The Sui Emperor perished because of his cruelty, but many of the things he did were for his own ideals, but they were too extreme, which eventually caused his tragedy. The sad Yang Guang, his merits and demerits are left to posterity to comment.
Many novels have written Yang Guang very badly, and absurdity is one of them. In fact, Yang Guang did not look like this in the early days of his reign, but after he felt that the trend had gone, he began to indulge in wine. He has a total of 3 sons, and the daughters are two, almost all of whom were born after Xiao, so he is not very. Moreover, he did not look up to Chen Shubao, the lord of chen who was addicted to wine, so he gave him the nickname "Jiao".
As the grandson of Du Guxin, one of The Ten Most Beautiful Men in China, Yang Guang was good-looking since he was a child, and the Book of Sui records that he was "beautiful and beautiful, less intelligent". There are many intelligent emperors in history, and there are not many emperors with high IQ and handsomeness.
When he grew up, Yang Guang did not disappoint his parents, he helped his father Yang Jian to the north to guard against the Turks, to the south to pacify the Chen Dynasty and then to pacify the people in Jiangnan, which can be said to be a great contribution to the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang has ideals, because he does have the ability, Yang Guang's poems are very well written, Chen Hou lord likes to write poems about the love of men and women, but Yang Guang is different from him The poems written by Yang Guang are relatively atmospheric, and there was such a saying at that time, and people at that time said:
The Sui Dynasty Emperor washed the decadent wind and forced the specimen to be prime. The ancient road has survived here.
There are forty-four existing poems of Yang Guang, and Li Shimin often picks yang Guang's faults, but he finds someone to compose his poems into songs and then play them in the palace, which shows that Li Shimin greatly appreciates his talent, and the content is relatively positive.
But this talent did not bring any benefits to Yang Guang, but made him very arrogant, and he thought that he was the first in the world.
At that time, there was a famous poet named Xue Daoheng, who wrote a poem called "Xi Xi Salt", which has a very famous sentence: "The dark is hanging from the cobwebs, and the empty beams are falling into the mud." ”
Yang Guang was very upset after reading it, so he killed him, and before killing him, he asked, "Can you still do this kind of poetry in the future?" "Yang Guang can't tolerate people to this extent.
Moreover, he was arrogant to the point where he did not listen to anyone's advice, and no one could persuade him. He himself said that he would kill whoever persuaded me, and later when he attacked Goryeo for the third time, all the ministers did not dare to speak or make suggestions. On the eve of the change of Jiangdu, a palace maid learned the news of the soldiers' rebellion and did not dare to tell him, which eventually led to the killing of Yang Guang's father and son.
Such a talented and beautiful man, but ended up in this end, it is really sad, he could have become a generation of mingjun by virtue of his own advantages, but he had to do evil.
He has ambitions and ideals, wants to become a person with achievements, he once said that the emperors of the Southern and Northern Dynasties all liked to wear makeup, lived in the deep palace for a long time, did not have masculinity, and did not go to the people. He looked down on this kind of person, and he wanted to change, so he started tossing.
A large number of civil engineering, poor soldiers, paraded everywhere, but still suffered the people, and finally tragedy occurred.
After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he also gave this cousin the nickname "炀", and he did not know what kind of mood Yang Guang would feel after he knew it.