Great Sui tang - Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang

To say that Yang Guang must first look at his growth experience and his character, people's behavior is dominated by thought, and people's thoughts are determined by people's personality.

Tell two short stories to illustrate the influence of personality on characters, the most famous of which are Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao.

Xiang Yu - when a soldier is sick, he can boil medicine for the soldier, and he will also mend clothes for the soldier, and finally when he is embattled, he will have to pick a fight with Liu Bang.

Liu Bang--When his parents were caught by Xiang Yu and threatened, he said in a rage, "We are brothers, my parents are your parents, and killing my parents is equivalent to killing your own parents."

Therefore, as far as Xiang Yu's personality was concerned, it was impossible for him to fight Liu Bang.

When Yang Guang was 20 years old and weak, he took command of Jiangnan, destroyed Southern Chen, and then served as the director of Yangzhou in Jiangdu for ten years, and Jiangnan was well governed, and then returned to Chang'an to live in simplicity, and the strategy for the position of prince was filial piety and frugality.

It can be seen that Yang Guang has always been smooth sailing from the beginning to his ascension to the throne, which has further inflated his political ambitions and strengthened his idealism.

His political ideals or political ambitions were that of emperors throughout the ages, and the benchmarks were the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, so he carried out a series of major projects as soon as he succeeded to the throne, but it was these major projects that eventually led to the demise of the Sui Dynasty.

Why did Yang Jian let Yang Guang succeed to the throne, because Yang Guang and the southern clan were close, and Yang Yong and the Guanlong nobles were close, before and after the Sui Dynasty, the emperor was like the chairman, the Guanlong nobles were like the board of directors, and Yang Jian was to get rid of the control of the Guanlong nobles over the imperial power, so it could only be Yang Guang.

And Yang Guangdeng built the eastern capital luoyang in order to be far away from the power center of the Guanlong nobility, and the digging of the Grand Canal is to communicate between the north and the south, in which era, the waterway is the fastest and most convenient, so digging the canal is a matter of thousands of years.

But Yang Guang did not only do these two things, it can be said that from the time he ascended the throne, he began to fight, and the most influential was the Three Expeditions to Goguryeo, which made the world's sword soldiers everywhere.

The Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang and Empress Xiao Meiniang