In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out, and the rebels broke through all the way, first attacking Luoyang and then breaking through Tongguan, seeing that Chang'an was no longer in danger, Tang Xuanzong led Yang Guifei's sisters and a number of royal relatives, ministers, and trusted eunuchs to escape from Chang'an, and the emperor fled to Shudi. On July 15, 756, the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756), the "Ma Songyi Mutiny" broke out, not only the prime minister Yang Guozhong and others were killed, but Yang Guifei was also forced to die, so was the main purpose of the "Ma Songyi Mutiny" to force Yang Guifei to die?
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Let's first review the outbreak of the "Ma Songyi" mutiny.
In the ninth day of November in the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), An Lushan, who was also the envoy of Fanyang, Pinglu, and Hedong, launched a rebellion in Fanyang under the pretext of "worrying about the danger of the country" and following secret edicts to attack Yang Guozhong. The rebels broke through all the way, directly attacking the capital Chang'an, and in June of the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756), the rebels broke through tongguan, and the chang'an gate was wide open, and there was no danger to defend.
On June 13, 756, in the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756), Tang Xuanzong saw that Chang'an was in danger, and quickly took Yang Guifei's sisters, crown princesses, imperial concubines, princesses, imperial grandsons, Yang Guozhong, Wei Jiansu, Wei Fangjin, Chen Xuanli, and his close eunuchs and palace people from Yanqiu Gate, and even the imperial concubines, princesses, and imperial grandchildren outside the palace abandoned them, and the emperor fled Chang'an in a hurry, all the way to Shudi.
On June 14, Tang Xuanzong and his party fled to Ma Songyi, and the generals of the Forbidden Army who accompanied them were hungry and tired, and their hearts were resentful and angry, and the Mutiny of the Forbidden Army was imminent. Seeing this situation, the Longwu general Chen Xuanli knew that if he could not find a vent for the anger of the generals, it would inevitably cause great chaos, so he asked the eunuch Li Fuguo to find the crown prince Li Heng to discuss countermeasures.
At this time, more than twenty Tibetan emissaries stopped Yang Guozhong's horse and complained to him that they could not find anything to eat, and before Yang Guozhong could reply, some generals of the forbidden army shouted, "Yang Guozhong and hu people are plotting against!" Immediately, a soldier shot Yang Guozhong in a saddle on a horse, and Yang Guozhong fled to the west gate of Ma Songyi, only to be chased and killed by the soldiers, and his body was dismembered, and his head was hung on a spear and inserted outside the West Gate for public display.
Later, the mutinous forbidden generals killed Yang Guozhong's son Hubu Shilang Yang Xuan, along with Lady Han and Lady Qin, and ran out to accuse the forbidden army generals of being killed by the soldiers, and Wei Fangjin, the imperial master of the forbidden army, was also killed by the soldiers, and Wei Jiansu, who was a soldier and Tongping Zhangshi, was injured.
Tang Xuanzong saw the chaos outside, so he asked what happened, the left and right attendants replied that Yang Guozhong's rebellion had been killed, Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to agree, and walked out of the station to comfort the soldiers, but the soldiers did not appreciate it at all, Tang Xuanzong asked Gao Lishi to inquire about the generals' demands, and the longwu general Chen Xuanli expressed his hope that the emperor would execute Yang Guifei.
Although Tang Xuanzong was reluctant in his heart, due to the fierce feelings of the forbidden army generals, it would be difficult to calm the anger of the forbidden army generals if Yang Guifei was not given death, and Jing Zhaosilu joined the army Wei Chen, Gao Lishi and others also came forward to persuade him. In desperation, Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to order Yang Guifei to be killed, and carried the body to the court of the station, summoning Chen Xuanli and others to the station for inspection. Seeing that Yang Guifei was dead, Chen Xuanli and the others led the forbidden army generals to disperse.
Regarding this mutiny, it is still difficult to determine who the mastermind is, some people say that it is Chen Xuanli, the general of Longwu, and some people say that it is Li Heng, the crown prince, but no matter who the mastermind is, their target is not Yang Guifei, but Yang Guozhong, the prime minister.
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As we all know, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was able to ascend to the throne mainly because of the success of the Tang Long coup and the Xiantian coup, in which the TangLong coup d'état eliminated the Wei clique and put Tang Ruizong Li Dan on the throne; the Xiantian coup d'état eliminated the Taiping Princess clique and successfully seized the power of the dynasty. The reason why Li Longji was able to achieve the success of these two coups was because of his close ties with the Northern Gate Forbidden Army.
Because of the support of the forbidden army generals to Tang Xuanzong, after Li Longji ascended the throne, these forbidden army generals were vigorously promoted, but all of this promotion was concentrated in the Northern Gate Forbidden Army system. The main reason why Tang Xuanzong Li Longji did this was to achieve his control over the forbidden army through these people, and to prevent the forbidden army generals from colluding with the foreign court forces.
However, in the last years of Tianbao, Tang Xuanzong's control over the Forbidden Army began to decline rapidly, and one of the important reasons was the death of these Forbidden Army generals. In the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754) and the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), as many as six forbidden generals died, including the left Longwu generals Liu Xuanbao, Zhang Jingang, and the right Longwu generals He De, Zhang Dengshan, Zhang Ansheng, and Li Xuande, resulting in chen Xuanli alone, the senior generals of the Longwu Army who had followed Li Longji for forty years as a tang yuan gong.
In addition, due to the decline in treatment, the dissatisfaction of the forbidden army generals with Yang Guozhong, the prime minister, has long been accumulating. Gao Shi wrote in "The Situation of The Defeat and Fall of Chen Tongguan", "The Bo army and the Qin Long warriors, in the middle of summer in May and June, in the middle of the red sun, eating rice in the warehouse, and there is still not enough, want to fight bravely, can you get it? That is to say, even the Geshuhan army stationed at Tongguan in the front line of counterinsurgency and backed by Yongfengcang could not be fed, let alone the forbidden army generals who were far behind, and their treatment was definitely plummeting.
You know, because they bear the responsibility of guarding the safety of the imperial palace and the emperor, the military system of successive dynasties has the highest treatment of the forbidden army, and these forbidden army soldiers who have generous welfare in ordinary days have now suddenly declined in welfare, how can they not complain? In the "Yuangui of the Book of The Imperial Household", there is "Yang Guozhong monopolizing the government, and Lushan, in the name of Guo Zhong, said that Guo Zhong and Lady Yu Guo were guilty, and the generals of the Six Armies were willing to cut their teeth and eliminate their party to solve the country's difficulties." The loyalty of the country was greatly feared, and the tribes cried, and the entry and appeal to the noble concubines...", it can be seen that when the rebels stormed Tongguan, the relationship between the two sides was already extremely tense.
If placed in the Taiping Dynasty, the forbidden army generals' dissatisfaction with this kind of dissatisfaction is probably limited to complaining on weekdays, but now that they are born in a chaotic world, these forbidden army generals whose family assets are in the capital will not only flee to Shudi with Tang Xuanzong and others, I am afraid that in this lifetime, they will never have the opportunity to return to the capital and return to their families, plus they will be starving along the way, and their anger will naturally erupt in full force. In this way, in order to quell the mutiny of the army, the murder of Yang Guozhong naturally became the best outlet.
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In the twenty-fifth year of the new century (737), the former crown prince Li Ying was deposed and killed, because the birth mother of Li Mao, the king of Shou at that time, was extremely favored, so Li Linfu, who was then the chancellor, strongly recommended Li Mao as the new crown prince, but it was Li Heng who was later made crown prince, and Li Linfu and the crown prince Li Heng formed a grudge. Since he was made crown prince, Li Linfu and later Yang Guozhong have almost never stopped their impact on the crown prince Li Heng.
Among the successive shocks, especially in the fifth year of Tianbao (746), the most serious was the Longyou Jiedushi, who was friendly with the crown prince Li Heng, and finally punished Wei Jian and Emperor Fu Weiming only for his dealings with the crown prince Li Heng and Yushi Zhongzhong Wei Jian (Li Heng's original brother with Wei Concubine), and as a result, Li Linfu reported Li Linfu to Li Longji for "wanting to establish a prince together", and Li Longji, in order to protect the crown prince Li Heng, finally only punished Wei Jian and Emperor Fu Weiming.
Li Long basically did not want to implicate the prince, who knew that after Wei Jian was degraded, his younger brothers Wei Lan and Wei Zhi went up to him to complain about his grievances, and even brought the crown prince Li Heng to testify, which caused Li Longji to be angry, and the crown prince Li Heng was even more terrified, and even had to divorce Wei Fei on the grounds of "discord between love and righteousness". Although he was unable to pull the crown prince Li Heng into the water, Li Linfu made a big fuss in Wei Jian's case, and it was not until Li Linfu's death that it ended.
At the end of that year, Du Youlin, the father of Li Heng's Du Liangdi, was again denounced by his son-in-law Liu Ji, saying that he had "falsely claimed to be a conspiracy, cross-constructed the Eastern Palace, and denounced the public opinion." The case was originally framed by the discord between the son-in-law and his father-in-law, but he was held back by Li Linfu, and even instructed Liu Ji to make false accusations, deliberately expanding the case, and threatening to take advantage of the opportunity to depose the crown prince. As a result, Du Youlin and Liu Ji were eventually killed by the staff, and the crown prince Li Heng also divorced Du Liangdi.
At the time of Li Linfu's feud with the crown prince Li Heng, Yang Guozhong was a loyal henchman of Li Linfu and actively participated in the activities of framing the crown prince Li Heng. After Li Linfu's death, Yang Guozhong became prime minister, but Yang Guozhong, while liquidating Li Linfu's henchmen, still regarded the crown prince Li Heng as a sworn enemy for his own political interests.
If on a normal day, the crown prince Li Heng may not dare to do anything with Yang Guozhong, but now it is different to flee in war. It should be known that at that time, among the troops fleeing from Tang Xuanzong, there were two thousand men and horses in the rear team of Li Heng, the crown prince of the palace alone, including the Feilong Forbidden Army, while the sons of Prince Li Heng of Guangping and Li Qi, the king of Jianning, served as "pawn soldiers" in the fleeing team.
That is to say, in the fleeing team, the army responsible for protecting the emperor's safety, except for the forbidden army of the Longwu general Chen Xuanli, most of the rest of the army was in the hands of the crown prince Li Hengyi. In this way, the crown prince Li Heng naturally had the opportunity to launch a mutiny and seize the opportunity to exterminate Yang Guozhong.
As mentioned above, whether the mastermind of the "Ma Songyi Mutiny" was Chen Xuanli or Li Heng, its purpose was to exterminate Yang Guozhong, the prime minister, so that he could both calm the anger of the generals and take advantage of the opportunity to eliminate a major political enemy. Although Chen Xuanli and the crown prince Li Heng had different goals, the final result was the same destination, but once Yang Guozhong was killed by means of an army mutiny, naturally yang Guifei could not continue to allow Yang Guifei to stay with Tang Xuanzong, so once the mutiny broke out, Yang Guifei was already bound to die.