There have always been kings and defeats, there are two kinds of people in history who are most easily remembered, one is the victor, one is the loser, the others are mostly obscure, lost in the dust of history, today Xiaobian to introduce for you the emperor in history the sense of existence is very low, and the underage death is not white, this unfortunate emperor is the Sui Gong Emperor Yang You.
In 617, Li Yuan, under the persuasion of his second son Li Shimin, launched the Jinyang Incident, officially declared an uprising, killed Wang Wei and Gao Junya, who were sent by the Sui Emperor to monitor him, and at the same time contacted the Turks and other departments, and then seized the opportunity to seize Xihe County, and gradually became a prince of one side, Li Yuan claimed to be a great general, the eldest son Li Jiancheng, the second son Li Shimin were the governors of the left and right capitals, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Sui capital Chang'an, and only half a year later they captured Chang'an, and the uprisings in various places continued, and for a time the Sui regime was like a fish on the board, allowing people to slaughter, Li Yuan took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains. As the various forces fought each other, they entered Chang'an.
In order to prevent the world's tongue, Yang You, the grandson of the Sui Emperor, was first established as emperor, emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and self-proclaimed as the Grand Chancellor and The King of Tang, at this time Yang You was still young, Li Yuan's move was intended to control the political power, because the time was not yet ripe, Li Yuan did not dare to act hastily, so he came up with this strategy. In 618, the Sui Emperor was killed by his subordinate Yu Wenhua, and Li Yuan, seeing that the time was ripe, deposed Yang You, established himself as emperor, and opened up the Tang Dynasty, at which time Yang You only reigned for 177 days.
There are relatively few records in the history books about the Sui Gong Emperor Yang You, one is because Yang You was fashionable and young, the other is because Yang You's reign was very short, so there was no achievement, plus Yang You, as the last emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was scandalized by the history books of later generations, so many people even think that Sui died like Qin, in fact, the correct and rigorous statement is that Sui III died. In fact, Yang You was talented and intelligent, he was the third son of Yang Zhao, the prince of Yuande, and his mother was Concubine Wei, who had an extraordinary temperament since childhood and was quite loved by the Sui Emperor.
If the Sui regime can be passed on, it will certainly pass the throne to Yang You. In 605 AD, Yang You was born, only two years old, he was named the King of Chen, and later he was named the Acting King, eating ten thousand households, the Sui Emperor was very fond of him, during the conquest of Goryeo, he ordered Yang You to stay in Kyoto, study political affairs, and when Yang You was ten years old, he was named Taiyuan Taishou, although he was young, but everyone saw that Yang You must be the heir to the future throne, so he was flattered, and Yang You received the highest courtesy at a young age.
However, due to the abuse of the people's strength by the Sui Emperor, which caused anger and resentment in the sky, the nationwide uprisings continued, and the beacons spread throughout the north and south of the great river, and the national strength of the Sui Emperor in the early period of his reign was still strong, but after the Sui Emperor took the throne, his enterprising spirit exploded, and he continued to exert efforts toward the goal of the Emperor of the Ages, and at the beginning of his reign, he decided to build the eastern capital Luoyang, and then took great pains to abandon Chang'an, moved the capital to Luoyang, and dug a grand canal running through the north and south with Luoyang as the center, consolidating the frontier for the convenience of transportation, and building chi roads and the Great Wall throughout the country. Although most of these projects carried out by the Sui Emperor were beneficial in the thousands of autumns, the Sui Emperor did not give the people the opportunity to recuperate, and when the large-scale project was still under construction, he also requisitioned the people to go around to requisition, and three times sent a large army to conquer Goryeo, but they did not return, but they suffered heavy casualties, because of the Sui Emperor's quick success, the people were miserable.
In the first year of Daye (605), while the Sui Emperor dug the Tongji Canal, he led a large number of people such as harems, kings, and guards to patrol the south along the canal, spending a lot of money and requisitioning many people along the way [46]. In the third year of Daye (607), when the Sui Emperor was inspecting the north, he recruited the people of the north to dig chi dao dahe prefecture (present-day Taiyuan, Shanxi) through the Taihang Mountains, and asked the subordinate Turkic Qimin Khan to assist the Turkic people in digging the chi road [47]. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, the Great Wall was built in Shuofang, Lingwu and other places. In the fourth year of Daye (608), the Sui Emperor went out to Yulin to mobilize more than one million people to build the Great Wall from Yulin to Zihe (present-day Inner Mongolia and Shanxi) to protect the Turkic Qimin Khan.
The Book of Sui records:
The inside is sinister, the outside shows condensation, the crown is dressed to decorate his adultery, and the counselor is removed to cover up his transgressions. Fornication is excessive, laws and regulations are promulgated, the teachings are absolutely four dimensions, the punishment is five abuses, the flesh and bones are hoeed, and the loyal are slaughtered, and the recipients do not see their merits, and those who kill do not know their sins. The arrogant soldiers have moved repeatedly, and the work of civil engineering has not stopped. Frequent out of ShuoFang, three driving Liaozuo, flags, taxation, cunning officials invading fishing, people are deadly. It is an urgent order to disturb the violent regulations, a harsh punishment to be imminent, and a mighty soldier to dongzhi, and it is a riot in the sea, and it is boring. The Rebellion of Zhaoliyang, the Xiongnu had a siege of Yanmen, and tianzi abandoned Middle-earth and far away. The treacherous concubine takes advantage of the provocation, the strong and the weak are together, the Guan Liang is closed but not passed, and the emperor's public opinion does not turn back. In addition, with the division and the brigade, because of the hunger, the displacement from the road, the turn to the gully of death, eighteen and nine.
It can be seen to what extent the common people at that time had been forced, in order to avoid the heavy labor and servitude, many ordinary people even endured the pain of cutting off their hands and feet, called the blessing of the hands and feet, in this case, the Sui Emperor still had to go his own way, wantonly conscripted troops to conquer Liaodong, because of the good fortune and did not know how to save the people's strength, and finally there was the disaster of the country' subjugation, and the descendants of the future generations also suffered, and the poor genius young Yang You had not yet had time to enjoy the power brought by the throne, and he was ousted from the throne by Li Yuan.
On May 12, 619, in the second year of Wu De (619) (the New Book of Tang and the Zizhi Tongjian are all written on the first day of August, that is, September 14, 619 AD), Yang You fell ill and died (yi said to have been killed), at the age of 15, with the title of Emperor Gong, and was buried in Zhuangling (500 meters south of The village of Rutai in present-day Yanghong Township, Qianxian County, Shaanxi Province).
Emperor Gong of Sui had no heirs after his death, and he was given the title of Duke of Gongguo (酅公) by his son Yang Xingji.