The Tang Dynasty is a very magical dynasty, and in many people's impressions, it is the appearance of the prosperity of the country and the coming of all nations.
It seems that the decline and decay of the late Tang Dynasty and the corruption and incompetence have never stayed in the memory of the Chinese people, and everyone has invariably blocked this history.
In the hearts of most people, the Tang Dynasty had "perished" after the Anshi Rebellion. Although it lasted for nearly 150 years, it is no longer the Tang Dynasty in the hearts of the Chinese people. And the initiator of all this is An Lushan, who single-handedly turned Li Tang from prosperity to decline.
In the indignant description of many people, An Lushan seems to be a rebellious thief with no bright spots. But in fact, he is an inspirational Hu man with a meticulous mind and outstanding ability. This sounds like "whitewashing" An Lushan, which is the real history.
In a lot of historical dramas,An Lushan appeared as a villain, so the public knows him better. However, because of the shaping of many film and television dramas and folklore, the image of An Lushan in the hearts of many people is also very different from history.
For example, in order to create the image of the villain, many film and television dramas have portrayed him as a wolf with ambition and a rebellious person from the beginning.
So much so that a considerable number of people think that An Lushan has set up the idea of rebellion since he was young, and he is a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed.
The Anshi Rebellion caused great damage to the Tang Dynasty, causing the thriving empire to completely decline. Therefore, the ancients had a very poor perception of An Lushan, and made up a lot of fictitious things for it.
In addition, almost everyone knows that An Lushan is a 300-pound fat man, so it is easy to make up an image of a brain full of fat.
Therefore, in many folklore, An Lushan is a harlequin who indulges in pleasure and indulges in sensuality. Many people subconsciously think that he is a cowardly person who can only slap horses and has no ability to lead troops.
The reason why he ascended to a high position was because of the bribery of Li Linfu and Yang Guifei. Well, in real history,Is An Lushan such an incompetent person? Is there anything special about him?
For this point, in fact, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that as a culprit who can set off a fourteen-year rebellion and almost collapse the Tang Dynasty.
How could An Lushan have no bright spots, he must be an extremely capable person. Like many famous historical figures, some historical materials also record various miracles when An Lushan was born.
However, the authenticity of these things is not high. An Lushan was actually born in an ordinary Turkic familyHis father died young, and he has been dependent on his mother, Ashde.
However, Asid later became a sorcerer of the Turkic tribe and had a high status, and it didn't take long for him to marry the general An Yanyan. An Lushan is actually not satisfied with this kind of life under the fence.
He always wanted to leave the tribe and break through the world on his own. To this end, An Lushan made a lot of preparations, not only practiced his skills, but also mastered the six Chinese languages.
In particular, the Tang Dynasty officials speak very fluently, and there is almost no difference between them and the Han people.
There is a record of this in the "Old Tang Book: An Lushan Biography": When he was more than ten years old, he came out with his brother and Yanyan, and he was ashamed, and he was about to be brothers with Sishun and others, and assumed the surname of An. And long, the solution of the six Tibetan language, for the mutual market Yalang.
When he became an adult, An Lushan immediately chose to go out, and with his ability to observe words and feelings, and he quickly became an excellent middleman, haunting the mutual market between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty.
In the process, An Lushan earned a lot of wealth, and his personal abilities were also trained.
In 732 AD, An Lushan was arrested in Youzhou, and met the nobleman of his life on the occasion of his execution- Zhang Shouqi, the latter was the envoy of the Youzhou Festival at that time.
The well-informed An Lushan quickly judged the latter's noble identity and deliberately behaved in front of him, attracting Zhang Shouqi's attention.
Not only that, but he also vowed to arrest the people of the Fan clan for Zhang Shoujue.
This move impressed Zhang Shouqi, who summoned An Lushan and his fellow countryman Shi Siming into the army, and promised to promote him to a partial general if he could capture the prisoner alive.
An Lushan is indeed a brave man, and after joining the army, he really accomplished his goal.
Zhang Shouqi was very satisfied with his performance, so he quickly promoted An Lushan to his side and became a partial general.
In the subsequent relationship, An Lushan gradually became Zhang Shoujue's confidant by virtue of his courage in battle and his appropriateness in handling affairs.
A few years later, Zhang Shouqi already admired this excellent general from the bottom of his heart, and even had the idea of adopting him as a righteous son. After he tentatively said what he thought in his heart, An Lushan did not hesitate to bow his head, and the two became father and son.
Under the care of his father-in-law Zhang Shouqi,An Lushan continues to make great contributions, the position in the army began to skyrocket.
Although Zhang Shouqi was later demoted because of his demotion at this time, An Lushan had already gained a firm foothold in the army at this time, so he was not influenced by his father-in-law.
Not only that, after entering the army, An Lushan relied on his keen sense of business and made a lot of money by using the border market of the imperial court. And this wealth was quickly used by him to bribe the officials and buy off the bureaucrats of the same rank, so as to expand his network.
In this way, less than two years after Zhang Shouqi left, An Lushan sat in the position of Pinglu's soldier and horse envoy. With strong personal ability and money, this new soldier has accumulated a good reputation in the army, and is praised by almost everyone.
With the improvement of his official position, An Lushan's horizons gradually broadened, and he was no longer satisfied with the border land, but set his sights on the capital.
For this reason, he took out almost all his savings to bribe the ** who went to the capital to report on his work, so that they could give him as many kind words as possible.
After accumulating a small amount, An Lushan gradually gained the trust of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, and was soon awarded the titles of Governor of Yingzhou and Pinglu Military Envoy.
It is described in the "Old Tang Book: An Lushan Biography": In the twenty-eighth year, (An Lushan) was the soldier and horse envoy of Pinglu. Sex is ingenious, and many people are famous. He was awarded the governor of Yingzhou and the military envoy of Pinglu. Bribe the correspondents, beg for good words, and Xuanzong will believe it.
In the first year of Tianbao, Tang Xuanzong decided to set up a festival envoy in Pinglu, and this position finally fell to An Lushan, whom he trusted very much. After becoming the envoy of Jiedu, An Lushan had the right to go to Beijing to discuss matters.
In this way, it will be more convenient for him to curry favor with Tang Xuanzong. This time, An Lushan first adopted the old method, spending a lot of money to bribe Xi Jianhou, the envoy of the deposed Zhizhi, and Li Linfu, the prime minister, so that these two people praised themselves from time to time.
Then he set his sights on Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubine, Yang Guifei, and tried all means to worship this woman who was much younger than himself as his mother-in-law, and to respect her.
"The Old Tang Book: An Lushan Biography" recorded: Please raise a child for the concubine, and worship Taizhen first. Xuanzong asked strangely, and said: "The minister is a Tibetan person, and the Tibetan person first has a mother and then a father." "Xuanzong Dayue, so he ordered Yang Zhen to make an appointment with brothers and sisters.With Yang Guifei's pillow wind and Li Linfu's side drum, Tang Xuanzong's importance to An Lushan is increasing day by day. Within a few years, An Lushan became the number one person in the army and became the number one person in the army.
Of course, An Lushan is not just the ability of these whiskers to shoot horsesHe was indeed able to solve the rebellion of the Fan clan on the border for Tang Xuanzong, and constantly expanded the territory for the Tang Dynasty.
It is recorded in the New Tang Dynasty Book and Biography:"An Lushan Festival Fan Yang, trick side skills, number and fighting, decorate the prisoner to offer, punish his (Xi) Jun Li Riyue, and the captured is expected to be strong in Yunnan. ”
An Lushan can naturally rise to prominence in the officialdom for such a courtier who has the ability and ability to do what he likes to the emperor at the same time.
From this point of view, An Lushan has Li Linfu's support in the court, and Yang Guifei in the harem is almost "invincible" during the Tang Xuanzong period. In that case, why did he start a rebellion?
Is this person really a wolf with ambitions? What is certain is that the outbreak of the "Anshi Rebellion" was caused by a combination of many factors, and it was not An Lushan's own will.
As far as An Lushan is concerned, there are both subjective and objective reasons why he raised the flag of rebellion.
Subjectively speaking, An Lushan has been on guard against the imperial court since very early on, and has been strengthening his strength to prevent a situation where the birds are exhausted.
For example, the Xiongwu City he built in Fanyang County is very suspicious, and a large number of strategic materials are stored in it, including weapons, grain, cattle and horses. Although this city is known as an external defense, from the actual geographical point of view, the effect is very little
Moreover, An Lushan also cultivated a large number of descendants in the army, such as An Shouzhong, Li Guiren, Cai Xide, Niu Tingyu and Xiang Runke, etc., all of whom looked forward to him and were absolute henchmen.
Not only that, but he also sent a lot of secret intelligence officers to the capital and collected a lot of confidential information. But if An Lushan was ambitious from the beginning, there is no substantial evidence.
Because of the above-mentioned methods, many foreign generals have also used themIf nothing happens, these people generally won't go down the path of rebellion.
The reason why An Lushan took the risk is more critical is that he does see a potential crisis. First of all, with the death of Li Linfu, An Lushan lost the most important help in the court.
Although Li Linfu's successor Yang Guozhong was Yang Yuhuan's brother, he had a bad relationship with An Lushan, and repeatedly made suggestions to Tang Xuanzong, saying that An Lushan had the intention of rebellion.
In order to prove his judgment, Yang Guozhong made it difficult for An Lushan, although he was resolved by the latter one by one; But as long as he keeps saying it, one day it will threaten An Lushan's survival.
"The Old Tang Book: An Lushan Biography" has a record of this: Yang Guozhong has repeatedly played Lushan will be opposed. For twelve years, Xuanzong made the Zhongguan Fu Xuan Lin covet him, get bribes from him, and proudly proclaim his loyalty. Guozhong and Yun "will not come", and the call will come.If it was just Yang Guozhong, then An Lushan could still sit still, after all, he had always thought that this prime minister was only a shallow scholar and was not his enemy at all. But another person is a great threat to An Lushan, and he is the crown prince Li Heng.
In his later years, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was quite wary of the children of the clan, and he suppressed his son in various ways. The so-called "if something is good at the top, it will be very bad at the bottom", An Lushan thinks that he has insight into Li Longji's thoughts.
So he was extremely disrespectful to the crown prince Li Heng, and even offended him many times. However, what An Lushan didn't expect was that although Li Longji attacked the crown prince, he never had the idea of abolishing it.
Therefore, seeing that Tang Xuanzong was uncertain due to his ageThe accession of the crown prince Li Heng to the throne is almost a foregone conclusion, An Lushan's inner panic is better than day by day.
There was Yang Guozhong's continuous attacks in the past, and the liquidation that the prince would inevitably implement, and an unscrupulous hero like An Lushan naturally did not want to sit idly by, and finally chose to launch a rebellion.
In general, the outbreak of the "Anshi Rebellion" was caused by a combination of many factors, as far as An Lushan is concerned, his initial intention was to strengthen his own power, and he did not want to really embark on the road of rebellion.
It's a pity that Yang Guozhong's step-by-step pressure and Li Heng's stable position made An Lushan feel that his future was hopeless, and finally chose to raise the banner of rebellion.
To be honest, An Lushan's personal ability is very outstanding, which can be seen from his step-by-step rise from an ordinary middleman to a three-town festival envoy.
It's a pity that the high position obtained by speculation will eventually be eaten by other speculators, and An Lushan is a typical example.