牛李党争 / Niu-Li Party Struggle

The 牛李党争 / Niu-Li Party Struggle is the late-Tang factional conflict used by 76.玄怪录：晚唐党争？没耽误宰相写大马猴的故事 to place 牛僧儒 before reading 《玄怪录》. The episode names 李德裕, 李宗闵, and 牛僧儒 as central figures, and treats the conflict as more than personal animus.

The source frames the struggle as a mixture of faction, social background, policy disagreement, and reputation warfare. That makes it useful for Late Tang Political Poetics: literary authorship, suspected forgery, and moral accusation can become part of political conflict alongside court appointments and frontier policy.

Connections

• 牛僧儒, 李德裕, and 李宗闵 - main figures as presented by the source.
• 《周秦行纪》 - disputed text used as a factional-slander case.
• Late Tang Political Poetics - concept extended by the episode.
• 唐传奇 / Tang Chuanqi - literary field placed inside the political environment.