Speaking of Yu Wenshi and, everyone may not be very clear, but if you mention his brother Yu Wenhua and, it is a well-known traitorous minister, Yu Wenhua and in the late Sui Dynasty launched the Jiangdu Rebellion, first the local anti-wang step by step to kill the Sui Emperor. So today we will explore why Yu Wenshi and his younger brother as Yu Wenhua were able to become prime ministers during the Tang Dynasty.
Yu Wenshi's father was named Yuwen Shu, who was not an ordinary person, but he joined forces with Yang Su to push Yang Guang to the throne, so that the Yuwen family was prominent at that time. As early as the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yu Wenshi, under the influence of his father Yuwen Shu, was made the Duke of Xincheng County by Yang Jian, and also married his granddaughter Princess Nanyang (Yang Guang's eldest daughter) to him, and then held positions such as Shang Ren Fengyu and Hongxu Shaoqing, although the official title was not very high, but as the son-in-law of the Sui Emperor, life was still very moist.
However, after Yu Wenhua killed the Sui Emperor and was defeated by the anti-king Dou Jiande, Yu Wenshi did not avenge his brother, but came to Guanzhong alone, that is, to defect to Li Yuan, who had already raised an army. How did Yu Wenshi and Li Yuan know him? It turned out that as early as the founding of Emperor Wen of Sui, when Yu Wenshi and Shang Yuan were serving as emperors, Li Yuan happened to be the official position of a young supervisor in the palace, and the two worked in the same place, and when they came and went, they became friends.
Therefore, when Li Yuan heard that Yu Wenshi and were coming to him, he was very happy. Not only was there a friendship between the officials of the same dynasty before, but also that after Li Yuan became emperor in Chang'an, he included Yuwen Shi and his sister in the harem and named him Zhaoyi, known in history as "Yuwen Zhaoyi". That is to say, Yu Wenshi and became the foreign relatives of the Li Tang royal family, and with these two layers of relations, Li Yuan's attitude towards Yu Wenshi and Yu Wenshi also changed, and the history books recorded it like this: "By seeing relatives, granting Yi Tong."
Later, Yu Wenshi did not choose to serve in Chang'an, but instead followed Li Shimin, the King of Qin, on a crusade to the west, and even restored his original title due to his military achievements. However, due to the death of his wife Princess Nanyang's father, Emperor Sui, at the hands of his brother Yu Wenhuahe, Yu Wenshi and his desire to reconcile with Princess Nanyang were rejected. Interestingly, after Li Yuan learned of this news, he married the lord of Shouguang County to him in Li Tangzong's room and was promoted to the general of the Qin Dynasty.
Finally, because of the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin, the King of Qin, became the later Tang Taizong, and the military generals who followed him were naturally to be rewarded with a large number of rewards, and Yu Wenshi was thus named the prime minister, and there are historical records: "Worship the Zhongshu Order, the true food Yizhou seven hundred households, with this official inspection school Liangzhou Governor." Although Yu Wenshi and the prime minister have not made any major mistakes, it is that their usual life is too luxurious, so after death, they are known as "indulgence".
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