A detailed investigation of history shows that the original intention of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to travel around can be glimpsed in the "Zizhi Tongjian". A year before the excavation of the Jiangnan Canal, Emperor Yang of Sui once said to Cai Zheng, the man who gave the matter: "Since ancient times, the Son of Heaven has a hunting gift, and the emperors of Jiangdong have many Fu fat powder, sit in the deep palace, and do not meet the people, how can this be reasonable?" Cai Zheng replied: "This is why it can't last forever." ”

In fact, this dialogue has made the motives of many important measures in Emperor Yang of Sui's life very clear, Yang Guang is unwilling to become a mediocre monarch who "sits in the deep palace", and he is not willing to follow the "king of the dead country" of the Southern Dynasty, but wants to fundamentally solve the problem of "not being able to live forever" in the previous dynasty, so he went out to patrol and hunt tirelessly, hoping to follow the ancient precept of "the Son of Heaven has a hunting ceremony" to better fulfill the duties of the Son of Heaven of the Empire.

Although Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did not build the Grand Canal because he wanted to go to the south of the Yangtze River to play, he did take two boats to cruise along the canal after the Grand Canal was repaired, and thousands of ships were requisitioned along the way, and thousands of slender men were also used, which was on a grand scale. These two frugal voyages of the canal later became evidence of his crimes, and his attackers accused him of cruising the Jiangnan for pleasure, and some unscrupulous scholars even put forward an even more absurd view on the basis of this:

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty repaired the canal in order to go to the south of the Yangtze River for pleasure, because only by traveling by waterway can he avoid the fatigue of driving.

In fact, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty cruised along the canal in the south of the Yangtze River, and its core purpose was not to enjoy himself, but to review the canal project along the way, observe the rise of the surrounding towns, and set the supporting construction plan after that. Some people with ulterior motives deliberately misinterpreted his motive for visiting Jiangnan as greedy for pleasure, which is really a vicious slander that ignores the facts.

At the beginning of his reign, Yang Guang went to the Western Regions, Mongolia and Liaodong, trekking in the scorching heat, and it can be clearly seen from Yang Guang's actions in the first half of his life that he was not the kind of emperor who put pleasure in the first place.

If Yang Guang traveled the world just for fun, how could he not understand that going to Jiangnan was much cooler than stuffing?

In fact, most of the people who condemned Emperor Yang of Sui for building the Grand Canal did not know that the initiator of the construction of the Grand Canal was not Yang Guang, but Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, who had always been known for his diligence and thrift and love for the people.

In 584 A.D., Yang Jian ordered Yu Wenkai to supervise the construction of the Guangtong Canal with a length of about 150 kilometers, but no one in the history books condemned him for not caring for the people, working the people and hurting money, but blindly praised his good governance of the country, which also proved from the side that Yang Guang's implementation of the Grand Canal project was a correct decision for the benefit of the country and the people.

Of course, Emperor Yang of Sui not only inherited his father's will, but also attached great importance to the long-term significance of the Grand Canal.

When Yang Jian was in power, the country was not long founded, and he mainly recuperated and recuperated, and the scale of canal construction was not large; After Yang Guang inherited the wealthy Great Sui, he felt that the national strength was enough to bear, so he expanded the scale of the project.

Some people think that the construction of the Grand Canal is a good thing, but Yang Guang ignores the reality, is eager for quick success, and guides the people to overburden, and finally completes a good project into a bad government that guides the people to make a living...... This view is actually biased.

Yang Guang is indeed an emperor who does not care for the people, and he does require a faster progress of the project in order to conquer Liao as soon as possible, which brings pressure to the people who were recruited in Hebei, and also dies of exhaustion and illness Many people, but the disturbance of the Grand Canal project is actually far from being as big as people remember, and the impact is nothing more than the people in one or two provinces.

Compared with the three expeditions to Goguryeo, millions of people were recruited at every turn, and the expedition was thousands of miles, with countless corpses and bones along the way, and its disturbance of the people was only a fraction of it.

Although the fall of the Great Sui at that time had a certain relationship with the construction of the canal, it was by no means the core factor. The reason why the Grand Canal was rumored to be the main reason why the people were miserable was that many people in later generations were mistaken as the main reason for the poor livelihood of the people of the Great Sui Dynasty was because the Li Tang Dynasty deliberately scandalized this virtuous government, and used the method of exaggerating and disturbing the people to scandalize Yang Guang.

In fact, Yang Guang's judgment of the situation when he decided to open the canal was not wrong, although the foundation of the Great Sui was vain at that time, far from being as strong as it seemed on the surface, but the national strength was enough to easily support the Grand Canal project.

If Emperor Yang did not conquer Goguryeo, or if he won the first expedition to Liao, it would be just that the Grand Canal project would not shake the national capital of the Great Sui at all, but would bring great positive effects soon after completion, making the Great Sui make rapid progress in all aspects such as economy, politics, and culture.

In this way, even if the Sui Dynasty finally died in the hidden danger of the gate valve, it would be a few generations later, and Yang Guang had already had a solid reputation at this time, because of the great merit of repairing the canal and his previous great martial arts, he was praised by later generations as a peerless Ming Jun who came out once in a thousand years.

After all, all dynasties and generations are only the last dynasty to scandalize the previous dynasty, if it is not the failure of the first conquest of Liao, if the Great Sui is not because of it, then Yang Guang is likely to become the first emperor in history, and the Grand Canal will also become his proud political achievements.

However, in the end, the Grand Canal project not only failed to bring Yang Guang a good name, but instead became a crime that brought him into disrepute, and this unfair historical judgment mainly stemmed from the deliberate distortion of his motives for building the canal by later generations. Although the accusation that he was eager for quick success and unsympathetic to the people when he built the canal exaggerated the pressure on the people, it was not too outrageous.

But in some wild histories and commentaries, he even inherited the slander of Yang Guang in the early Tang Dynasty, and slandered him nakedly, saying that he repaired the canal regardless of the life and death of the people because he dreamed of Qionghua in the south of the Yangtze River and was in a hurry to go down to the south of the Yangtze River to watch; Some said that he was greedy and wanted to go to Jiangnan for beauty pageants; In addition, some people have spared no effort to use their brains to make up nonsense, and their remarks are absurd, and they actually attribute the reason for the construction of the canal to "collecting the wealth of Jiangnan", "showing off the soldiers in Jiangnan", "digging out the royal spirit", and so on, all of which are illogical, groundless, and irresponsible subjective assumptions.

All in all, he tried his best to portray Yang Guang as a selfish and vicious tyrannical king who did not hesitate to work and waste money and ruin hundreds of people's families just for the comfort and enjoyment of his own pleasure along the way. In fact, these fallacies are flawed, and at first glance, they are the scandalization of the previous emperor by the victor of the new dynasty after he took control of the right to speak.

Today, people only need to think a little to understand that the motive of Emperor Yang of Sui to dig the Grand Canal is due to the lack of the most basic logic to go to the south of the Yangtze River for recreation. If Yang Guang only built the Grand Canal just to go to Jiangdu to enjoy the Qionghua, then only the section leading to Jiangdu could be built, so why should the north and south canals be excavated together and set up a plan to build several canals?

And this kind of "amusement theory" is not in line with Yang Guang's character, the significance of the Grand Canal is so far-reaching, Yang Guang is such a vain and good name, bent on being an emperor who will be famous for the ages, saying that he is in order to be able to make meritorious contributions, and the name of future generations will ignore the burden of the people and insist on implementing the Grand Canal project, which is still in line with the basic character of this character.

said that he built the canal for pleasure, which inevitably underestimated Yang Guang's ambition and bearing. China's historical commentary is not objective, Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, and the composition of his private travel was much stronger than that of Yang Guang, but few people criticized it, while Emperor Yang of Sui, whose main motive for the parade was for the country and the people, was scolded to the fullest.

The reason for this strange phenomenon is nothing more than that Yang Guang died in the country, while the descendants of Hongli continued to rule China and manipulate the right to speak.

> What is the trouble for adding to their sins? "When a person who holds the right to write history wants to slander and scandalize a person, no matter who he is, no matter what contributions he has made to the country and the people, he can lightly shape him into the dregs of society. No matter how much this person has done for the benefit of the country and the people, his motive can be misinterpreted as "mainly to satisfy his own selfish desires".

In fact, after the completion of the Grand Canal, there are thousands of people who enjoy its convenience and comfort, Yang Guang is just one of them, since there is a convenient way, it is natural to use it by the way when going to the south of the Yangtze River, is it that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty can only prove his innocence by giving up the convenient and comfortable waterway, giving up the investigation along the way, and going to the south of the Yangtze River by land?

In fact, in addition to inspecting both sides of the canal and learning about the customs and customs of the south of the Yangtze River by the way, Yang Guang did not have the slightest pleasure when he cruised the south of the Yangtze River; But even if there is, it's only an incidental factor. Edison also used his own invention of the light bulb for lighting, should we also attribute his motivation for this invention to his own convenience?

Nowadays, people infinitely exaggerate the proportion of amusement in Yang Guang's motivation for cruising the south of the Yangtze River, and even attribute it to the main motive, which has no basis at all, and is undoubtedly trying to generalize and distort history.

Although Yang Guang's southern tour was grand in scale and cost the people and money, this was just a role played by factors such as greed for vanity, love of extravagance, and love of pomp and circumstance in his character, so he vainly degraded his motive for building canals and cruising the south of the Yangtze River from being for the country and the people to greedy for personal pleasure, and then scandalized his image as a scum who only thinks about having fun all day long, which is inevitably too unjust.

And this kind of "Cheng Wang" is very vicious but extremely successful in spreading rumors and slanders against the "defeated criminals", which makes the author shudder. Without the Great Wall of Qin, there would be no prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty quickly completed the upgrading of agricultural civilization under the fence of the Great Wall of Qin, greatly increased its national strength, and finally defeated the Xiongnu in Mobei, which gained the right to speak for the Han nation in the Far East and expanded the basic living space of the Han nation.

Without the Sui Canal, there would be no Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty was largely attributed to the inheritance of the Grand Canal opened by Emperor Yang, which was able to quickly and cost-effectively transport wealth and grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the Yellow River Valley, thus laying the foundation for the relatively good "rule of Zhenguan", and enabling the Tang Dynasty to send two world-class expeditionary corps to the northeast and northwest regions of the Far East at the same time, and thus seized a large number of national interests by military victory.

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