After the collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty, hu tribes such as xiongnu, Xianbei, and Xianbei successively entered the Central Plains, and history called this period "great national integration". Of course, there is a more poignant title: "Wuhu Chaohua" and "Central Plains Lu Shen".
The reason why it is said to be "chaos" is because during this period, the Hu nobles successively plundered wealth in the most brutal way, wantonly killed the people, and robbed Han women as tools for childbirth. The Civilization of the Central Plains has stagnated or even regressed. Therefore, many scholars believe that this period was a disaster for the Han people.
Among the many Hu regimes, the Xianbei people had the most far-reaching influence, not only establishing ten states in the Central Plains, but also producing two relatively enlightened emperors.
The first of these was Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who carried out sinicization reforms, replacing Xianbei with Hanfu and Replacing Xianbei with Chinese, alleviating ethnic estrangement. The second was yuwen yong, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who belonged to the Sinicized "Second Generation of Hu", so he did not have the bloodthirsty cruelty of his ancestors, but was more concerned about the suffering of the people.
However, Yuwen Yong was really an unlucky egg, reigning for a total of 18 years, of which 12 years were puppets for others. It was not until 572 AD that he found the opportunity to kill the powerful minister Yuwen Hu and had the opportunity to show his fists.
The first thing Yuwen Yong did after he came to power was to make a prince. Yuwen Yong was well aware that Jiangshan was not easy to come by, so he was extremely strict with his heirs, and often sent people to monitor the words and deeds of the prince. But only 6 years later, Yuwen Yong died.
When Yuwen Yong died, the happiest thing was not hostile forces such as Western Liang and Chen Dynasty, but the 19-year-old crown prince Yuwen Yun. Hearing the news of his father's death, Prince Yuwen Yun's first reaction was: How did this old guy die now?
According to the etiquette system at that time, the successor monarch had to keep filial piety for one month, and Yuwen Yun only wore filial piety for one day, then changed into a dragon robe to announce his ascension to the throne, and then ran to the harem to collect all the concubines left by his father into the palace. Perhaps he felt that the "son's stepfather and wife" were not too addictive, and he simply summoned his niece and daughter-in-law, Wei Chi, to serve him.
Yuwen Yun's indulgent voice was not only manifested by the title of empress.
As early as the year when he was first crowned prince, this 13-year-old teenager could not hold back. At that time, there was a 25-year-old female prisoner named Zhu Manyue in the Eastern Palace, who was enslaved to the Eastern Palace because of the torture of sitting consecutively.
As a result, the adolescent restless prince immediately blessed a female prisoner who was 12 years older than himself. The following year, Yuwen Yun, who was just 14 years old, had already become a father. Because Emperor Wu of Zhou often monitored his words and deeds, even at the expense of adding sticks and sticks, Yuwen Yun behaved like a qualified crown prince in front of everyone, and even the people closest to him did not know his true feelings.
It was not until after succeeding to the throne that Yuwen Yun revealed his true nature and began to indulge in lust. Perhaps feeling that when the emperor still had to go to the court every day, delaying his own indulgence, Yuwen Yun, who had just ascended the throne for a year, suddenly made a decision that caught the qunchen by surprise: pass the throne to his 6-year-old son and become the emperor himself.
Yuwen Yun's series of absurd actions made Pu Liurujian, who was then the Grand Sima of The Great, secretly rejoice.
According to the calculation of age, Yuwen Yun was only 19 years old when he succeeded to the throne, and PuLiu Rujian was already 37 years old, even if Pu Liurujian had the idea of replacing him, I am afraid that he would not be able to survive this young emperor.
But what he did not expect was that Yuwen Yun returned to the west at the age of 21 because of his "hollowed-out body", leaving only the 7-year-old young emperor Yuwen Yan and his birth mother Zhu Manyue (a female prisoner at that time) who had no family power.
Just the year after Yuwen Yun's death, Puliu Rujian proclaimed himself emperor of Zhou and restored the Han surname Yang, which is the famous Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian in history. Obviously, Yuwen Yun's early death had made Yang Jian.
Ming Dynasty historians once used the term "One Emperor of The Ages" to evaluate Qin Shi Huang, in fact, Yang Jian's contribution is also worthy of the title of "One Emperor of the Ages", he not only reunified China that had been divided for more than 270 years, but also fully restored the Han system and allowed the Han civilization to be completely continued.
The American scholar Michael Hart believes that the two Chinese emperors who have the greatest influence on world history are Qin Shi Huang and the second is Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian.