Sui Wendi

Sui Wendi (541 - 604) is an emperor of China of the North of the Dynastie Chen (581 - 589). By crushing the last dynasties of southernmost China, it reunifies the China (589) and founds the Dynastie Sui.

It reigns on plain China of 589 with 604. Energetic sovereign, it restored the roads, the channels, part of the Great wall, Digue S, and the moral one of people. He also rebuilt schools.

Biography

In 577, the powerful minister confucéen Yang Jian (楊堅 Yáng Jian ) manages to subject and annex the kingdom of the IQ of North: north is reunified with the profit of the kingdom Zhou. Continuing to manage the businesses of the State, Yang Jian imposes in 581, after some military oppositions, its dynasty: the dynasty Sui (隋 Suí ). It reinforces its kingdom, sends agitators in the Chinese “empire” of the Chen to the South, making run of the rumors with an aim propagandist of weakening fidelity in Chen, the emperor having indeed a reputation of discharged luxurieux. In 589, he manages to subject China of the South and thus reconstitutes the unit of the Chinese Empire: it is the period Sui (589 - 618).

This sober and pragmatic emperor builds the prosperity of his empire by defending it on his limits. He redesigns the institutions, pursues the corrupted civils servant, break-in the system based on the birth, founds that of the imperial examinations and the loads according to the merit. The Civil servant S and Officier S deserving of Chen are accepted and encouraged to join its rows. It engages a Land reform to stabilize the campaigns: collective grounds are organized, then equitably redistributed with the families according to the number of mouths to nourish. The Taxe S are lowered.

Materially, it engages of great work, such as the Grand Channel (so that North and the South are linked by the trade), the restoration of the Great wall of China and the roads, large construction Grenier S to store the surpluses due to sudden peace. The Agriculture is flourishing.

Persuaded of the great unifying and celestial mission of its birth and line, he asks for the tender of all the kingdoms bordering. When the Korea refuses, he insists, then decides to send an army of three hundred and thousand men which will be rolled by the climatic risks (598, 90 % of loss).

Outside, the empire becomes sufficiently powerful not to more fear invasions or attacks Barbare S. It is now China which makes tremble the Asian ground.

Random links: