When we read novels such as "The Complete Biography of Tang Dynasty" and "The Biography of Xing Tang", we will find that in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there were eighteen anti-kings and sixty-four roads of smoke and dust, and the peasant uprising can be described as a storm and a succession.
At this time, Yang Guang's uncle, Yang Lin, the patron king of Dengzhou, always rushed to the road to extinguish all kinds of anti-kings, and there was no peace.
For this sui dynasty elder hero, the book is extremely powerful, saying that his face is like Fu Powder, two yellow eyebrows, nine feet long, and his waist is ten circumferences. Good messenger two imprisoned dragon rods, each weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, has the courage of ten thousand men.
Although he appeared as a villain, when he was stabbed to death by the little hero Luo Cheng's back-of-the-head carbine stunt, it still made many readers feel sad.
Yes, as a pillar of the country who worries about the royal family and has repeatedly sacrificed his life to turn the tide, his behavior is indeed awe-inspiring.
However, when we check the history, we can't find the slightest relevant material about Yang Lin.
That is, the character of Yang Lin is purely fictional by novelists.
In the main history, we will also find that although the Sui Emperor Yang Guang did not have an uncle named Yang Lin, he also had four uncles, including Yang Zhen, Yang Zhan, Yang Song, and Yang Shuang.
So, the question is, when the Sui Dynasty was on the verge of extinction, why didn't he see these uncles of his, like Yang Lin, the patron king of Dengzhou in the novel, come out to support the royal family and save the country?
Next, let's talk about the endings of Yang Zhen, Yang Zhan, Yang Song, and Yang Shuang.
As the saying goes, a dragon gives birth to nine sons, and nine sons are different.
The Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian usurped the Zhou Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty, unified the Southern and Northern Dynasties that had been divided for nearly three hundred years, swept away the Uchi, drove the Turks for a long time, created an advanced system of electing officials, developed culture and economy, had a vast territory, and was revered as a "saint khan" with strong national strength.
Then the four younger brothers of Emperor Yang Jian of sui were also outstanding.
Among the four younger brothers, the second eldest Yang Zhen and the third Yang Zhen were Yang Jian's half-brothers, both born to Lü Kutao.
During the Northern Zhou Ming Emperor Yuwen Yu Dynasty, yang zhen was awarded the title of Duke of Chen Liu commandery for military merit, and was appointed as a general of Kaifu and Cheqi.
However, in 576, emperor Yuwen Yong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty led a large army of seven roads to fight Qi, and Yang Zheng was killed during the siege of Jinyang.
That is to say, Yang Quan did not see the eldest brother Yang Jian ascend the throne and hang up.
The third elder Yang Zhan actually saw that the eldest brother Yang Jian had ascended the throne and claimed the throne, but he was opposed to the eldest brother Yang Jian ascending the throne and becoming emperor. In order to prevent the eldest brother Yang Jian from ascending the throne as emperor, he also planned to kill the eldest brother Yang Jian.
Why did Yang Zhan have such an "abnormal" reaction?
The reason is that when Yang Zhan was a teenager, he was beautiful, personable, and a good book lover, and he had a name in the world, known as "Yang Sanlang", who was appreciated by Emperor Yuwen Yong of Northern Zhou, and married Princess Shunyang, the sister of Emperor Yuwen Yong of Northern Zhou, and became the Northern Zhou Horse Master.
How much did Emperor Yuwen Yong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty love Yang Sanlang?
In the Battle of Faqi in 576 AD, basically all the princes and nobles followed, and the Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Yong liked and trusted Yang Sanlang, leaving him alone at home to guard the capital, and affectionately said to him: "The affairs of the six provinces are Yin, and one pays for each other." The emperor will do things in the east, and there will be no worries about the west. ”
Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong returned from Pingqi and made Yang Sanlang the Duke of Shaoguo.
Emperor Wu of Zhou collapsed, Emperor Xuan of Zhou ascended the throne, and Yang Sanlang was promoted to the post of Zhongfu of the Bureaucracy and conferred the title of Yi Tong.
When Emperor Xuan of Zhou collapsed and Yang Jian entered the palace to take charge, considering that "to fight the tiger is also a brother, it is still necessary for father and son to fight", so his son Yang Yong secretly informed Yang Sanlang to enter the dynasty to help.
Yang Sanlang firmly refused, and said viciously: "If you are the Duke of Sui Guo, you may not be able to protect it, so why should you destroy the evil of the clan?"
Yang Jian did not think about it, and after he was appointed chancellor, he promoted Yang Sanlang to the post of grand general, and soon after, he was promoted to the post of Emperor Dazong, revised the ceremonial law and the canon, and was promoted to the title of Shangzhu Guo, and granted the title of Duke of Shaoguo.
Yang Sanlang still did not cooperate, and repeatedly plotted plots to kill Yang Jian.
After all, Yang Jian was the true son of heaven, and was very tolerant of his younger brother Sanlang, and was honored as empress dowager by Zen, treated him with courtesy, and also made him the King of Teng, and appointed him yongzhou mu.
When the brothers met in private, Yang Jian always affectionately called him "Ah San" and beckoned him to sit together.
Influenced by his wife Princess Shunyang's pillow wind, Yang Sanlang was still indignant about his brother's usurpation of the Zhou Dynasty Sui, and secretly carried out the curse of witchcraft, cursing Yang Jian for his early death and praying for the revival of Northern Zhou.
There's no way around that.
Yang Jian ordered Yang Sanlang to divorce his wife.
Yang Sanlang refused.
Reluctantly, Yang Jian removed Princess Shunyang from her subordinate status and reduced her favor and favor to Yang Sanlang.
In 591 AD, Yang Sanlang followed Yang Jian to liyuan to play, probably drinking the poisonous wine prepared by Yang Jian, and was forty-two years old.
Yang Jian's fourth brother Yang Song died earlier than Yang Jian's second brother Yang Zhen, and before his death, he was made the Duke of Xingcheng County by virtue of his father Yang Zhong's military merits.
Yang insisted that the empress dowager posthumously honored this younger brother as the King of Dao, and posthumously honored him as "Xuan".
Among the brothers, Yang Jian and the fifth brother Yang Shuang had the best relationship.
Yang Shuang was born in 563 AD, and he was only 18 years old when Yang Jian was zen. Previously, he had been raised by Yang Jian's wife, the Lonely Empress.
After Yang Jian ascended the throne, he made this younger brother the Prince of Wei, Shangzhu Guo, and served as the pastor of Yongzhou and the general of the left and right. Soon, he moved to the right to lead the general, the power to lead and the governor of the prefecture, and later transferred to the general manager of Liangzhou.
Yang Shuang looks heroic and has great talent for commanding the army. In 583, he served as a field marshal and led his army to attack the Turks. He himself left Shuo Prefecture (朔州, in present-day Shanxi) and broke the Army of the Turkic Shabaoliu Khan at Baidao (白道, northwest of present-day Hohhot, Inner Mongolia), capturing more than a thousand people. In 586 AD, he was reinstated as a marshal, led 150,000 horsemen out of Hechuan, and returned home with a great victory.
With Yang Shuang's talent, if he lived to the end of the Sui Dynasty, he would definitely become a hero like Yang Lin and the Kuangfu royal family.
Unfortunately, in 587 AD, Yang Shuang died of illness at the age of 25, and was posthumously awarded the title of Taiwei and Jizhou Assassin, with the nickname "Zhao".
The four uncles of the Sui Dynasty Emperor, except for the fourth uncle Yang Song, who had no children behind him, all had sons. So, what are the different experiences of these uncles' sons?
Yang Quan had three sons: Yang Zhiji, Yang Zhiming, and Yang Zhiming.
Yang Quan was killed in battle at the Battle of Pingqi, and was given the title of Zhu Guo, Great Situ, and Ji Dingying to defend Zhao Bei's Eight Prefectures, and later posthumously honored as the King of Cai, known as "Jing". Yang Zhiji inherited these feats from his father. Yang Jian ascended the throne, and Jia Bai made him the Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division, and awarded the History of the Tongzhou Assassin.
Yang Zhiji because his father's relationship with Yang Jian was not very harmonious before his death, and the contradiction between his mother Wei And the Lonely Empress was also very stiff, he was cautious, low-key, happy, only to read for pleasure, in front of people constantly degraded himself.
Yang Jian learned of his situation, deeply mourned him, and recruited him to return to Jingdi and not let him hold any position.
Yang Zhiji guarded himself at the gate of the Beijing Division, and could not go out without hajj.
In the last year of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Zhiji was from The Capital of Jiangsu, and in view of the fact that the Sui Emperor was thin and weak, he was worried about his own peace, and after he fell ill, he refused to seek medical treatment. On his deathbed, he said with great relief: "I have known today that the leader of debao is not on the ground." ”
Yang Zhiji's younger brothers Yang Zhiming and Yang Zhicai were originally given the title of Duke of Gaoyang County and Duke of Kaifeng County by Yang Jian. After the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he stripped the two of them of their titles on the charge of "making friends".
Yang Sanlang Yang Zhan has a son Yang Lun; Yang Shuang has a son Yang Ji.
Yang Lun and Yang Ji were also jealous of the Sui Emperor Yang Guang during the Sui Dynasty, and fearing that they did not know what to do, they asked the warlocks to pray for their own blessings, but they were denounced, and both were removed from the people and moved to Bian County.
Yang Lun led his brothers to migrate to Bian County. During the Sui Dynasty Emperor's third expedition to Goguryeo, he had asked him to join the army to serve himself, but was stopped by the commandery. Lin Shihong, the leader of the peasant revolt at the end of the Sui Dynasty, raised an army, and Yang Lun fled with his wife to Dan'er County (dan'er county, northwest of present-day Danzhou, Hainan Province). Later, he returned to datang and became the duke of Huaihua County.
Yang Ji did not know the end when the world was in chaos.
Therefore, when the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang was in danger in the world, he was a widow and widow, and eventually he was discredited.