Here I will talk about why I am going to devote so much space to describing this Guanlong group and the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Great Sui that are closely related to the Guanlong group. If you don't explain these things clearly, the Tang Dynasty will be like water without a source and a tree without roots, and I will try my best to write this magnificent history in the most simple and interesting words for you, although it is difficult, but I will do my best.

In the previous chapter, we explained the origin of the Guanlong group and the core of this group, the core of which is the Eight Pillars and the Twelve Generals. I won't say much about the twelve generals here, because compared to the influence of the Eight Pillars, the twelve generals are only soy sauce. Here I will focus on the Eight Pillars Kingdom, first of all, I will talk about which eight people are in the eight official positions of the Eight Pillars. They are Yu Wentai, Yuan Xin, Li Hu, Li Bi, Zhao Gui, Yu Jin, Dugu Xin, Hou Mo Chen Chong, just eight people, but everyone may be relatively unfamiliar with these eight people.

Let's talk about Yuwentai first, how powerful is this person? Let's put it this way, when Emperor Xiaowu in the south ran from Gao Huan's men to the north, because he wanted to make trouble all day long, Yuwentai directly killed the emperor who ran from the south, without hesitation at all, and then changed another emperor. And after his death, his son, with the help of his nephew, kicked away the Western Wei emperor and established a state of Zhou, which is what we now call the Northern Zhou. What is a minister, this is a minister, if your emperor doesn't abide by my rules, he can change it for you. This kind of minister can be said to be the ultimate pursuit of the owner in Chinese history, but Yu Wentai would not have thought that another power minister after him was his nephew, and his nephew still controlled his son's life, I have to say that history is always strikingly similar. Insert an extra sentence here, this Yuwentai is also Li Shimin's great-grandfather.

Let's talk about Li Hu, the name Li Hu should be very unfamiliar to everyone, but the word Li should be familiar to everyone. That's right, this Li is the Li of the Tang Dynasty that I want to write about. Li Hu, Li Yuan's grandfather, how powerful is it? He is very low-key, very low-key, but in his low-key, he left Li Yuan a family business big enough to support his successful rebellion and finally become emperor, and there are really few people who can do this in history.

Finally, let's talk about Dugu Xin, Dugu Xin is a famous general and a person with strong military talent, which is also the reason why he can rank in the Eight Pillars. But what is more famous than military is his vision. With the eyes that made Buffett ashamed, three of his seven daughters have been queens, and Dugu Xin is also known as the "Three Dynasties". The father-in-law who has been an emperor of three different dynasties is really unprecedented and unprecedented. His eldest daughter was married to Emperor Ming of Zhou of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was called Empress Ming Jing; The fourth daughter married Li Hu's son Li Yu and gave birth to Li Yuan, who was later posthumously named Empress Dowager Yuanzhen; The seventh daughter married Yang Jian, who is the famous strong woman Dugu Jialuo in the Great Sui. Yang Jian later established the Sui Dynasty, and she became the literary empress of Emperor Wen of Sui and the biological mother of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui.

As for the other pillar states, they are all extremely retainers, and their families are also very prominent, but they are still slightly weaker than these few, but they have also played a great role in the process of history, and they will appear one by one later. As for the aforementioned governor of Guanlong, He Bayue, was killed by Hou Mo Chen Yue, and then Yuwentai took over He Bayue's position and became the eldest brother of Guanlong.

Shi said: Today (Tang) is known as the gate valve, and the country of eight pillars is pushed. At that time, it was prosperous, and it was incomparable. And the history I want to tell is about to begin gradually.