Laughing to death, when Yuwen Tai died, the eldest son was 23 years old, the second son was only 15 years old, and the tender melon was like a seedling, who could hold it.
Speaking of Yuwen Tai, many people may not have heard of it, but in fact, this person was the actual ruler of the late Western Wei Dynasty and the founder of Northern Zhou, and several emperors before Northern Zhou were his sons, and he handed over the power to his nephew Yuwen Hu at his death.
Speaking of Yuwen Hu, he can be called the top power lord in ancient times, and the emperor said that if he abolished it, he would kill it, but he never went further to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, and it was Yuwen Tai who made Yu Wen hu have such a great power.
Yuwen Tai's ancestors came from the Southern Xiongnu, and later integrated into the Xianbei, and the Six Towns Rebellion broke out in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, and Yuwen Tai's father and He Baduba, the leader of the Wuchuan Army at that time, both jointly supported the Northern Wei court.
However, after that, Yuwentai's family followed the rebel army, and as a result, they were defeated by the imperial court, and when they fled, Yuwentai's father and brother were killed.
After several turns, Yuwen Tai became a subordinate of He Bayue, the son of He Badu ba, at this time, Yu Wentai began to help the imperial court to quell the rebel army in various places, and Yuwen Tai repeatedly made military achievements and rose step by step.
After The death of He Bayue, his subordinates were taken into the pockets of Yuwen Tai, and after Yuwen Tai quelled the rebel armies in various places, his strength increased greatly, becoming a being second only to Gao Huan in real power.
In the third year of Yongxi, Northern Wei was divided into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, with Eastern Wei controlled by Gao and Western Wei controlled by Yuwen Tai, but at this time Yuwen Tai was still a powerful vassal, not an emperor, but his authority was actually above the imperial power.
Of course, Yuwen Tai was not willing to be just a courtier, even in name, he always wanted to replace him.
Yuwen Tai continued to reform in Western Wei to prepare for his claim to be emperor to seize Jiangshan, and the Yuan clan was very dissatisfied with Yuwen Tai's actions and fearful, and the contradictions between the two sides became more and more acute, but the Yuan clan had no way.
In April of the third year of the Western Wei Emperor Gong, Yuwen Tai toured the north, and in September he fell ill, and when he was seriously ill, he summoned his nephew Yuwen Hu and entrusted all the power to Yuwen Hu, not to his sons.
According to the records, Yuwen Tai also made it clear that such a practice was made clear.
"My sons are still young, and now that the external enemies are strong and there are many internal opponents, the affairs of the country in the future are up to you, and you must work hard to complete my ambitions."
Yes, although Yuwen Tai has many sons, they are not yet mature, and their prestige and strength are not enough to take on big responsibilities.
After Yuwen Tai's death, his son Yuwen Jue succeeded him as Taishi and Ōtsuka Zai, nominally assisted by Yuwen Hu, but in fact Yuwen Tai's old subordinates were all under Yuwen Hu's orders, and from this time on, Yuwen Jue became the de facto ruler of Western Wei.
There were fourteen sons under Yuwen's knees, except for Yuwen Zhen, who died early, the other thirteen sons were all alive and well when Yuwen Tai died, and the eldest son, Yuwen Yu, was already twenty-three years old.
From our current point of view, Yuwen Yu's age can also do a career, let alone in ancient times.
However, Yuwen Yu was a son born to the side chamber, and according to the rules of the time, he did not have the qualifications to inherit the throne first, and the real heir was Yuwen Jue, born of the Yuwen Tai Shomu Yuan clan.
When Yuwen Tai died, Yuwen Jue was only fifteen years old, which was too young, and Yuwen Hu at the same time was already forty-three years old, compared to Yuwen Hu, who followed Yuwen Tai to fight with Yu Wentai at the age of twelve, Yu Wen Jue had no advantage at all.
Yuwen Hu followed Yuwen Tai from an early age, saddled before the horse, and had great prestige in the army before the age of thirty, and was crowned a duke in 542 AD, with a high power in Western Wei, and four years later out of the town of Hedong, the Duke of Zhongshan.
When Yuwen Tai was gone, Yuwen Hu was already the leader of the Yuwen Clan.
Not to mention that Yuwen Tai's heir Yuwen Jue was young, even if he was his eldest son Yuwen Yu, although he was twenty-three years old, he had a weak personality and lacked determination, and his ability to handle the government was OK, but he had little prestige in the army.
The Yuwen family started with the army, and almost all of the Guanlong cliques were military generals, and in terms of the control ability of the Western Wei Dynasty, none of Yuwen Tai's slightly older sons could be compared with Yuwen Hu.
As we all know, the Sinicization reform began during the era of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but this also led to the dissatisfaction of a large number of Xianbei nobles, which also involved the subsequent Six Towns Uprising, which shook the foundation of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The Northern Wei Dynasty was founded by the Xianbei people, ruled by the military in the Xianbei area and ruled by the people in the Han Dynasty, and a large number of Xianbei nobles also opposed Sinicization.
The Eastern Wei family, which controlled the Gao family, was a Huhua Han, while Yuwen Tai's Western Wei was a Sinicized Xianbei as the main ruling group, but the proportion of Xianbei in Western Wei was very low and had no advantage at all.
After the Battle of Yishan, the Western Wei Xianbei people suffered great losses, so Yuwen Tai reformed the system and strengthened its reliance on the Han army, but it also deepened the contradiction between the original Xianbei and The Han, and the Yuwen clan must have a strong heir to hold many strong generals.
After the Northern Wei was divided into two, the strength of the Western Wei was actually much inferior to that of the Eastern Wei, not to mention that the Liang Dynasty in the south was not easy to deal with.
When Yuwen Tai was not yet dead, Gao Yang of Eastern Wei and his brother Gao Cheng were ready to seize the throne, and the strength of Eastern Wei was not only far stronger than that of Western Wei, but also Gao Yang's own ability was very prominent.
After that, Gao Yang seized the throne and proclaimed himself emperor to establish Northern Qi, so that Rouran, Khitan and Turks submitted one after another, which Yuwen Tai already knew in his chest that his opponents were not easy to deal with, so he definitely did not dare to take risks easily.
Thinking about it, he still handed over the Yuwen clan to his more capable nephew Yuwen Hu to do a proper job, but Yuwen Tai did not expect that Yuwen Hu would then get rid of his sons one after another, until Yuwen Yong succeeded to the throne.