In 618, Li Yuan accepted the title of Emperor Gong of Sui and established the Tang Dynasty, with the capital chang'an. After that, he began to embark on a long journey to eliminate the separatist forces in various places, and worked hard to complete the long-cherished wish of great unification.
In this journey, With Jinyang as the center, Liu Wuzhou, who occupied most of Hedong and had sufficient food and silk, was the biggest obstacle.
Who is Liu Wuzhou? It can be described in four sentences and twelve words.
One is the wizards.
Liu Wuzhou's ancestral home is in Hejian Jingcheng (northeast of present-day Jiaohe Town, Botou, Hebei), his birth is very strange, it is said that when his mother was pregnant with him, he sat in front of his house in the sun, an old rooster was catching food in the tree, his father returned from farm work, suddenly saw a chicken fly into his mother's arms, immediately became pregnant, and gave birth to him.
The second is genius.
The bizarre birth did not bring good luck to Liu Wuzhou, because of the compulsion of family life, he moved to Mayi (present-day Shuozhou, Shanxi) with his parents from an early age. In order to change his fate, Liu Wuzhou was half cultivated and half read, angry and strong, and with his own talent and hard work, he was admitted to the civil service. Liu Wuzhou studied literature, and when he divided the work, he became the most inferior military attaché.
To this end, Liu Wuzhou, who was not professionally correct, did not choose to give up on himself, but began to abandon the study of literature and martial arts. He was physically well -- tall and burly( tall and burly), sensitive and studious, and as a result, he quickly learned eighteen martial arts. It is precisely because of this that Liu Wuzhou, a "genius teenager" who can write and martial arts, quickly broke out of a "wan'er" in the rivers and lakes, and became famous among the haojie in various parts of Shanxi.
The third is crooked talent.
In the chaotic situation of the late Sui Dynasty, Liu Wuzhou was one of the first people to rise up as a revolutionary, others revolutionized for survival, and his revolutionary motives were very unique, and it was actually for love.
It turned out that during his time as a civil servant, Liu Wuzhou, who had just opened his heart, fell in love with the concubine of Wang Rengong of Shuozhou Taishou, which was a love that traveled through time and space, a bitter love that was doomed to have no results, and an obsession that should have been let go long ago.
However, Liu Wuzhou, who has a distinct personality, chose to be obsessed with love, to what extent is the madness? Two words: revolution. In the thirteenth year of Daye (617 AD), Liu Wuzhou raised an army, killed Wang Rengong, and obtained a beloved woman.
This woman was lucky, like the woman whom the Duke of Windsor had married. For the sake of a man, status, country, and life can be eliminated. The name of this lucky woman is not known, perhaps called "Like a Flower".
Life is precious, and love is more expensive. In order to carry out love to the end, after Liu Wuzhou embarked on the revolutionary road, he knew that relying only on his own strength would not work, so he chose to marry the foreign Turks. Since you want to get married, of course you have to send a dowry, at this time Liu Wuzhou has just revolutionized, and has not yet "squeezed" the "surplus value" of Sui Dynasty officials, so there is no extra gold and silver jewelry to send.
If there is no money to send, then there is only "gift" to be given. Ordinary gifts did not work, Liu Wu zhou thought about it, and immediately attacked the nearby Fenyang Palace, captured some palace women, came to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, and gave the palace women as a bride price to the Turks.
After getting the beauty of the heavenly immortals, the Turks laughed and crooked their mouths, immediately made Liu Wuzhou the Khan of Dingyang, and sent some horses as a gift.
The fourth is love talent.
Liu Wuzhou of the "marriage" has the Turkic "painting skin" as a backstage support, the strength has greatly increased, the reputation has been greatly enhanced, and the result has attracted the four parties to vote, and here is a person named Song Jingang.
Song Jingang was a native of Shanggu (上谷; present-day Huailai, Hebei), good at the art of war, famous for hundreds of miles in all directions, and he was also a restless master, and soon became a mountain king who gathered mountains as kings. Seeing that Liu Wuzhou was a ming lord he wanted to defect to, he came to a "good bird to choose a tree and perch".
Liu Wuzhou knew that Song Jingang was a rare talent, and immediately staged a trilogy of sub-seals.
1. Seal song king kong as king of song and be in charge of military affairs.
Second, divide half of the family property to Song Jingang, in charge of property.
Third, he married his sister to Song Jingang as his wife and was in charge of logistics.
Liu Wuzhou was so pushy of himself that Song Jingang was moved to tears, and even immediately divorced his original wife, who loved Liu Wuzhou's sister alone, and vowed to dedicate his life to the revolutionary cause of the Liu family.
It was precisely because of the support of Song Jingang that Liu Wuzhou, the first tyrant to dominate at the end of the Sui Dynasty, had further strengthened, and later became a tricky obstacle for Li Yuan to pacify the world.