Although the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang was a tyrant, he was not a tyrant, he once led an army to destroy the Chen Dynasty, and he wrote a good poem, which was a figure with both literature and martial arts. In addition, Yang Guang took various means to successfully seize the position of crown prince, indicating that this man was scheming and very clever. In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the world fell into chaos, but the Sui Emperor Yang Guang was not killed by the rebels, but died at the hands of his own people.
As mentioned earlier, the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang took a dragon boat to Jiangdu in July 616. He did this for two purposes: first, to temporarily avoid the sharp edge of the peasant army; second, once the situation in the north was not good, he could occupy Jianghuai and "restore Liang and Chen Zhizhi" to the old. The Sui Dynasty's rule in the north was soon destroyed in name only, and in November 617, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, invaded Chang'an, and established Yang You as the puppet emperor and Yang Guang as the Emperor Taishang.
When the news reached Jiangdu, Yang Guang realized that he had no chance to return to Chang'an and Luoyang, so he planned to implement the plan to divide Jianghuai. Yang Guang sent people to build the palace in Danyang and prepare to move here. Danyang is today's Nanjing, but also the capital of Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen, Yang Guang's intention is very clear, imitating the Southern Dynasty and "protecting Jiangdong". However, Yang Guang did not expect that his plan would be terminated by a rebellion!
In March 618, the Right Tun Wei general Yu Wenhua and Wu Benlang launched a coup d'état between Sima Dejie, Yuan Li and others, and led the troops into the palace. In the face of the fierce rebel generals, the Sui Emperor sighed, "Why did I commit such a crime?" One of the generals said: "Your Majesty has violated the temple, paraded endlessly, requisitioned in the field, and is extremely extravagant on the inside, so that Ding Zhuang is exhausted by the blade, the woman is weak and fills in the ravine, the four people are lost, and the thieves are swarmed; the full-time servant is not a refusal; what is innocence!" ”
After some argument, the rebel general Pei Qiantong killed Yang Gao, the youngest son of the Sui Emperor, and blood splashed on Yang Guang's dragon robe. After that, the rebel general also wanted to go forward to blade Yang Guang, and Yang Guang said: "The Son of Heaven has his own way of dying, why should he sharpen it!" Take the sake! However, the rebel generals did not agree, Yang Guang had no way, "self-liberation practice towel", and then was strangled alive by the rebel generals. Then, why did the Sui Emperor Yang Guang die in the change of Jiangdu and fail to realize his desire to divide Jianghuai?
It turned out that in this process, Yang Guang made a fatal mistake! As we all know, the Guanlong clique was the core of the Sui Dynasty's rule, and these people from the Guanlong clique occupied an important position in the Sui Dynasty. However, the Sui Emperor was an "outlier", he was not only intoxicated with Jiangnan culture, but also greatly admired the scholars of Jianghuai, and when he was the king of Jin and the town guarding Jiangdu, he summoned and appointed many scholars from Jianghuai.
When the Sui Emperor went to Jiangdu, the army led by him was mainly from guanzhong's "Xiaoguo", who had been living outside for a long time and would inevitably miss their hometown. These "XiaoGuo" found that the Sui Emperor had no intention of returning to Guanzhong, so he "plotted to rebel". Not long after, there was a defection incident, "Lang sent Dou Xian's troops to the west, and the emperor sent horsemen to chase them, and the dead were still there." At the same time, the Sui Emperor reused the Jianghuai people, and the Guanlong nobles gradually lost their core position.
Under these circumstances, the Sui Emperor did not reconcile the contradictions between the Jianghuai people and the Guanlong clique, which caused dissatisfaction among the Guanlong nobles led by Yu Wenhua. In this case, Yu Wenhua and the "Xiaoguo" who wanted to return to Guanzhong launched this change in Jiangdu. When news of the sui emperor's murder reached Chang'an, Li Yuan deposed Yang You, established himself as emperor, established the Tang Dynasty, and ushered in a new master of the Guanlong clique.
References: 1. Book of Sui; 2. Zizhi Tongjian