Why did the Anshi Rebellion kill Yang Guifei?

Faced with the choice of Jiangshan and women, the emperor reluctantly killed his concubine in order to save his ancestral business and his own life.

In the 14th year of Tianbao (AD 755), Fan Yang, Pinglu and Hedong engaged in an Anshi Rebellion in the name of Jun Qing and Anti-Yang Guo Zhong, and the soldiers directed at Chang 'an.

The following year, when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty fled with Yang Guifei and Yang to (now Chengdu, Sichuan) and passed through Mayi Post (now the west of Xingping City, Shaanxi Province), the imperial sergeant led by Chen unanimously demanded the execution of Yang and Yang Guifei, then defected and killed Yang with a knife.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty said that the imperial concubine was innocent and should be pardoned, but the imperial soldiers all thought that the imperial concubine was the beauty of the country. The Anshi Rebellion was caused by the imperial concubine. Without punishing her, it would be difficult to comfort the morale of the army, boost morale and continue to surround the emperor. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty accepted Gao Lishi's suggestion and had to give Yang a gift to protect himself.

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The Anshi Rebellion lasted for eight years. Although the Anshi Rebellion was finally put down, many historians later believed that the Anshi Rebellion was not only the turning point of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, but also had a far-reaching and tremendous impact on the development of China's politics, economy, society, culture and foreign relations.

Economically, the economies of North China and Guanzhong were broken, the economic center of gravity moved south again, and the south replaced the economic status of the North. The Anshi Rebellion mainly ravaged the densely populated and economically developed areas in the Tang Dynasty, and the northern people migrated and the northern economy was greatly damaged.

On the contrary, the south of the Yangtze River was not devastated by the war like the north, so the south was preserved. Moreover, a large number of people in the Central Plains moved south, bringing labor to the south, making Jiangnan's economy increasingly developed, and finally the economic scale surpassed that of the Central Plains.

In order to quell the chaos, the Tang people borrowed soldiers from foreign countries, and Uighur relied on their own achievements to quell the chaos. He repeatedly extorted money from the Tang Clan and invaded the border for years. The prestige of the Tang Dynasty was greatly reduced, and the Tiankhan system could not be maintained.

The western regions originally belonging to the Tang Dynasty were completely occupied by Tubo and Uighur in the next 35 years, which led to the gradual severance of the land Silk Road and the gradual replacement of the Maritime Silk Road in the south.