Opening Remarks:

Under the peach blossom tree of the farmhouse in Longquan Mountain Study Village, Chengdu, bathed in spring light, drinking tea and setting up the Longmen array with friends. A friend chatted about celebrities from ancient and modern times, and the topic quickly became a debate about which emperor in history had the greatest influence on China. I was at a loss for a moment, and with my knowledge of ancient and modern Chinese history, there would be many answers to this question.

Qin Shi Huang, who unified China and formed a unified feudal centralized empire, was he?

Han Wu Liu Che, he created the Han Dynasty and gave our nation a name, is it him?

Taizong Li Shimin, who left us the glory of the most powerful Central Empire on earth at that time, was he?

Gaozu Zhao Kuangyin, it was he who brought China that had been divided for hundreds of years back to unification, and the Han people returned to the mainstream of the times, is he?

Genghis Khan, no, no, no, none of them should be the right answer, *** has long been settled in his poems.

A friend mentioned that the Ten Perfection Emperor Qing Kangxi loved Xinjueluo-Xuanye, but I rejected it. The reason is very simple, Kangxi is nothing more than to recover and occupy the country laid down by the previous founding emperors, and the prosperous era he created is not as good as Tang Zhenguan, and his reputation should be below Li Shimin.

These people are not counted, could it be the short-lived lewd tyrant Emperor Yang Guang? Hehehe! Everyone laughed.

In the past few days, Sichuan Satellite TV is broadcasting "The Legend of Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", no wonder friends thought of Emperor Yang of Sui on this serious topic.

Yang Guang? The name made me think.

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal? That's right, he dug it with the power of the whole country! Opened up 5 water systems, to create the largest transportation and logistics channel in the north and south of China at that time, yes, the reason why the Tang Dynasty had the "Zhenguan Prosperous Era" is not because of this artery?

Several times in the south to look for flowers and ask willows? It was his sin, but it made the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River, which were barren land at that time, develop greatly. Wasn't the emergence of urban agglomerations in the most economically developed areas of China in later generations driven by Yang Guang's southern tour at that time?

How many times have you personally conquered the bitter cold land of Liaodong? If you look at the map, you can ask which emperor in the past dynasties was able to go so far and go so far to quell the rebellion of a subject country, so that Goguryeo and Korea submitted to China for a thousand years and swept away the barbaric wilderness in Northeast China in one fell swoop, laying the basic shape of Northeast China's territory.

In addition, before he ascended the throne, he set foot in the northwest, unlike the later generations of grassland reckless men who only knew how to loot, but let China establish a local government subordinate to the central government in distant Xinjiang for the first time, and left troops to garrison it, so that the countries of the Western Regions have since been included in our China.

Also, before the age of 20, he commanded 510,000 troops to exterminate Nan Chen, making the country a great unification again!

Well! No need, enough is enough. There you have the answer. Friends feel reasonable, and friends who are not familiar with history even said that they didn't expect Yang Guang not only to "pick flowers", but also to do a lot of serious things!

I went on to add: Yang Guang reigned for 14 years, and he could have guarded the country like other emperors without tossing. But in the past 14 years, he has not stopped expanding his territory, building infrastructure, developing the economy, and building new cities. In the past 14 years, he not only used up all the family funds accumulated by his father, but also failed to solve the livelihood problems in all aspects of the construction process, which led to a national flames. Everything he did became a floating cloud for him and a stepping stone for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. If he can reign a little longer, and follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in his later years, stop in time, solve social sufferings in time, rest with the people, and social contradictions with Sister Hua, then what else will he bring to China with his mind? Maybe he will go and conquer Dongying, then there will be no modern wars; Perhaps he will march south all the way to Singapore and make the South China Sea a de facto inland sea of China, and with his foresight, he should know the importance of holding Malacca for China.

And also......

Oh, yes! It is not an exaggeration to say that Yang Guang is the most diligent emperor in Chinese history, and he has really not been idle in the past 14 years.

But there is one thing I have not figured out, and I hope that all of you here will teach me. Why can't Yang Guang not toss on the throne like his father? Like many emperors, I believe that in this case, the Great Sui Dynasty will not be short-lived in Chinese history and die II. Why did he ignore the subversion of imperial power and do the excavation of the Grand Canal that cost the people and money more than the Great Wall of Qin Shi Huang (the whole canal is divided into 5 sections, all of which are dug in a straight line, connecting the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and many natural rivers in eastern China, occupying the fiefdom of countless local powers and the fertile land of the people along the river; Hard-dug countless ancestral graves of feudal and powerful nobles! People are displaced! That's really unconditional forcible occupation and demolition! ）？ Did he really know that opening up the north and south of China would bring inexhaustible wealth to future generations, and would make the coastal areas south of the Yangtze River a land of prosperity and a land of fish and rice? How could he do something that no one had done before, he had to establish power in the Western Regions, you must know that the Western Regions were 108,000 miles away from the central government at that time! And to go through the slow desert and the Gobi, his predecessors Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty never thought of it, let alone did it in a real sense, but Yang Guang did it. If it weren't for Yang Guang's advanced consciousness, Xinjiang and other vast western regions would now be independent countries, at least not belong to China.

Yang Guang really doesn't look like a person of that era! He stood high and saw far, as if he knew China's future. Could it be that Yang Guang is a modern person? Is it the emperor who travels through the past to make modern people? Think about some of the incredible and uncommon details of his daily life: killing his father and usurping the throne is a great rebellion, and it will leave him infamous for all generations, don't he know? Sister-in-law ** is indecent, and will be despised by the world, doesn't he understand? Ignoring the capsizing of Sheji, he took hundreds of beautiful boats to cruise in Jiangnan, how did he know that there were beautiful women in Jiangnan? If yes, etc. Where did these chaotic ideas come from, imitating the southern tour of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty? His behavior is completely a product of modern ideological emancipation! Could it be that he knew that his dynastic qi was almost irreversible, and he had fun in time? How does he know? Is he really a modern man?

This novel is guided by this line of thought, explaining in detail Yang Guang's full and short life, and letting you know why Yang Guang wants to do things that other emperors are unwilling to do.

Friendly reminder: The first 10 chapters of this statement are the protagonist's life in modern times, mainly to pave some things. The blind and sudden unforeshadowing crossing is too abrupt. Of course, readers who don't like this part can also go directly to the traversal chapter. In addition, the dialogue between the characters in the modern section is basically in Sichuanese, which may cause you discomfort. However, I have annotated the difficult dialect vocabulary, which does not affect the reading.

Author: Mo Mingtang