More than 1,000 years ago, the center of the world was undoubtedly the Tang Dynasty, a strong, confident, open and inclusive empire, which attracted all countries to come to the dynasty and merchants endlessly. In the ninth year of Tang Xuanzong's first century, after experiencing Taizong's "Zhenguan Rule", Gaozong's "Yonghui Rule", and Wu Zetian's "Zhenguan Legacy", the Tang Dynasty became a country rich and strong, and Wenzhi and martial arts reached their peak in the first year of Tang Xuanzong. At this time, the Tang Dynasty is worthy of the real prosperity, the rules are refreshed, the literature is graceful, and there is a prosperous world full of flowers.

The ears are full of sheng songs and dazzling, and the buildings are full of pearls and cui to win Wu Wa.

Because he knows the fairy cave on the sea, it is only like a rich family in the world.

Embroidered households gather in the red candle market at night, and the dancing clothes are sunny and blue.

But the feast is sad, and the Yangtze River is half slanted.

This is a poem improvised by Wei Zhuang, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, when he participated in a grand banquet, the host of the banquet was Zhou Bao, the real power of the government and the opposition at that time, Zhou Bao, the envoy of the navy, the venue of the banquet was Zhou Bao's mansion in Zhenjiang, at this time the house was a good scene of singing and dancing, all kinds of guests were full of friends, the ears were full of sheng flute playing, the eyes were full of flowers and moons, the pink beauties of the building were full of red and pink beauties, wearing dazzling jewelry and jade, all of which revealed the amazing luxury in Zhou Bao's mansion. The beautifully carved courtyard is brightly lit and candle-like, like a red candle night market. The singers danced, and their colorful clothes seemed to lead the blue sky. Light singing and dancing, light and swaying. Zhou Bao, as the general who guarded the town, worked day and night, indulging in singing and dancing. However, it is no wonder that at this time, Datang is in the midst of a thousand years of prosperity, not only with strong national strength and vast territory, but also with a developed economy and people living and working in peace and contentment.

At this time, thousands of miles away in Suiyang, Henan, Suiyang is too guarded by Xu Yuan's house, but it is a different scene, there is no music here, no dancing girls, only hurried footsteps, people are busy shuttling back and forth, for fear of doing something wrong, I saw Xu Yuan standing in the courtyard, pacing back and forth, anxious, as if waiting for something, for a long time, accompanied by a baby cry, he stopped, turned to look at a house, ran out of it A maid, excitedly shouted, "Master, Mrs. gave birth, gave birth to a big fat boy." ”

Xu Yuan clapped his hands happily, "Okay, great! The Xu family has a successor this time, haha." ”

"Master, the name of the little master, you haven't come up with a name yet, have you?" the master reminded beside him.

"The name I was thinking just now, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, my Xu family has been an official for generations, my great-grandfather Xu Jingzong, one of the "eighteen bachelors" of Taizong's Qin Palace, and then assisted the martial arts, Gaozong was the official to the right minister, great-grandfather Xu Ang, the prince was a person, his father Xu Wang, and the official was the right Yulin general, they have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, so that the world is now peaceful, I hope that this prosperous world can continue to prosper, so I named him and made a wish. “

"Xu... Wish, well, well, well, this name is good", the master stroked his beard, and continued thoughtfully, "In my opinion, the young master will definitely be an extraordinary person in the future." ”

"I just wish him to live this life in peace", Xu Yuan's face could not hide a trace of worry, "Although it is peaceful today, after the emperor created a prosperous world, he indulged in pleasure. There is no longer the spirit of hard work before, and there is no frugality of reform. Prime Minister Zhang Jiuling can be called the mainstay of the country, but he was slandered by Li Linfu and replaced the phase. ”

"Alas, yes, didn't the master also offend Li Linfu because he wrote a letter to speak up for the virtuous minister Zhang Jiuling, and was demoted to this point, and he has been the Taishou of Suiyang for five years. ”

Xu Yuan sighed after hearing this, "Forget it, don't mention the past, what is the personal gain and disgrace, I'm just afraid that the traitor is in charge now, and I'm worried that this prosperous world will not be long in coming!"

At this time, the Tang Dynasty has gone through more than 100 years since the founding of the country, after experiencing the early stage of hard work, the court at this time is a long time of peace, inaction and rule, Xuanzong also lost the spirit of seeking upward governance, complacent, began to indulge in pleasure, and then asked less about state affairs. As the saying goes, prosperity and decline, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty will also come to an abrupt end, a riot bred in the prosperous era, so that the entire North China land from a high degree of prosperity suddenly regressed for hundreds of years, the flowery world became a distant memory in a blink of an eye, and a dynasty that seemed to be prosperous and perfect was instantly full of holes. And all of this is thanks to two people, a Hu man, named An Lushan, and a woman, Yang Guifei.

An Lushan's father died young, and he lived with his mother in the Turkic tribe since he was a child. Later, his mother remarried to An Yanyan, the brother of the Turkic general An Bozhi. In the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty (713), when he was more than ten years old, he fled from the Turks with An Xiaojie, An Sishun and An Wenzhen, the sons of the general An Daomai, and named himself An Lushan. When he grew up, An Lushan was fluent in six Chinese languages and became a tooth lang who negotiated prices for buyers and sellers. The early death of his father, the remarriage of his mother, and the bumpy experience of teenagers have cultivated An Lushan's sleek surface and inconsistent inner character, as well as an unscrupulous way of doing things in order to survive. If according to normal development, An Lushan is at best a small businessman who does some trading between border nomads in his life, but then a very small number of people are lucky, An Lushan could never have imagined that his act of stealing sheep changed his fate, not only that, but since then, he has been all the way to the top, and has repeatedly won the help of nobles, until he has a heavy army and a feudal official who is in power in the Tang Dynasty.

Kaiyuan 20 years (733 years), is already more than 20 years old in the prime of life An Lushan, although he looks tall and strong, but he is not willing to do hard work, every day between different ethnic groups on the border, exchange some objects with each other, in order to make a little money for a living, at every turn is still worried about eating, and even sometimes do something to steal chickens and dogs, this is not a day, he passed by a sheepfold, saw that the owner was not there, just like going in to steal a sheep, but the cry of the sheep alarmed the people around, everyone arrested him, sent to the local supreme governor Youzhou Jiedu envoy Zhang Shouqi in front of him, because in the Tang Dynasty sheep belonged to important property, stealing sheep committed a felony, according to the law should be beheaded。 Zhang Shouqi tortured An Lushan, preparing to beat him to death with a stick, An Lushan shouted loudly: "Doesn't the doctor want to destroy the two Tibetan tribes? Why do you want to kill me!" Zhang Shouqi saw that this man was five big and three thick, and his language was strong, so he let him go and ordered him to go with his fellow villager Shi Siming to capture the Khitan prisoners alive. An Lushan was brave by nature, he and Shi Siming were able to capture the Khitan people every time they went out of the border, and they completed the task brilliantly. Because An Lushan was clever and intelligent by nature, and was good at observing words and feelings, he gradually gained the trust of Zhang Shouqi and accepted him as his adopted son. An Lushan naturally knew that Zhang Shouqi was the noble man in his life, so he tried his best to flatter, and An Lushan has been clever since he was a child, and his sweet words coaxed Zhang Shouqi very happily all day long.

In the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan (741), under the strong recommendation of Zhang Shouqi, An Lushan served as the soldier and horse envoy of Pinglu. At this time, he has become a general with heavy troops. In just eight years, An Lushan jumped from a sheep thief to the commander of the army, such a soaring sky, shaking the government and the opposition, and also attracted the attention of a person, he is the first assistant of the dynasty, the prime minister Zhang Jiuling. The local officials in charge of the Tang Dynasty have to return to Beijing once a year to report on their work, Zhang Jiuling decided to take this opportunity to take a good look at him, so he summoned An Lushan, An Lushan did not know why, thinking that when the first assistant of the dynasty took a fancy to him, he came happily, he talked about how he defeated Khitan and Xi in succession at the border pass, but he didn't know that Zhang Jiuling had already seen that An Lushan was unreliable, and he saw that An Lushan was unruly, deceitful and cunning. As soon as An Lushan left, Zhang Jiuling said to the people around him, "Those who mess with Youzhou must be this Hu Ye!" A few years later, this sentence became a prophecy.