Chapter 385: Similar Experiences, Different Endings

Yang Guang is a tyrant of www.biquge.info generation, and Li Shimin is a Ming monarch who has been recited through the ages and can be used as an emperor.

The evaluation of the two can be said to be very different, but if you really know more about the two people, you will find that the life experiences of Yang Guang and Li Shimin are really very similar.

Both of their fathers are emperors, and they are the second in line in the family, since childhood, Yang Guangmei is beautiful, less intelligent, Li Shimin is smart and decisive, and informal, both of them are models of other people's children in their childhood.

Yang Guang has a wide range of hobbies, is proficient in poetry and writing, and also writes good words, so is Li Shimin, and even Li Shimin's flying white pen strength can be called everyone, especially for a while.

And both of them were known for their military exploits, Yang Guang was twenty years old when he unified the army and repeatedly made military exploits to unify the north and south, Li Shimin assisted his father Li Yuan Jinyang to raise troops, invaded Chang'an, destroyed the Great Sui, and later broke Xue Ju, defeated Song Jingang, Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, etc., the prosperity of military merit was unparalleled for a while.

At the beginning, he was simple, not quiet, polite, courteous, and cautious, which won the praise of the government and the public.

Then the two second sons successfully counterattacked and killed the boss, became the crown prince, and then became the emperor, and both of them did not get the throne properly.

Everyone said that Yang Guang killed his father and killed his brother, deceived his mother and adulterated his sister-in-law, how much of it is true is not verified, it should be all true, but in comparison, Li Shimin is not far behind here.

The change of Xuanwumen, directly killed his brother and younger brother, this is irrefutable, Li Shimin himself admitted, killed his father, Li Shimin did not do it, but it is true that he forced his father Li Yuan to abdicate, otherwise Li Yuan is good, and he can live for many years The emperor did a good job, why abdicate soon after the Xuanwumen change.

This is nonsense for any of them, but the lewd sister-in-law Yang Guang is not easy to say, but Li Shimin did receive Jiancheng and Yuanji's daughter-in-law to his harem.

Before this, the personalities and experiences of the two were really similar to the extreme.

After ascending the throne and becoming the emperor, the two of them originally did a very good job, until the back, Yang Guangxing civil engineering, building palaces, digging canals, three expeditions to Goguryeo, the temperament was too anxious, the stalls were too big, the people and the country could not bear it, so the people changed in all directions, the eighteenth road was against the king, the thirty-sixth road was dusty, and finally Yang Guang was killed in Yangzhou.

And Li Shimin, also fought everywhere, fighting Liang Shidu, Turkic, Xue Yantuo, Tubo, Gaochang, Tuyuhun, etc., attacking more places than Yang Guang, Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo three times, and Li Shimin also drove the personal expedition to Goguryeo, but compared to Yang Guang's impatience, Li Shimin had to appear much more restrained, Yang Guang ignored the boiling of public resentment, and the country was about to fall apart, and still insisted on fighting three times. Li Shimin also fought many times in Goguryeo, but there was only one large-scale expedition, and after finding that the long-term attack could not be overcome, coupled with the cold climate, the grass was dry and frozen, the grain and grass were not continued, and the soldiers and horses were difficult to stay for a long time, Li Shimin ordered the troops to retreat, and the subsequent many attacks on Goguryeo were only maintained on some small-scale raids.

This is the difference between Yang Guang and Li Shimin, Yang Guang is unruly, thinks very highly of himself, he is talented and far-sighted, but he has no patience, and he hopes to do things overnight.

Li Shimin also thinks highly of himself, but he can listen to advice, know how to judge the situation, and know how to make trade-offs.

The two of them do the same thing, because of their different personalities and different trade-offs, they have long been the difference between a tyrant and a Ming monarch.

Li Shimin knows very well that the king is the boat and the people are the water, the water can carry the boat and the boat can overturn, whether he fights or repairs the palace, yes, Yang Guang has done things, Li Shimin has really done a lot of things, he has repaired Yong'an Palace, which is later Daming Palace.

This palace was built for Li Yuan. is also to build the palace, but Li Shimin chose to build it after avoiding the busy agricultural season, which has a much smaller impact on the people.

Later, not long after the renovation began, Li Yuan died, so the construction of the palace stopped. If you want to say that Li Shimin voluntarily stopped, it must not be that since the cultivation was started, he definitely wanted to finish it directly, but Li Shimin was willing, and the ministers were unwilling, so Li Shimin listened to the advice before stopping. It was only after Gaozong Li Zhi succeeded to the throne that the construction of the palace began again.

It is because of all this that Li Shimin made the people under his rule feel happy, yes, it is happiness, at this time, the people of the Tang Dynasty ask them if they are happy, they will give you a sure, certain, and affirmative answer, they are happy, not like the later generations, are you happy, it has become a joke. My surname is Fu, my surname is Zeng.

And Yang Guang's biggest problem is precisely the second, he did not make the people under his rule happy, he did not unify what he did with the happiness of the people, and did not deal with the relationship between the merits in the present and the benefits in the future, so there is a saying that "Weihuan is nothing more than the people's grievances, and the glory is all blood blur".

In later generations, many people ridiculed Wang Mang as a historical figure who was most like a time-traveler, and even swore that he was a time-traveler, because from his rebellion to the reform after the establishment of a new dynasty, it was not like something that people of the same dynasty could do. Wang Mang was a man with his tail between his legs at first, but he secretly developed his own power, courteous corporals, and recruited talents; then accumulate a lot, make a splash, directly rebel, and establish a new dynasty of its own; Then the comprehensive reform allowed ancient China to be reborn and spread its wings, which is the standard template for the post-80s to travel to ancient times.

It's a pity that Wang Mang's vision is too advanced, for example, the implementation of the Wang Tian system, the nationalization of the country's land, and the redistribution according to the well field system, this is a land reform, contains socialist ideas, in the heyday of the feudal landlord era can be implemented is strange.

In addition to various reforms, Wang Mang also encouraged and supported scientific experiments and inventions, which are no different from modern concepts, and also invented a primitive vernier caliper.

Such and so on were out of step and too advanced and were seriously out of touch with the social productive forces and the level of social development at that time, which led to social turmoil, not only the bureaucrats and big landlords counterattacked, but even the people rebelled one after another, and the result was that Wang Mang was killed by the rebels after 16 years of reign.

And Wu Yuanqing felt that what Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty did was really like a traverser, more like a traverser than him.

At least he is just thinking about making small inventions in his spare time, at most he is trying to stir up the prince, and the emperor is doing things and scolding the little devils.

And Yang Guang is like a promising young man with lofty ideals and eager to do a big job, so that the sun and the moon can change the sky.

10,000 years is too long.

It seems that he is in a hurry to do everything, for fear that there will not be enough time and not enough changes, it only took one year to repair the eastern capital of Luoyang, and so did the construction of the Grand Canal, such a big project was repaired in the limited time during his reign.

is in such a hurry, with such a strong sense of time, it seems that there is only Yang Guang left in the ancient emperors except for Wang Mang.