The chaos of the Three Kingdoms ended in the Jin Dynasty, but the Western Jin Dynasty was stable for more than a hundred years, and the world entered a chaotic situation from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After the rise of Xianbei, the Tuoba Department established the Northern Wei regime and unified the north, and confronted the north and south of the Southern Liang. After the Northern Wei Dynasty was in turmoil, ** for the Eastern Wei (Gao Huan was in power), and the Western Wei (Yuwentai was in power). The rebellion of Hou Jing broke the balance of power between the three parties, the situation of the north being strong and the south being weak intensified, and the two Wei dynasties of the Northern Dynasties took the opportunity to occupy a large area of land of the Southern Dynasties. Later Northern Qi Dynasty Eastern Wei Dynasty (Gao family is the emperor), Northern Zhou Dynasty Western Wei Dynasty (Yuwen family is emperor), Southern Chen Dynasty Southern Liang (Chen Ba first emperor), Later Yang Jian established Sui, replaced Northern Zhou, and then defeated Southern Chen, unified the north and south of the world, and the land of China once again entered the situation of great unification.
The protagonist we want to talk about today Dugu Xin stood out in the chaotic background of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, leaving his own unique historical trajectory. even contributed a family of three queens, three generations are different deeds.
Dugu Xin (502-557 AD), formerly known as Dugu Ruwish, was a member of the Xianbei tribe, a native of Yunzhong County (now Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Lingel County), a general of the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties, and one of the Eight Pillars.
In the last years of the Wei and Jin dynasties, the world was in turmoil, and various ethnic minorities went south one after another to establish their own political power. At the end of the 4th century AD, the northern Xianbei Tuoba tribe sprung up, united with other tribes, rebuilt the country, changed the name of the country to Wei, and was known as the Northern Wei Dynasty in history. As one of the 46 tribes of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Xiongnu Dugu tribe had a prominent position and often married the royal family of the Tuoba tribe.
Dugu Xin was born in a family of Xiongnu nobles who were Xianbei. Legend has it that he was young and handsome. One day, Duguxin rode a horse to hunt outside the city, and when he came home, he was blown by the wind and crooked his hat, and was seen by the people in the city and thought he was very handsome, so the next day, the men in the city rushed to imitate each other, and they all wore hats crookedly.
Dugu Xin is skilled in archers and horses, strong in martial arts, and brave in battle. At first, he followed Ge Rong (the leader of the Hebei peasant rebel army during the Northern Wei Dynasty, who established the short-lived Guang'an Dynasty (September 526-September 528)) and made many military achievements. In 528, Ge Rong was defeated and killed by Er Zhurong (a powerful minister and military strategist of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who held great power alone, equivalent to Dong Zhuo that year), and followed Er Zhurong and was promoted to another general. In 533, he moved to General Wuwei.
With Gao Huan defeating the Erzhu clan, he abolished the filial piety of the Erzhu clan and set up the filial piety emperor Yuanxiu (the surname was changed to Yuan after the Tuoba Department). Emperor Xiaowu Yuan Xiu named Gao Huan as the prime minister, the king of Bohai, Gao Huan has since embarked on the road of power and became the second Er Zhurong.
In 534 AD, Emperor Xiaowu Yuan Xiu led the clan and ministers of Luoyang to move west to Chang'an for fear of the usurpation of the throne by the powerful minister Gao Huan, and defected to Yuwentai, who was guarding Guanxi. Dugu Xin abandoned his family and relatives, rode alone to protect the lord, followed Emperor Xiaowu to Chang'an, won the reputation of loyal ministers, and was named the prince of Fuyang County.
Gao Huan set up a new emperor, resulting in the Northern Wei Dynasty as the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty. Dugu Xin took command of the expedition and was appointed as the governor of the three Jingzhou military forces, the right servant of Shangshu, the southeast road Xingtai, and the Jingzhou assassin history, wanting to conquer the Eastern Wei Dynasty and recapture Jingzhou. Duguxin lived up to expectations, successfully pacified Sanjing, and sat in the southeast of the Western Wei Dynasty.
Half a year later, the two killers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Gao Ao Cao and Hou Jing, joined forces to attack, Dugu Xin was short of troops, outnumbered, because the retreat was cut off, Dugu Xin weighed again and again, and could only withdraw to the territory of Southern Liang. After living in Southern Liang for three years, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu remembered his loyalty and allowed him to return to the north, and Dugu Xin was able to return to Western Wei (it is said that Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu was really a good person, and the enemy country came to defect to him to entertain him, and even gave soldiers and horses).
In 537, after Duguxin returned to the Western Wei Dynasty, he followed Yuwentai to recover Hongnong, break Shayuan, and conquer Luoyang.
In 540, he was appointed as the assassin of Qinzhou, Zhenlongyou, with outstanding political achievements, famous for his integrity, and the common people were willing to belong to him, so Yuwentai gave the name of the letter.
Three years later, the Western Wei Dynasty suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Bishan, and Dugu Xin and Yu Jin successfully stopped Gao Huan's pursuers and made the Western Wei armies withdraw safely.
In 548, Dugu Xin was promoted to the rank of general of the Zhu Kingdom.
In 550 AD, after the Western Wei army marched eastward, Dugu Xin was promoted to the position of Great Sima.
In 557, Emperor Gong of the Western Wei Dynasty Tuoba Kuo Chan was located in Yuwenjue, the son of Yuwentai (Emperor Xiaomin of the Northern Zhou Dynasty), established in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
In the same year, the powerful minister Yuwen Hu abolished the establishment without permission, and Zhao Gui and Dugu Xin planned a coup d'état, but Dugu Xin refused, but in the end he was still forced to commit suicide by Yuwen Hu. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he posthumously presented Zhao Guogong with the nickname "Jing".
Duguxin's legend is not only his magnificent life, but also his three daughters have become the queens of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty for three consecutive generations.
According to historical records, Duguxin had 7 sons and 7 daughters.
The eldest daughter married Yuwenyu, and Yuwenyu ascended the throne and became Emperor Ming of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The eldest daughter was also made queen and was nicknamed Queen Spiegel.
The fourth daughter was married to Li Xin, the assassin of Anzhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and a general of the Zhuguo, who was the father of Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. She gave birth to four sons and a daughter. Later, Li Yuan was proclaimed emperor and named his mother "Empress Yuanzhen".
The seventh daughter, Dugu Jialuo, married Yang Jian, who founded the Sui Dynasty, and was named the Empress of Literature. Empress Wen is very politically talented and often participates in discussing national affairs, so the palace calls her and Yang Jian the two saints. In addition, she also insisted on the emperor's monogamy and had a lot of control over Yang Jian, so that Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian loved and hated her.
In addition, Dugu Xin's 7 sons have also been crowned marquis, and there is also a beautiful talk of "one family with three queens, and all seven sons are marquis".
The strongest father-in-law in history is also the hardest father. But the wheel of history has always been rolling forward, and the legend of Duguxin has finally become history, even those families that have been shining for hundreds of years have finally become the dust of history.