In 552, a man named Changsun Sheng was born, and no one expected this person to influence the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and become the father-in-law of Li Shimin, emperor Taizong of Tang. At the same time, he was also a famous diplomat of the Sui Dynasty, and he alone reached a thousand armies, did not waste a single soldier, divided the Turks, and solved the great trouble for the Sui Dynasty.
In the earliest times, Changsun Sheng escorted Princess Qianjin as an emissary of the Zhou Dynasty and a pro-envoy to the Turks. Prior to this, Northern Zhou had sent dozens of emissaries to the Turks, but Sha Baoli Khan mostly despised him, but only favored Changsun Sheng and invited him to hunt and play together, and Changsun Sheng also stayed here for a year.
It turned out that Changsun Sheng was able to get the courtesy of khan because of his outstanding riding and shooting skills. If you don't know Changsun Sheng, you must know the idiom of "killing two birds with one stone", which is what Changsun Sheng left behind when he went to the Turks.
Once, when he was hunting with Sha Baoli Khan, he encountered two eagles fighting, and Sha Baoli Khan gave Changsun Sheng two arrows and said, "Please shoot them." Changsun Sheng only took one of the arrows, and one arrow shot down two eagles, and the Khan was overjoyed, and then asked him for advice on the art of riding and shooting.
In 581, Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, but the Sui Dynasty at this time was in ruins. In December of the same year, the Turkic Shabaoliu Khan attacked the Sui Dynasty on the pretext of avenging The Princess Qianjin of the Zhou Dynasty and launched a major attack on the Sui Dynasty.
At this time, Changsun Sheng offered the strategy of "attacking from afar and close to the strong, separating the strong from the weak", that is, to contact the Datou Khan and others in the west, isolate the Sha Baoliu Khan, and wait until the Turks have civil unrest and the Sui Dynasty will come again to fight, and the Turks can be easily destroyed.
In the years that followed, he became the executor of this plan. He lived in turkistan, befriended many Turkic nobles, and knew the shortcomings of turkic external strengths and fierce internal contradictions. He suggested to Emperor Wen of Sui that he first use the anti-plot to create contradictions within the Turks, and then slowly plot against them.
Subsequently, Emperor Wen of Sui sent emissaries to get close to Datou Khan and Tuli Khan, deliberately giving them more courtesy and rewards than Sha baoliu Khan. Sure enough, after such an operation, the relationship between these khans became tense.
Subsequently, in the friction with the Turks, Changsun Sheng continued to mediate and divide his internal forces, and finally in 585 AD, Sha Baoli Khan declared himself a vassal to the Sui Dynasty, and the territory north of the Sui Dynasty was temporarily stabilized.
It is not an empty phrase to say that Changsun Sheng was an outstanding diplomat, according to the Book of Sui: Once, Changsun Sheng accompanied the delegation on a mission to the Turks, with the purpose of giving princess Yang the surname of Qianjin and changing her name to Princess Dayi. However, when he arrived at the place, when Shabaoli Khan received the edict, he did not bow down to worship with his body.
At this time, Changsun Sheng said: "The Khan is a Turkic heavenly son, and it is okay not to perform rituals." But you are also the son-in-law of the Sui Dynasty Tianzi, where is the rule that the son-in-law does not give the father-in-law a salute? In a word, Sha Baoli Khan was speechless, and could only say that his father-in-law still wanted to worship. Then he knelt down and saluted and received the edict.
Changsun Sheng's influence on the Sui Dynasty was far more than that of the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian, and in the subsequent Sui Dynasty, when Yang Guang was besieged by the Turks, he was still thinking about the good of Changsun Sheng. This passage is recorded in the Book of Sui: "Five years, death, fifty-eight years old." The emperor mourned deeply, and the gift was very generous. After the Turks surrounded the Yanmen Gate, the emperor sighed: Xiang envoy Sun Shengzai, do not let the Xiongnu come here! ”
@Yiyang said history:
There is a question on a platform: "What historical figures have achieved great success, but few people know?" ”
In the following answer, the highest number of likes is about Changsun Sheng.
Changsun Sheng, this person made great contributions to the stability of the Sui Dynasty, and contributed a son and a daughter to the later Tang Dynasty of the Zhenguan Dynasty. Any of these achievements alone is enough to make a name for itself.
As a historical figure, Changsun Sheng is less well-known among the general public, probably because of the short existence of the Sui Dynasty itself, coupled with the fact that he was engaged in diplomatic work.
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