Chapter 143: Yu Wenyun
The Northern Zhou Dynasty inherited the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty and was established by Emperor Xiaomin of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but the government was controlled by his cousin Yuwenhu, and Emperor Xiaomin of Zhou intended to unite with Zhao Gui and Dugu Xin to overthrow Yuwenhu. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 However, he found out that Zhao Gui and Dugu Xin were killed, and Emperor Zhou Xiaomin was deposed and then killed in the following year.
Yuwen Hu changed Yuwen Yu as the emperor, that is, Emperor Zhou Ming, but poisoned Emperor Zhou Ming and renamed Yuwen Yong, that is, Emperor Wu of Zhou. Emperor Wu of Zhou was a wise and majestic man, and during his tenure he promoted many reforms, making the Northern Zhou Dynasty more powerful.
Emperor Wu of Zhou conquered the mediocre and chaotic Northern Qi in the east, conquered Yecheng in the following year, and the Northern Qi perished. After Emperor Wu of Zhou unified the north, he was attached to Li Delin and other Kwantung clans, and his momentum was huge.
The Northern Zhou Dynasty used Confucianism as an ideological weapon to remove some backward customs of the Xianbei people and abandon the empty rhetoric that was all the rage. Yu Wenyong focused on cultivating a large number of people with Confucian ideas as the pillars of the regime. During the reign of Yuwen Yong, he also recruited a large number of Han people as a source of soldiers, and made the soldiers of the Han and Xianbei tribes know how to coordinate operations. Unlike the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Xianbei people were jealous of the Han people, and the Han people were afraid of the Xianbei people.
Yang Jian is the son of Yang Zhong, the founding father of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and his daughter is the crown princess. He was absurd and mediocre, superstitious about Buddhism and Taoism, and set up five queens and took wives, he killed the clan hero Yu Wenxian and withdrew the kings to the country.
Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, was a martial artist, Shen Yi and wise, he destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty and attacked the Southern Dynasty, and was a rare good emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. And his son Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyun, did not inherit his father's mantle, and collapsed the Northern Zhou Dynasty in just two years, one of the most absurd things is that the five queens stand side by side.
Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyun, had a total of five empresses, and let these five empresses stand side by side, which is unprecedented in Chinese history. His five queens are the Great Empress of Tianyuan, the Great Empress of Tianzhong, the Great Empress of Tianzuo, and the Great Empress of Tianright.
Tianyuan Empress Yang Lihua, Yang Lihua's eldest daughter of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, was born to Emperor Wen of Sui and Empress Dugu, the sister of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, she married the then prince Yu Wenyun as a concubine, and was thirteen years old at the time. With Yu Wenyun's accession to the throne, he became the queen. Yang Lihua has a gentle personality and no jealousy, even if the five queens stand side by side, she has no complaints, so she is respected by other queens and concubines.
But the absurd emperor Yuwenyun was moody and always blamed her for no reason and wanted to impose charges on her, but Yang Lihua did not give in, and Yuwenyun forced her to commit suicide. Fortunately, Yang Jian's wife Dugu entered the palace to kowtow to Yuwenyun to intercede, and until there was bleeding on her head, she saved her daughter. Yang insisted on being the emperor, named Yang Lihua as the princess of Leping, and asked her to remarry, she swore to die, Yang Lihua died in Hexi when he accompanied Emperor Yang of Sui to the west to tour Zhangye, at the age of forty-nine.
Tianda Empress Zhu Manyue, Zhu Manyue is the mother of Emperor Jing Yu Wenyan, who did not enter the palace because of the guilt of her family, and was assigned to the East Palace to manage the clothes for Yu Wenyun, who was still the prince at the time, and was fortunate to give birth to Yu Wenyan.
Because Zhu Manyue was twelve years older than Yu Wenyun, and he did not enter the palace as a son of a good family, his status was quite humble, Yu Wenyun gave up the throne to Yu Wenyan and called himself Emperor Tianyuan, because Zhu Manyue was the emperor's mother, and she was canonized as Emperor Tianyuan, and later changed to Empress Tian, and then changed to Empress Tianda, whose status was second only to Yuwenyun's Yuan match Yang Lihua. After Yu Wenyun passed away, Yu Wenyan called her the empress dowager, Yang insisted that she was the empress, and Zhu Manyue became a nun and died at the age of forty.
Tianzhong Empress Chen Yueyi, Chen Yueyi is the eighth daughter of the general Chen Shanti, was elected to the palace, named Concubine De, a month later, named Tianzuo Empress, the next year changed to Tianzuo Empress. Later, Yu Wenyun favored Yu Chi Chifan again, so he increased the position of the queen of heaven and named Chen Yueyi the queen of heaven. After the death of Yu Wenyun, Chen Yueyi became a nun and passed away in the early years of Tang Gaozong Yonghui.
Tianzuo Empress Wei Chi Chi Fan, Yu Chi Chi Fan is the granddaughter of Shu Duke Yu Chi Fan, originally the concubine of Duke Yuwen Wen of Xiyang, with a beautiful appearance, when she entered the court as a royal couple, Yu Wenyun gave her wine to get drunk and forcibly humiliated her.
Her husband Yu Wenwen was executed after being charged with treason by Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Wei Chi Chifan was summoned to the palace and named the eldest concubine. Later, she was canonized as the Great Empress of Tianzuo, and became a monk after the death of Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou, and died fifteen years after the opening of the Sui Dynasty at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.
Tianyou Empress Yuan Le Shang, Yuan Le Shang is the second daughter of Kaifu Yuan Sheng, was elected to the palace at the age of fifteen, canonized as a concubine, and later canonized as the right queen of Tian, and was canonized as the right queen of Tianyou. After the death of Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuan Leshang became a monk and did not die until the Tang Dynasty.
Yu Wenyun of the Northern Zhou Dynasty ascended the throne and was known as Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong is Yuwen Yun's father, he has been strict with Yuwen Yun since he was a child, hoping that he can be a Ming Jun when he grows up, but Emperor Wu's education method is very problematic, which has been verified after Yu Wenyun ascended the throne.
Yu Wenyun was beaten a lot when he was a child, and as soon as his father found out that he had made a mistake, he would implement stick education. No matter how big or small the mistake is, Emperor Wu always talks about it first, and although Yu Wenyun is in awe of this father on the surface, he has already accumulated full of resentment in his heart, and he only waits for one day to vent it.
Stick education is a failure for Yu Wenyun, because he has been suppressed by his father for too long, his nature is like a volcanic eruption, and no one can suppress it. Yu Wenyun first aimed the spearhead of indulgence at the harem, he chose from the concubines left by his father to take the ones that he looked pleasing to the eye as his own, and he was too old to share the addiction of a woman with his father, and his father's revenge for bullying him for many years was revenge.
Next, he targeted the ministers of the court, making them his own targets. Yu Wenyun's most famous hobby is beating people, which is probably related to the fact that he was beaten a lot when he was a child, he never treated the ministers of the court with courtesy, only beat and scolded at every turn, and he would beat people to the flesh before he stopped.
In order to let everyone taste the taste of being beaten by the board, he also created a punishment called the Heavenly Staff, which probably means to walk for the Heavenly Staff. Every time he beat someone, he used 120 canes as the standard, but later he didn't like it, and increased the cane punishment to 240 canes, and many people were beaten to death because of this. The ministers were terrified at the sight of him, fearing that his next target would be themselves.
Yu Wenyun set up several queens at the same time, and also named them Tianyuan Great Empress, Tianyou Great Empress, Tianzuo Great Empress, etc., these strange titles have also become the laughing stock of later generations. There are three thousand beauties in his harem, and there are four or five queens, even so, he is still a good woman, and he also fell in love with his nephew Yu Wenwen's wife, Yu Chi.
Once during the court meeting, Yu Wenyun took the opportunity to get Yu Chi drunk and let her stay in the palace. He saw that his niece and daughter-in-law were so drunk that her whole body was paralyzed, and the heart of a good woman suddenly rose, so he gave her up. This matter quickly spread to Yu Wenwen, and he not only felt that his face was disgraced, but he was more worried that Yu Wenyun did something to cut the grass and eradicate the roots because he wanted to occupy the Wei Chi clan. So Yuwen's family rebelled, but it ended in failure, and Yuwenwen not only lost his wife, but also his life.
Yu Wenyun got tired of being an emperor for a year, and he put his eight-year-old son on the throne and began to experience the leisurely life of the emperor himself. He called himself Emperor Tianyuan, it seems that he likes the words Tian and Yuan very much, named the palace where he lives Tiantai, calls himself Tian when he talks to his subordinates, and specially customizes the crown of Tongtian, which he wears, a bit like black and white impermanence.
Yu Wenyun, who originally wanted to enjoy life again, failed to do so, and died of illness in the second year of becoming the emperor. His departure can be regarded as an end to the mediocre lord of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Yang Jian began to gather the civil and military ministers of the Zhou court to form a huge group. After the death of Emperor Xuan of Zhou, his son Yu Wenxian succeeded to the throne, that is, Emperor Jing of Zhou, Liu Fang, Zheng Yijiao, and Yang Jian always knew the affairs of Chinese and foreign soldiers and horses, and entered the auxiliary government of the dynasty.
Under the dictatorship of his relative Yang Jian, Wei Chi Yuan, Sima Zhennan and others were dissatisfied with Yang Jian's dictatorship and raised troops against Yang. Yang Jian was planned by Li Delin, and Wei Xiaokuan and others were pacified. Yang Jian became the emperor of Zhou, that is, Emperor Wen of Sui, changed the name of the country to the Great Sui, and the Northern Zhou perished.
Emperor Wen of Sui abolished Xiao Cong, the lord of the Western Liang, and the Western Liang perished. Emperor Wen of Sui launched a war to destroy Nanchen, with Yang Guang as the main general, and famous generals such as He Ruobi and Han Baohu sent troops to attack Nanchen, and the Sui army captured Jiankang in the following year, and Chen of the Southern Dynasty perished, and China was reunified.
Since the Yongjia Storm, China has been divided for nearly 300 years, so that the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties has ended and entered the era of the Sui Dynasty. After the mixing of ethnic groups, the new Han nationality soon created the prosperous era of the Sui and Tang dynasties, leaving an immortal cause in the history of the world.