Heroes come from troubled times. In 523 AD, Six Towns Uprising broke out in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Xianbei soldiers stationed in Inner Mongolia rioted. Yu Wentai, who was only 16 years old, took part in the uprising with his father and brother. Although the uprising was suppressed, he was paid by Daniel Erzhurong.
In 530 AD, Yu Wentai went to Shaanxi with He Bayue of Er Zhu Rong's department to put down the rebellion, and never returned to his hometown Wuchuan Town, Inner Mongolia. In the same year, Er Zhurong was trapped and killed by Di Wei Yuan You. The boss died and his men got along well. The leader who won in the end was Gao Huan, the leader. He Bayue was killed in the infighting, and Yu Wentai was successfully upgraded to a vassal in Guanzhong area.
Gao Huan, a large number, naturally refuses to accept. He himself captured a child from the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty and made him emperor. At this point, the Northern Wei Dynasty was divided into two parts, the eastern Wei Dynasty controlled by Gao Huan and the western Wei Dynasty controlled by Yu Wentai. Coupled with the Southern Liang Dynasty, China formed a new tripartite confrontation. Since then, Gao Yang, son of Gao Huan, deposed the Eastern Wei Emperor to establish the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Yu Wenxuan, son of Yu Wentai, deposed the Western Wei Emperor to establish the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Yuwen family flourished here to the extreme.
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Yu Wentai was a famous strategist and politician in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. His achievements have deeply influenced the historical trend of China for hundreds of years after him. He was born in troubled times, but he was calm and open-minded. "Suddenly he was not surprised, but he was not angry for no reason." He runs the country almost in a very rational way. He is quiet and advocates simplicity.
During his decades of military and political career, he diligently repaired internal affairs and made many achievements. The officers and men system and the retro six-grade official system he founded also became the blueprint of the six-grade official system in later generations.
Yu Wentai pursues meritocracy in employing people, regardless of seniority. As long as he has both ability and political integrity, he can occupy a high position even if he comes from a humble background. Yu Wentai's thought of selecting officials embodies the new spirit of breaking the tradition of gate and gate, which ensures the relative clarity of official administration in the Western Wei Dynasty and opens the way for a large number of Han scholars to enter the Western Wei regime.
Under the complicated historical conditions, Yu Wentai's view of the times changed, conforming to the trend of historical development, and finally dominated by power, turning weak into strong, controlling Jianghan in the south, Bashu in the west and desert in the north, laying the foundation for the Northern Zhou Dynasty. When he was in office, he promulgated the military system and the method of selecting officials, which was the origin of the political system in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Yu Wentai's great achievements can be described as another outstanding minority figure after Emperor Hong in the history of China.
During this period, Yu was also a talented person. Besides Yuwen Hu, who came to power later, and Yu Wenyong, a man of insight, there were two clansmen in the 12th General Army: Yu and Yu Wengui. Yu Wentai and his descendants are more tolerant. After usurping the Western Wei Dynasty, they did not kill all the royal families in the past dynasties like the previous dynasties, but treated them with high officials and generous salaries. This generous style was also adopted by the Tang Dynasty.
Yuwen Yong, the Emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was one of the important members of the Yu Wentai family and the fourth son of Yu Wentai. He is "young and filial, intelligent and organic". During Yuwen Yong's reign, he launched a campaign to destroy Buddhism, which increased the country's economic strength, greatly enhanced its national strength, and laid a solid foundation for the demise of the Northern Qi. It also absorbed the vast number of Han farmers in Tian Jun as officers and men, and expanded the ranks of officers and men.
Yuwen Yong sent troops to destroy the Northern Qi and unify the North, ending the separatist situation for nearly half a century since the split of the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, saving the people from the suffering of war, rebuilding their homes and resuming production, thus promoting the extensive political, economic and cultural exchanges and development in the whole North and laying a solid foundation for the future reunification of China. It can be said that without the unification of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, there would be no later unification of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Yu Wenyong, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was the British ruler in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Unfortunately, just when he was going to "flatten the Turks and settle the south of the Yangtze River" and realize the ideal of reunifying the whole country, he died on the eve of the war.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ Yuwen Family