The harem of the Tang Dynasty was more chaotic, with Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi marrying his father Concubine Wu Zetian, and then Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji marrying his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan. These two people set off a huge storm in the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian replaced Li Tang to establish Wu Zhou, Yang Yuhuan became a scapegoat for the An Shi rebellion, today we will talk about Yang Guifei.
Yang Yuhuan was born in the seventh year of the new century (719), when she was a teenager, her father Yang Xuanyan (yǎn) died in prison, and she was fostered in the family of her third uncle Yang Xuanjue. But it is gratifying that her uncle treats her like a biological child, so that she has received a good education, she is not only elegant and docile, but also proficient in music, good at singing and dancing, and playing a good lute.
One year, Yang Guifei was invited to attend the wedding of Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, at which she fell in love with Li Mao, the King of Shou, and soon entered the palace of marriage. In the twenty-fourth year of the new century, that is, in 736 AD, Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubine Wu Huifei died of illness, and Xuanzong was depressed and did not think about tea and dinner. Everyone couldn't bear Xuanzong like this, and they all tried their best to make Xuanzong happy. Someone told Xuanzong that his son King Shou's concubine Yang Shi was born beautiful and beautiful and suitable for entering the palace, and Xuanzong was moved to hear this, so he summoned his daughter-in-law into the palace. After Xuanzong saw it, he felt that the Yang clan was indeed different from ordinary people, and he was greatly impressed. Later, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, in the name of his mother's blessing, made Yang Yuhuan a Taoist monk with the title of "Taizhen", and as compensation, Emperor Xuanzong remarried Wei Zhaoxun's daughter to his son.
Yin Tao version of Yang Guifei
After Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, she was crowned as a noble concubine within a few years, although she was called a noble concubine, but because Xuanzong deposed Empress Wang, she was no longer established, in fact, she was equivalent to an empress, and the status of her family was greatly improved with the improvement of her status, and her dead father Yang Xuanyan was posthumously awarded the title of Taiwei and Duke of Qi. Her adoptive father, her third uncle Yang Xuanjue, was promoted to Guangluqing (the chief of the catering affairs), her clan brother Yang Huan (xiān) was appointed hongqing (the chief of honor for receiving guests), Yang Kun was made a servant of the people (the official in charge of picketing), and Yang Kai also married Princess Taihua, Who was Wu Huifei's favorite. Even her distant relative Yang Guozhong held several positions and traversed the imperial court.
Her three sisters were all natural beauties, Xuanzong was called aunt, the eldest sister was named Lady of Korea, the third sister was named Lady of Guó, and the eighth sister was named Lady of Qin, and their prestige and grace in entering and leaving the imperial court shocked people all over the world. The mothers and wives of those imperial court officials, as well as Princess Zhiying (the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong) and others who entered the hajj, were humble and did not dare to sit down. Officials at all levels in the central provinces and localities directly solved things with them, which was better than the emperor's holy will, and for a time, gift-givers from all over the country gathered at their doorsteps day and night, and there was no difference between popularity and the vegetable market. Princess Xuanzong Jianping and Xincheng, because of their conflicts with the Yang family, even the things that the imperial court rewarded were also chased back, and the princess's horse Du guming also lost her official position.
Every time Yang Guifei traveled, the team was huge, and the carriage she sat in was personally driven by Colliers. There were about a thousand workers who woven, embroidered, metallurgized, and carved for Yang Guifei, and these were all available for her to use at any time. The various strange clothes of the noble concubines and all kinds of rare and rare playthings are dazzling and changeable. Officials everywhere knew that the noble concubine was favored and scavenge for strange treasures from all over the world to offer to her, and this scene shocked the people at that time. Among them, the Lingnan Festival made Zhang Jiuzhang and Guangling Changshi Wang Yi the most treasures, so the official rank of Zhang Jiuzhang was promoted to silver and green rank, and Wang Yi was a household attendant, so the world's treasure offering was popular throughout the country.
Noble concubines love to eat lychees, and want to eat fresh, so Xuanzong specially let the flying horse teleport, travel thousands of miles from Sichuan to Chang'an, poor is that many poor officials, stagecoaches just to satisfy the guifei's mouth and died on the road, this is simply ridiculous, no wonder the late Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu issued in "Over Huaqing Palace" "Chang'an look back embroidered in piles, the mountain top thousands of doors open." A ride on the red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee to come" feeling.
Once, Yang Guifei was reprimanded to return to her mother's house early in the morning because of her pampering and arrogance. At lunchtime, Xuanzong did not have any appetite and lost his temper to the attendants around him. Gao Lishi wanted to test Xuanzong's meaning, so he sent the draperies, utensils, food, wine and other items used during the meal to Yang Guifei's home, and Xuanzong immediately gave Yang Guifei delicious food. Gao Lishi understood Xuanzong's meaning, and when the sun went down, he asked Xuanzong to recall Yang Guifei and open the gate of Anxingfang to let Yang Guifei enter the palace. When Yang Guifei saw Xuanzong, she lay on the ground and asked Xuanzong to forgive herself, and when Xuanzong saw the situation, her heart was suddenly much happier, and she comforted Yang Guifei for a long time. The next day, several of Yang Guifei's sisters presented Xuanzong with various delicacies, and Xuanzong drank and enjoyed himself, and also rewarded those present with a large amount of gold and silver treasures. Since this incident, Yang Guifei has received even more grace, and the annual reward for Fat Powder to Yang Guifei's sister and others alone is as high as one million. The clan brother Yang Huan was listed at the door as a member of the pillar state (a combination of weapons, ge and spear) to show his eminence, and with Yang Kun, Yang Guozhong, several sisters of the noble concubines and other five families to build the house together in imitation of the shape of the court, the cost of the family was tens of millions of taels (mín, ancient unit of measurement, used for strings of copper coins, each string of a thousand words). We must praise each other with luxury and luxury, and if we see that other people's houses are better than theirs, they will be demolished and rebuilt, and civil engineering will be carried out day and night.
In the ninth year of Tianbao (750 AD), Yang Guifei was once again sent back to her mother's house, Yang Guozhong and the cool official Ji Wen discussed what to do about this matter, after the discussion, Ji Wen went to see Xuanzong, saying: "A woman who disobeys her will should be executed, but even death will let her die in the palace, and she cannot be insulted outside." Emperor Xuanzong was very sad after hearing this, and did not even want to eat the meal, so he ordered the eunuch Zhang Taoguang to give the imperial meal to the noble concubine. The noble concubine asked Zhang Taoguang to thank her for her and ask for her sins, saying: "Concubines are against the holy will, and the sins deserve to die, but the concubines can have today, except for the skin of the body, they are all given by the emperor, and if the concubines die today, there is no way to repay the emperor's favor." After saying this, he immediately cut off a bunch of his own hair with a knife and gave it to Xuanzong, saying, "Leave this behind with the emperor." Emperor Xuanzong was horrified when he saw his hair, and immediately summoned the noble concubine into the palace and reconciled as before. Immediately after that, he also went to the homes of Lady Qin Guo and Yang Guozhong, and gave the two families a lot of things.
After that, Yang Guozhong hung up the position of Jiannan Jiedushi, every October, Xuanzong had to go to Huaqing Palace, the convoy of the five Yang families had to go together, Yang Guozhong opened the way with the banner of the Jiannan Jiedushi, one team after another, one team and one color, sometimes the teams of the five families gathered together, as brilliant as thousands of blooming flowers, and the whole valley looked like a whole exquisite and bright silk weave. Before people arrive, they can smell all kinds of fragrances from afar, and they can also hear the laughter and joy of playing, and when the team passes, the road is full of lost gold and silver jewelry, jewelry and embroidered shoes, and the degree of luxury and waste is simply jaw-dropping.
When Yang Guozhong was assisting the government, his son Yang Xun married Princess Wanchun, and Yang Xuan married the lord of Yanhe County; Yang Guozhong's younger brother Yang Jian married the lord of Chengrong County. Emperor Xuanzong also decreed that Yang Xuanyan should establish a family temple, and Xuanzong himself wrote the inscription for it. Yang Hua and Lady Qin Guo all died early, so Lady Han, Lady Yu Guo and Yang Guozhong enjoyed the most glory and wealth. And the things that Lady Yu Guo usually had an affair with Yang Guozhong were known to many people, but they didn't think so, and they didn't know any shame. Every time Yang Guozhong entered Xuanzong, the carriage he was riding in walked in the middle of the road, there were more than a hundred people in his entourage alone, the lit candles made black as day, and the road was full of people with heavy makeup and bright clothes, and they were also covered, and the people at that time were called "male foxes", which was the meaning of lustful incest.
After Xuanzong Tianbao's death, Xuanzong was lazy in managing the government, focusing on pleasure, and doubly favoring Yang Guifei and her family. After that, the state administration was successively handed over to Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, so that the villains were in charge, the state affairs were becoming more and more wrong, and the extravagance and corruption of the entire imperial court were very serious. At first, An Lushan made a lot of contributions in the development of the frontier, and Emperor Xuanzong loved him very much, and ordered An Lushan to worship Guifei's sisters as brothers, and An Lushan also worshipped Yang Guifei as his mother. Every time An Lushan came to the court, it was a gift and a feast, in short, it was to please the noble concubines, in order to protect themselves and promote themselves. The chancellor Yang Guozhong was very jealous of An Lushan's favor, and the two fought each other viciously over you and me, and Tang Xuanzong did not pay any attention to this. An Lushan's ability was ill-intentioned, and with 150,000 heavy troops in hand, he launched the An Shi Rebellion in the name of killing Yang Guozhong.
In June of the following year, Tongguan was lost, and Chang'an was about to be captured. In the early morning of June 13, When Emperor Xuanzong took Yang Guifei, Yang Guozhong, and others to prepare to flee to Chengdu, when they fled to Ma Songpo, the soldiers were hungry and did not move forward, Chen Xuanli and others thought that the world had killed Yang Guozhong first, and after Yang Guozhong's death, the soldiers still refused to disperse. The Xuan sect's Gao Lishi asked what the reason was, and everyone said, "The root cause of this disaster is still there!" Emperor Xuanzong said that Yang Guozhong deserved it, but Yang Guifei did not have any sin and wanted to forgive her, but the generals all thought that Guifei was a red face that was a disaster for the country, and Xuanzong had no choice but to say goodbye to Yang Guifei, and let people lead the thirty-eight-year-old guifei to the roadside ancestral hall and strangle her, and wrap her body with purple flowers.
After the anshi rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong returned to Chang'an, passing by Ma Songpo, touching the scenery and hurting, sending people to pay tribute and issue an edict to change the burial. Li Yu, a servant of the Ceremonial Department, said: "The Dragon Martial General Chen Xuanli and others killed yang guozhong for causing trouble to the country and the people, and killed them for the people of the world." Now that the situation has been preliminarily decided, I am afraid that if I want to rebury the noble concubine, I am afraid that it will cause everyone to suspect that it is not appropriate after hearing it, so I secretly sent someone to buy a coffin to rebury the noble concubine. When the entourage opened the tomb to collect the soil, they found the sachet that the noble concubine had worn before, and the eunuch presented him to Xuanzong, sad and sad, weeping bitterly, so he asked the painter to paint the appearance of the noble concubine as a painting and hang it in the other hall, and every morning and evening he went to see it, and after each look, he choked up and choked.