Incite strife and act as an arbiter to ensure imperial hegemony. It sounds like the United States, but this is the wrist of the Sui Emperor. This is just what China played for more than 1,400 years ago.
The Sui Emperor Yang Guang (604-618), the son of Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was impulsive and moody, but he was also the emperor of the ages who ended more than 300 years of strife in China. Eliminate Tuguhun, incorporate the Qinghai Plateau into the territory of Chinese civilization, set a precedent for the establishment of the imperial examination system, and chisel the Grand Canal through the north and south of China. These creation measures basically cut off the possibility of the future generations of the Chinese land being divided. For more than 1,400 years, China's future generations have always been united in their hearts and set up a great cause that will not die!
However, among the many large-scale public works that Yang Guang launched, there are still many face projects that he himself has done well. He built the second capital of Luoyang, known for its luxury and pomp.
In external affairs, he inherited and carried forward the ideas of his father Yang Jian, constantly inciting conflicts between competing Turkic regimes, and letting them fall into the middle of attacking each other, and he himself played the role of arbiter for these Turkic khaganates. In this way, the threat in the northern part of the Sui Empire was weakened, and the situation was very good.
However, wanwan did not expect that the Sui Emperor, who was in a smooth sailing, planted a heel on the issue of sending troops to Korea. 612/613/614 For three consecutive years, Yang Guang did not die with North Korea for three years. In the end, it all ended in failure.
The newly unified empire could not afford to be so profligate by the Emperor. In 616, like the Persian Emperor Xerxes, who was killed by his own prime minister after losing the Persian War, the strongman Yang Guang collapsed after a large-scale rebellion in the north and retreated to the Capital of the Yangtze River, today's Yangzhou. Indulging in the hedonistic life of the court, he could not extricate himself and never regained his strength. In April 618, his bodyguards broke into the palace, killed his son, and strangled Yang Guang, the second emperor of the Sui Empire. At this time, Yang Guang was just 50 years old.
A generation of strongmen, an emperor through the ages, has fallen!
