Stirring for four hundred years: Rouran took advantage of the rise of the momentum left and right, and Yuan Bao torch Gao Huan was forced to become a couplet

This article is the 573rd in a long series, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

Yu Jiulu's ability to return to Rouran was inseparable from the strong support of Northern Wei. Therefore, when he first returned to Rouran, he was respectful and respectful to northern Wei, well-mannered, and also assisted in quelling the rebellion of the six towns. In the process, Rouran re-emerged, and Yu Jiulu Anagui no longer claimed to the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Yu Jiulu Anagui once went to Luoyang, admired the Central Plains system, and set up official positions such as Shizhong and Huangmen according to the official system of Northern Wei, and later received a canonical signature from the King of Ruyang of Northern Wei, Chun Yuqin, who trusted him and used him in particular, and appointed him as a secretary and supervisor to make him in charge of documents.

After the Northern Wei Split into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, Yu Jiulu anagui became even more arrogant and arrogant, creating incidents on the border many times. In order to gain Rouran's support, both The Western Wei and Eastern Wei were trying to woo Yu jiulu Anajie, and the most common means was to make peace.

In the first year of Datong (535 AD), Yujiu Lu Anagui took the initiative to propose to Eastern Wei, and Gao Huan made the sister of King Changshan a princess of Lanling and promised her to Yujiu Lu Anagui as his wife.

Because of this relationship, Rouran invaded Western Wei many times, and Yuwen Tai could not be bothered, and also sent the Zhongshu Sheren Kudizhi to send an envoy to Rouran to make peace with Yujiu Lu Anajie, and Rouran no longer invaded Western Wei.

In September of the third year of Datong (537 AD), Rouran suddenly fell to Western Wei and invaded the Three Piles of Eastern Wei on behalf of Western Wei, and Gao Huan launched a counterattack to repel it.

In order to enhance his relationship with Rouran, Yuwen Tai suggested that Yuan Baoju make the daughter of Yuanyi the Princess of Huazheng, and let her marry Yujiu Lu Anahan's younger brother Yu Jiu Lu Tahan as his wife, and persuaded Yuan Baoju to depose Empress Yifu and marry the daughter of Yu Jiu Lu Ana gem. Yuan Baoju did not dare to oppose and did it one by one.

On February 15, the fourth year of Datong (538 CE), Yuan Baoju ordered YiFu to cut his hair as a nun, and sent Yuan Fu, the king of Fufeng, to welcome Yu Jiulu Anagui's daughter to become the new empress of Western Wei.

In March, Yu Jiulu sent his daughter to Western Wei for a dowry of 700 chariots, 10,000 horses, and 2,000 camels. When they arrived at the Black Salt Pond, they encountered the honor guard and bodyguard sent by Western Wei to welcome the new empress.

When the Rouran people camped, the portal and the mat were facing east, yuan fu asked them to face due south, Yu Jiulu refused: "I have not yet met the lord of Wei, still counted as a woman of the Rouran country, your Wei state honor guard faces the south, and I myself face the east." ”

On March 17, Yuan Baoju officially crowned Yu Jiulu as empress.

As mentioned earlier, Yuan Baoju and Yi Fushi were very affectionate, and after Yi Fushi was deposed, he lived in the other palace, but yu jiu lu clan was still jealous. In order to maintain friendly relations with Rouran, Yuan Baoju took YiFu's son Wudu Wang Yuanwu as the assassin of Qin Prefecture and asked her to follow Yuan Peng to Qin Prefecture.

For the sake of the country's grand plan, Yuan Baoju had to abolish the YiFu clan and establish the Yujiu Lu clan, but he never forgot his old feelings, and secretly asked the Yi Fu clan to grow long hair, promising to take it back at the right time.

In the spring of the sixth year of Datong (540 AD), Rouran suddenly raised a national army to cross the Yellow River and invade Western Wei in the south, and the people rumored that Yujiu Lu Anagui was only mobilized because of the Yujiu Lu clan.

Yuan Baoju listened and said, "Where is the matter of requisitioning millions of people for a woman?" Even so, if people say such things, what face will they have to see the general? Therefore, he sent Zhongchang Shi Cao to send the edict he had written by his own hand to Yi Fushi and let her commit suicide.

Holding the edict in his hand, Yi Fushi cried and said to Cao Pet: "May Your Majesty live for thousands of years and the world be at peace, if all this can be realized, I will not have any resentment when I die." "And then suicide.

Yuan Baoju was so sad that he asked people to dig a tomb on the MaiJi Cliff and bury Yi Fushi, named Silent Tomb.

In the summer of that year, Yuwen Tai gathered various armies to garrison Shayuan to guard against the invasion of Ruoran. Eventually, Rouran began to withdraw his troops after arriving in Xiazhou. Not long after, Yu Jiulu died of illness.

Similar to the situation in Rouran, tuguhun no longer had contact with the Northern Wei since the Six Towns Uprising. After Fu Lianchuo's death, his son Fukwarlu succeeded to the throne, proclaimed himself Khan, and lived in Fuqi City.

Taking advantage of the decline of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuguhun's territory was also expanding, from east to west for three thousand miles, from south to north for more than a thousand miles, and there were kings, princes, servants, Shangshu, Langzhong, and generals in official positions. In this year, Tuguhun borrowed Dao Rouran and made envoys to Eastern Wei.

In the eleventh year of Datong (545 AD), Yuwen Tai sent the Jiuquan man Juanotuo on an envoy to the Turks and communicated with them to win more allies against the Eastern Wei.

The Turks were originally small western countries, with the Ashina clan as their surname, living for generations south of Jinshan, working as iron workers for Rouran. It was not until the reign of the chief tumen that the Turks began to grow stronger, repeatedly invading the western wei region.

Anoto came to the Turks, and the Turks were happy: "As soon as the emissaries of the great powers come, our country will prosper." From this point on, the Turks began to enter the stage of history.

Subsequently, Yuwen Tai conspired with Yu Jiulu Anajie to join forces against Eastern Wei, and Gao Huan was worried about this, and sent Du Bi, the leader of the Tailang, to send an envoy to Rouran to propose marriage to Yujiu Lu Anagui on behalf of his eldest son Gao Cheng.

Unexpectedly, Yu Jiulu Anajie did not want to marry his daughter to Gao Cheng, but only wanted to marry Gao Huan. This year, Gao Huan was nearly fifty years old, and he could not afford to lose that face as Yu Jiulu's son-in-law, nor was he afraid that his body would not be able to hold on to his bones, and he hesitated.

Concubine Lou persuaded Gao Huan: "This is a major national event, I hope you will not hesitate." Gao Cheng and Wei Jing also persuaded him to marry Yu Jiulu. In desperation, Gao Huan sent the Zhennan general Murong Yu (慕容俨) to Rouran to set his relatives, calling Yu jiulu's daughter Princess Worm.

In August, Gao Huan personally greeted the CreepIng Princess in the lower hall. After Princess Worm came to Eastern Wei, Princess Lou gave up the main room and moved it herself to another room. Gao Huan was ashamed and embarrassed, and bowed to Concubine Lou to thank her, and Princess Lou said, "The princess will find out about our relationship, and I hope that you will break off contact with me and not come to see me again." ”

When visiting Eastern Wei, Yu Jiulu sent his younger brother Yu Jiu Lu to escort Princess Worm and said to him, "You will come back after seeing your grandson." ”

The creeping princess was serious and resolute, did not smile, and refused to speak Chinese for life, Gao Huan and her were tasteless and lived like years. Once, Gao Huan could not go to the residence of the creeping princess due to illness, Yu Jiulu bald Tujia was very annoyed, personally came to urge, Gao Huan did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately took the illness to serve.

However, Gao Huan was never able to let Princess Worm give birth to a son and a half daughter. Two years later, he cried out for his life, presumably inseparable from the destruction of the creeping princess. For the sake of the country's long-term peace and stability and the tranquility of the external environment, Gao Huan really paid too much, respectable and ridiculous.