Chapter 54: The Sage

Now it's time for this important person to come in.

Yang Jian (July 27, 541 - August 13, 604) was an important person, so the dates of birth and death are historically accurate to the calculation of "days" in units of 24 hours.

Of course, if you go further to be precise, that is, what time it is on the day of the person's birth, there will be no record.

If there is, it will be later. Because the man who invented the idea of measuring time in hours by the change of the shadow of the sun did it after this man became emperor.

The earliest reliable record is found in the Book of Sui. Astronomical Chronicles: Yuan Chong invented the short-shadow flat instrument in the fourteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (594), that is, the earth-level sundial.

However, there are many things about that day that are difficult to say with precision --

In a temple called Feng Yi, which is now a temple in Dali County, Shaanxi Province, a child was born, and it was unheard of to go to the temple to give birth.

The temple is a pure place for monks and nuns to chant sutras, and it is not a delivery room, which can be seen that this is to hook up with the Buddha.

However, the fact that the birth of a child is associated with the temple Buddhism may imply that the destruction of the Buddha by Zhou and Sui Xing is intended to imply that the destruction of the Buddha offended the Buddha by destroying the Buddha.

The so-called "extermination of Buddha" occurred in the third year >of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (57 AD).

It was caused by a Sichuan monk named Wei Yuansong, who used a letter from the masses to build a letter from the masses to destroy the Buddha of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

As a monk, the motive for doing this is very puzzling, probably to become famous.

At that time, Buddhism flourished, starting from the Northern Qi Dynasty, because of the royal worship of Buddha, the common people almost became Buddhists, there were 40,000 temples in the country, 3 million monks and nuns, accounting for more than one-seventh of the total population.

Du Mushi: "There are 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain. "It's talking about the Southern Dynasties, but the scene of the Buddha Kingdom in the Northern Dynasties is much more spectacular.

However, this situation clearly posed a threat to the imperial power: many fertile fields became temple properties, and a large number of laborers became monks. The loss of national tax revenue and the decrease in the number of soldiers made the emperor boss, who was the Son of Heaven, feel that since when there would be an additional Buddha, this foreign monk, seemed to want to go to the mortal world to share power with him, which was categorically unacceptable.

Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong (543-578 AD) was a Xianbei person after Sinicization, that is to say, although he had ethnic minority blood, but after several generations of ancestors intermarried with the Han people, by his time, he had almost been absorbed by Chinese blood.

Yuwen Yong is the fourth son of Yu Wentai, the Taizu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and was originally like his two former brothers, the third brother Yu Wenjue, and the eldest brother Yu Wenyu, who was a devout disciple of the Buddha at the beginning, but later found that if he wanted to do something practical, he could not just prepare for the ascension to heaven after death.

In this regard, domestic Confucianism and Taoism, which say that you can be a saint and become an immortal during your lifetime, in a sense, have something in common with his idea of doing something as an emperor.

So Yu Wenyong received this letter from the rebel from the monk's camp, like a match, igniting this idea in his heart, this idea is a fuse, and destroying the Buddha is like igniting a fire.

However, the reason why this happened is also related to a somewhat mysterious statement by Monk Wei:

He mentioned in that letter that it was said that Shamen was wearing black clothes and would be forbidden by the country, and that Taoist priests wearing yellow clothes would be national auspicious.

The so-called Shaman, simply put, is an Indian religion that was introduced to China in the early days, and Buddhism is one of them.

Perhaps it was because of the confusion about the prevalent Buddhist designation at the time, which referred to Buddhism as Shaman.

The reason why Monk Wei said this came from a popular proverb at that time, saying that "black clothes deserve the world".

It just so happened that Emperor Yuwen Yong was very superstitious about this set of prophecies, so the Buddhists would have this disaster.

Of course, this statement may be the ghost of those people of domestic religious factions behind their backs.

Although Yang Jian, who later established Sui on behalf of Zhou, was the first emperor to wear a yellow dragon robe, the so-called yellow robe is said to be added to the body, that is, from this time.

However, this emperor later re-advocated Buddhism, so it is not clear whether the color of the clothes is black or yellow.

Of course, the fire that extinguished the Buddha "swept away" the stupas built by the government and private individuals for hundreds of years, and completely demolished them. There are 40,000 temples in the country, which were given to the princes as mansions, and there are 3 million monks and nuns.

Met such an emperor who was not afraid of going to hell after death, the religious world was close to ruin.

It is precisely because of the previous events that we are going to talk about now that a child was born, and this incident has a certain hidden relationship with this:

When the child was born, there was a purple gas filled court and a red light room.

There was a nun who came out of nowhere, saying that she was from the east of the river.

In ancient times, Hedong referred to Shanxi, that is, from Shanxi.

She said something that meant that the child had come from a strange place.

This in itself is inconsequential, because he is only from his mother's womb.

The nun also said that the child could not be placed in the mortal world, and gave him a milk name, Naroyan, which means Vajra is not bad.

If you want to say that the child is really weird, he cries incessantly when he is born, he doesn't cry when he sees the nun, he cries endlessly when he leaves the nun, and the family can't make the child stop crying, so they can only agree to let the nun take it to raise.

This in itself is a bit unreasonable, baby son, how would he be willing to let a stranger take it away, and it is not an ordinary family, he can't afford to raise it, this family is a big family, maybe there is only one reason, that is, he thinks that this child is not a mortal, and this nun is not an ordinary nun.

And then he said that the nun did not go far, and the family took a few houses to make a nunnery, opened a small door to communicate, and let the nun feed herself under the noses of the family.

This scene of entering and exiting the nunnery through the back door is also a bit inexplicable.

However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that this is very similar to the plot of destroying the Buddha at that time, the rumors were very tight, and hiding this nun at home was like covering the underground party.

However, the destruction of Buddha by Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty began in the third year of Jiande, that is, in 574 AD, and at that time, the person we are talking about now was 33 years old. It can be seen that this kind of historical compositing for metaphors is full of loopholes.

The nun must have no milk.

child, and then became the emperor because of the one we are talking about now. She was posthumously honored as the queen, but she was born from a bitter background, which is contradictory to what we said earlier, this family is a big family, however, this seemingly contradictory thing also hides the secret of the family's intention, which is also a later story.

This mother, called Lu Kutao, was born bitterly and was concealed by later people, but she concealed her bitter background, but she couldn't change her name casually, and this name, as soon as you heard it, you knew that it was a bitter background, and it seems that some things can't be hidden.

This Lu Kutao, the child born by himself, stretched out his hand to hug it, but suddenly saw horns growing on his head and scales all over his body, and he was startled, this is terrible, and the storyteller here means that this child is like a dragon.

So Aunt Lu Kutao was so frightened that she threw the child on the ground, just so that the nun came in and saw it, and she was even more startled, but what she said was difficult to understand: "I have been shocked" (how could he become the nun's son again?) He also said that if he threw the child on the ground, he would be too late, and so on.

Of course, this is the same through the ages, the record of the delivery room at the time of the emperor's birth.

The "Book of Sui", which records this matter, is written by scholars of the Tang Dynasty and is known as having a high level of historical repair, but in this kind of national official document, the purpose of making gods and ghosts is to deceive people.

And what we want to say here is that this dragon son who came out of the womb was not the emperor when he had a big incident at the beginning, so this moment, for him, is the most important moment in his life.

By this time he was forty years old, not too late for his age, but certainly not too early, perhaps in response to what the nun midwife had said.

Until then, it was extremely dangerous for a man who had been seen to be emperor in the future.

Although the result is often thrilling, the person who tells this kind of story is to tell the result from the result, so that the listener of the story falls into the trap of his circular argument, the logic of this trap is: this person later became the emperor, so he will definitely not have any flaws exposed before, and the person who sees that he will become the emperor later is not false, because he later became the emperor, of course, it is all said by the later people.

This was seen by later generations that he was actually a descendant of the dragon at that time, a native of Huayin (now Huayin County, Shaanxi Province), Hongnong County, and his surname was Puliuru.

At that time, he was the master of the ethnic minority, and this Xianbei surname not only shows that he is from an ethnic minority, but also can be famous and knowledgeable, proving that his bloodline is noble.

In fact, the nobility of his bloodline is not only because of the surname of an ethnic minority, but mainly because of the influence of Lao Tzu's heroes and heroes caused by his father who has made outstanding military achievements and is famous.

Pu Liurujian, the second generation of officials, is also worthy of his name.

He began to be an official at the age of fourteen, but he was not very smart since he was a child.

He studied at a specialized aristocratic school, but his grades were not good, and he was proven not to be a piece of reading material.

He himself said that he 'didn't know the language of books', and separated the words in the book from anything else, and it seems that he didn't take reading seriously.

And this kind of child who has not been very smart since he was a child, generally there are only two situations, one is that his real IQ is not good, and the other is that his high IQ has no opportunity and way to be revealed, and if he doesn't take reading seriously, he can only explain that it is too easy for him.

This was terrifying, and later it turned out that this was indeed an unprecedentedly high-IQ emperor.

This is not what I said, but the roughly same evaluation given by later people who read history.

So, the short-lived dynasty that was founded because of him, like its founder, had genius and brilliant achievements, but it was short-lived.

Geniuses probably don't have to study too seriously, so he soon became a hussar general.

Soon after, he was named the Duke of Daxing County.

By 560 AD, when Emperor Wu of Zhou ascended the throne, Pu Liurujian, who was not yet twenty years old, had already done the history of Suizhou Assassination.

This rocket-like promotion speed reminds people of the meaning behind the sentence "I don't know the language" that he understands the language of officialdom.

You must know that at that time, the Northern Zhou Dynasty divided the country into three administrative regions: prefecture, county, and county, although there were more than 200 prefectures in the country, which was much smaller than the current province, but in terms of level, this was equivalent to the governor of the province.

And Suizhou, located in the north of Hubei, south of the Tongbai Mountains, is smaller than the current administrative area of Suizhou City, with 12 counties and 16 counties, although the administrative division was chaotic at that time, a state and county, a state, it is not much bigger than a county now, but its location is special, because there is Northern Qi in the east, Chen Guo in the south, and the southwest is the neighbor of its vassal small country Liang, such a triangular relationship is of very important strategic significance, especially at the time when war was commonplace.

And this young man who is less than twenty years old and has no hair on his mouth became a provincial governor and a feudal official, although he became a veteran with a relationship, but if he didn't go down, whether it was reassuring or not, it was not his father who could help.

Six years later, Dugu Xin, the general of the current dynasty, saw his great future, and gave him his daughter who was just fourteen years old, which was later the famous Queen Dugu.

Therefore, this dragon son, singing all the way in his career, to this Emperor Xuan is almost just angry, and when he is about to run out of oil, Pu Liurujian, has been the general of the Zhu State, the great Sima, the great former suspicion, and the knighthood of the Duke of the country.

Unexpectedly, this word was later invented and created by him, and changed to Sui, which became the new name of the company that changed the door and re-registered the company.

And the so-called General of the Pillar State set up the "Eight Pillar Kingdom" in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, that is, the Eight Generalissimos.