In the legends of the common people, Yang Guang was originally the reincarnation of a giant rat in the Zhongnan Mountains, so he was obscene and greedy, and did all kinds of evil. The TOP1 in this list of ancient and modern wicked people concentrates almost all the evil varieties that human beings can have: **, greedy, cunning, insidious, selfish, cold-blooded, brutal, bloody, and stupid...... He committed almost all the crimes that human beings can commit: "seeking brothers", "adulterous mothers", "killing fathers", "ghostly brothers", "rebelling against the sky", "abusing the people......

The reason why he was splashed with so many layers of dirt originated from the first "mistake" he made: "seizing the heir".

In today's view, the desire for the throne cannot be considered a mistake. As a valued prince, Yang Guang's "non-dividing thoughts" about the throne actually belong to a person's normal range. Judging from his ability, talent, and simplicity, Yang Guang was indeed more suitable to be the emperor than his brothers. In the process of the so-called "seizure of succession", what Yang Guang did was mainly to show his own ability, which in today's parlance is a kind of healthy competition.

However, in the eyes of the ancients, thinking about the throne was a great sin for Yang Guang. In other words, the question is not whether Yang Guang's competition is benign, but that he should not participate in it at all.

In traditional China, everyone is born with an invisible label called "name". Observance of the title is the first clause of the code of life. To use the analogy of Lis's famous fable, a rat born in a barn is destined to eat white rice for the rest of his life, and a rat born in a toilet is destined to eat toilet paper for the rest of his life. Failure to keep one's name is one of the most dangerous mistakes a person makes, because it is related to social stability. Shang Tzu said: "When a rabbit runs in the field and a hundred people chase it, it is not that the rabbit can be enough for the hundred people to divide, but because the name is undecided, anyone can fight for it." The rabbit seller is full of people, but no one dares to take it without giving money, because the rabbit has a owner and the name has been decided. Therefore, the name can be set in order to rule the world; If the name is uncertain, the world will be in chaos. ”

The highest value that Chinese culture reveres is stability. The eternal stability of the country is the greatest interest concern of the ruler. This dooms it to be an anti-competitive culture, because competition often brings chaos and turmoil. "Ambitious, aggressive", which we think of as masculine and heroic words today, were very wrong and ominous in the past. The sage said that if everyone "went their own way," then there would be no conflict in society, and the world would always be peaceful and peaceful.

The stability achieved in this way is certainly depressing and lacking in vitality. However, the Chinese of the past were happy to endure. Because the fear of competition has reached the highest level, they would rather have grass that grows than seedlings that compete freely. If any emperor or prince dared to challenge the principle of establishing a successor, he would not only be strongly opposed by his ministers at that time, but would also be the target of all-out attacks after his death.

Because Emperor Wen of Sui, who was known for his diligence and thrift, was established as a good emperor who was "basically correct" and "the mainstream is good" by traditional historiography, the spearhead of the attack was focused on Yang Guang. With Yang Guang as the protagonist, they made up one unbelievable story after another to prove how wrong Yang Jian was in choosing Yang Guang.

Appeared in the Book of Sui? The first thing Yang Guang did in Emperor Yang was to enter the Chen Palace after the victory of the Pingchen War to find Chen Shubao's famous favorite concubine Zhang Lihua. It is said that after meeting, Yang Guangse's heart was moved and he "wanted to be a concubine". Fortunately, the old minister Gao Gong killed Zhang Lihua and avoided this "fox spirit" from causing trouble in the Great Sui.

The motive for making up this story is, of course, to prove Yang Guang's true nature**. However, this statement does not stand up to scrutiny. Traditional historians also admit that Yang Guang is a man who is good at dormancy and scheming. The Pingchen War was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him to establish his image, and he was bound to pay attention to his every move.

Zhang Lihua is not an ordinary woman, this **born woman was known to the whole country at that time for **, evil, and treacherous, and was considered one of the culprits of the fall of the Chen Dynasty, and her ending was a focus of national attention after the victory of the war.

In this context, even if the twenty-year-old Yang Guang has a sexual dislocation (we have not seen other examples in the history books), he likes a half-aged whose child is already fifteen years old (Zhang Lihua's child was fifteen years old when she was made the crown prince), and she would not do such a horrific thing——— wouldn't that be self-defeating?

Unlike the Book of Sui, the Book of Chen and the History of the South, both revised in the early Tang Dynasty, clearly state that the order to kill Zhang Lihua was issued by Yang Guang rather than by Gao Gong. "Book of Chen" recorded: "King Guang of Jin ordered to behead the concubine, and the list was in Qingxi Middle Bridge. ”

And "Southern History" said: "King Guang of Jin ordered him to be killed in Qingxi." Although it is almost impossible to replace Yang Yong in theory, Yang Guang has always had an intuition: he will become the new protagonist of the Great Sui Dynasty. There is only one reason, because he has always been so lucky since he was a child.

He will give 100 percent of the effort whenever he has a chance, and his natural intelligence allows him to know exactly how to achieve his goal: that is, to lie dormant like an old wolf and then strike quickly at the right time. He has as much confidence in his perseverance, patience, and agility as he has in the stupidity of his eldest brother Yang Yong.

As the eldest son of the Yang family with Xianbei blood, "Pu Liuru? Seeing the land and cutting (Yang Yong's Xianbei name) most distinctly inherited the nature of the Hu people. History called this prince, who was two years older than Yang Guang, "generous", with acceptable intelligence and not evil quality, but he did not have any political sensitivity and political talent. He was "willful and unpretentious".

His father was a frugal man, but he was lavish, scouring for the best falcons, precious stones, and saddles in the country at any cost; His parents are very important people, and his mother Dugu is especially interested in the issue of "life style", but he doesn't look at the wife his parents married for him, and runs out to have a son with the bewitching craftsman's daughter Yun Shiye; His father was sensitive and suspicious, but he openly associated with the heroes of society, and even allowed them to enter and leave the court with swords...... Whenever he heard about the prince's "scandal", Yang Jian would subconsciously think of his second son who was far away in Jiangdu: if the prince could catch up with half of the second child, he would be relieved.

In all fairness, apart from these carelessness, Yang Yong did not have any significant faults. However, from these minor mistakes, it can be seen that this person is so careless that the news of his fortune teller calculating his father's death can reach the ears of Emperor Wen. If he ascends the throne, he will also be a lord of mediocrity.

Yang Guang had long known that it would be difficult for Yang Yong to make this prince smooth sailing. The position of the prince is actually the most difficult place in the world to live.

After the crown prince reaches the age of succession, the longevity of the emperor is the damage to the interests of the prince, and the contradiction between the prince and the imperial power inevitably forms a subtle psychological influence between the emperor and the prince, which is the reason why few successors to the throne in ancient times have a good end.

Yang Guang is well aware of the effect of this psychological influence on his father, this old lion ascended to the throne in a series of conspiracies, he not only has an iron fist and decisiveness that ordinary people do not have, but also has a sensitivity to conspiracy that ordinary political figures do not have, "suspicion and scrutiny, and even his children, are like enemies." ”

("Zizhi Tongjian" volume 180) to be a prince in front of such a person, without special talent, will definitely capsize.

Sure enough, when the crown prince was about twenty years old, such a meaningful thing happened: on the winter solstice of that year, the minister had to salute the emperor as usual. Considering the need to establish a good relationship with the aging crown prince, many ministers came out of the palace and rushed to the prince's east palace, so a scene was formed that hundreds of officials gathered.

Yang Jian, who was resting, suddenly heard the faint sound of morning music in the East Palace, and couldn't help but be very strange, and immediately ordered someone to go out and ask what was going on. [Redirected from Iron Will Community >

The eunuch reported: When the prince saw that the hundred officials had finished gathering, he ordered the left and right to play music and dance and accept the court.

Yang Jian, who was originally beaming, immediately looked like frost: this is not allowed by etiquette. His heart, which was unusually sensitive to power, immediately tightened, and a series of ominous words immediately came to his mind: "collusion", "clinging", "coup d'état", "forced palace". He knew that even if the crown prince did not have the heart of disobedience, it was difficult to guarantee that there was no villain, just as he persuaded him to seize the throne of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he was trying to grasp the emperor's throne.

History books say that after this, the emperor's "favor gradually declined" to the prince, and his dissatisfaction with the prince repeatedly appeared in his words. The emperor summoned the important ministers around him and discussed with them the possibility of replacing the crown prince. Although this idea was discouraged by the ministers, the emperor's heart was already known to the upper echelons of the empire.

The news soon spread to the Jin Palace, and Yang Guang knew what he was going to do under this kind of form, one was to use the excellent table xiàn as always to be the counterpoint of the boss; The other is to see the timing and lightly add a force to Yang Yong's crumbling stone.

He has been successful in both of these areas. After the unification of Jiangnan, Yang Guang became the governor of Jiangnan. He threw himself into his work with great enthusiasm and did not have a good rest for ten years. He was also very clever in his rule. He gave up the high-pressure rule that discriminated against the southerners, and started by respecting the southern culture and respecting and recruiting the southern elites to stabilize the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Under his spare effort to "search for the best", almost all well-known figures in the Southern Dynasty became frequent visitors to the Jin Palace. He took the initiative to learn the southern dialect and tried his best to fund cultural undertakings, and soon won the hearts of the upper class in Jiangnan. During the ten years of his rule, the south, which accounted for half of the empire, recovered rapidly, the society was stable, the people lived in peace, and there was not a single rebellion.

The southern scholars praised him like this: "Yunwen Yunwu, versatile." Clothes and cages, and sweep the rivers and lakes in uniform. …… Following the derailment of Jixia, the wind of Hongsi. (The Book of Sui?) Emperor Yang)