How Yang Jian was refined

Portrait of Yang Zhen).

Yang Jian, whose name is Luo Yan, according to his own introduction, is the fourteenth grandson of Yang Zhen, the Taiwei of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Yang Zhen is a great Confucian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, known as "Little Confucius of the Eastern Han Dynasty", if Yang Jian is after Yang Zhen, it can be regarded as a famous family.

Of course, this is just Yang Jian's self-proclaimed.

His fourth ancestor, Yang Yuanshou, was Sima (local military governor) of Wuchuan Town in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and his father, Yang Zhong, was the Grand Sikong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was divided into three kingdoms, and the three kingdoms were unified under the Jin Dynasty.

There was the rebellion of the eight kings in the Western Jin Dynasty, and there were five chaos in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so after a short period of unification of the two Jin Dynasty, the land of China began again.

In the south of the Yangtze River, there are Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen four regimes alternately, and the fertile soil of the Central Plains was originally the dominant family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then the Northern Wei Dynasty was the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty.

The head of the Eastern Wei Dynasty is the powerful minister Gao Huan, and the head of the Western Wei Dynasty is the powerful minister Yu Wentai.

After that, Gao Huan's son Gao Yang established the Northern Qi on behalf of the Eastern Wei, and Yuwentai's son Yuwen Jue established the Northern Zhou on behalf of the Western Wei.

And Yang Jian's father, Yang Zhong, is the worker of the Yuwentai family of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Yang Jian was born in the seventh year of the Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty, in 541 AD.

Yang Zhong image).

According to the later records of the Book of Sui, we can know that when Yang Jian was born, purple qi came from the east, dark clouds were thick, thunder and lightning, anyway, everything was heralding that the birth of this child was unusual.

The author is very skeptical of this account.

Zizhi Tongjian" said that Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was born to be able to climb a tree, and his jumping ability was close to that of a national high jumper, and "Ming Taizu Record" said that when Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was born, the house was full of red light, so that the neighbors next door thought that Zhu Yuanzhang's house was on fire, and hurriedly came to the rescue.

What's wrong? With this kind of heavenly vision, all of them have caught up with your emperor comrades?

But no matter what, our Yang Jian children finally landed safely and came to this world.

Because Yang Jian's father, Yang Zhong, was a big official in the Western Wei court, and followed the Yuwen family to fight in the south and the north, he also made a lot of contributions, and Yang Jian relied on his father Yang Zhong's door to enter the office, and he was even more prosperous.

In the second year of Emperor Gong of the Western Wei Dynasty, in 555 AD, Yang Jian served as the general of the chariot cavalry.

In the fourth year of Emperor Gong of the Western Wei Dynasty, in 557 AD, Yang Jian served as the general of the hussars.

The Western Wei Dynasty was a short-lived regime, and soon after the fall of the Western Wei Dynasty, Yuwenjue established the Northern Zhou Dynasty on the basis of the Western Wei Dynasty and became Emperor Xiaomin of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

When Emperor Xiaomin was in power, there was a powerful minister named Yuwen Hu in the Northern Zhou Dynasty who was a ruthless man and wanted to be the emperor, before that, in order to support Yuwen Jue, he had killed a Western Wei Gong Emperor Tuoba Kuo, and soon after, he successively killed the founding emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Jue, and the emperor Yu Wenyu, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Yuwen Hu image).

Killing an emperor a year can be called a "professional dragon slayer".

Before Yu Wenyu died, he passed the throne to his younger brother, Yu Wen Yong, that is, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Hu's power can be said to be extremely inflated, and he was the only one above the court.

At this time, Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong had passed away and received a bento, and Yang Jian had already received his father's official position and became a prince of Suiguo in the imperial court.

At this time, Yang Jian was also close to middle age, with both children and daughters.

Among his children, there is a daughter named Yang Lihua.

Yang Lihua is knowledgeable and generous, Emperor Wu of Zhou likes it very much, but Emperor Wu himself is not close to women, so he married Yang Lihua and made the princess of Prince Yu Wenyun.

In this way, the relationship between Yang Jian and the royal family is extraordinary.

The daughter married the emperor's son, so Yang Jian and the emperor became in-laws.

became an in-law, which means that Yang Jian has become an imperial party.

And Yang Jian, who was an emperor of the party, was soon targeted by the powerful minister Yu Wenhu.

Yuwen Hu has wanted to harm Yang Jian several times, but thanks to our Comrade Yang Jian's great fortune, he didn't die by luck.

Portrait of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong).

However, this kind of harm did not last long, because the Martial Emperor Yuwen Yong, who was obscure, quickly launched a counterattack and killed Yuwen Hu with jade with his own hands in the court.

As soon as Yuwen Hu died, Yang Jian's power in the court became stronger and stronger, but Emperor Wu Yuwen Yong trusted him very much.

You and I are in-laws, and you have married all your daughters to my son, what else can I not trust you?

Although the emperor trusted Yang Jian very much, the emperor's younger brother, Qi Wang Yu Wenxian, saw the difference between Yang Jian.

"Pu Liurujian looks very good, and every time he sees it, he doesn't feel lost. I'm afraid it's not human, please get rid of it as soon as possible. —Book of Sui

Unexpectedly, Emperor Wu of Zhou Yu Wenyong was very confident, and after listening to Yu Wenxian's words, he only replied gently:

"There will be a destiny, what will be! —Book of Sui

The emperor was confident, but he didn't understand a truth, and that is:

The so-called mandate of heaven is actually man-made.

At this time, self-confidence is self-digging in the future.

In the first year of Xuanzheng, in 578 AD, a generation of male lords of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wu Yuwen Yong, returned to the sky.

Northern Zhou Emperor Xuan Yu Wenyun image).

Yu Wenyong's son, the new emperor Yu Wenyun took office, known as Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Emperor Xuan has no virtue, and after becoming the emperor, he eats, drinks and has fun all day long, and he doesn't do anything at all.

The emperor often abused punishment and punished bureaucrats and ordinary people at will, resulting in darkness in the officialdom and sharp contradictions in people's livelihood.

Yang Jian's daughter Yang Lihua has become the queen of Yuwenyun at this time, so nominally speaking, Yang Jian is the national ruler of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the emperor's father.

With this layer of identity, Yang Jian's power in the Northern Zhou court has become more and more huge, and it has reached the point where it can threaten the imperial power.

At that time, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, had the means and courage, so he could suppress Yang Jian, but at this time, Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyun, was very unconfident in himself.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, usurpation of power and rebellion occurred from time to time, and mutinies and seizures were commonplace.

So, in order to never suffer from future troubles, the emperor summoned Yang Jian into the palace, and ambushed the knife and axe man in the palace in advance, and left an order, after Yang Jian entered the palace, as long as his complexion changed, and the thief's eyebrows and rat eyes changed, it means that this old guy has bad intentions.

Unexpectedly, Yang Jian entered the palace, saw Emperor Xuan Yu Wenyun, and immediately turned into facial paralysis, his face was not red, his heart was not beating, his eyes were not squinting, and the emperor could not find a reason to do it, so he had to let him go again.

In this way, Yang Jian knew that he would not stay in the court for long.

Instead of living in ** every day so worryingly, it is better to leave the place of right and wrong and go to the place to be an idle official.

So, Comrade Yang Jian worked in the imperial court and finally transferred himself from ** to the local work.

As soon as Yang Jian left, Yu Wenyun was relieved, he thought that since Yang Jian had withdrawn from the political table, he would no longer be a threat to the court, and he could have fun to his heart's content, and he didn't have to worry about who would snatch his power.

But after all, being an emperor is not better than being a pure rich second generation, even if the emperor is mediocre, you have to go to the early dynasty, you have to approve the excerpts, and even if you don't deal with state affairs, you have to dictate to the minister, "You watch and do it".

In order to get rid of this mode of work, the emperor did an amazing move.

Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen expounded the image).

He gave the throne to his seven-year-old son, Yuwen Yan, and he ran to the harem to live for a long time and never came out again.

Emperor Yu Wenyun was in the harem all day long, and his body soon went wrong, and he soon reached the point of dying.

Yu Wenyun is not stupid, knowing that his limit is approaching, I am afraid that he will not live for too long, so before he died, he found two ministers, planning to leave a testament, select a few ministers who take care of his life, and arrange his future government work.

The ministers that the Emperor Taishang came to talk to, one was Liu Fang, the doctor under the imperial government, and the other was Zheng Yi, the doctor in the internal history.

The emperor has no close ministers in the court, and this is already the most loyal minister the emperor can think of.

But unfortunately, these two ministers, their real identities, are Yang Jian's cronies.

What's even more unfortunate is that Yu Wenyun's body at this time has reached the point of devastation, and he is so sick that he can't say a word, so even if Liu Fang and Zheng Yi concentrated all their attention to listen, they didn't hear the emperor say a word.

There are no words for each other, only a thousand tears.

As a result, the monarchs and ministers stared at each other, and Yu Wenyun stared to death.

As soon as the emperor died, Liu Fang and Zheng Yiyi combined, since the emperor didn't leave a word, how to write the edict, isn't it our little brother who makes his own decisions?

Therefore, it is not surprising that the two ministers decisively wrote on the edict that Emperor Yu Wenyun personally ordered Yang Jian to assist the government.

After all, it was mixed under Yang Jian's hands, who would Yang Jian write if he didn't write?

So, because of this edict, our Comrade Yang Jian returned to the local government from the local government, accepted the edict, and became the auxiliary prime minister and prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

It's no wonder that Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Xian, was only seven years old, and Yang Jian entered the court, not yet as his home, sitting on his master, how to come.

And the young Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, what is his fate, I don't need to say more.

Portrait of Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian).

In the first year of Dading, in 581 AD, Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Xianchan was located in the prime minister Yang Jian, Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty on behalf of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and in that year, he was already forty years old.

At forty years old, he is no longer young.

But at forty, he still has a lot of time.

The era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties has come to an end, and a new era seems to be coming.

History, in this special time node, chose Yang Jian.

Of course, even if there is no Yang Jian, there will be Li Jian, and Zhang Jian will also complete the mission given by history.

Overthrow the old empire, establish a new dynasty, and forge your own legendary life.

But we also know that history, while a hospitable host, never allows a guest to take its place.

History is not something that can be dominated by one person or a group of people.

Those American personal heroism is pure, and the only thing we can believe is in five words:

The times make heroes.