Chapter 121: The First Night of the History of the Sui and Tang Dynasties
The Red Buddha Maiden was also very surprised and said: "Your master is the Muyu monk, how could it be him? He turned out to be the last conspirator, could it be that everything here was planned by him?"
Hua Wushuang said emotionlessly: "Yes, everything! Everything was planned by him! He is the starting point of everything! He told the story of that era, just to let us hide underground, he said that only underground can we avoid the observation of this world! The observation of God in this world! We are all ants, we are raised by people, we are observed!"
The eldest grandson asked in surprise, "Is there really a god in this world? Is this world alive?"
Hua Wushuang said: "There are not only gods in this world, but we are also constantly played with by the gods of this world! They are looking at us, watching us live and die again and again, watching us struggle in the quagmire of this world, they are just looking at us coldly, without any pity, without a trace of sympathy! We are the crops in the farmland, harvesting stubble after stubble!"
The Red Buddha Maiden looked at Hua Wushuang and asked with suspicion: "How can I prove that I can't understand a lot of what you said!
Hua Wushuang looked at the Red Buddha Girl and said with a straight face: "What I said is that my master, Monk Muyu, told me the truth of this world! This truth was speculated by him! He felt that this truth was too surprising, so he made up an easy-to-understand story to tell us what the truth is!"
The eldest grandson said, "Since he has already told you the truth, why do you still want to help the two of us!"
Hua Wushuang said: "The truth is the truth, but the truth is just another story that my master has woven to deceive us! He has deceived us for many years! He is the biggest liar in the world! He has deceived all the people who are alive!"
The Red Buddha Maiden suddenly became happy, and asked excitedly, "Then what is the final truth? What is everything like? How do you know?"
Hua Wushuang said: "The other side of the flower in my heart. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info told me everything she knew when she left this world, and I realized what kind of man my master was, and how big the conspiracy he had planned! We just don't know what his purpose is, and what he is doing it for!"
The Red Buddha Maiden asked, "Tell me quickly, tell me everything about it, what happened!"
Hua Wushuang said: "At the beginning, I was still a man, of course, at that time, I also had a person hidden in my heart, a twin flower of mine! At that time, the wooden fish monk was still called the monk Prajna, he was an ordinary little monk!
The Red Buddha Girl said: "After being burned, you can still wake up, there is a problem in this!"
The eldest grandson said: "Legend has it that this wooden fish monk was incarnated by the Phoenix Divine Tree, and he could be reborn in Nirvana by bathing in fire!"
Hua Wushuang continued: "After waking up, the Muyu monk seemed to know a lot of things, so he began to recruit a wide range of disciples, preaching and teaching! Later, he met the emperor Yang Guang at that time, and the two of them seemed to have been discussing something together for a long time, and seemed to be discussing something! Later, the Muyu monk seemed to be full of worries and walked away, and returned to his hometown to continue his mission! Yang Guang went out on patrol every year, and visited Yangzhou three times, two times in the north, one in Heyou, three in Zhuo County, and frequently returned between Chang'an and Luoyang. Every time I travel, I make a big way to leave the palace. In November of the fourth year of Renshou, he transferred hundreds of thousands of peasants from present-day Shanxi and Henan in order to dig up a long trench to defend Luoyang; in the following year, he built Luoyang, the eastern capital, and sent as many as 2 million men per month; from the first year of the Great Cause to the sixth year of the Great Cause, he developed various sections of the canal and successively transferred more than 3 million peasants and soldiers from Henan, Huaibei, Huainan, Hebei, and Jiangnan counties; in the third and fourth years of the Great Cause, he built the Great Wall east of Yulin, and transferred 1.2 million Ding Nan twice, and more than half of the soldiers died. In total, more than 10 million peasants were disrupted by the levy and distribution in the past 10 years, with an average of more than one person per household serving in service, resulting in the tragic phenomenon of "the world dying in service". In order to satisfy his arrogant and lascivious life, Yang Guang overhauled palaces and palaces in various places. Among them, the famous ones are Xianren Palace, Jiangdu Palace, Linjiang Palace, Jinyang Palace, Xiyuan and so on. The West Garden is in the west of Luoyang, more than 200 miles around, there is an artificial lake in the garden, more than 10 miles around, there are mountains in the lake, the hall and the hall are viewed, the layout is wonderful, the poor are extremely gorgeous. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty often took thousands of palace maids to ride horses around the West Garden on moonlit nights, and ordered the palace maids to play the song "Night Tour" on the horse, and the strings were sung for a long time. When Emperor Yang traveled to the Jiangdu, he led 100,000 or 200,000 people, including kings, hundreds of officials, concubines, and palace maids, and the captain of the ship reached more than 200 li. In the seventh year of the Great Cause, Wang Bo led the people to revolt in Changbai Mountain, and the civil rebellion finally broke out at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Liu Badao, Sun Zuan, Zhang Jincheng, Dou Jiande and others led the peasant people to revolt, and the strength of the peasant rebel army developed rapidly and grew stronger day by day. In the ninth year of the Great Cause, peasant uprisings not only spread throughout Shandong, Hebei and other places, but also spread to the whole country. In the first half of the ninth year of the Great Cause, peasant uprisings broke out in Pingyuan, Lingwu, Jibei, Jiyin, Beihai and other places, and the rapidly rising peasant uprisings dealt a heavy blow to the ruling class of the Sui Dynasty. In June of the same year, Yang Xuangan raised troops in Liyang to resist Yang Guang, and the Sui Dynasty army withdrew from Liaodong and attacked Yang Xuangan, Yang Xuangan's army quickly failed, and Yang Xuangan committed suicide. The Sui Dynasty brutally suppressed the peasant uprising, defeated Lu Mingyue, Zhang Jincheng, Gao Shida, and Liu Yuanjin, and killed the peasant rebel army. The peasant rebel armies such as Zhai Rangwa Gangzhai, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, and Lin Shihong repeatedly defeated the Sui Dynasty army and developed stronger. Yang Guang wanted to intimidate the people with the terrorist policy of bloody massacres, but instead caused more people to join the peasant rebel army. The peasant uprising grew to a national scale. In a vain attempt to curb the development of the uprising, Yang Guang ordered the counties, post pavilions, and village docks to build castles, and moved the people to live in the castles and farm nearby in an attempt to control them. He was unwilling to face up to the reality of the vigorous development of the peasant uprising, and the ministers around him did not tell the truth, falsely claiming that the number of rebellious peasants was "decreasing". In July of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang went from the eastern capital to Jiangdu. In April of the following year, the Wagang army led by Li Mi forced the siege of the eastern capital and issued a document to the counties, listing Yang Guang's ten major crimes. In May of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Yuan raised troops in Jinyang, and in November of the same year, he invaded Chang'an, supported Yang Yu as the emperor, and respected Yang Guang as the emperor. Yang Guang became more and more desolate and promiscuous in Jiangdu, and ordered Wang Shichong to select Jianghuai folk beauties to enrich the harem, and drink for fun every day; and he took a self-portrait in the mirror, premoniting that the end was coming, and Yang Guang, who was determined to lose everything, often took a self-portrait in the mirror in his later years, and said to Empress Xiao and his subordinates: "Good head and neck, who should cut it off!" In March of the 14th year of the great cause, Yang Guang saw that the world was in turmoil, and he was already disheartened, and he had no intention of returning to the north, so he ordered the Danyang Palace to be repaired and prepared to move there. The drivers were all Guanzhong guards, who missed their hometown and fled back one after another. At this time, Hu Benlang conspired with Yuan Li and others with Pei Qiantong of the Zhige, taking advantage of the resentment of the guards who missed their hometown, and pushed Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua and as the leader, launched a mutiny, and Yang Guang changed his clothes in a hurry and fled into the West Pavilion. Captured by the rebels Pei Qiantong, Yuan Li, Ma Wenju, etc., Yang Guang wanted to commit suicide by drinking poisonous wine, but the rebels did not allow it, so he ordered Hu Xingda to hang him at the age of 50. The chaos caused by Yang Guang was that the population of China was sharply reduced to more than 2 million households. This ambitious emperor didn't even use a decent coffin after his death, so Empress Xiao and the palace people dismantled the bed board to make a small coffin, and secretly buried it under the Liuzhu Hall of Jiangdu Palace. Later, Chen Ling gathered the crowd to mourn for Yang Guangfa, prepared a guard of honor, and was buried under the stage of Wu Gong, and the mourning rod was sent to mourn, and he walked with a sense of mourning. The news of Yang Guang's murder reached Luoyang, and the Luoyang ministers supported Yang Guang's grandson Yang Tong as the emperor, known as the emperor in history, Yang Tong posthumously admonished Yang Guang as the Ming Emperor, the temple name was the ancestor, and the peasant army leader Dou Jiande posthumously admonished Yang Guang as the Min Emperor, and in the same year, Li Yuan forced the puppet Yang Yu Chanrang to establish the Tang Dynasty and posthumously Yang Guang as the Yang Emperor. Soon, Wang Shichong, a powerful minister of Luoyang, forced Yang Dong to concede, and the Sui Dynasty officially fell. ”
The eldest grandson asked in surprise: "But but, the book I read is not at all different from what you say, what is it for?"
Hua Wushuang looked at the eldest grandson and continued: "Li Yuan killed Wang Wei and Gao Junya, and rebelled in Taiyuan. Soon, Li Yuan led his sons to break through Qu Tutong in the garrison pass and occupy Daxing City, the capital of Sui. Li Yuan supported Yang Yu as the emperor, was for Emperor Gong of Sui, and respected Emperor Yang of Sui as the emperor, appointed himself as the prime minister, and entered the Tang Dynasty. In Yangzhou, Emperor Yang of Sui, he was comfortable and recreational, unwilling to return to Guanzhong, and was finally killed by Yu Wenhua and other rebels in the Jiangdu coup. Li Yuan took this opportunity to force Emperor Gong of Sui to take the throne in May of the same year and establish the Tang Dynasty, that is, Tang Gaozu. The capital city of Daxing was renamed Chang'an. Before entering Guanzhong, he first sent an envoy to tout Li Mi, the Wagang army that occupied Henan, making it a barrier to the east. After entering Guanzhong, he sent Li Shimin to pacify Xue Ju and Xue Rengao in Jincheng in the northwest, and sent Tang envoys An Xinggui and An Xiuren to capture Li Liang of Wuwei. In the fifteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Shimin was sent to defeat Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who invaded Hedong. Later, Emperor Zheng Shichong of Luoyang and Emperor Dou Jiande of Hebei Xia announced an alliance to unite against the Tang Dynasty. In the fifteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Shimin defeated the coalition army, captured Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong surrendered. The rest of Dou Jiande's Liu Heimin was also defeated by Li Jiancheng, and Hebei was pacified. In the fifteenth year of the Great Cause, Fu Gongqi led the rest of Du Fuwei to oppose the Tang Dynasty in Danyang, and was captured and killed by the Tang army the following year, and Jiangnan was pacified. In the fifteenth year of the Great Cause, the Tang general Li Jing won the battle of Tang Ping and Xiao Milling, and Emperor Liang Xiao Milling surrendered to Tang in Jiangling. The following year, Lingnan Feng Ang surrendered, and Qianzhou Lin Shihong died, and the Chinese headquarters came under the ownership of the Tang Dynasty. After that, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, killed the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi Li Yuanji, and took control of Chang'an. Li Yuan knew the situation well, so Chan gave up the throne of the emperor, became Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and made himself the emperor. Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, that is, Tang Taizong. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty made great efforts to govern the country and gradually restored the national strength of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of internal affairs, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty implemented the equalization of land and the regulation of rents to enhance agricultural development. In terms of the official system, the system of the Sui Dynasty was reformed, and the system of selecting scholars in the three provinces and the imperial examination was formed, and the vices such as restricting the development of imperial power and the hereditary lineage of the nobility were restricted. Regardless of his background, Tang Taizong recruited a large number of shrewd and capable ministers, such as Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou, Gao Shilian and Xiao Yu and other civil ministers, as well as military generals such as Wei Chi Jingde, Li Jing, Hou Junji, Cheng Zhijie, Li Shiyun and Qin Shubao. In addition, the Tang Taizong sent officials to inquire about the living conditions of the people, and then wrote the merits and demerits of each official on the screen in order to praise and disparage. Externally, Tang Taizong adopted the strategy of active defense, ending the war with war, and pacifying the Quartet with restraint and force. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Turkic Khanate was very powerful, often invading the south and intervening in various forces in the Central Plains. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic Empire suddenly attacked Chang'an and led its army to Jingyang, which was not far from Chang'an. In this regard, Tang Taizong led Gao Shilian, Fang Xuanling and others to confront the Turkic Khan across the Weishui River and set up an alliance with Weishui. After that, Tang Taizong actively dealt with the Turks, provoking the relationship between Jieli Khan and the Turkic Khan, as well as the relationship between the Turks and the surrounding tribes. Later, the vassals of Tibet, Xue Yantuo, Hui Hui, Bayegu, and Tongluo did not agree with the decrees of Jieli Khan and reformed national customs, so they broke away one after another and renamed Xue Yantuo as Khan, and Tuli Khan also surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. In the end, Liang Luoren, a Shuofang person, killed Liang Shidu in Xiazhou and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. After the Turks were divided, they were hit by heavy snow, and most of their livestock were frozen to death and starved to death. In the following year, Li Jing led a surprise cavalry attack to destroy the Turks, and the following year, all the northern ethnic groups paid tribute to Chang'an, and the ethnic groups honored Tang Taizong as the Heavenly Khan. Five years later, Li Jing was sent to capture Tuyuhun, another five years later he sent Su Dingfang to the west to conquer the Western Turkic Khanate, and five years later he sent Princess Wencheng to intermarry with Tubo Zanpu Songtsen Gampo. All of these stabilized the Tang Dynasty's relations with the countries of the Quartet. During the Zhenguan period, the country was stable, the economy was restored and developed, and the history was called "the rule of Zhenguan". In the four years of Zhenguan, a bucket of rice was only three or four dollars, and there were only 29 death row prisoners in the whole year. After the death of Taizong of Tang, Li Zhi ascended the throne, that is, Gaozong of Tang. At this time, the Tang Dynasty inherited the rule of Zhenguan, and the national strength was at its peak, and it was known as the rule of Yonghui in history. At that time, there were generals such as Li Tao, Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, etc., and famous ministers Sun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, etc. Internally, the system of equalizing fields was continued to be implemented, and lower-level but talented officials were selected. Externally, in order to eliminate the Western Turks, the territory expanded westward to the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya River. The Tang Dynasty established the Andong Protectorate on the Korean Peninsula, which also indirectly prompted Silla to unify the Korean Peninsula. After the middle of Gaozong, the power was gradually held by Empress Wu Zetian. - After the death of Gaozong, the crown prince Li Xian ascended the throne as Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty. Because of disagreement with Zhongzong, Wu Zetian soon abolished Zhongzong as the king of Luling and renamed the fourth son Li Dan as the emperor, which was for Tang Ruizong. After Wu Zetian pacified Xu Jingye's rebellion, he abolished Ruizong, that is, the emperor's throne, changed the name of the country to Zhou, that is, Wu Zhou, set the capital Luoyang (known as the divine capital), and renamed Li Dan as the emperor's heir, becoming the only female emperor in Chinese history. ”
The eldest grandson said in surprise: "We even had a female emperor later, this world is really wonderful!"
The Red Buddha Girl said: "My old man is still a hero of the world!"
Hua Wushuang said coldly: "Everything ended when a woman died! Our world returned to the original point again, when the wooden fish monk was burned to death!"
The Red Buddha girl asked, "What woman can be so coquettish? Can she change the world? Is it the female emperor?"
Hua Wushuang said: "It's not the female emperor, it's her master!
The Red Buddha Girl said: "The nun is so powerful? How is it possible? Xuanyi Shennu, the name is so familiar!"
Hua Wushuang said: "So, at the same time as the death of Xuanyi Shenni, this world once again returned to the moment when my master Muyu was burned to death, so my master Muyu was set on fire again......"
The Red Buddha Girl smiled: "It's so good, it's really happy!