What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the five-thousand-year history of our country, there have been many powerful dynasties that have been unified, and there have also been many periods when the princes were divided into separate wars. When it comes to the Establishment of the Three Kingdoms, the first thing we think of is the period of the Three Kingdoms of Wu, Shu and Wei after the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. But in addition, between the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, there was also a brief period of "Three Kingdoms" standing.
That is, the three states of Tang, headed by Li Yuan, Zheng headed by Wang Shichong, and Xia, headed by Dou Jiande, each occupied Guanzhong, Henan, and Hebei, forming the momentum of the Three Kingdoms. And today's protagonist is the last one who sounds familiar - Dou Jiande.
Dou Jiande was born in Hebei, Central Plains in 573 AD, and his family has been cultivating the fields for generations, and under the education and influence of the elders of the family, Dou Jiande understands the misery of the people very well, and also cultivates the quality of benevolence and loyalty. There was once a person in the village whose parents had gone, but he himself could not bury his father because he was too rich and widowed.
Hearing this news, Dou Jiande immediately put down the hoe in his hand and went to help the villager to purchase various funeral items so that the two old people could be buried. It is precisely because Dou Jiande is happy to help others, so he is very loved and respected by blind dates. When his father died, a total of thousands of villagers came to see him off, and dou Jiande immediately refused to take any gifts.
In 611, the Sui Emperor recruited troops from all over Hebei in an attempt to conquer Goryeo north. Dou Jiande, who was strong and strong in martial arts, was appointed as the chief of two hundred people. At that time, there was a flood in Shandong, and the people were living in deep water, paying taxes, and going to the battlefield under conscription orders, causing many families to be destroyed.
And Dou Jiande, who was recruited with the army, saw this scene of tragedy and was very indignant in his heart. Not long after, he fell into the grass, gathered hundreds of people, and started the business of a good man in Liangshan. Later, the county killed his family, Dou Jiande was furious, at that time Gao Shida already had thousands of troops, Dou Jiande took more than two hundred people to vote for Gao Shida.
Since then, after several years of development, their team has grown to tens of thousands of people. However, Dou Jiande never stole any stolen money, but distributed it all to the soldiers and the people. Therefore, Dou Jiande's prestige is growing day by day, surrounded by thousands of people.
In 616, Gao Shida ceded the military power to Dou Jiande. Dou Jiande, who really led the army to fight for the first time, defeated the Sui general Guo Xuan and requisitioned more than a thousand warhorses. After that, Dou Jiande won consecutive battles, defeating Yang Yichen, the Sui Dynasty's eunuch, and Xue Shixiong, the general of the Right Wing Wei.
In addition, at that time, other rebel armies were killed when they saw Sui Chen, and only Dou Jiande treated them with courtesy, so many Sui Dynasty subjects were subordinate to Dou Jiande and loyal. In 618, in order to restore peace to the people, Dou Jiande occupied the Hebei region and established himself as emperor of the Xia Dynasty.
Later, although there were other princes at that time, the strength of the three kingdoms was the strongest, and they fought in the Central Plains, and also formed a "small three kingdoms". Among the three kingdoms, the Tang kingdom was the strongest. In 620, Li Shimin, the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, invaded the State of Zheng, and Dou Jiande knew that if the State of Zheng was destroyed, he would certainly not be able to compete with the State of Tang with the strength of the State of Xia, so he began to assist Zheng in attacking the Tang.
Unfortunately, Dou Jiande did not enter the advice and clashed head-on with Li Shimin, the King of Qin, and Dou Jiande was defeated, fled to Niukouzhu and was captured alive by the Tang army. In 621, Dou Jiande was escorted to Chang'an by Li Shimin, and was eventually beheaded, and a generation of heroes fell.
Dou Jiande's life is undoubtedly a legendary life, born in a humble place, but became the king of a country, won consecutive battles on the battlefield, lost very few achievements, treated the soldiers and the people with courtesy, often paid for the villagers, and was supported by the people of the world. Moreover, Dou Jiande also had courage and strategy, and when he confronted Yang Yichen, he won the victory by deception.
Dou Jiande was not inferior to Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, whether in terms of martial arts, popularity, military management, state governance, or strategy, and even more so. The only thing that was inferior to Li Yuan was the lack of loyalty around Dou Jiande, and under the pressure of everyone's mouth, Dou Jiande listened to the rumors and was captured alive by Li Shimin.
If Dou Jiande did not die, but escaped from the hands of Li Shimin, Dou Jiande, who had learned a lesson, would inevitably clean up the court and employ meritocracy, and at that time, it was really unknown whether the final victory would be the Li Dynasty or the Dou family's world. It's just a pity that history has no ifs, but Dou Jiande's character of being kind to others feels that we learn.
After Dou Jiande's death, the people wept bitterly, and in order to commemorate this benevolent and loving emperor, temples began to be built to commemorate Dou Jiande, and these ancient temples have also been handed down to this day, as if telling the warm life of this hero.