Yuwen Tai and Yuwen Yong achieved the last hegemony of the Xiongnu

Before reading the "Biography of Sui and Tang Heroes", I always thought that the second good Han Yuwen Chengdu of the Great Sui Dynasty was a descendant of the Western Zhou royal family. However, after carefully checking the information, I really felt sorry for this brilliant royal family! Yuwen Tai was from a miscellaneous hu, a xiongnu subordinate, and later belonged to the Xianbei Alliance. "Liu Xiang originally did not read"! As Shi Le said, when he met Han Gaozu, when he charged into battle, he bravely drove forward. Yuwen Tai was truly remarkable: countless peasant revolts, and how many established their own dynasties? Yuwen Tai is indeed amazing, and can be called another Han Gaozu-style figure.

Yuwen Tai (507-556), also known as Black Otter, whose ancestors were Xiongnu, later submitted to the State of Yan and the State of Wei, so their family migrated to Wuchuan (present-day Wuchuan, Inner Mongolia). After the Western Wei Zen Zhou, he was posthumously honored as King Wen, with the temple name Taizu, and in the first year of Wucheng (559), he was posthumously honored as Emperor Wen.

During the Six Towns Uprising, Yuwen Tai joined the rebel army. After Erzhu Rong suppressed Ge Rong, Yuwen Tai moved to Jinyang with the usual example, and Erzhu Rong's subordinates took He Bayue under his command. In the third year of Yong'an (530), Erzhu Tianguang and He Bayue entered Guanzhong to suppress the Wan Qian ugly slave rebellion, and Yuwen Tai followed He Bayue to pacify Guan long. In the third year of Yongxi (534), Hou Mochen Yue, who was loyal to Gao Huan, killed He Bayue at Pingliang, and Yuwen Tai continued to command his troops, defeated Hou Mo Chen Yue, and attacked east to occupy Chang'an. Emperor Xiaowu of Wei appointed Yuwen Tai as a general, a general of the Yongzhou Assassins and Shangshu Ling. The following year, Yuwen Tai killed Emperor Xiaowu, established Yuan Baoju as emperor (Emperor Wen), changed the yuan to the throne, and served western Wei, and the power was actually in the hands of Yuwen Tai.

Yuwen Tai's greatest talent is to be good at strategizing and commanding. Militarily, he mainly relied on the townspeople from Beizhen, especially Wuchuan. In the fourth year of the reign (538) and the ninth year (543), Yuwen Tai twice marched into Luoyang, both of which were defeated by the inferiority of Eastern Wei. So he shifted his focus to internal rectification and reform in order to enhance national strength. He implemented the equalized field system and developed agricultural production. The implementation of the "prefectural military system", with the pillar state, the great general, and the Kaifu commanding the army step by step, eliminating the traces of the primitive tribal soldiers and civilians. On the basis of the increase in national strength, in the second year of the abolition of the emperor (553), the southern Liang Dynasty was in civil unrest and attacked Shu. In October of the following year, he sent troops to attack Jiangling, killed Emperor Yuan of Liang, and established Xiao Cha as a puppet, laying the foundation for the later unification of Zhou and Sui.

In the ninth year of the reign (543), at the Battle of Yaoshan, Yuwen Tai led his army to attack the mountain in the dark of night, which was unfavorable. Western Wei's financial strength and strength were inferior to Eastern Wei's, and his military strength was mainly defensive, for example, he once relied on Yubi City (now southwest of Jishan Mountain, Shanxi) to resist Eastern Wei many times to attack. The Western Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Wei Dynasty were roughly bounded by the Yellow River.

Looking at the Western Wei generals, Zhao Gui, Hou Mo Chen Chong, Yu Jin, and others were all old subordinates of He Bayue's army, Li Bi and Dou Luning were all originally Hou Mo Chen Yue's generals, Du Guxin and Yang Zhong first followed He Basheng, and later followed Wei Xiaowu Emperor into The Pass, and He Basheng himself later entered Western Wei from Liang; Wang Sizheng had always been the sworn enemy of Emperor Xiaowu of Wei. Most of these people were not of the Yuwen clan at the beginning, and many of them had a reputation and merit even higher than Yuwentai, but they were unified by Yuwentai and gradually showed their own unique talents, and they were willing to be used by Yuwentai. Obviously, this has a lot to do with Yuwen Tai's personal charm and cage tactics.

Yuwen Yong

While absorbing generals from all aspects of the former Northern Wei Dynasty, Yuwen Tai also paid attention to the cultivation of the second generation of generals, on the one hand, actively in order to integrate the Guanzhong clan into the regime, elected the sons of the big clan as generals, and among these people emerged young generals such as Jingzhao Wei Xiaokuan; on the other hand, there were also many outstanding generals among Yuwen Tai's sons and nephews: Yuwen Dao and Yuwen Xian were able to act alone, Yuwen Zhi guarded the family with moderation, and Wei Chiyuan later swept away Bashu.

Looking at the Yuwen family at this time, the bloodlines of the Xiongnu and Xianbei have been completely integrated, and later the step-by-step Sinicization has promoted the glory of this family!

After infighting among the Yuwen family, Yuwen Tai's fourth son Yuwen Yong (543~578) finally came to power, and he reigned in small characters Miluotu, reigning from 560 to 578, with the title of Emperor Wu. His great name in history is derived from the destruction of the Buddha. In fact, his military exploits were not inferior to those of Emperor Taiwu of Wei at all!

In the fourth year of Jiande (575), Yuwen Yong and Yuwen Xian, the King of Qi, plotted against the consensus of the people, decided to cut down Qi and personally lead the army to besiege Jin Yongcheng (Luoyang), but they had to return to the dynasty because of illness. The following year, he led a large army to conquer Pingyang (Linfen, Shanxi). He eventually lost the siege of Jinyang (southwest of Taiyuan, Shanxi), and later heeded Yuwen Xin's advice to "survive in death and win in defeat" and finally conquered Jinyang.

At this time, the Turks were strong, so they set their sights on the two southern regimes of Northern Qi and Northern Zhou. Yuwen Yong had to marry a Turkic princess, and after the destruction of Qi, in the first year of Xuanzheng (578), Yuwen Yong led an army to cut down the Turks in five ways, and died of illness before he could set out.

It should be known that at this time, if the Turks are successful, the Sui and Tang dynasties will appear early. Yang Jian is the greatest Chinese emperor in the eyes of Westerners, and during the opening of the Sui Dynasty, the territory was vast and the peak of agricultural civilization in human history. Yang Jian was revered as the "Sage Khan". Yuwen Yong did not die, and China's greatest deeds were probably not Yang Jian's turn. Later, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang used many Hu generals to take the town of Biandu, which eventually led to the Anshi Rebellion. If the Northern Zhou Dynasty had finally unified China, there would have been no such nightmare. After two hundred years of wealth accumulation in China, will the victory or defeat of this war related to the boundaries of later civilization be another situation?