The Xuanwumen Rebellion refers to the coup d'état carried out by Li Shimin at the Xuanwumen Gate in Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
In 618 AD, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, and then swept away the heroes and unified the country, during this period, the cooperation of the three Li brothers was more tacit, among which the Qin king Li Shimin managed the expedition, the greatest merit, and the prestige was also the highest, which naturally also caused the jealousy of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and the vicious interaction between the two lasted until 626.
In the end, Li Shimin decided to strike first, he played on July 1 of the same year, accusing Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji of the harem and other crimes, Tang Gaozu was surprised, but also summoned a few people to enter the court the next day to confront him, so on July 2, 626 AD, the Qin Wangfu group headed by Li Shimin, the king of Qin, set up an ambush in Xuanwu Gate, Li Shimin killed his eldest brother Li Jiancheng, the crown prince and the fourth brother Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, became the crown prince and held real power, and then inherited the throne.
This coup d'état is the most famous in history, but also the most significant, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he ruled the world with literature and expanded the territory, so that the society appeared in the situation of national peace and security, and created the famous Zhenguan rule in Chinese history.
Since Gaozong's later years, the major affairs of the imperial court began to be in charge of the Empress Wu, and he also cultivated a group of his own henchmen during this period, until Gaozong's death, the power of Empress Wu was even larger, Zhongzong and Ruizong succeeded to the throne one after another, but they were just a decoration.
Wu Zetian grasped the mistake of Zhongzong, and abolished it as the king of Luling, Emperor Ruizong was in the situation at the time, and he could not give his mother the throne, since then the only orthodox female emperor in history was produced, Wu Zetian succeeded to the throne and supported the power of his Wu family, and he also began to hesitate to pass on the surname Wu.
In 705 AD, Wu Zetian changed the year name to"Divine Dragon"This year is also known as the first year of Shenlong, Wu Zetian was seriously ill in the first month, and the ministers led by Zhang Cambodia seized the opportunity to launch a coup d'état with the Yulin Army, killing Wu Zetian's favored Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers, and Li Xian, who was the crown prince at the time, was restored to Tang Zhongzong, and in December of the same year, Wu Zetian died.
In 706 AD, Zhang Cambodia, Jinghui and others, who made great contributions to the restoration of Tang Zhongzong, were framed by Wu Sansi and killed after being exiled to Yuanzhou"Shenlong coup"The coup d'état marked the end of Wu Zetian's political career, and the regime returned to the Li Tang royal family, as well as to the era of male rule.
The Anshi Rebellion was a large-scale rebellion launched by An Lushan and Shi Siming during the period from Xuanzong to Daizong in the Tang Dynasty of China.
In December 755 A.D., An Lushan, who was also the envoy of the three sections, raised troops in Fanyang under the pretext of crusading against Yang Guozhong with a secret edict, and the reason for the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion was the concentrated reflection of various social contradictions, so An Lushan led his troops all the way down, captured the eastern capital at that time in a very short time, and forced Xuanzong and the royal family members to flee.
In the following years, the rebels continued to attack southward, causing great impact and damage to the rule of the Tang Dynasty, in order to fight against the rebels, the Tang court took a series of measures, and finally succeeded in quelling the Anshi Rebellion in 763 AD, which lasted seven years and three months, and the scope of the war spread to Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong and Anhui and other large areas, causing great damage to the political, military and economic of the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, the Anshi Rebellion also gave birth to problems such as eunuch interference in politics and the division of feudal towns in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, which made the Tang Dynasty turn from prosperity to decline, and it was difficult to appear in the Xuanzong era.
The Dune Change, also known as the Dune Scheme, refers to the incident in which Zhao Gao and Li Si killed their son Fusu and supported Qin II's accession to the throne after the death of Qin Shi Huang.
In 210 B.C., Qin Shi Huang went on patrol for the last time in his life, as usual, the left prime minister Li Si accompanied him, and the right prime minister Feng Qujian stayed in Xianyang, but the parade was Qin Shi Huang died suddenly on the way, before his death he wrote an edict, and ordered his son Fusu to preside over the funeral, which actually meant that he ascended the throne after returning to the Qin capital, but after the death of Qin Shi Huang, the sealed edict was not sent, but was shelved on Zhao Gao, at this time Fusu was supervising Meng Tian's army in Shangjun, and the eunuch Zhao Gao, who managed the edict, launched a conspiracy, He threatened Prime Minister Li Si to launch"Dune Change", changed the edict to execute Fusu and Meng Tian, and at the same time concealed the death of Qin Shi Huang, and put salted fish on Qin Shi Huang's car to cover the stench of Qin Shi Huang's corpse.
After returning to Xianyang, they proclaimed their son Hu Hai as emperor, known as Qin II, and the coup d'état directly led to the demise of China's first feudal empire, ending Qin Shi Huang's painstaking gene, and at the same time kicking off a four-year dispute between Chu and Han.
Zhou Bo saved the Han Dynasty, also known as Zhou Bo Xulu, the queen of Liu Bang, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty, and Lu Pheasant, was a famous female careerist in history.
After Liu Bang's death, three emperors succeeded to the throne, but Lü Pheasant used the status of the empress dowager to dominate the dynasty and even abolished Liu Bang"If you are not surnamed Liu, you can't be crowned king"of"The Alliance of the White Horses", and then crowned his brothers and nephews in large numbers, and after the death of Empress Lu, Zhou Bo, Cao Shen and others were re-obsessed"White Horse Oath"The banner raised troops to punish Lü, and abolished the fake Emperor Hui Ziying established by Empress Lü, and supported Liu Heng, the son of Liu Bang, as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty"The rule of Wenjing"This coup d'état had a huge and far-reaching impact on the Western Han Dynasty and even on Chinese history"The same surname is king"It also became a legal system for the composition of the supreme ruling group of China's feudal dynasties.
When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, the Han Dynasty had a history of nearly 380 years, and in the last years of Emperor Ling, the imperial power was corrupted, and the buying and selling of official positions appeared in a big way.
After the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the Han Shaodi Liu Wei succeeded to the throne, the eunuchs who were favored by the Empress Dowager He caused chaos in the government, the general He Jin listened to Yuan Shao's suggestion, and secretly ordered Dong Zhuo to lead troops into the capital, in order to force the Empress Dowager to get rid of the eunuchs, but Dong Zhuo had not arrived, but He Jin died first, after Dong Zhuo came, regardless of the opposition of everyone, he abolished the Han Shaodi, killed the Empress Dowager He, and also renamed Liu Xie, the king of Chenliu, as the emperor, known as the Han Xian Emperor.
After that, Dong Zhuo dominated the imperial court, and he often brutalized ministers and raped palace concubines, which caused chaos in the world and the luck of the Han Dynasty completely collapsed.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao took the Son of Heaven to order the princes, through force for the Han Dynasty to recover the world, completely unified northern China, after Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi forced the Han Xian Emperor Chan to give up the throne and establish Cao Wei, but Cao Pi was a short-lived ghost, and died of illness after only six years of reign.
Subsequently, his son Cao Rui ascended the throne for Emperor Wei Ming, but Emperor Wei Ming also died after 13 years on the throne, and before his death, he ordered the 8-year-old crown prince Cao Fang to succeed to the throne, and was assisted by the general Cao Shuang and the Taiwei Sima Yi, Cao Shuang has been suppressing Sima Yi, and reusing He Yan, Li Sheng and others, and then completely controlled the forbidden army in the palace in their own hands, Cao Shuang's group completely controlled the operation of the imperial court, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, while Sima Yi, who was also an auxiliary minister, was set aside, and Sima Yi could not participate in decision-making, so in order to gather counterattack forces, he returned to his hometown under the pretext of illness to deceive Cao Shuang, and then pretended to be seriously ill, so that Cao Shuang relaxed his vigilance.
Later, he took advantage of Cao Shuang's coup d'état when he cooperated with the emperor to worship his ancestors, and eliminated the power of the Cao clan led by Cao Shuang in the court in one fell swoop.
The Rebellion of the Eight Kings was a political turmoil caused by the imperial family fighting for the first power in the Western Jin Dynasty.
After the death of Emperor Wu of Jin, his sons and nephews began to compete for the throne, among which Sima Yi, King of Qi, Sima Wei, King of Chu, Sima Lun, King of Zhao, Sima Mo, King of Yan, Sima Cambodia, King of Qin, Sima Ying, King of Chengdu, and Sima Chi, King of Yuzhang, respectively held power, so they were called the Eight Kings. These feudal lords were powerful and ambitious, and they engaged in fierce power struggles with each other.
The turmoil lasted for a total of 16 years, and finally ended with the defeat of Sima Chi, the king of Yuzhang, in these 16 years, the social economy of the Western Jin Dynasty was seriously damaged, the hidden class contradictions, ** erupted, the rebellion of the eight kings was a major political turmoil in the Western Jin Dynasty, and it was also one of the most serious imperial civil strife in Chinese history, which had a significant impact on the decline of the Western Jin Dynasty, but at the same time this turmoil also laid the foundation for the rise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.