If it were not for the major event of the "AnShi Rebellion", the name left by An Lushan in history would have been nothing more than a traitorous villain favored by the emperor. It was the Anshi Rebellion launched by An Lushan that pulled the Tang Dynasty from the "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era" to the trough, and the "Anshi Rebellion" was also considered by later generations to be a clear sign of the Tang Dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline.
What ability does An Lushan have to subvert the peak of the feudal dynasty, the Tang Dynasty? In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, why could he behead his head and erect the anti-Tang banner?
An LuShan was originally called Mount Yan, the name of a mountain, and his mother was a Turkic witch. Legend has it that An Lushan's mother prayed to the gods at the foot of the Rolling Mountain to give her a child, and the gods appeared and gave her a child, which was named Rolling Mountain.
An Lushan's father died early, he lived with his mother, and later followed his mother to remarry An Yanyan, this An Yanyan is not simple, he is the brother of the right Yu Lin general An Bozhuo, the life under the fence must be difficult, he also does not want to live with this father later, he ran away from home.
He really decided to take the surname An because of An Sishun, who was the son of An Bozhu and theoretically An Lushan and An Sishun were cousins. Although An Lushan and An Sishun are not related by blood, the two people get along very speculatively, and have been intimate since childhood, and Later An Sishun also reminded An Lushan many times to rebel. Later, An Lushan rebelled, and Ge Shuhan took the opportunity to frame An Sishun and An Lushan for secretly colluding, An Sishun and his brother were killed, and his family was exiled to the frontier.
In his early years, An Lushan wandered among traders, but did not buy and sell goods, but only provided translation services for traders who did not understand the language, and made a living by doing so. However, the income from the translation work was quite meager, he had to take the risk and steal the sheep, unfortunately he was caught by Zhang Shoujue, and Zhang Shoujue, who was a party emissary, ordered him to be beaten to death, and An Lushan showed his heroic and alert side at this time.
He shouted loudly, "As a big husband, don't you want to destroy the two clans?" How to beat me, but also to kill me. His white, chubby appearance and extraordinary behavior made Zhang Shoujue look sideways, and he transferred him to his later partner Shi Siming. From then on, an Lushan and Shi Siming, the two main conspirators of the An Shi Rebellion, would meet.
Zhang Shoujue promoted An Lushan to a partial general and used him very much, and he also did not dare to eat more because Zhang Shoujue hated him for being too fat, but he was brave and good at war, Zhang Shoujue liked him very much, and adopted him as a righteous son, and An Lushan's military life began from then on.
An Lushan was particularly clever and cunning, when he was a soldier and horse envoy, he would bribe the officials who came and went, and after receiving the benefits of An Lushan, the officials who came and went would naturally say good things about An Lushan in front of Tang Xuanzong, An Lushan soon won the trust of the emperor, and the emperor also rewarded him many times, and Li Linfu, the prime minister who was very popular, also did a lot of work for An Lushan, and Tang Xuanzong trusted An Lushan more and more, and gradually entrusted him with heavy responsibilities.
There is an interesting thing is "Guifei Washing", that is, Yang Guifei recognized An Lushan as a son and took care of An Lushan like a baby, I have to say that the cheeky An Lushan was a giant baby, in the cradle, swaddling, bath and other places personally experienced the feeling of being a baby.
After An Lushan climbed Yang Guifei, it could be regarded as a big tree on the side, and Yang Guifei's big tree was finally leaned down by An Lushan. Tang Xuanzong also favored him to the point of connivance, An Lushan could not sit in front of the emperor, the emperor also mated the crown prince's daughter Rongyi County Lord Xu to his eldest son An Qingzong, and after An Lushan rebelled, Tang Xuanzong gave death to An Qingzong and then gave the Rongyi County Lord to death.
An Lushan is a big fat man we all know, but fat people dance we are rare, An Lushan weighs up to more than three hundred and thirty pounds, the stomach can hang down to the knees, such a person dances to make people unable to imagine, history records that he in order to win Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei happy, with a big belly began to dance, the action is also very agile, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei also successfully been amused, he is also more pampered.
In addition to being good at flattering and seducing this little trick, An Lushan also had superior courage and strategy, Yang Guozhong said to Tang Xuanzong several times that An Lushan would rebel, Tang Xuanzong was stunned, and Yang Guozhong came up with an idea to test An Lushan: Let An Lushan come to Beijing to see the emperor, if he has a ghost in his heart, he must be afraid and dare not come. As a result, An Lushan really came, and Yang Guozhong naturally had nothing to say.
It was precisely because of this incident that An Lushan and Yang Guozhong formed a liangzi, An Lushan relied on the emperor's favor and trust and asked the emperor for a lot of official duties, tang Xuanzong also lifted a stone to drop his own foot, but was bitten by An Lushan. An Lushan wanted to kill Yang Guozhong under the banner of "Qing Jun's side", and together with Shi Siming launched the An Shi Rebellion, forcing Tang Xuanzong to retreat to the Sichuan generation, forcing Yang Guozhong to die and then indirectly forcing the death of other people's mother Yang Guifei, a generation of red faces and fragrant jade to die, along with Yang Guifei's disappearance, as well as the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the power in the hands of Tang Xuanzong.
Conclusion: The fate of the chaotic courtiers and thieves has long been predestined, along with the Tang Dynasty's counterattack and the fading of the passion for rebellion, An Lushan fell into a dilemma, and when An Lushan was recuperating from scabies, his iron partner Shi Siming and his son An Qingxu instructed his close attendant Li Pig'er to kill An Lushan.
There is a predestination in the darkness, the endings of An Lushan and Tang Xuanzong are both lamentable, and the light they once had is also lamentable.