Tang Xuanzong was extremely smart and had an amazing IQ in his life, and the only miscalculation was An Lushan's rebellion, which was the result of Tang Xuanzong's exhaustion in his later years, and his cleverness was mistaken by cleverness. Tang Xuanzong's principle of employing people for decades has not been free is because An Lushan himself was threatened by Yang Guozhong, and launched a rebellion that had no chance of winning in Tang Xuanzong's opinion. Tang Xuanzong's judgment of An Lushan himself was incorrect, and he overestimated An Lushan's reason. However, An Lushan had an error in judging the situation in the Tang Dynasty, overestimated the chances of his own rebellion, and the monarchs and ministers used each other and lacked tacit understanding, which caused the great tragedy of the Anshi Rebellion.

In my opinion, it is precisely because An Lushan is a Hu man from a humble background and lacks the network foundation of a Han family that he will be reused by the chief prime minister Li Linfu. During the period when Li Linfu was in power, An Lushan was completely controlled by the power of this honey-bellied sword, not only the cronies around him were infiltrated by Li Linfu, but even Li Linfu could figure out seven or eight out of ten things in his heart, which made An Lushan walk on thin ice. What's more, there is a more cunning and unfathomable Tang Xuanzong behind him, he is the leader of everything, his scheming is as deep as Li Linfu, and he has been dragged by him all his life, it can be seen that An Lushan at this time has an unstable foothold and has a lot of concerns, and he has no courage to think nonsense. But after Li Linfu's death, the court did not receive talents, so Yang Guozhong, who only knew how to collect money, took over. He couldn't effectively control An Lushan, so he could only simply and rudely suppress and exclude, and Tang Xuanzong tried to let the two contain each other, and An Lushan's arrogance began to become arrogant. But Yang Guozhong is not qualified even if he is a pawn of Tang Xuanzong to contain An Lushan, in order to make An Lushan commit the crime of rebellion, he does not hesitate to take the initiative to create all kinds of conditions for An Lushan's rebellion, this kind of political hooligan who does not take the national interests into account makes Tang Xuanzong's imperial technique difficult to operate, so that he finally got rid of it...

Tang Xuanzong's imperial technique is also the killer weapon of his country, which is his extraordinary skill in employing people. His manipulation of the concepts of decentralization and control is very human. From the major sages in the Kaiyuan period to the various festival envoys in the Tianbao period, he can always make the greatest use of capable people to serve himself and the empire, and can control them well, so that they dare not be disloyal to him. In the later period of his reign, although Tang Xuanzong's energy was declining more and more, his imperial skills were already perfect. In his later years, he was too long and too smart, and he lived to become a human spirit, and after more than 40 years of Taiping Tianzi's calculations, he finally lost the tacit understanding with his unself-aware courtiers, which eventually led to the situation getting out of control in an instant, and ending up losing both. Tang Xuanzong has always pursued the principle of "employing people without suspicion, and suspecting people without suspicion", and the implementation of this principle is also based on the tacit understanding between monarchs and ministers, which is essentially the product of mutual checks and balances between the various forces arranged by Tang Xuanzong. The crown prince and the prime minister, the civil minister and the border general, the powerful family and the imperial examination Hanmen, they restrained each other and reached a dynamic balance, and Tang Xuanzong was like a manipulator behind the scenes, forcing all forces to be loyal to Tang Xuanzong himself in order not to fall into weakness, this is the delicate relationship between Tang Xuanzong and them. But An Lushan did the opposite, and being willing to be used was the foundation of this miscellaneous child's life in the Tang Xuanzong Dynasty, but An Lushan wanted to take another thorny road that at least seemed to him to be able to walk.

During the Tianbao period, although Tang Xuanzong had gradually settled down and slackened off, from the East Palace to the prime minister to the Wenchen to the military generals, they were all controlled by each other and infiltrated by the eyeliner, and the obedience controlled by the old emperor, coupled with Li Linfu's ability, although the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and he was jealous and jealous, but he could handle the increasingly complex government affairs very well, and he could effectively suppress the forces of the East Palace, so everything was still under the control of the emperor. In this way, it seems that Tang Xuanzong has no problem keeping the evening festival. However, Li Linfu's suppression of dissidents was too strong, resulting in the leadership team that would take over after his death was really not enough, An Lushan was an outlaw who couldn't be fed from beginning to end, and Yang Guozhong, who had no talent and no virtue, finally broke Tang Xuanzong's wishful thinking. The reason why Tang Xuanzong relied on An Lushan was due to both political considerations and military needs. Internally, he wants to use An Lushan to pull hatred and make him take all kinds of blame. Externally, it used An Lushan to stabilize the northern front, and further, wanted to continue to expand its territory. In order to prevent An Lushan from having different ambitions, Tang Xuanzong had at least four layers of insurance:

Tang Xuanzong gave An Lushan the post of envoy of Fanyang, Pinglu and Hedong towns, so that he had a total of 184,000 troops, which was just a threshold in the total strength of more than 600,000 during the Tang Tianbao period, which could not only maximize the combat effectiveness of the border generals, but also just enough to launch a rebellion with a chance of victory to overthrow the heyday dynasty.

Next, pampering An Lushan to give him all kinds of high-ranking officials and even make him Yang Yuhuan's godson, so that he can get more exaggerated transcendent treatment than the feudal officials is to add another layer of bargaining chips in people's hearts, hoping to feed this hungry wolf, which is the second layer of insurance as an emotional card.

As a colleague of An Lushan, Shuofang Jiedu made An Sishun and Longyou, and Hexi Jiedu made Ge Shuhan are all An Lushan's sworn enemies, and such personnel arrangements are also intentional by Tang Xuanzong. If An Lushan really had a bad intention, not only would it be absolutely impossible for these two people to be in the same league with An Lushan, but on the contrary, they would definitely actively participate in the rebellion. And other generals rarely look at An Lushan, which makes An Lushan feel like a sharp back. This is the third layer of insurance in terms of geopolitical forces.

Finally, within the political forces, the government team headed by Yang Guozhong has an open dislike for An Lushan, which makes An Lushan feel isolated, and he only tries to curry favor with Tang Xuanzong to counter the powerful forces led by Yang Guozhong, so that he has no right to speak at all. This is the fourth tier of insurance.

But in the final analysis, the strength that was not enough to compete with the entire empire was the fundamental reason why Tang Xuanzong was willing to trust An Lushan and give him power. Tang Xuanzong originally thought that An Lushan was coerced by Yang Guozhong, and he should be loyal to himself in exchange for his continued support and trust in him, and the same is true for Yang Guozhong, this trick has never worked for decades. In Tang Xuanzong's view, An Lushan's rebellion must have no chance of victory, and it must be a stupid move to kill himself, so his only choice is to be unconditionally loyal to himself and work hard for himself, so that there is a way out. However, he didn't expect An Lushan to feel too good about himself, and under the long-term encouragement of these opportunistic ministers around him, he really thought that he had a great advantage and gambled big. To say that the reason why he had to rebel is actually very simple, An Lushan offended most of the powerful people, including the crown prince, in order to please Tang Xuanzong, so once this seventy-year-old Taiping Tianzi is replaced, the outcome of his only backer is conceivable. Therefore, An Lushan planned to rebel against the Tang Dynasty at the time of the change of imperial power. However, Yang Guozhong's step-by-step pressing and the gradual revelation of the plan forced An Lushan to act as soon as possible. At this time, even Tang Xuanzong himself had a premonition that it would be difficult to continue to control An Lushan. After all, Tang Xuanzong, who was complacent, still couldn't easily believe that this kind of suffocating operation would really happen immediately in the final stage of his rule. In his eyes, even if An Lushan wants to rebel, he has no chance of winning at this stage, so he still has time to deal with it and remedy it, and the top priority at this time is not to further stimulate An Lushan. But this is just a delaying tactic, in fact, up to now, An Lushan himself has seen it very clearly, even if Tang Xuanzong himself will not deal with him at present, in the face of the imminent imperial court, he is already ready to fly, and it is really time to have to send it, this is his only chance. Ironically, only a year after An Lushan launched his rebellion, his body quickly collapsed due to advanced diabetes, so even if he planned to continue to recuperate and live at peace with the imperial court, he would not be able to continue his ambitions until the end of the Tang Xuanzong dynasty. But if he doesn't send troops, he won't be able to send troops in the future, and it can be regarded as a precipice. In this way, it can be said that God does not bless Datang.

Therefore, the fuse of the tragedy is that Tang Xuanzong has an error in the judgment of An Lushan's reason, and the old emperor is sure that An Lushan's rebellion has no chance of winning, so as a favored border general, An Lushan should see the situation clearly and will not make stupid moves. Tang Xuanzong thought that An Lushan would judge the situation, and his worries about him became smaller and smaller, and the trust given to An Lushan gradually became unattachable. But the truth is that An Lushan is not as self-aware as he imagined. In An Lushan's eyes, he has a certain chance of winning against Tang, and as an outlaw who once had nothing, he doesn't care about gambling for himself when he can't find another way out. An Lushan believed that the Tang Empire's troop deployment was heavy on the outside and light on the inside, and he controlled one of the two elites of the Tang Dynasty, as long as he took advantage of the emptiness of the Central Plains to capture the capital with a blitzkrieg, he would be able to collapse the Tang Empire before the other festivals made King Qin. In today's view, in fact, we all know that An Lushan's judgment is completely wrong, not to mention, even the capture of Chang'an, it was only realized in a series of accidental variables that are beneficial to An Lushan, and this is almost the limit of An Lushan, but even if the capital falls, it is far from the extent of destroying the Tang Empire. On the other hand, Tang Xuanzong's judgment of the situation is indeed relatively correct, An Lushan's hole cards are really limited, and it turns out that An Lushan has fallen into the joint encirclement and suppression of a large number of civilian rebels led by Qin Wangjun, including Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, including Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, and the gap between the reserve forces is also getting bigger and bigger, and the rebel situation is very critical. It was precisely because Tang Xuanzong could foresee this that he concluded that An Lushan would not dare to jump over the wall and kill himself without a chance of winning. But his judgment of An Lushan himself was wrong, An Lushan did not follow Tang Xuanzong's wishful thinking, he really jumped over the wall in a hurry. That's why Tang Xuanzong is clever but was mistaken by cleverness.

With the full-scale outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the responsibility naturally hung on the head of Tang Xuanzong, who refused to believe that An Lushan would raise troops. Tang Xuanzong, whose face was about to be swollen, couldn't accept this cruel truth for a while, and finally changed from pretending to be confused to being really confused in anger, and suddenly lost all trust in the border general. However, the contradiction lies in the fact that no matter how much you don't trust the border generals, after all, it's not up to them to destroy An Lushan. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong had to dispatch troops everywhere to try to exterminate the rebels as soon as possible, because Tang Xuanzong could not bear the responsibility brought about by his political mistakes, and he must know that there were countless people around him waiting for him to make mistakes and then lose his reputation and finally step down.

Tang Xuanzong first temporarily set up two so-called defense lines, the first of which was in charge of Zhang Jieran, the commander of Wei Weiqing, who was from Wang Zhonghei. The fortification site is located near Kaifeng, which is Chenliu, which is a traffic artery. However, as I mentioned earlier, the Tang Dynasty's troop deployment at this time was heavy on the outside and light on the inside, and due to the suddenness of the incident, Zhang Jieran had no army at all, so he could only temporarily requisition Chen Liu's market disciples to make an emergency. However, the traditional territory of the Han people has enjoyed more than a hundred years of peace under the glory of the Tang Dynasty, and the three generations of the common people have not experienced war, and only know how to kill chickens and slaughter sheep. Therefore, the result is also conceivable, in the face of An Lushan's elite 150,000 troops, Chen Liu's defense line collapsed at the first touch.

The second line of defense is in Xingyang, which is located near the Yellow River, where the terrain is complex and it is also a major transportation route, and the commander in charge is Cui Wuxu, the county governor of Xingyang. However, he also has no troops available, and can only rely on the common people to form a temporary army, and the combat effectiveness can refer to Chen Liu, or even worse. In the face of An Lushan's fierce 150,000 iron cavalry, the temporary defenders composed of ordinary people are "riding the city and falling like rain", and many people are directly frightened to fall from the city tower This allusion is believed to be familiar to many people, and this line of defense is also useless.

The first two lines of defense are in vain, in fact, everyone will know in their hearts, An Lushan led an elite division that has been fighting in the north for a long time, and the way through is a completely undefended ordinary residential area, if there is no heavy guard, it is completely wishful thinking to rely on the terrain and the people to block An Lushan. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong's real intention in setting up these two lines of defense was to buy time for the third line of defense that he really looked forward to. And the person in charge of the third line of defense is the famous Feng Changqing, and the defense site is not elsewhere, just in the eastern capital Luoyang. Feng Changqing previously promised Tang Xuanzong that he would take down An Lushan's head within ten days, and then confidently went to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to recruit troops, in fact, the same as the first two lines of defense, when An Lushan raised troops not long ago, Feng Changqing also did not have an army in the Central Plains, and could only rely on the formation of a "people's soldiers" to deal with emergencies. But it has to be said that the Tang Dynasty occupies an unprecedented position in the hearts of the people, countless strong men in the city enlisted in the army, and in just a few days, Feng Changqing recruited nearly 100,000 people's soldiers, and Luoyang City also began to build various fortifications in an orderly manner.

However, Feng Changqing soon realized that he had boasted to Tang Xuanzong about Haikou, because the speed of the rout on the front line was too fast, and he had no time to train this temporary army cobbled together by the children of the market, and soon the war burned to Luoyang City, and Feng Changqing's subordinates were mostly rabble. After all, Feng Changqing was a famous general of the empire, and under his command, even ordinary people without any fighting qualities repelled the rebel vanguard troops who arrived first. However, after An Lushan's main force arrived, the situation of the battle took a sharp turn for the worse. Feng Changqing's side is too far apart in combat effectiveness, so he fights and retreats, and fights while retreating. From outside the city to the outer gate, then from the outer city to the inner city, and finally to the palace. After a week of desperate fighting, most of the eastern capital fell, and Feng Changqing had to completely abandon Luoyang and lead the remnants of the army to flee to Shaanzhou.

In Shaanzhou, Feng Changqing met his old boss who led a large army to reinforce him, and he was also Gao Xianzhi, who had flaunted his might in Central Asia and accidentally capsized in the gutter. According to the current situation, the two unanimously decided to abandon other cities and retreat directly to Tongguan, which was the last and strongest defense line of the capital. Everything is based on keeping Chang'an as the highest priority. This is a very correct judgment, although Feng Changqing's subordinates are people's soldiers with no combat experience, but at this time, Gao Xianzhi led a regular army composed of the first wave of Qinwang's troops and Tang Xuanzong's own central army, and a total of about 200,000 troops after merging with Feng Changqing. The degree of danger in the terrain of Tongguan can be said to be a real sense of one-man pass. With these 200,000 troops guarded, even if there is still a certain gap between the quality of the army and the elite of An Lushan, with the terrain advantage of Tongguan and the command of two generals, it can be said that it is a foolproof line of defense. An Lushan spent the next six months facing the capital Chang'an, which was close in front of him, but he could no longer advance an inch.

However, Tang Xuanzong couldn't hold his breath, first of all, his wishful thinking seemed to have failed again, before An Lushan raised troops, Tang Xuanzong also relied on himself to sit on the prosperous world, and felt that An Lushan's army was against the sky, and the people would definitely actively resist. However, the northern bureaucracy had long been infiltrated by An Lushan, so that as soon as An Lushan arrived, before the people could react, the local officials directly opened the door and surrendered, and the rebels captured one city after another without much resistance along the way. It was not until An Lushan broke away from his jurisdiction that effective resistance began to emerge one after another. Tang Xuanzong was extremely disappointed by this, and complained: "In the twenty-four counties of Hebei, there is no righteous and evil?" In fact, it is not that Tang Xuanzong's long-term expectations for the common people have been disappointed, but in the face of An Lushan's tiger and wolf army, the unarmed people cannot compete with it head-on, but after the rebels continue to set off, the people's resistance to the rebels has begun to appear one after another. So the power from the people may be late, but it will not be absent. Soon, the people's resistance forces will blossom all over the occupied areas of An Lushan, and gradually become a prairie fire. Their alliance leader is the famous Yan Zhenqing, of course, these are the afterwords of An Lushan half a year after he raised his army.

At this moment, Tang Xuanzong only received bad news. Originally, the defense line was arranged to delay time, and Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi were sent to meet the battle with great fanfare, in order to keep the eastern capital Luoyang, but now the two directly abandoned Luoyang and retreated to the gate of the capital to defend Tongguan. Tang Xuanzong could not bear the responsibility of losing the Eastern Capital, and he could not accept the "passive response" of these two generals. Moreover, the loss of Luoyang means the loss of supplies from the Grand Canal, which is an incalculable loss to Chang'an, which has millions of people, or the Central Plains, which has tens of millions of people. Therefore, at the moment, he urgently needs to find a scapegoat to bear the huge responsibility of losing Luoyang and even the war to his doorstep. At this moment, Bian Lingcheng, the eunuch in charge of supervising the army, ran to report to Tang Xuanzong because he was offended by Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, falsely accusing the two of stealing military food to shake the morale of the army. Tang Xuanzong's wishful thinking had already been shattered, and he was worried that no one would take the blame, so he immediately beheaded Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing on this charge, and put the responsibility on them. Tang Xuanzong has been blinded by his own emotions, for fear that his authority will decline and the regime will be unstable, so he has almost lost his mind, and the old emperor is deaf at this moment... Everyone feels it with their hearts. (Sighing at the sky)

It is really sad that Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, two loyal and famous generals, ended up like this. But to put it mildly, at that time, they were simply the punching bag and the back-handed man of Tang Xuanzong, who was mad, and they hit the muzzle of the gun, and they couldn't win the battle in this extraordinary period and still wanted to control the army that was used to save their lives? Under the domination of Tang Xuanzong's extremely strong negative emotions (especially the unprecedented distrust of the border generals), they had no way to survive at all. But Tang Xuanzong's operation show was not over here, and then he was even more angry, and at the instigation of Yang Guozhong, he forced the veteran Ge Shuhan to take the initiative to go out to fight. This is also a wave of suffocating micro-manipulation, because Tongguan has been blocked by Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing for several months now, and the battle situation that was originally very beneficial to Datang, and can even be said to be a victory in hand, has been repeated at this time. At this time, Tang Xuanzong, on the one hand, thought that this guy might also be a madman, so he was full of suspicion; on the other hand, he wanted to recapture the eastern capital Luoyang to get rid of the historical infamy committed by his political mistakes, and then regain control of the Grand Canal from the rebels, relieve the increasingly tight supply pressure after the Central Plains was semi-blockaded, and reduce the losses caused by the rebellion. Tang Xuanzong quickly paid the price for his willfulness. First of all, the 200,000 Qinwang army was ambushed and the whole army was annihilated. Immediately after the loss of Tongguan, the coach Ge Shuhan was captured, and finally even the capital Chang'an also fell. As a result, Guo Ziyi's Shuofang Army and other major counterinsurgency forces have achieved victories in the north in the past six months, as well as the efforts of the civil resistance forces in the rebel-occupied areas. As a result, the rebellion, which had begun to shake from within, was completely out of control. Although these are accidental variables that An Lushan could not control before his rebellion against the Tang Dynasty, there is no doubt that they are very beneficial to himself. He not only reversed the decline in this way, but also quickly expanded the results of victory, and Tang Xuanzong on the opposite side was discredited.

Now, the old emperor can no longer assume the responsibility of the supreme commander. This prosperous monarch, who has been in power for more than 40 years, is now left to flee to the millions of people who have been forced to abandon their capital. At this time, Tang Xuanzong, who had become a loner, seemed to have woken up from a big dream, and finally calmed down and became sober again. Before Yang Guozhong withdrew from Chang'an, he asked Tang Xuanzong for permission to burn all the gold, silver and jewelry in the state treasury, but Tang Xuanzong vetoed Yang Guozhong's proposal on the grounds that the rebels could not profit from the state treasury and must pay the people, and sealed the state treasury so that the rebels could receive it. On the surface, Tang Xuanzong pretended to be a woman's benevolence, but the rebel generals led by An Lushan were not contented dogs, but like An Lushan himself, they were wolves who couldn't be fed, and it was unrealistic to let the people go when they got the treasury. Tang Xuanzong handed over the gold, silver and jewelry to the rebels, in fact, he hoped that such things as gold, silver and jewelry, which were difficult to divide the spoils evenly, would intensify the contradictions between the rebel generals and their subordinates. And the vast majority of the soldiers who joined the mutiny, especially the few tribal soldiers hired by An Lushan, were mostly trying to make a windfall. After they got the treasures from the treasury, they lost the motivation to fight for at least a while, and they really didn't care about intercepting Tang Xuanzong. This not only bought enough time for Tang Xuanzong to escape, but also gave the empire a chance to regain its strength in order to counterattack a second time. It can be seen that Tang Xuanzong played a good hand of cards under the domination of negative emotions so that he reaped the consequences, and finally recovered his sanity at this point, but it was too late, he still couldn't escape the end of betrayal and divorce after all, so that even Yang Guifei's life could not be saved. When the crown prince also took advantage of the chaos to become emperor, the only thing that Tang Xuanzong could make up for was to simply give way to the prince and hand over all power without reservation to avoid internal friction.

Regarding the word abdication, I intend to write a little more clearly, the crown prince Li Heng took advantage of the decline in the authority of Tang Xuanzong and the uncontrollable rebellion and took the opportunity to claim the emperor, but this is not quite the same as launching a mutiny and directly grabbing power, at this time there are actually two emperors coexisting, and whether to support the legitimacy of the old emperor or turn to the new emperor, this will undoubtedly lead to the division of power within the Tang Empire, and he is almost ruined at this time, and many generals in order to become a meritorious hero will vigorously support the prince to take the initiative to ascend to the throne, in this context, although Tang Xuanzong is quite helpless, but he immediately made a homeopathic abdication to his son, the decision to quickly transfer all positions and powers, as well as important objects such as the heirloom jade seal, to Tang Suzong. This straightforward transition was a good way to complete the temporary change of power, and avoided the possibility of further division within the empire, which had fallen into unprecedented chaos. And Tang Xuanzong himself also won a relatively good public opinion environment, adding a limited amount of weight to the life of the emperor in the future. But in any case, Li Heng has been a bitter prince for more than 20 years, during which he was bullied by Wu Huifei Concubine Li Linfu and other favorite concubines, Tang Xuanzong beat him again, and now Tang Xuanzong himself has become the queen who has no real power, and it is actually difficult to say what will happen to the queen, and later we all know that Tang Xuanzong's life as the emperor is not comfortable, especially after being forced to move into the Taiji Palace, Tang Xuanzong, who was cleaned up, was completely like a prisoner. But even if he encounters a miserable situation in the future, Tang Xuanzong can still cooperate with his son very simply to hand over power to avoid internal friction, compared to his father Tang Ruizong, who continued to hold various important privileges such as the appointment and dismissal of officials above the third rank after passing on the throne, it can be regarded as a relatively wise and decisive decision. This is probably the last good thing that the Taiping Emperor can do for the Tang Dynasty in 50 years (44 years of the emperor plus 6 years of the emperor).

A year before the Anshi Rebellion was pacified, Tang Suzong forced Tang Xuanzong to move into the deserted and dilapidated Taiji Palace, and removed all his cronies such as Gao Lishi and others, so that Tang Xuanzong completely disappeared in the eyes of the world. was imprisoned in the deep palace and lost all his support, and the emperor's physical fitness deteriorated rapidly under the disillusionment of all thoughts. Before the deadline is approaching, people usually look back on the past and summarize their lives, so Tang Xuanzong left a "Puppet Yin":

Carved wood and silk for the old man, goosebump crane hair with the truth.

It is like a dream in life.

From the beginning of the Linzi King who had attracted Wu Zetian's great attention, to the time when he was forced to become the empty Emperor Taishang, Tang Xuanzong had also manipulated countless capable people in his long political career, they seemed to have a monopoly on power, but in fact they finally found out that they were just Tang Xuanzong's puppets, accompanied by Tang Xuanzong's "Neon Clothes and Feather Song" to dance the dance of obedience to Tang Xuanzong's thoughts, and after their value was exhausted, the emperor decisively abandoned them, and there was no room for struggle. In this way, this skilled "puppeteer" has led the fate of countless people, playing with them like dolls. However, a wise man will make a mistake if he thinks a thousand times. If you are not careful, you will lose all the games. In his later years, Tang Xuanzong tried his best to stabilize his power in order not to become the emperor like his father, but unfortunately in the end, he was exhausted, and it was still difficult to escape this catastrophe. An Lushan turned this puppet show on his back, completely destroying the "rules of the game" formulated by Tang Xuanzong for decades, and at the same time burying the peaceful and prosperous world that he was proud of. Now Tang Xuanzong himself has ushered in the moment of curtain call. At the end of his death, he finally realized that he was like a doll carved out of wood, with skin as rough as chicken skin and hair as white as a crane's feather. Although it looks vivid, it is not majestic in front of the stage. However, with the end of his political career, everything he was once so proud of, along with himself, lost its meaning. In the end, it turned out that he was like other puppets, no matter how glorious and prominent he was in front of the stage, he could not escape being tricked by fate and finally sealed in a dark corner. So what is the difference between himself and those powerful ministers who have played with him? The most glorious life of the most noble member of the most powerful empire in this era is just a big dream after all.

There is such a sentence in "Jiangshan Snow": "I dare not fall in love, I am afraid of a big dream." The hexagram does not dare to be exhausted, and the way of heaven is impermanent. "If Tang Xuanzong could see it at this time, I don't know how he would feel. However, Tang Xuanzong may not have time to mourn himself, and soon after he and Tang Suzong died one after another, and the Anshi Rebellion was finally quelled by Tang Xuanzong's grandson, that is, Tang Dynasty Sect Li Yu. However, history can always enlighten future generations, and for thousands of years we have been reflecting on the painful lessons of the Anshi Rebellion. In my opinion, the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion itself was full of accidental factors, but it is still undeniable that the system that has yet to be perfected has largely paved the way for the rebellion, and also laid the hidden danger for the division of feudal towns, and there are more complex and deep reasons, which are interlinked and difficult to control. Therefore, even if Tang Xuanzong himself can really keep the late festival, if his descendants want to continue to make a difference in the military, it is uncertain whether they can continue to maintain Tang Xuanzong's superb political skills to control the border. What's more, Tang Xuanzong's wishful thinking was also useless in the face of An Lushan, who did not play cards according to common sense, so what can the small abacus of his descendants do? After all, history is created by man, and man is not an absolutely rational existence. This is why many people say that even if there is no An Lushan, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no other madmen. As soon as the central government is unable to maintain a prosperous era and the operation of the empire is difficult, there will be people who are ready to move. Therefore, if we do not establish a reliable and complete system and rely on the rule of man and power, there will be a day when the organs will be exhausted, and there will be a moment when we will be emotionally charged and even pay the price. This is also the revelation left to us by our ancestors.