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Li Yu
Tang emperor Daizong, who as marshal retook both capitals from the An Lushan rebels and whose reign ended the rebellion but left Hebei to former rebel generals
In a side chamber of a palace, a yellow ceremonial robe embroidered with a dragon hangs on a wooden stand, its hem worked with waves and rocks, before a carved folding screen, while a black lacquer chest sits on a low table by a lattice window and no person is in view.
Also known as Tang Daizong · Li Chu · Chu Wang
- Roles
- Monarch / Emperor
Li Yu, first named Li Chu, was Suzong's eldest son, born at Luoyang in January 727 and made Prince of Guangping under Xuanzong. In 757, as supreme marshal with Uighur troops in support, he recovered Chang'an and then Luoyang, and in 758 he was named crown prince and renamed Yu. He took the throne in the fourth month of 762 after Li Fuguo and Cheng Yuanzhen confined Empress Zhang, and reigned under the era names Baoying, Guangde, Yongtai and Dali. The rebellion ended in 763 with Shi Chaoyi's death, but Hebei was left to surrendered rebel generals such as Tian Chengsi and Li Huaixian, and that autumn a Tibetan army took Chang'an and drove him to Shanzhou. He put Liu Yan in charge of canal transport and the salt monopoly, and in turn removed the overmighty Li Fuguo, the eunuch Yu Chao'en and the minister Yuan Zai. He died in June 779 and received the temple name Daizong and burial at the Yuan Mausoleum.
Life and times
- 727 CEBorn
Tang - c. 762Tang Recovery of Henan and Hebei
age 35Tang and Uighur forces retook Luoyang in late 762 and chased Shi Chaoyi into Hebei, where his generals deserted and he hanged himself early in 763, ending the An–Shi rebellion. - 779 CEDied
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