In ancient China, anyone who came into contact with the government and made the imperial court unstable was called a red face and a curse. For example: Dai Ji, Bao Ji, Xi Shi, Sable Cicada, Zhao Feiyan, Wu Zetian and Yang Yuhuan, etc., all of them have a very bad reputation in history, and some of them are really a disaster for the country and the people, and some are an excuse for the emperor to be incompetent when the imperial court was overthrown. And Yang Yuhuan is exactly like this.
Although Yang Yuhuan was beautiful and talented, and Tang Xuanzong loved her very much, she was not the culprit who caused the decline of Tang Xuanzong's period, and she had been insulted in history.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang favored Yang Yuhuan
Yang Yuhuan was born into a family of eunuchs, her grandfather was a minister of the Sui Dynasty, and her father was also a member of the Tang Dynasty. Yang Yuhuan's father died early when he was a child, so he was taken to Luoyang by his third uncle to raise him. Her third uncle also loved her, so Yang Yuhuan grew up in such an environment, not only looking beautiful as a flower, but even her talent is one of the best.
In the twenty-second year of the new century, Tang Xuanzong married his daughter, and Yang Yuhuan, as an official eunuch family, also participated in the wedding. At that wedding, Tang Xuanzong's son Li Mao was attracted by Yang Yuhuan's appearance and asked his mother to mention the matter in front of the emperor. And Li Mao's mother concubine was one of Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubines at that time. As soon as she mentioned this matter to Tang Xuanzong, Tang Xuanzong immediately agreed. Yang Yuhuan married Li Mao, and the two Qinser and Ming were in love.
In the third year of Li Mao's marriage to Yang Yuhuan, his mother died of illness, and Tang Xuanzong was depressed all day and had no intention of ruling the government all day. At that time, it was in the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and the economic management of the country also needed the development of the monarch, and there was such a thing that made Tang Xuanzong have no intention of ruling the government. Therefore, some ministers recommended Yang Yuhuan to Tang Xuanzong to enter the palace, saying that Yang Yuhuan was talented and intelligent, and his appearance was excellent, and he had a unique insight into the rhythm, so that she could enter the palace to play a few songs for the emperor, so that the emperor would be comfortable. After Tang Xuanzong agreed, Yang Yuhuan entered the palace to face the saint.
Since ancient times, heroes love beauty, not to mention Yang Yuhuan, who is known as one of the four beauties. After Tang Xuanzong saw Yang Yuhuan, he fell in love with her talent, so he let Yang Yuhuan stay in the palace. Although Yang Yuhuan was already in Tang Xuanzong's harem at that time, Tang Xuanzong did not give her a position because she was nominally his daughter-in-law. It was not until the fourth year of Tianbao, after Tang Xuanzong re-gave Li Mao a princess, he made Yang Yuhuan a Yang Guifei.
Yang Yuhuan gained favor and the Yang family gained power, which eventually led to the Anshi Rebellion
Soon after Yang Yuhuan was a noble concubine, Tang Xuanzong deposed his own empress, and then Yang Yuhuan's position was no one else, so Yang Yuhuan's power in the harem became more and more powerful.
Tang Xuanzong was very fond of Yang Yuhuan, and heard that Yang Yuhuan loved to eat lychees, and he transported lychees to her from thousands of miles away. As for Yang Yuhuan's family, Tang Xuanzong also gave enough status. Yang Yuhuan's eldest sister, third sister and eighth sister were respectively named duchess of guo by Tang Xuanzong. Her other brothers were even more high-ranking officials, and even her distant brother Yang Guozhong held many positions in the dprk. It can be seen that Tang Xuanzong attaches great importance to Yang Yuhuan and the Yang family.
In this way, Yang Jiaquan fell to the opposition, and Yang Yuhuan and other brothers Yang Guozhong took their own interests as the commanding heights and never considered the interests of the country, so they offended many people in the DPRK. The first of these was An Lushan. An Lushan had long been plotting a rebellion, and Yang Guozhong, who was in power and opposition, was a thorn in his eye, and he tried everything to get rid of him.
Finally, in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan launched a rebellion under the charge of Yang Guozhong as a scourge of the country, under the pretext of replacing the Qing emperor's side. The Tang Dynasty was unable to resist the attack of An Lushan, so Tang Xuanzong fled in all directions. When fleeing to Ma Songpo, Yang Guozhong and Yang Yuhuan caused the anger of the soldiers, and the imperial court ministers set out to kill these two, so Tang Xuanzong agreed to kill Yang Guozhong and give Yang Yuhuan a white aya.
Yang Yuhuan was wronged
In the an incident of the An Shi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong became a mystery of beauty and gave others powers at will, resulting in the rise of a family and thus enabling them to occupy the imperial court, which was not spurned by posterity; and Yang Guozhong's greed for power and hegemony and the ambitions of the culprit An Lushan were not remembered by posterity. However, it was only Yang Yuhuan who was spurned by posterity, and posterity thought that her beauty had misled the country, but did not think of Tang Xuanzong's lust. This is exactly the sentence that when the regime of a country collapses, the emperor will always use women to cover up their faults and let women be victims.
More than 100 years after Yang Guifei's death, Tang Xianzong was always conscientious and never coveted beauty, but in the end he was beaten by the rebels and fled around. At that time, the way to escape was the Ma Song slope that Tang Xuanzong had walked through at that time during the Anshi Chaos. At this time, there were no beauties who had brought calamity to the country and the people, and some were just faint and incompetent emperors.