What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the long history of China's five thousand years, there are four recognized beauties: Xi Shi, Sable Cicada, Wang Zhaojun, Yang Yuhuan, and of course, there are many women who are also said to be the most beautiful in the country, such as the Dai Ji of the King of Shang, Lady Li of the Han Wu Emperor (a Gu Qianren City, and then Gu QianrenGuo said that Lady Li), and The Empress Zhen Mi of Cao Pi (Cao Zhi's "LuoshenFu" was written for Zhen Mi).
However, in addition to being praised by others, these women are often criticized by the world as a demon girl and disturb the government. Yang Yuhuan is a typical example of this, and many historians believe that Yang Yuhuan seduced Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, and then caused the Anshi Rebellion, which turned the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline.
The poet Bai Juyi wrote a poem in the "Long Hate Song" that "from now on the king will not be early" to satirize Yang Yuhuan's interference with the imperial court. Du Mu also used "a red dust concubine laughing, no one knows that it is a lychee coming" to expose the absurd things that Tang Xuanzong did for Bo Meiren to laugh, and Yang Yuhuan was also scolded for eating lychees. Just eating a lychee, why is this behavior considered to be a laborer's money? Experts believe that it is mainly because of the means of transport of lychees.
Yang Yuhuan was born into a family of eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty and spent his childhood in Shuzhou. After Yang Yuhuan came to Luoyang, she was favored by Princess Li Mao at the wedding ceremony of Princess Xianyi and was named a princess, and the two had a deep affection. However, Tang Xuanzong had been depressed after the death of Concubine Hui, and the people in the palace told Tang Xuanzong that Yang Yuhuan's appearance was the crown of the world, and Tang Xuanzong included Yang Yuhuan in the harem. And Yang Yuhuan's appearance is indeed worthy of the name, Tang Xuanzong was instantly fascinated and loved Yang Yuhuan in every way.
Perhaps because of nostalgia for his homeland, or perhaps because of his separation from Li Mao, although Yang Yuhuan enjoyed the favor of the emperor in the palace, he was still sullen all day. In order to make Aifei smile from the bottom of her heart, Tang Xuanzong could be said to have exhausted all means but the effect was not very good. When Tang Xuanzong heard that Yang Yuhuan's favorite fruit in Shuzhou was to eat in his childhood, called lychee, he decided to use lychee to please him.
According to historical records, during the Han Dynasty, the South Vietnamese region paid tribute to Emperor Wu of Han with some lychees, and at that time Emperor Wu of Han was like planting lychees in Chang'an. However, lychee was a typical tropical fruit that could not survive in Chang'an at all, and Emperor Wu of Han gave up. In the New Book of Tang, it is recorded that the lychees shipped by Tang Xuanzong are very fresh, and the time from Guangdong and other regions is definitely not enough, so it is generally believed that the lychees that appear in Luoyang can only come from the Sichuan region.
Even if lychees were picked from Zhongzhou, Peizhou and other places in Sichuan and sent to Chang'an (Tang Xuanzong was in Luoyang at the beginning of his succession, basically in Chang'an after 736), it was definitely too late to take the waterway, and it would definitely require soldiers to occupy the post road and quickly add horses and whips to catch up with the time. The royal post roads are all used to transmit military orders, and the soldiers and horses that come and go are specially trained, and they occupy the resources of the country for a concubine, which has to be said to be a laborer and a loss of money.
In fact, if it is a prosperous time, Tang Xuanzong's efforts to make a smile for Bomei people can still be praised by poets, but when Yang Yuhuan was in the palace, the Tang Dynasty had an Anshi Rebellion, which greatly weakened the national strength of the Tang Dynasty. Many people believe that one of the reasons for the An Lushan rebellion is to covet Yang Yuhuan's beauty, so Yang Yuhuan will also be criticized for these disasters to the country and the people.
When Yang Yuhuan and Tang Xuanzong fled to the vicinity of Ma Songpo, in order to appease the soldiers' emotions, Yang Yuhuan was given death by Tang Xuanzong, and a generation of beauties died.