After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty rose three times, why did it still go to extinction?

As we all know, the Anshi Rebellion was an important turning point in the Tang Dynasty's transition from prosperity to decline. Before the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had the rule of Zhenguan pioneered by Li Shimin, the rule of Yonghui initiated by Tang Gaozong, and the prosperity of Kaiyuan achieved by Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty in the early period of his reign, which pushed the national strength of the Tang Dynasty to its peak. However, an Anshi Rebellion completely ended this period of history in the Tang Dynasty.

However, after the Anshi Rebellion, although the Tang Dynasty was in decline as a whole, it still struggled for more than 140 years until 907 AD, when it came to an end.

In this regard, in the opinion of many historians, this is directly related to the three zhongxing in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, these three Zhongxing were Tang Xianzong Yuan and Zhongxing, Tang Wuzong Huichang Zhongxing, and Tang Xuanzong Dazhong. To a certain extent, it was precisely because of these three zhongxing that the Tang Dynasty was able to hold out for more than 140 years after the Anshi Rebellion.

So, the question is, after the Anshi Rebellion, why did the Tang Dynasty rise three times, but why did it still go to extinction?

The Anshi Rebellion, which began in December 755 and ended in February 763, was a war launched by Tang Dynasty generals An Lushan and Shi Siming after betraying the Tang Dynasty, which was a turning point in the decline of the Tang Dynasty. This war led to a sharp reduction in the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, because the commanders who launched the anti-Tang rebellion were mainly An Lushan and Shi Siming, so the incident was named An Shi. After the Anshi Rebellion, there were many more accomplished monarchs in the Tang Dynasty, namely Tang Xianzong, Tang Wuzong, and Tang Xuanzong.

And these three emperors respectively created three Zhongxing situations, that is, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was restored to a certain extent.

On the one hand, as far as Yuan and Zhongxing are concerned, because Tang Xianzong used the name of Yuan He during his reign, it was named. Tang Xianzong was a promising emperor, and after he ascended the throne, he took "Taizong's entrepreneurship" and "Xuanzong's governance" as examples to follow. For the emperor Tang Xianzong, the authority of the prime minister was improved, and the rebellion of the feudal town was quelled, thus forming the grand occasion of "the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty".

On the other hand, it is named after Huichang Zhongxing, because of the era name of Tang Wuzong. After Tang Wuzong ascended the throne, he knew people and was good at his duties, relied on Prime Minister Li Deyu, clarified the rule of officials, weakened the power of eunuchs and feudal towns, and thus achieved the situation of Huichang Zhongxing. After Tang Wuzong, during the reign of Tang Xuanzong, he governed the country diligently and thriftily, sympathized with the people, reduced taxes, paid attention to talent selection, and recovered a large area of lost land occupied by Tubo after the Anshi Rebellion.

On this basis, many historians believe that he was the same Ming monarch as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty under the rule of Wenjing and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty under the rule of Zhenguan, and this period is called the "rule of Dazhong" in history.

However, the Tang Dynasty came to an end in 907 AD. The reasons for this are mainly divided into the following points. On the one hand, this is because although emperors such as Tang Xianzong, Tang Wuzong, and Tang Xuanzong were more effective during their reigns, the emperors of the middle and late Tang Dynasty at most limited the power of eunuchs and feudal towns, but did not completely change the situation in which eunuchs held the power of the imperial court and feudal towns were divided in local areas.

The final result of the Anshi Rebellion was that the imperial court won, and since it won, it is naturally impossible to perish. As for later, although in the process of suppressing the rebellion, the imperial court promised a lot of new jiedu envoys in order to win over the locality, but in any case, these jiedu envoys restrained each other, although rebellions occurred from time to time, but they did not have the strength of An Lushan, and it was impossible to overthrow the Tang Dynasty.

Because the Tang Dynasty had a prosperous era, the common people were unwilling to live a chaotic life, and the feudal towns needed to cover up their ugliness, so they survived for more than 100 years before they perished.

The Tang Dynasty still retained many excellent generals, and the rebel army was very serious, the strength of the Tang Dynasty was relatively strong, and the Tang Dynasty also had the Jiangnan region to rely on.

Reasons for the fall of the Tang Dynasty:

1.Economically: severe land annexation (root cause);

2.Politically: there was a serious partisan struggle within the imperial court;

3.the peasant uprising (the root cause is still land annexation);

4.institutionally; The system of moderation makes the local forces stronger than **;

5.Militarily: Western minority attacks.

As for the inability of the authorities to deal with land annexation, it was due to the nature of the feudal system. In the case of underdeveloped productive forces, the peasants could not bear the losses of cultivation on their own, and could only rely on the landlord class. Therefore, the contradictions between the peasants and the landlords can only be reconciled, not resolved.

The later Tang Dynasty did not have the energy to deal with these problems that could not be dealt with at all, so it led to its demise.

What happened after the Anshi RebellionThe Tang Dynasty rose and fell, and it collapsed, after which the actual unified ** dynasty was no longer able to control the locality, and the An Shiyu Party formed a feudal town in the north, and each of them went their own way, and later this situation spread throughout the country. The number of hukou held by the state has been greatly reduced. Between Tongguan and Hugao Pass, within a few hundred miles, there are only "more than 1,000 households", and Fangcheng County in Dengzhou has plummeted from more than 10,000 households in Tianbao to less than 200 households.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the peasant rebel army became more and more flat, drought for many years, external and internal troubles, the ** force became weaker and weaker, and the warlords from all walks of life seized the land and began to divide the feudal towns, and the Tang Dynasty was torn apart. In the end, Zhu Wen destroyed the Tang Emperor and changed the name of the country to Liang, and the five dynasties and ten kingdoms officially began.

The local festivals made the troops stand on their own, and the Tang Dynasty had already existed in name only at this time.

The Anshi Rebellion caused a major catastrophe to society. After the war, people have been displaced and much of the land has been barren.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was no longer able to control the local forces, and the Anshi Yu Party formed a feudal town in the north and went its own way, and later this situation became more serious and spread throughout the country.

The Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty no longer had the strength to suppress the rebellion, the "Three Towns of Hebei" combined the local military, political, and economic powers, and in the future, other regions were divided and disobeyed by the imperial court.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the people under the rule of Fang Zhen were heavily taxed, which provoked the peasants to continue armed uprisings.

Because after the Anshi Rebellion, a lot of people died in the Tang Dynasty, and the people were gone, and the society developed the productive forces, how to progress, and the harassment of the surrounding countries of the Tang Dynasty from time to time, the Tang Dynasty was already very tired. Although the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty began to slowly shake, and the prosperity and decline were originally the law of the development of things.

Because this Anshi Rebellion did have a lot of this struggle for power and profit, and later it also led to some wars, so it would have led to this prosperous and declining thing, if there was no Anshi Rebellion, then naturally they would have been able to pass a period of stability, but I didn't expect this turmoil to bring them this riot.

The Anshi Rebellion was a turning point in the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, because the contradictions in all aspects had broken out in an all-round way and were out of control. The internal decay is extremely serious, and the Jiedu envoys also support their own troops, and they all want to get a piece of the pie in this troubled world. The key is that there is a lack of an emperor with great wisdom and courage, and he cannot turn the tide, otherwise it is very likely that the Tang Dynasty will return to the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty.

The occurrence of the Anshi Rebellion was related to the economic contradictions, national problems and class contradictions of that dynasty, and these problems were not resolved for a long time, so the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and after the Anshi Rebellion, these problems were not well resolved, and these contradictions also continued after the Anshi Rebellion, so it was not conducive to economic development, so the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline.

Personally, I think that it was the Anshi Rebellion that opened a precedent for rebellion in the current dynasty, especially as an emperor who compromised, so the thoughtful mind was led out, and the unthoughtful also gave birth to a little bit, and when I looked at this problem with a little wavering and contempt, there would be a kind of why can't I not, why I can't think.

The second is that there are a lot of people who died in this station, and it also disrupted the social system and political system at that time to a certain extent.

In the early Tang Dynasty, it was the rule of Zhenguan and the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty that brought the rule of the Tang Dynasty to its peak, and Li Longji's reuse of An Lushan and Li Linfu in the middle and late periods led to autocratic power, and the harem Yang Yuhuan and An Lushan colluded together to abandon the national government. After An Lushan and Shi Siming rebelled successively, the Tang Dynasty fell into war for 8 consecutive years, although Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi succeeded in quelling the rebellion, but caused national turmoil, the situation of feudal town separation, this situation lasted for more than 100 years, the end of the prosperous era, although there was an enlightened monarchical reform in the late Tang Dynasty in the later period, but the situation of feudal town division has been formed, and decay is only a matter of time.

The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous era in Chinese history, but as Mencius said, sorrow can rejuvenate the country, comfort can die, too excessive prosperity led to the ruler not wanting to be enterprising and obsessed with women, which led to the Anshi Rebellion, after the outbreak of the war, many of the previous hidden dangers were all exposed, and the once prosperous era became full of holes, and there was no way back to the prosperity of the time.

After the Anshi Rebellion, some of the original shortcomings of the Tang Dynasty and the hidden dangers that had not had time to deal with were exposed, but at this time, the emperor had no energy and no ability to deal with them. Forces with some ability and no ability have emerged on all sides, and economic development has stagnated. The national power gradually declined, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty was gone forever.

Personally, I think that the Anshi Rebellion triggered the civil war of the Tang Dynasty, the civil war fought for power, when the internal instability, it will definitely decline, only when the internal stability is achieved, people can develop the economy and live a good life, so the Anshi Rebellion is the turning point of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and this turning point also caused the demise of the Tang Dynasty.

1. From a military point of view, there was an official position in the Tang Dynasty called Jiedu Envoy, mainly the people who were stationed on the frontiers of various places. They held military power in their hands, and recruited troops behind the back of the imperial court, expanded their military power, and constantly reached out to the imperial court to ask for money.

2. Economically, there are constant wars in the north, less war in the south, and the economic center of gravity has begun to shift south. Then there is the problem of migration, from the north to the south.

3. The Anshi Rebellion lasted for 8 years, which made the materials accumulated for many years be used on the battlefield, and the materials for production and life were naturally less.

That's just one thing.

Since then, the feudal towns have been in their own ways, and their administrative capacity has been weakened.