Yang Zhengdao
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Yang Zhengdao ( 618 – early 650s) or Yang Min[1] was a Chinese figurehead installed by the Eastern Turkic Khaganate during the bloody Transition from Sui–Tang transition. He was a grandson of Emperor Yang of Sui, and "ruled" as King of Sui in an area around Dingxiang Commandery from 620 — when he was still a baby — to 630, the year he surrendered to the Tang Empire. His state is sometimes known in history as the Later Sui.
His father Yang Jian and grandfather Emperor Yang were both killed in a coup before he was born.[2]
Background
Yang Zhengdao was a member of the House of Yang, the ruling family of the Sui dynasty. His father Yang Jian was the Prince of Qi during Emperor Yang of Sui's reign. In April 618, a mutiny led by Yuwen Huaji massacred Emperor Yang, Yang Jian, and many members of the family while they were touring in Jiangdu. Empress Xiao (Yang Jian's mother) and presumably Yang Zhengdao's pregnant mother were among those spared. Yuwen Huaji seized them and took them north,[2] but was in turn captured by the rebel Dou Jiande in 619. Dou Jiande killed him in the name of Sui and made the new-born Yang Zhengdao Duke of Xun.[3]
At that time, the Eastern Turkic Khaganate's Shibi Khagan was married to Princess Yicheng, previously his stepmother and a member of the Yang family. At Princess Yicheng's request, Dou Jiande — who was eager to enter into an alliance with the Turks — delivered remnants of the Yang family, including the former Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao, to the north of the Great Wall where they were welcomed into Turkic territory.[2] The Turks realized the usefulness of a puppet government which could rally Sui loyalists to their side;[4] so in 620, Shibi's successor Chuluo Khagan established Yang Zhengdao as the King of Sui,[5] including a "Branch Department of State Affairs", in Dingxiang Commandery.[4]
Life
Virtually nothing is known of his reign as a puppet, except that his subjects included many Sui refugees.[2]
During the Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks of 629–630, Yang Zhengdao still held court in Dingxiang as a puppet of Illig Khagan. The Tang dynasty Li Jing approached Dingxiang in December 629, and penetrated the Dingxiang wall with a night attack. Illig fled with his army, while a Sogdian advisor surrendered to the Tang with Yang Zhengdao and his grandmother. They were brought back to Chang'an, arriving in February 630,[6] where they lived out the rest of their lives.[2] In the Zhenguan period (627–649), Yang Zhengdao worked as the Chief Steward of Clothing Service[1]. He died early in the Yonghui period (650–655).[1] His son Yang Longli, later known as Yang Chongli, became a high-ranking politician.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Li Dashi; Li Yanshou. "Ch. 71.". Bei Shi [History of the Northern Dynasties] (in 中文).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Long, Laura (2015). "Xiao, Empress of Emperor Yang of Sui". In Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Stefanowska, A.D. (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E. Routledge. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-7656-1750-7.
- ↑ Romane, Julian (2018). Rise of the Tang Dynasty: The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD 581-626). Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-47388-777-0.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wang Zhenping (2013). Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8248-3644-3.
- ↑ Pan Yihong (1997). Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and Its Neighbors and a Bureaucratic System. Western Washington University. p. 172. ISBN 0-914584-20-0.
- ↑ Graff, David A. (2002). "Strategy and Contingency in the Tang Defeat of the Eastern Turks, 629–630". In Di Cosmo, Nicola (ed.). Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800). Brill Publishers. pp. 50–51. ISBN 90-04-11949-3.
- ↑ Liu Xu; et al. (945). "Ch. 105". Jiu Tang Shu [Old Book of Tang] (in 中文).
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