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Today we continue to tell the story of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang's three visits to Yangzhou. After the Sui Dynasty Emperor ascended the throne, he visited Yangzhou three times in 605, 610 and 616, respectively, and the first two times can be described as unprecedented glory. Let's turn the clock back to the midsummer of 605 AD and watch his first visit to Yangzhou.
On the choppy Grand Canal, a magnificent dragon boat 60 meters long, 15 meters wide and 13 meters high slowly moves forward amid the trumpets of tens of thousands of strong, bare-chested haulers. This huge dragon boat is made of four layers of mahogany: the first floor is the palace area for the courtiers to participate in the political deliberations, the middle two floors are office areas, which are set up for the daily office of the courtiers, and the lowest floor is the service area, which is inhabited by eunuchs and palace women. On the deck of the 13-meter-high palace area, a middle-aged man with a heroic appearance and a black crown stood on the dragon boat, and he looked out, a pair of deep eyes flowing with domineering spirit and full of strength.
When the horn sounded and the dragon boat set sail, at that moment, the arrogance in his heart washed away the sorrow after he ascended the throne. He was looking back on the past and looking forward to the future, and the rumors of usurping the throne as emperor, killing his father and insulting his mother, and killing his brothers and sisters had haunted his heart, and when he ascended to the ninth and fifth levels and held the imperial power, he was relieved in his heart, and as for the judgment of the future generations, it was up to him to go. At present, what he wants to do is to establish a great feat of merit and achieve a generation of heroes and hegemons, and this is his grand goal; the disciples of the city wells and the birds and birds know his state of mind and ambition, and his thoughts drift to jiangdu, which makes him think of twilight, in the sound of the hauler's heroic trumpet, where there is his youth, his dreams, and his attachments, and he is convinced that in the near future, what he does will surely achieve his great achievements and ambitions.
The proud king on the dragon boat is our protagonist today, the Sui Emperor, this is his first feat of starting a cruise to Jiangdu, and the scale of the patrol of Jiangdu can be described as unprecedented, the dragon boat is full of the glory of the Great Sui, sailing to the jiangnan of the people, the author wrote a poem, I will call it "You Jiangnan":
The canal is a hundred miles high, and 80,000 haulers drive dragon boats.
The officials and eunuchs of the state capital competed for favors, and the women and children wept with sorrow and tears.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Canal Baili Sheng Huangfan. </h1>
It is said that the Sui Emperor traveled this time, the scale of the dragon boat fleet is unprecedented, in order to prepare for this cruise, highlighting the demeanor of Tianzi, he let people build tens of thousands of various types of ships led by dragon boats, and finally carefully selected 5,000 ships for travel, walking in the forefront is the Sui Emperor's dragon boat, which is 60 meters long, 15 meters wide, 13 meters high, like a moving palace hall on the water, surrounded by grandeur, very majestic. After the dragon boat, according to the noble rank of the queen, concubine, monk, three pins above, four pins below and ordinary soldiers six levels, on the wide water surface of the Grand Canal, the length of travel reached 200 miles, the total number of travelers reached 100,000 people, looking around, on the water surface of the Grand Canal for a hundred miles, the dragon flag was fierce, covering the sky, like a thick red cloud fluttering, not majestic and spectacular.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >0280,000 haulers driving dragon boats. </h1>
It is said that the pattern of the Sui Emperor's trip exceeded that of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty under jiangnan, and Ming Zheng and his fleet went to the West. Such a large fleet, such a heavyweight ship, the use of natural wind that will certainly not play the desired effect, in case of repeated extreme weather, will not affect the Tianzi dragon driving, so prime minister Yang Su suggested, recruit porters to guard the dragon boat, how many people are suitable? According to the size of the fleet, according to the travel grade, after precise calculation, the Sui Emperor's dragon boat was 20,000, the empress was 10,000, and the concubines were 8,000, and then so on, and finally 80,000 porters were recruited. If you think about this face, on the Grand Canal, 100,000 people travel, 5,000 ships, 200 miles of fleet, 80,000 hauler escorts, what a scale this is, the Ming Dynasty has Zheng He going to the West, the Qing Dynasty has Qianlong touring Jiangnan, but compared with the Sui Emperor, the Sui Emperor is the carp in the water, they are all carps in the lotus pond.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 state and county officials and eunuchs compete for favors. </h1>
It is said that the Sui Emperor traveled this time, along the way the prefecture and county officials in order to look up to the imperial power, extremely strive for favors, Prime Minister Yang Su demanded, along the way within 500 miles of the state capital must be fully guaranteed, the dragon boat fleet to go, the official government yamen must provide exquisite food, in order to please the Sui Emperor, the local government yamen officials wantonly look for rare treasures, harvest the people's fat people's ointment. Everyone agreed that there was an unprecedented unity, and the Sui Emperor should guarantee it well, which was the most important task. In addition, all kinds of important members of the imperial court, powerful ministers and dignitaries must also make friends, there are people in the imperial court who are good officials, officials of states and counties along the way, who do not have an acquaintance in the imperial court, even if there is none, take advantage of this opportunity to make friends with a few to facilitate career promotion. All in all, the officials of the states and counties have used their brains and tried their best to cross the sea with eight immortals, each showing their magic. According to historical records, the number of people who deliver food to the fleet every day alone has reached 100,000 people, and what cannot be eaten is buried on the spot.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > women and children wept in horror. </h1>
It is said that the Sui Dynasty Emperor's trip made the lives of the people along the way miserable, as an old man in the state capital along the way, the son was recruited to be a porter, as a woman, the husband went to serve labor, this is not over, the tribute collected by the government, the taxes paid, what to do? Those who are unable to turn them over, how can local officials take into account the faces of the common people; some families are imprisoned in prison cells, some families are separated from their wives and children, the villages and alleys are strange, and between the fields, there are the shouts and scoldings of the soldiers of the government, the complaints of the common people, and the cries of women and children. At that time, there was a folk song "Emperor Xing Jiangnan", which sang:
My son marched to Liaodong and starved to death under the green mountains. Now I am holding the dragon boat, and I am trapped in the causeway. Fang is hungry today, and the road food is not small. Go three thousand journeys, this body can be safe. Cold bone pillow barren sand, ghost weeping tobacco. Sadly hurting my wife inside the door, I hope to break my family's old age. Andrea man, burn this unowned corpse. Lead its lonely soul back, bear its white bones back.
The above is the grand situation of the Sui Emperor's first tour of Jiangdu, the second time was in 610 AD, at this time, the Sui Emperor completed the northern tour, the western and the southern Fu, which can be described as the unprecedented strength of the country, with the experience of the first patrol, coupled with the peak of the development of national strength, the second grand situation can be imagined, we will no longer interpret. The third time was in 616 AD, this tour of Jiangdu was extraordinary, at that time, the Great Sui Dynasty had been in turmoil, the people in the north were in turmoil, the people in the north were in turmoil, the soldiers were everywhere, the ambition of the Sui Emperor was completely crushed, he was already in a state of despair, he only wanted to return to Jiangdu, a chance, for the advice of the courtiers, he was a god to block the killing of the god, the Buddha blocked the killing of the Buddha, the end was to wish for the dream of Jiangnan, buried the soul of the emperor, and ended this arrogant and unruly, great Sui Tianzi brilliant and tragic life.
Conclusion: The Sui Dynasty Emperor's three tours of Jiangdu were wrong in good and great achievements, but his tour was also full of far-reaching political considerations. For the first time, he granted amnesty to Jiangnan, reduced taxes, and used Nanchen to appease the people of Nanchen. The second time, he placed the western capital Chang'an, the eastern capital Luoyang and Yangzhou on an equal footing, demonstrating the importance he attached to the people and policies of the south. The third time, he gave up the two capitals and the partial An Jiangnan, and in 618 AD, under the persecution of the powerful minister Yu Culture and, he committed suicide and died in another country, which was really sad!