A platform asked: Why didn't the Tang Dynasty royal family spend as much money as the Ming Dynasty royal family?
My answer is as follows:
Because, the royal family of the Tang Dynasty was a typical Gu raising and cleaning mode. The royal family of the Tang Dynasty in this mode can be said to be like leeks at all, cut back and forth, stubble after stubble.
First of all, less than nine years after the founding of the Li Tang royal family, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, and after the coup was successful, Li Jiancheng's sons who would have been crowned princes in the future were directly wiped out. Li Yuanji's five sons were also wiped out.
Li Jiancheng's heirs: the eldest son Li Chengzong, the king of Taiyuan, the second son Li Chengdao, the king of Anlu, the third son Li Chengde, the king of Hedong, the fourth son Li Chengxun, the king of Wu'an, the fifth son Li Chengming, the king of Runan, and the sixth son Li Chengyi, the king of Julu.
Li Yuanji's heirs: the eldest son Li Chengye, the king of Liangjun, the second son Li Chengluan, the king of Yuyang, the third son Li Chengyu, the king of Pu'an, the fourth son, Li Chengyu, the king of Jiangxia, and the fifth son, Li Chengdu, the king of Yiyang.
Li Shimin's knife directly slaughtered eleven nephews and two brothers, saving the expenses and rations of thirteen palaces for Datang in one go.
Zhu Yunwen cut the domain, but he couldn't catch up with Li Shimin's results in two days.
The second generation of Emperor Li Tang took the lead, and after Wu Zetian ascended the throne, he abolished 70% of the Li Tang clan in one go.
There is no doubt about this data, the old Tang Book records that there are 215 Li Tang clans.
Among them, 113 people died because of Wu Zetian, and all of them died unnaturally. There were 63 who were deposed by Wu Zetian.
Some of them are fortunate not to die, and the final statistic is 73 percent.
At this point, the blood of the Li Tang royal family is thin. Li Longji began to take the stage, and then killed three sons in one day, which made Li Heng nervous.
Not long after, the Li Tang royal family in the north suffered a catastrophe, that is, the Anshi Rebellion, this time the turmoil, how many Li Tang clans died, it is really impossible to count, later generations used genetic measurements, those who are known as Li Tang descendants in the northern Kanto, all have little to do with Li Tang, it is conceivable that how many Li Tang clans died in the Anshi Rebellion.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Li Tang clan was repeatedly ravaged by eunuchs and manipulated the "Hundred Schools of Help" plan. It can be said that there is one stubble after another. When Huang Chao raised his army, in December of the first year of Guangming, Huang Chao entered Chang'an and came directly once, and Tianjie stepped on the bones of the minister.
All the Li Tang clans that remained in Chang'an were directly slaughtered.
Seventeen years later, in the fourth year of Qianning, the great warlord Han Jian held Tang Zhaozong Li Ye hostage, and then came to cut leeks again, directly killing the eleventh king.
When Zhu Wen came to power, he supported Emperor Tang Ai, and then sent the emperor's brother to a wave of entertainment.
Therefore, the number of Li Tang clans has not been able to rise. The royal family of the Ming Dynasty was happy and spent money and food.