In April of the third year of the emperor's reign, Emperor Wen of Sui appointed Yang Shuang, the king of Wei, and others as the marshals of the march, and the troops were divided into eight routes to attack the Turks. Yang Shuang commanded Li Chong, the head of the march, and other four generals to go out of the fortress from Shuozhou Road, and met the Turkic Sha Bo Luo Khan in Baidao, and covered the Turkic army with 5,000 elite cavalry, defeating the Turks.

Because of the lack of food, the Turkic army had to feed the bones of the dead, and because diseases were rife in the army, there were many deaths. Yang Hong, the king of Hejian, led his troops out of Lingzhou (now Lingwu, Ningxia), defeated another part of Sha Bolu, and annihilated thousands of enemies.

The governor of Xiazhou, Dou Lu, came out of Xiazhou (now Hengshan, Shaanxi). Yin Shou, the governor of Youzhou, led a total of 100,000 infantry and cavalry out of Lulongsai (now Xifeng, Hebei) to attack Gaobaoning, who had taken refuge in the Turks.

Gao Baoning asked the Turks for help, but the Turks were defending against the Sui army and could not be rescued. Gao Baoning had no choice but to abandon the city and flee into the moraine, and Sui pacified the counties of Lulong. Gao Baoning was later killed by his subordinates. Dou Rongding, the governor of Qinzhou, led the nine general infantry and 30,000 cavalry soldiers to Liangzhou, and confronted Apo in Gaoyue Plain, and Apo was repeatedly defeated.

Changsun Sheng was serving as a partial general in Dou Rongding's army at that time, and he sent people to divide Apo, and prompted Apo to send envoys to follow Changsun Sheng into the court to ask for peace. On the way back from his confession, he heard that Apo was making peace with Sui Qing, so he raised troops to cover the north of Apo's department, broke it, and killed Apo's mother.

Apo went west to Datou Khan. Datou was furious, so he sent Apo to lead an army to attack Sha Bolu. Apo's subordinates came one after another, nearly 100,000 cavalry. Apo was defeated repeatedly, regained the lost territory, and the army was stronger. The Turkic Greedy Khan had always been at peace with Apo, and after Sha Bo had taken over his tribe, the Greedy Khan fled to the Datou Khan.

Sha Bolu's cousin Di Qin Cha had a slight conflict with Sha Bo, so he led his troops to rebel against Apo. After that, the two sides pinched each other to the death, and continued to use troops, and each sent envoys to Sui to ask for help, but Emperor Wen of Sui ignored them and let them eat dogs.

In June of the third year of the emperor's reign, the Turks invaded Youzhou, and the governor Li Chong led 3,000 people to resist the battle, and the whole army was annihilated. In July, Zhou Shao was appointed as the governor of Youzhou, and in August, Shang Shufu shot Gao Gong out of Ningzhou Road (now Ningxian County, Gansu), and Yu Qing, the supervisor of internal history, went out of Yuanzhou Road (now Guxian County, Ningxia), and attacked the Turks on both roads.

This time, troops were dispatched to attack instead of defend to prevent the Turks from moving south to Youzhou. In February of the fourth year of Kaihuang (584 AD), Datou asked Sui to surrender, and Shabo was defeated by Sui repeatedly, and also asked Sui for peace. The daughter princess Yuwen also asked to change her surname to Yang and become the daughter of Emperor Wen of Sui.

So Emperor Wen of Sui sent Kaifu Yi and the three divisions Xu Pinghe to envoy to the Turks, and renamed Princess Qianjin as Princess Dayi. Yang Guang, the king of Jin, requested to take advantage of the Turkic internal and external difficulties to send troops to fight, but Emperor Wen of Sui did not allow it.

Sha Bolu was troubled by the Datou Khan and feared that the Khitan would gradually become stronger, so he sent an envoy to Sui to ask for permission to lead his tribe to migrate to the south of the desert and live temporarily in the Baidaochuan area. Emperor Wen of Sui agreed to his request and ordered Yang Guang, the king of Jin, to send troops to meet him, provide him with clothes and food, and reward him with chariot clothes and musical instruments.

With the help of the Sui soldiers, Sha Bolu led his army to the west to defeat Apo. But Apo's troops took advantage of the emptiness of the rear of Sha Bolu Khan to send troops to attack, and captured his wife and children; The Sui army defeated Apo and gave all the captured human and animal goods to Sha Bowl Liu.

Sha Bo was slightly overjoyed, and the above table said: "The Emperor of the Great Sui is also the true emperor, I am willing to bow down and bow down, and I will always be a vassal state of the Great Sui." So he sent his son Kuhezhen into the court as a hostage. Soon, Sha Boluo died, leaving a last word to make his younger brother Ye Hu Luo Hou the Khan, for Mohe Khan.

Emperor Wen of Sui sent Sun Sheng, the general of the chariot cavalry, as a messenger to worship Mohe Khan with a festival book, and rewarded him with propaganda and banners. Mo He waved the banner rewarded by the Sui Dynasty and attacked Apo.

Apo's army was frightened by the Sui army, and when he saw the banner of the Sui army from afar, he thought that Mo He had been assisted by the Sui army, and they all looked forward to the wind and surrendered. Mo He then captured Apo alive and sent an envoy to the Sui Dynasty to ask for instructions on what to do with him. Emperor Wen of Sui pardoned Abo. Later, the Marquis of Chu Luo died in the middle of the Western Expedition, and Yongyu Lu, the son of Sha Boluo, was established as the Dulan Khan.

Emperor Wen of Sui still pursued the strategy of distant friendship and close attack, and married the daughter of the clan to Tuli Khan, the younger brother of Dulan, in order to divide Dulan Khan. Du Languo was enraged, and Du Lan and Datou raised an army to attack Tuli and killed their brothers and nephews. The eldest grandson Sheng designed to hold Tuli hostage and return to the dynasty, and Emperor Wen of Sui named Tuli as the Khan of Qimin, living in Wuyuan.

Emperor Wen of Sui sent Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo, out of Lingzhou, Han Sengshou, the head of the march, out of Qingzhou, Long Live the Duke of Taiping, and the general Yao Wei out of Hezhou to attack Dulan. The division did not get out of the fortress, and Du Lan was killed by his subordinates, and Datou established himself as the Khan of Bujia, and was repeatedly defeated by the Sui army. In the third year of Renshou, the Bujia department was in turmoil, and more than ten departments such as Tiele and servant bones were attached to Qimin.

Bujia fled to Tuyuhun, Qimin became the ** Khan, and Qimin said: "Tens of thousands of generations and the Great Sui Dian sheep and horses." At this point, ** was completely dependent on the Sui Dynasty, and the northern frontier was basically peaceful.

Emperor Wen of Sui's Fierce Internal Help--Empress Dugu of Literature

In the history of our country, the Sui Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty are quite similar: they both established a unified empire in a long period of war and division; All of them extend to the death of the second emperor and the death of the country; and both have a brief third as a transition; After Qin and Sui, the Han and Tang dynasties created a situation of long-term stability and prosperity. The big patterns are similar, but the details are naturally different.

One of the more interesting differences is that Qin Shi Huang, with his wolf and tiger nature, submerged and covered up the reputation of the entire Six Palaces Fandel; However, Emperor Wen of Sui, with his simplicity and simplicity, exclusively enjoyed and created a benevolent and decisive Empress Dugu, which made later generations of women swept their eyebrows.

Queen Dugu, a native of Luoyang, Henan, is the daughter of Sima Da of the Later Zhou Dynasty and Dugu Xin of Hanoi. Dugu Xin and Yang Jian are in the same dynasty, but Yang Jian is born different. "Sui Shu Gaozu Benji" called it "literati dragon face, with five pillars on the forehead, eyes outward, yo Wen in the hand said 'king', long up and short down, Shen Shen Yan zhòng." "Even if you don't know the art of face-to-face, you must know that you are an extremely noble person.

Dugu Xin happily married his daughter to him. When Dugu first entered Yangmen, he was only fourteen years old, but he was also docile and filial, and did not lose his woman's way. Yang Jian was in harmony with him and vowed not to have any more children with other women, which was not a small oath in feudal society.

Dugu's family is noble, her sister later became the queen of Emperor Zhou Ming, and later, she and Yang Jian's eldest daughter became the queen of Emperor Zhou Xuan.

Emperor Xuan of Zhou, Yang Jian, as the abbot of the country, worshiped the Zhuguo and the Great Sima, and was respected and honored, and Emperor Xuan was both jealous and hated. Dugu is able to be humble and self-controlled, and is called a virtuous woman in the world. and Emperor Xuan of Zhou collapsed, Emperor Jing of Zhou practiced Zuo with a young chong, and Yang Jian became the general minister with the post of fake Huang Yue and Zuo Dacheng, and was in charge of the government and supervised the military inside and outside.

The Dugu clan lived in a boudoir, but he also discerned the current situation, and strongly persuaded Yang Jian to take the throne of the emperor, saying: "The big thing has happened, and the momentum of riding beasts must not be lowered, and it must be reluctant." Yang Jian then resigned and accepted Zen, established the Sui Dynasty, and Dugu became the queen of course. This Dugu clan is the queen, and it can indeed be the mother of the world.

At that time, the Turks and China traded with each other, and there was a basket of pearls, worth eight million, and the governor of Youzhou asked the queen to buy it.

How did the queen say awe: "These things are not what I need. Now that there are endless troubles on the side and the soldiers are tired, it is better to reward the soldiers ahead with these eight million points. As soon as these words came out, all the officials were convinced. In addition, every year when the prisoner is sentenced in Dali, Queen Dugu always has to be full of tears and sadness. Kindness is like this, but it is also clear about right and wrong, and it is not in vain.

The metropolitan governor Cui Changren is the queen's cousin and should be beheaded for breaking the law. Emperor Wen of Sui thought that he was a relative of the empress and wanted to pardon him.

The queen said: "The affairs of the state, how can you take care of selfishness! So Cui Changren was beheaded in accordance with the law. There is also a half-brother Dugutuo, who is disgusted with the queen with cats, ghosts and witches, and should also be beheaded. The queen did not eat for three days, so she asked for her life, saying: "If Dugutuo is a beetle government that harms the people and is beheaded according to the law, I dare not say anything."

But now it's a curse on me personally, and I can't bear to hurt him with it. So Dugutuo was exempted from the death penalty.

Therefore, Queen Dugu is both decisive, benevolent, and knows things well, and she is a very good queen. In assisting Emperor Wen of Sui in the government, Queen Dugu also made a lot of achievements.

Every time Emperor Wen came to the court, the queen would go with the emperor in a chariot, and when she arrived outside the court, the emperor entered, and the queen stayed outside to wait. While waiting, he was also quite idle, and often sent eunuchs to convey the message of the court meeting, "If the government is lost, then Kuang admonishes, and many Hongyi." ”

The emperor retreated from the dynasty and returned to the palace, and the two of them "returned to Yan's bed together, and they were happy to take care of each other." "Throughout Chinese history, it can be said that the two people are in charge of the dynasty in this way, and there is no love for them, which can be said to be unique. The couple often discussed political affairs together, and their views on issues were often highly consistent.

Emperor Wen of Sui was both fond and worried about her. At that time, it was called the "Two Saints" in the palace. In this case, no one said that she was a woman in politics, because the Dugu clan only served as a staff officer, and never took over power. At that time, there was a priest's invitation: according to "Zhou Li", "the wife of a hundred officials, ordered by the queen." Unexpectedly, the queen replied: "This is the beginning of women's intervention in the affairs of the court, and this case cannot be opened." ”

immediately refused. Therefore, the name of "internal help" is real, and the reason why the word "fierce" is added is because of the following. Although Queen Dugu is virtuous, her jealousy is not inferior. Emperor Wen of Sui's five sons were all raised by her, and there were no other sons, which was very rare among feudal emperors. Around this, Queen Dugu is still supervising.

**There are countless beauties, and Emperor Wen of Sui faces it all day long, but he doesn't dare to be lucky. Finally one day something happened. When the granddaughter of the traitor Wei Chi Yu was confiscated into the palace, she was quite beautiful, Yang Jian was very happy when she saw it, and she couldn't hold it, so she was lucky. After Queen Dugu found out, she took advantage of Emperor Wen's ascension to the court and secretly killed Miss Yu Chi.

Emperor Wen scattered the dynasty, rushed back to **, full of plans to play the tune again, and then pay Wushan, but unexpectedly a basin of cold water poured down, couldn't help but be sad and angry, resentful and nameless, just rode a horse alone, rode out of the garden, and did not choose the path, and ran along the valley for more than 20 miles. This section is very much like a plot in a modern romance movie.

Later, the left prime minister Gao Ying, the right prime minister Yang Su and others tracked all the way, and Yang Jian sighed: "I am the son of heaven, but I will not be free!" Gao Ying persuaded: "How can Your Majesty despise the world with a woman!" Only then did his anger ease slightly. He stayed on the horse for a long time, and only in the middle of the night did he return on horseback.

When she came to the palace, Queen Dugu was still sitting and waiting in the palace, and specially set up a table of banquets to "thank her husband with tears", Gao Ying and Yang Su reconciled, and this period of vinegar turmoil subsided.

But Gao Ying offended the queen because she said that the queen was "a woman", and she gradually became cold from relatives to alienation, especially when Gao Ying's concubine gave birth to a boy, this ancient feminist was furious, and since then she has been slandered in the ears of Emperor Wen of Sui, and Gao Ying has been deposed.

If other ministers of the court and the central government are pregnant, the Dugu clan can't stand it as usual, and will persuade Emperor Wen to reprimand her. His "fierce" strength is not only strict with his husband, but also interferes in other people's family affairs. The crown prince Yang Yong is more favorite, and he especially likes the concubine Yun.

Later, the concubine of the main room died of a heart attack, and the Yun family was even more favored. This just touched the queen's moldy head.

There is also a second son, Yang Guang, the king of Jin, who is very good at pretentiousness, and deliberately does not like the side room, but only lives with Concubine Xiao in the main room, and Queen Dugu likes it greatly. Compare the two, and judge the advantages and disadvantages. Later, Yang Yong was finally deposed, and Yang Guang became the prince as he wished, and he was here. The history books say, "The plan of the future is also".

It can be said that Queen Dugu's "fierce woman" nature has also been brought into full play, and it has affected the abolition of the succession to the throne. Empress Dugu collapsed at the age of fifty, died two years earlier than Emperor Wen of Sui, and was nicknamed Wenwen. In his life, he can win the name of "Fierce Internal Help", and under the ages, he is only one person.