Chapter 66 19. Yang Jian usurped Zhou Jiansui

The lyrics were known by Zheng Yi, a close confidant of Emperor Xuan, and played to Emperor Xuan.Emperor Xuan was furious and ordered the cane to be whipped.Don't think that spanking is not a big deal. The "Sacred System of Punishment" stipulates that the cane is called "Tianzhang".There is a limit of 120 strokes, one group for misdemeanors, that is, 120 strokes, and two groups for serious crimes, two hundred and forty strokes.The unlucky Yang Wenyou was beaten to death with two hundred and forty sticks.

No one in the Northern Zhou Dynasty dared to come out to persuade Emperor Xuan, and Emperor Xuan, who was having fun wantonly, failed to grow old.Emperor Tianyuan had only been working for more than a year. He was suddenly too sick to speak, and died within a few days at the age of twenty-two. (The Yuwen family, from Yuwentai, Yuwenyong, to Yuwenyun, all died of sudden illness without warning, which makes people suspect that it was caused by some terrible family genetic disease.) Emperor Xuan's son Jingdi Yuwenchan was only eight years old and knew nothing.Liu Fang and Zheng Yi, who were in charge of drafting the will, had long been in collusion with Yang Jian, the father of Queen Yang Lihua, and Duke Yang Jian.Queen Yang did not participate in this matter, but the most trustworthy person in the world is naturally her biological father, so she was also relieved, but unexpectedly led a wolf into the house.

Yang Jian was the son of Yang Zhong, one of the Twelve Generals.According to legend, when his mother Lu was pregnant with him, she went to a nunnery near Chang'an to offer incense, and gave birth to him that night in the nunnery.A nun who can read pictures said: "This child is extraordinary!" Hope to raise him on his behalf, so young Yang Jian spent his childhood in the nunnery. When Yang Jian became an adult, his appearance was truly majestic.According to the records in "Sui Shu", his face is shaped like a dragon's face, and there is a faint "king" on the palm of his hand.According to the tradition of historians, the founding monarch must have the appearance of an emperor, either by the affiliation of literati, or by the hype of the monarch himself and his supporters.Since the hype, there will be many stories.Zhou Mingdi once sent a face-mian named Zhao Zhao to meet Yang Jian. In order to protect Yang Jian, Zhao Zhao said to Emperor Ming: "Yang Jian is just a pillar of the country." He secretly told Yang Jian: "Brother, you should be the leader of the world. Lord, and you must kill a group of people to pacify the world, please remember my words." Yang Jian then behaved very low-key.

During the time of Emperor Wu of Zhou, there were more and more rumors about Yang Jian's "not being a subordinate". Yu Wenxian and Wang Gui reminded Emperor Wu successively.Emperor Wu didn't believe in the anecdote, and said impatiently: "If the destiny really belongs to Yang Jian, we can't prevent it!" Prince Yu Wenyun became in-laws with Emperor Wu.Emperor Xuan came to the throne, and Yang Jian was named Shangzhu Kingdom and Daqianyi, ranking first among the four assistants. After the death of Emperor Xuan, Yang Jian, with the help of Liu Fang and Zheng Yi, became Prime Minister of the Left, and took over the power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty overnight.Yang Jian, who has been hiding his powers and biding his time for many years, is a master of power and tactics. He knew that he must first control the Yuwen clan, so he summoned the five younger brothers of Emperor Wu of Zhou and Zhao, who was sent to other feudal vassals, on the grounds that Zhao Wang Yuwenzhao's daughter, Princess Qianjin, married a Turkic far away. Wang Yuwenzhao, Chen Wang Yuwenchun, Yue Wang Yuwensheng, Dai Wang Yuwenda, and Teng Wang Yuwenbu entered Chang'an.As soon as the five arrived in Chang'an, they were immediately guarded strictly, and were killed one by one soon after.

Within a month after Yang Jian was assisted in the administration, he did three things in a row: revise Emperor Wu's "Primary Book of Punishment" and promulgate and implement it to replace the strict "Sacred System of Punishment"; re-advocate frugality and practice it; The legitimacy of Taoism, former monks and Taoist priests are allowed to re-ordained.Emperor Xuan's misbehavior has already caused the Yuwen clan to lose their cohesion with the Guanlong Group and the northern aristocratic families.Yang Jian followed the trend and won quite a lot of hearts, including Wei Xiaokuan, a veteran of the Northern Saturday Dynasty, who all supported Yang Jian.

Only Wei Chijiong, the governor of Xiangzhou, Sima Xiaonan, the governor of Yunzhou, and Wang Qian, the governor of Yizhou, rose up against Yang Jian.Yu Chijiong is Yuwentai's nephew, Sima Xiaonan is the father-in-law of Emperor Zhou Jing, and Wang Qian is the son of the great general Wang Xiong. The three of them are favored by Yuwen's family and do not want to obey Yang Jian.Among them, the most threatening one was Yu Chijiong, who was over seventy years old and had a very high reputation. Yang Jian sent Wei Xiaokuan and others to replace him, and Yuchijiong was determined to make a final fight.The two veterans met on the battlefield, Wei Xiaokuan was superior in skills, and broke into Yecheng, the governor of Xiangzhou, and Yu Chijiong committed suicide.Yang Jian ordered that the city of Ye be burned down and the government of Xiangzhou be moved to Anyang in the south.During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Yecheng, the most prosperous city in the north, has since disappeared into the long river of history. (Of many of Yang Jian's actions in his life, this one is the most unforgivable.)

Yu Chijiong failed, and the other two had nothing to play with.Within two months, Wang Qian was defeated and beheaded, Sima Xiao went to Nanchen, and all the rebellions in various places were subsided. (Sima Xiaonan was also a characteristic figure at the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. As Gao Huan's son-in-law, Yu Wenchan's father-in-law, and sworn brothers with Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong, he was greedy and capricious by nature. In the four dynasties of Zhou, Chen, and Sui, Yang Jian finally destroyed Chen, and he was given an amnesty to die. It can be seen that not all wicked people have evil rewards.)

In February of the first year of Dading (581 A.D.), Yang Jian completed a series of procedures for accepting Zen and ascended the throne of emperor.In view of the fact that the word "Sui" is not auspicious enough, he removed the bottom of walking, named the country Sui, and changed Yuan Kaihuang to Emperor Gaozu Wendi of Sui.In less than a year, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty overthrew the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Among all the founding emperors who usurped the throne in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the transition period was the shortest. It is not unfair to say that he won the throne easily.

Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty took away the world of the Yuwen family, and killed all the Yuwen royal family.Twenty-five families of Yuwentai's descendants were slaughtered.Emperor Jing was killed after taking the Zen throne at the age of nine.Emperor Jing's two younger brothers were also killed.Even the offshoots of the Yuwen family were almost exterminated.This was the cleanest massacre of the royal family after Xiao Daocheng. Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, was sometimes too tolerant and sometimes too cruel.But killing Yuwen's family is not simply cruel, but has a deep meaning.

Yang Jian is the son-in-law of Zhuguo Duguxin. His father Yang Zhong followed Duguxin in his early years and served as Duguxin's deputy for a long time. He Basheng's former subordinate.After Dugu Xingong Gao was murdered, Yang Zhong didn't act outrageously like Hou Mo and Chen Chong, but he was very sad in his heart.After all, the friendship between Yang Zhong and Duguxin, a pair of "loyal and trustworthy men" forged through life and death on the battlefield for many years, is unimaginable to ordinary people.In that thrilling power struggle, although the He Basheng faction was temporarily defeated, Yang Zhong buried the hatred in his heart and passed it on to his son Yang Jian.After Yang Jian became emperor, he issued an edict to rehabilitate Dugu Xin, expressing the Yang family's sympathy and memory for Dugu Xin; and he killed the Northern Zhou clan and forced Wei Chijiong, an important figure in the Yuwen faction, to be regarded as He Basheng. A political vengeance waged by factions.It can be said that Yang Jian's usurpation of Zhou Jian and Sui Dynasty was the final settlement of the contradictions and grievances within the Guanlong Group for half a century. The Sui Dynasty was established, and the topic of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was coming to an end.The new policies implemented by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty actually belonged to the next great era—the Sui and Tang Dynasties—not within the scope of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.However, there are a few big things we have to mention.The first one is that Emperor Wen restored all the Xianbei surnames that were changed in the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the single surnames of the Han nationality, which completely ended the era of the Xianbei people, and the last Hu of the Five Hus also melted into the Chinese nation; the second one, Kaihuang In three years (AD 583), the first and most complete law in Chinese history, "Kaihuang Law", was formulated. This law is based on "Northern Qi Law", supplemented by the laws of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Most of the systems of the Sui and Tang Dynasties This is a typical example, inherited from the essence formed by hundreds of years of war in the Southern and Northern Dynasties; the third one is also the one that has the most profound influence on later generations. In the seventh year of Kaihuang (587 AD), Emperor Wen ordered all states in the country to select Three people took the exam. As a way to select officials, the Jiupin Zhongzheng System, which used family background as the selection standard for more than 360 years in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, completed its historical mission, and the imperial examination system for more than 1,000 years began. Each of these major events has epoch-making significance. It is not so much the greatness of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty as it is the rebirth of the entire Chinese nation after a long period of suffering. The birth of a new generation of civilization is bound to be accompanied by the passing of the old civilization.The last remaining bastion of Southern and Northern Dynasties civilization in the south - Chen Guo, will soon be swept into the dustbin of history. In the second year after Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty established the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Chen Xuan died of illness at the age of fifty-three.Prince Chen Shubao succeeded to the throne. He was the empress Chen who had the talent for governing literature but not the talent for governing the country.Facing the absolute advantage of the Sui Dynasty, Chen Shubao had only one countermeasure—peace is the most precious. In the seventh year of Kaihuang, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, who did not intend to reconcile, recruited Xiao Cong, the last monarch of Houliang, into Chang'an and destroyed Houliang. In the winter of the second year, he sent an army of 510,000 people, starting from the sea in the east, and reaching Ba and Shu in the west. , Attacking Jiangnan overwhelmingly.