As always, the fate of caring for Yang Guang did not make him wait too long.

In June of the fourth year of the reign of the Great Sui Emperor (604), the third year after Yang Guang became the crown prince, a secret piece of news slipped out of the thick gate of the Renshou Palace and quickly spread throughout the Sui Empire: the sixty-four-year-old current emperor Yang Jian was ill.

The emperor's illness is a top state secret. When this secret became a topic of quiet conversation among ordinary people, everyone knew what it meant.

The signs are becoming more and more obvious. On the seventh day of the seventh month, the old emperor's illness had been proved incurable, and he summoned hundreds of officials to the palace to "say goodbye" and "shake hands" with hundreds of officials. The Book of Sui? He Chou's Biography records the details of Emperor Wen before his death: Emperor Wen called Yang Guang to the bed, rubbed Yang Guang's neck with his hand and instructed: "He Chou is attentive, I will pay for the future, and the movement should be a common peace." ”

This detail reveals the rare family love of this father and son.

The process of Yang Jian's illness, serious illness and death is clearly recorded in the history books. Judging from these historical materials, the old emperor's death was calm and peaceful. Until his death, Yang Jian was convinced of the people entrusted by his empire.

However, in order to prove the illegality of Yang Guang's succession, later chroniclers positioned the legend of Yang Guang in the first half of his life as a "usurpation". It is said that when Yang Jian was seriously ill, the beast finally tore open the skin of the painting, revealing its hideous face. He couldn't wait to ** his father's concubine, that is, his stepmother, almost by his father's side, and then killed his father with a knife, imprisoned his younger brother, and declared himself on the throne. Thus, a series of classic sins of "seeking brother", "adulterous mother", "killing father" and "ghost brother" have been completed.

It's incredible.

In those few days, Yang Guang was of course the most nervous and complicated person in the whole empire. Regardless of whether his heart is as stated in the wild history novel, he hopes that the old emperor will die a day sooner, at least when the emperor has said goodbye to a hundred bureaucrats, and the whole empire knows that the emperor will not survive for a few days, there is no need for him to murder his father in advance as the legend says. In these days, all his body and mind must be mobilized, and he strives to play the role of a filial son perfectly, staying by the old emperor's side as much as possible, personally carrying water and tasting medicine, and not undressing. Plus, there's a lot more he needs to do. On the one hand, he had to act as an agent for the old emperor to deal with the accumulated daily government affairs, on the other hand, he had to prepare, plan, and make decisions about the old emperor's medical treatment and even the huge scale and complicated state funeral matters, and at the same time, more importantly, he also had to weigh, analyze, and find out the internal strife and psychology of the ministers of various factions, especially the deployment of forces in various places, so as to prevent any chaos during the great national mourning. According to the insider report, his youngest brother has been recruiting troops for days and is ready to start. A person's energy can't cope with so many things anyway, and it should be normal to lack sleep for days, lose weight quickly, bloodshot eyes, and occasionally speak without a preface.

At this time, how could Yang Guang not start the idea of his father's favorite concubine and cause a ** case? [Redirected from Iron Will Community >

The fragrant wind is dense and the curtain is the most enthusiastic place for folk history lovers to explore after the brush strokes open the curtain of time. These bizarre plots are mainly contributed by wild history writers. In the "Brief History of the Great Cause", such a colorful legendary story is recorded:

Gaozu was in Renshou Palace, seriously ill, and Yang Guang was sick. Gaozu's favorite beauties in his later years were only Chen and Cai. Yang Guangnai summoned Chen Meiren to another room, the beauty was still there, her face was injured and her hair was messy, Gaozu asked, Chen said: "The crown prince is rude." Gaozu was furious, bit the blood, and summoned Liu Shu, Yuan Yan, etc., to replace Yang Yong as the crown prince. Yang Guang then ordered Yang Su and Zhang Hengjin **. Yang Guang selected thirty sturdy eunuchs to put on women's clothes, with knives and guns hidden under their clothes, and stood on the side of the road in the palace, not allowing ordinary people to enter. Yang Su and others entered, and Gaozu collapsed.

Another kind of wild history, the "General Calendar", is even more bizarre. It said that Yang Guang's attempt to ** Emperor Wen's favorite concubine happened at the moment when Yang Jian and Baiguan held a farewell ceremony. The circumstances of Emperor Wen of Sui's death are more specific:

Zhang Heng entered the hall and grabbed the emperor, but he didn't know what was going on, only to see the blood splash screen, and the old emperor's screams reached the outdoor >

It's become a ** violent movie.

These wild histories describe Yang Guang, who is good at hibernation, good at self-control, strong and forbearing, and ambitious, as a nymphomaniac who has not been close to a woman for many years. In the place where all the ministers gathered, the focus of the whole country, and the key to the delegation of power, he performed this stupid and obscene story that could very well ruin the achievements of his twenty years of succession. No matter how stupid Yang Guang is, can he be like this? [Redirected from Iron Will Community >

Yang Guang: Crushed by the great cause, >

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that although this is the best weapon to scandalize Yang Guang, Zhengshi does not dare to use it directly. In fact, even the monarchs and ministers of Tang Taizong, who vigorously collected the negative materials of Emperor Yang to criticize, did not accuse Yang Guangyi's father. Think about it, if this is the case, then when Li Tang raised his army, why didn't he think it was propaganda material?

The story about Yang Guang is full of loopholes, and there are too many logical flaws. However, it is such a legend that is obviously unreasonable, but it has been talked about by people for more than a thousand years. We have to say that Yang Guang is the strictest of those who have been insulted and damaged by historians throughout the ages. However, "seeking brother", "adulterous mother", "killing father", and "phantom brother" are just the beginning of Luo Weaving, and in the future, there are bigger crimes waiting for him. However, compared with the twists and turns of the thrilling and colorful legend of the first half of his life, the story of the second half of his life seems flat and straightforward, and the color is monotonous. This man, who was originally described as strong and cunning as a wolf, immediately became as dumb as a pig after ascending to the throne. During his fourteen-year reign, the most important thing he did was to keep prostituting in the deep palace. In addition, everything else he did was bizarre and absurd: he used millions of people to build the Grand Canal just for a single tour; Because of the fortune teller's words, he abandoned Chang'an and went to Luoyang to build a new capital; In order to satisfy his unnecessary vanity, he mobilized the strength of the whole country to fight Goryeo three times...... All in all, he did everything he could to destroy the Miè Empire, and finally succeeded in guillotining himself.

Different from the imagination of later readers, before and after the death of the old emperor, the air of the entire Great Sui Dynasty was filled with not only nervousness, but also a little excitement, or more explicitly, anticipation. It was hoped that the new 36-year-old and talented emperor would bring the fledgling Great Sui Empire to greater prosperity. Two small decisions made by the new emperor shortly after his accession to the throne strengthened their conviction that there was reason to expect this:

Less than four months after his accession to the throne, news came from Luoyang that Chen Shubao, a captive brought back by Yang Guangping and Chen Shi, had died. Although he is a prisoner, after all, he has been an emperor, and it stands to reason that the current emperor should determine a nickname to determine his life's merits. [Redirected from Iron Will Community >

Yang Guang flipped through the book of Yi Zhou? After repeated deliberation, one word was singled out>

& Fa Yun: "Good internal and far-reaching courtesy, go to the far away people to say Yang, and abuse the people against the sky." ”

This is the worst word of all the teachings.

Yang Guang believes that only this word can fully express his contempt and contempt for the defeated generals of his former subordinates, and can also remind himself not to be as incompetent and incompetent as this loser.

Another detail is that when choosing the new era name, the new emperor circled the two most majestic words in the past and present year names:

Cause. For the common people of the Sui Dynasty, this final task is not as simple as "carrying a handful of energy". According to the research of historians, the amount of military service in the attack on Goryeo exceeded the sum of several major projects in previous years, reaching the level of almost the entire country. The price paid by the common people was too heavy: they had just built the Grand Canal to Luoyang, and before they could catch their breath, they received an order to open the canal from Luoyang all the way to Zhuojun (now Beijing) to transport military rations. Due to the enormity of the project, "the men did not provide for the men, and the women of the first service", that is, even the women were requisitioned to the construction site to wield shovels and pickaxes. was already overwhelmed, and since the countdown to the seven-year attack on Goryeo began, the pressure of labor increased suddenly. "Zizhi Tongjian" contains: issued an edict to discuss Goryeo, ordered people to supervise the construction of 300 warships in Donglai Haikou, and the migrant workers stood in the water day and night to build ships, and the maggots were born from the waist down, and one-third of the craftsmen died. He also sent 10,000 sailors, 30,000 crossbowmen and 30,000 crossbowmen south of Jianghuai, and ordered 50,000 chariots from Henan and Jiangnan to send to Gaoyang, and ordered the people of Jiangnan to transport rice to Zhuo County. For a time, thousands of miles of troops were loaded with armor and utensils, hundreds of thousands of people on the road filled the roads, transported war equipment and food day and night, and the dead pillowed each other, and the world was in turmoil. [Redirected from Iron Will Community >

Mass exodus began to emerge. More and more people fled to the deep mountains and rivers of Shandong and Hebei to open up the wasteland for self-sufficiency, and within a year or two, there were as many as 100,000 people. The 100,000 hungry and cold people who are in danger of dying are a powder keg that can explode at any moment.

However, despite the complaints, no one raised the banner of rebellion before the start of the Goryeo War. The subjects of the whole country never doubted the victory in the Goryeo War. Since this energetic emperor ascended the throne, he has never missed any major things. Everyone believed that with the strength of the Great Sui today, Pinggoryeo would be as smooth as the Pingchen War, and even much easier than Pingchen. When Yang Guang triumphs, they will usher in the long-awaited rest.

Yang Guang was more confident in the outcome of the war. He made the best preparations for the most brilliant movement in his symphony of life. The Goryeo War would be the coronation ceremony for him to become the "First Emperor of the Ages", and he carefully designed it to leave the most splendid and grand record in history: on the first day of the first month of the eighth year of the Great Cause, he personally led an army of 1.13 million, known as 2 million, and set out from Beijing in a mighty way. The whole army was divided into twenty-four routes, plus the six armies of the Son of Heaven, and one route was dispatched every day, and it took a whole month to complete the departure ceremony. From beginning to end, the procession was 1,400 miles long! This team has a distinctive Yang Guang style: every 100-person squad holds high a brightly colored flag, and each team carries a military band, "18 drums, small drums, 18 drums, 18 drums, 18 zhongming, etc., and 2 drums and golden cymbals". (The Book of Sui?) Etiquette Chronicle)