This chapter began with the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but the above is still a little unfinished, so at the beginning of this chapter, I will make up for the rest of the above.

In the above chapter, Yang Jian's first half of his life as a courtier has been roughly explained, although it is not detailed enough, but there is a general understanding. And Yang Jian's most exciting thing is the second half of his life, and after the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he is about to enter the Great Sui, Yang Jian also ushered in the most wonderful life, don't worry, let's continue to watch.

Here I will continue to write about Li Yuan above. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, born in 556 AD in the Li family in the Eight Pillars Kingdom, was a real nobleman. Li Yuan's birth also brought a lot of shock to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, after all, there are eight top families in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and every move of these eight families affects the fate of countless people, and Li Yuan, who was born as a son-in-law and is destined to control the Li family in the future and become the core of power in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, affects the hearts of countless people. Li Yuan's birth did not have any such things as strange fragrance, purple gas, and auspicious rui from the sky. But he has another characteristic, this characteristic is that we ordinary people only have two ru tou, but Li Yuan has three, and you must know that three is a virtual word in ancient texts, it often refers to a lot of meanings, the former one is acceptable, it may be a birthmark, but this birthmark is too similar to rut ou, so there is such a record. If it's the latter, it's terrible, it's too scary for someone with a phobia of intensity. Let's take it as the first one, Li Yuan has three ru tou.

In ancient times, it was very superstitious, and everything that was different from ordinary people could be understood as talented, and Li Yuan naturally became a person with extraordinary talents, and was placed high hopes on his family. Li Yuan's childhood was still very happy, after all, it was such a big family, and Li Yuan was a son-in-law, living a very comfortable childhood life. But when he was six years old, everything changed, at this time his father Li Xin died, and as the concubine of the Li family, Li Yuan inherited the title of Li Xun Tang Guogong and inherited everything from the Li family. Friends who have read the previous article know what it means to be young but hold huge wealth and great power, which means that you are likely to become a puppet from now on. If you are lucky, you will turn the tables like Yuwen Yong, and if you are unlucky, you may die suddenly like Yuwen Jue and Yuwenyu, and the emperor's family in this era is like this, not to mention other families.

But Li Yuan was lucky, after his father's death, his aunt took pity on him for losing his father at a young age, so she took him to her side to raise him, and gave him the best education, and also gave Li Yuan the opportunity to get close to history. So who is his aunt? His aunt is Dugu Jialuo - Yang Jian's wife, the queen mother of the Great Sui in later generations, this is a very smart and powerful woman, I also said before, Yang Jian can achieve the emperor's business, and her help is indispensable. Moreover, his brother-in-law Yang Jian also liked this child very much, and after Yang insisted on becoming emperor, he also made Li Yuan a senior military attache of the Praetorian Guard. It is precisely because of this that Li Yuan's youth was also very good, and because he followed Yang Jian since he was a child, Li Yuan observed Yang Jian's entire journey of stealing the country at close range. It is not difficult to understand why Li Yuan has so many similarities with Yang Jian.

In addition to the death of his father and the raising of Dugu Jialuo in the first half of Li Yuan's life, there was another very important thing, that is, Li Yuan's marriage. Who did he marry? married the daughter of Dou Yi of the Eight Pillars Kingdom. When Li Yuan was at the age of marrying, one day he went to the street and saw Dou Yi recruiting a son-in-law, the way was very simple, he drew two peacocks on the screen, and whoever could shoot the peacock's eyes would become the Dou family's fast son-in-law. This is difficult for others, but for Li Yuan, who has been practicing martial arts all year round, it is as simple as eating and drinking, he shot at once, and then married his wife. Of course, this is what is written, but it is definitely not so simple, after all, the Eight Pillars Kingdom recruits sons-in-law, and it will definitely give you the bottom of the investigation, and you are not qualified enough to even enter the door. And Li Yuan is also a member of the Eight Pillars National Clan, he is the patriarch of the Eight Pillars National Clan, and his uncle-in-law is a new nobleman, which is very in line with the marriage of the big family, which can be successful. And this Dou Shi, like Dugu Jialuo, is a well-read and talented woman, which is of great help to Li Yuan's success.

Li Yuan's first half of his life was like this, like Yang Jian, he was a conscientious worker, until the nursery rhyme of the headless son of heaven appeared, Li Yuan was forced to flee to Taiyuan, and then the world was in turmoil, and the smoke was everywhere, Li Yuan and his uncle-in-law changed from a worker to an entrepreneur.

The first half of Yang Jian and Li Yuan's lives were quite similar, and when I wrote here, I made up for what I didn't write before, and then I began to continue to write about the Northern Zhou after Yu Wenyong's death.

As I said before, after Yuwen Yong's death, the Northern Zhou Dynasty entered the countdown, and the reason was that Yu Wenyong's son Yu Wenyun ascended the throne, and Yu Wenyun's accession to the throne made the vigorous Northern Zhou immediately enter its twilight years. In 578 AD, Emperor Wu of Zhou suddenly fell ill during the crusade against the Turks, and in June of the same year, at the age of 35, Emperor Wu died on the way back to Beijing, and his son Yuwenyun, also known as Emperor Xuan of Zhou, did something that surprised everyone in front of his father's mourning hall, and he shouted at the coffin, "It's too late to die." Then he took his father's concubines in front of him and took turns sleeping in them, and everyone was dumbfounded. This Yu Wenyun used his words and deeds to tell everyone that he was a faint monarch, an out-and-out faint monarch.

It is said that when Yu Wenyong was still alive, he often watched his son silent, and even wanted to beat him, why? A father's biggest worry is that his son is not like himself, and Yu Wenyong encountered this incident. Yu Wenyong looked at this son and took stock of his advantages by the way: he is strategic, forbearing, courageous and brave, good at employing people, good at governing the country, has the temperament of leading the ministers, and has the ambition to swallow the world. To tell the truth, if Yu Wenyun can inherit one or two of his father's advantages, he can be called a good emperor, and if he inherits a few more, he will be a dragon and phoenix among people. But it's a pity that he didn't inherit anything, and everything came in reverse, Yuwenyong conquered the world and opened up the territory, and Yuwenyun chose beauties at home and enriched the harem; Yuwenyong is good at admonishing and promoting loyalty, Yuwenyun is close to villains and spoils traitors (here I will say that the two people Yuwenyun is close to are Zheng Yi and Liu Fang); Yuwenyong is good at forbearance, joy and anger, Yuwenyun has no city government, everything is shown on his face. The angry Yu Wenyong often acted directly in front of the minister, and also said that don't think that you, the prince, are stable, there are many princes who have been abolished in history.

After experiencing this, Yuwenyun has become a little more obedient, and has also achieved good feats in the western expedition to Tuguhun, but Yuwenyun's nature is still to eat, drink and have fun. As the father, Yu Wenyong knows this better than anyone else, and the ministers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Wang Liang and Yuwen Xiaobo, often persuade Yu Wenyong to consider the issue of the prince. But throughout the ages, as long as it involves such a thing, it often involves a lot of things and a lot of people. These people are divided into two categories, one is who wants to change and the other who does not want to change. And the people who want to be replaced are also divided into two categories, one is for their own interests, and the other is a type of diehard ministers who have existed throughout the ages. "These are the staunchest supporters of the crown prince, and they are also the most difficult to deal with, and these people are often highly respectable and sometimes speak more effectively than the ministers. Although Yu Wenyong is a wise and martial emperor, he has to consider the opinions of these old pedants, and he also has a headache, and now this point can't be changed if he wants to, except for Yu Wenyun, his other sons are still young. Yuwen Yong had seen the years when Yuwen Hu was in power, and he naturally did not dare to hand over power to his young son. So he could only sigh, shake his head again, and then say, "This matter will be discussed later," and it was so perfunctory.