Northern Zhou was a dynasty that was inherently deficient: the entire dynasty had five emperors, but the only one who could really rule the political state was the third Emperor Yuwen Yong, and the rest were mostly puppet emperors.
Of course, the foundation of Northern Zhou was laid down by Taizu Yuwentai, but Yuwen Tai's life expectancy was not eternal, and before he could claim the title of emperor, he died of illness, and his temple name "Taizu" was posthumously honored by his concubine, Yuwen Jue, the first emperor of Northern Zhou.
Yuwen Jue actually did not have any talent, and the reason why he could be called emperor from Emperor Yuankuo of Western Wei was entirely under the control of his cousin Yuwen Hu.
That is, Yuwen Jue was both the founding emperor of Northern Zhou and the first puppet emperor of Northern Zhou.
The second puppet emperor of Northern Zhou was Yuwen Jue's brother Yuwen Yu (宇文毓).
Unwilling to be a puppet emperor, Yuwen Jue broke up with his cousin Yuwen Hu, and as a result, he was ousted from the throne and died mysteriously.
Yuwen Yu was not willing to be a puppet emperor, and broke up with his cousin Yuwen Hu, and was poisoned.
Yuwen Hu had no intention of establishing himself, and then appointed Yuwen Tai's fourth son, Yuwen Yong, as emperor.
Yuwen Yong was not willing to be a puppet emperor, but he knew how to cultivate obscurity, and endured for 12 years, taking advantage of his cousin Yuwen Hu's lack of preparation, suddenly broke out, killed him, and from then on he took sole control of the government, destroyed Northern Qi, unified the north, and pushed the national strength of Northern Zhou to the peak.
Just when Yuwen Yong was ambitious to go out to eradicate the Turkic plague, he died of illness at the age of 36.
In this regard, the suffering of Yuwen Yong, the Emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was quite similar to that of Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty hundreds of years later, both of whom were immortal heroes, and both had crazy actions to destroy the Buddha, and both died of illness when they were out of the school, which made people sigh.
Yuwen Yong died, and the throne naturally passed to his son Yuwen Yun.
Yuwen Yun was an unscrupulous son, and after ascending the throne, less than a year later, he gave the Zen throne to his son Yuwen Xian, who was only 7 years old, and he was happy in the palace as the Emperor Taishang.
A year later, Yuwen Yun collapsed and said goodbye at the age of 21.
The 8-year-old little emperor Yuwen Yan sat in the jiangshan, this situation, like an 8-year-old child guarding a super treasure, attracted countless careerists to covet.
Among them, the most prominent person is Yang Jian, the prime minister.
Some people will find it strange: even if the little emperor Yuwen Yan is young and can't keep the Jiangshan, then, isn't there other older people in the entire Yuwen family? Wouldn't they help look at the dots?
Yes, of course, there are many older people in the Yuwen family.
If nothing else, just to say that the sons of Yuwen Tai, the Taizu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there are five kings, such as Yuwen Zhao the King of Zhao, Yuwen Chun the King of Chen, Yuwen Sheng the King of Yue, Yuwen Da the Dai Wang, and Yuwen Kui the Prince of Teng.
Among these people, Yuwen Zhao, the King of Zhao, was the seventh son of Yuwen Tai, the Taizu of Northern Zhou, who was quite literate and martial, and had followed Emperor Wu in his eastern conquest of Qi, and led an army with Yuwen Xian, the king of Qi, to conquest Of Hu, and made many military achievements.
However, at the beginning of the succession of the Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Yun, he was jealous of his uncles and not only killed Yuwen Xian, the King of Qi, but also expelled the five kings, including Yuwen Zhao the Prince of Zhao, from beijing to the fiefdom.
This made the Jingshi no longer have the powerful Yuwen clan disciples to sit in, and Yang Jian calmly stole the authority after Yuwen Yun stomped his legs.
Of course, this is not the worst.
The most tragic thing was that when Yuwen Yun was seriously ill, he recruited the five kings of Zhao, Chen, Yue, Dai, and Teng to return to Beijing to assist the government. This in turn made the five kings like dragons leave the sea and tigers leave the mountains, and there were no troops to compete with Yang Jian; this lone entry into Beijing was tantamount to birds and finches throwing nets, and being easily killed by Yang Jian.
As a result, Yang Jian no longer had any worries, deposed Yuwen Xian in 581 AD, established himself as emperor, and established the Sui Dynasty as Emperor Wen of Sui.
Yang Jian's methods were fierce, not only poisoning the young grandson Yuwen Yan, but also beheading all 59 male Ding of the Yuwen clan.
Before Yuwen the Prince of Zhao was recruited to beijing, he left his youngest son in the fiefdom. Chi Yuan, the governor of Xiangzhou, supported this son to raise an army and call Yang Jian.
Later, Wei Chi was defeated, and Yuwen Zhao's younger son naturally did not survive.
Yuwen Zhao, the King of Zhao, had a daughter who was given the title of Princess of Qianjin in the year of Yuwen Yun's ascension to the throne, and Xu was assigned to the Turks and relatives.
Yuwen Yun did not have the great talent of his father, Emperor Wu, Yuwen Yong. A few months before his death, Emperor Wu Yuwen Yong was also confident enough to lead an army to quell the Turks. However, a few months after the death of Emperor Wu Yuwen, Yuwen Yun summoned the most brilliant and beautiful cousin Princess Qianjin to yuwen the King of Zhao and gave it to the Turkic leader Sha Baoliu Khan Ashina Regtu as his wife.
Princess Qianjin was sent out in February 580, and a year later, in February 581, Yang Jian wantonly killed the kings of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty.
When the bad news came, Princess Qianjin was devastated, and she vowed to avenge the hatred of this country.
She blew a pillow wind to her husband, Sha Baoli Khan, and asked Sha Baoli Khan to send troops to invade Sui.
As a result, the Turks officially declared war on the Sui Dynasty.
Sha Baoli Khan declared: "I was originally a relative of the Northern Zhou family, and now that Yang Jian has destroyed the Northern Zhou, if I still sit idly by, can I still be considered a man?" ”
He gathered 400,000 troops, played the banner of restoring the country for Northern Zhou, invaded from Mujiao and Shimen, and successively captured six cities including Wuwei, Tianshui, Anding, Jincheng, Shangjun, Honghua, and Yan'an, and Chang'an was shaken.
Fortunately, Sun Sheng, the deputy envoy who escorted Princess Qianjin out of Sai and Kiss two years ago, became a former red man of Yang Jianza.
After the end of the peace activities, Changsun Sheng lived in the Turks for more than a year, was familiar with the Turkic internal situation, knew that the Turkic tribes were not monolithic, and he suggested to Yang Jian: provoke the Turkic tribes by means of divisive measures.
Yang Jian followed the plan.
As a result, the Sui Dynasty's divisive scheme was extremely successful: Sha Baoliu Khan's uncle and nephew turned against each other, and Sha Baoliu fell into isolation, suffering from the enemy on his stomach and back, and his situation was increasingly embarrassing, and the prospects were not good.
Yang Jian was greatly pleased, and issued an edict declaring: "From the former Zhou and Qi to resist, the Central Plains were divided, and the Turks sat on the benefits of the fishermen and manipulated the situation. Northern Zhou and Northern Qi were suspicious of each other, fearing that the Turks would be biased toward each other, so they plundered the people and went to feed the jackals. The Turks were thus more greedy. The dynasty should attack the Turks and establish the majesty of the dynasty. ”
In this case, the 19-year-old Princess Qianjin realized the cruelty of reality and decided to put aside her national hatred and family hatred for the time being, and first helped her husband out of the predicament.
She wrote a handwritten letter to Yang Jian, saying that although she was a princess of Northern Zhou, she admired Yang Jian's Shengming very much and asked to be the daughter of the Sui Emperor.
Sha Baoliu also wrote a letter to be soft, and said: "The emperor is the father of the woman, that is, the weng, this is the female husband, that is, the child's case, although the two realms are different, love and righteousness are one." The present overlaps with the old, the children and grandchildren, and even the generations continue. Heaven is the proof, and in the end there is no violation. ”
Although Yang Jian shouted at the Turks to kill, he was also afraid of hitting the wolf with a hemp rod, and when he saw that the sand bowl was slightly soft, he borrowed the donkey from the slope, gave the princess Yang the surname, adopted her as an adopted daughter, and changed her title to Princess Dayi, asking her to understand the word "dayi" and take "and" as precious.
In this way, the two countries truce and the border is restored to tranquility.
In 587, Sha Baoliu fell ill and died, and was succeeded by his son Yonglu Dulan Khan (yehu Khan). According to Turkic customs, Princess Dayi married Dulan Khan, the son of Sha Baoliu.
In 589, Yang Jian destroyed the Southern Dynasty Chen Guo and ordered the people to give a screen of the empress dowager Chen Shubao to Princess Dayi, which was ostensibly a show of grace, but in fact contained deterrence.
When the princess saw the screen, she knew that Nan Chen had perished, Sui Yang was stronger and stronger, there was no hope of revenge, the restoration of the country was indefinite, the grief was inexplicable, and it was difficult to suppress her feelings, and she wrote a poem on the screen:
Rise and fall and wait for the dew, the world is like duckweed.
Glory is difficult to defend, and the pool platform will eventually be leveled.
Where is the riches now? Empty things write Danqing.
The glass of wine is always musical, and the strings are sung?
Yumoto's royal son, drifting into the imperial court.
Seeing success or failure, embracing the sky.
This is the case in ancient times, and it is not my only name.
Only "Ming Jun Qu" is partial to the distant marriage.
The person who came silently wrote down this poem and went back to recite it to Yang Jian word by word.
Yang Jian was silent, and he sneered.
Soon, Changsun Sheng sent an envoy to the Turks and issued an edict to revoke the title of princess of Dayi.
In order to contain Dulan Khan, Changsun Sheng asked Yang Jian to ration it to Tuli Khan as princess Anyi, helping one and beating one.
With the support of the Sui Dynasty, Tuli Khan defeated Dulan Khan.
After the defeat of The Khan of Touraine, he became angry and beheaded the princess.
The year was 596 AD, and the princess was only 33 years old.
Finally, although Yang Jian once issued an edict to the Turks to shout and kill, saying that "this dynasty should attack the Turks and establish the majesty of this dynasty", the Turks are too powerful. In the face of powerful opponents, he had to send money, gifts, and women for the cage. After Princess Anyi married Tuli Khan (later renamed Qimin Khan by Yang Jian), the princess was hung up less than two years later. Yang Jiansheng was afraid that Qimin Khan would not be happy, and quickly remarried Princess Yicheng.
The fate of this righteous princess is strikingly similar to that of Princess Qianjin.
After the death of Qimin Khan, she married three sons of Qimin Khan according to Turkic customs: Shibi Khan, Chuluo Khan, and Jieli Khan.
After the fall of the Sui Dynasty, Princess Yicheng vowed to avenge her family's hatred for the country, and repeatedly blew the pillow wind to her husband next to her pillow, asking her husband to lead an army into the Tang Dynasty.
The most rapid, fierce, and most destructive momentum of the Turkic invasion was the winter of Tang Wude's ninth year.
In that year, Li Shimin instigated the Xuanwumen Incident and ascended to the throne.
Taking advantage of the handover of the Tang dynasty, Jieli Khan personally led more than 200,000 troops, which were like a broken bamboo, and killed all the way to the outside of Chang'an City, and set up camp on the north bank of the Weishui Ben Bridge.
Li Shimin, dressed in tiger courage, rode a whip alone to the south bank of the Weishui Ben Bridge with a single whip, and talked with Jieli Khan across the river, and the two sides made an alliance of blood at the Ben Bridge and turned their swords into cloth.
After the Tang Dynasty escaped this disaster, Li Shimin gathered strength and waited for the opportunity, and when Xue Yantuo, Hui qi and other troops betrayed the Turks, he sent the famous general Li Jing to launch a swift and accurate blow against the Turks - suddenly killing the Turks' lair, executing Princess Yicheng on the spot, and capturing Jieli Khan.