Yuwen Yong, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was a rare hero in the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, who destroyed Northern Qi and unified the north, refreshing the historical trend of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. However, Yuwen Yong's biggest shortcoming is that his life is short, and he left at the critical moment when he was most needed to take charge of the overall situation.
After Emperor Wu's death, Jiangshan was lost to Yuwen Yun, the prince of the waste firewood, who became Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou.
After Emperor Xuan came to the throne, he did an unprecedented feat, which still makes people who read history smack, what happened?
This kid thinks that one queen is not addicted, and he engaged in a "five queens and seals" and canonized five queens, which also broke the record held by Liu Cong's "three queens and seals" in those years.
Friends who are familiar with history should know that although the emperor in ancient times could have countless women, the empress, as a full wife, could only have one. No matter how bullish the emperor you are, the empress is one, the concubines can be more, and the empress cannot.
Liu Cong is a Xiongnu, originally a barbarian, and does not disdain the Han family etiquette system in the Central Plains, three empresses are three, he is happy. Emperor Xuan of Zhou was a northern power that inherited the traditional territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, and it was a bit excessive for him to fool around like this.
Emperor Xuan's official empress, Yang Lihua, was called Empress Tianyuan and was Yang Jian's daughter. Under Yang Jian's manipulation, he made a political deal and married his daughter to Emperor Xuan. After Yang Jian usurped the throne, she was named Princess Leping, but Yang Lihua resolutely opposed her father's usurpation and did not show mercy to her father. In the fourth year of the Sui Dynasty (609), Yang Lihua accompanied Emperor Sui on his tour of Zhangye, died of illness in Hexi at the age of 49, and was buried with Emperor Xuan Yuwen Yun.
The other four queens are:
Emperor Tianyuan Empress Zhu Manyue, a native of Wu County, Jiangnan, the biological mother of Emperor Jing of Zhou, died as a nun after Zhou's death, and died in the sixth year of Emperor Kai of Sui (586) at the age of 40.
Empress Chen Yueyi of Tianzhong, a native of Wuchuan, Daijun, the eighth daughter of Chen Shanti of the Shangzhu Kingdom, died as a nun in Zhou, and died in the first year of Tang Yonghui (650) at the age of 85.
Tianzuo Empress Wei Chi Fan, a native of Chang'an, Jingzhao, granddaughter of Chi Er, Duke of Shu, died as a monk in Zhou, and died in the fifteenth year of Emperor Kai of Sui (595) at the age of 30.
Empress Yuanleshang of Tianyou, a native of Luoyang, Henan, a child of the Northern Wei dynasty, and the second daughter of Yuan Sheng of the Yiguo Dynasty. Zhou died as a monk, and Tang Zhenguan died during the reign.
Although Emperor Xuan added the official Jin Jue to the five uncles, he was still very jealous in his heart, so he simply drove them out of the capital and let them return to their respective fiefs.
It was not until May of the second year of the elephant (580), when Emperor Xuan became seriously ill, that he urgently summoned five uncles back to Beijing. At this time, Yang Jian, the Duke of Suiguo in Beijing, had already entered the palace, and according to Emperor Xuan's meaning, he must have waited for the five imperial uncles to return, and they would be appointed as ministers to assist the young master, after all, their own family and you can rest assured.
However, the development of the situation was beyond his control, and that night, Emperor Xuan fell into a coma, and Liu Fang, the imperial doctor, Zheng Yi, the doctor of the inner history, and others appointed Yang Jian, the Duke of Suiguo, as an auxiliary minister, and was posthumously appointed to assist the young lord. Emperor Xuan died soon after at the age of 22 and was buried in the tomb.
Emperor Xuan was arguably the most unbearable among the emperors of Northern Zhou. Yuwen Tai and Xiaomin Emperor Yuwen Jue, Ming Emperor Yuwen Yu, and Wudi Yuwen Yong were all born in the chaotic era of the late Wei Dynasty, and they knew how difficult it was to fight the rivers and mountains. Therefore, they can strictly discipline themselves, be diligent and love the people.
Emperor Xuan, on the other hand, was born in the deep palace, grew up in the hands of women, and was castrated with wine all day, without any hardships, embarrassed by the great task, and it was really a big mistake for Emperor Wu to hand over Jiangshan to him.
The Book of Zhou records in detail Emperor Xuan's various bad deeds, such as his moodiness, changing orders and changing orders at night, and changing the system of imperial court rules and regulations according to his own preferences (national rules and rituals, changing the mood). The three dukes of the former dynasty were changed by him to the inexplicable four auxiliary officials (大前doubt, 大右弼, 大Zuofu, 大houcheng), and several empresses in the harem were even more strange, what is the great queen of Tianzhong, the great queen of Tianyou, the great queen of Tianzuo, etc., and so on.
Emperor Xuan usually called himself "Tian" to his subordinates, smeared the Tiande Hall where he lived with five-colored clay, sat side by side with several empresses in the harem, took the ceremonial vessels and food utensils in the temple to drink and feast, and also required his subordinates to fast for three days before asking him to see him, bathing and changing clothes before entering the palace.
Successive emperors only dare to call the Son of Heaven, Emperor Xuan's arrogance directly called the sky, and everything he uses is one level higher than the emperor, the emperor's standard is twelve, Emperor Xuan doubles, from carriage and horse ceremonial guards to banner drum music to costume decoration, all subject to twenty-four.
Emperor Xuan packaged himself as a heaven, which meant that he was supreme and would never allow anyone to be on an equal footing with him. Therefore, he was not allowed to use the characters high, big, upper, and heavenly, and even forbade the carriage to use spokes, forbade folk women to wear makeup, and the entire Northern Zhou society was in a dark miasma.
Every time Emperor Xuan summoned ministers, he only cared about the projects he was engaged in, and built civil works everywhere, but did not ask about governing the country and the people, pro-villains, distant wise ministers, suspicious and suspicious, greedy for money and lustful, mean and unkind, fierce and cruel...
All in all, you can add all the ugly words to him and definitely not wronged him. Because the records describing Emperor Xuan's evil deeds in the Book of Zhou are much richer than this, in the end, the historical official unceremoniously concluded with a weighty sentence:
The simplicity of the poor South Mountain is not enough to read it; With the pen of the Eastern View, he could not remember his sins, but he still obtained the first rank, and his son died, fortunately.
What do you mean?
In the vernacular, he couldn't finish writing his mistakes with the bamboo Jane of Guangnan Mountain, and he couldn't finish his crimes with the pen of Dongguan, but he still saved Xiangshang's head and didn't perish until his son, which is really lucky.
Such caustic words in the emperor's book are really rare, and the first half is similar to the "difficult book" in which Li Mi denounced the sins of the Sui Emperor in the "Sui Shu Li Mi Biography".
Emperor Xuan died, but what was left was a mess, and Yang Jian, the most advanced palace, forged his edict and began to ascend to the highest stage of power, which also completely changed the trend of Chinese history.
Yang Jian was a native of Hongnong, and the Hongnong Yang clan was a famous and famous family in ancient times, and Yang Jian claimed to be the 14th grandson of Yang Zhen, the imperial lieutenant of the Han Dynasty. In recent years, some people have verified that Yang Jian and the Hongnong Yang clan have nothing to do with each other, in fact, this kind of climbing high branches was common in ancient times, all in order to increase the legitimacy of his own emperor.
Whether Yang Jian is a Hongnong Yang clan is doubtful, but there is no doubt about one thing, that is, Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong was one of the twelve great generals of Yuwen Taifeng, Yang Jian was born as the second generation of officials, a member of the Guanlong aristocratic group, and grew up in the military region, do you think this kind of person can be mediocre when he grows up?
The facts also prove this, Yang Jian followed his father to join the military when he grew up, and shot his position one by one, to say that Yang Jian's status depends on his father's care, it is too unjust.
Just like Zhao Kuangyin's success is not entirely because of his father Zhao Hongyin, Yang Jian does have his own excellence, so that he can go to the end step by step in the chaos of the weekend, and also laugh to the end.
Yang Zhong was made a pillar state, a great sikong, and a suiguo duke for his military merits, and after his death, Yang Jian became a knight. It may be Yang Jian's martial arts strategy, which attracted the attention of Yuwen Xian, the king of Qi of the Northern Zhou imperial family, and persuaded Emperor Wu to kill Yang Jian several times to avoid future troubles.
Emperor Wu hesitated, so he asked the minister's opinion, and everyone wanted to leave a way back for themselves, so they said a few words for Yang Jian, which saved Yang Jian from the scourge of killing.
Emperor Wu thought about it and sent him to lead an army to conquer Jiangnan and seize the Jianghuai region.
After the death of Emperor Wu, the newly ascended Emperor Xuan Yuwen Yun married Yang Jian's daughter Yang Lihua as empress, and Yang Jian was promoted to the rank of state abbot, and was crowned a general and a great sima of the Pillar State, and since then he has been on the rise.
However, Emperor Xuan was not confused, and he was very jealous of him, the abbot, and he once told the empress Yang that I would kill your whole family sooner or later, and ambushed the killer in the palace, ready to kill Yang Jian immediately when he revealed his disobedience.
Yang Jian escaped death several times, and his psychological quality was excellent, no matter how Emperor Xuan provoked him and humiliated him, Yang Jian remained unchanged, reasonable, and did not lose the festival of courtiers, so that Emperor Xuan could not find an excuse to kill him.
Yang Jian also felt that this could not work, and sooner or later something would happen, so he took the initiative to ask for an official to be released, leaving the place of right and wrong in Chang'an, and temporarily avoiding for a while.
This move was in the hands of Emperor Xuan, and he was immediately appointed governor of Bozhou.
Before Yang Jian left Beijing, his subordinate Pang Huang advised him to take the opportunity to rebel and change the dynasty. Yang Jian held Pang Huang's hand and said, "The time is not ripe."
At this point, Yang Jian's desire to take Zhou Zidai has been fully expressed.
After Emperor Xuan abdicated, Yang Jian saw the opportunity to return to the capital, and he knew that something big was about to happen.
Sure enough, a year later, Emperor Xuandi was drunk and died. At this critical moment, Yang Jian was the first to enter the palace to greet him, and the first time he conspired with his close ministers to forge the edict, using himself as an auxiliary minister and serving as the prime minister to control the imperial government.
How will Yang Jian play his cards next, and will those Yuwen royal families sit idly by and watch Yang Jian usurp the throne and remain indifferent?
Obviously not, a bloody storm is inevitable.