is the truth really as Tang Taizong Li Shimin thought? Will the Tang Dynasty really be eternally solid and passed down through the ages? History gives the answer.
In 651, Emperor Taizong of Tang died, and at the time of Li Shimin's death, he still believed Yuan Tiangang's answer: When the pig goes up the tree, the Tang Dynasty will perish. After Li Shimin's death, his son Li Zhi succeeded to the throne as Emperor Gaozong of Tang.
In 655, after Emperor Gaozong of Tang deposed his original empress dowager Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu to the rank of Shuren, he made Wu Zetian the new empress.
Wu Zetian had very high political ambitions and political ideas, and she worked together with Emperor Gaozong of Tang to oppose the Guanlong clique, a force that threatened centralized power, and together with Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Li Zhi, known as the "Second Sage", she jointly managed the imperial government.
This also laid the groundwork for later becoming the first female emperor in Chinese history to be posthumously recognized by zhengshi for her power.
Soon after, Li Zhi fell ill and died, Li Xian succeeded to the throne as Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, and Wu Zetian was honored as the empress dowager, but Li Xian angered Wu Zetian, and Li Xian, who soon became emperor, was deposed by Wu Zetian as the King of Luling.
The establishment of the fourth son Li Dan as emperor was for Tang Ruizong and Wu Zetian to make the emperor. Although the emperor at this time was Emperor Ruizong of Tang, the power of the state was still in the hands of his mother Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian's plot to seize Li Tang's sheji and eliminate Li Tang's clan caused dissatisfaction among the kings, who planned to raise an army against Wu Zetian, but after only seven days of rebellion, they were defeated by Wu Zetian, and even more Li Tang clans were killed.
In the years that followed, Wu Zetian accepted the suggestions of other forces such as officials and clan relatives, and requested Wu Zetian to change the name of the country to Zhou, give the emperor the surname of "Wu", and grant amnesty to the world. At this point, China's first female emperor was born.
In the first year of shenlong, the crown prince Li Xian and the chancellor Zhang Kamzhi launched the Shenlong Revolution, forcing Wu Zetian to abdicate and restore Li Tang's rule, and the Tang dynasty's power was restored to Li's hands.
Does Wu Zetian's claim to the throne mean the end of Li Tang's reign? Does it also mean that Yuan Tiangang's language is inaccurate? In fact, unlike Wang Mang of other dynasties who usurped the Han Dynasty, Wu Zetian claimed that the emperor did not turn the country into two regimes, not like the Song Dividing the North and the South and the Jin Dynasty into the East and the West, although the supreme ruler of the country was not li.
However, after Wu Zetian abdicated, he returned power to the Li clan, which did not break the Li dynasty, and the bloodline of the emperor was not broken, and the country did not die, which was different from other dynasties. And the one who really caused the tang dynasty to perish was Zhu Wen.
The Anshi Rebellion was a turning point for the Tang Dynasty. Although the Anshi rebellion and the Tang dynasty government were pacified, the prosperous era founded by the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty was gone. Not only that, the problem of the division of the tang dynasty's feudal towns has not been solved, the war has continuously led to the country's economic recession, and there are even more eunuchs and party disputes within the imperial court.
The occurrence of the Huangchao Rebellion exacerbated the demise of the Tang Dynasty, and at this time Zhu Wen submitted to the Tang Dynasty and was named the Envoy of Jiedu, but at that time, there were many feudal towns, and Zhu Wen's power was very weak, but it was zhu Wen who personally ended the Tang Dynasty more than twenty years later.
In exchange for the trust of Tang Zhaozong, who had just ascended the throne, Zhu Wen offered the head of Qin Zongquan who had made trouble in Cai Prefecture, which made Tang Zhaozong very moved and trusted Zhu Wen very much.
Zhu Wen also took this opportunity to expand his sphere of influence, first taking the whole territory of Henan into his own hands, then taking Youzhou for himself, and finally annexing Hezhong.
Although the power of the Jiedushi envoys was very strong, the Tang Government still had 100,000 forbidden troops suppressing these Jiedushi envoys, so that they did not dare to act rashly, but Tang Zhaozong personally destroyed these 100,000 forbidden troops.
Due to improper command and insufficient morale, he was repeatedly defeated in the war of cutting down the domain, and the 100,000 forbidden troops were wiped out, and finally Zhu Wen sent troops to rescue them.
However, this also gave Zhu Wen the opportunity to control Tang Zhaozong, and Zhu Wen, who successfully captured Tang Zhaozong, completely ended the Tang Dynasty in three steps, somewhat similar to Cao Cao's practice of blackmailing Tianzi to make the princes and Cao Pi cooperate with The Han Emperor To sacrifice Emperor Chan.
First, Zhu Wen killed more than 700 eunuchs and arranged for his own cronies to control Chang'an throughout the palace; second, Zhu Wen coerced Tang Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang and kill Tang Zhaozong to establish himself as Emperor Aizong of Tang.
The third step is the most important step, through the "Disaster of the White Horse" to slaughter the ministers who oppose him, and sweep away the forces within the imperial court that oppose him, at this time, Tang Wanzong has no barriers, and he can only cede the throne to Zhu Wen.
On May 12, 907, Zhu Wen accepted the Zen concession of Emperor Aizong of Tang and established Hou Liang, so that the li dynasty with its glorious and prosperous world was finally ended by Zhu Wen, and Yuan Tiangang's prediction that the Tang Dynasty would perish when the pigs went up the tree was fulfilled.
It turned out that the pig in "When the Pig Went to the Tree" was not a pig of livestock, but Zhu Wen, and the tree was not a big tree, but the wood of Li Tang Jiangshan, the real meaning was that Zhu Wen climbed on the head of li Shi and The Tang Dynasty would perish.
After Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, the Curtain of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms began, and the division of the feudal towns since the Anshi Rebellion intensified, and the land of China entered a seventy-seven-year-long war, one of the most chaotic periods in Chinese history.
But also because of the war and chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the transformation of the economic center of the north and the south was accelerated, and a large number of northern populations moved south, accelerating the pace of economic development in the Jiangnan region, until 979 AD, when the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin carried out a unification war and established the Song Dynasty to end the chaotic world.