Li Nannan couldn't determine which emperor was buried in the Valley of the Eight Hundred Emperors, but Xue Xinghan, who had lived here for many years, knew very well in his heart.

The famous Emperor Yang in history, Yang Guang.

Speaking of Yang Guangqi, many people's first reaction is the word "tyrant".

In the past, before Xue Xinghan came eight hundred years ago, it was also artificial, after all, Yang Guang was described in the history books like this.

Yang Guang, who has the word "Yang" in his nickname, and Xia Wei, the first monarch of the Chinese slavery system with "Ji" in his nickname, and Shang Wang, who has "纣" in his nickname, are known as the three outstanding young people in Chinese history.

Therefore, Yang Guang is a tyrant, which is also recognized by the common people, and he is often used as one of the typical negative figures of the rulers of the Chinese dynasties.

When he first came to Eight Hundred, Xue Xinghan must have been disdainful when he learned that Eight Hundred and the others were guarding the tomb for Yang Guang.

Not to mention, Xie Qingshu also mobilized her to stay here and guard the gate for this tyrant.

The Xue family in Shuzhong, what kind of existence is that?

For thousands of years, the Xue family in Shuzhong has been respected by the people as the Bodhisattva who saves the suffering and saves the hard.

Legend has it that famous doctors such as Li Shizhen, who is famous in history, were guided by the Xue family in Shuzhong when they were young.

One is a good person who is talked about by the people all day long, and the other is scolded by the people when they mention it - it is normal for her to be dissatisfied after Xie Qingqing let Xue Xinghan, a good person, show the door to the tyrant.

But when Xie Qingshu brought a few thick ancient books from the old village chief's house and asked Xue Xinghan to read them, her impression of the tyrant completely changed.

Looking at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, he sighed and said, "History books, harm me." ”

Writing here, I have to talk about Yang Guang.

Yang Guang, the second son of Emperor Wen of Sui, and the mother of Queen Dugu. In 581, he was crowned king of Jin, in 589 he was appointed as the marshal of the marching army to lead the army to attack Chen, and in 600 he was established as the emperor and son.

In 604, he was the emperor, and he reigned for 14 years.

There is a record of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty in the Book of Sui Shizu Benji: "The beauty of the posture, the young senhui." ”

His political achievements and tyranny are very prominent, and some people compare him with the king of Shang and Qin Shi Huang, and call him the three tyrants (one says Xia Wei).

After ascending the throne, he had grand ambitions for national politics, and made great efforts to realize them, building the Grand Canal, Daxing City and Luoyang City, the eastern capital, opening up the territory and unblocking the Silk Road, creating the imperial examination, and the three expeditions to Goguryeo.

The Grand Canal, the imperial examination system, influenced future generations for thousands of years.

In March of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, Emperor Yang saw that the world was in chaos and could not be recovered, so he ordered to repair the Danyang Palace and prepare to move there.

It's just that the people who drove were all Guanzhong guards, and they missed their hometown and fled back one after another.

At this time, Hu Benlang conspired with Yuanli and others with Pei Qiantong of the Zhige, taking advantage of the resentment of the guards who missed their hometown, and pushed Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua and as the leader, launched a mutiny, Yu Wenhua and forced Emperor Yang of Sui.

After Yang Guang's death, he didn't even use a decent coffin, so Empress Xiao and the palace people dismantled the bed board to make a small coffin, and secretly buried it under the Liuzhu Hall of Jiangdu Palace.

Later, on the night of lightning and thunder, Emperor Yang's body mysteriously disappeared.

The above mentioned basically comes from the Tang Dynasty, which was built on behalf of Sui.

Li Yuan, who was originally a relative of Emperor Yang, replaced the Great Sui, in order to block the mouths of the people in the world, of course, he had to be black, especially the old Yang.

As the dynasty that replaced the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty could not say that it was a rebellion, but a forced army for the sake of the people, so it was necessary to smear and demonize how the last monarch of the Sui Dynasty was tyrannical, how mediocre, and how corrupt the last monarch of the Sui Dynasty was, so as to prove that the Tang Dynasty replaced the Sui Dynasty in accordance with the will of heaven and the people, not a rebellion.

But Datang is only one of several forces that smear Lao Yang.

In addition to the Tang Li father and son, there are several forces.

The self-proclaimed "orthodox" Confucian view of historiography is in fact always based on the code of conduct of the current dynasty.

To put it simply, they are a bunch of sycophants, and they will blow whatever they want if they are in line with the interests of the current dynasty.

Because there is a definitive theory in Huaxia, called the definitive theory of the coffin, that is, all the definitive conclusions are finalized after death, so after the Tang Dynasty began to demonize Emperor Yang of Sui, almost all subsequent Confucian scholars evaluated according to the theory of the Tang Dynasty.

In their eyes, Emperor Yang of Sui is what the rulers of the Tang Dynasty said, which is the object of opposition advocated by Confucianism, completely denying Emperor Yang of Sui and giving a warning to later emperors, in order to prove that Emperor Yang of Sui was the result of tyranny, mediocrity, corruption, etc., and asked them not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

The third group that wantonly demonized Yang Guang was the barnyard official Yeshi.

As an official to revise the history of the country, the barnyard officials have no right to participate in the revision of the history of the country, and often search for some deliberately exaggerated anecdotes among the people, and revise the history themselves through hearsay, so the "Brief Record of the Great Cause", "General History" and so on came out.

The fourth force, of course, is the folk romance novel.

The small people in the market, mostly ignorant, are easy to follow the blind coaxing, because the ancient folk did not have so much entertainment for recreation now, so they heard the storyteller tell stories, and the storyteller often deliberately exaggerated and magnified, the real thing, to the storyteller can be said to be false, and the false thing, he can say true.

The fifth force is naturally inseparable from folklore.

After the further rendering of the romance novel, the people of the people will believe that they will follow the clouds, and then listen to the wind and rain, endlessly-

After the rendering of these five major forces, no matter how good a person is, he will become a heinous bad person, not to mention Emperor Yang of Sui, who has already died in the country?

In order to completely discredit Lao Yang, several deeds of him as a tyrant with excessive prowesses were specially recorded in historical materials.

Among them, the most famous is to say that Yang Guang killed his eldest brother Yang Yong, occupied his sister-in-law, received the harem, and hugged him every day to talk about life.

Otherwise, it was how he brutally persecuted the people to dig the Grand Canal, saying that it would be more convenient to go south to see Qionghua.

When the time comes, he holds the beauty in his left hand, holds the golden bottle of wine in his right hand, looks at the slender man on both sides of the canal, and is happy to have a song "The Love of the Slender Man" with the queen's mother, and the small day is leisurely and happy.

Or say that he made three expeditions to Goryeo because he took a fancy to the abundance of beautiful women over there - and so on.

The most talked about by the people is the legend related to Zhang Lihua.

During the southern expedition to the Chen Dynasty, Yang Guang heard that Zhang Lihua was a great beauty, so he sent someone to tell the general Gao Gong that he must leave the beautiful Zhang Lihua behind.

However, Gao Gong was worried that Zhang Lihua's peerless beauty would lead to the destruction of the Sui Dynasty, so he said: "In the past, Jiang Ziya masked and beheaded Daji, how can Zhang Lihua be left with this red face today." ”

So, Lao Gao beheaded Zhang Meiren'er without authorization.

Just because of this matter, Yang Guang held a grudge and claimed that he would take revenge in the future.

Not really.

Yang Guang in history is by no means like the folk legends written by historians of all dynasties.

Many people haven't thought about it carefully, if there was no Yang Guang to conquer and expand the territory, how could the countries of all nations come to the court to pay tribute, so as to establish the status of the great heaven and the dynasty of Huaxia Shenzhou?

If he hadn't built the Great Wall in the north and invaded the Turks in the north, how could the northern frontier be relatively stable in the early Tang Dynasty?

If he hadn't made three expeditions to Goryeo, how could the Northeast in the early Tang Dynasty be safe?

If he hadn't opened the canal, how could Song's prosperity come?

If he hadn't pioneered the imperial examination, how could the children of the Shu clan have the opportunity to be ranked among the ministers?

If—

Emperor Yang is an emperor who has been crushed by the great cause!

He is not only for himself, but also for the people and the country.

Yang Guang is afraid that he will not be able to complete all these grand wishes in his lifetime, so he must speed up the implementation, and want to leave wealth for future generations, leave culture, and leave the true spirit of the Great Sui!

But as a result, he was exhausted by the great cause.

It has been 1,500 years since Emperor Yang's death, and it has been stinking for 1,500 years.

The power of folklore is terrifying.

Until now, almost not many people know that in 589 AD, Yang Guang, who was only 20 years old, was worshiped as the generalissimo of the Sui Dynasty, and led an army of 510,000 to the south to attack the Chen Dynasty and complete the unification.

Under the command of Yang Guang, the Sui army was disciplined, brave and good at fighting, breaking through the Yangtze River moat in one fell swoop, and was invincible everywhere it went.

As for the people, he did not commit any crimes, and he took nothing from the assets of the Chen Dynasty's treasury, which won wide praise from the people.

"The world is known as a virtuous!"

This sentence was the people's praise for Yang Guang at that time.

At the age of 20, Yang Guang completed the great cause of the reunification of China China, ending the situation of division of China for hundreds of years, and also ending the era of war and chaos for three or four hundred years, and allowing the country to enter an era of peace and strength.

In the tenth year of the emperor's reign, when a large-scale rebellion broke out in some places in the southern old land, Yang Guang was appointed as the governor of Jiangnan, stationed in Jiangdu, and quelled the rebellion.

His task in the south was quite complex and difficult, and in order to alleviate the resentment and suspicion of the south, he implemented a rational administration after the military occupation, and broke down the many political and cultural barriers that prevented the southerners from becoming loyal subjects of the Sui dynasty.

Canals were built.

West Tour Zhangye.

Pioneer the imperial examination.

Development of the Western Regions.

Eastern Expedition to Goryeo

These five major projects can summarize Yang Guang's life.

It's a pity that when later generations mention Yang Guang, they only remember his atrocities such as killing his brother and raping his sister-in-law, digging canals regardless of the lives of the people, and making three expeditions to Goryeo.

A dignified generation of monarchs, but after his death, he didn't even have a coffin to be buried, and he was only hastily restrained by the queen and others who were loyal to him.

It wasn't until the soldiers loyal to Emperor Yang took advantage of the lightning and thunder in the middle of the night that his body was stolen, fled to the northeast, and was buried in the depths of the 100,000 mountains.

The valley where Yang Guang was buried has since been renamed the Valley of the Kings.

The sergeant who stole his body here willingly served as his professional grave keeper.

and dwelt outside the valley of the Valley of the Kings, which was eight hundred.

Thousands of years have passed, dozens of generations and 800 residents, with their hands, have built a nine-story holy tower, so that this great emperor finally has a resting place worthy of his status.

In the nine-story holy tower, each floor has a military general who is absolutely loyal to him.

Sculptures like Yuwenshu, Mai Tiecan, Zhang Xutuo and others are all in the nine-story holy pagoda.

and Yang Guang's hard-working queen Empress Xiao.

Speaking of this Empress Xiao, the records in the history books are also quite interesting.

I can't help but want to talk about her, even if I am scolded for irrigation.

There are countless sisters who have fascinated the monarch in history.

However, after many changes of dynasty, the monarch who can still make a group of beautiful women worship the women under the pomegranate skirt is probably as few as a star in Chinese history

And Empress Xiao is such a strange woman, who won the crown of the most sought-after woman in history in one fell swoop.

Empress Xiao was born beautiful, charming and charming.

As for how beautiful she is, words may not be able to describe it at all, judging from the fact that she is nearly fifty years old and still makes Li Shimin lose three souls and six souls, the country and the city should be well-deserved.

Perhaps, Empress Xiao was born to be a human being.

At the time of birth, a fortune teller was amazed by her appearance, carefully calculated her birth date, and finally came to the conclusion of eight words - the mother is the world, and the life is with peach blossoms.