He brought the precious bronze mirror that had been on his desk since he was in Chang'an to the south. He still picks it up sometimes. Although he is fifty years old, this man still has black hair and bright eyes, and he is still so outstanding compared to everyone else! Obviously, this different life will still come to an end in a different form. He looked at the mirror and said to himself: "Good head and neck, who should cut it!" ”

Although he was always ready to die, to be honest, when his guards broke into the dormitory, Yang Guang still felt a little surprised.

His Praetorian Guard couldn't wait any longer, and they had to mutiny. After coming to Jiangnan, the ministers repeatedly tried to persuade Yang Guang to cheer up, as he had done in previous years. Then they may regain control of the situation, and the future and fate of the ministers may be rewritten. They believe that Yang Guang has this ability, and they also believe that the general trend of the world is still promising.

They couldn't figure out why the emperor was so decadent. They tried every means to persuade the emperor, but the emperor remained indifferent, and still followed his own way, sliding towards perdination with acceleration. The emperor was not interested in life, they did not want to be a funeral object. After being completely discouraged, they finally made up their minds to get rid of the emperor who had become a burden and save themselves.

On March 14, the 14th year of the Great Cause, heavily armed guards broke into the palace and pulled Yang Guang up from his bed. They brought a war horse, ordered Yang Guang to ride it, and escorted him to the court.

The sleepy-eyed Yang Guang did not seem nervous when he heard the news. He looked at the war horse and asked, "Whose horse is this?" The saddle is so broken, how can I ride, give me a new one

The former guards found him the most splendid saddle in the palace and put it on, and he got on the horse. Above the court, the rebels summoned the executioners. Looking at the knife in the executioner's hand, Yang Guang shouted: "Ignorant villain! When the blood of the princes enters the earth, there will be three years of great drought and the head of the Son of Heaven will be beheaded, do you know what the consequences will be? The Son of Heaven has his own way of dying, take poisoned wine! ”

The former subordinates were happy to carry out the last orders of the Son of Heaven, and they went around looking for poisoned wine. But unfortunately, I searched all over the palace, but I didn't find it. They had to give him a white silk.

After killing the emperor, people realized that where to bury him was a problem. Since Qin Shi Huang, successive emperors have spent huge sums of money to build huge and sturdy cemeteries for themselves soon after they ascended the throne. Only Yang Guang, although he exhausted the strength of the whole country to build various major projects that have been passed down through the ages, he has not found time to repair his own cemetery. When he was working hard, he devoted all his thoughts to the "great cause".

During the Wude period, Li Yuan, who inherited the Great Sui Dynasty, and his ministers felt that they should summarize it for Yang Guang. They gave him the word "Yang" as a nickname. When Yang Guang gave Chen Shubao this word, he would never have imagined that there would be such a humorous coincidence in history. However, Li Yuan's feelings for their former master are complicated after all, and this one word cannot be fully expressed. They found Yang Guang's body from a suite of courtyards in the Jiangnan Palace and reburied him in Leitang, Yangzhou. Perhaps he chose this place because the Grand Canal (Hangou) he built is flowing quietly here. Sleeping on the banks of the Grand Canal, listening to the gentle lapping of the river, people hope that he can sleep peacefully after a busy life.

In the entire Great Sui world, few people understand the dream in the heart of this political freshman.

In the eyes of ordinary people, his father Yang Jian's achievements have reached the extreme: the four seas are unified, the world is peaceful, and the country is prosperous. The Founding Monarch doesn't seem to have left much room for the heir to start a business. However, the high-spirited Yang Guang did not think so. In his view, his father, who was "not academic", was short-sighted and narrow-minded, so his rule was superficially successful, but in fact there were many serious flaws.

Start with a small section. The father's first flaw was being too harsh. Because of his extraordinary diligence and frugality, the old emperor Yang Jian left a high reputation in Chinese history. However, the subjects of the Great Sui during the Renshou period felt more suspicious and suspicious of the old emperor in his later years. Perhaps because of the personality changes in old age, the more Yang Jian became more worried about the safety of the Great Sui world. In order to shock the people of the world, his torture is getting cooler and cooler. At the beginning, it was "a person who steals border grain, and every liter has died, and there is no official in the family", and later it even developed into "stealing a penny has been abandoned in the market". (The Book of Sui?) The Criminal Law Chronicles) may violate the criminal law if the people raise their hands, causing complaints and panic.

Many successful sons have made their careers on the bones of their fathers. Yang Guang knew that his top priority when he had just ascended the throne was to win the hearts and minds of the people. And his father's mistake was his own opportunity.

As soon as he came to power, Yang Guang ordered the revision of the "Great Sui Law", and all the torture enacted by Emperor Wen in his later years was abolished. The use of torture to maintain order is too pediatric in Yang Guang's view. Yang Guang said that the rule of the sage should be "to treat things with the heart", so he "always lenient in government", and the new "Great Sui Law" is one of the most lenient laws in Chinese history. Successive dynasties have stipulated that if a major crime such as rebellion is committed, the father, son and brother will be beheaded, and the family will be enslaved. Yang Guang thinks the law is too inhumane. He said: "The sin is not as good as the heir, but it is not only in the way of filial piety, but also in the righteousness, in order to persuade the king." "The new "Great Sui Law" categorically abolished the crime of joint sitting, creating a unique precedent in the history of Chinese law: abolishing the joint sitting for the major crime of treason. (The Book of Sui?) This is an extremely important step in the history of China's legal system. It's a pity that this step was retreated back in the Tang Dynasty.

is relatively harsh, and Yang Guang is even more disgusted by his father's stinginess. Emperor Wen of Sui was the most adept raider in Chinese history, and he repeatedly set up clever names and raised tax rates, which overwhelmed the common people, and even during the famine, he was reluctant to open warehouses to help the people. Yang Guang believes that this is really not the bearing that a human monarch should have. After his accession to the throne, he granted amnesty to the world and exempted the world from taxes for the whole year. During his fourteen-year reign, he repeatedly exempted the common people from taxes and repeatedly lowered the tax rate. Emperor Wen of Sui was "unacademic" and despised culture. In his later years, he even thought that schools were useless, and schools everywhere were abolished. Soon after Yang Guang ascended the throne, he restored schools at all levels that had been abolished by Emperor Wen of Sui. He also issued an edict, announcing that the cultural policy of the empire was to "respect teachers and respect the way", "emphasize faith and harmony, and reward famous teachers". (The Book of Sui?) Emperor Yang)

These measures of Yang Guangchu's administration easily won the support of the people and scholars all over the world, and quickly established prestige among the ministers. It seems that Emperor Wen chose this prince who is "virtuous in the world" as the prince, how wise it was! The image of the new emperor's benevolence, generosity, and elegance spread throughout the empire with these policies, and the praises of the new emperor's benevolence and virtue were repeatedly presented to Yang Guang.

Yang Guang just swept the memoirs full of flattery presented by the ministers, and a trace of imperceptible ridicule appeared at the corner of his mouth: Why, such a few simple primary political moves are worthy of praise for why "the rule of the holy king" and "the cause of Yao Shun>

It's really the ambition of the bird!

The Book of Sui records that the emperor is conceited of his talents and learning, and he is always proud of the people of the world, and once said to his courtiers: "Do the people of the world say that I am the emperor purely because of my blood?" In fact, assuming that I and the scholars were selected for the examination, it would be my East Palace for three years to be the Son of Heaven, and Yang Guang waited too hard. In the eyes of others, three years is not a long time, and in his eyes, every day is a huge waste of his unusual life. And the waste of his life is an irreparable loss to the interests of the subjects of the Great Sui.

In the entire Great Sui world, few people understood the magnificent and strange dream in the heart of this young emperor.

In Yang Guang's view, the biggest loophole in his father's government was that he did not complete the true spiritual unity of the empire. On the surface, the Great Sui under his father's rule was peaceful and peaceful, and the people were happy. In fact, the unity of the empire is like a piece of paper that can be broken at the first stab. In the three years of the East Palace, no, as early as the ten years when he sat in Jiangnan, he had already made a comprehensive deduction of the imperial government countless times. As soon as he ascended the throne, the new emperor's long-brewing political ideas became a dizzying array of edicts, which spread throughout the vast land at an accelerated speed of six hundred miles with the gallop of stagecoaches:

On the fourth day of the 11th month of the 4th year of Renshou, only three months after his ascension to the throne, Yang Guang ordered the conscription of hundreds of thousands of laborers to dig a long trench more than 1,000 miles long north of Luoyang to prevent the Turkic cavalry from moving south, so as to defend the planned new capital. Seventeen days later, on November 21, he issued an edict announcing the plan for the construction of the eastern capital, ordering his ministers to survey the land, mobilize supplies, and begin preparations. On March 17 of the following year, the construction order was officially issued, and millions of migrant workers were requisitioned to Luoyang, and the largest construction site since the founding of the Sui Empire appeared overnight on the banks of the Luo River. Just four days after the order that shook the whole country was issued, the order to dig the Grand Canal was officially issued, and more than a million migrant workers set off from their hometowns to the Tongji Canal. After another nine days, a new order came, and six ministers were sent to Jiangnan to build 10,000 huge ships for the southern tour in five months...... (The Book of Sui?) Emperor Yang)

The rhythm of the operation of the government machine suddenly accelerated, and the entire empire clearly felt the excitement of the new emperor. The melody of the imperial government changed from the gloomy and slow of Emperor Wen's later years to a high-pitched eagerness.

One edict after another caught the ministers off guard. They have never encountered such a situation where so many tasks are smashed on their heads. No one thought that the King of Jin, who was "deep and strict zhòng" and known for his prudence, would throw out so many huge plans before the throne was warm. Every plan is costly and has a big picture. Is this too impatient, but Yang Guang doesn't think he is too impatient at all. In fact, only a tenth of what he had in mind was announced. No matter how lucky he is, the time a person can stay on the throne is limited after all, and the political tasks planned in his heart may take an ordinary emperor three lifetimes to complete. In Yang Guang's view, since the Sui Dynasty has been traced upwards, there have only been three great emperors in history: Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Guangwu, who is slightly inferior.