Since ancient times, the four beautiful women of ancient China have not had a good ending. Xi Shi was given to Wu Wang Fucha by yue guo as a spy, and eventually saved the country but betrayed fu jun; Wang Zhaojun married several Xiongnu Shan Yu for the peace of Han and Hungary; the mink cicada became a prop for Wang Yun to alienate Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu's father and son; and the most tragic was Yang Guifei, who became a prop for her beloved Shilang to quell the rebellion.
Ma Song Station witnessed the death of Yang Guifei's fragrant jade, and also witnessed Tang Xuanzong's desolate love, and all this had to start from that escape. On June 9, the fifteenth year of Tianbao, Tongguan was lost. When Tang Xuanzong, who was above the court, heard the news, there were only two paths in front of him, one was to die, and the other was to flee. Li Longji, who was no longer the desperate Shilang, chose to flee. Under the influence of Yang Guozhong, the chancellor, Tang Xuanzong chose to flee to Sichuan (mainly because shu dao was difficult to defend and difficult to attack, plus Sichuan was a country of heaven and rich in products).
Before fleeing, in order to stabilize the people's hearts and minds, at the same time to fight for a safe escape route for themselves. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang announced to the outside world that he would be personally enlisted, and gave the keys to the palace to the eunuch Bian Lingcheng for safekeeping, pretending that the emperor really wanted to go out to meet the enemy. With the end of this show, Tang Xuanzong quietly moved from the Xingqing Palace to the Forbidden Garden north of Chang'an City. Because the Forbidden Garden was the daily garrison of the Forbidden Army, Tang Xuanzong's purpose in this move was mainly to select guards for himself. That night, Tang Xuanzong ordered the Longwu general Chen Xuanli to reward the forbidden army and selected nine hundred warhorses to stand by.
In the early morning of the next day, in the misty drizzle, Tang Xuanzong took Yang Guifei's sisters and the princes, princesses, concubines, and imperial grandchildren who lived in the palace, as well as the prime ministers Yang Guozhong, Wei Jiansu, the imperial master Wei Fangjin and their families, as well as Gao Lishi and several other trusted eunuchs, under the escort of thousands of forbidden troops, began their career of escape!
On the way to escape, the emperor is no longer the emperor, along the way hungry and cold, the emperor, the noble concubine, the prince who usually eats gold and jade, in the face of hunger, even the coarse grains with chaff of the common people feel that they are delicious in the world. Soon after, the news of the emperor's escape was well known to the world, and the common people saw that the emperor had run away, and they began to run. The great chaos in the world is not only the people's hearts and minds, but even the military's morale is scattered. Those forbidden troops who followed the emperor were all Chang'an people, and now the army was going to Bashu, farther and farther away from their hometowns, and at this time they were all worried about their relatives at home. This kind of dissatisfaction made the entire forbidden army very impetuous, and this impetuousness gave the army a hint of a coup d'état.
As the commander of this army, Chen Xuanli was keenly aware of the strange appearance of the soldiers, in order to channel the anger of the soldiers. Chen Xuanli decided to kill Yang Guozhong in order to make the soldiers vent their inner dissatisfaction. In order to make the coup justified, Chen Xuanli decided to seek support from the top. He thought of the crown prince Li Heng, who was the number two person in the imperial court at that time, and the prince himself had irreconcilable conflicts with Yang Guozhong. As early as the time of Chang'an, Yang Guozhong repeatedly wanted to frame the crown prince and make the emperor abolish the position of prince. Now the direction of Tang Xuanzong's escape was Yang Guozhong's old lair Bashu, and it was estimated that the prince would die soon after entering Bashu.
However, for the sake of safety, the crown prince chose not to support or oppose Chen Xuanli's solicitation. Chen Xuanli knew that as long as the coup was successful, the prince would stand up for himself. So he made up his mind to launch a coup d'état, just at this time Yang Guozhong happened to be entangled with several Tibetan emissaries, so a forbidden army shouted: "Guozhong and Hu Yu conspired against", and then an arrow was shot at Yang Guozhong, and it was immediately stuck in the saddle. Yang Guozhong saw that the momentum was not good, quickly turned over and dismounted, and ran into the west gate of the station, hoping to seek the emperor's protection. The Forbidden Army could spare him, chased him, raised his sword in his hand, and took down Yang Guozhong's first rank at once.
However, Yang Guozhong's death did not bring stability to the soldiers, they still surrounded Tang Xuanzong's tent, at this time Tang Xuanzong was also frightened, thinking that the soldiers still wanted to kill him, so he rushed to appease the soldiers, and the result was a sentence from the soldiers that "the thief is still there." It turned out that the soldiers were afraid of Yang Guozhong's sister Yang Guifei's retaliation afterwards.
In order to appease this group of soldiers, Tang Xuanzong chose to bury his love with his own hands, and he asked Gao Lishi to lead Yang Guifei to the Buddhist hall and say goodbye to Guifei. Yang Guifei said, "May everyone live well." Concubines are sincerely responsible for the grace of the country, and there is no hatred in death." Tang Xuanzong also said with tears in his eyes: "May the concubine be born kindly." After the ceremony of the Buddha, Gao Lishi strangled Yang Guifei to death in the Buddhist hall. After Yang Guifei's death, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered her body to be carried to the courtyard of the caravanserai and invited Chen Xuanli and several other major generals to come in for an autopsy. With the death of Yang Guifei, the coup d'état came to an end, and Chen Xuanli explained to the emperor that Yang Guozhong had done wrong, which caused dissatisfaction among the soldiers, so he had to kill Yang Guozhong and Yang Guifei, and then kowtowed to the emperor to apologize, and tang Xuanzong had to accept this fact.