Section 6: Rebellion in Yingzhou

Xiju

Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan

I have been tired of hairpins for a long time, but fortunately I was banished to Nanyi.

I am leisurely leaning on my neighbor's farm and garden, occasionally like a visitor in the forest.

Plowing in the morning turns over the dew grass, and the rocks ring in the stream at night.

I don't meet anyone when I go back and forth, and I sing long songs about the clear sky and blue sky.

The Yingzhou Rebellion made the Khitan a hero of the Tang Dynasty, and saved the Li Tang Dynasty from danger. However, the Anshi Rebellion that occurred later was another great gift from the Khitan people to the Tang Dynasty.

An Lushan, one of the protagonists of the Anshi Rebellion, was originally just a small gangster. He relied on Khitan talents to rise to prominence.

That year, Ketuyu killed Khan Li Shaogu. Li Shaogu's wife, Princess Donghua, fled back to the Tang Dynasty and asked Emperor Xuanzong for reinforcements. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty sent General Zhang Shougui to attack Ketuyu, and Zhang Shougui urgently recruited familiar people in Youzhou.

In other cases, local people enlisted in the army. Many people came here because of its reputation, and An Lushan was one of them.

An Lushan, who had no background, made many military exploits by virtue of his bravery and proficiency in fighting. He was appreciated by Zhang Shougui and adopted him as his adopted son.

What really made An Lushan famous was that in a battle, the Tang army was ambushed by the Khitans and the entire army was wiped out. Only An Lushan escaped death. Zhang Shougui ordered An Lushan to be executed. An Lushan shouted before he died:

, a manly man, who doesn’t want to destroy the Xi people and the Khitan? Why do you want to kill me!

Zhang Shougui thought about it carefully and realized that An Lushan was indeed a talented person. It would be a pity to kill him. So, he came up with a good idea. He took An Lushan to Chang'an and let the emperor deal with it personally. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered An Lushan to be pardoned. An Lushan was pardoned.

Lushan got a blessing in disguise and showed his face in front of the emperor.

After An Lushan returned to Youzhou, he was even more appreciated. Moreover, he was tactful, good at understanding people's thoughts, and knew how to flatter. Every time the officials who came from Chang'an were coaxed to be happy by him, they all praised him after returning to Chang'an.

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Tang Xuanzong originally had a good impression of him, and with the officials' jealousy, An Lushan was soon named Pinglu Jiedushi.

Zuwu Khan was a peace-loving Khan. He focused on leading his people to develop and did not consider war at all. But this made Anlu Mountain so anxious that it had no chance to make contributions.

But this did not faze him. He decided to artificially stimulate the Khitan's dissatisfaction with the Tang Dynasty. An Lushan continued to send troops to invade the Khitan, and the Khitan people gradually became dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty. But this was not enough, An Lushan held a Hongmen Banquet.

They invited the leaders and soldiers of the Khitan and Xi tribes, made them drunk, killed them all, and took their heads to report their merits to the court.

Tang Xuanzong gave him a large number of rewards, and Anlushan used these rewards to continuously expand his power. The Khitan finally couldn't bear it anymore, so they killed the princess of the Tang Dynasty and defected to Huihe. Anlushan was a restless man.

He raised troops in Fan Yang and launched a rebellion. The Anshi Rebellion broke out. This rebellion brought great disaster to the Tang Dynasty, which turned the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline.

Life insights: It is inevitable to encounter unsatisfactory things in life. Many people often get angry when they encounter unsatisfactory things: resentment, idleness, idleness, anger. As everyone knows, anger will not only not help solve the problem, but will also hurt

Emotions can stiffen relationships and make things that are originally unsatisfactory even more unsatisfactory, just like adding insult to injury. What's more serious is that anger is extremely harmful to physical and mental health, and it is simply "destroying" oneself.

The German scholar Kant said: "Being angry is punishing yourself for the mistakes of others." The ancient Greek scholar Aesop said: "People need to be peaceful and not to be excessively angry, because anger often produces major disasters for irritable people.

.” Russian writer Tolstoy said: “Anger can cause others to suffer, but the one who suffers the most is yourself.” Mr. Yan Jingming, a literati in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote a song called "Song of No Anger", which is quite humorous:

I am not angry when he is angry with me. I have no intention of being angry with him. If my anger plays into his scheme, there will be no one to take care of me if I get sick due to my anger. I will invite a doctor to treat the disease, but it is said that it is not easy to cure the disease of qi. The harm of qi is too terrible.

I am sincerely afraid that I will lose my life because of my anger. Now that I have tasted the taste of my breath, I am not angry, I am not angry, I am really not angry!

In order to study the impact of anger on human health, American physiologist Alma conducted a very simple experiment: insert a test tube into a container with water, and then observe the results.

"Qi water", it turns out that even if you ask a person, the "Qi water" at that time is particularly when the sun is closed, when the qi turns into water, it is clear and transparent, without any variegated colors, and there is always a white precipitate.

Rotating objects: When Mei is angry, there is a green precipitate, and when she is angry, there is a green precipitate. When she is angry, there are four public animals. Herma injected the gas water when a human is flying into the body of the big white couplet. It only took a few minutes. The big white mouse died.

The expert further analyzed: If a person is angry for 10 minutes, the energy consumed is no less than participating in a 3,000-meter race: when a person is angry, some toxic secretions will be synthesized in the body. People who are often angry cannot maintain their psychology.

Without balance, it is naturally difficult to live a healthy and long life, and it is not uncommon for people to be angry to death. Dr. Stone, another American psychologist, has shown through experimental research that if a person encounters something happy, his immune system will decline within two days.

The ability will be significantly enhanced; if a person encounters something angry, his immune function will be significantly reduced.

Since anger is not conducive to establishing harmonious interpersonal relationships and is extremely harmful to our physical and mental health, then we should learn to control ourselves and try not to be angry. If we encounter anger, we must improve our psychological endurance and give ourselves

"Calm down" yourself. You must learn to calm down your anger, and "remind" and "warn" yourself that "you must not be angry" and "this matter is not worth being angry about" so that your emotions can be buffered and your mind can be relaxed.

Anger should be nipped in the bud. You must realize that being easily angry is your biggest shortcoming and weakness. You must not think that anger is a manifestation of "integrity" and "frankness", or even "boldness" worth showing off. That will lead to indulgence.
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