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    Epilogue: Return of the King Chapter 1: The Great Disaster If history does not change, before the Tang Dynasty, there were only three people who could truly be called the masters of the ZTE: Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.  The Eastern Han Dynasty was a mess, and the Jin Dynasty was in a corner, so they can¡¯t be counted.  There are only three people in the back.  Song Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty did a good job, but he failed in the Northern Expedition. He could not trust his ministers and gave up the throne prematurely to his frustrated son, so it cannot be counted.  Although Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty had a murderous intention, he killed all the ten clans of Fang Xiaoru and took away the throne of his nephew. However, he unified Annan and established Nuergandusi at the exit of Heilongjiang. The Tubo came to surrender, and he conquered Mongolia five times and defeated the Tatars.  He did not dare to fight back, compiled the "Yongle Dadian", and made Zheng He's voyages to the West. It cannot but be said that he was a wise king and a heroic leader.  But he still belongs to the type of founding king.  In the same way, the same is true for Kangxi.  Qianlong cannot be counted among the others. He can only be said to be a prodigal. In his later years, his family fortune finally failed him, leaving an empty frame for Jiaqing.  The real master of ZTE is Ming Xiaozong, the only emperor in history who had only one wife. Some people say that he is the best emperor, but he is a little mediocre.  If you are not familiar with history, you will not know this person.  The other three are Yongzheng, Zhao Zhen and Li Longji.  Yongzheng was the most diligent emperor in history. During his thirteen years in office, he wrote an average of 8,000 words of Zhubu alone every day.  This is not written with computer code, nor is it written with a pen. It needs to be read, and after reading it, you still have to think about it. After thinking about it, it is written with the slowest brush.  Besides, there are other matters that need him to deal with.  The cause of his death is unknown, but he probably died of exhaustion like Zhuge Liang.  Without the foundation of Yongzheng, how could Qianlong have the capital to squander it?  But Daxing Wenggao is also the same person.  But there is only one person who can make the common people live the happiest life, make the whole country cry and offer sacrifices after death, and make people in enemy countries cry and howl, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.  In order to make the country prosperous and the people happy, he was reluctant to drink even a bowl of soup. Bao Zheng often spit on his face, and the scholar scolded him. Instead, he happily said that it doesn't matter, how many emperors can do this?  , he achieved Bao Zheng and achieved no war for forty-two years, this is Zhao Zhen.  The theory of generosity and benevolence as the first emperor in ancient and modern times could not correct the biggest shortcoming of the Song Dynasty, which was the overcorrection of the dictatorship of military commanders, resulting in a decline in combat effectiveness.  So they just sat back and watched Xixia become independent and continue to be trapped by the Khitan.  The second drawback has not been solved well internally, which is to prevent the ministers from having monopoly of power and being restrained by hundreds of officials, which results in redundant officials and redundant administration. In addition, with the decline in combat effectiveness, it is necessary to increase the number of troops and redundant troops.  The three things lead to another terrible thing, redundancy.  So after his death, Song Shenzong had to let Wang Anshi mess around.  So after his death, he asked that nothing be buried with him but a jade horse, and he cried under the Nine Springs for the weakness of the Song Dynasty's military strength.  But it was the prosperous Kaiyuan era that brought China's cultural, political and martial arts to their peak.  "Dream-like Kaiyuan Prosperity" At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were less than three million households, which was reduced by two-thirds.  It is not that two-thirds of the people died in the war (it is estimated that nearly half died in the war), some fled to the Turks, and some fled to the mountains and forests. There is no way to count.  In the prosperous age of Kaiyuan, nearly nine million households were restored again, and the number of people registered in the Ministry of Household Statistics reached 53 million, which means that the population increased by half in more than 20 years.  During the reign of Emperor Zhongzong and Ruizong, the price of rice was more than 200 qian per shi. By Kaiyuan, in Luoyang, the price of rice was 15 qian, Qingqi 5 qian, and millet 3 qian, which means the price of rice dropped by half.  This is still Luoyang, and it¡¯s even cheaper when you get to the place of origin.  Recalling the heyday of Kaiyuan in the past, Xiaoyi still had thousands of families.  The rice is dripping with fat and the corn is white, and both the public and private warehouses are abundant.  There are no jackals and tigers on the roads of Kyushu, and the sunrise is auspicious for a long journey.  Qi Wan Lu's carriages and carriages are moving in and out, and the men plowing the fields and the women mulching trees keep up with each other.  ¡° To make Du Fu, who had been full of complaints all his life, express such emotion shows the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.  This is internal and external. Under the pressure of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the powerful Turkic Empire finally collapsed, allowing the Uighurs to relax.  The war against Tibet was also more victorious than defeated.  The powerful Bohai Dynasty returned to the embrace of the Tang Dynasty.  Whether it¡¯s territory, culture, or martial arts, China¡¯s feudal dynasty has never reached such a height.  But But After Wang Hua left, Li Longji made a series of official changes. The two smart and capable women in Oceania, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping, were just silent after hearing this.  That¡¯s impressive. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? off did not talk about his official affairs, let's talk about the prime ministers he appointed, not to mention Yao Chong and Song Jing.  Zhang said that although he is greedy, he can make great achievements on the side, and he can also use the strengths of others internally.  Su Ting is a good old man, but he is a very smart official.  Although Zhang Jiazhen has an extreme personality, is greedy for small profits, and is particularly resourceful, she cannot compete with Zhang Shuo, because these shortcomings are harmed by Zhang Shuo again and again.  However, the government is serious, the subordinate officials obey the law, know people without suspicion, and make suggestions for advancement.  Especially he has aAfter receiving Zhang Xunxian's recommendation, Lao Wu summoned him. That day Lao Wu became insane and actually talked to him through a curtain.  The two chatted, which made Lao Wu very satisfied.  But Zhang Jiazhen was dissatisfied. After finishing speaking, he said to Lao Wu: "I am a commoner and have never seen the majesty of the imperial court. Your Majesty appreciated me and summoned me to the inner hall to talk. Now I am a few feet away from your Majesty, with a hanging hanging in the middle.  The curtain can¡¯t see His Majesty¡¯s true face, I think it¡¯s not in line with the principles of a monarch and his ministers.¡± The eunuchs beside him were sweating for him, but Lao Wu laughed loudly and asked people to remove the curtain so that Zhang Jiazhen could have a good look.  Own.  For such a minister, even if he has shortcomings, they will not be serious. Li Yuanhong and Du Xian are diligent and frugal, while Han Xiu and Zhang Jiuling are upright.  Although Yuan Qianyao was timid and was fooled by Zhang Shuo, he was also cautious and meticulous in his work and had considerable political achievements.  Pei Guangting was taciturn, but he was good at running the army and honest in government.  Xiao Song was timid and cautious, good at military affairs, and had no great merits or demerits when he was prime minister.  Yu Wenrong, the hundred-day prime minister who was viciously attacked by Sima Guang, was even better at economics, good at managing officials, and discerning people.  Even if Xiao Song is made prime minister, it will not The Tang Dynasty was at its peak, and Zhu Deng once sighed: "Except for the art of making weapons, the officialdom in Oceania is not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty." What he said about making weapons.  The art is the power of science and technology.  At this time, Oceania is experiencing difficulties. The first is that Wang Hua's new system has brought a lot of trouble to everyone. The people are used to doing things like cows and horses, and they are suddenly regarded as the masters of the country, which is very uncomfortable.  The second is the vast territory. After Wang Hua arrived in Oceania, in addition to most of the islands in the South China Sea, Wang Hua also had Oceania and the islands in Oceania. He opened up large areas of base areas in America, Africa, and Siberia. The territory was the actual territory of the Tang Dynasty.  Twice the control area.  There is also a large ocean in the middle, which is difficult to manage.  The third is that slaves accounted for a large number.  Although a large number of people were moved from the Tang Dynasty, many people were also captured later.  The larger the base area, the more slaves there are, so we can't kill them all.  As a result, there were small rebellions among the slaves.  But generally speaking, there is no need to worry about arable land. As long as there is no problem with this, the people can at least feed themselves.  The second founding period was short, most of them were immigrants, and there was no particularly distinct elite class. At least there were no obvious contradictions among the Han people.  Third, under the fierce electoral system, officials worked much harder than officials in the Tang Dynasty.  But under such circumstances, Zhu Tong still expressed such emotion, which shows the grand situation of the Tang Dynasty during the Kaiyuan Dynasty.  But Wang Hua once said that autumn can be seen by looking at a leaf. This sentence is also a bit extreme.  He said that Li Longji was versatile, even to the point of greed. For example, he liked music to the point of acting on his own stage.  I like music, it is pleasant to the ear.  Pleasant ears love flattering words.  If you like dance, calligraphy and painting, it is pleasing to the eye, and if you are pleasing to the eye, you will like beautiful people, and you will lose your country because of beauty. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? There are several most famous emperors who are versatile. What is the fate of Li Yu? It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward and finally being poisoned to death.  Song Huizong's end was even worse. His wife and daughter were insulted by the Jurchens, and he even danced on hot coals for the Jurchens.  The furniture built by Zhu Youxiao, a carpenter in the Ming Dynasty, was worth a hundred thousand yuan. When Sinong was short of money, he just asked him to build a handful of furniture, but what stall would he leave for his younger brother Chongzhen?  Of course, Zhao Zhen's flying white body was no less than Zhao Ji's thin golden body. Although when he died, the whole country mourned, and the cries spread from the Central Plains to Youzhou and to the Khitan capital, so people did not pay attention to this.  But does Li Longji have as good self-control as Zhao Zhen?  Not only did Li Longji not have it, but in the past and present, almost no one had his generosity, his benevolence, and his ability to restrain himself as emperor for forty-two years.  So tragedy struck.  In the end, Li Linfu, who likes to flatter, came to power.  When Li Linfu came to power, he not only corrupted the official administration, but also appointed the cruel official Ji Wen (Ji Xu's nephew) to kill Zhongliang.  He also left one of the biggest hidden dangers for the Tang Dynasty.  Wang Hua said that the long-term hidden danger of the Tang Dynasty was the emperor¡¯s dictatorship. This was not a hidden danger of the Tang Dynasty, but the biggest hidden danger of the entire feudal era.  But the biggest hidden danger at hand is the dictatorship of military commanders.  With soldiers in hand, it is easier to establish political power. If you give them the power to manage the political economy, personnel transfer, and deal with officials, military generals will sooner or later harm the country.  But Li Linfu was a catalyst.  Because Zhang Jiazhen, Wang Jun, Zhang Shuo, Xiao Song, and Du Xian all used Jiedushi to inform political affairs, Li Linfu wanted to stabilize his position and eliminate the root causes of generals and ministers, so he said: "A scholar is a general, and he is timid when he is a target."  , it is better to use the Han people and the Fan people. The Tibetan people are good at fighting and brave, but the Han people have no party support.¡±A Fanzi with no foundation, no matter how great his military exploits are, is just a military governor.  For example, Gao Xianzhi, and Ge Shuhan.  Li Longji was also confused by this sentence and thought it was good.  It is true that the Hu people were braver than the Han people in fighting the Tibetan people.  So the generals and soldiers mostly used barbarians and Fans.  Originally, the military generals had already taken too much power, and then handed it over to the hands of the barbarians and the Tibetan people who had no faith, no justice, no fathers and no mothers, and the results can be imagined.  From Youzhou to the Western Regions, there was a sound of Hu Ge. Among them, the most famous Han general Wang Zhongsi was framed by Li Linfu.  Li Linfu finally died of old age, but he didn't expect Yang Guozhong to come up next.  This is not the biggest crisis. Just like the foundation left by Yongzheng, if it were not for another thing, Li Longji could still be defeated for decades.  In the north, because of Li Linfu's suggestion, Anlushan reused Tibetan generals and gained Li Longji's trust. He served as the governor of Fanyang, Pinglu and Hedong. The three towns had more than 180,000 troops, and almost all of them were loyal.  He is not tall, but he can recruit Hu soldiers who are good at fighting.  At the same time, he also served as the envoy for reporting and processing in Hedong and Hebei, which extended to Xinzhou and Daizhou in the west, and to Pingzhou and Yingzhou in the east. This concentrated all the military, civil affairs, and financial power in such a large place in his hands.  At the same time, he also led the Longyou group herdsman and the group herding director from afar, and was in charge of the country's war horses.  After Wang Hua heard about it, he said: "Good boy Dongdong, you have more power than I had in the northwest." Not only is the name justified, there are more soldiers than the blood camp soldiers, the area under management is slightly larger, and the population is several times greater.  , I don¡¯t know how many states and counties there are.  This is not what makes Wang Hua confused.  It's another thing I'm struggling with.  An Lushan was a treacherous but loyal man, pretending to be stupid and stunned, and became his godmother to Concubine Yang.  Since he worshiped his godmother, An Lushan's birthday came, and both Li Longji and Yang Guifei gave him a generous reward.  Three days later, Concubine Li summoned An Lushan to the palace, where she used brocade rust as a swaddling clothes to play.  This is quite normal.  Li Longji heard the harem laughing, so he went to check it out.  The royal concubines were washed on their left and right sides for three days.  An Lushan was forty-eight years old at that time, a time when his vitality was strong.  And Concubine Yang was only thirty-two years old. Even if An Lushan was not forty-eight, but only eighteen, the two of them could not bathe together.  Is this a bath or something?  I don¡¯t know what happened at that time, or maybe the servants notified him in advance, but Li Longji went in without any suspicion, and stood by and watched Yang Yuhuan bathe the naked An Lushan.  .  So from now on, no one dared to ask questions about An Lushan's coming and going, or to eat with Yang Yuhuan, or to sleep in Yang Yuhuan's palace. He did not return day and night, and the ugly news spread among the people, and even spread to Oceania.  Li Longji didn't doubt it yet.  Wang Hua is a little confused. After all, she is one of the four beauties in China.  He had people draw portraits of Concubine Yang and An Lushan.  Needless to say, Concubine Yang is very beautiful. Like Princess Taiping, she is not fat. If she really looks like a fat pig, Li Longji will not like her so much.  She is just plump, but Princess Taiping's face is too square and murderous, but not as charming as Yang Yuhuan's face.  She is indeed very beautiful, not much less beautiful than Li Guoer when she was young.  ??Looking at An Lushan again, his face is very powerful, he is a military general.  But look at his figure, he weighs at least 400 pounds, especially with a big belly that stretches to his thighs.  It is estimated that even this belly weighs a normal person. No wonder he said that his belly weighs three hundred pounds.  Without this belly, his appearance would be so-so.  But with this belly, I feel uncomfortable no matter how I look at it.  Wang Hua even thought evilly that when men and women do things, they can¡¯t do anything except the ancient Roman style.  It¡¯s just stealing, who is not easy to steal from, stealing from such a man?  Even if An Lushan has some extraordinary talents, Yang Yuhuan still has to deal with them himself.  "Could it be that Yang Yuhuan is locked up in a deep palace and Li Longji can't satisfy her, even if he looks like a toad, as long as he is a normal man?  (Everyone, I am not making this up. Among the four beauties, the other three are remarkable for their country or their benefactors. Except for the fact that Yang Guifei died a pity, her style is really bad) After all, she is the four beauties.  A great beauty, like thunder, Yang Yuhuan's behavior made Wang Hua feel very depressed.  But what¡¯s the result?  The Han people may know how to repay a favor, such as the later Hong Chengchou. Huang Taiji went to great lengths to recruit him and asked his concubine Xiao Borzijit, who later became the famous Empress Xiaozhuang, to seduce Hong Chengchou.  Comrade Lao Hong couldn't resist the temptation of beauty, and Huang Taiji treated him respectfully, so the country completely forgot about it and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.  But Hu people can¡¯t do it. The more Li Longji behaves like this, the more he looks down on Li Longji.  Li Longji didn¡¯t know yet that the danger had come, heXu An Lushan did a stupid thing and minted money in Shanggu County, which meant that he was given the right to mint coins for the country.  In this way, his financial resources will be more abundant.  It was not that no one saw it. Many people came to remonstrate and said that An Lushan had rebellious intentions. Even Yang Guozhong said so.  However, Yang Guozhong was not a loyal person. He was jealous when he saw An Lushan being so favored.  But Li Longji didn't believe it.  Seeing this, Yang Guozhong became even more jealous.  If Li Linfu were still alive, it would be better.  I am kind to Anlu Mountain. Without Li Linfu, Anlu Mountain would not be what it is today.  Moreover, Li Linfu was extremely skilled in strategizing. He could be said to be one of the top ten treacherous ministers, or the culprit responsible for the fall of the Tang Dynasty. If he did not have deep strategizing skills, how could he stay in the position for nineteen years?  ¡°Look how long Yao Chong, who is called the most changeable by Wang Hua, has stayed in phase?  Therefore, Li Linfu's tactics also made An Lushan a little afraid. Of course, at that time, the conditions for his rebellion were not yet mature.  But instead of Yang Guozhong, An Lushan fell in love with his cousin, but he didn't take the greedy and incompetent Yang Guozhong seriously and looked down upon him.  This made the conflict even more intensified.  In order to achieve his goal, Yang Guozhong ordered Jing Zhaoyin to search An Lushan's residence in Chang'an and killed Li Chao, a guest of An Lushan's family.  At this point, An Lushan's rebellion has been decided. However, Li Longji still doesn't believe it. In order to "confirm" it, Yang Guozhong added: "Your Majesty calls for a test, but he will not come." So many people said that An Lushan was treason.  Longji also began to believe and doubt in his heart, so he summoned An Lushan.  At this time, An Lushan was not ready, so he ventured into Chang'an. After seeing Li Longji, he burst into tears and said, "I was originally a barbarian, and it was only because of your majesty's favor that I am where I am today. Now I am jealous of my loyalty to the country.  There is no day left for him to die. "You said, it is really possible for such a big fat man to cry.  Li Longji explained.  So he didn¡¯t even listen to Prince Li Heng¡¯s advice.  Two months later, An Lushan calmly resigned and returned to Fan Yang, without any sign of anxiety.  No matter how talented he is in military affairs, even Li Linfu may not be able to catch up with this city alone.  Li Longji didn't think of anything else. He agreed and even said goodbye in person. An Lushan was pleasantly surprised.  ¡°Actually, it¡¯s not for Yu Yi¡¯s surprise, it¡¯s for Li Longji¡¯s surprise.  But An Lushan left the capital and rushed out of Tongguan, even in the evening, fearing that Yang Guozhong would stumble again and leave him in the capital again.  He, a big fat man, doesn't have the good skills of Wang Hua back then.  Then he took a boat down the Yellow River. In order to gain speed, he ordered the boatman to stand on the shore holding the rope plank used to pull the boat. He changed it every fifteen miles, traveling day and night, traveling hundreds of miles a day, and passing through counties and counties without getting off the boat.  By this time, An Lushan's rebellion was clear, but some people said that An Lushan was a rebel, and Li Longji tied them up and gave them to An Lushan.  Therefore, everyone knew that An Lushan was rebellious, but no one dared to say anything.  The greatest disaster of the Tang Dynasty was about to come.  []
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