Li Yuan was born in a noble family in the Sui Dynasty. His grandfather and father were all generals and were named "Duke of Tang"; Li Yuan's mother and Empress Dugu of Li Yuan lost his father at a young age and inherited the title of "Duke of Tang" at the age of 7 (so he later named the country "Tang"). After Emperor Wen of Sui established the Sui Dynasty, the fifteen-year-old Li Yuan was appointed as a personal bodyguard officer and began his political career.
Tang Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan
In 617 AD, Emperor Yang of Sui sent Li Yuan to Taiyuan, a military city, to be a left-behind. Li Yuan made many military achievements in suppressing the peasant uprising, but Emperor Yang of Sui still did not trust him and sent his confidants Wang Wei and Gao Junxiong to be the deputy left-behind in Taiyuan to monitor him. In order to eliminate Emperor Yang of Sui, Li Yuan deliberately drank and had fun every day to paralyze Emperor Yang of Sui. Li Yuan's personality is indecisive (from the time when he was later appointed, he was swaying between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin and hesitant to verify this point), and hesitant to the anti-Sui Dynasty.
Li Shimin when he was young
Li Yuan's second son Li Shimin had a deeper understanding of the situation. Even if the Li family did not rebel against the court, the court would sooner or later attack them, so he began to recruit talents everywhere, such as Liu Wenjing , Pei Ji , etc. In order to make Li Yuan make up his mind, Li Shimin suddenly said to Pei Ji with worries: "The emperor regards our Li family as a thorn in his eyes and a thorn in his flesh. It's really a waste of time! It seems that the situation will change a lot sooner or later! I really want to take the opportunity to do something, but my father doesn't agree. What do you think?" Pei Ji and Li Yuan had a deep friendship. I heard Li Shimin say: "Young Master, don't worry, I have my own way." It turned out that Emperor Yang of Sui passed by , Jinyang in the north, built the Jinyang Palace, and selected many beauties from the place to enrich the palace, but Emperor Yang of Sui left after staying for a few days. The beauties had to guard the palace alone without being lucky for a few times. The palace supervisor Pei Ji deliberately set up a banquet to entertain Li Yuan. During the meal, Pei Ji kept urging him to drink, and Li Yuan became drunk soon. Pei Ji called the two concubines Zhang and Yin, who had been alone in the empty bedroom for many years, and successfully carried Li Yuan onto the dragon bed and took off his clothes... One day, he invited Li Yuan to drink. When the two were drunk, Pei Ji said, "It was all I harmed you. I was afraid that the incident of giving you two palace maids will spread... Li Yuan was shocked and sobered up halfway. Affair with his concubine (cuckold the emperor's cousin), and the crime of extermination, what should we do? Pei Ji hurriedly said, "The second son Shimin is afraid that the matter will be exposed and will bring disaster. He is recruiting soldiers and recruiting talents. I think it is better to start first and rebel against Sui, and may succeed." Li Yuan lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said helplessly: "It has come to this point, so I have to do this." Li Yuan decided to rebel against Sui.
Li Yuan took advantage of the banner of "suppressing the Liu Wuzhou Uprising" and sent Li Shimin and Liu Wenjing to recruit soldiers and expand the team. He also sent people to notify several other sons and sons-in-law from other places to meet in Taiyuan, and his subordinates were all led by his confidants. Li Yuan first killed two Emperors Yang of Sui. In the same year, Li Yuan and his son raised troops in Taiyuan and took the first step to revive Tang and destroy Sui Dynasty. In order to eliminate the hidden danger of being attacked by the enemy on the back and forth, Li Yuan sent someone to make an envoy to negotiate peace, expressing his willingness to form an alliance forever and hopes to jointly send troops to attack the Sui Dynasty. This eliminated his worries about the troops going south, and at the same time he also obtained reinforcements and established a united front. Soon, Li Yuan occupied Guanzhong and captured Chang'an.
Alliance Turkic
After Li Yuan attacked Chang'an, he felt that his time to be emperor was not yet ripe, so he supported Emperor Yang of Sui as the emperor, respected Emperor Yang of Sui as the emperor, and appointed himself as the King of Tang, the Grand Governor of the Tang Dynasty, the military and prime ministers inside and outside . Yang You is only thirteen years old, and the actual power is in the hands of Li Yuan.
Li Yuan had the power, made necessary rewards, and then began to take revenge, wanting to kill Li Jing, who had a personal grudge with him. Li Shimin pleaded with his father Li Yuan to avoid his death and took him to his subordinates. Li Jing later played a crucial role in seizing Li Shimin's throne.Li Yuan promulgated the "Twelve Constitutions" to abolish some unreasonable laws of the Sui Dynasty and were deeply supported by the people of Chang'an.
Sui Yang Emperor committed suicide
At this time, Emperor Yang Emperor of Sui Yang Yang Guang was still addicted to wine and sex all day long, ignoring the government affairs at all. More than a hundred palaces were set up in Jiangdu (now Yangzhou City ). There were groups of beauties living in each palace, holding big banquets every day, changing one palace every day, and thousands of concubines attended each banquet. Li Yuan continued to develop his power. After a long time, Yang Guang heard some rumors and seemed to have a premonition that the Sui Dynasty was unstable. He did not think about how to calm the chaotic situation, but wanted to go south, move the capital to Danyang (now Nanjing), and send people to start building the Danyang Palace, which caused the anger of heaven and people and betrayal of their relatives. Emperor Yang of Sui took the lead in attacking and rushed into the palace. Yu Wenhua and captured Yang Guang and strangled the emperor who killed his father and brother with a ribbon, Emperor Yang of Sui, ended his sinful life.
Soon, Li Yuan felt that the time was ripe, so he forced the young emperor Yang You to abdicate. Thirty-eight years ago, Yang You's grandfather Yang Jian usurped Zhou and forced the young emperor Yuwen Chan to abdicate; Thirty-eight years later, Li Yuan forced Yang Jian's grandson to give way, and history was sometimes surprisingly similar (such as the Sima family usurped power and Cao Wei , and later was usurped power by the four major aristocratic families. In 618 AD, Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor and changed the country's name to Tang, and was called Emperor Gaozu of Tang, and established his capital in Chang'an. After a period of struggle and confrontation, the world was finally unified and the second great integration of the Chinese nation was achieved (the first time in the Qin and Han dynasties, the Han people appeared). Even abroad, Tang Dynasty is very famous. Many countries still have Chinatown . The Tang people are also used to refer to our people. This is the influence left by the Tang Dynasty in the world.
Tang Dynasty
During the Tang Dynasty, the prosperous situation of ,000 countries coming to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty. There were more than 300 countries tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and it was unprecedentedly vast in terms of territory. During its heyday, it started from the Sea of Japan in the east, the Annan in the south, the Aral Sea in the west, and the Baikal in the north. It was the first unified dynasty in China to have not been built on the Great Wall of Hu since the Qin Dynasty.
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