(The Woman Who Told History – No. 724) In the life of Tang Xuanzong, there are two very controversial figures, one is Yang Guifei and the other is An Lushan. The relationship between the three of them can be called a deformed iron triangle relationship. It was precisely because of this that the depth of Tang Xuanzong's trust in An Lushan had completely exceeded the relationship between the monarch and the subject, to what extent? It has risen to the bottom line of touching men, but Tang Xuanzong is still tolerant of An Lushan here, but Tang Xuanzong loves An Lushan so much, why does An Lushan rebel?
Since An Lushan is the focus, let's start with An Lushan. An Lushan was a person from a very lowly background, his mother was a lowly witch, and his private life was still very chaotic, so who An Lushan's biological father was was a mystery. After An Lushan was born, his mother gave him a very simple and rough Turkic name, called Rolling Mountain, which means battle and god of war. It seems that this witch's mother's expectations of her son are still quite high. When the witch's mother finally married a low-ranking officer named An Yanyan, the teenage An Lushan finally had her current name: An Lushan.
Although An Lushan's origin and status are very low, An Lushan's personal qualifications are extremely good. As he grew older, he grew physically stronger and stronger, becoming a strong man, and surprisingly talented in languages, proficient in six languages. However, if you have good qualifications, if you want to seek a way to make progress, you also need opportunities. Therefore, before An Lushan was able to meet Tang Xuanzong, There were three important turns in An Lushan's life that are worth mentioning.
The first turning point was when he was serving as the General of The Mutual City Lang, the so-called General of the Mutual City Lang, who was the market administrator specially established by the Tang Dynasty to trade goods with border ethnic minorities. This official does not look big, but everyone who understands knows that this is a fat difference, and the oil and water are still relatively large. With An Lushan's style, how could he sit back and watch the fortune go? Therefore, he stole sheep takeaway, the number of times should be a lot, but once it was the most unlucky, by the then Youzhou Festival, Zhang Shoujue gave a appearance.
Zhang Shoujue was about to put An Lushan on the spot to correct the Fa, when An Lushan suddenly shouted, "Isn't the Lord going to destroy the Two Tribes?" Then why would you want to kill someone like me? Zhang Shoujue saw that An Lushan was not afraid of death, and dared to speak like this, and then saw that this guy looked unusually fat and was a man. So he was released on the spot, and he remained in front of the army and became a catcher, equivalent to today's reconnaissance platoon leader. This can be said to be the first turning point of An Lushan, who has entered the real door bar from the beginning.
The second turning point was that An Lushan was familiar with the local geographical environment and was good at leading troops, such as when he once captured dozens of Khitans with 5 cavalry. In addition, An Lushan is a very good person, for example, Zhang Shoujue does not like An Lushan to be too fat, An Lushan deliberately reduced his own meal in front of Zhang Shoujue, to put it bluntly, he would rather be hungry than please Zhang Shoujue. The result was very good, Zhang Shoujue became more and more satisfied with An Lushan, and finally simply adopted An Lushan as a righteous son.
From a lowly person with no identity to a dry son of a party member, the results of An Lushan's grassroots counterattack were quickly highlighted. Soon after, because of Zhang Shoujue's father, An Lushan was appointed deputy envoy of Youzhou Jiedu.
The third turning point is that An Lushan is not only good at being a man, but also very good at being an official. When there is no official, he will pretend to be a grandson, and when there is an official, he also knows the way of the officialdom. At that time, as long as the imperial court sent officials to Youzhou, An Lushan would always do everything possible to arrange it, and at any cost, he would get a lot of gold, silver and treasure to bribe the imperial court envoys. As a result, after these court envoys had gained the benefits of An Lushan, they returned to the imperial court in front of the emperor and praised An Lushan. In this way, Tang Xuanzong had not seen anyone to An Lushan, but had already foreseen his people. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the face is faced.
Because of the previous preparation, After An Lushan saw Tang Xuanzong, he also had great trust, but An Lushan made Tang Xuanzong's trust in him go further because of two things:
The first thing was that when An Lushan came to the capital from the locality to report on his work, the first person to meet was not Emperor Tang Xuanzong, but Tang Xuanzong's wife Yang Guifei (at this time, An Lushan had already requested to be a righteous son for Yang Guifei, and it seems that An Lushan also liked to be a son everywhere, but he was better than Lü Bu of the Three Kingdoms). After Tang Xuanzong knew, he was probably a little unhappy, after all, you are a minister, who came to the court without seeing the emperor, but went to see the harem concubines. But how to explain it to the An Lushan people?
An Lushan said to Tang Xuanzong with a big grin, "The subjects are Hu people, and in our Hu people, we all respect our mothers, first as mothers and then fathers." ”
When Tang Xuanzong heard this, he was immediately relieved, but he was very happy, and he appreciated this fat man who was too fat even more. Happy for a while, he also let the Yang family brothers and sisters and An Lushan become brothers, and the relationship went further.
The second thing was that when An Lushan saw the crown prince, he did not even worship, and the person next to him implied that he was in front of the crown prince, and seeing the crown prince was equivalent to seeing the quasi-emperor, and he was going to worship. But this guy said, "What is the official position of the prince?" ”
Tang Xuanzong said, "After a hundred years, he will be the emperor." ”
An Lushan quickly knelt down and said, "The courtiers are foolish, they do not know the etiquette of the imperial court, they only know that there is His Majesty in their hearts, and they do not know that there is a prince, and it is really a sin that deserves death, and a sin that deserves death." ”
When Tang Xuanzong saw this, he could only prefer An Lushan. But there was a problem here, or Tang Xuanzong also knew. As a high-ranking minister in the middle of the court, how could he not know what the identity of the crown prince was? It can only be said that An Lushan is too able to pretend to be stupid, but onlookers know that he is pretending, but he is not picky, but he feels very cute. This is probably the superiority of An Lushan.
It was also because Tang Xuanzong's liking for An Lushan continued to escalate, so that the relationship between An Lushan and Yang Guifei also upgraded. However, between men, the relationship escalation is nothing more than more iron. Resting between monarchs and courtiers is nothing more than more tolerance and connivance. But when it comes to women, especially men and women in ancient times, and even more so women and ministers of emperors, the sensitivity of this relationship is self-evident. However, because a layer of cloth covering "An Lushan is an adopted son", An Lushan was openly in and out of the harem, and had extremely close contacts with Yang Guifei.
Later, Ye Shi was a big book on this exchange between the Fat Men of the Tang Dynasty, and the imagination was exerted to the fullest (the things contained in the Wild History, interested friends can go to the Wild History to look back, here omitted 10,000 words, no more repeated). In short, the level of communication between An Lushan and Yang Guifei is definitely beyond the bottom line of men. However, after Tang Xuanzong even knew about it, he didn't care too much, or even doubt it.
On the surface, An Lushan seems to be as close as Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei as a family, which is not a bad thing for Tang Sheji. However, this was not the case, and soon a problem arose, that is, An Lushan rebelled.
Tang Xuanzong was so good to An Lushan, so good that it had already exceeded the bottom line of men, why did An Lushan still oppose it? There are two major reasons: one comes from Ye Shi, who says that An Lushan rebelled in order to get Yang Guifei, but this reason is obviously untenable; the other reason comes from Zheng Shi, saying that An Lushan is for the side of the Qing Dynasty, and the purpose is to target Yang Guozhong.
However, from the actual situation, the personal relationship between An Lushan and Yang Guozhong deteriorated, but the relationship with the imperial court was not big, An Lushan could not move the army, but An Lushan used troops to the imperial court, in fact, the core reason is plain, that is, An Lushan's ambitions are inflated, he is no longer satisfied with being a big member of the party, he wants to achieve greater ambitions, which is probably the reason for his rebellion.
References: New Book of Tang, Old Book of Tang.