In 581, Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou abdicated, and Yang Jian received the imperial seal and ascended the throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The land had been divided for more than three hundred years, and the people of the nine provinces yearned for unification. The iron-fisted emperor and the wise Empress Dugu Jialuo joined forces, pacifying the Guanlong aristocratic clans at home, strengthening the military, and turning their sights toward Jiangnan.
In the winter of the eighth year of Kaihuang, an army of five hundred thousand cavalry crossed the Yangtze River. The veteran general Heruo Bi braved the waves, while the young Chen Sanlang sought the roots of his lineage amid the flames of war. On the night Jiankang fell, the palace maid Su Niang wrote “May the land know peace” in blood before throwing herself into a well. Her resolve lived on, like that of the father and son, the craftsman Cui Jiuzhi and his son, who risked their lives to save books: sparks keeping civilization alive.
Warhorses shattered the old boundaries of the land, while laws and decrees rewove the realm like the threads of a loom. For the first time, the household registers of the north and south were gathered into one book, and the nine provinces began to share a common code of law. At court, the Kaihuang Code laid the foundations for a golden age; in the streets, northern and southern accents gradually blended into a shared language. This was no achievement of the Yang clan alone, but the ultimate answer to the people's longing, simmering through three centuries of chaos: veterans laid down their armor and returned to their farms, merchants traveled freely through the He and Luo regions, and scattered books were reprinted in Chang'an.
Once the empire's territory was finally unified, true integration began in ordinary alleys and lanes: northerners and southerners drank from the same river, while the customs of the Hu and Han peoples shared the same moonlit sky. This was more than the merging of territories; it was the rebirth of a civilization. The Sui cauldron was forged, the realm united, and the people's hearts at last found peace. A grand age beyond the Northern and Southern Dynasties had begun.
The great cause is accomplished and Jiuzhou is unified! "The Moon in the Sui Dynasty" takes you to experience the end of three hundred years of troubled times. This is not a cold reappearance of history, but a passionate epic of fighting and iron horses! Yang Jian and Dugu Jialuo worked together to end the troubled times, established the imperial law to lay the foundation for a prosperous age, and the imperial examinations broke the monopoly of the clans, igniting the spark of civilization for the people of the world. Although the mountains and rivers have changed, sincerity remains unchanged; when the tripod was built in the Sui Dynasty, I just hope that the bright moon will shine on this heart. Look at the loyalty and loyalty of emperors and empresses, look at the feats of unifying the country, and even look at the dazzling brilliance of little people in troubled times!