Mention of Li Shimin, I think everyone will not be unfamiliar, under his rule, created the tang dynasty's most prosperous Taiping dynasty, known in history as "the rule of Zhenguan", later generations of him also have the honorific title of "emperor of the ages", but there is another emperor in the Tang Dynasty, and his contributions have influenced future generations for five thousand years.
This person was the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian, although he was a Han Chinese, he also had a humble surname of Pu Liuru, after taking power, Yang Jian restored the "Yang" surname, and after the death of his father Yang Zhong in the third year of Tianhe (568), Yang Jian inherited the title, but it was not valued in the dynasty, and Yuwen Yong always retained a suspicion of Yang Jian.
Yuwen Yong also wanted to kill Yang Jian many times, but many ministers and Xiangshi secretly helped him through many crises, after Yuwen Yong's death, Yuwen Yun ascended the throne, but he was addicted to wine, and in order to be able to eat, drink and have fun, he ceded the throne to his son who was only 7 years old.
Yang Jian's eldest daughter was Yuwen Yun's empress, who had certain powers in the dynasty, and he soon took control of the northern Zhou dynasty, and in the first year of Dading (581), he forced Emperor Jing of Zhou to take the throne, and after Yang Jian ascended the throne, he changed the name of the country to Sui, pardoned the world, and he overthrew the Chen Dynasty and Western Liang successively, and unified the world.
In terms of system, Yang Jian abolished the Nine-Pin Zhongzheng System and changed it to the Five Provinces and Six Cao System (Five Provinces and Six Ministries System), which also became the blueprint for the Tang Dynasty's three provinces and six ministries system, and during his Taiping Period, he let officers and soldiers go down to the fields to cultivate the land and implement the "integration of officials and the people", he not only let the officials experience the suffering of the people, but also let the commoners harvest more grain.
Before the Sui Dynasty, if you want to enter the dynasty as an official, you generally need to be recommended, which makes the imperial court lose a lot of talents, Yang Jian in order to ensure the concentration of talents promulgated the imperial examination system, the imperial examination system has also been used by later generations, until the Qing Dynasty was abolished, but now China's college entrance examination is also affected by the imperial examination system.
During Yang Jian's reign, he advocated thrift and thrift, reduced taxes, and concubines in the palace rarely wore gold and jade jewelry. In 1969, Luoyang unearthed the ruins of a sui dynasty granary, including the Jiacang site, which contained 259 grain cellars. There is also a grain cellar that still has 500,000 catties of charred millet.
In the prosperous period of the Taiping Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty folk rumors that "every family does not close the house at night", which also reflects that every household in the Sui Dynasty can eat enough, there is no thief forced to make a living, although Yang Jian is the emperor, he does not want most emperors to indulge in beauty.
The literature queen Lonely Garo, is the love of his life, the two are also hand in hand for forty years, after the death of the Lonely Garo Queen, he also fell ill, in 604 AD, Yang Jian and Lonely Garo were buried together, and now 1400 years have passed, Yang Jian's mausoleum has not been robbed so far.
The local villagers are also very protective of Yang Jian's mausoleum, and during the Qingming Dynasty, the local villagers will gather together to sacrifice the emperor. What do you think about that?