What was Yang Yuhuan like in history?

Yang Yuhuan (A.D. 7 19-756): A court musician and dancer in the Tang Dynasty, whose musical talent is really rare among the queens of past dynasties. His ancestral home is Yongle, Zhou Pu (now Yongji, Shaanxi). In June of the seventh year of Kaiyuan 1 Born in Shu County (now Chengdu, Sichuan), he was born in a famous family. His great grandfather, Wang Yang, was a minister of the Sui Dynasty and was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty. His father Yang Xuanyan is a manager in Shu, and his uncle Yang Xuanxuan is from Henan. Yang Yuhuan spent his childhood in Sichuan. Yang Yuhuan's natural beauty and superior educational environment make her have a certain cultural accomplishment, graceful personality, proficient in temperament, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing the pipa. In July of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend. Li Mao, Shouwang, the younger brother of Princess Xianyang, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. At the request of Wu Huifei, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty named her Shouwang. After marriage, the two are extremely sweet. On the seventh day of December in the 25th year of Kaiyuan, Wu Huifei, the favorite of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, died of illness, and Xuanzong was unhappy. Under the recommendation of Gao Lishi, a trusted eunuch, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty turned his attention to Yang Yuhuan, a daughter-in-law similar to Wu Huifei. In October of the 28th year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan, who had been married to Li Mao for five years, left Shouwangfu and went to Lishan. At this time, she was only 22 years old, and Xuanzong was 56 years old. Xuanzong shilled her to become a monk in recognition of her mother, Dou Taihou, and gave her the name of "too true". In the fourth year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made Wei's daughter a princess, and then she became a imperial concubine. Since Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty abolished the king and queen, there has been no queen, so Yang Guifei is equivalent to the queen. Since entering the palace, Yang Yuhuan has followed the feudal imperial court system, but he has not asked about state affairs or intervened in power struggles. With her charming, docile and extraordinary musical talent, she was favored by Xuanzong in all aspects. Although she was angered by Xuanzong because of jealousy and was sent out of the palace twice, it was still difficult for Xuanzong to give up her. It was not until the Anshi Rebellion that Emperor Xuanzong fled to the west with Yang Guifei. When Ma Ji was remonstrated by soldiers, Yang Guifei was forced to death at the age of 38. Yang Yuhuan is a famous beauty in history, famous for her plump figure, delicate skin and gentle temperament. She is the wife of Li Mao, the son of Li Longji. At the age of 26, she fell in love with her 6 1 year-old father-in-law at first sight. At this point, she is the mother of two children. At that time, Li Longji had just died in Wu Huifei, and he ruined the harem. None of the six maids can interest him. During the emotional famine, he suddenly saw a rich and exquisite daughter-in-law. His old heart was much younger in an instant, and his youth lost his reason and dignity. He even took Yang Yuhuan away from his son's arms and slept with him, regardless of human relations. Yang Yuhuan is not a bad woman. She is honest and kind, has no interest in politics, and has nothing to blame. However, Li Longji loves her so much that she can't live without her for a moment. She fell into a gentle trap, "But the night in spring is short, and the sun rises too fast. Since then, the emperor has given up his early hearing", forgotten her responsibilities to her family and country, and became more and more indifferent to government affairs. Finally, instead of going to court, she entrusted the court affairs to the traitor Li. Li took the opportunity to pull gangs and play politics, pushing the courtiers with humanity out of the central government, and the political affairs changed from bright to dark. Li Longji loved Yang Yuhuan so much that she longed for Yang Yuhuan's heart as well as her body. Perhaps because the age gap is too big, Li Longji feels a little inferior. Since ancient times, Chang 'e has loved teenagers. Is Yang Yuhuan more important than his own son in his heart? His conclusion is usually negative. In order to cover up his shortcomings, he tried his best to "bribe" Yang Yuhuan's heart materially, so that she could feel her husband's greatness while being dazzled by the light. Although Yuhuan doesn't love vanity, she has taken great pains to create a living atmosphere for her. Thousands of artisans who weave cotton embroidery and hundreds of jewelers who carve and melt make beautiful clothes and treasures for her day and night, and spend huge sums of money to buy precious powders and perfumes from abroad. Yang Yuhuan grew up in a place rich in litchi in Sichuan. She loved this kind of fruit since she was a child, but because of the cold climate in Chang 'an, the capital, litchi, a fruit that can only grow in the tropics, is not produced. This kind of fruit is only fresh and chews wax after eating for a few days, while litchi produced in the tropics usually takes more than ten days to be transported to Chang 'an. On one occasion, Yang Yuhuan and the emperor chatted about an interesting childhood story, and inadvertently mentioned the regret of not being able to eat fresh litchi. The speaker was careless, but the audience was very interested. Li Longji, who tried to please Yang Yuhuan, found the opportunity. He ordered the post station to transport the litchi from Qingtian, Fujian Province, which is rich in fine litchi, to Chang 'an for the imperial concubine to enjoy, just like treating national affairs. The action of transporting litchi itself is a thrilling focus plane: the post horse runs at a speed of four feet from the ground, and the bell travels one kilometer away. When the next post station heard the bell, the post men who stood by day and night immediately mounted their horses and galloped. When the rear horse catches up with the front horse, and the two horses are neck and neck, the horse passes litchi immediately without stopping, and the post horse often falls dead on the side of the road because it runs too hard. This is a great irony. Li Longji used it to transport litchi for a woman to enjoy, which should be an urgent military document. A poem by Du Mei, "There are piles of embroidery workers outside Chang 'an, and the top of the mountain blooms thousands of times. When riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knew it was litchi. "This is an interesting story with a bitter taste. Reminiscent of Li Longji's early heroic behavior, this is a completely different person. A generation of heroes have fallen to this point, all because of the beauty. If Li Longji just piled up gold in Yang Yuhuan, it wouldn't be a disaster. The last mistake he should make is to promote the title and title to his relatives, not only to help his beautiful sisters, but also to give them great power and to reuse her cousin Yang. This rogue from a rogue background knows nothing but eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and gossip. Li Longji found his outstanding "talent" at the gambling table. Li Longji stayed in the women's group all day and had no serious entertainment to kill time. Gambling is the most played game. Because money is too easy to come by and the stakes are high, it has become a task that requires brains to calculate gambling accounts. Yang grew up in brothels and casinos, and he is quite proficient in this way. He often stood by and counted gambling accounts for the emperor and his cousin who were having fun. Li Longji found his gambling accounts fast and accurate, and thought he was very wise. If he didn't use his wisdom to govern the country, it would be a waste of talents, so he was promoted to be a big official, and he didn't realize that people who count gambling accounts must often go to casinos. Gamblers are irresponsible, and giving the country to irresponsible people is equivalent to giving the baby to the tiger for support, either eating the baby or playing with the baby. Li Longji's move to hand over power to Yang Yuhuan's relatives is superfluous. Yuhuan doesn't understand politics and has no political enthusiasm. Being an official by relatives is not necessarily a great favor in her mind, so she won't go to war. It can be seen that Li Longji doesn't know the woman he loves deeply. This will not win her heart, but will bring great harm to the country. Once the country suffers, so does the woman he loves. In 75 1 year, the traitor Li died. Let Yang succeed as prime minister, personally opened Pandora's box, and pushed the country step by step into the abyss of disaster. Yang's ability and virtue are not qualified to be a prime minister, but his nepotism makes him qualified. As a prime minister, he only has more than forty part-time jobs. Apart from corruption, bribery, gambling and playing with women, he doesn't know what his responsibility to the country is. A huge corruption network was quickly established under his rule, and several conscientious courtiers who escaped from Li were further squeezed out of the government and became a world of cruel officials and gamblers. Yang appointed Xian Yuzhong, a cool official, as the commander of Jiannan Military Region, and Xian Yuzhong appointed Zhang Qiantuo, a cool official and a big goat, as the commander of Yunnan. Yunnan County is more than 0/00 kilometers away from Dahecheng, the capital of Nanzhao, and it is the only way for Nanzhao to pay tribute to China. After the envoy enters the country, according to Nanzhao etiquette, the couple should meet the local leaders. Unexpectedly, Zhang Qiantuo, who was worse than animals, raped the envoy's wife. This is an unbearable humiliation for a normal man. The response of Nanzhao Kingdom was swift and fierce. Ge Luofeng, the second king, couldn't bear it, and sent troops to surprise Yunnan County. Zhang Qiantuo's happy days are finally over. He was hacked to death by angry soldiers, and his body was chopped into meat paste and fed to dogs. Xianyu Zhongtong mobilized 80,000 troops to avenge his beloved subordinates and similar people. Ge Luofeng apologized and expressed his willingness to withdraw from the occupied land. He warned: "If China pushes me too hard, I will surrender to the Tubo Kingdom. At that time, I'm afraid the whole Yunnan area will not be owned by China. "Tubo is a powerful country in the southwest, and it is the real enemy of the Tang Empire on the battlefield. If you form an alliance with Nanzhao, you will gain a strategic advantage over the Tang Empire. Zhong Tong, a vaguely violent figure, is fresh and doesn't think of the country. He continued to invade, thinking that 80,000 troops could crush Nanzhao, a small country in Zall, like ants, but no matter how powerful the army was in his hands, it was just a group of ragtag people with no fighting capacity, a plate of spices delivered to the door. His army was completely annihilated, and the whole territory of Yunnan fell. Like Zhong Tong, Yang Hexian mobilized troops to launch a series of retaliatory attacks on Nanzhao Kingdom, and the commander-in-chief was all new in Zhong Tong, because Yang could not appoint an excellent commander-in-chief. Such an army is impossible to win. They are defeated in the mountains every day, killing 200 thousand people before and after. The death of the elite troops assembled by China created conditions for the later "An Shi Rebellion". Cigarette sales in the southwest have not dried up, and Yang has ignited a bigger war in the north. An Lushan, commander of Fanyang Military Area, is a rugged and capable general who is loyal to the monarch. He really looked down on Yang, a fair-weather prime minister, and didn't keep due respect for him, not to mention paying huge sums of money like other military commanders. Yang couldn't stand this contempt and was determined to hit him, so he fabricated a magic weapon for rebellion and told it again and again, but he didn't believe it again and again. But in this case, there is no guarantee that Li Longji won't believe it next time. In 755, Yang adopted the method of "forcing him to rebel", sent police to surround An Lushan's residence in Chang 'an, and arrested all his guests and put them to death. An Lushan can't have no violent reaction. He knew it was useless to complain to the emperor, and all letters could not go beyond the prime minister. His only way is to defect and seek justice for himself by force. Determined to rebel, he led170,000-strong Korean-Fan mixed army south, claiming to include Yang. Yang was very excited, because things finally proved that he knew everything, and it was natural to arrest An Lushan. However, An Lushan Corps had a strong fighting capacity, and all the troops that the imperial court could use to fight died in Yunnan, so local troops could not resist An Lushan's fighters at all. As a result, An Lushan Corps was on a roll all the way, reaching 700 kilometers, crossing the Yellow River and capturing Luoyang, the eastern capital. Attack the west next year, capture Tongguan and open the door of Chang 'an. With Yang's sister, she fled from Chang 'an in panic and fled all the way to the ant station 60 kilometers away from Chang 'an. Just as Yang was secretly glad of his cleverness, his unlucky day came. Angry guards surrounded the palace, shot Yang at will, and slaughtered his whole family, including his children and two beautiful sisters with great power. Yang Guozhong died and stared at many arrow shafts inserted in his chest, wondering why his wisdom "fruit" was such a creature. In order to prevent revenge, the guards asked the emperor to execute Yang Yuhuan, but Li Longji had to hang her. The four poems in Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, "Flower hairpin fell to the ground, nobody picked it up, emerald crown, golden que, jade coquettish head, and the emperor couldn't save her, so he had to hide his face and walk, and then turned to look, and the land of blood and tears" truly reproduced the tragic scene at that time. Now let's imagine that if we love her lightly, or if we love her wisely, and don't let her cousin Yang be a senior official, all disasters will not happen, we will love her all our lives and die, and her family will not perish. Li Longji's carelessness and excessive love not only hurt his country, but also hurt the woman he loved. But then again, if Yang Yuhuan was not so gentle and beautiful, Li Longji wouldn't be so deep into the gentle countryside. Whose fault is it, or the beauty of women? The consequences of the Anshi Rebellion were disastrous. The population of the war zone has decreased by nine tenths. The subjects on both sides of the Yellow River dig bark and roots to satisfy their hunger and use paper clothes to keep out the cold. The bustling Luoyang has become a scorched earth. After this great change, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty ended and it entered an irreversible decline. China's hope of becoming a world empire was dashed. Yang Yuhuan not only changed the course of China history, but also changed the course of world history. References:

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