Heavens, what did I do wrong, and you want to punish me like this? This emperor, who was known for his "fortitude", finally couldn't hold it anymore. He was surrounded in Yanmen, when he saw his young son Yang Gao trembling with fear by the arrows flying outside the city, shame, remorse, and grievances struck for a while, and in front of the ministers who were crowded in the temporary court, he hugged the little Yang Gao, crying loudly, and the sound reached the outdoors, crying so much that his eyes were swollen. People were at a loss for a while, and everyone saw Yang Guang's tears for the first time. Is he crying that he can't protect his children, or is he crying about his unhappiness in the past few years?

At the moment when the emperor was crying, his ministers had already seen clearly that this political family, known as the Heavenly Vertical Sage, was still a noble son who grew up in the hands of a woman in the deep palace in his bones. Although he is extremely smart, he has not experienced the real tempering after all, and lacks the tenacity and tenacity to undertake the dream of a great cause. Many nobles, including Li Yuan, have already figured out the details of Yang Guang: the time to raise troops has come, and it seems that the emperor can take turns to do it again. Yang Xuangan failed because the rafters that came out of the first place were bound to rot. But if it's the second or third, it's different. Under the blows of fate again and again, the negative factors in Yang Guang's character were exposed more and more.

On the New Year's Day of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, there was no longer a foreign envoy in the court of the Great Sui. This is in strong contrast to the scene where the envoys of various countries gathered in Luoyang in the fifth year of the Great Cause. Even the local officials came very little, because the peasant uprisings everywhere were blocked, and many ministers could not reach the capital. This is the coldest year Yang Guang has ever had.

Seeing that the majestic cause he had worked so hard to build was falling like a tofu scum project, Yang Guang's heart also dispersed. In fact, although the Eastern Expedition to Goryeo failed, Yang Guang's fate was far from the verge of destroying the country. The combat effectiveness of the peasant army was rather limited. Although they claimed to be as many as forty-eight, they have not been able to unite, and they are not even able to go out of the province to fight. If Yang Guang dives his heart, learns from the pain, works hard, and turns the tide, he still has the ability to move at the top of the political government. As long as the nobles could be prevented from rising up one after another and the balance of the imperial government could be maintained, the Sui army was still capable of extinguishing the flames of peasant uprisings everywhere. In this way, although the great cause is gone, he can still enjoy wealth and honor after all, and end up as a mediocre lord in history. But he didn't have the heart to do that.

He was originally an extremely arrogant man. His self-esteem is that he is a peerless artist who will paint the most perfect picture of the world. So, when the picture failed, how could he still be interested in tinkering with it, repainting the eagle into a crow, in order to sell it for a few dollars to spend his life?

The artist's character dictates that he will go to extremes. If you don't do the best, you will do the worst, and the only thing he can't stand is mediocrity. He, a master craftsman who originally made heirloom gold bowls, disdained to be a bowl maker who was busy with his mouth at this time. can't be an emperor through the ages, and he is not in the mood to be a mediocre emperor who works hard to maintain.

Therefore, after seeing that the world was divided and it was impossible for him to have a ranking on the emperor's ranking, Yang Guang was a little broken. Fate is no longer the fate that was promised to him, and the future is no longer what he expected, and he has changed from gratitude to God to complaining, and he lies on the ground like a child who has not asked for candy to eat, not wanting to get up. After the siege of Yanmen in the eleventh year of the Great Cause, we saw that he was the same as before. The successive blows inevitably damaged the delicate nerves of his noble son. Eight years after the great cause, Yang Guang "slept every night, constantly palpitating, and there were thieves in the clouds, so that several women shook and swayed, and they had to sleep." He was a little absent-minded about governing the country. Eleven years ago, he went to court every day and handled official business every day. Eleven years later, he began to fish for three days and dry his nets for two days. Although the world is getting more and more chaotic and he himself is in danger, he can't muster the heart to fight for his survival. He became more and more lax and laissez-faire. Even, he is a little half-hearted about his life and does not think about it so carefully.

I don't know when, the emperor, who originally didn't like to drink, appreciated the benefits of fine wine. He issued an edict ordering officials from all over the country to offer local famous wines, taste them one by one, and determine the superiority. He got drunk more and more often, and once he was drunk alone in Changle Palace and gave a five-character poem, the poem has now been lost, leaving only the last two sentences:

There is no desire to return to fly, and there is no compound cause of the wind. (General Examination of Literature, Vol. 309)

Yang Guang is no longer the Yang Guang who shoulders the great cause and holds the sky with one hand. "The anger can not be discharged", he gave up his self and threw himself into the boundless laissez-faire, thinking about nothing, doing nothing, only letting the physiology control himself, filling himself, and covering himself. Since fate is controlled by God, since God says to give, and if you don't give it, you won't give it, then a qiē is decided by God! He's actually playing coquettish to God. In the dark, he also hoped that the mysterious power of heaven would come back to him and push him out of the quagmire of frustration.

Seeing that the emperor was becoming more and more decadent and the government was becoming more and more chaotic, the former nobles were gearing up. After the siege of Yanmen, the price of horses on the northern grasslands soared, and the nobles from all over the country, represented by Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo, recruited troops and bought horses. In the thirteenth year of the great cause, they felt that the time was ripe, and Sui Ying Yanglang took Liang Shidu, Mayi tycoon Liu Wuzhou, Jincheng tycoon Captain Xue Ju, Tang Guogong Li Yuan, Wuwei tycoon Li Liang, Xiao Liang's descendant Xiao Miao, Jiangdu Tongshou Wang Shichong and other powerful ministers coincidentally, and they raised troops one after another, dividing one side, and many clans also joined them. After hearing that all the former nobles had risen up, Yang Guang's will completely collapsed. Until his death, Yang Guang believed that his real enemy was not the peasant rebel army. These peasant armies were just a prelude and introduction to the political games of the nobles, and the real political and military direction had to be grasped by the nobles in the end. The facts also proved his judgment. As Wei Zheng, who participated in the uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, said in the Book of Sui: "The group of thieves in the eastern part of the mountain, among the many servants, has no land and ten property, how can Chen have the ambition to destroy Qin and Zhang Jiao's plan to rebel against the Han!" They all suffer from insatiable desire at the top, unbearable at the bottom, hunger and cold, and save the dead. I don't know the appearance of the banner and the army, and the strength of the division of Anzhixing! But people fight for themselves, and the people are angry and difficult to commit, so there is no end to the city, there is no horizontal formation in the wilderness, and there are thousands of them. Haojie because of its opportunity to move, take advantage of its momentum and use it, although there are brave people, wise generals, even heel recovery, Mo Zhi can resist. "The three most powerful peasant armies of the late Sui Dynasty could hardly compete with these noble warlords, and once they clashed, they collapsed. The Wagang army was defeated by Wang Shichong, the Hebei army was defeated by Li Shimin in a battle, and the Jianghuai army surrendered to Li Yuan. In the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, in the end, it was the nobles who got the national treasure.

Yang Guang knew that the general trend was gone, but he didn't want to die yet. He decided to flee south. After all, he had been operating in Jiangnan for ten years before he took the throne, and there were fires everywhere else, and it was quite quiet here. If you can't be an emperor through the ages, then you can simply spend your life in the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River! When the country was in chaos and the general situation was precarious, he mobilized tens of thousands of troops from ten counties to build a palace for him in Changzhou, Jiangsu, surrounded by twelve miles, and sixteen palaces inside.

After arriving in Jiangnan, Yang Guang went into the palace, didn't care about everything, and drank all day for fun. He used his extraordinary wisdom to invent all kinds of novel ways to play, one of the most famous ways to play is to send the palace people to catch fireflies everywhere, get a number of Hu, put them in a cloth bag, and release them together when they go out to play at night, "light all over the rock valley", very magnificent. He ordered a large number of officials to serve a large number of folk beauties for him, divided into 100 rooms, and one room was the master every day, drinking and writing poems, thinking that he was laughing. When the world is in dire straits, others are forced to laugh, only the emperor seems to be really happy, in the poetry party, he made an array of quite fresh and elegant words, the most famous of which is as follows:

If you can't go back, you really have a spring. The birds fight for wine, and the plum blossoms laugh and kill. (The Book of Sui?) Chronicles of the Five Elements)

In the last stage of his life, Yang Guang was actually very conflicted in his heart. On the one hand, this mutilated, imperfect life, which was already very different from his expectations, made him no longer cherish; On the other hand, the ** in his body is still strong, his senses are still keen, and he is reluctant to give up every bit of sweetness in life. The energetic hedonist became the hedonist of time, and he set the goal of the rest of his life as experiencing pleasure. He often "in the garden in the forest pavilion between the wine and food, the Yan Wang and Ju, Xuan and Gaozu concubines for a seat, monks, nuns, Taoist priests, female officials for a seat, the emperor and the favored concubines for a seat, slightly connected, the dynasty from the feast and drink, more persuasion, the wine is chaotic, the unstoppable, to take it for granted. The beauty of Yang's women often enters the palace. There is no restriction on access to the palace, and as for the concubines and princesses, they all have ugly reputations, and the emperor is not guilty." (Zizhi Tongjian, Vol. 181)

When he is not drinking, he often wears shorts and shorts, walks with a cane, traverses the Taiwan Pavilion, and carefully considers every scenery until it is dark. He knew that fate was running out of time for him to experience the world.

Recently, there was a film "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", in which Yang Guang played Fu Dalong, it is difficult to say how he acted, and some people said that the acting was good - Yang Guang's absurdity and murderous nature in the romance, and some of the performances were poor, like bandits. In fact, Yang Guang in the official history is not the image of romance at all, just talking about absurdity, it has nothing to do with Yang Guang at all, Yang Guang likes to talk about pomp, great joy, overhaul the palace, and select girls to enter the palace according to the etiquette system, but he himself is not a ** person, in just more than ten years of emperor career, most of the time is spent in the inspection of the world, most of the show girls he selected have become decorations, and the palace concubine Zhang Jieyu is one of the decorations. In fact, Li Yuan was an extremely ** person, when he was a courtier. He needs his wife's maiden Dou family as the backstage, and he doesn't dare to indulge himself too much, so he makes people look honest. But after Li Yuan became the emperor, his true nature was revealed, and he unscrupulously favored the palace concubines of the original Sui Dynasty, among which Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei were the most favored, and her father and brother also soared. As a result, in the books written by the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and some Tang Dynasty people, it became Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei who took the initiative to ** the honest man Li Yuan, and also said that Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei and the crown prince Li Jiancheng had a leg in the relationship between men and women.