In 582 AD, in the second year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, according to the orders of his parents and the words of the matchmaker, the 13-year-old " King of Jin " Yang Guang married the 12-year-old Xiao family. Then they lived together until the spring of 618. In the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty was in chaos. Emperor Yang of Sui was forced by his subordinates and hanged himself. Empress Xiao fell into the hands of the powerful minister Yu Wen and the hands of the then powerful minister, and became prisoners of war and kept in the palace. According to the records in " Sui Book ? Biography", the marriage was written as: "She was then transferred to the six palaces, and he was self-supported, just like the story of Emperor Yang." 
Xiao fell into the hands of a man again. Although she chose to commit suicide this time, she was rescued by Dou Jiande's subordinates. Dou Jiande himself He claimed to be Yang Guang's supporter and treated Xiao with courtesy. In " Old Tang Book ? Biography": "Jiande entered the city and first visited Empress Xiao of Sui and praised him."
Although this is the case, Xiao did not gain real freedom. She has been in Dou Jiande's army. Although it is not recorded in history that she was forcibly occupied by Dou Jiande, it seems that some inferences can be made about the relationship between Dou Jiande and Xiao from some ancient documents.
There is a record in "Old Book of Tang": "Jiande broke the formation every time he paved the city, and he gained money and rewarded the generals, and he had nothing to take. He also did not eat meat, and he only ate vegetables and rice with grain. His wife Cao did not wear silk and silk, and only had dozens of maids and concubines. At this point, he had received thousands of palace ladies and sluts, and he was dispersed in time."
From this history, it can be seen that Dou Jiande was a gentleman. He would not occupy other people's wife and daughters. The most important thing is that Dou Jiande's wife Cao was very tough and strictly guarded Dou Jiande and would never allow him to have an affair with other women. Moreover, Xiao did not stay for a long time. After about two or three months, she transferred to the hands of the Turks.
Turkic is a terrifying word for people in the Central Plains. The Turkic people are rough and heroic, and the "Hu customs" of the Turkic people are even more unacceptable to the Central Plains who have been educated by Confucian since childhood: without blood ties, the son can inherit the woman of his father's generation, and the younger brother can remarry his brother's wife and concubine. In the Turks, women were like animals, taken over by others, without any feelings. The reason why Xiao went to the Turks was because the Turks' , Princess Yicheng , wanted to leave her from Dou Jiande.
This Princess Yicheng was married to Khan Qiming 0 years ago by Yang Jian . Later, when her husband died, she remarried the "sons" of Shibi Khan , Luo Khan and Jieli Khan . Regarding this history, the Sui Book of Sui mentioned in one sentence: "The Turkic Chuluo Khan sent envoys to welcome the queen in Mingzhou . Jiande did not dare to stay, so he entered the palace."
Whether Xiao was willing to go to the Turkic with Princess Yicheng at that time, she was a widow who had no support and could only obey other people's arrangements and had no power to make decisions on her own. After she went to the Turkic, she was included in the tent of Chuluo Khan with Princess Yicheng. Later, Chuluo Khan died, and his sister-in-law and sister-in-law naturally married his younger brother, Jie Li Khan.
Xiao, who lived in the Turks, had long stopped his idea of returning to the Central Plains. Until 630 AD, the Turks were defeated, Princess Yicheng died, and Jie Li Khan was captured. She returned to Chang'an , but at this time she was still a "prisoner of war". After returning to Chang'an, although she was treated as a courtesy of Tang , she lived in simplicity and lived alone after 18 years, and died alone.
" Zizhi Tongjian ? Tang Ji" says: "In the Gengzi, Empress Xiao of Sui died. The emperor ordered her to restore her position and posthumously named Min; she was appointed as the third-rank guard and prepared a burial guard, and sent her to Jiangdu to be buried with Emperor Yang." After Empress Xiao's death, she was buried with Emperor Yang of Sui, and the couple finally stayed together.
