We have set a tone above, no matter how history covers up and smears, we must be sure that the founder of the Tang Dynasty is Li Yuan, and it can only be Li Yuan.

And we will also start from Li Yuan's past and present life to describe this history. Speaking of Li Yuan's origin, we have to move the time all the way forward, to when?

At least it had to be moved to the time when Li Yuan's grandfather, Li Hu, lived. This chapter is going to be very long and also very exciting, because I will talk about a group of interests that is closely related to the two dynasties of the Sui and Tang dynasties, how powerful is this collective?

This group officially started in the Western Wei Dynasty, and the emperors of the Northern Zhou Dynasty before the Sui Dynasty after the Western Wei Dynasty were the bosses of this collective, and the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, was a member of this collective, and Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was also a member of this collective.

This collective included all aspects of the society at that time, such as politics, military, economy, and people's livelihood, and had the power and money, but also had strong military strength.

In Li Yuan's past and present life, I will start from the Guanlong Group, and walk step by step from the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Sui to the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, there are many protagonists in this book, and what I envision is to start with Li Yuan and gradually lead to that magnificent history of dynasty change in which the winner is king.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, in order to ensure the safety of the capital Pingcheng, in fact, it was to prevent the invasion of Rouran, so six military-based military towns were established in the border area, which is probably the northern part of Hebei and the southern part of Inner Mongolia.

At the very beginning, the six towns were basically Xianbei nobles from generals to soldiers, and we all know that the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty was Xianbei people, and Xianbei people were nobles at that time, and their status was very high.

But we also know that there was a very important historical event in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was the relocation of the capital to Luoyang. After moving the capital to Luoyang, Rouran's invasion was relatively not a matter of life and death, and because it was far away from the capital, the previously prominent Six Towns slowly broke away from the power core of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and gradually became a prison-like existence, locking these former nobles in it.

This was obviously unacceptable to these former nobles and still had strong military strength in the Six Towns, so a turmoil that swept the whole country of the Northern Wei Dynasty broke out from the Six Towns.

At the same time, Wan Qian Chounu also took advantage of the chaos to claim the emperor in Guanzhong, and constantly attacked the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Northern Wei Dynasty became more and more turbulent.

The times create heroes, and the more turbulent the dynasty, the more heroes emerge. In the war-torn land of the Northern Wei Dynasty at that time, there was an army of only more than 1,000 people led by He Bayue, who went to the border to conquer the ugly slaves.

That is, the army of more than 1,000 people has made great achievements in the campaign, and everyone knows that the future of these people is very bright, but who would have thought that the people who came out of this army even have the ability to influence the direction of history in the back, and this army is the predecessor of the Guanlong Group.

After quelling the rebellion, Emperor Xiaowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty secretly ordered He Bayue to establish a military town to prevent the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and appointed He Bayue as the governor of Eryong, Erhua, Erqi, Feng, Siliang, Sanyiba, Xia, Weiningjing, the military and metropolitan governors of the 20 states (everyone ignores the place name, we can directly understand that this person is the highest administrator of the Guanlong region, and also the highest military governor).

Then He Batyue began to integrate various forces in the Guanlong region to prevent the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and the prototype of the Guanlong Group was born!

Even after many disasters, the Northern Wei Dynasty finally declined, and under the pull of forces from all sides, the Northern Wei Dynasty perished and the Western Wei Dynasty was established.

In the process of the establishment of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Guanlong Group played a very important role, basically lacking money to give money, and lack of people to give people.

Therefore, people have helped so much, so the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty after taking power certainly knows what to do.

So at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in addition to stabilizing the world, the most important thing for the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty was to think about how to thank this group of friends.

After all, he knew deep down that if he didn't appease this group of friends, then it was a question whether he, the emperor, could continue to be the emperor.

But he also knows that his group of friends is not short of money, let alone people, and how to thank them has become a big problem.

But not to mention, the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty was really a talent, and he came up with a very good method, at least at that time, he really satisfied this group of friends and stabilized the country.

This method is to set up an eight-pillar country and twelve generals at the top of the government military system, which is the largest eight families of the Guanlong group and the largest family in the Guanlong group, and the twelve generals are twelve families in addition to the largest eight families, so the largest aristocratic collective in the Western Wei Dynasty was formed.

This aristocratic collective is not like the separation of military and government in later generations, it will be like a general and a prime minister; One of the great characteristics of this collective is that it will enter and exit.

In the court, they are the prime ministers, and after they go out, they are the generals who lead the troops. These people were the real leadership core of the Western Wei Dynasty at that time, and they were also the most prominent 20 families in the Guanzhong region at that time, and they were really at the top of the society at that time in all aspects.

And the Guanlong Group, which I wanted to talk about at the beginning of this chapter, is also officially established from now on.