Chapter 26 [Awakening]

And it is said that Yang Guangwen is outstanding, whether you are a direct admonition or a tactful persuasion, whether it is a fact or an allusion, Yang Guang can hear even a passing gunpowder breath from your words, Yang Guang and Wang Xiaobo's pen The King of Khorezm who rewarded the good news and killed the bad news history have similarities, the same unwilling to face the reality, in short, in Yang Guang's world, there can only be sunshine and no wind and rain.

If Yang Guang is the king of Hades, then Yang Su and Yuwenshu are the most blue-faced and fanged imps under him, Yang Su's personality is similar to that of the former Qing Dynasty, he is good at figuring out and flattering, and is used to following the master's scenery, while Yuwenshu is more like Qin Hui of the Southern Song Dynasty, is Yang Guang's earliest staff member, and has the taste of common prosperity and disgrace with the emperor.

The "wagging tail" group headed by the two of them lax the government, pretending to be wrong, weaving all kinds of false appearances to cover up the reality of the country's stubborn diseases, making Yang Guang think that he was living in a world of flowers and flowers where the country and the people were peaceful and peaceful, and he didn't know that the people in the Great Sui were already withering and the smoke was everywhere, and he could no longer stare at his good head in the mirror.

Yang Guang's Gong - Yang Guang's "Big, Medium and Small Goodness": The First Great Good - Connecting the North and South Waterways. In the 273 years before the Sui Dynasty, there were frequent changes of dynasties in China, and the national geography and politics were divided, and the 273 years lasted through ups and downs, and the time was full of killings and destruction.

The morality, ethics, and legal system of the whole society have all come to the brink of collapse, and at this time the country is in urgent need of restoration and survival, at this time, the Northern Zhou general Yang Jian usurped power on behalf of Zhou, unified northern China, and his son Yang Guang was ordered to conquer the Southern Dynasty regime Chen, Yang Guang is worthy of being a strange man, 20 commanders, 50 army swords guide Chen, break through the Yangtze River natural danger, capture Chen Shubao, the queen of Chen, the people of Qiu did not commit anything, and took nothing.

Since ancient times, China's inland waterway shipping only the Yellow River and the Yangtze River two major waterways, other tributaries or inland lakes want to connect with each other to form a network can not be separated from the relationship with these two waterways, but the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are east-west, before the Sui Dynasty China did not have a convenient north-south inland waterway, although the north-south traffic of the waterway can also be connected by sea.

However, due to the limitations of navigation technology at that time, shipping was still quite risky compared with inland waterway shipping, so relying only on north-south land transportation and limited shipping caused great limitations to the economic and cultural exchanges between the north and the south, and the construction of an inland waterway running north-south will greatly enrich and enhance the north-south exchanges and prosper the economic and cultural life of the coastal areas.

To promote the integration of the country's overall economy and culture, the Jinghang Grand Canal is such a north-south artery that injects vigorous vitality into the country, it has a total length of more than 5,000 miles, Zhuo County in the north, Hangzhou in the south, Kaifeng and Luoyang in the west, and Guanzhong through the Yellow River and Weishui, it communicates the five major water systems of Haihe River, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River.

It formed a water and land transportation network in the east, west, south and north of China in the early sense. Regardless of whether Yang Guang ordered the construction of the Jinghang Grand Canal for the sake of enjoying the beautiful scenery of Jiangdu or was far-sighted and aware of the bottleneck of north-south traffic, but after all, objectively the Grand Canal was completely preserved.

Its original function was to connect the north and the south, and it did play a huge role at that time, and still plays its role as an inland waterway in the country's economic and cultural life.

This is also fundamentally different from the Shang Dynasty's wine pond meat forest for fun, and the princes of Zhou Youwang in order to please beauties, not to mention anything else, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong toured south six times was the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, so no matter how absurd Yang Guang's subjective reasons were.

At that time, how much state property was spent and how many young and strong laborers were served, but the objective result was still very positive and progressive, which can be regarded as the "small good" subjectively implemented by Yang Guang during his reign, and the "big good" objectively formed. The second goodness - the unification of China, the prosperity of the peace.

In the 273 years before the Sui Dynasty, China's northern and southern dynasties changed frequently, the country was divided in geography and politics, and the 273 years of the northern and southern dynasties were stormy, time and fate were full of killing and destruction, and the morality, ethics, and legal system of the whole society were all on the verge of collapse.

& When the country was in urgent need of restoration and rejuvenation, when the Northern Zhou general Yang Jian usurped power on behalf of Zhou, unified northern China, the second son Yang Guang was ordered to conquer the Southern Dynasty regime Chen, at this time Yang Guang was worthy of being a strange man, 20 in command, 50 army swords guide Chen, break through the Yangtze River natural danger, capture Chen Shubao, the people of Jiangnan did not commit any crimes, the Southern Song Dynasty state-owned assets took nothing, since then the mountains and rivers have been unified, and the prosperous era has been peaceful.

The country continues to develop. Let's talk about the development of the country after the unification of the Sui Dynasty: the Sui Dynasty implemented the "equalization system" economically, which better guaranteed the land ownership of the peasants, avoided the unrestricted annexation of land by the landlord class, stimulated the peasants' enthusiasm for production, and promoted the development of agricultural production to a great extent.

In terms of population policy and tax policy, the Sui Dynasty followed the policy since the Northern Dynasties, ensuring the stability of the policy, and did not cause economic recession and population decline due to the ups and downs of the national policy, on the contrary, while the national fiscal revenue continued to increase, the taxes of the peasants were also relatively reduced compared with the previous dynasty, and the national population increased nearly twice during the Sui Dynasty (in the first 15 years before the beginning of the Sui Dynasty - the second year of the founding of the country to the Great Cause, the population developed from 3.59 million households to 8.907 million households).

The Sui Dynasty also made great achievements in commerce, handicrafts, foreign trade, and urban construction, and was in a leading position in the world in some fields. This shows that although Yang Guang's personal mistakes in governance caused the peasant revolution and the rebellion of the landlords and bureaucratic class, coupled with the successive military disasters in the past.

As a result, the foundation of the country's rule was shaken and the social situation was chaotic, but before that, the country was still developing in the direction of progress, and China was still the only power in the world at that time, which also provided a confidence guarantee and economic foundation for China to reach its peak in the early and middle Tang Dynasty.

The third small goodness - the country remains unified. Although the end of the Sui Dynasty was full of heroes and princes, these temporary regimes changed frequently and in large numbers, and their nature was more similar to the bandit organizations in the Wuthering Mountains and forests and the grass platform groups of temporary gangs.

Therefore, the legitimacy and authority of the various provisional regimes could not be guaranteed, and there was no split form in which multiple legitimate regimes of the Southern and Northern Dynasties at the end of the Han Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms of the late Tang Dynasty coexisted, and the Sui and Tang dynasties were successive generations, both of which were times of national unification.

Putting aside the political differences, in terms of national economic and cultural development, the Tang Dynasty can even be said to be a continuation of the Sui Dynasty.

It can be seen from the many absurd actions of Yang Guang after he came to power that he was a typical idealist, and had strong romantic feelings, if he were not emperor, he would be an excellent writer, but fate gave him a different life, and finally cursed him in an extreme way, so that endless ambition and boundless greed are entangled at the end of the interweaving.

Yang Guang will always live in the splendid beauty of the river capital. The second goodness - the unification of China, the prosperity of the peace. During the 273 years before the Sui Dynasty, there were frequent changes between the northern and southern dynasties in China.

The country was divided in geography and politics, and the 273 years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties were stormy, and time and fate were full of killing and destruction, and the morality, ethics, and legal system of the whole society were all on the verge of collapse.

Unified northern China, the second son Yang Guang was ordered to conquer the Southern Dynasty regime Chen, at this time Yang Guang deserved to be a strange man, 20 in command, 50 army swords guide Chen, break through the Yangtze River natural danger, capture Chen Shubao, the Jiangnan people did not commit any crimes, the Southern Song Dynasty state-owned assets took nothing, since then the mountains and rivers have been unified, and the prosperous era has been peaceful.

The country continues to develop. The credit for unifying the north is not his Yang Jian father and son, but the Yuwen father and son of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Emperor Wu of Zhou first sent troops to the east twice, destroying the Northern Qi Dynasty, which was the strongest in China at that time. Then in the battle of Lüliang, the 30,000 elites of the weak Chen Dynasty were captured, and the last handsome Wu Mingche (Xiao Maha was brave but difficult to call handsome) was also captured and sent to Chang'an as a general, and the Chen Dynasty became weaker and weaker.

In 572, the same year as the destruction of Qi, Emperor Wu of Zhou prepared to send troops north to fight the greedy Turks, but unfortunately died of illness on the march. Although Emperor Xuan of Zhou, who succeeded to the throne, was also a famous mediocre and brutal king in history (there is a special article on this person, King Helian Bobo), on the basis of the national strength left by Emperor Wu of Zhou, the Northern Zhou army and the Chen Dynasty continued to compete in the Huai River valley, and easily expanded the territory to the Yangtze River.

From then on, the Chen dynasty retreated to a residence in the southeast, unable to compete with the north. In addition, "Yang Guang at this time is worthy of being a strange man, 20 in command, 50 army swords guide Chen, break through the Yangtze River natural danger, capture Chen Shubao, the queen of Chen," and other Yunyun, citing the words of a historian as a reference.

It does not mean that what historians say is necessarily right, nor does it mean that they necessarily agree with his views, but after all, people have read a lot of books, and the conclusions they have reached are all drawn after citing scriptures and classics and fully examining the evidence, and it is not like some people can just say anything: "If you look at personal merits and roles, in the Sui Unification War, you should be ranked according to the following rankings: Emperor Wen of Sui, Gao Gong, He Ruobi, Han Baohu, Yang Su and Yang Guang, and Yang Guang, the king of Jin, can only be ranked last." ”

Since the Six Towns Uprising in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan Yu Wentai has been tied. Gao Huan occupies the richest Shandong, while Yuwentai works hard in Guanzhong, and has wins and losses with Gao Huan.

After the Yubi War, Gao Huan died, Hou Jing betrayed the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and went south to cause catastrophic upheaval to the Southern Liang, not only the Southern Liang, but also the pattern of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was violently shaken by the Hou Jing Rebellion.

Yuwentai, who judged the situation, took the opportunity to open the road from Guanzhong to Jingzhou and Yizhou, and incorporated large areas of land such as Hanzhong, Bashu, and Xiangyang into the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (which was still the Western Wei Dynasty at that time). At this time, in terms of geographical pattern.

The Northern Zhou had the situation before the unification of the Six Kingdoms by Qin: the Northern Qi was equivalent to the five states of Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, and Qi in Shandong, and the Chen dynasty, which was established on the ruins of the Southern Liang, was roughly equivalent to the state of Chu. Thus, the foundation for the unification of the north and the south was laid.

Then, during the reign of Yuwentai's son, the eloquent Emperor Wu of Zhou, after the internal execution of the dictatorship of Yuwenhu, the Northern Zhou began to exert great efforts, and Emperor Wu of Zhou exterminated the Buddha in just a few years (the number of Buddhist monks and nuns accounted for 11 > at that time).

The extermination of the Buddha in the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty alone released 1 million people to return to the soldiers and peasants), reformed the military system, freed slaves and other measures, so that the national strength of the Northern Zhou Dynasty changed from the weakest side of the original Three Kingdoms to the most powerful side. As a result, Emperor Wu of Zhou spent only two years destroying the Gao clan and unifying the north.

By the time of Emperor Xuan of Zhou, the advantages of the Northern Zhou Dynasty over the Chen Dynasty were extremely obvious, not only reflected in the national strength, but also in the geographical form of mountains and rivers also accounted for a very large advantage: those who had always established power in the south and wanted to maintain a long-term rule could generally rely on three stages of defense: the Huai River basin in the east, the Jingxiang area in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Bashu in the west.

At that time, the situation of the Chen Dynasty was that Bashu had already been included in the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the Yuwentai era, and Xiangyang in the Jingxiang area was in the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Later Liang of Jiangling was the puppet regime of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was the sworn enemy of the Chen Dynasty.

The Huai River valley on the eastern front has also been occupied by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasties, which have lost their buffer zone, can only rely on the Yangtze River in the end. At this time, the Yangtze River natural hazard was no longer exclusive to the Chen Dynasty because the middle and upper reaches had been occupied by the enemy. In the end, coupled with the fact that the Chen Dynasty had a famous mediocre emperor Chen, wouldn't it be easy to destroy Chen at this time?

In the Zizhi Tongjian, the chronological method is more special, because Sima Guang has always taken the Southern Dynasties as the orthodoxy, so the Zizhi Tongjian is divided into the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, Qi Ji, Liang Ji, and Chen Ji are recorded in this way. Before the Sui army moved south to destroy Chen, the Chen style of dating continued to be used, although by this time the Sui in the north had replaced the Northern Zhou. After the Sui destroyed Chen and unified the north and south, the Sui became the only central power in China, so the chronological method began to be changed to "Sui Ji".

& After Guang Yu killed his father, he couldn't wait to go to Luoyang from Chang'an, and transferred 2 million people to expand Luoyang City and Luoyang Palace.

His father recruited more than 1 million people to open the canal (the canal between Xingyang, Henan and Huai'an, Jiangsu), and more than 100,000 people to open the ditch (the canal between Huai'an and Yangzhou, Jiangsu, which was dug by Wu Fucha and Yingzheng), and the purpose of his canal was not to build water conservancy for the people, but to facilitate him to go to Jiangdu (Yangzhou, Jiangsu), the most prosperous metropolis in the country at that time, which he had stationed.

More than 40 imperial palaces were built along the canal, which was called "leaving the palace". Ordered Jiangnan to rush to build a dragon boat, before the completion of the dragon boat, Yang Guang could not bear to be lonely, first built the West Garden in the western suburbs of Luoyang, with an area of 300 square kilometers, there are artificial lakes and continuous artificial mountains, the palaces on the mountains are numerous, twists and turns. There is also an artificial small canal, from the artificial lake to Luoshui, along the two banks of the small canal, build 16 imperial palaces, called "16 courtyards", each courtyard has two or three hundred beauties, the layout is luxurious, like paradise.

Every time Yang Guang travels to admire the moon, there are thousands of palace maids riding horses. "It turns out that he grabbed so many beauties and filled them into ** just to appreciate and appreciate, it's really hard for him.

However, the enjoyment of women will be annoying over time. When the dragon boat was built and transported to Luoyang, he immediately traveled to Jiangdu. The emperor's travel has been extraordinary, and Yang Guang's travel is even more majestic.

There are thousands of dragon boats in the royal family alone, and there are more than 80,000 people without using slendermen. There were also thousands of warships on which the Praetorian Guards (Xiaoguo) were traveled, but the sergeants themselves pulled the fibers.

More than 10,000 ships, more than 100 kilometers from end to end. The cavalry guards the shore, thousands of horses gallop, and the flags are all over the field, which is really spectacular.

The food supply was provided by the local government within 215 kilometers, and the competition was so exquisite that the palace people could not eat it all, and they all abandoned it when they left. Yang Guang claimed that he liked Jiangdu, but in fact, he still lived in the deep palace in Jiangdu, and had never been in contact with the picturesque nature of South China. The reason why he likes Jiangdu is that he likes the thrilling scenes along the way.

If Yang Guang had been born in the 20th century and could have taken a plane to Jiangdu, he would have been unhappy, because there was no one in the sky and he would not be able to exert his big head.

It turns out that he is busy with these state affairs every day, and it is even more rare, where to find such a good young man, the historians of all evils, they are really too much for Yang Guang, and they are simply insulting to the eyes of the defenders. As for forcing the crown prince Yang Yong to abdicate, Yang Yong is so cowardly, can he take on the great task of maintaining national unity and ensuring people's livelihood in such a big political situation?

Yang Yong has nothing to do except shout injustice, and history will not choose him. Emperor Yang established China's position as a central power in the international arena with martial arts and money, which was difficult for any clan to do at that time, so even if there was a change of dynasty, the country remained unified. Yang Guang was infamous for boasting about the rich, alas, the situation was helpless at that time......

& Poor military force, strong outside, and dead to save face, Yang Guang has all these things, you go and talk to the people under his rule, see if they agree to support the status of "central power" in this way?

In fact, Yang Yong is not a good thing, when he was the prince, he was arrogant and extravagant, and he trusted the villain, if this kind of person became the emperor, he would definitely not be better than Yang Guang, I am not as good as Yang Guang, Yang Jian's son does not have many good things.