I have already established my power and prestige, so how did Li Shimin come back to life?

Huang Chao led the rebel army into Chang'an in a mighty force, and the people lined the streets to welcome him.

He rode a tall horse, wearing golden armor, followed by hundreds of thousands of rebels, just as he wrote on the wall of Chang'an that year: "The whole city is covered with golden armor."

After entering Chang'an, Huang Chao ascended the throne in Hanyuan Hall and established the "Da Qi" regime with the reign title "Jintong".

He ordered the execution of all officials above the third rank.

The streets of heaven are full of the bones of nobles.

However, after the rebels gained a foothold in Chang'an, they gradually lost their way.

The generals began to indulge in pleasure, the soldiers' discipline was lax, and even plundered the people. Although Huang Chao was aware of this, he was unable to stop it, and the fighting power of the uprising army gradually declined.

At the same time, Emperor Xizong of Tang, who had fled to Chengdu, mobilized troops from various vassal states to encircle and suppress the rebels.

Zhu Wen was originally a general under Huang Chao, but surrendered to the Tang Dynasty at a critical moment. He was named "General of the Left Jinwu Guard" and given the name "Quanzhong" by Emperor Xizong of Tang.

Zhu Wen led the Tang army in a fierce battle with Huang Chao. The rebel army suffered repeated defeats and gradually fell into despair.

In the third year of Zhonghe, Huang Chao was forced to lead the rebel army out of Chang'an and fight in Henan, Shandong and other places.

In the fourth year of Zhonghe, Huang Chao was surrounded by Tang troops in Langhu Valley of Mount Tai. With nowhere else to go, he drew his sword and committed suicide.

At this point, although the Huang Chao Uprising, which lasted for ten years, failed, it dealt the crumbling Tang Dynasty the heaviest blow - the rebels fought across most of China, captured Chang'an, shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule, and made the already divided vassal states even more unscrupulous, laying the groundwork for the eventual demise of the Tang Dynasty.

After the Huang Chao Uprising, the Tang Dynasty's rule was in name only.

The feudal lords attacked each other and fought for territory. Chang'an was captured many times and the emperor was forced to flee the capital again and again. It is recorded in history that "the capital was destroyed six times and the emperor fled nine times."

In the first year of the Guangqi reign, the eunuch Tian Lingzi competed with the governor of Hezhong, Wang Chongrong, for the profits from salt. Wang Chongrong, in conjunction with the governor of Hedong, Li Keyong, led an army to attack Chang'an. Emperor Xizong of Tang fled again, and Chang'an was looted by the rebels, with the palaces burned down.

In the first year of Wende, Emperor Xizong of Tang died of illness, and Emperor Zhaozong of Tang ascended the throne. He tried to revive the government, but was sidelined by the local military governors and was controlled by military governors such as Zhu Wen and Li Maozhen, like a puppet.

In the first year of Tianfu, Li Maozhen led his army to capture Chang'an, and Emperor Zhaozong of Tang was abducted to Fengxiang.

In the third year of Tianfu, Zhu Wen defeated Li Maozhen and brought Emperor Zhaozong of Tang back to Chang'an. He then moved him to Luoyang and sent people to kill him, and established Emperor Aizong of Tang as a puppet emperor.

Although the Tang Dynasty had declined to such an extent, it still had an awe-inspiring character.

Those opponents who once humiliated the Tang Dynasty eventually paid a heavy price.

After the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo took the opportunity to capture Hexi and Longyou, and even captured Chang'an in the first year of Guangde, and supported Li Chenghong as a puppet emperor.

However, Tubo was plagued by internal conflicts, with nobles fighting against each other. In addition, the country was constantly fighting with the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs, and its national strength gradually declined.

Later, the Tubo general Lun Kongre launched a rebellion and fought a long-term war with Shang Bibi, which led to the disintegration of Tubo.

In the second year of Dazhong, Lun Kongre was defeated by another Tibetan general, Tuoba Huaiguang. His head was cut off and sent to Chang'an.

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered that Lun Kongre's head be hung on the streets of Chang'an to comfort the Tang soldiers and civilians who died in the Tubo invasion.

The Uighurs were once a strong enemy of the Tang Dynasty. During the An-Shi Rebellion, the Uighurs sent troops to help the Tang Dynasty suppress the rebellion, but they took this opportunity to extort money and property from the Tang Dynasty and even looted the city of Chang'an.

Later, internal strife broke out in the Uighurs, and the Kyrgyz took the opportunity to attack the Uighurs. The Uighur Khanate was destroyed, and some Uighurs moved westward and established regimes such as the Ganzhou Uighurs and the Xizhou Uighurs.

In the first year of Tianfu, the Ganzhou Uighur Khan Wujie Khan led his army to invade the Tang Dynasty, but was defeated by the Tang general Li Sizhao. Wujie Khan was killed and his head was also sent to Chang'an and hung for public display.

The Nanzhao Kingdom also violated the border many times. Since the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Nanzhao had been at war and at peace with the Tang Dynasty. It repeatedly captured Yaozhou, Xizhou and other places of the Tang Dynasty, posing a huge threat to the southwestern border of the Tang Dynasty.

In the later period of the Nanzhao Kingdom, the rulers were licentious and immoral, and the people complained bitterly. In addition, the long-term wars with the Tang Dynasty and Tubo exhausted the national strength.

In the second year of Tianfu, Zheng Maisi, a powerful official of the Nanzhao Kingdom, launched a coup, killed the Nanzhao King Longshun, and then killed more than 800 members of the Nanzhao royal family, destroyed the Nanzhao Kingdom, and established the Dachanghe Kingdom.

The ancestral temples and royal tombs of the Nanzhao Kingdom were also ordered to be demolished by Zheng Maisi, and completely disappeared in the dust of history.

The Tang Dynasty was like an old lion. Even on the verge of death, it would not tolerate provocation from its opponents.

Even in its final years, people still supported the Tang Dynasty. After Zhu Wen took control of Emperor Aizong of Tang, he attempted to usurp the throne, but was opposed by both the government and the people.

Many ministers would rather be exiled or killed than to follow Zhu Wen; although the people suffered from the war, they still missed the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and the saying "The Tang Dynasty's reign has not yet ended" was circulated among the people.

In the fourth year of Tianyou, Zhu Wen could no longer bear it and forced Emperor Aizong of Tang to abdicate, establishing the Later Liang regime. The Tang Dynasty officially perished.

Emperor Aizong of Tang was deposed as King of Jiyin and was soon killed by Zhu Wen's men.

But even after its demise, the Tang Dynasty still left behind an immortal legend.

Its strength is not only reflected in its vast territory and prosperous economy, but also in its cultural confidence and spiritual character.

If the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were heroic rulers, then Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, during the "Zhenguan Reign", humbly accepted advice, appointed talented people, and created a prosperous era in which all nations came to pay tribute. During the Kaiyuan period, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, worked hard to govern the country and pushed the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty to its peak, which is known in history as the "Kaiyuan Prosperity".

If the military generals of the Tang Dynasty were considered to be fierce generals, then Li Jing destroyed the Eastern Turks in the north and defeated the Tuyuhun in the west, making great military achievements. Guo Ziyi quelled the Anshi Rebellion and recovered Chang'an and Luoyang, and was praised as a hero who "rebuilt the Tang Dynasty."

If the women of the Tang Dynasty were role models, then Wu Zetian broke tradition and became the only female emperor in Chinese history, demonstrating extraordinary political talent; women such as Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er also left their mark on the political stage. They were magnanimous, confident, graceful and elegant, breaking the shackles of traditional ethics on women.

If the poets of the Tang Dynasty are the benchmarks, then Li Bai's unrestrained and free-spirited "When life is happy, you should enjoy it to the fullest, and don't let the golden cup face the moon in vain", Du Fu's concern for the country and the people "I wish I had thousands of mansions to shelter all the poor people in the world", and Wang Wei's majestic and magnificent "A lone smoke rises straight in the desert, the setting sun is round in the long river" have all become immortal classics in the history of Chinese literature.

The Tang Dynasty was so powerful that later generations felt that it should not decline, and even that it was impossible for it to decline.

Its strength stems from its open and inclusive mind - it accepted cultures from all over the world and absorbed foreign technologies, making Chang'an the most prosperous international metropolis in the world at that time.

Its strength comes from the spirit of respecting literature and advocating martial arts - scholars can write poems, military generals can ride horses and kill enemies, the emperor and his subjects are of one mind, and the people live in peace and happiness.

However, it was precisely this strength that made the Tang Dynasty gradually become arrogant and complacent. In the later years of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, he indulged in pleasure and neglected state affairs, which eventually triggered the Anshi Rebellion, which became the turning point of the Tang Dynasty's decline.

Some people say that the Tang Dynasty was defeated by itself.

Indeed, the eunuchs' autocracy, the separatist rule of the feudal lords, and the corruption of officials were all internal problems of the Tang Dynasty, which ultimately led to the demise of the dynasty.

But even so, the Tang Dynasty still showed tenacious vitality in its last years - the Anxi Army held the Western Regions for fifteen years, the Huang Chao Uprising shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule, and those opponents who humiliated the Tang Dynasty were eventually avenged.

Every dynasty will perish, including the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty is really as Mr. Qi said.

The Tang Dynasty never cared.

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