Li Yuan and Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty are related, and they are complicated and entangled.

In the Western Wei Dynasty, the famous general Lonely Xin in the Northern Zhou Dynasty had seven daughters, two of whom had good lives that made women in the world jealous, and the men they married were all kings of a country, emperors, and queens. The son of a daughter was the emperor.

The eldest daughter is Empress Mingjing of Yuwenyu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

The fourth daughter was the mother of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, and after Li Yuan became emperor, she posthumously named her mother Empress Yuanzhen.

The seventh daughter was the Empress of Literature of Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian.

Empress Yuanzhen gave birth to Li Yuan, and Empress Wen gave birth to Yang Guang.

Their first-level relationship is clear, Li Yuan is Yang Guang's cousin, and his generation is flat.

The second layer of relationship, the two are sons and daughters, Yang Guang's daughter Yang married Li Shimin, is one of the four concubines, and gave birth to two sons, Li Ke and Li Su, so the two are still equals.

There is also a third layer of relationship, Li Yuan's nephew Queen is Yang Guang's concubine, and Wang is the daughter of Princess Tong'an (Li Yuan's sister). In this way, Li Yuan became Yang Guang's uncle, and jumped from an ordinary generation to an elder!

In short, Li Yuan is a veritable descendant of a big official, and his relatives are all mixed in the supreme ruling group.

Li Yuan's birth starting point is very high, which is basically beyond the reach of people in the world.

Li Yuan, a native of Longxi Didao (now Lintao County, Gansu). His grandfather Li Hu, the official of the Western Wei Dynasty, was the first lieutenant. His father, Li Xun, was the official of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the governor of Anzhou, and the general of the Zhu State, and was named the Duke of Tang in the Sui Dynasty.

Generally, the birth of the founding emperor will be a vision, full of mystery, paradoxically, this kind of mysterious-sounding scene has been written into the official history in a grand way.

"Taiping Yulan", "Shufu Yuangui", and "New Tang Dynasty Book" all recorded the vision of Li Yuan's birth, among which the "Taiping Yulan" described in the most detail: Gaozu Chang'an, Purple Qi Chongting, Divine Light Room, Body with Three Breasts, Purple Zhi Milk Dragon under the left armpit. In the historical records, King Wen of Zhou "has four breasts in his body", and Li Yuan has one less breast than him, which is slightly inferior.

Li Yuan was 7 years old and was awarded the title of Duke of Tang Guo. After entering the Sui Dynasty, because her aunt was the Dugu Empress of Emperor Wen of Sui, she was deeply used, and served as the assassin of Huai, Long, and Qi Prefectures, and the Taishou of the two counties of Xingyang (now Zhengzhou City) and Loufu (now Jingle County, Shanxi). Later, he was called as a young eunuch in the palace and moved to the guard Wei Shaoqing.

After Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, because of the spread in the society that "Li should be the Son of Heaven", he was suspicious of high-ranking officials surnamed Li, and naturally had no good impression of his cousin Li Yuan, showing his defense, Li Yuan was a very good at observing words and feelings, and saw that his cousin Yang Guang was very unhappy with him, and he was always monitoring his movements, and with a little of his handle, he might be able to embark on the road of no return, Li Yuan deeply realized this gloomy atmosphere, which threatened his life at all times.

One day, Emperor Yang of Sui convened a meeting of ministers, Li Yuan asked for sick leave, and Emperor Yang of Sui casually asked Li Yuan's nephew Wang: "Will your uncle die?" ”

Emperor Yang of Sui's words of quite deterrent reached Li Yuan's ears, and she was immediately frightened, and her premonition flickered slightly, and her life was about to be lost, so she quickly tried to find a way to make Emperor Yang of Sui regain his trust in him, so he "indulged in alcohol and took bribes to confuse his traces", indicating that he had no ambitions, so as to avoid bad luck.

When Li Yuanzheng was worried, he ordered him to go to Hedong, Shaanxi Province to hunt down the group of thieves. Li Yuan is not a straw bag in his bones, he led the army wisely, defeated a short-lived rebel army like Wuduan Er, and surrendered tens of thousands of people, which was a great shock.