As a noble concubine with the appearance of a shy flower among the four beauties of ancient China, Yang Yuhuan broke the horse songpo in the famous Anshi Rebellion, and the initiators of the famous Anshi Rebellion were An Lushan and Shi Siming, who betrayed the Tang Dynasty and launched wars with the intention of seizing the supreme rule of the Tang Dynasty.
While lamenting the death of a generation of worldly beauties under the chaos of war, the reason why An Lushan, who was Tang Xuanzong's favorite minister, could not help but arouse people's deep thoughts.
According to common sense, in the later years of Kaiyuan, An Lushan also worshiped Yang Guifei as his mother, which can be said to be extremely favored by Emperor Xuanzong, so why did An Lushan, who was in a high position, still oppose Tang? According to the analysis and argument of relevant scholars, it is concluded that you also want to rebel.
In the early period of Tang Xuanzong's reign, the Tang Dynasty's society and economy were unprecedentedly prosperous, and the entire society reached another peak period after Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Empress Wu Zetian. Perhaps it was that in the first half of his life, he was too conscientious and diligent, and in his later years, Tang Xuanzong became more and more sluggish under the ideal state of world peace.
Especially after Tang Xuanzong changed the Yuan Tianbao, he was less and less attentive to government affairs, and the frugal wind of the prosperous period was even more gone, but instead immersed in song and dance and poetry all day long, blindly coveting pleasure, the harem was beautiful three thousand people, and Tang Xuanzong only favored the noble concubine Yang.
According to legend, the noble concubines ate sweet, especially loved to eat lychees, Tang Xuanzong ordered the opening of an exclusive tribute route from Lingnan to the capital of the lychee production area, and did not hesitate to transport back fresh lychees overnight only for Bo Meiren to smile, Xuanzong and the noble concubines indulged in sex, and the luxury in the palace became more and more luxurious.
The relatives and nobles of the DPRK and China made many flattering gestures and flattered the noble concubines; what was even more absurd was that An Lushan, in order to protect his glory and status, actually worshiped Yang Guifei, who was more than ten years younger than himself, as his mother, in order to show his loyalty to Tang Xuanzong.
Just as the so-called: a person got the ascension of the chicken dog to heaven, the noble concubines inherited the favor of the dynasty, the brothers and sisters in the clan also followed the rewards, and the status of the Yang family, which was not very glorious in the original door, instantly soared; the clan brother Yang Guozhong was even more in power and the prime minister, and the extravagant atmosphere of the Yang family brothers and sisters became more and more rampant, which laid a hidden danger for the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty later.
According to records, Yang Guifei's sisters were given the titles of Lady of Korea, Lady Of The State of Yu, and Lady of the State of Qin, and enjoyed the honor of bathing in the Huaqing Palace with the emperor and the noble concubines.
The extravagant behavior of the Yang sisters could even be compared with the treatment of the royal family members, and the Yang family's sons and daughters were even more infuriating at the time when they were favored by noble concubines.
Yang Guozhong, who was a relative of the emperor and a relative of the state, and his sister Yuhuan had long been favored, was greeted by many members of the Yang clan as high-ranking officials in the court. Gradually, the Yang clan power circle headed by Yang Guozhong was formed in the court, Yang Guozhong was above ten thousand people, and the power was monstrous, and the Tang Dynasty at this time opened a situation of foreign relations dictatorship and chaotic government.
In Emperor Xuanzong's later years, honest and loyal subjects were not reused or even deposed, and Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, and other traitors gradually took control of the situation in the DPRK and China, but all the loyal and virtuous people were impeached and murdered by them one after another, and the situation in the DPRK and China was in a state of black smoke and miasma.
Li Linfu was already a noble member of the clan, and the official worshiped the prime minister and was above ten thousand people, he bribed and bribed the palace people who served Xuanzong's side to spy on the holy will, and over time, Xuanzong was even more slack and ignored political affairs under Li Linfu's Yang and Yin, thus allowing Li Linfu to be the dictatorship of Zai for decades.
Later, the noble concubine Yang Shi was favored for a long time, and Yang Guozhong was able to succeed him to the post of chancellor of the DPRK, but Yang Guozhong did not grow much further than Li Linfu, but on the basis of his predecessors, he promoted the trend of corruption in the government of the DPRK, and the successive traitors in the DPRK and The DPRK and the CPC were divided, the courtiers formed party forces to oppose each other, and the contradictions within the ruling class intensified day by day.
Therefore, the infighting between the monarchs and the wen and wu in the late Kaiyuan period and the intensification of the internal contradictions of the ruling class became the direct cause of the An Shi Rebellion launched by An Lushan and others.
The top-down decay of the ruling class has increased the burden on the people, and in order to maintain the luxurious life of the ruling class, it is necessary to constantly plunder the people's fat and people's ointment, and the people are not happy, which makes the social contradictions continue to intensify.
Yang Guozhong and An Lushan were both new upstarts in the DPRK who had risen after Li Linfu, and both were also close confidants of Tang Xuanzong. But often when they are at the same height, they will have the heart of comparison, and no one wants to be lower than the other, let alone be restrained by the other party, so the contradiction between Yang An and Yang An is revealed.
The general An Lushan was all elite, guarding the border for the town of Tang, and protecting the peace of the Tang Dynasty for many years from foreign enemies, so An Lushan was once favored by Emperor Xuanzong, and even received the honor of recognizing Yang Guifei as his mother.
Yang Guozhong based on this, believing that An Lushan's self-esteem threatened his position, so he was very jealous of him, and the two of them had a festival after coming and going, even to the point where water and fire were intolerable.
As a courtier, Yang Guozhong naturally could not confront An Lushan, who had a heavy army, but used a roundabout method of cursing the heart in an attempt to incite public opinion so that the killing was bloodless; he had long pointed out in front of Tang Xuanzong that An Lushan was secretly plotting rebellion.
Tang Xuanzong, as the supreme ruler, did not play a role in deterring and reconciling between the two important courtiers, but ignored it, and Xuanzong, who was lax in the government, only regarded it as a common phenomenon of discord since ancient times, and did not need to be ignored, and slowly with the increase of similar remarks, Xuanzong, who had been in a high position for a long time, gradually became suspicious of the rumors.
Yang Guozhong also joined forces with Hexi Jiedushi to squeeze out An Lushan, and over time, this made An Lushan, who had already developed a bad heart, rely on the military power in his hands to send troops to rebel against Tang.
Therefore, the power struggle between the chancellor Yang Guozhong and the general An Lushan became the fuse for An Lushan's anti-Tang dynasty; in addition, An Lushan himself also had a number of courtiers, and everyone in the entire court was pregnant with a ghost, and the phenomenon of forming parties for personal gain was not uncommon, and the forces of various factions were intricately intertwined, the people's hearts were scattered, and the monarchs and subjects were out of order, which was already a chaotic world.
In the late period of Xuanzong's reign, the contradictions between kings and courtiers, civilian subjects and military generals, and central and local forces within the ruling class became increasingly intense, which became an important factor in the rebellion of An Lushan.
As the saying goes: Companions are like companions of tigers, since ancient times, the most ruthless imperial family, although An Lushan was once greatly favored by Tang Xuanzong, but later under the situation of the king's increasingly sluggish government, the Chinese and the infighting between the emperor and the wu, gradually the monarchs and subjects were alienated, mutual suspicion, and the lack of trust became an important reason for An Lushan's eventual rebellion.
In addition, the discord between An Lushan and Yang Guozhong's generals and civilian subjects became the last straw that overwhelmed the camel, and in the face of the rumors of Yang Guozhong, the prime minister, framed, squeezed and suppressed, An Lushan's already hidden alien heart was quickly intensified, and An Lushan, who supported the army and respected himself, finally chose to raise troops to rebel against Tang.