"There are great difficulties." This sentence comes from the mouth of Wang Xifeng in A Dream of Red Mansions. What she wants to express is that the bigger a family is, the more difficult it is to manage it. It seems that everyone is familiar with this topic. This is a very simple truth, and everyone seems to understand it. So why do we talk about this today?

The reason why I say this is because it involves the concept we are going to talk about today, our time in the Tang Dynasty. I believe that many people have been exposed to our time in the Tang Dynasty during their study. When I first came into contact with this word, I was in a history class. The teacher told us that our festival envoys in the Tang Dynasty were a group of death reminders, which led to the destruction of the Tang Dynasty and chaos in the world.

But later, when I really studied the history of the Tang Dynasty, I suddenly found that the former festival was not as simple as we thought. Moreover, in this historical background, we will have a deeper feeling when we understand what Wang Xifeng said in the past.

There used to be a classic saying in this world, that is, existence is rationality, and all evil that exists and leads to the destruction of something is because it was reasonable in the beginning. The same is true of our envoy in the Tang Dynasty, who undertook a very important task in those years, but unfortunately, due to historical changes, its task changed, so the dynasty collapsed.

so, what happened to the "our time" in those days? The author will take everyone to understand the truth. Perhaps after reading it, everyone will have a deeper understanding that history is always a kaleidoscope, and we often only see one point.

First, the origin of our time

If we want to talk about the origin of our time, I think we should talk about the general manager system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. I still remember that when I was watching Mr. Meng Man's Sui Dynasty, I saw the chaos of the three main managers at that time. Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, put down the rebellion of the three main managers and gained the authority of the emperor, which led to the unification of the world. This so-called "Three Commanders" is the predecessor of our time later. According to the records at any time, the Commanders refer to the absolute power figures who hold the power of military, political, administrative and civil affairs at the local level. Although these people can't interfere with the central government at the local level and must obey the orders of the central government, their autonomy is particularly great.

Because these people can organize local armies as long as they are approved by the emperor, and they have great control over the army, so long as they don't rebel against the central authorities, they can make their own choices. It is precisely because these people have such great power that they dared to fight Emperor Wen of Sui, who had usurped the throne.

In the Tang Dynasty, especially in Li Shimin's period, Zhenguan was basically a general manager system three years ago. Li Shimin went out as a marching general, and later when Excavate went out, he also went out as a marching general. All this didn't change until Du Ruhui died, because Du Ruhui announced a military system reform measure before he died, and Li Shimin abolished the main system.

Later, it was replaced by the system of our time, but although these people are developing slowly, they are gradually becoming another new general manager, because they have the same military and political power as the general manager, and in the subsequent political turmoil, they also began to have civil power.

So, what makes our festival manager? This has to talk about Wang Xifeng's problem.

second, Wang Xifeng's problem

at the beginning, we said that Wang Xifeng thought there were great difficulties, in fact, so did the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Tang Dynasty was invincible in the world, so he didn't need to expand, just needed to maintain the status quo, and he could already guarantee the political status of the Tang Dynasty.

But in the later period, the world began to be turbulent again, and the expansion desire of the Tang Dynasty became stronger and stronger. According to historical records, small countries in remote areas often provoked the Tang Dynasty, and as a result, the Tang Dynasty had to fight against it. Moreover, coupled with the requirements of the Silk Road on the sea and land, the Tang Dynasty further expanded its territory.

under the influence of these multiple factors, the territory of the Tang dynasty became larger and larger. As a result, the Tang dynasty actually had a huge territory beyond most dynasties, ranking first in the world at that time. Faced with such a vast territory, the feudal system has not really been perfected to the point where it can directly control various places.

Therefore, the rulers of the Tang Dynasty had no choice but to further expand the system of our time, that is to say, the original time can guard the army at the local level, and later, in order to solve the financial problems and gain military autonomy, they can seize the three real powers.

according to historical records, this behavior in the Tang dynasty at that time greatly solved the financial burden of the central government, and also solved the problem of military political examination on the frontier.

but it's a pity that our time is limited. Because of this, a great qualitative change has taken place. What is this qualitative change?

Third, the transformation of our time

According to the Book of the Tang Dynasty, our time was absolutely loyal to the Central Committee at that time, because a huge country, a great country admired by all people, was bound to become a yearning existence in the minds of all soldiers. Therefore, those who joined the army in the Tang Dynasty all volunteered to join the army, and they all wanted to contribute to the country. If you don't believe me, you can look up the poems written by those poets in the Tang Dynasty. I hope that the frontier poets are actually talented, but they want to kill Loulan with their swords for the sake of enthusiasm.

So generally speaking, the rhythm in the early stage is that everyone has the basic concept of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, and everyone is willing to open up territory for the Tang Dynasty. But later, the central government became more and more chaotic, and our time was getting farther and farther away from the central government. Coupled with his growing strength, this mentality began to change. You can refer to the changes in six northern towns during the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Later, the country became richer and richer, and everyone became richer. However, these frontier generals who were guarding one side in distant areas did not get any supplement. Moreover, with the prosperity of the times, many people have forgotten the frontier soldiers and even the frontier poets. As a result, these people are dissatisfied with the prosperity of the central government and their own hardships. The most obvious among them is people like An Lushan.

Therefore, under such a background, people began to have ambitions, but this ambition was not really shown with the expansion of the territory in the Tang Dynasty, because as long as there is still the motivation for expansion, our time will not turn against the central government. However, the motive force of this expansion was destroyed because of the war between the Tang Dynasty and Arabia.

Fourth, the madness of our time

According to historical records, the Tang Dynasty and Arabia were the two most powerful empires at that time, and later they fought an arduous war because of the problem of opening up territory. Theoretically, the Tang Dynasty didn't lose that big battle, because it was fought with less and more, and the Tang Dynasty killed more enemies. However, because the war was finally lost, the Tang Dynasty gave up the power of expansion, and the original expansion trend was from the inside out.

However, this has also caused a very bad influence, that is, the external conflict has stopped, and then the desire for the interior will arise. In fact, everyone can see from the film and television works that there are so many prosperity in China, but they don't belong to the military, so they will start to stir up.

it is against this background that our time has rebelled, and in order to quell the rebellion, our time is restricted by our time. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty lost the control ability of the central government during the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty, and it began here.

As for the madness of Li Keyong and Zhu Wen recorded in the history of the Five Dynasties, it was an amateur performance after the Great Destruction. At that time, our time had completely surpassed the central government, and the Tang Dynasty collapsed under such a background.

Summary

From these historical records, we can clearly see that our time was the product of the expansion of the Tang Dynasty. After all, our feudal system is gradual and does not support large-scale expansion. Therefore, when the territory of the Tang Dynasty is doubled or even tripled, the original stable centralized structure cannot be realized, so we can only implement the system of local autonomy.

As external enemies always exist, we can maintain peaceful development as long as the expansion is still going on. However, when the expansion of the Tang Dynasty was defeated by external enemies, then the internal explosion had already come.

So, when Luo Zhenyu commented on the destruction of the Tang Dynasty, he thought that the destruction of the Tang Dynasty lay in the difficult problem of Wang Xifeng, and there were great difficulties. A big country certainly looked like a big country, but if it was too big, it would become acromegaly, and the Tang Dynasty would eventually become cancerous.

therefore, this is the origin of the development of our time, which has its own rationality and later collapse, but we can't simply say that jealousy is evil, we can only say that times have changed and policies have changed, so the system of that year has also changed.