Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty is one of the famous tyrants in the history of our country, I first learned about it through the novel Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and later said about the Sui and Tang Dynasties, etc., but the book roughly introduces Yang Guang, who became the emperor by killing his father and brother.

In the end, he relied on the country's strength to be rich and strong, arrogant and lascivious, and rejoiced in his achievements. Heavy conscription and military service were levied every year, causing peasants to leave their homes, leaving a large amount of land barren and seriously damaging social production.

He abuses treacherous ministers and poisons the faithful. He traveled far away every year, three times to Jiangdu, three to Zhuo County, and every time he traveled, he would build a palace, and the number of people who followed him was as many as hundreds of thousands, which seriously disturbed the normal life of the local people.

He sent troops on three expeditions to attack Goryeo, and finally provoked a nationwide peasant uprising.

But today I'm going to talk to you about the real Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and the significance of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and the Grand Canal to Chinese history.

In many novels, it is written that the absurd and brutal Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty excavated the Grand Canal in order to cruise the south of the Yangtze River or to see the Qionghua and so on.

As a result, the corpses of ordinary people are scattered all over the field, and countless people have been displaced from their homes and died. But today, when we look at the Grand Canal across the five major water systems, it connects the east, west, north and south of China's land, and realizes the first real integration and unification in Chinese history.

Today, when we talk about the Grand Canal, we will think of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but at that time it was perfected on the basis of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

In the old Chinese period, people had to travel long distances by land, and people had to rely on horseback, ox carts, and walking to wade through mountains and rivers, and their movements were very difficult and slow.

However, human beings have long understood that water can be used, and it can be used to cross rivers and even seas by boat, which is fast and load-bearing, and is often much more convenient than taking dry roads.

It can travel tens or even hundreds of miles a day, isn't this a leap in human behavior? The ship is large enough to transport troops, horses, grain and grass, coal, stones, wood, grain and so on.

The space for human activity has been greatly broadened to the point where effective large-scale State action can be organized.

However, China's topography is high in the west and low in the east, and the flow of rivers is basically from west to east, but not from north to south.

Therefore, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty decided to dig the North-South Grand Canal, simply connecting the east, west, north and south with water to form a water network, and turning several natural water systems such as the Yangtze River, Huai River, Yellow River, Haihe River, and Qiantang River into a large water system.

However, it is unreasonable to say that Emperor Yang of Sui was purely for sightseeing, at most it is just incidental.

Since ancient times, there have been a few emperors who don't like to play, and the amount of people's fat and people's ointment spent by several emperors in the Qing Dynasty on more than a dozen southern tours is an astronomical amount.

And the great achievements of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty are also unprecedented in the history of the past. With the birth of the Grand Canal, dozens of prosperous cities along the river were created.

Among them, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Henan Luoyang, Kaifeng, as well as Beijing and Tianjin have become international cities.

Yangzhou is the starting point of the Grand Canal, Xi'an is the midpoint, and Beijing is the end point. The Grand Canal has made these three points a large-scale metropolis that has played a pivotal role in Chinese history.

In terms of spiritual civilization, the Grand Canal has brought the Central Plains culture to the north, the northern nomadic culture to the south, and the southern Yumisang tea village culture to the Central Plains, realizing the diversification, complementarity and co-multiplication of Chinese culture.

Finally, the Grand Canal of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ushered in the prosperity of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, laying the foundation for the rise of Tang culture in the world.

Although the Sui Dynasty was short, it brought the long rule and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. The foundation of the Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty was well laid, and the Tang Dynasty made a slight adjustment in policy, which immediately bore good results, and inadvertently added a brilliant example to the victory of dialectics, and all of this was completed on the basis of the completion of the Grand Canal.

Few of the kings of the dead country in history have a good reputation, and since your reputation stinks, just pour dirty water on them.

The wall fell down, everyone pushed it, and the drum broke the hammer of 10,000 people, which is also the nature of the Han people. Will Qin Shi Huang build the Great Wall and die less?

It was cartloads of dead men. The so-called Kang Yongqian Shengshi Mingjun of the Qing Dynasty killed countless innocent Han people in the literary prison alone.

In modern China, you know how many innocent people have been framed and died, and the damage of political rule is far more shady than the damage of war.

And how bad Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is and how bad can he be, just digging and building the Grand Canal, I think it is enough to achieve the great achievements of his life.

And the so-called historical truth, I think it is just a deception waiting to be exposed by time.