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In the summer of the fourth year of Renshou in the Great Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen Yang Jian decided to drive to Renshou Palace to escape the summer because of the heat, this palace is located on the north bank of Dushui, since its completion, Yang Jian has been here four or five times, so this trip does not seem strange.
However, at this time, there was a scholar in the palace named Zhang Qiu Taiyi, who immediately wrote to dissuade him when he heard the news, and made it clear that if Emperor Wen insisted on going, he would never return.
Such a big remark naturally made Yang Jian furious, but the emperor always wanted face, so he directly put Zhang Qiu Taiyi in prison, preparing to wait for his safe return before beheading him.
But his wish did not come true, because soon after arriving at Renshou Palace, Yang Jian could not afford to fall ill, and then the famous Renshou Palace changed, Yang Jian and the crown prince Yang Yong died tragically, and the Sui Emperor Yang Guang took the throne, becoming the second and last emperor of the Sui Dynasty...
Who is Zhang Qiu Taiyi? What happened in the Renshou Palace back then?
Yang Jian was born in the seventh year of the reign of Western Wei, and his father Yang Zhong was a famous general of Western Wei, and with his battle exploits, he became one of the famous "Eight Pillars State and Twelve Great Generals".
And Yang Jian is the son of Yang Zhong, so he is almost doting on him, but he is also very attentive in education, so that Yang Jian is familiar with Confucian classics, plus his own personality is more restrained, so he appears very precocious and has a steadiness far beyond his peers.
However, when he was young, because the powerful minister Yuwen Hu dominated the court and the public, Yang Jian was threatened with his life many times, but fortunately his background and his own knowledge of progress and retreat, he was able to overcome the difficulties, and after Emperor Wudi of Northern Zhou took the throne, he ushered in his golden age, entered the army and fought with Northern Qi many times, and his battle achievements were very prominent, and he was soon crowned as a pillar state.
After the death of Emperor Wudi of Northern Zhou, Yang Jian's power had reached a terrible situation, his daughter Yang Lihua married the current Emperor Xuan of Zhou and became empress, his father Yang Zhong was a general of the Twelve Great Dynasties, his father-in-law Duguxin was one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms, and his own prestige and power in the army and the government and the opposition were also great, and the emperor had to be respectful in front of him.
It was all under one person and above ten thousand, and Emperor Xuan of Zhou was a weaker emperor, and Yang Jian's replacement seemed to have become inevitable, so in the second year of the Northern Zhou elephant, he designed to deceive several powerful kings in the sect to the capital, and then killed them on the charge of treason.
After completing the internal cleansing, Yang Jian asked Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou to declare the throne the next year, changed his name to emperor, established the Sui Dynasty, and opened a new dynasty.
Yang Jian came from several generations of military attaché families, and he personally fought very heroically, after he ascended the throne, he first quelled several small internal rebellions, and then began to raise large troops from north to south, successively destroyed Western Liang and the Chen Dynasty, and then successfully pacified Lingnan to bring it under his rule, unifying the entire world.
Eighteen years later, Yang Jian again sent troops to teach the very restless Turks in the north a lesson, completely conquering them by force, and also received an honorary title earlier than Emperor Taizong's "Heavenly Khan": "Saint Khan".
And Yang Jian was able to become a well-established emperor in Chinese history, and it was naturally not enough to rely on battle merits, and he was quite sophisticated in the management and construction of the country.
Economically, when a country is most prosperous, it is often accumulated by several generations of Ming monarchs, but Emperor Wen is the first generation of founding emperors. He implemented the system of equal fields, strictly investigated the household registration of the population, and strengthened his own taxes, but reduced the conscription of ordinary people.
So after just twelve years, it is extremely rare that the national treasury has been filled and the granary has to be built.
Moreover, Emperor Wen attached great importance to culture and education, and after pacifying the Chen Dynasty, he gave very preferential treatment to the southern literati with a high cultural level, which made the country's cultural level rise rapidly.
There is little fault with other official selections and legal amendments, and with these, Yang Jian can definitely be called a great emperor in Chinese history.
But no one is perfect, and like many Ming monarchs, Emperor Wen gradually developed many problems in his later years.
On the one hand, in governing the country. He used to be a diligent and thrifty person since he was a child, and after becoming the emperor, the materials used in the construction of the imperial city were actually removed from the buildings of the old city, and his usual life was never extravagant, and even reached an exaggerated realm.
But as he grew older, Emperor Wen also began to build palaces on a large scale, such as Renshou Palace, which was built during this period, and the rewards for his subordinates were also very exaggerated.
In the early stage of the emperor, Yang Jian appeared around many famous ministers, such as Zheng Yi, Liu Fang, Gao Ying, Su Wei, etc., but in his later years, he began to kill ministers indiscriminately, and many meritorious ministers were killed one after another, and many good rules set in the early years were slowly broken.
On the other hand, it is the rule of the family. Generally, we do not make too high demands on the personal character of the emperor, but Yang Jian is a rare emperor with high moral character in the entire history.
Yang Jian married only one wife in his life, Dugu Garo, the daughter of his empress and Duguxin, one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms of Western Wei, who was also a famous empress who gave birth to five sons for Yang Jian.
The most important of these five sons are the eldest and second, that is, the crown prince Yang Yong and the Jin king Yang Guang.
As the eldest son, Yang Yong participated in many important actions of his father, such as when Yang Jian was assisting the country, guarding Luoyang for his father, and when Yang Jian usurped the throne, he was transferred to the commander of the forbidden army, etc., so he was a well-deserved first successor.
But later, this prince fell out of favor, he did not do anything excessive, why did he fall out of favor?
Because he is a normal person, not a fierce person like his parents.
Yang Yong has no bad character at all, he just likes simple enjoyment like many people, such as being a prince, slightly embellishing his armor with some gold and silver jewelry, which is indeed not an exaggeration, and even a little less, but Yang Jian is very unhappy, thinking that he is not a thrifty and simple child.
On the other side, Yang Yong wanted to fall in love freely, and Empress Dugu personally chose a queen from a famous family for her son, but Yang Yong did not like this girl, but got along with a girl from a commoner's family outside the palace, and the two loved eagerly, which made Empress Dugu extremely dissatisfied.
Why? Because Empress Dugu was a rather powerful woman, in that feudal era, it was almost inconceivable that she would let herself, as the emperor's husband, adhere to monogamy all her life.
But what she didn't know was that Yang Jian was a very good person, but it didn't mean that Yang Jian's son could also have such exaggerated temperance, so Yang Yong and his mother had a disagreement because of this aspect of things.
And most importantly, in the case of Yang Yong's fall from favor, Yang Guang, the king of Jin on the other side, showed his image of a "perfect man". He ate and drank according to the minimum standards, and the palace was as dilapidated as the common people's house, and he usually had no dealings with any woman except the princess.
This gap was reflected, so in the eleventh year of the emperor's reign, the Sui Emperor Yang Jian showed his vacillation for the first time, and coincidentally, he was also asking a warlock this time, named Wei Ding.
He asked Wei Ding, among my many sons, who do you think is the most suitable to take over, of course Wei Ding did not dare to say nonsense, so he had to say that the queen's favorite son should take over.
Yang Jian is getting older, Yang Yong is not aware of his danger, but Yang Guang is secretly preparing for his own work.
He continued to show favor to his parents, wooed all forces, and finally brought Yang Su, a heavy minister of the imperial court and the second-in-command, into his command, and the power became very large, and gradually overthrew the power of the prince's side, under many attacks, Yang Yong was finally abolished by his father in the twenty years of the emperor, and the successor was naturally Yang Guang.
In this way, the time finally came to the fourth year of Renshou, at this time Empress Dugu had died, and Yang Jian decided to drive to the Renshou Palace outside the city to escape the summer in the summer, and the opening scene happened.
Who is this Zhang Qiu Taiyi? He was a southerner who was made a prodigy at the age of seven, and compared to his status as a warlock, he was actually a famous scholar, but he also studied divination and other things, so Emperor Wen often consulted him.
But what he said this time was too rebellious:
"How dare a minister dare to play the word, but I am afraid that he will not return" - "Sui Shu Liebian Volume 43 Art"
Emperor Wen of Sui was very angry and immediately ordered Zhang Qiu Taiyi to be imprisoned, but did not kill him, wanting to kill him again when he returned intact. But Zhang Qiu Taiyi's words are very clear: "There will be no return." That means, you can't come back.
So Yang Jian arrived at Renshou Palace, but soon after he became seriously ill, his body became heavier and heavier, and he seemed to be about to die, so he had to urgently summon the crown prince and a group of important ministers to see him, ready to explain the aftermath, interestingly, at this time, he also specially gave Yang Guang a message, let him release Zhang Qiu Taiyi who was still locked up in prison in a few days, because what this man said was indeed fulfilled.
But what happened after that became a huge mystery, about how Yang Jian died?
According to the mainstream saying in the Book of Sui, it is very bland: Yang Jian, who was seriously ill, explained everything before lying on the bed, instructed his son to govern the country well, etc., and then died of death, and everyone was very sad.
But on the contrary, it is Yang Guang's murder theory, according to the records of the "Zizhi Tongjian", there are two important things here: first, a secret letter from Yang Guang fell into Yang Jian's hands that day, and second, Yang Jian heard the news that Yang Guang molested his concubine.
What was written in the letter was Yang Guang's plan prepared in advance - if the preparation of his father's death, and teasing his concubine when his father was not dead, this was of course more serious.
The first thing is basically true, but the second thing is full of doubts, who is Yang Guang? He had endured for so many years, and before he ascended the throne right away, he actually committed such a childish act?
And the statement that Yang Guangle killed and poisoned his father in later generations is equally untenable, because Yang Guang, as a prince at this time, the most important thing is to do nothing, quietly waiting for his father, who has not had much time to leave, there is really no need to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot to leave such an ancient name.
We turn our heads to look at the Zhang Qiu Taiyi, his story is not over yet, after successfully predicting the death of the emperor and escaping death, he can already be called a "god man", and after assuming the throne, Yang Guang continued to keep him in accordance with his father's will, and personally gave him the surname "Lu".
And Lu Taiyi accurately made three more prophecies in the rest of his life.
The first time was when Yang Guang had just taken the throne, his brother Yang Shu the King of Han rebelled, and Yang Guang asked Lu Taiyi, and he predicted that Yang Shu would definitely not be able to rise to the storm, and then the Han King rebellion was quelled within a month.
In the first year of the second great cause, he persuaded Yang Guang to build Luoyang, saying that it was his prosperous place (Yang Guang had been the king of Jin), and Yang Guang repaired Luoyang City according to his words, if he had not used too much force to cause the people's resentment to boil, in fact, the benefits of this move would have been many.
The third time was in the fourth year of Daye, Yang Guang was on his second expedition to Goguryeo, and Lu Taiyi suddenly reported to Yang Guang, saying that "Liyang has military strength", and soon after the news came that Yang Xuangan, the son of the famous general Yang Su, was in charge of supervising grain in Liyang at that time, and really rebelled.
Although there is no one in this world who can really understand the future, but making predictions is also a very strong ability, this Taiyi has gone through two emperors, measured a lot of major events, and finally can be good to Luoyang, and is definitely a rare strange person.