Yuwen Hu

For fifteen years the Northern Zhou were governed by Yuwen Tai’s nephew rather than by Yuwen Tai’s sons. Yuwen Hu set the dynasty up in 557 and removed two emperors. He kept the third, Emperor Wu, under his control until Wu killed him in 572.

He enters Göktürk history once, and briefly. Later in 564, after the failure before Jinyang, Mukan sent tribute again and asked for a second campaign to the east. An edict sent Yang Zhong out by Woye and Duke Hu of Jin towards Luoyang to support him. Yuwen Hu’s fighting went badly. Mukan drew back.^[1]

The two failures in a single year are the reason the war against the Qi took another thirteen. They are also the reason the marriage that had been promised for the alliance was withheld until 568.