Li Longji (September 8, 685-May 3, 762), also known as Ming Taizu. From 7 12 to 756. Tang Ruizong Li Dan's third son, mother Dou Defai. Tang Xuanzong was brave and good at fighting. During the Kaiyuan period, Wenzhi's martial arts reached its peak, which was internationally known as "the rule of Kaiyuan". Later, due to the Anshi Rebellion, he abdicated as emperor, the longest-serving emperor in the Tang Dynasty, and also the emperor in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

In the early days of Tang Xuanzong's reign, he paid attention to bringing order out of chaos, appointed Yao Chong, Song Jing and other sages, and made great efforts to govern the country. In the later period of his reign, he cherished Yang Guifei, neglected to govern the country, favored treacherous court officials Li and Yang, made policy mistakes, and reused courtiers such as An Lushan, which led to the eight-year Anshi Rebellion and set the stage for the decline of the Tang Dynasty. In 756, Hengli ascended the throne and honored him as the father of the emperor. He died in 762.

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1. Li Longji was born in the autumn of the first year of Diaogong (685), and Wuyin (September 8, Gregorian calendar) was born in Luoyang, the eastern capital. When he was born, his father Li Dan was the emperor and his mother Dou Shi was the princess.

2. In the third year (687), Ding Mao was crowned king of Chu as a prince.

3. At the beginning of the second year (69 1), Li Longji, the king of Chu, who was only seven years old, began to become a monk and set up an official family.

4. In April of the second year of Jinglong (708), it was also the secretariat of Luzhou. Li Longji was claustrophobic in the palace for seven years. In the second year of the solar calendar (699), at the age of fourteen, he became a monk with his brothers again.

5. In the fourth year of Jinglong (7 10), Li Longji returned to Chang 'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, from Luzhou. He secretly gathered talents and developed his power in the emperor's pro-army riding.

6. In the first year of Tang Long (7 10), Li Longji and Princess Taiping jointly launched the "Tang Long Political Rebellion" to destroy the Wei Hou Group. In the first year of his birth (7 12), Li Dan Zen was located in Li Longji, and Li Longji ascended the throne in Chang 'an Taiji Palace.

7. In the second year of her birth (765,438+03), Li Longji wiped out Princess Taiping's henchmen, and Princess Taiping was finally given the gift of death at home, which was a "congenital coup". From then on, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty finally mastered the power that the emperor should have. This year, Li Longji changed the title to "Kaiyuan", which showed his determination to make great efforts to create great achievements in the Tang Dynasty.

8. After Li Longji cleared Princess Taiping, the imperial power was completely consolidated. After the country was gradually on the right track, the rule of law was implemented, and with the help of Zhang, the prosperity of Kaiyuan reached its peak.

9. After creating a prosperous era, Li Longji gradually began to satisfy and indulge in pleasure. Without the fighting spirit before, Yang Yuhuan was registered as an imperial concubine in August of the fourth year of Tianbao (745). Under the authoritarian rule of Yang Guifei's brother Yang, the whole Tang Dynasty began chaos.

On the ninth day of November in 10 and the fourteenth year of Tianbao (February 16, 755), An Lushan, who was also an envoy of Fanyang, Pinglu and Hedong, took advantage of the emptiness of the internal political corruption forces in the Tang Dynasty to unite the nationalities of Tongluo, Xi, Qidan, Shiwei and Turkic to form * *1. Eventually, it led to the Anshi rebellion, and the Tang Dynasty was greatly weakened.

1 1 In the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756), the insurgents occupied Luoyang, the eastern capital, and in June of the same year, the insurgents marched in and captured Chang 'an, Tang Dou. Enter the peak of Anshi Rebellion. Before the fall of Chang 'an, Li Longji fled. To Maweipo (Xingping West, Shaanxi Province), the accompanying soldiers mutinied, killed Yang and forced Yang Guifei to hang.

12 years, in the second year of Zhide (757), with the pacification of Anshi Rebellion, Li Longji returned to Chang 'an from Chengdu and lived in Xingqing Palace (in the south), known as the emperor's father. Xuanzong, who lives in Xingqing Palace, no longer asks about political affairs. In his later years, Li Longji was unhappy, and Li Longji died at the age of 78 on April 5, the first year of Baoying (May 3, 762). In forty-three years, after his death, the temple was named Xuanzong.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Longji