Chapter 371: Don't be good and small
Later, after Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty to replace the Northern Zhou Dynasty, some later scholars believed that the reason why Emperor Wen of Sui was able to easily usurp imperial power was that Buddhism played a decisive role in it, and the reason was that when Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Buddhism, Buddhism would inevitably launch a counterattack against the Northern Zhou royal family. In addition, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian himself has a deep relationship with Buddhism, so it is not surprising that he has such an understanding.
But if you think about it, you can see that such an idea is just too much to take for granted! Because except in the late years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Buddhism has never been able to control the country's power, let alone after the Northern Zhou Emperor Wu destroyed the Buddha, the recovery period of Buddhism's vitality, not to mention the relationship between the family of Dugu Jialuo, the wife of Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian, and the Demon Gate is actually deeper, the former General Dugu Xin formed an army to rob the tomb in order to solve the embarrassing financial problems of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so it can be inferred that the relationship between the general and the Demon Gate, however, is to have such an identity background, the former general Dugu Xin is still under the suspicion of Yuwen Hu has no power to resist, and can only be willing to die, the strength of the demon gate can be seen from this, you must know, although the demon gate at that time was full of intrigues, but Dugu Xin was a pivotal figure in the Northern Zhou court at that time, and in that turbulent era, such a character has fallen into a period of decline The overall benefit of the demon gate can be described as great, and therefore, if possible, The Demon Gate will never hesitate to go all out to save Dugu Xin's life, but Dugu Xin still had to commit suicide by taking poison, which shows that the Demon Gate forces at that time were extremely difficult to form a strong threat to the regime like the Taiping Road Yellow Turban Army in the last years of the Han Dynasty! Buddhism and Taoism were the same in this period!
In fact, Yang Jian was able to easily seize state power, speaking of which, it was due to the previous Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Yuwen Yong, because the Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Yuwen Yong formulated strict preventive measures against the Northern Zhou Dynasty royal family in order to prevent the Northern Zhou Dynasty royal family from appearing again in the future Yuwen Hu who threatened the imperial power, but he did not expect to take care of one or the other, but instead gave his relative Yang Jian an opportunity to take advantage of, and led to the weakness of the Northern Zhou royal family.
There is a sentence that actually explains the supreme power struggle relationship of Chinese civilization for thousands of years: before the pre-Qin period: the kings relied on their brothers, during the Qin and Han dynasties, the emperors relied on their relatives, and after the Tang and Ming dynasties, the emperors relied on the eunuchs around them! In the heyday, the reason why the emperor relied on the object would continue to change was because the power structure of Chinese civilization had been undergoing subtle changes, so the groups relied on by kings in different periods would also change, but in turbulent times, due to the collapse of the inherent social system, it led to the chaos of the upper-class power struggle, and the result was that in the turbulent era, no matter the Ming monarch and tyrant, they would definitely be worried about the inheritance of the throne behind them!
In order to inherit the position of his father Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, and replace the Han Dynasty, Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei, not only suppressed his brother, but also tried his best to reward and win over the Sima family, the representative of the large landlord class at that time, which led to the weakness of the imperial power and was finally replaced by the Sima family!
The Sima family learned from the experience of the demise of Cao Pi's Cao Wei Dynasty, so they wantonly divided the relatives of the Sima family as kings, and gave them heavy troops to defend one side, but the result of this large-scale division was that when the wise Jin Wu Emperor Sima Yan died, the princes of the Sima family immediately instigated wars for the struggle for power, so immediately, the Jin Dynasty established by the Sima family also collapsed, only a part of the remnants of the Sima royal family fled to the south, established a secession regime in the south, and continued their dynastic luck. However, after all, he was unable to recover his homeland, so he could only sit and watch the northern heroes chase the deer, and then wait to be destroyed!
Later Zhao's Shi Le couldn't bear to kill his nephew Shi Hu, but in the end Shi Hu killed all his children and grandchildren, Shi Hu thought that his family was close, but he didn't expect that in the end, it was father and son who killed each other, and after Shi Hu's death, Shi Hu's remaining sons killed each other for power! Ran Min's identity at that time was Shi Hu's adopted grandson, and it stands to reason that he could also belong to the Later Zhao royal family, but in the end, he also participated in the brutal struggle between the imperial powers, and killed Shi Hu's descendants and bloodline!
Although the past does not forget the teacher of the future, but the things of the world, but often always press the gourd to raise the scoop, the establishment of the Sima clan in the south of the Eastern Jin Dynasty from the beginning of the heavy reliance on the scholar class, so that later the flying and domineering ministers one after another, and later when Liu Yu, the founder of the Liu Song Dynasty, replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty, this Sima royal family who fled to the south was also slaughtered by Liu Yu! After Liu Yu's death, his descendants fell into civil strife due to the struggle for power and the siege of the imperial family by the scholar class, and went to extinction in cannibalism, and the Southern Qi regime established by Xiao Daocheng, who later replaced the Liu Song regime, was soon replaced by the Southern Liang established by Xiao Yan, who was born in his kinship! - Although it is a relative, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu later became known as respecting the Buddha and loving him, but in the process of establishing a new dynasty, Xiao Yan also did not hesitate to raise the butcher's knife to the last emperor of Southern Qi!
It's hell to go forward and hell to go back! Although as an emperor, but in the turbulent times, but still unable to protect his wife and children, in the past, Zhao Taizu Shile once said such a sentence: The big husband should act like the sun and the moon, and he can't be like Cao Mengde, Sima Zhongda father and son, deceive his orphans and widows, and be charming to win the world! Looking at this sentence alone, I just feel that Shi Le's arrogance is monstrous, and he is worthy of being a peerless hero from slave to emperor, but looking at the tragic end of his wife, children, and children being killed by Shi Hu after his death, I feel that this sentence contains another meaning!
Therefore, when Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, decided to suppress the other clans of the Yuwen Imperial Family, he must have been very entangled in his heart! Because as a respectful emperor, he can clearly see the danger of what he is doing, but he can't do anything about this kind of future, after all, Yuwen Yong gave him too much pressure, Yuwen Yong tried his best to do this for his children and grandchildren, and the rest can only let his descendants work hard!
There is a saying that the original Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wen Yong, had already seen Yang Jian's ambition at that time, so he deliberately sent someone to tempt, but because Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty saw the wrong person, the person he sent not only told Yang Jian all the words of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty immediately after seeing Yang Jian, but also deliberately deceived Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yu Wen Yong after returning, and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was deceived, thus leaving this later henchman!
However, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, although Yang Jian, the later Emperor Wen of Sui, already had a certain strength, this part of the strength could never shake the strong ruling cornerstone of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
- Of course, it is undeniable that Yang Jian was able to seize the power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty so easily, thanks to her daughter Yang Lihua, the naïve nature of the young Northern Zhou Dynasty Empress Dowager, so she would trust her parents, and that's why she led the wolf into the house, and finally destroyed the royal power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and wiped out the Yuwen royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty!
But then again, although Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian in order to eliminate the Northern Zhou language royal family, but his massacre did not prevent the centrifugation of the original loyal to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, although Wei Chi's rebellion was quickly quelled, but when Yang Jian killed the language royal family, the people in the court were panicked, on the surface by Yang Jian's hard work to create the rule of the emperor, in fact, there has been an undercurrent, and this fact, after Yang Jian, who is known for his benevolence, has repeatedly to the court important ministers such as Li Hun, Gao Jiong's big killing ring has been easily reflected, indicating that in the prosperous Sui Empire, the upper echelons of its regime have long been disintegrated, if after Yang Jian, the Sui Empire can always maintain a strong momentum unchanged, then this crisis fact can of course be covered up forever, but what I don't believe is that at the end of the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, the Grand Canal built by the empire greatly consumed the people's power in the country because of quick success, and the failure of the three expeditions to Goguryeo, It is a serious loss of the military strength of the entire empire, so that the original serious hidden danger can no longer be covered, but quickly erupted, so that the northern land once again instantly turned into purgatory, and in the face of this situation, although he is a tyrant, but also has always been wise, Emperor Yang did not stay in the north to plan to calm the chaos, but went all the way south to Jianghuai, preferring to die in the south rather than return to the Central Plains to start over, can only say, The brilliant Emperor Yang has been able to clearly see what kind of huge crisis this catastrophe will cause, but he is powerless to stop it, so he is finally disheartened!
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Three hundred years of turbulent years, endless heroic stories and legends, in this way, in the thousands of years of Chinese history in the temporary draw of a rest, and this chaotic bloody feast brought to the changes of Chinese civilization, of course, far above the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, after all, although the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were also turbulent times, but at that time all the princes were descendants of the Zhou royal family's feudal vassal states, and therefore, although the annexation war between the vassal states became more and more cruel later, But because of the existence of such a common relationship, no matter what, there are still the most basic rules that people need to abide by in that turbulent era!
However, in the three hundred years from the end of the Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, there was a large-scale internal migration of various primitive nomadic peoples who originally lived in remote areas of the frontier, which made the traditional Chinese civilization strongly challenged from the outside world! The non-Chinese tribe must have a different heart, but it was one of the original slogans of the Chinese nation to eliminate the non-Chinese nation, and those non-Chinese nomadic tribesmen, although the knowledge is backward, the social civilization is extremely primitive, but they at least know the so-called tooth for tooth and eye for eye, coupled with the invasion of foreign civilizations such as Buddhism, and the deposition of Confucianism by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty brought about changes to the Chinese civilization like a dog's tail driving the dog's body, so when everyone coexists peacefully, it is still peaceful. Once a war breaks out based on racial oppression, the situation will get out of control, and it will immediately surpass everyone's imagination!
- In any case, thank fate for the mercy! Perhaps it is precisely the protection of fate that allows the Chinese civilization to continue in such a chaotic and evil turbulent era, rather than being destroyed by powerful external forces, so that the Chinese civilization can move towards rejuvenation in the future and enter a huge glorious era!
Hehe...... (To be continued.) )