Friday, February 11, 2011

Front Page News Story

      Yang Guifei, a beautiful concubine of the emperor was hanged by her Emperor Xuanzong. Emperor Xuanzong used to give his concubine everything she wanted. Including sending her, her favorite nuts which were brought from 1,000 miles away. Yang abused her powers over the emperor by getting her friends and relatives in high government places. She even got her cousin Yang Guozhong to become chief minister. "I think Yang Guozhong is unfit to be chief minister," a local merchant says. "I know that Yang Guifei is planning something," a passing women says. Later on Yang Guifei fell in love with fat, powerful soldier, An Lushan. An Lushan started taking over most of the cities in China which got Yang Guozhong very jealous. When An Lushan began taking over Chang'an, Emperor Xuanzong knew they were in trouble and fled the city taking with him Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong. He found that the road was blocked by Tibetian soldiers and then all of a sudden Emperor Xuanzong's soldiers turned against them. They blamed everything on Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong. They then shot Yang Guozhong right on the spot then they forced the crying emperor to order the killing of Yang Guifei and she was strangled by a silk cord in a village called Pagoda. 

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