When Li Yuan was staying in Taiyuan, he often lived in the home of a friend named Samurai Yan, and the relationship between the two people was very good. This samurai family has been in business for generations, rich enough to rival the country, and is the richest man in the prefecture.
In the thirteenth year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan had a premonition that the Sui Dynasty was about to perish, so he thought of taking the Sui Dynasty and replacing it. So he and his son Li Shimin decided to raise an army against Sui.
Fighting wars requires money, and since you want to raise troops against the Sui Dynasty, the first thing to solve is the problem of military pay. Li Yuan's father and son had no money in their pockets, and this matter was sad for them.
The father and son of Wu Shiyan and Li Yuan had always been close, so they took the initiative to find Li Yuan and were willing to pay for Li Yuan. Samurai Yan was a businessman who was a merchant who was very profitable, and he also knew the abilities of Li Yuan's father and son, believing that Li Yuan was the only one in the world. Therefore, The samurai fu put all his wealth on Li Yuan's father and son. Not only did he donate money to Li Yuan and invest a lot of money, he also lobbied that Jia, a hugely wealthy businessman he knew, also invested in Li Yuan's father and son.
It turned out that the samurai was indeed very discerning, and within a few years, the world had indeed fallen into the hands of Li Yuan's father and son. And these investments of samurai were not in vain. Li Yuan claimed the title of empress dowager and rewarded the meritorious those who supported him. Although Samurai Yan was only a Kubu Lang from Wupin at that time, he was still ranked as one of the seventeen Taiyuan Yuanmou heroes.
The Taiyuan Yuanmou Meritorious Servant was the first merit book published by Li Yuan, many of whom later became legendary figures at the founding of the Tang Dynasty, ranking among the twenty-four meritorious figures of LingYange. Such as Shunde, the eldest grandson of the Sui Dynasty general Qu Tutong, Chai Shao, who swept through Liang Shidu, Tang Jian, who was given the gift of burying Zhaoling after his death, and Yin Kaishan, who died of illness in the army, were all famous figures who later entered the Ling Yan Pavilion.
After Li Shimin became emperor, the samurai was also reused. He was appointed as the governor of Jingzhou, and later promoted to Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, and was made the Duke of Yingguo, and could be hereditary replaced. It can be seen from this that the investment of the samurai in Li Yuan is completely profitable, and the official field is also smooth. The wealthy merchants who had funded Li Yuan's father and son also received rich returns after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.
The personal relationship between Samurai And Li Yuan was very good, how good was it? After the death of the original wife of the samurai, Li Yuan was afraid that the samurai would live alone, and personally matched a family affair for the samurai in the same month.
It's just that Li Yuan couldn't imagine that this family affair he had brokered almost destroyed the Foundation of Datang that he had worked so hard to build decades later.
The new lady of The Samurai Was a member of the Sui Dynasty,whose name was Yang Shi (杨氏), an old girl who had been in the middle of the song for 44 years. The Yang clan gave birth to three Miss Qianjin in succession, and the Samurai Yan also regarded these three Qianjin as treasures and loved them very much.
After the death of Samurai Yan, his second daughter was elected to the palace to become a talented person, and decades later he seized the throne of Li Jiajiangshan and ascended the throne as emperor, as Empress Zetian.
After Wu Zetian became emperor, he posthumously honored his parents as emperors and empresses. Therefore, the life of samurai is also very legendary. When he was alive, he did not become an emperor for a day, but after his death, he became an emperor, but this was also thanks to the fact that he gave birth to such a good daughter.