History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
As the saying goes, "the tiger father has no dog", "the dragon gives birth to the dragon, the phoenix gives birth to the phoenix, and the son of the mouse will punch holes", which indirectly shows that the identity of the father will indeed have a great impact on the children, such as the emperor's son, the dragon gives birth to nine sons, the nine sons are different, except for a few mediocre princes, most of the princes are the proud sons of heaven, excellent to the extreme, they have received royal education from an early age, and they have learned the way of governing the country. So what does a princess's daughter learn? There is a princess in history, she went down in history as a female general, she is the Princess of Binh Duong.
Strictly speaking, she was not born a princess, because her father is Li Yuan, she is the third daughter, her father later became the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and she made great contributions in the process of reflection, was crowned as a princess, perhaps everyone is not very familiar with her, but when it comes to her and Chai Shao's love story, everyone will be familiar with it, in historical novels, the story about Li Xiuning and Chai Shao's husband and wife, the popular population, very wonderful.
It is said that this princess is also associated with a famous building in ancient times, the latter is named after her, which is comparable to the fame and importance of the Great Wall, and it is a place where soldiers and families must fight for generations, it is called Niangziguan. Niangzi Pass has a platform castle, used to review the soldiers and horses and inspect the enemy situation, the position is condescending, built of bluestone, strong and thick, like a natural barrier in Shanxi and Hebei, speaking of the origin of Niangzi Pass, let us enter this historical story together ——
In September 617, when Li Yuan crossed the Yellow River and entered Guanzhong, he did not expect that his third daughter had been waiting in Guanzhong for a long time, and her daughter had already occupied Guanzhong with Taiyuan's troops. Before that, he was still dealing with the southeast region, so he sent Xiuning to deal with the northwest region, and Xiuning relied on her ingenuity, and soon she calmed the northwest region. When his father came to occupy Guanzhong, his daughter had already conquered Guanzhong, which made Li Yuan very happy, he named her "Princess of Pingyang", and her reward was the only one among the princesses, because she had made military merit.
As early as when Li Yuan decided to raise an army, she and her husband were still in Chang'an, Chai Shao planned to join his father-in-law and jointly carry the banner of the uprising, and Xiuning, as a woman and Taoist family, also decided to help her father, she came to the Zhuang Institute in Yanxian County, Shaanxi Province, and realized all the assets in Li's manor, as well as her own jewelry was also sold, as military funds, relief to disaster victims, recruiting outlaws in the mountains, calling for hundreds of people, and then she led this team to attack the city and contact the rebels. Whenever she went to a place, she would open the granary and distribute food to the victims, so that she could build a strong team by virtue of her intelligence and personality.
Her father and brother fought on the front line, and her main task was to defend Shanxi, which was the birthplace of their family, which showed that Li Yuan still valued this daughter and believed that she had excellent military talent and was enough to garrison the base camp. She was sent to Weize Pass, which is equivalent to the military fortress of Shanxi, once breached, then the rear of the Li family is unstable, so Xiuning is also worried in her heart, she leads tens of thousands of women's troops to guard this place, and her combat purpose is to "stick to it" and will not impulsively engage the enemy head-on.
In the process of fighting with the enemy, when facing a powerful enemy, Li Xiuning preferred the "wisdom" decision,giving the order to let people cook porridge and boil rice soup, and then sprinkle the rice soup into the ravine of the enemy's inevitable road, so that the enemy would think that the reinforcements of the Li family had arrived, and then send people to the city to inquire, and saw smoke and dust, which showed that the reinforcements had entered the city and ambushed. The enemy did not dare to rush to attack, and eventually retreated, and when they realized the plan, the reinforcements had really arrived, and they could not take Reize Pass. After this world war, the place was renamed Niangziguan to commemorate the contributions made by Li Xiuning and the Niangzi Army she led.
Not only did Xiuning have military talent, but her husband Chai Shao was no worse at all, he was a fierce general under his father-in-law, who had made many military achievements, and the couple could also be regarded as the founding heroes of the country. The sons of both men had excellent origins, the mother was a princess or a female general, and the father was a fierce general, so the eldest son Chai Zhewei inherited his father's title, and the second son married Tang Taizong's daughter Princess Baling, and like his father, became the emperor's son-in-law.
However, unlike their parents, Chai Lingwu and the princess both participated in Fang's rebellion and were eventually given to death. So was Princess Binh Duong, as his mother, implicated? After the Battle of Chang'an, there were very few records of her in the historical records, until the time of her death, the father emperor specially gave her a burial according to the specifications of "military etiquette", even if opposed, Li Yuan still insisted on her ideas, and Princess Pingyang became the only woman in history to be buried by the army for her.
Three years after her death, there was a "Xuanwumen Change", Chai Shao's position was vague, he did not directly deal with Li Jiancheng, nor did he show support for Li Shimin, he was sent by Li Yuan to the local assassination history, and later Tang Taizong summoned him back and reused him, which showed that he passed the test of Emperor Taizong. So why did he hesitate in the first place? It is likely that his deceased wife supported Li Jiancheng, after all, Li Shimin killed his brother, as the daughter of the family, the Princess of Pingyang, who had a heavy army, could naturally manage, so Chai Shao still could not take a firm stand in the face of Li Shimin, who had achieved great service.
The descendants of Chai Shao and Xiu Ning passed on to the eighth Chai Rong, who was the first Ming Emperor of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. After he took over the Later Zhou regime, he vowed to make a great deed and set himself three ten-year plans, the first ten years was to expand the territory, the second decade was to recuperate, and the last ten years were rich in the world, so that the feasibility of such an orderly plan was very high, but Chai Rong died young, and unfortunately died of illness in the first decade alone.
Later, it was the Song Dynasty that everyone was familiar with, Zhao Kuangyin became the emperor and established a new regime, but unfortunately there were few domineering emperors among the Emperors of the Song Dynasty, who were attacked by neighboring countries in turn, and they were not considered to be the Central Plains Dynasty at all, and did not achieve great unification, if according to Chai Rong's plan, he wanted to conquer Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and unify the world. Although the Chai family no longer has a royal status, their descendants are still very wealthy, and during the Song Dynasty, they are all famous local tycoons.