After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Chang'an fell, and the Tang Dynasty was in danger. However, instead of following his father, the prince instead claimed to be emperor. Due to the situation, if Li Heng does not usurp the throne, he will undoubtedly die.

During the Anshi Rebellion, why did Li Heng usurp the throne of his father Xuanzong?

After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Chang'an fell, the Tang Dynasty was in danger.

However, instead of following his father, the prince instead proclaimed himself emperor.

Why is the prince so rebellious?

Due to the situation, if Li Heng does not usurp the throne, he will undoubtedly die.

Ge Shuhan's 200,000 troops were bleeding in Tongguan . At this time, Chang'an, the imperial capital, must not be able to hold on any longer. Not only Chang'an is unstoppable, Guanzhong is also unstoppable. Therefore, Prime Minister Yang Guozhong rushed to Sichuan to protect Tang Xuanzong .

Why is Sichuan?

Because there is Qinling between Guanzhong and Sichuan, Fan Yang's cavalry in Anlu Mountain cannot break through the Qinling Mountains no matter how powerful it is. Also because Prime Minister Yang Guozhong's base was in Sichuan, Yang Guozhong led the Jiannan Jiedushi from afar. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong must go to Sichuan.

However, the Guanzhong people retreated. If the emperor runs away, what will the people do? Is it all for the rebels? However, at this time, it was not Elder Guanzhong's turn to appear. The first to attack was Prince Li Heng.

The Maweiyi Incident had one purpose, which was to kill Prime Minister Yang Guozhong.

No matter whether Yang Guozhong is a traitor or loyal. But one thing is very important: he was the favorite of Emperor Xuanzong. Since Prime Minister Li Linfu , the relationship between Prime Minister Tang and the prince has not been good. After Li Linfu became prime minister, he began to establish princes. Yang Guozhong asked the dead Li Linfu to cut open the coffin to get the beads, and then started to get the prince.

Li Heng's usurpation of Tang Xuanzong's position was purely an outburst of years of suppression

In his later years, Tang Xuanzong felt that he had made indispensable contributions in the first half of his life. He was very satisfied with his results and looked proud.

Ancient Chinese emperors who reigned for more than 40 years or reached the age of 60 would suffer from a disease called elderly emperor syndrome.

In ancient times, many emperors were old and unhappy with politics, and gave up the throne to their sons to take care of the country. It's not a bad choice either.

But Li Longji was too afraid that once he handed over power, he would die without a burial place, because this was the Tang Dynasty.

In order to seize power, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin killed his brother and forced his father, killed the prince Li Jiancheng , and forced Li Yuan to pass the throne to himself. In the end, he died of depression . In the later years of Tang Taizong, the self-taught prince Li Chengqian betrayed him. Although Li Shimin did not kill him from the perspective of father-son affection, he also set a precedent for the conflict between the emperor and the prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Li ruled 's sons with great difficulty, until Li Longji became disappointed as the prince, killed his aunt, forced his father to abdicate, and finally became the Holy Lord of the Tang Dynasty. Fighting on the ground, fighting on the ground, fighting between people, the fun is endless. In Li Longji's political struggles in the first half of his life, he never lost. Not because he was a benevolent emperor, but because he was cruel enough.

After Li Longji came to power, he was established as the prince in the third year of Kaiyuan and reigned for more than 20 years. As a result, because of the frame-up of Li Longji's favorite concubine Wu Hui, Li Longji took away Li Ying and Hubei King Li Yao and King Guang without even investigating. Wang Liju was demoted to a commoner and died soon after.

Tiger poison still does not eat children. Tang Taizong killed his younger brother and forced his father. When his son rebelled, he couldn't bear to execute it. Speaking of Li Longji, a good man, he killed three sons in one day. Throughout the history of Chinese emperors, no matter how cruel the emperor was. He killed three sons in one day.

Li Heng became the prince in such an environment. You can imagine how uneasy he was.

Looking at Chinese history, you will find that there are several types of people who are most difficult to become kings. One is Prince Mingjun. Because Mingjun is too smart and can see through you at a glance. If you are not as good as him, he will not be happy. If you're worse than him, you have a little insight. , he thinks you are not compatible with him; There is another kind of prince, the emperor's crown prince, who is still alive when he is old. Such a person is so tough that he can even kill the prince; there is another kind, the Datang prince, It’s not easy for all Tang princes!

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Tianbao Fourteen years ago, the Anshi Rebellion broke out.In the fifteenth year of Tianbao's reign, the rebel army was directed towards Chang'an.

Xuanzong fled in panic. There were about 3,000 guards, and Li Heng led 2,000 people behind the palace, including the Feilong Forbidden Army, the elite force in the Forbidden Army. In addition, Li Heng's two sons, Li Chu, King of Guangping and Li Chi, King of Jianning, both had close followers.

A perfect opportunity was placed in front of Li Heng.

In the wilderness, the emperor is running for his life. He holds absolute military power in his hands and is an upright prince.

Li Heng, who broke out from the battle of the force field, could not have failed to see this opportunity, let alone miss this god-given opportunity.

Even if he wanted to let it go, the prince's adviser would not let go of this opportunity.

In the end, the imperial soldiers broke out in riots due to hunger and cold, and hacked to death Yang Guozhong, his father and other members of the Yang family. Then Chen Xuanli stepped forward and asked Xuanzong to rule Yang Guifei , but Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to kill Yang Guifei.

Li Heng was the biggest beneficiary of the Maweipo Mutiny. In one fell swoop, he eliminated the oppression of the prime minister group during the Xuanzong era and completely stabilized the position of the prince.

After the mutiny, Li Heng said goodbye to Xuanzong in Maweipo. Li Heng divided his troops to seek development and did not follow Xuanzong into Shu. He completely got rid of Tang Xuanzong's shadow, and even got rid of possible liquidation in the future.

On July 12, the fifteenth year of Tianbao, Li Heng ascended the throne of Lingwu City and respected Xuanzong as the Supreme Emperor. After taking the throne, he sent people to inform Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty who had just settled in Sichuan, and asked for seals and other artifacts symbolizing imperial power.

The situation was over, and Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to accept the fact that he had become the emperor and hand over the seal.

Game of Thrones ended with Lee Hyung winning.

The above is my opinion. My knowledge is limited and it is just a personal opinion. Everyone is welcome to criticize and correct me.