Yang left her husband and moved to the palace that is imperial Xuanzong. He neglected his duties as emperor even further with this relationship and agreed to anything Lady Yang asked. She began with small needs, which he granted, and these grew into larger demands him to promote members of her family to important positions even though these people could not do the jobs until she got.
The emperor suspected absolutely nothing and put trust that is great Li-Linfu. In 737 CE Consort Wu passed away and Xuanzong withdrew further into their pleasures that are own left the business of federal government to Li-Linfu. Xuanzong had over four thousand of the very most women that are beautiful to the palace for his pleasure and kept them imprisoned there to entertain him. Many of these females had been absolutely nothing, nonetheless, when he saw the main one who does be his love that is true and would help hasten the decline associated with the Tang Dynasty just as much as any plan Li-Linfu may have developed.