There have been many memorable emperors in Chinese history, some of whom have been remembered by posterity because of their diligence, and some of whom have been spurned by future generations because of their lasciviousness. The Sui Emperor belonged to the latter type, and his brutal behavior was heinous, and all this was to blame on his character.
As the youngest son, Yang Guang was very unwilling to miss the emperor's throne. He was a very intelligent person since he was a child, and like many men born in the royal family, Yang Guang naturally knew that in such a special family, power was more practical than any family affection. At that time, his brother Yang Yong was made crown prince, and he was the eldest son of a concubine, and there was no doubt about this identity. But Yang Guang knew that everything always had to create conditions to try.
In front of his father, Yang Guang showed extreme respect, seemed to be bent on the country, and never considered his own gains and losses. He always dealt with things that seemed to others to be very troublesome, and when his father or the ministers of the DPRK praised him, he always showed great humility and did not pay attention to them at all.
He also seems to be very frugal, often talking about the hard-won inheritance, hating not being able to wear patchy clothes and eat the simplest food. And when he arrived at the battlefield, he always rushed to the front without a fight, very brave. All kinds of performances made his father Emperor Wen of Sui very satisfied with him, but at this time, he had not yet changed the mind of the crown prince, and Yang Guang knew that he was still close to the last bit of luck.
This last bit of luck is reflected in his brother Yang Yong, a prince with a relatively simple mind. The identity of the eldest son of the concubine gave him supreme pride, and he always disdained to look at the rules. Yang Guang just grasped the weakness of his brother's pride, and always encouraged him to do everything as he pleased, and as the days went on, Yang Yong attracted more and more dissatisfaction from his father.
Yang Guang liked to curry favor with his father's concubines, just so that he could blow more wind in front of his father and say something bad about Yang Yong. Finally, one day the emotions piled up for a long time, Yang Jian felt that Yang Yong could not be the prince's throne, after which the prince was deposed, and in the support of the courtiers, Yang Guang was replaced as the crown prince.
Yang Guang, who had been a man with his head down for too long, was finally released. He was not a humble man in his bones, but in order to paralyze the people, he pretended for too long and too long. After the big position is in hand, he wants to release himself and never live a depressed life again. Humble, now he is arbitrary, he is thrifty, now he is extravagant. His father, Yang Jian, could not see what he had done later, but at that time, Yang Jian was seriously ill.
Lying on the hospital bed, Yang Jian regretted that he had made this son the crown prince, and he wanted to summon the chancellor and change the position again, but the news leaked out. The emperor's close subjects were all controlled by Yang Guang, and he sent Zhang Heng to serve his seriously ill father. Who knew that not long after Zhang Hengcai served, the news came out that the emperor had died and the crown prince had succeeded to the throne.
From the later history books, it is not difficult to see that this description has been modified, yang Guang's succession to the throne after Yang Jian's death is described very smoothly, but in fact, Yang Jian's death is a mystery, no one knows who he died at, and how he explained about the big position.
In any case, Yang Guang had inherited the throne. In the name of his father, he killed Yang Yong and other brothers, completely cutting off the possibility of changing to crown prince. At this point, he thought he would be able to sit firmly in the big seat. For fun, he spent a lot of energy building canals. Although it is still in use today, it has spent a lot of financial and material resources at that time, and there have been countless deaths and injuries.
Yang Guang's evil deeds need not be said much, and everyone knows it. Later, Yu Wenhua and mutinies, Yang Guang was captured. He tried to commit suicide by taking poison, but was stopped. In order not to endure the torture, he had him kill himself.
After Yang Guang's death, he was buried in Yangzhou. In 2013, a construction site was digging a foundation when an ancient tomb was accidentally excavated. The tomb looks very simple, if it were not for the epitaph, I am afraid that no one would have thought that this was Actually Yang Guang's tomb. Of this size, any rich man is much more luxurious than his tomb. Everyone present lamented that the Sui Emperor had done evil all his life, and after his death, he had only fallen into such a hasty and hasty end, and he did not have the solemnity and grandeur of a normal imperial mausoleum.