When it comes to Yang Yuhuan, one of the four great beauties of ancient China, I think everyone is no stranger. About Yang Guifei, there is such a story. When Yang Yuhuan first entered the palace, he played in the garden with several palace women. In the midst of laughter, Yang Yuhuan's hand accidentally touched a flower, and the flower slowly hung down the green stem, closing the leaves, and the palace women saw it, saying that this was the beauty of the jade ring, so that the flowers and grasses were ashamed to open.
This is the origin of the beauty of the noble concubine and the posture of the shy flower. But even such a beautiful person was expelled from the palace by Xuanzong several times, first because the noble concubine interfered in the life of the emperor's harem, then to suppress the arrogant Yang family, and finally the noble concubine ended up hating Ma Songpo. A generation of beauties died.
The so-called companion is like a companion tiger, and the harem beauty is still like this, not to mention the humeral minister who participates in the court to face the saint directly? And also in the Tang Dynasty to achieve such a fate, there is a prime minister - Pei Yan. Pei Yan was born intelligent, diligent and studious, even when he traveled with friends, he still studied hard.
The local government also heard of Pei Yan as the number one person, admired his excellent qualities and talents, and wanted to appoint Pei Yan as an official. However, Pei Yan felt that his self-knowledge talent was not enough, so he refused the government's kindness and continued to immerse himself in studying and refining the classics of each family. Later, Pei Yan relied on his strength in the imperial examination and the first, and from then on began to enter the career.
In 680, ming chongyu was assassinated, and Wu Zetian suspected that it was the crown prince Li Xian,so he ordered Pei Yan and others to secretly investigate. Pei Yan was not afraid of the magnates, and enforced the law impartially, and finally found hundreds of armor in the residence of the crown prince Li Xian, and Wu Zetian thought that he had killed the chancellor before he became emperor, and it was really difficult to rule the imperial program.
As a result, Li Xian's position as crown prince was deposed, and Pei Yan was deeply appreciated by Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong of Tang because of his ability to do things. After Li Xian was deposed, Emperor Gaozong of Tang made Li Xian crown prince and asked Pei Yan to teach and assist Li Xian. In 683, Emperor Gaozong of Tang died of illness, and Li Xian took the throne as Emperor Zhongzong of Tang.
But Li Xian, fainting, went so far as to say that it didn't matter if he gave way to his father-in-law Wei Xuanzhen. Therefore, Pei Yan impeached Li Xian in front of Wu Zetian, which was exactly in line with Wu Zetian's wishes. Therefore, in 684, Wu Zetian led troops to force the palace, deposed Emperor Zhongzong of Tang as a local prince, and established Tang Ruizong as emperor, and Wu Zetian began to control the government.
And Pei Yan was even more loved by Wu Zetian because of his meritorious speech. Pei Yan, who was loyal and upright, was not willing to follow the path of obsequiality, and was always outspoken in the face of Wu Zetian. At that time, Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Chengsi (武承嗣) made a statement that he wanted to establish the Seven Temples of the Wu clan and crown the deceased ancestor of the Wu clan as king. However, Pei Yan objected, believing that Wu Zetian had authority in his hands, and it was even more inappropriate to be close to him in order to be handled by others.
This remark had already made Wu Zetian very unhappy. Wu Chengsi again said that the Li family should be killed to avoid the trouble, so as to ensure the position of Tang Ruizong and at the same time stabilize the power of Wu Zetian. During this period, none of the civil and military officials spoke out, and only Pei Yan bluntly advised, believing that as a foreign relative, plotting to kill Li Tang's bloodline would lose the hearts of the people, Wu Zetian was even more reluctant to see Pei Yan.
In 684, Xu Jingye and Yangzhou raised an army and invaded Luoyang. Pei Yan, who was quite loyal to Li Tangshengshi, spoke again, believing that the excuse for Xu Jingye and others to rebel was Wu Zetian's seizure of power, and they wanted to find out the side of the king. Since Tang Ruizong was already an adult, if Wu Zetian returned the imperial power, Xu Jingye and his ilk would lose the name of rebellion, and if they dared to attack, they would certainly not be popular with the people, and their morale would be scattered, which would be the best strategy for a soldier who was humiliated without a fight.
However, how the powerful Wu Zetian was willing to easily return to power, he was even more intolerable to Pei Yan, who wrote a strict letter. At that time, Wu Zetian intercepted a letter written by Pei Yan to Xu Jingye, and the only word in the letter was "green goose". Wu Zetian saw the letter and immediately ordered Pei Yan to be killed.
At this time, all the ministers were very puzzled, why did they have to kill the ministers when they saw the word "green goose"? Wu Zetian then explained that the word "green goose" was taken apart and read, that is, "December, I am self-contained", which means that in December, Pei Yan will cooperate with Xu Jingye to kill the female emperor, so he ordered Pei Yan to be killed.
It was not until 710 AD, after Tang Ruizong, with the help of Princess Taiping and others, seized the throne of the imperial power and ascended the throne, that he rehabilitated Pei Yan, the chancellor, and did not fall into the name of the usurper of the dynasty and the traitorous courtiers.