After the establishment of Eastern Wei, Yuwen Tai, a friend next door, saw that the situation was not good, and he also learned from it, and quickly found a royal heir to be the emperor, and this person was Yuan Baoju.
Yuan Baoju can ascend this throne, and there is one more person to thank, and this person is Yuan Xiu. At that time, Yuan Xiu took his "Royal Escape Team" into Yuwen Tai's arms, originally thinking that he could show his strength this time, who knew that he was still too naïve.
"Black Otter" Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan can be said to be the "peerless double arrogance" at that time, and the two people do not look at each other well, but in terms of treating Yuan Xiu, the two people's views are surprisingly consistent, and they only put him there as a mascot, which makes the joyful Yuan Xiu very depressed, and simply plunges into Yuan Mingyue's gentle township.
Speaking of this Yuan Mingyue, as her name suggests, she looks very beautiful and is very liked by Yuan Xiu, but in fact, she is still Yuan Xiu's cousin. From the blood point of view, Yuan Xiu and Yuan Mingyue are of the same lineage, so Yuan Xiu has made his reputation stink so willfully.
Yuwen Tai is a person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, and he killed Yuan Mingyue when he had an opportunity. Yuan Xiuqi is that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas were born: he is also a son of heaven, Yuwen Tai is a courtier, and even his family affairs have to be taken care of, how can it be so reasonable! And Yuwen Tai felt that Yuan Xiu was not obedient and stabbed Louzi at every turn, and the contradiction between the two people became deeper and deeper. But how did the arm twist over the thigh, and in the end, Yuwen Tai's cup of poisoned wine was directly sent to Yuan Xiu to the Western Heaven, and Yuan Xiu also became the last emperor of Northern Wei.
In the Southern and Northern periods, the emperor died like a horse lantern, and the ministers of Western Wei howled twice, and they paid attention to the establishment of a new emperor. They set their sights on Yuan Xiu's nephew Yuan Zan, but at that time, a minister named Wang Shun advised Yuwen Tai to have a "sense of innovation", not to learn from Gao Huan to establish a little emperor, but to establish an older one. In this way, Yuan Baoju became the target of Yuwen Tai. In 535, Yuan Baoju ascended the throne in Chang'an, known as Emperor Wen of Western Wei.
Yuan Baoju is a relatively obedient emperor, after all, Xiao Shen is his own, and he has also seen the end of Yuan Xiu. He simply handed over all the power to Yuwen Tai, who let him do whatever he wanted, and the monarchs got along quite well.
At that time, Eastern Wei and Western Wei often fought, basically one small battle a year and three major battles. As the saying goes, "fight the brothers of the tiger, go into battle father and son soldiers", whoever can find a helper will have an extra chance of victory, and their eyes are on Rouran.
Rouran's national vitality is extremely tenacious, it can be said that he can't be beaten to death, and he was beaten by Tuoba Tao that year, but after a period of rest, he gradually became stronger. Western Wei and Eastern Wei both wanted to be good friends with Rouran, and for a while, Rouran became fragrant.
At that time, Rouran's leader, Anapi, he was very arrogant, and he wanted Yuan Baoju to marry his daughter as empress. But at that time, Yuan Baoju already had an empress, and he had a very good relationship with Empress Yifushi.
Yifushi was born into a famous family, her ancestor was the leader of the Tuyuhun regime, don't see her born with a golden key, but she is gentle and very frugal, so Yuan Baoju respects her very much. Although Yuan Baoju is very "Buddhist", it is inevitable that he will be depressed after being a puppet for a long time, but fortunately, the understanding Yi Fushi often comforts him. In this way, the relationship between the husband and wife became better and better, and Yifu gave birth to 12 children to Yuan Baoju in 15 years, which can be said to be the most prolific queen in history.
Anapi's request gave Yuan Baoju a headache, although he was very reluctant to marry his wife, but under the strong pressure of Yuwen Tai, Yuan Baoju was ruthless, abolished Empress Yifu, let her become a nun, and then made Princess Rouran Yu Jiulu empress, and sent a large amount of money and silk to Rouran. Rouran saw that Western Wei was still powerful, so he turned around and went to fight with Eastern Wei.
Rouran Grand Princess Yu Jiulu was only 14 years old when she married Yuan Baoju, and she thought that she could get Yuan Baoju's heart in the same years, but she was too naïve. She found that Yuan Baoju did not put down Yifu at all, which made her very jealous. Especially when she heard that Yuan Baoju actually let Empress Yifu secretly grow her hair, she instantly became angry and directly wrote a letter to Rouran, asking her father to support her.
When Anapi heard that his precious daughter had been bullied, how could he give up? With a mighty army, he crossed the Yellow River and began to attack Western Wei.
When the news reached Western Wei, everyone panicked for a while, saying that Rouran came this time to support Yu Jiulu. Yuwen Tai was annoyed when there was a war with Affinity, and Yuan Baoju couldn't help but defend himself: "How could Rouran attack Western Wei because of a woman? But everyone said so, what face do I have to meet the generals! In the end, he had no choice but to give Ephus death in exchange for Anapi's resignation.
When Yi Fushi finished reading Yuanbaoju's letter, she didn't cry or make trouble, but seemed very calm, and she said to the people sent by Yuanbaoju: "I hope that the emperor can live for tens of thousands of years, the world will be rich and peaceful, and I will have nothing to regret after I die." After that, she calmly said goodbye to her son and ended her short life.
In this way, poor Yi Fu Shi gave birth to children for Yuan Baoju all his life, but finally ended up in such a miserable end.
Because the people of Ephus were beautiful and kind, and the people were very sympathetic to her plight, the stonemasons thought of a way, they built a Buddha statue on Maijishan and carved the face of Empress Ephus. In fact, during the Western Wei Dynasty, Maijishan had a boom in building Buddha statues, leaving behind many atmospheric Buddha statue grottoes, so Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes are one of the four major grottoes in China.
Don't think that Western Wei has manpower to build Buddha statues, and the common people will live comfortably. In fact, when the Western Wei Dynasty first founded, the common people had a miserable life, they could not eat enough, and they could not wear warm clothes. Yuwen Tai saw that the situation was not good, and if he did not engage in economic construction, the people would rebel.
Yuwen Tai himself was a small warfighter, so he was very experienced in managing the army, and he created a new system - the government military system. In Chinese history, there were two ways for the state to recruit soldiers, one was for the soldiers to feed themselves, and when the country had a war, it went to war, and when there was no war, it went to farm. The other is that soldiers are raised by the state, and soldiers only need to fight wars and do not have to do farm work.
At that time, Western Wei used the first method, but Yuwen Tai also made some small innovations, and it was precisely because of this little innovation that the military system could continue forever. How did he do it? He found eight people among the ministers and asked the emperor to make them generals of the pillar state. The first place on the list is himself, and in order to take care of the royal face, he found a prince Yuanyue as a representative and put a name on it. And the real masters of the army are the other six pillar generals, namely Zhao Gui, Li Hu, Li Yi, Yu Jin, Duguxin, Hou Mo and Chen Chong, all of whom have an army in their hands, and together they are called the sixth army.
Each pillar country has two great generals under him, and each general has two kaifu under him, and each kaifu has two yitongs under him, and each yitong leads a thousand soldiers, so that one layer manages one layer after another, forming the earliest fufu soldiers. In this, Li Hu is Li Yuan's grandfather, Li Bi is Li Mi's grandfather, Duguxin is Yang Jian's father-in-law, and Li Yuan's maternal grandfather, Li Yuan, Li Mi, Yang Jian, these are all famous figures in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After Yuwen Tai's innovation, those Longxi clans were obedient, laying the foundation for the creation of the Sui and Tang dynasties later.
After rectifying the army, Yuwen Tai began to "practice hard internal skills" again, and he selected Han people to participate in imperial politics, especially Su Qiu to preside over a series of reforms. There is also a short story about the acquaintance between Yuwen Tai and Su Xiao.
Once, Yuwen Tai took the ministers out on an outing, and asked some questions while playing, but these ministers were not clear, only Su Qiu was calm and calm, and he had to answer questions. Yuwen Tai discovered such a "treasure" as Su Qiu, and quickly asked him for advice on how to govern the country. Su Xiao met "Bo Le" and also said his thoughts, and the two hit it off and began to carry out reforms in Western Wei.
In the process of reform, Su Xiao reported his plan to Yuwen Tai, which is the famous "Six Edicts" in history. Yuwen Tai looked, wow! This is so good that he not only put the edict on his desk and took it out from time to time to flip through it, but also made all officials must understand, and those who do not understand cannot be officials.
Su Xiao was very good at arithmetic, that is, he knew economics very well, and he promoted the accounting and household registration management system in Western Wei. Among them, the "red out of ink" accounting method he created, we are all using it now. So what is "red out of ink"? That is, the two colors of red and black are used respectively to indicate fiscal expenditure and revenue, which is also the origin of our Chinese millennium "bookkeeping" system.
After the efforts of Yuwen Tai and Su Qiu, within a few years, Western Wei's strength grew very rapidly, gradually catching up with Eastern Wei.
In 551 AD, Yuan Baoju completed this life peacefully, and he was arguably the best puppet emperor in history, and he passed the throne to his son Yuan Qin.