Jealousy is human nature. No matter how much etiquette requires women to be "free from jealousy", it can only be wishful thinking on the part of men. The "no jealousy" of the vast majority of women is just because she is timid and unwilling to anger her in-laws and husbands, and the second is also killed by sauce and wants to keep a good reputation (men are not much worse off by sticking to etiquette), or simply she has no interest in her husband at all, and she wants to get a few concubines to send men away from her.

And these three are not in line with Yang Yuhuan, and Tang Xuanzong has been in love for most of his life, this problem has become a habit of nature, and no matter how much it can be changed, it is limited. Therefore, Yang Yuhuan's jealousy will inevitably be staged again and again.

The most talked-about jealousy incident occurred in the seventh month of the fifth year of Tianbao (746 AD), and is said to have been caused by Yang Yuhuan's cousin, Mrs. Qiu Guo. - Then again, it doesn't matter if it's Mrs. Qiuguo, anyway, it happened.

Yang Yuhuan has three elder sisters, the most outstanding of which is Mrs. Qiuguo, who calls herself "the little aunt of the Tang Dynasty". Mrs. Qiu Guo was born beautiful, and she was conceited by this, so Du Fu wrote a poem: "Mrs. Qiu Guo inherited the grace of the lord, and entered the palace gate in Pingming." But he is disgusted with the color of fat powder, and he lightly sweeps the moth eyebrows towards the supreme. Such a beauty, of course Xuanzong wanted to fight her idea, and the jealous Yang Yuhuan had a dispute with Xuanzong because of this. The embarrassed and angry Xuanzong immediately ordered Gao Lishi to send Yang Yuhuan back to his cousin Yang Quan's mansion in the name of "jealousy and resentment".

If it is an ordinary family, it is just that the wife returns to her parents' house after the husband and wife quarrel, but Yang Yuhuan's husband is the emperor, which has become a great event. The entire Yang family was in chaos, and all the people gathered together to cry bitterly, waiting for the disaster to come.

While the Yang family was crying and wiping away tears, Tang Xuanzong was also restless in the palace. After the concubine left the palace, the emperor actually didn't think about eating and drinking because he couldn't see her, and he was angry at every turn. The small mistakes of the servants who are usually innocuous have all become unforgivable at this time, and they have been sent to the board one by one, and some have even been scared to death. Gao Lishi knew the reason for the emperor's abnormal expression, and carefully asked Xuanzong to take back Concubine Yang, and at the same time loaded hundreds of carts of maids' utensils, food, wine and food in the concubine's palace to Yang's mansion. After some tossing, Yang Guifei finally returned to the palace at dawn the next day. Xuanzong was already angry at this time, and when he saw that the concubine was like a living baby, not only did he not hold her accountable for "offending Tianwei", but he made amends in a low voice. It is said that from then on, Xuanzong never dared to cause trouble in the affairs of men and women, "the harem has no luck"!

Since then, Yang Yuhuan has been favored by three thousand, although she is a noble concubine in name, and she only has the system of "half queen", but in fact she enjoys the scale treatment equivalent to that of the queen; In terms of name, Xuanzong also made up for it in another way - calling her a "lady" in the way of a folk couple.

Yang Guifei's most famous allusion is related to the "poet immortal" Li Bai.

It is said that Xuanzong once admired the peony in the Agarwood Pavilion, and called Li Guinian to hit the sandalwood board as a song, and he thought that the music in the pear garden had been familiar, and said: "Appreciate the famous flowers, and use the old music words for the concubines." So he gave a golden note to Li Bai, a scholar of Hanlin, and ordered him to make a new word immediately. When Li Bai woke up from a hangover, he immediately wrote three poems, the first one: "The clouds want to dress and the flowers want to look, and the spring breeze blows Revlon." If it weren't for the jade mountain, it would meet Yaotai under the moon. The second song: "A branch of red dew condenses incense, **Wushan is in vain." By asking who in the Han Palace is like? Poor Feiyan leans on new makeup. The third song: "Famous flowers love the country, and the king looks at it with a smile." Explain that the spring breeze is infinitely hateful, and the agarwood pavilion is leaning on the north of the gan. These three poems were very popular with Xuanzong and the concubine, and Li Bai was very favored for a while. However, he offended Gao Lishi, and Gao Lishi made a statement to Yang Guifei, saying that Li Bai "refers to the concubine with Feiyan in the second poem, which is very cheap." Yang Guifei was convinced, and since then she has turned from joy to hatred for Li Bai, and Xuanzong wanted to give Li Bai an official position three times, but she blocked it, and finally made Li Bai frustrated and wandered the world.

However, judging from other records, comparing Yang Yuhuan with Zhao Feiyan does not seem to be something that can anger Yang Yuhuan. Because the first person to compare them with them is Li Longji. He once pointed to the content of "The Internal Biography of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty" about Zhao Feiyan's "light body and unbearable desire", and laughed at the plump Yang Guifei: "You let the wind blow as much as you want." Therefore, how much Li Bai's demotion has to do with Yang Guifei, the real situation is really up for debate.

With Yang Yuhuan occupying the absolute upper hand in Xuanzong's mind, the Yang family also officially began the powerful career of the Flame Heaven.

In the seventh year of Tianbao, Yang Guifei's cousin Yang Zhao was promoted to the imperial historian and Jing Zhaoyin, and was given the name "Guozhong". In October, the three elder sisters of the concubine were named "Mrs. Korea", "Mrs. Qiuguo", and "Mrs. Qin", and these three ladies received an additional 100,000 yuan per month as fat powder.

In November of the 11th year of Tianbao, with the death of Li Linfu, the post of prime minister fell to Yang Guozhong, and the following year he also held the position of commonplace.

At this time, the Yang family was already so rich that passers-by stepped sideways.

In addition to the prime minister and the three national wives, Yang Yuhuan's father Yang Xuanyan was posthumously awarded the title of Taiwei and Duke of Qi; mother, Mrs. Feng Liangguo; Uncle Yang Xuanqi served as Guangluqing and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry; cousin Yang Quan, Ren Hongluqing; cousin Yang Qi is the imperial historian, the princess Taihua of the youngest daughter of Concubine Wu Hui (ranked twenty-sixth among daughters); cousin Yang Jian served as the secretary and young eunuch, and Shang Chengrong was the county lord; Yang Guozhong's eldest son, Yang Xuan, served as the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu, Taichangqing, the head of the household, Shang Yan and the county lord; Yang Guozhong's youngest son, Yang Qi, Ren Hongluqing, the twenty-fifth daughter of Princess Wanchun born to Du Meiren of Shang Xuanzong; Choi, the granddaughter of Mrs. Han, married Li Yu, the eldest son of the crown prince Li Heng (the future Daizong Choi Guifei); Pei Hui, the son of Mrs. Qiuguo, became the son-in-law of the crown prince Li Heng, and his wife was later crowned Princess Yanguang; The daughter of Mrs. Yuguo married the son of Xuanzong's eldest brother "Emperor Rang" Li Xian; The eldest grandson of Mrs. Qin Guo, Liu Jun, is still the county lord of Changqing, and the youngest grandson Liu Tan became Li Heng's son-in-law like his cousin Pei Hui, and his wife was later named Princess Hezheng.

The Yang family has become a real royal relative of the Li family. The three ladies of Korea, Yu Guo and Qin are connected to the five houses of Yang Quan and Yang Qi, and are known as the "Five Houses of the Yang Family".

It is said that in February of the ninth year of Tianbao, Yang Guifei was also sent out of the palace because she angered Xuanzong. The reason is still jealousy, but this time she and Xuanzong's roles are reversed: she uses King Ning's purple jade flute, and the jealous Xuanzong drives her back to her parents' house.

- Who is this King Ning? According to the wild history, it is Li Chengqi, that is, Li Xian. But Li Xian has been dead for nine years, and none of his sons have received the title of "King Ning" anymore.

After checking the accounts, Li Xian's eldest son, Li Xuan, the king of Ruyang, is very suspicious. This county king is not only elegant and musical, frequently in and out of the palace, but also beautiful appearance, is the first beautiful man in the royal family, Xuanzong once praised and said that "the posture is bright, the muscles are shiny and thin, and the people are not human", calling it "flower slave". But there is no evidence, you can't buckle your hat indiscriminately, not to mention that Hua Nu is good at drums instead of flutes, whose purple jade flute can Yang Guifei take? Could it be that Li Xian's former relics include a purple jade flute, and Xuanzong even has to eat the vinegar of the dead?

Anyway, in February of the ninth year of Tianbao, Yang Guifei returned to the Yang Mansion again. Yang Guozhong, the head of the Yang family, didn't dare to imagine that good luck could fall on his family again and again, so he hurriedly asked Ji Wen to persuade Xuanzong. Xuanzong also had a change of heart, so he sent his chamberlain Zhang Taoguang to send his dishes to the Yang family. Probably because she knew that she was at fault, Yang Guifei's attitude this time was very different from last time, crying and saying to Zhang Taoguang: "I offended the emperor, and I deserve death." However, all his things are given by the emperor, and only his hair and skin are his own. As he spoke, he cut off his hair on the next floor and asked Zhang Taoguang to take it back to the palace. As soon as Xuanzong saw this strand of hair, he was immediately shocked, and he was deeply afraid that the concubine would apologize for her death for her crimes, so he immediately sent Gao Lishi to personally recall her back to the palace.

Judging from the record of Yang Guifei's two repatriations and return without any injury, she can be said to know Xuanzong's thoughts well. It's no wonder that Xuanzong called her "Interpretation Flower". The satisfied old emperor said to the people around him: "If you get the concubine, you can get it like a treasure", and he also composed the song "Debaozi" to express his ambition. At this time, Xuanzong really couldn't see any difference from an ordinary obsessed man.

Compared with Queen Wang and Concubine Wu Hui, Yang Yuhuan is not fond of interfering in political affairs, she is more like a hedonist, like all spoiled women, who likes to have fun and help her mother's family. But that's where her problem lies.

The appearance of the Yang clan after the exclusive favor of the concubine is basically a complete nouveau riche behavior, and what he does can be said to be no one in his eyes, and he only destroys and does not build the world of Tang Xuanzong.

In order to show his favor for Yang Guifei, Xuanzong not only became inseparable from her, but also used all the wealth of the dynasty on her and her family without hesitation. There were as many as 700 craftsmen in the palace who embroidered and embroidered clothes for the concubine, and hundreds of people made zuò toys for her. Any official who offered a gift to satisfy the concubine was promoted. As for the Yang family's five mansions, they are even more poor and luxurious, their mansions are extremely luxurious, if they see anyone whose mansion is grander than their own, they will not hesitate to tear down the newly built house and rebuild it.

During the Lantern Festival in the tenth year of Tianbao, the five houses of the Yang family traveled together to compete with the team of Princess Guangning in the West Market. In the chaos, the Yang family slave slapped the dress of Princess Changning by whipping, causing the princess to fall off the horse and be injured. Princess Changning cried and told Xuanzong that although Xuanzong was furious, he only executed one of the Yang family slaves, and instead dismissed Cheng Changyi from his official position. - yes, Princess Changning is just a princess, and her biological mother is not favored, but the Yang family married two princesses, and they are still the most favored by Xuanzong.

When the news spread, the Yang family suddenly became prestigious, and folk songs arose in Chang'an City: "Don't be sad if you give birth to a girl, don't like a man", "Men don't wait for women to be concubines, but you look at women as lintels." The world is envious of the honor that Yang Guifei brought to the family.

However, while Xuanzong was very fond of Yang Guifei's family, he still inevitably relapsed his old mistakes and was wary of his new heir, the crown prince Li Heng.

During the Tianbao period, more than half of the post of prime minister was held by Li Linfu. Li Linfu once made it clear that Che Ma supported Shouwang Li Mao as the crown prince, so he knew very well that he would never have a good relationship with the new prince Li Heng. For the sake of power, peace and wealth, he tried his best to pull Li Heng off the horse.

He first set his sights on Li Heng's concubine Webster. Concubine Wei's mother and Li Linfu's wife were cousins, but the kinship was no match for the power struggle, in order to frame Li Heng, Li Linfu slandered Xuanzong, saying that Concubine Wei's brother Wei Jian and the general Huangfu Weiming had a private banquet and conspired to make the prince usurp the throne. Xuanzong was furious, and although there was no evidence, he still demoted the two from the court.

Li Heng had no choice but to beg his father for mercy and ask for a divorce from his concubine.

However, Li Heng's forbearance was useless, and Li Linfu came up with a new trick to falsely accuse Du Youlin, the father of the prince's concubine Du Liangdi, of rebellion. Li Heng, who had no power to resist, had to divorce Du Liangdi again.

Xuanzong was still very satisfied with his son's statement and restored his trust in him. Li Heng finally saved his life.

In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong replaced Li Linfu as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Yang Guozhong has always had a grudge against Li Linfu, and the crown prince Li Heng married a family with the Yang family, so it is said that Yang Guozhong should have a good relationship with Li Heng. But it's the opposite. So the ending of the Yang family can be imagined.

In addition to having a bad relationship with the crown prince, Yang Guozhong's relationship with another key figure is also very bad. This person is An Lushan.

An Lushan was born on the first day of the first lunar month in 703, and his father was a man surnamed Hu Kang. "An" is his stepfather's surname, and he doesn't know exactly what his biological father is, only that his mother is a Turkic shaman, so he is a "miscellaneous beard".

An Lushan fought bravely, he was still a language genius, and he could speak the languages of the six tribes, but he had a strange appearance, was fat and white, and weighed more than 330 catties. But such a fat man can sing and dance, and he usually walks hard, but his body is extremely flexible when he dances and spins like a wine barrel.

Although An Lushan looks ugly, he is cunning and good at figuring out his intentions, so he still likes Li Longji, who loves handsome guys and beauties.

As early as the twenty-fourth year of Kaiyuan (736 AD), the then prime minister Zhang Jiuling once believed that An Lushan had an anti-phase and wanted to take the opportunity of his violation of military discipline to get rid of him. Unexpectedly, Xuanzong, who was unhappy with Zhang Jiuling for the establishment of the crown prince at that time, had another high opinion, saying how could he make an assertion just because of other people's faces like Wang Yan of the Jin Dynasty did when he saw Shi Le? (What a strange thought: Could it be that Wang Yan was wrong?) Shi Le was not a traitor to the Jin Dynasty, who was? ）

In the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, An Lushan was re-employed and served as the Pinglu soldier and horse envoy. Since then, he has sprinkled money everywhere, which has made Xuanzong very fond of him. (To be continued.) )