Throughout history, most of the things that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did, Li Shimin also did it, and the famous Zhenguan rule of Tang Taizong was far less rich than Yang Guang's early stage of the great cause, but Tang Taizong was finally known as the "Emperor of the Ages", while Emperor Yang of Sui fell into a notoriety that was scolded for eternity.

The injustice of historical commentary is so far! The ugly image of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty today mainly comes from the slander of the rebels at the end of the Sui Dynasty during the anti-Sui uprising, and the deliberate slander of him by Li Shimin when he tampered with history after the establishment of the Li Tang Dynasty.

& Emperor", the title full of mediocrity and cruelty is Li Shimin's masterpiece, the Sui people originally called Yang Guang the Emperor of Sui Ming, and once loved and admired him.

On the contrary, Li Yuan did not dare to slander his lord like those bandits, rebels, and later his son when he raised the army, but only marched in the name of "Qing Jun's side", and still established the Yang clan as the king after Yang Guang was killed by Yu Wenhua.

In fact, strictly speaking, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was not a dead king, when he was killed by the mutiny, the Great Sui still controlled most of China, and most of the local officials were still loyal to him, which was different from those emperors who were beaten by the enemy army to the capital and lost the country.

Westerners have a high opinion of Yang Guang, and his bifurcated comments are much more objective than those in China, beyond the distortion and slander of him during the reign of the Li Tang dynasty.

In The Cambridge History of China's Sui and Tang Dynasties, we can see a temporary historical figure: Emperor Yang, although arrogant and lascivious, was no more tyrannical than other Chinese emperors.

Emperor Yang was very talented, an accomplished poet, a unique essayist, and a bit of an aesthete, who was well suited to consolidate his father's great cause. In 589, Yang Guang's behavior in Jiankang was exemplary. Subsequently, he made outstanding contributions to promoting the cultural unification of the North and the South and introducing the Buddhist traditions of the South to the North.

When talking about the reason for Emperor Yang's rejection, the author also believes that this is the result of the discrediting of him by Confucian historians and the distortion of him by folklore. Another important reason is that it is clear that the Great Sui Dynasty died in a feudal town to plot rebellion, but it was deliberately mistaken by the imperial literati of our dynasty as a peasant uprising, in an attempt to prove that the peasant uprising was a positive force for promoting historical progress and had an advanced nature.

Due to political factors, Li Zicheng's peasant army, Huangchao, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Boxer Rebellion, and other rogue or chaotic organizations were also whitewashed and beautified by our dynasty. And the Great Sui, who died in the "sacred" peasant uprising, was naturally to be characterized by propaganda as a villain, and it had to be evil and dark.

When commenting on historical figures, merit should be meritorious, demerit is demeritorious, merit is not guilty, and crime is not concealed. Relying on the historical significance of future generations, analyze it objectively and uprightly.

And if according to this standard, as one of the emperors who made the most achievements in China's feudal society, Emperor Yang of Sui is obviously a great historical figure.

It is ridiculous that those fools who follow the crowd from ancient times to the present do not do any analysis and thinking about the outdated traditional statements, but only blindly follow them, and this paranoid attitude will inevitably lead to misreading and distorting historical figures.

What gratifies the author is that with the passage of time, the influence of political factors on historical research has gradually weakened, and people's attitude towards history has gradually become more pragmatic and objective.

In such a good environment, when looking at historical issues, people today should all the more know how to respect historical facts, strengthen their sense of responsibility for restoring history as it is, seek rigorously, dare to question traditional concepts, dare to challenge those false and distorted arguments, correct the history that has been distorted and turned upside down for a long time, and restore historical figures to their original appearance.

The former generation of British lords, all nations come to court; Today's infamy is spurned by tens of thousands of people. If you don't have high ambitions that day, you will build the foundation of the Great Sui Dynasty; If you see Goguryeo sitting big, but let it go, Gou An for a while, don't take risks and expeditions, and try to nip hidden dangers in the bud, how can there be a disaster of losing the country?

If he began to corrupt and degenerate before the conquest of Goguryeo, and traveled all day long to enjoy the glory and glory, then the Sui Dynasty would not have died in two lifetimes, and Yang Guang, who had already established great merits before the conquest of Liao, would also be famous in the annals of history as a generation of British lords.

Do more and make more mistakes, and don't do well. If you make a wrong move, you will lose everything. Success and failure, gain and loss, good and evil, eternal and stinking for thousands of years, are often just a thought, and luck dictates.

But when future generations look back and arrogantly try to conclude the coffin of a certain historical figure, they often just see a certain mistake and a certain achievement like a blind man, and other than that, they don't see anything.

The change of Yang Guang and Renshou Palace - many history books say that Yang Guang ** Mrs. Xuanhua in Renshou Palace, and also said that his private message with Yang Su was mistransmitted to Yang Jian, which caused Yang Jian to be angry and wanted to re-establish Yang Yong, and finally Yang Guang killed his father and adultered his mother, Lao Gao thinks that these are pure nonsense.

It is a matter of social and national foundation, no matter how idiotic Yang Jian is, he will not be so bad that before he dies, after listening to a woman's words, he still doesn't know the truth of the matter, so he will change the prince again.

Yang Jian had already resigned from the minister, and Yang Guang wrote a note ordering Yang Su to arrange the aftermath and stabilize the government, which is a very normal thing, and Yang Jian has no need to be angry.

Generally, the official history should be written according to the records of the historians at that time, is Yang Guang so stupid, when he becomes the emperor, he will leave the court records of his father and mother to future generations to write history?

Besides, it was still such a secret thing, and it was actually written so vividly by the words of Lao Gao's family about the changes in Renshou Palace, the expression of the palace maid, and the expression of Mrs. Xuanhua were as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

A thirty-five-year-old prince of a country who has already become a grandfather will be an old woman who has been in the palace for sixteen years before he is about to ascend the throne?

And also his titular mother. If Yang Guang is really a shameless person, it may be possible, but is Yang Guang really such a person? We can speak with evidence, and the best evidence is the by-product of immorality, the children born, and this is the most direct and powerful evidence.

If Yang Guang is absurd**, why do he only have three sons and two daughters in his life? Among them, two sons and one daughter were born to his wife Concubine Xiao before he ascended the throne, which shows that they have a deep relationship between husband and wife, and Yang Guang is single-minded. Some people may say that Yang Guang is no longer infertile, but Yang Guang gave birth to a little daughter before ascending the throne, and gave birth to Yang Gao, the king of Zhao, in the sixth year of Daye, how can this be explained?

There are also history books that Yang Guang is to please Queen Dugu and pretend to be in love with husband and wife, but Yang Guang gave birth to the eldest son Zhao in the fourth year of Kaihuang, the second son Xun in the fifth year of Kaihuang, and the eldest daughter in the sixth year of Kaihuang, all of which were born to his wife Xiao, which shows the love of husband and wife, could it be that he had ambitions from the fourth and fifteenth years of Kaihuang and wanted to replace his brother?

And from the time he got married to the time he ascended the throne, for more than 20 years, except for the two sons and one daughter born to his wife Xiao, he had no other children, which made people suspect that Yang Guang had never had a relationship with other women at all.

You must know that the former prince Yang Yong has ten sons, Li Shimin has fourteen sons, and Yang Guang only has three sons, two of which are born to his wife, who is **** at a glance. Father Yang Jian is seriously ill, and Yang Guang is of course the most nervous and complicated person in the world.

Regardless of whether his heart is as stated in the wild history novel, he hopes that the old emperor will die a day earlier, at least when the emperor has said goodbye to hundreds of 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.

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 on behalf of the old emperor to deal with state affairs, and 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; 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 force in various places, so as to prevent any accidents and chaos at the time of the great national mourning.

And his youngest brother Yang Liang is already recruiting troops and preparing to do it, a person's energy can't cope with so many things anyway, lack of sleep for days, his face is rapidly emaciated, his eyes are bloodshot, and it should be normal to speak occasionally without a preface or afterword.

At this time, how could Yang Guang not get the idea of his father's favorite concubine and cause a ** case?

When Sima Guang compiled "Zizhi Tongjian", he also knew that Yang Guang was innocent in Renshou Palace, but Tang was orthodox, and it was impossible for him to overturn the case for Sui, and at the same time he had to erect a negative example of educating future emperors.

But Sima Guang was an extremely sleek and sophisticated man, and while he used some historical records, he also made clear the real situation at that time: 'In July, Jiachen, Shang was very ill, lying down with hundreds of bureaucrats, and shook hands, and ordered the prince to pardon Zhang and Qiu Taiyi.

Ding Wei, collapsed in the Great Treasure Palace'. Later, Sima Guang described it in the tone of a novelist, 'Shang Yan, arrived at the bed and said: "How can a beast pay for a big thing!" Lonely misunderstands me! Naihu Liushu and Yuan Yan said: "Summons my son!" The general called the prince and said: "Yongye." ”

Description, rock out of the pavilion for the edict. Yang Su heard it, with the white prince, the edict and the rock, the department of Dali Prison; chasing the soldiers of the East Palace to the stage and guarding, the access control entry and exit, and take Yu Wenshu and Guo Yan Jiedu; ordered the right concubine Zhang Heng to enter the dormitory to serve the sick, and sent ** out of the room; The two completely contradictory things are put together, in fact, it is to tell everyone the truth and let everyone think for themselves, but anyone with a little brain understands Sima Guang's good intentions, and when Sima Guang wrote this paragraph, he also deliberately exposed flaws, saying that Yang Jian summoned Liu Shu and Yuan Yan, and Yuan Yan actually died of illness in the thirteenth year of the emperor's reign.

But something did happen in Renshou Palace at that time, including Yang Guang mobilizing the guards of the East Palace, arresting Liu Shu, urgently changing the defense of the capital, and giving the death of the former prince Yang Yong.

We can contact another thing, that is, Yang Liang, the king of Han, when Yang Guang just ascended the throne, Yang Liang rebelled and tried to seize the throne, which was later quelled, when the ministers asked to kill Yang Liang, but Yang Guang did not kill his brother, but deposed to the people, and was imprisoned for life, which shows that Yang Guang still read the request of his brothers and refused to kill his brother.

Yang Guang has been the legal crown prince for four years, there is no need for him to poison the former prince as soon as he ascends the throne, and give people a handle, he should be like Yang Liang, imprison Yang Yong to death, or kill him after a year on the throne, which can be interpreted as death of illness to the outside world, which is the emperor's normal practice.

But Yang Guang poisoned Yang Yong before he ascended the throne and killed him all over the house, which was completely a palace coup d'état, just like the Xuanwumen Change, the reason why Yang Guang did this can only show that Yang Yong Yan zhòng threatened his throne, indicating that Yang Yong had already taken action.

At the same time, as a former prince who has been a prince for 20 years, a former prince who still has great influence and the support of important ministers, he should be very clear about his brother's fate after he ascends the throne, and Yang Yong cannot be tied back, so Lao Gao boldly speculated that Yang Jian's death should have occurred when there was an attempted palace coup, and Yang Yong and his supporters wanted to turn the tables at the last moment.

The coup d'état should have taken place in the capital, and Renshou Palace was also reflected, so Yang Guang urgently mobilized the guards of the East Palace into Renshou Palace, and Yang Yue sneaked into the capital to seize the military power in the capital.

All in all, Yang Guang's shamelessness and Li Jiancheng's filth ** are the same as withdrawing, which is really unbelievable, of course, the words of the family, believe it or not, everyone can laugh at it.