Li Deyu

Li Deyu (* 787, † 850) was a Chinese politician, the beginning of 840 years in fact was chancellor of China.

Li Deyu was in the reign of the youthful Emperor Jingzong leader of the Li- party. These provided with the guided Niu Niu Sengru - party conflict for power at court, which was known as the Niu -Li danzheng. The Niu Party succeeded in this conflict, the takeover of government power, based on the ever- growing power of the palace eunuchs. Jingzongs successor Wenzong initiated 833 a conspiracy against the eunuchs. Informed, the eunuchs began with a massacre of their supposed Gegenern, which over a thousand people were killed. Since the eunuchs feared a direct takeover would provide the military governors in the provinces, the leaders of Niu and Li- parties were lifted into the ministerial posts, where their power was limited. Under Emperor Wuzong (reigned 840-846 ) increased Li Deyu on the de facto chancellor. He could be based on a relationship of trust to the emperor there. In interviews he gave the emperor always the appearance that he himself had made ​​the political decisions. He never tried to outdo the Emperor mentally. Li Deyu is considered authoritarian politicians. Its decisions he met alone in his garden and from walking. Based on his relationship with Wuzong, he began with the overthrow of the Eunuchenführers Qiu Shiliang. Li Deyus office was the actual central administrator, which the dualism between the favorites of the emperor and the regular administration was lifted at least for this period.

At the beginning of Wuzongs rule the Kirghiz destroyed the power of the Uyghur, after which a large group of Uyghur tried to settle on imperial territory near the Yellow loop. Li Deyu was commander in the fight against the invaders. Responsible for both tactical as well as for supply issues, he won 843 a great victory over the Uyghur.

Towards the end of Wuzongs rule of the court began with the secularization of Buddhist monasteries, with this measure in first line goes back to Emperor Wuzong itself. 846 died Wuzong. His uncle Xuanzong Li Deyu banished due to its proximity to his unpopular nephew to Hainan. The climatic conditions in this area were the Iron Chancellor few years die out.

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