The results obtained by taking the initiative to clarify and clarifying after being questioned are two different things. Li Zhiyun was waiting for those wealthy families to take the bait. As expected, he finally waited until Guanlong people took the initiative to visit him to ask about the matter. Guanlong people's situation went from bad to worse.
, it is certain to have money, and it is certain to have honor. After all, the empire has only had two generations of emperors so far, and the Guanlong people, as the major shareholders who contributed money and people in the early days of the empire, can earn a lot from the dividends. But
The point is, they have no power.
They are all chairman of the board, but the board of directors has been dissolved by the emperor, and the capital of all directors is also tightly controlled by the emperor. All personnel and materials in the empire are in the hands of the emperor. Directors Guan Long can only take money every year
, cannot hold actual power in the company. They are now in urgent need of finding new opportunities.
No one knows what the Guanlong people and the emperor were talking about. They only know that not long after, the Guanlong people suddenly expressed their willingness to hand over all 90% of the Guanzhong acres of land to the imperial court for free, and supported the imperial court's implementation of the land-sharing system in Guanzhong.
The Dugu family, the Dou family, the Yu family, the Changsun family and other families also expressed that they were willing to hand over 70% of the land owned by the Bashu Hanzhong generation to the imperial court, and also fully supported the imperial court's implementation of land allocation among the Bashu Hanzhong.
As the news spread, the government and the public were in turmoil. Many people thought that the people of Guanlong were suffering from swine fever, otherwise they would not do such outrageous things. However, they soon understood why the people of Guanlong were so generous this time.
First, the emperor promoted Yu Zhining to the rank of minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then asked him to independently take charge of the affairs of Guanzhong's tenants and their mothers. Later, Dai Zhou resigned because of his old age, and Li Zhiyun immediately asked Yu Zhining to inspect the school and accept his words.
The position of acting prime minister.
The ministers understood that the Guanlong people were making exchanges with the imperial court, so bow your head.
There was no other reason why Dai Zhou resigned. It was because he was too old and could no longer bear the burden of writing documents. Li Zhiyun was very generous to him. He was given a high official position and a large amount of gold and silver. He also gave him a lot of money.
Come to the palace for an interview at any time
At the same time, he promoted his son to an official position to give him face. By the way, he also told him that he did not need to build a tomb. When he died in the future, he would be buried lightly first, and then when Li Zhiyun also died, he would
Buried with him in his imperial mausoleum.
In addition, there is no Lingyan Pavilion here, but there is Qilin Hall. In Li Zhiyun's words, all my subordinates are talented in civil and military affairs.
The exchanges between the Guanlong people did not stop there. Ten years later, a young general named Dugu Chengxin conquered the small Stone Kingdom of Bahanna in Sogdia. The emperor named him "Shi Guogong" and allowed him to support his troops there and stand on his own.
But after they had to make offerings to the local King Li Tang, the ministers suddenly realized that the emperor allowed the Guanlong people to establish a country thousands of miles away. Although they had to make offerings to the local king Li Tang, he was still the head of a country.
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Then, all the major families in the world imitated this example. This is a story for later, so there is no need to describe it in detail.
The blueprint drawn up by Li Zhiyun for enfeoffment is as follows.
First of all, the highest level is the existence of a sacred and inviolable empire. The territory of the empire extends to the sea in the east, to Linyi in the south, to the Shule country in the west, and to the Angara River in the north. In addition, the island of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and the Three Kingdoms
, Tubo, Ryukyu, etc., some are present in later generations, some are not, and some are not. If it were not too cold in the north, the route would be directly pushed to the North Pole. After all, all the people on the grasslands are now Tang people.
The next level is the king of the Li Tang clan. They will establish vassal states outside the empire's territory to defend the empire. They do not need to pay tribute to the court, but they cannot step into the empire's territory without the order of the emperor.
, as long as the king of the vassal states steps into the territory of the empire, it is tantamount to treason.
Of course, this restriction is only effective when the emperor's surname is still Li, and he is still a descendant of Li Zhiyun. If one day, the unscrupulous descendants of the old Li family ruin the family, and brothers from outside want to come in and revive the Tang Dynasty, there will be no constraints.
Already.
Level one again, hero.
These three levels go down step by step. They will eventually fill all the colonial areas with various positions in a dotted manner. The royal family king of Li Tang is the highest level in the colony, and the heroes and aristocratic families below,
The manors they established allowed them to control a certain number of private soldiers, but they had to pay taxes to the Li Tang clan king on time. Except that they were not allowed to use Tang people for hard labor, they could be slaves or whatever. As for taxes and poll taxes.
In other words, Li Zhiyun will use outdated but beneficial policies to allow them to play freely in the colony. As for how cruel it will be in the end, that is beyond Li Zhiyun's control. You want others to go out and help you willingly.
If you don't give benefits when running a business, how can others be willing to do so?
To be honest, Li Zhiyun still wants to do more, but it doesn't work. There is not enough time and the empire has not been accumulated enough. He can only do it step by step. Letting his sons go out to build the country does not mean that Li Zhiyun will not take care of the prince. He will take care of the vastness of the entire north.
The land that is boundless and contains inexhaustible resources is left to the empire. The peninsula, the Japanese country, and all the Japanese countries will be included in the imperial rule system in the future, in order to create a perfect coastal defense line.
Of course, there is also the south, which is also within the empire's strategic scope. The empire is really beyond the reach of the Western Region, so people must voluntarily fight all the way west there, even to the far west.
The main thing Li Zhiyun did in the next few years was to open the sea, develop the south, and fight against the Japanese. Among these three things, the Japanese was the best to solve. Liu Rengui was later ordered to drive a giant ship, attack the Japanese king's city in one fell swoop, and capture all the little Japanese.
He came back to work as a slave. Li Zhiyun also instructed Liu Rengui to search for gold and silver mines on the island, which eventually attracted a large number of gold prospectors to the island and greatly enriched the population.
Opening up the sea is easy, and the task Li Zhiyun gave himself is very easy. He only needs to constantly improve the sea map, and then gradually send people out to occupy the islands and reclaim the land.
Only developing the south was the most difficult, because of the climate, water and soil, and it took him more than ten years of hard work to achieve initial results.
When looking back on his life, Li Zhiyun suddenly realized that the plate he opened was too big, and then hesitantly asked the prince if he could hold it.
The prince replied that he could.
Li Zhiyun believed in him. After all, he had taught the prince himself. Before Li Chengzhao succeeded to the throne, he first supervised the country when the emperor went out to inspect the world. Later, when the emperor moved the capital to Luoyang, he was responsible for guarding Xijing and managing the workshop.
Above, Li Chengzhao did many things during his years as prince.
He went on expeditions, supervised the country, researched science, opened universities, governed the south, inspected the homeland of Goguryeo, etc. He was basically involved in everything in the army, the court, and the emperor. At the same time, he was also asked to preside over the imperial examinations, allowing him to do his best to attract talents.
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When the emperor was old and chose to abdicate and become the emperor, that night, the emperor said to the prince: As a father, I will help you one last time.
Then, a group of nobles were demoted and another group of people who committed serious crimes were directly killed. At that time, the old brothers who followed Li Zhiyun to conquer the world had almost died long ago, and Li Zhiyun didn't care at all.
After the killing, the emperor asked the ministers in the court who had always been at odds with the prince and who were on his side to retire and go home, and gave up a lot of positions to the prince to promote his confidants.
The emperor said to the prince: "There is no one who can dress like a beast."
Then, with his body bent, he took the prince and pressed him on the throne.
"You are the emperor now. Take good care of the people in my place."
After that, the emperor went to Taiyuan.
Because his daughter, Princess Jinyang, was the president of Jinyang University, he went there to help her and write down some knowledge points while he was still unconscious. He could write as much as he could.
When Li Chengzhao was full-fledged, the emperor would inevitably hit him sometimes, and gradually it turned into the emperor's ministers targeting the prince's confidants. This has been true in all dynasties, and the father and son Li Zhiyun and Li Chengzhao are not immune. But the good thing is that Li Zhiyun is very good.
He was disgusted with this kind of thing. Unless the prince did something wrong, he wouldn't care how the prince danced.
The prince, on the other hand, didn't care at all. The relationship between him and his old father was not something that the ministers could instigate, and Empress Yang was speaking among them, so there was no estrangement between the family at all.
In the forty-eighth year of Zhenguan, Li Zhiyun abdicated and became the emperor, and directly gave the throne to the prince. The prince was even more grateful. Because his old father could still ride a horse and hunt at a young age, and his body was not in good shape. If Li Zhiyun had been emperor, Li Chengzhao would have been
I feel like I have something to wait for.
Li Zhiyun is too lazy to be the emperor because he is so tired. He thinks it will be fine if he has been the emperor for fifty years. The main reason is that being the emperor has become more and more boring over the years. The old people die one after another and the new ones come one after another.
, he is getting older and really doesn’t want to scheming, it’s too tiring.
What's more, if he continues to be emperor, what if the prince doesn't survive him?
In fact, Prince Li Chengzhao was already in his fifties when he ascended the throne.
Li Chengzhao's son, Prince Li Xuanyuan, is also in his thirties. And Li Xuanyuan's son Li Yaoshun is also eight or nine years old.
Well, Li Zhiyun has already met his great-grandson. Li Zhiyun personally gave his grandson the name Li Xuanyuan. Li Xuanyuan was not called this name. Later, after Li Zhiyun's inspection, Li Zhiyun personally canonized him as the emperor's grandson, and then named him Li Xuanyuan.
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Li Zhiyun is not afraid that his grandson will not be able to bear his name, because he will be the fourth emperor of the empire in the future, and he can bear it!
The name of the great-grandson Li Yaosun was also given by Li Zhiyun, because this boy and Li Chengzhao were really alike when they were young, equally smart and equally public. Both he and Empress Yang liked this great-grandson.
It is said that after Li Chengzhao ascended the throne, he changed the reign name to Xuanwu. The Zhenguan reign, which lasted for forty-eight years, finally came to an end. However, no one can forget, and no one can forget the terrible influence of this reign name in the world.
The influence of Emperor Zhenguan!
The reign name of Xuanwu has an obvious meaning: I am going to hit someone.
During his reign, Li Chengzhao completely continued the style of Emperor Zhenguan, beating up those noble families internally and killing people and setting fires everywhere externally. In fact, by the time Emperor Xuanwu came to power, the aristocratic families within the empire had been completely desolate. Because most of the aristocratic families
Either they go to the extreme west to develop, or they go overseas. There are only three or two aristocratic families in the empire.
Despite this, Emperor Xuanwu was not careless and killed anyone he caught. Externally, Emperor Xuanwu had two main attack directions, one was the south, and the other was the rebellious natives on the Japanese island. Of course, there were also the brothers who were enfeoffed in the west.
their descendants.
Emperor Xuanwu was smart. After seeing that his brothers were running Sogdia very well and there were Tang people everywhere, he decisively provoked trouble and occupied the land. The descendants of several brothers there had long been scolded. Li Zhiyun is still alive.
The son over there scolded the fourth child for being shameless. Brother, you are still not a human being even if you are worried about the little thing in the bowl.
After all, Emperor Xuanwu still wanted to lose face, but he stopped making trouble later. After all, his old father was still retiring in Taiyuan, and he couldn't break up with his brothers at this time. Later, he focused on running Tubo.
The Tubo area was completely conquered when Emperor Zhenguan was in power, but the business has always been very slow.
Please understand the plateau climate.
Emperor Xuanwu reigned for eighteen years and abdicated at the age of seventy to become the Supreme Emperor. There was no other way. Li Chengzhao felt that he was too old and lacked energy to handle it. At this time, the old emperor Li Zhiyun, who was nearly ninety years old, was still alive.
I'm almost burping my butt already.
Therefore, after Emperor Xuanwu became the Supreme Emperor, Li Zhiyun was awarded the only title of all time; Supreme Emperor.
To be honest, in order to consider this title, the new emperor thought about it for a long time, and he almost died from it.
Finally, after much deliberation, I decided to add the word "ancestor" between the Supreme Emperor and Emperor Zhenguan. Anyway, Emperor Zhenguan was his imperial grandfather.
Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with you.
The fourth emperor of the Tang Empire, Li Xuanyuan. Like his father, Emperor Xuanwu Li Chengzhao, he was in his fifties when he ascended the throne.
His reign name is Zhaowu.
Yes, Emperor Zhaowu was an emperor who loved manic attacks even more than his father and grandfather. During his twelve years in power, he fought wars basically every year, either to suppress rebellions or to fight in the north or south.
, fight to the west, fight overseas. Anyway, he kept saying, "Whatever happened to my imperial grandfather, I will do the same."
He is addicted to learning from Li Zhiyun.
Then he died, of exhaustion.
The reign name of Zhaowu is as poisonous as anyone who messes with it will be a fool. You can't say that Emperor Zhaowu is useless, and you can't say that he is a waste. You can only say that he is not a good emperor. Because when this person was in power, Nian
During the years of war, his land territory and overseas territory more than doubled, but his warehouses were completely emptied by him, and even rats would cry hungry when they entered the warehouses.
He left a lot of mess to his prince, the fifth emperor of the empire, who was rumored to be the successor appointed by Emperor Zhenguan two generations later, Li Yaoshun.
When Li Yaoshun ascended the throne, he was finally different from Emperor Zhaowu and Emperor Xuanwu. He was in his thirties, when he was in the prime of life.
After Li Yaoshun ascended the throne, he changed his reign to Xuanlong.
He is the one who truly learned from Emperor Zhenguan. After Emperor Xuanlong ascended the throne, he comprehensively cleaned up the mess left by Emperor Zhaowu. It took only five years for the rapidly declining empire to stop its decline. After that, Emperor Xuanlong joined forces and joined forces.
, smashed the various interest groups in the DPRK to pieces, and then re-measured all the acres within the empire's territory, distributed the people for free, comprehensively massacred the local powerful, and arranged immigration in an orderly manner. The empire's economy quickly recovered under the governance of Emperor Xuanlong.
In this way, the people's hearts attached themselves to Lao Li's family again.
When Emperor Xuanlong first ascended the throne, he often said that the wealth left by Emperor Zhenguan, Emperor Xuanwu, and two other emperors was actually wiped out by Emperor Zhaowu alone. How did he do it?
Really, Emperor Xuanlong could not imagine how his father had ruined his family.
Emperor Xuanlong cleared land within the empire and vigorously promoted land distribution, which was the most vigorous effort after Emperor Zhenguan. During this period, there was an interval of nearly seventy years. The killing of powerful men was a reserved skill of the emperors of the old Li family.
Basically everyone knows it and everyone likes to use it.
Basically, everyone in the previous era died, but people who read history books think that Emperor Xuanlong is really very similar to Emperor Zhenguan.
Similar?
No, Emperor Xuanlong just wanted to say, in fact, I just digested all the theoretical books that my great-grandfather left me.
After the empire was stabilized, the ZTE began. Fifteen years later, the empire fully returned to the prosperity of Emperor Xuanwu's period. However, Emperor Xuanlong felt that it was not enough. He wanted to continue. He wanted to be as good as Emperor Zhenguan.
It's a pity that the empire's stall is even bigger at this time.
Because the steam engine was born.
After more than a hundred years of development, industry finally ushered in a period of huge explosion with solid theoretical knowledge.
Emperor Zhenguan, Emperor Xuanwu, Emperor Zhaowu, during the reign of these three emperors, various mechanical drawings left by skilled craftsmen of various eras were finally taken out by Emperor Xuanlong from the secret room of Chang'an Taiji Palace when the steam engines were heard in the sky.
Train, giant ship, automobile, loom
Countless steam machines appeared in front of the world, crushing the ridiculous human and animal power.
When the black smoke filled the air, accompanied by the sound of "clang, clang, clang, clang, clang", it crushed over the ice-covered Beizhou continent, passing through the vast ice field, muskets rang out, and ice bears fell in a pool of blood.
among.
When the artillery set off a violent storm on the sea, the giant steel ships crushed the ridiculous water villages of the natives of Tianzhu, and the soldiers of the empire landed on the lost continent that Emperor Zhenguan had dreamed of and wanted his descendants to find.
Various crops were brought back to the empire on giant ships, planted and picked, and the population exploded within twenty years.
During the reign of Emperor Zhenguan, the population peaked at 10 million households with a population of more than 60 million. During Emperor Xuanwu's period, the population declined because large-scale immigration began. During Emperor Zhaowu's period, the population further declined because people died in wars and the economy deteriorated.
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Now, with the bringing back of crops and the vigorous promotion of small-acre farming, the population has begun to rebound. Under the reign of Emperor Xuanlong, the population finally exceeded 100 million. This is not counting the colonies occupied by the empire or overseas.
The population of the metropolitan area.
After the application of the steam engine, Emperor Xuanlong decisively began the road of conquest, attacking all the way to the west and driving away a group of descendants of the old Li family.
Then, colonial rule began on various continents. Some historians believe that the real colonization of the Shentang Empire began with Emperor Xuanlong.
Emperor Xuanlong made many achievements in his life, paying equal attention to both civil and military affairs. Many people regarded him as the second emperor of Zhenguan. However, Emperor Xuanlong himself said that he could not compare with Emperor Zhenguan at all.
Emperor Xuanlong was also a long-lived emperor. He reigned for forty years and later abdicated to become the Supreme Emperor and lived to be over eighty years old.
Some people say he was the emperor who resurrected the empire, while others say he was the emperor who saved the empire.
Later generations of historians have studied and found that the emperors of the Tang Empire were basically long-lived emperors who could live to be seventy or eighty years old. The most outrageous Emperor Zhenguan lived to be more than ninety years old. Some people think that this longevity gene comes from
It was inherited from Emperor Zhenguan, but was quickly overthrown.
Because the brothers of Emperor Zhenguan generally only lived to be fifty or sixty years old. Later, some people proposed that the longevity gene of the Tang Empire was inherited from the Hongnong Yang family, because after checking the genealogy of the Tang Empire, they found that Emperor Zhenguan’s Empress Yang
The several children born to him, as well as their descendants, all lived a long life. And the line of King Ji born to another Yang Zhaoyi also lived a long life. Therefore, they concluded that the children of the union of the Li family and the Yang family all lived a long life.
However, this is not important.
What is important is that the most incredible thing about the Tang Empire to historians is that there were eight generations of Mingjuns in a row. For eight generations in a row, there was no such nonsense. This is simply incredible. Even the most despised Emperor Zhaowu still had merit.
Yes, after all, the territory he has conquered is not small. At most, we can only say that he is militaristic, but we cannot say that he is a waste.
After research by historians, they found that once the prince of the Tang Empire was established, there was no doubt between father and son. The emperor always tried his best to cultivate the prince, and the emperor was not afraid of the prince's challenge at all.
Even between the father and son who had the worst relationship in the history of the Tang Empire, Emperor Ningwu and Emperor Daxing, there was no mutual suspicion. At most, they were unhappy with each other.
Emperor Ningwu was the son of Emperor Xuanlong. He always felt that Emperor Daxing looked nothing like him. He was tall and thick, had a bad face, and his appearance was too bad. If this son was not valued by Emperor Xuanlong, he would not want to stand up at all.
For the prince.
Emperor Daxing was a concubine, and he didn't like his father who was busy writing and writing all day long. He was too lazy to cater to his father's preferences and still went his own way. Basically, during the reign of Emperor Ningwu, Emperor Daxing, who was still the prince, was just an otaku.
Don't think that Emperor Ningwu only played around all day long. He was evaluated by historians as the coldest, most scheming, and cruelest emperor in the history of the Tang Empire. His cruelty made ministers faint from fear.
During the reign of Emperor Ningwu, it was the lowest pressure moment in the history of the entire empire. Everyone lived cautiously. You know, Emperor Ningwu may be talking to you with a smile one moment, but the next moment, he will coldly order to kill you.
Your whole family, if I say I will kill your whole family, I will kill your whole family, and I will do what I say.
Of course, except for the common people.
Well, Emperor Ningwu once trampled down an old farmer's crops on horseback, and even after being pointed at his nose and scolded his ancestors for eighteen generations, he didn't even dare to fart.
When Emperor Ningwu was about to die, he summoned Emperor Daxing. By this time, Emperor Daxing had long been a otaku and had turned into a heroic man with fair skin and rosy complexion.
Emperor Ningwu was very happy. He took his son's hand and said, "This is my son. The descendants of my Li family have been unrivaled in their splendor from generation to generation since Emperor Zhenguan."
Emperor Daxing was speechless and even wanted to cover his face.
Before Emperor Ningwu died, he told him that after he succeeded to the throne, he would kill those nobles and local powerful people, kill them.
The traditional skills of Lao Li's family are passed down from generation to generation.
Emperor Ningwu is such a person, he is cruel, he is cold, and his scheming is so complex that people cannot fathom it.
He is evaluated by historians as a top professional emperor, a star-level player with a transfer fee of over 100 million.
By the way, Emperor Ningwu was extremely good at painting butterflies. He left thirty-two paintings in his life, eight of which were lost. Among the remaining twenty-four, one used skin as paper to paint.
"Blue Butterfly" is a priceless treasure.
As for why, you have to know what kind of leather it is.
According to unofficial records, Emperor Ningwu was hurt by love, and later his temperament changed drastically. After he ascended the throne, he liked to peel off human skins to paint, especially butterflies.
Some people call Emperor Ningwu’s first love the ‘Butterfly Queen’.
After Emperor Daxing came to the throne, the first thing he did was to start the traditional arts of the old Li family, massacre local powerful people, and then reduce taxes and gifts. After that, the second thing was to arrest all the painters in the palace and order them to use their own
As a template, draw a portrait of a woman.
As for who the woman was, there is no record in the history books. The history books only say that Emperor Daxing killed all the painters in the palace.
This unsolved mystery has been linked to the scandal of Emperor Ningwu. Historians even speculated that Emperor Daxing was probably born of the rumored Queen Butterfly. However, this Queen Butterfly did not harm Emperor Ningwu, but
Die early.
Of course, these are all speculations and there is no evidence at all.
Emperor Daxing was not as ridiculous as Emperor Ningwu, but he was not a good emperor either. During his reign, he traveled everywhere, traveling all over the world, and never had a free day, as if he wanted to make up for the time when he was an otaku.
Funny.
Despite this, Emperor Daxing was not a foolish emperor, he just loved to play. During the period when he was emperor, the empire was in two words: development.
No, Emperor Daxing did nothing else, he just followed the normal path of development. He had no ambition at all, he just enjoyed himself and lay down, completely unworthy of his reign.
After his death, Emperor Yuan Hui ascended the throne. The eighth emperor of the Tang Empire and the last wise emperor, he was very young when he ascended the throne, only sixteen years old.
Consecrating Emperor Yuan Hui as the crown prince was probably the most correct thing done by Emperor Daxing, who was lying flat.
Because after this young emperor ascended the throne, he made the empire strong again. Following the path of Emperor Zhenguan and Emperor Xuanlong, he reorganized the empire from top to bottom, inside and out, and made the empire complete.
He completely occupied the Australian continent and the American continent, turning the entire Pacific into the 'Great Lake' of the empire. In addition, he also popularized the orders left by his ancestor Emperor Zhenguan; he built primary schools and middle schools.
With the efforts of Emperor Yuanhui, every state and county had primary and secondary schools, and universities were built in some big cities. In terms of education, Emperor Yuanhui surpassed all previous emperors of the Tang Empire, even Emperor Zhenguan was not able to do the same. But this is understandable.
Emperor Zhenguan had too many challenges and too many things at that time, and it was time to lay the foundation.
People at that time praised Emperor Yuanhui as Emperor Zhenguan during his lifetime.
Emperor Yuan Hui was very cold in temperament, a bit like Emperor Ning Wu, but he was not as cruel as Emperor Ning Wu. He was only cruel to his enemies.
Despite this, the courtiers still feared him.
The reason why history remembers this emperor is not only his achievements, but also a stupid thing he did, which almost made him nailed to the pillar of shame.
The thing is that in the history of the Tang Empire, he was the only emperor after Emperor Wude who wavered after appointing a prince. The difference is that historians generally believe that Emperor Wude wanted to play an imperial balance between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin
The technique. But Emperor Yuan Hui did it purely for fun.
The matter is also very simple. The first prince he appointed was Prince Yuanlie. This prince was the legitimate son of the empress of the main palace. As a result, Emperor Yuanhui favored the younger son in his old age and forcefully forced Prince Yuanlie to go to Taiyuan, the northern capital, and then
The decree was issued to depose Prince Yuan Lie and appoint the youngest son Xian Wang as crown prince. This crown prince is Emperor Minghua.
At the same time, Emperor Minghua was also the worst emperor in the entire history of the Tang Empire, bar none.
He was so bad that he killed seven half-brothers and took possession of three sisters. It was so outrageous. People at the time lamented that Emperor Zhenguan could crawl out of the grave so angry at this bastard.
You must know that since Emperor Xuanwu, the emperors of the Tang Empire have actually done well in terms of personal ethics, and none is worse than Emperor Zhenguan. Even Emperor Ningwu was cruel rather than immoral.
In addition, Emperor Minghua's harem actually had more than 80,000 people, which was a huge scandal in the world. During this emperor's reign, fires broke out everywhere inside and outside the empire, uprisings occurred all over the Central Plains, and the empire seemed to have come to an end.
His final death was also quite ridiculous. He died on a woman's belly at the age of only twenty-six.
After the death of Emperor Minghua, Prince Yuanlie's son, King Taiyuan, who was already imprisoned at the time, launched a brazen uprising in Taiyuan. It took twelve years to suppress the uprising in the Central Plains, and he ascended the throne in Yandu as Emperor Guanglie.
After Emperor Guanglie ascended the throne, although the empire had been restored to peace, the overseas colonies successively announced that they would no longer regard the empire as their suzerainty, but instead established themselves as a country. Emperor Guanglie spent his whole life on the road to countering the rebellion, fighting for thirty-five years.
In the year, the territory of the empire was restored to the period of Emperor Yuan Hui.
The war that lasted for half a century completely depleted the empire's vitality.
Just when everyone in the world thought that Emperor Guanglie's successor would revive the empire like Emperor Xuanlong and Emperor Yuanhui, something shocking happened.
According to the classification of historians, Emperor Guanglie's capital was in Yandu, which should belong to the Late Tang Dynasty.
Just like the two Han Dynasties, Liu Xiu was preceded by the Early Han Dynasty and after Liu Xiu was the Later Han Dynasty.
Before Emperor Guanglie, there was the Former Tang Dynasty, or the Xuantang Dynasty. Because the Tang Empire before Emperor Guanglie respected black, and after Emperor Guanglie, purple was respected, so it was also called the Purple Tang Dynasty and the Later Tang Dynasty.
There were a total of sixteen emperors in the Later Tang Dynasty. All of these sixteen emperors had mediocre qualifications. The best one was Emperor Guanglie, who could fight. The worst one was choked to death by the Queen Mother in the toilet just one day after he ascended the throne.
A very strange phenomenon.
Historians have found through research that the former Tang Dynasty and the Later Tang Dynasty seemed to be two dynasties. They were all descendants of the old Li family, but the emperors of the Later Tang Dynasty were very bad. Moreover, all kinds of messy things happened in the Later Tang Dynasty.
What kind of harem is involved in politics, what kind of eunuchs are involved in politics, powerful ministers are in power, local uprisings, twenty-eight sons seize the throne, are basically heading towards death. Compared with the former Tang Dynasty, the latter Tang Dynasty is more like a dying person lingering on.
, no life at all.
Historians even said that the Later Tang Dynasty was more like those dynasties in history, because what happened in it was common to other dynasties. Only the First Tang Dynasty was different. What happened in this era and even its emperor were different from other dynasties.
Same.
It’s hard to say what the specific difference was. What is relatively clear is that although some of the emperors in the pre-Tang Dynasty were outrageous, they were very skillful in governing the country and were very trusted by the people.
But it didn't happen in the Later Tang Dynasty. The people in the Later Tang Dynasty basically wanted to strangle the emperor to death.
Another point is that the successors chosen by the emperors in the late Tang Dynasty were worse than the last, and they often changed their minds. They were not as firm as the emperors in the pre-Tang Dynasty. Choosing a successor was a sure thing and would not change.
Historians have studied for a long time and speculated that the reason for this situation was probably because Emperor Guanglie did not receive the inheritance that only belonged to the royal family after he revolted and seized the country.
This is the clues they found based on the personal histories of Emperor Zhenguan, Emperor Xuanwu, Emperor Zhaowu, Emperor Xuanlong, Emperor Ningwu, Emperor Daxing, Emperor Yuanhui, Prince Yuanlie, and Emperor Minghua.
Specifically, anyone who was appointed as a prince basically studied government affairs with the emperor. For example, Emperor Xuanwu was appointed as a prince in his early years, and he listened behind the scenes all year round while listening to ministers report political affairs to Emperor Zhenguan.
Although the outrageous otaku Emperor Daxing was not close to Emperor Ningwu, there are still relevant records in history books.
For example, in the eighth month of autumn, Shao Ji, the governor of Xingdao, went into Wanshou Hall to report on his duties. The prince looked on sideways.
The prince here is the Daxing Emperor.
In addition, historians also suspect that some kind of books passed down from generation to generation must have been lost within the royal family of the Li and Tang Empire.
Because in the pre-Tang Dynasty, every emperor would mention a book called "Tang Xun".
For example, Emperor Xuanlong once said: "Tang Xun" passed down by family ancestors is extremely wonderful.
Emperor Ningwu said: The ancestors of Zhenguan passed down the teachings, and I dare not forget them even for a moment.
Emperor Daxing said, "When I was young, if I didn't read the instructions, my father would blame me. Every time I used the stick, I would be uneasy on a starry night."
Even Emperor Minghua was recorded this way by historians: In the summer of the sixth year, the emperor was frightened at night and started killing people again. He kept saying, "Father, I have learned my lesson, don't punish me!"
Therefore, historians reasonably suspect that the loss of "Tang Xun" caused the quality of emperors in the Li and Tang Empire to plummet.
After all, the Prince Yuan Lie appointed by Emperor Yuan Hui at the beginning actually had a reputation as a filial and virtuous man in history books. And the son of Prince Yuan Lie, Emperor Guang Lie, could also be regarded as the leader of the ZTE. According to time calculation, Emperor Yuan Hui's
Now, "Tang Xun" is still there. The Prince Yuan Lie chosen by Emperor Yuan Hui at the beginning is actually a very good heir. Moreover, the son of this heir will also be a very good heir.
But it is a pity that Emperor Yuan Hui changed his mind.
As for why Emperor Yuan Hui suddenly changed his mind, historians have given two explanations that are relatively recognized by the public.
First, Emperor Minghua’s biological mother, Zheng Meiren, was so obsessed with the elderly Emperor Yuanhui that she favored her youngest son, Emperor Minghua, even more.
Secondly, Prince Yuanlie is not like himself!
More historians actually prefer the second possibility. Because looking at the emperors of the entire former Tang Dynasty, it is not difficult to find that each of these emperors was more irritable and unreasonable than the last. Except for the common people,
Point your nose at them and scold them. Anyone else, especially the Fanbang people, dares to open their mouths and say a word. If your ancestors are not dug out for eighteen generations, you are just out of luck.
Just look at their reign numbers and you will understand that they are either flexing their muscles, or they are still flexing their muscles.
I won’t go into details about Xuanwu and Zhaowu. The real meaning of the seemingly peaceful era name, Zhenguan, comes from this sentence.
The way of heaven and earth belongs to those who are chaste and minded.
What does it mean? Whatever Emperor Zhenguan said is right is right, and whatever Emperor Zhenguan says is bad is bad. If you are disobedient, then you are not in line with the way of heaven and earth, and you should not exist!
This is more terrifying than Zhaowu.
In other words, this genetic memory of being domineering and violent was passed down from Emperor Zhenguan.
Emperors of the past dynasties, such as the Daxing Emperor who was lying flat, once got angry because overseas countries only paid tribute to him a piece of "holy land", and ordered twelve giant ships to level the island.
As a result, he later learned that the tribute given to him by the Holy Land was a sign of willingness to surrender.
However, Prince Yuan Lie could not do it, because historians found that the Prince Yuan Lie recorded in the history books was so gentle that even a low-ranking official could drive in front of the prince's car. And Emperor Yuan Hui even said;
There is a kind of little girl!
From this, they suspected that because of Prince Yuan Lie's meek character, Emperor Yuan Hui felt that although the prince was smart enough, he was not ruthless enough to allow him to inherit the throne, otherwise he would be controlled by the ministers.
As for Emperor Minghua, he was indeed ruthless and his game collapsed. Some people even speculated that if Emperor Minghua had not died so early, the pre-Tang Dynasty would not have ended.
The powerful Tang Empire lasted for 513 years. Its strength and prosperity were all in the two hundred years before the Tang Dynasty. The two hundred years after the Tang Dynasty was a process in which the empire was gradually disintegrated.
, the entire empire is being torn apart at any time and at any time.
Enemies coming from all directions are devouring the flesh and blood of the huge empire at every moment.
If Li Zhiyun would be pissed to death when he saw the post-Tang Dynasty, then when the empire collapsed and the young man who overthrew the empire got off the helicopter and walked to his tombstone, Li Zhiyun probably laughed.
Because this young man is called Li Jinyang.
"Look up at the bright moon, lower your head and think about your hometown." The handsome young man's windbreaker is floating, with a Tang sword hanging on his waist, and his whole person is majestic and heroic.
"Young Marshal, we are rebelling. We cannot stay here for too long in our ancestors' place. The Rakshasa Kingdom is still waiting for the Young Marshal to take charge of the overall situation," Duan Chen said.
Li Jinyang nodded, and then smiled again.
"What are you laughing at?"
"I remember happy things."
"What happy thing?"
"An interesting anecdote is recorded in my ancestor's annals. When I followed Emperor Wude in the rebellion, I once said the two lines of poetry I just mentioned in front of Duan Zhixuan."
"Eh?" Duan Chen was stunned, "My ancestor?"
"Yes."
Li Jinyang is the seventh son of Emperor Zhenguan and a descendant of Long Wang Li Chengxuan.
Now, the Tang Empire has collapsed, and the descendants of Emperor Zhenguan's sons, who were once driven away by the descendants of the fourth family, have all come back.
There are still a few extra chapters to come, I will write them for you when I recover.