The emperor of the Sui Dynasty gave the fourteen-year-old Princess Yicheng and her relatives to the Turkic khan, who was sixty-five years old at that time. On the wedding day, the Turkic khan violently pushed Princess Yicheng to the ground, and the two spent the night in a very rude way. However, afterwards, Princess Yicheng held the arm of the Turkic khan and said, "I will love the khan all my life."
Although the Turks were subordinate to the imperial court, they gradually became a force that threatened the imperial court. For such an ambitious Turkic tribe, the imperial court could only disintegrate from within the people in order to save the people from war.
Therefore, the peace between the two sides has become the best way to avoid war and achieve the goal. This kind of political marriage is to use royal princesses to marry the head of a tribe, use feelings and marriage to check each other, or deepen the friendship between the two sides.
This chosen princess, when she embarked on the road of peace, she was not only a royal family, but also a bond with a heavy mission. What she wants to do is not only to win over the relationship between the tribe and the imperial court, but more importantly, to monitor the tribe's every move and spread the cultural ideas of the imperial court in the tribe.
The reason why Princess Yicheng was chosen to be married was also a last resort. Originally, it was Princess Anyi who was married, but Duke Anyi was weak and sick, and after he came to the Turks, he died of depression within a few years because of illness and longing. The Turkic khan was not satisfied with this, so he asked the emperor of the Sui Dynasty to send another princess who was kind.
The emperor of the Sui Dynasty was afraid of the Turkic forces and took into account his own reality. He had to agree to the request of the Turkic khan, so he chose a second princess who was close to him, Princess Yicheng.
Princess Yicheng is an heir of the clan family, not the true blood of the royal family. But as a descendant of the royal family, Princess Yicheng knows very well what her mission is.
In order to gain the favor of the sixty-five-year-old khan, Princess Yicheng not only did not show any dissatisfaction, but often praised the bravery and greatness of the Turkic khan.
Give the Turkic khan a feeling that he is helpless in a foreign country, and he is fortunate to find such a great husband, and he feels honored.
The Turkic khan could be said to be coaxed into joy, and gradually became gentle with Princess Yicheng. This also brought together the relationship between the Turks and the Sui Dynasty, so that the friendship that had dropped to freezing began to slowly warm.
Later, with the help of the Sui Dynasty, the Turkic khan unified the eastern and western tribes of Turk, so that the leaders of the entire Turkic tribe were unified.
Later the Great Khan died, and his son Shibi Khan succeeded him. According to the rules of the local tribe, his son could inherit not only all the property and status of his father, but also all his concubines.
So Princess Yicheng married Shibi Khan for the second time, and Shibi Khan has always been very dissatisfied with his father's willingness to lead the tribe to become a dependency of the Sui Dynasty.
He believed that the Turkic tribes already had the strength to fight the Sui Dynasty, and he could raise troops to attack the Sui Dynasty, even if it was not fully captured in the end, it could greatly expand the Turkic map plate.
But Princess Yicheng, who knew about this, could not sit still, if Shibi Khan raised an army to attack the imperial court, then his efforts for so many years would be in vain, and he would also become a sinner of the imperial court.
As his wife, Princess Yicheng has been doing ideological work with Shibi Khan subtly. Popularize the advantages of following the imperial court, and the disadvantages of going against the imperial court.
However, in 615, Shibi Khan officially denied the status of the Turks as a vassal of the Sui Dynasty and stopped paying taxes to the imperial court. And began to plan, raising troops to attack the Sui Dynasty.
In this year, Shibi Khan seized the opportunity to raise 100,000 troops in an attempt to capture Emperor Sui. By the time Princess Yicheng learned the news, 100,000 Turkic soldiers had already besieged Emperor Sui in the palace.
At this time, Princess Yicheng was very anxious, although she was the wife of the previous khan and now married to the second khan. But because she is a person with a foreign surname who came with her relatives, not a Turkic tribesman, there are not many forces she has attracted over the years.
If the Sui Emperor was forcibly rescued, not only would the chances of success be small, but it would also likely anger Shibi Khan. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to ensure the safety of the Sui Emperor.
So, Princess Yicheng came up with a clever plan, she sent people to lie that the Sui Dynasty soldiers took advantage of the Turkic raising of troops, the internal emptiness, and attacked the Turkic base camp in one fell swoop. Moreover, the reinforcements of the Sui Dynasty that besieged Emperor Sui were already on the way.
Shibi Khan, who learned of this news, was taken aback, believing that his plan was well planned and that he had raised troops quickly, and that the imperial court should not be on guard.
But at this time, there was no time to think about it, it must be more important to go home to keep his base camp, so Shibi Khan ordered the withdrawal of troops and returned to the base camp to sit and hold on.
Princess Yicheng saved Emperor Sui's life through a false military situation. Later, Princess Yicheng reconciled between the Sui Dynasty and the Turks many times, avoiding many wars.
Princess Yicheng has been contributing to the Sui Dynasty all her life, but unfortunately the Sui Dynasty has long been unpopular and the general trend has passed. Nevertheless, her life is also admirable.
