It is difficult to explain why Yang Jian, the ancestor of Sui, sent his personal eunuch Li Yu'er to Guangling before the war between the two countries, and asked his second son Yang Guang for such an envoy as Zhang Lihua.

Since he married the current queen Dugu Jialuo at the age of sixteen, the relationship between the husband and wife has been very good. Dugu Jialuo has always been most proud of the five princes and five princesses, all of whom are descendants of the same mother.

However, as he grew older, Yang Jian began to envy the emperors of the previous dynasties who had three palaces and six courtyards and many concubines. They are all emperors, why can they have hundreds of women, but they can't even have a partial concubine?

As early as a few years ago, Yang Jian had heard of Zhang Lihua, the favorite concubine of Empress Chen. It is said that she not only has the appearance of a country and a city, but also has a gentle and graceful temperament, and never competes with others to be jealous.

However, the world is impermanent, and when Li Yuer brought back the news that Zhang Lihua had killed Gao Ying, Yang Jian shed a few sad tears for this woman he had never met, and then went back to Chang'an in a stupid way.

After all, he is a generation of founding emperors, Sui Gaozu Yang Jian is still very able to restrain his selfish desires, he will neither be angry with Yang Guang and Gao Ying for Zhang Lihua, nor can he do anything more outrageous behind Dugu Jialuo's back, for example, Jiangnan has a beautiful woman, even if Zhang Lihua can't be secretly asked, Yang Jian can completely choose another Jiangnan girl to enrich the harem, but he didn't do it.

Compared with Jiangnan women, Yang Jian values the Jiangnan well-dressed people more. He knew very well that in the past three hundred years, the reason why the Southern Dynasty regarded itself as Chinese orthodoxy was because after the Yongjia Rebellion, a large number of Han people moved south with the Jin Dynasty, bringing advanced culture to Jiangzuo and Jiangnan, and helping the dynasties since the Eastern Jin Dynasty to stabilize their rule in the south. Although there were turbulences and changes such as the Southern Expedition of the former Qin Dynasty and the Hou Jing Rebellion, with the strong support of the Yiguanshi clan, the Southern Dynasty has always stood tall and confronted the Northern Dynasty for a hundred years, which cannot but be said to be a miracle.

Based on the importance of the Jiangnan Yiguanshi clan, after Yang Jian learned the news that Yang Guang led the army to capture Jiankang, the first order he issued to him was to wait for the peace of Chen, and to move all the Jiangnan Yiguanshi clan to Guanzhong and Gyeonggi, and strive for them to change to the Sui Dynasty.

At the same time, Yang Jian did not forget that in the mansion of Chang'an, there was also a famous Confucian Xu Shanxin in Jiangzuo under house arrest. On the second day after returning to Chang'an from the eastern capital, he personally drove to the pavilion to persuade Xu Shanxin to surrender to Sui.

"Master Xu, what's the matter, three months ago you made a bet with me, if I pacify Jiangnan within half a year, you will voluntarily change to my Great Sui to serve me. Today, I have come to ask you to fulfill your promise. Yang Jian ordered people to set up sumptuous wine and food in Xu Shanxin's dormitory, and persuaded him with a smile.

"Since I took the initiative to make a gambling contract with Your Majesty, Your Majesty came to the pavilion today to fulfill the contract, and I have nothing to say in Xia. However, I must ask Your Majesty to promise the next thing first: can you do your best with the heart of your courtiers, give an explanation to the first dynasty, and then change your court clothes, and serve Your Majesty as the master. Xu Shanxin faced the triumphant Sui Gaozu Yang Jian, behaved calmly, and replied calmly.

"But I don't know what Master Xu has to say to Nan Chen? I had already issued an edict the day before yesterday to canonize Chen Shubao as the Duke of the Great Wall, and he also gladly accepted this canonization. Yang Jian disappetically cited the example of Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen, and continued to persuade Xu Shanxin.

When Yang Jian mentioned Chen Shubao, Xu Shanxin got up in full clothes, stood solemnly, fell to the ground at Yang Jian, and pleaded earnestly: "But please give Your Majesty time for the next seven days, and after seven days, you will be able to enter the palace and serve Your Majesty as the master." Otherwise, please ask Your Majesty to send someone to collect the corpse for you. ”

Yang Jian saw that he said solemnly, and he didn't know what he was going to do for Nan Chen in seven days, so he agreed to him with a little curiosity, and at the same time secretly instructed Yi Cheng to closely monitor Xu Shanxin's every move in seven days and report it at any time.

As a result, early the next morning, Yi Cheng entered the palace to report to Yang Jian, saying that Xu Shanxin borrowed the main hall of the hall from him, and he personally arranged the main hall into a mourning hall, and in the mourning hall, he presented the spiritual seat of the emperors of Nanchen since Chen Baxian, and he himself wore linen and filial piety, sat alone in the mourning hall, and guarded the spirit for Nan Chen.

At that time, a large number of Jiangnan Yiguan clans had moved to Chang'an, the capital of Sui, Yang Jian got the report, and after hearing the news that Xu Shanxin was guarding the spirit of the Southern Chen Dynasty in the pavilion, he had a plan, and then issued an edict: let the Jiangnan Yiguan clan who had newly moved to Chang'an City go to the pavilion to hang the Southern Chen Dynasty, and all the government offices in Chang'an could not stop it.

Although Yang Jian wanted to use the plan to win people's hearts, seven days passed in the blink of an eye, and according to the report of the post man who had been monitoring the movements in the mourning hall in the pavilion, except for Xu Shanxin, who had been guarding the spirit of the Southern Chen Dynasty for seven days without a grain of rice in the mourning hall for seven days, he had not seen a single Jiangnan well-dressed scholar go to the pavilion to pay his respects.

When Yang Jian heard the news, he couldn't help but sigh: "I am the only one who has been allowed to be kind to Jiangnan." ”

Early in the morning of the eighth day, before the palace gate of Daxing Palace was opened, Yang Jian got a report in Zhengyang Palace, saying that there was a person outside the palace gate who claimed to be named Xu Shanxin, dressed in cloth and linen shoes, and came to ask for officials.

Yang Jian was overjoyed, and on the same day, he summoned hundreds of officials to the Daxing Palace, and appointed Xu Shanxin in public as the squire of Tongzhi Sancai. Xu Shanxin calmly received the order, immediately changed his court clothes, calmly changed to Yang Jian, and surrendered to the Sui Dynasty. At the same time, it also left a good story for future generations.

Less than half a month after Xu Shanxin's surrender to Sui, Yang Guang returned to Chang'an with Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen, who had already been named the Duke of the Great Wall of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Jian specially ordered Xu Shanxin to be the minister of the Sui Dynasty and go out of the city to greet Chen Shubao on his behalf, wanting to see how Xu Shanxin treated the former master.

As a result, Xu Shanxin saw Chen Shubao in the Baqiao Station, standing without kneeling, but calling the Great Wall Duke but not long live, all his manners, words and deeds, in accordance with the laws of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jianwei couldn't help but admire, and he was fortunate to be assisted by Xu Shanxin.

Chen Shubao was salvaged by Gao Ying and his sergeants from the dry well in the imperial garden in Jiankangtai City, and at the moment of capture, he was bent on preserving his life and living in the world, and naturally he did not mind the change of Xu Shanxin's attitude towards himself, and under his guidance, he entered Daxing Palace to meet Yang Jian, and Yang Jian gave him a mansion in Chang'an City, and enjoyed his remaining years until more than ten years later, when he died of illness in Luoyang, the eastern capital, on the way to accompany the eastern tour, and was nicknamed Yang.