Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji's life after killing Yang Guifei was still very miserable, but even so, he still killed Yang Guifei. Why? He wanted to live, and if he didn't kill Yang Guifei, he would have to die.
The culprit of all this was Yang Guifei's brother Yang Guozhong, who was originally a rogue named Yang Zhao, who was attached to the Shu dynasty magnate Xian Yu Zhongtong and was given the post of lieutenant of Fufeng County. Jiannan Jiedu made Zhang Qiu and Qiong fall out with the chancellor Li Linfu, and by this time Yang Guifei was already favored, so Zhang Qiu and Qiong sent Xian Yu Zhongtong to Chang'an to befriend the Yang family and attack Li Linfu.
However, Xian Yu Zhongtong recommended Yang Zhao, because Yang Zhao was Yang Guifei's brother, and Zhang Qiu and Qiong Qiong saw that Yang Zhao was tall, so he recruited him as a push official and asked him to bring millions of Shudi goods to Chang'an to pay tribute.
After Yang Zhao arrived in Chang'an, he immediately gave these treasures to Yang Guifei's sisters, and said that they were sent by Zhang Qiu and Qiong, so Yang Guifei's sisters often said good things about Zhang Qiu and Yang Zhao in front of Li Longji, and further introduced Yang Zhao to Li Longji, and Yang Zhao was named Jin Wu Bing Cao to join the army, so he could enter the palace with the attendants.
Yang Zhao would not only marry Yang Guifei's sisters but also be very good at meeting the powerful people in the dynasty, so Yang Zhao's official Yun Hengtong soon served as the inspector of imperial history, and within a year he became a major courtier with 15 positions.
Because of Yang Guifei, he became more and more favored by Tang Xuanzong, and in 748 Xuanzong gave Yang Zhao a purple gold fish bag and concurrently served as the secretary of the Taifu, and two years later, in October 750, Yang Zhao asked Li Longji to change his name because the word "golden knife" was on the figure to show his loyalty to the emperor, because the word "Zhao" was taken apart as a golden knife. So Li Longji gave him the name "Guozhong" (国忠). Since then, Yang Zhao has become Yang Guozhong.
At this time, Yang Guozhong had begun to gradually expose his true face of coveting enjoyment, his life was luxurious and degenerate, and he also tried every means to cater to the preferences of Yang Guifei's sisters, every year there were millions of fat powder money for the Yang family sisters' filial piety, every time they accompanied Tang Xuanzong on a trip, the Yang sisters had to first gather at Yang Guozhong's house and compete to decorate their vehicles with gold and silver pearls and jade, and Yang Guozhong even wanted to make the Jiannan Festival, and play out in front of the queue to show off their might.
The corruption that accompanies extravagance and degeneration is inevitably political corruption, and the biggest corruption is the corruption of the officials, and Yang Guozhong seriously deepened the corruption of the Tang Dynasty officials. The official appointment system, which should have been written three times and sung three times, was completely destroyed by Yang Guozhong, who first asked the clerks to draw up the list of officials, and then called the responsible persons of the relevant departments to his home, and read the list once, and the official appointment procedure that could only be completed from spring to summer was completed in one day, and the rule of officials became more and more corrupt.
Yang Guozhong's rapid promotion caused dissatisfaction among one person, this person is An Lushan, he is a thrifty envoy with a lot of experience, he is more dissatisfied with this Yang Guozhong who relies on nepotism rocket promotion, and Yang Guozhong is not at ease with An Lushan.
Yang Guozhong reported to Li Longji that An Lushan was going to rebel, and proposed to summon An Lushan to try him, Li Long based on the fact that he was summoning the big fat man An Lushan. Li Longji pointed to An Lushan's belly and asked, "What is this Hu belly big Nair?" "Meaning how come you, the Bearded Man," have such a big belly?" An Lushan said quietly, "Without him, only the heart and ears." This means that nothing else is a sincere heart. How well said!
On November 19, 755, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the banner was "Jie Guozhong, Qing Jun's Side". Li Longji quickly organized resistance, and Yang Guozhong, who was the chancellor and the head of the army, blindly commanded Luoyang, and coupled with Li Longji's obedience to the eunuch's one-sided words, he killed the generals Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi, and enabled Ge Shuhan, who was recuperating at home.
However, Yang Guozhong suspected that Ge Shuhan would take advantage of this opportunity to be unfavorable to himself, so he made a rumor to Li Longji, who ordered Ge Shuhan to attack, but the result was a big defeat, losing Chang'an, and Li Longji fled with his relatives and relatives of the imperial state, because the plan was not well planned. At Ma Songpo, soldiers, led by the Longwu general Chen Xuanli, killed Yang Guozhong's family, and Li Longji was forced to kill Yang Guifei.
Soon Tang Suzong succeeded to the throne, Li Longji became the Emperor Taishang, originally life was still OK, but he had nothing to do to give a banquet to the general Guo Yingyi, who was in charge of the palace guard, which made Tang Suzong very nervous, and the first bribe Li Shimin to buy was the Xuanwu Gate guard Generals Chang He and Jing Junhong, so he immediately dismissed Guo Yingyi from his post.
Subsequently, he used force to force Li Longji to move to the Ganlu Hall, and the people around him, Gao Lishi, Chen Xuanli and others, were released and retired. Tang Suzong selected 100 people to serve Li Longji, and his two daughters were also recruited to serve him, and Li Longji did not take a step out of the Ganlu Hall until his death, and his later life was very miserable.