Recently, I saw some people on the Internet discussing: Why was the "so-and-so pulpit" of the previous fire snubbed and left unanswered?
This is an interesting question that is worth pondering.
The reasons should be manifold.
But I think it is mainly related to the historical views and knowledge of those experts and scholars who have been honored in the "pulpit."
During the period of "so-and-so pulpit" and "fire", I also pursued some days.
After all, the profound insight and exquisite historical insights of the masters, coupled with the interesting and eloquent explanations, made people listen to them with relish and benefited a lot.
However, as more and more "big wet" ink appears, it gives people the feeling that it is a temporary blind catch, "La Zhuang Ding" caught to save the scene, a crab is not as good as a crab.
Let's take an example.
When it comes to tyrants and emperors in Chinese history, the most well-known ones are the King of Shang and the Emperor of Sui.
The King of Shang lived too long to discuss him.
For the Sui Dynasty Emperor, he was full of evil deeds and bad deeds, and he was already a vicious person and a villain who had been defined in history.
However, the "big wetness" of the "so-and-so pulpit" actually challenged the public's cognition for the sake of ratings, referring to the deer as a horse, forcibly whitewashing the Sui Emperor, touting him as an immortal great man with great talent and great talent, saying that everything he did was a sin in the contemporary era, but it was beneficial in the future. It is also said that the later Tang Dynasty was able to develop into a prosperous world, which was entirely based on the martial arts of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Wenzhi. Even comparing Tang Taizong Li Shimin with it, horizontal ratio and vertical ratio, to prove that the Sui Emperor was not worse than Li Shimin, what was lacking was just luck.
He also brazenly said that the name of the Sui Emperor's "absurdity" was purely planted by posterity, and that the real Sui Emperor was obsessed with doing great things and was not a good woman, and so on. Say what "Although the Sui Emperor was immoral, he had merit." It is only his deeds that are not unified with the happiness of the people", "The Sui Emperor was an absolute individual heroism, and this kind of personal heroism was manifested in his fanatical pursuit of his own meritorious achievements." In fact, it is precisely because the Sui Dynasty Emperor blindly pursued the heroic deeds of those who had never come before or since, ignored the people's ability to bear it, and ignored the people's sense of happiness that there would be abuse of people's power and eventual failure."
What do you mean by "sin in the present, profit in the thousands"? What do you mean by "pursuing the heroic deeds of those who have never come before and after the ancients"?
Speaking of going, it is just a matter of talking about the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
In fact, the Grand Canal of the Yuan Dynasty is still in use, not the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty.
Speaking of which, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty was not excavated in the Sui Dynasty, but in 486 BC, when the Spring and Autumn Wu State began to excavate the Qi state, which has a history of more than 2500 years. Qin Shi Huang was the one who laid the way of the canal, according to the Book of Yuejie, which "ruled the Lingling waterway, to Qiantang and crossed the land, through Zhejiang".
The Sui Dynasty Emperor built the Grand Canal, relying on the rich manpower and national strength left by the Northern Zhou and Southern Chen, and followed the canal and channel built by many dynasties from the Spring and Autumn To the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Grand Canal was built from the first year of Daye (604) to the sixth year of Daye (610). Within six years, more than three million peasants and soldiers from the counties of Henan, Huaibei, Huainan, Hebei, and Jiangnan were dispatched successively.
Such a large project is a large amount of input and a small amount of output. Yellow and Huai are prone to silting, the river is changeable and easy to block, and the degree of river congestion is "almost equal to the shore." The carriages and horses are all from them, and there are also houses on them." To this end, the Tang, Later Zhou, and Northern Song dynasties had to be often dredged and renovated.
It can be said that the Grand Canal is one of the canals with the highest "failure rate", the lowest navigation efficiency and the greatest side effects in the world. According to some statistics, in the 1400 years since the Sui Dynasty built the Grand Canal, the time that can really be fully navigable from Hangzhou (Yuhang) to Beijing (Dadu, Zhuo county) is only a few decades in total, and the time when more than 80% of the river section can be penetrated is only two or three hundred years, and the rest of the time is in several areas by water and land combined transport.
To this end, the Yuan Dynasty also invested a lot of manpower and material resources to excavate, and most of the newly built rivers were no longer the channels of the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal. Of course, in order to ensure the use of the Grand Canal, the Ming and Qing dynasties also often dredged and renovated.
In a word, the Grand Canal can become a world-famous historical miracle, which is the credit of many dynasties building canals from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qing Dynasty for thousands of years.
Taking a step back, even if the entire Grand Canal was built in the era of the Sui Emperor, then the Sui Emperor was high up in the air, commanding and commanding, but only moving his mouth, what is the merit? What's the point? If you want to say the credit, it is also the vast number of toiling people who are tired and starving to death in the construction of the canal.
Finally, with regard to the purpose of the Sui Emperor's construction of the canal, the historian Wang Zhongji's "History of the Five Dynasties of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" makes it very clear: "As the supreme ruler of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Emperor, he built the canal mainly to strengthen his rule and squeeze the people of Jiangnan, and also carried the motivation of facilitating his own pleasure. ”
Look, the original intention of building the Grand Canal, but so, how can it be praised as a "merit"?
"DaShi" unashamedly called the Sui Emperor Wenzhi's martial arts comparable to that of Emperor Wu of Han, saying that the great undertakings he created were "cheapened Li Tang", "the benefits were all laughed at by the Tang Dynasty", and "Li Tang sat back and enjoyed his success".
The Sui Emperor had a great ass! He enjoyed the rich inheritance left to him by his father Emperor Wen of Sui, but he squandered these inheritances and threw to Li Tang a mess of serious damage, a sharp decline of three-quarters of the population, and many strong enemies inside and outside.
According to the research of scholars Cen Zhongmian, Yang Zhijiu, and others, Emperor Wen of Sui usurped Northern Zhou to stand on its own, inheriting from Northern Zhou about 6.9 million households and a large number of hidden and concealed households outside of about 6.9 million households, and later annexed Southern Chen, and through the means of Dasuo Maoyue and other means to check the hidden and concealed accounts of Northern Zhou and Chen, according to the "Zizhi Tongjian": "Among the Sui Kai Emperors, there were 8.7 million households. "That is, 8.7 million households reached during the reign of emperors. It is estimated that at the height of the Sui Dynasty, up to 8.9 million households were built.
However, the Sui Emperor's willfulness and love of evil caused a serious chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and according to du Zhenglun's performance in the General Code, "... In the last year of the chaos, there were more than 2 million households in Wude", that is, there were only more than 2 million households left in the Sui Dynasty, and the population decreased sharply.
This was not enough, the Sui Emperor also made strong enemies inside and outside, resulting in the loss of most of the territory and serious internal divisions.
Wang Yongxing, a historian, unceremoniously pointed out in the "Brief Treatise on military history in the early Tang Dynasty": "In the rebellion of the Sui Dynasty, the first Bi Khan was ju ji ji li, the Chinese were many in dependence, the Khitans, Murong Wei, Tuguhun and Gao Chang were all subordinates, and Dou Jiande, Xue Ju, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Li Rail, Wang Shichong, and so on stubbornly looked at the tiger and respected them. Control strings and millions, Rong Di is blazing, and gu has not yet. "The Turkic Khan wanted to be the second emperor of Tuoba Daowu and take the Central Plains, and there was an immortal jie Li Shimin in Huaxia, Li Yuan and Li Shimin fought hard for several years, not only to unify, but also to resist the Turks, crushing the Turkic Khan's attempt to be the second Emperor of northern Wei Daowu and take the Central Plains, thus defending the civilization of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.
Comparing the Sui Emperor with Li Shimin, how to compare? The Sui Emperor was simply the son of a loser and the second ancestor, saying what kind of Wenzhi martial arts? What is the big picture of what to say? Holding a good deck of cards left by daddy in his hand, but playing a mess, who can blame him?
When Li Shimin's father and son raised an army, they only had Taiyuan, but they rose up in the chaotic world, defeated the strong enemies one by one, occupied the Central Plains, the South and other places, and also expanded and occupied a huge peripheral territory, the territory area far exceeded the Sui Dynasty, and later after development, the Tang Dynasty's population, economy and other aspects also surpassed the Sui Dynasty.
According to Leng Guodong's "History of Chinese Mouths", in the thirteenth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, there were about 14.3 million to 15.4 million households, about 74.75 million to 80.5 million mouths.
The Sui Dynasty Emperor was so happy that in three and four years Daye built the Great Wall east of Yulin (present-day southwest of Tuoketo, Inner Mongolia), and twice dispatched 1.2 million Ding Men, more than half of the dead. The purpose of the three marches on Goguryeo was only to show off the prestige of the soldiers, saying that "if Goguryeo descends, it is advisable to care for it, and it is not allowed to join the army", but the final result is that "the Sui people look forward to it and cry, all over the countryside".
In more than ten years, the Sui Dynasty Emperor was requisitioned and harassed no less than 10 million peasants, with an average of more than one person per household, resulting in the tragic phenomenon of "the world died in service".
Li Shimin later personally conquered Goguryeo, but because "liaozuo was cold early, the grass was dry and frozen, it was difficult for the soldiers and horses to stay for a long time, and the grain would be exhausted", although he did not destroy Goguryeo, there was no major loss.
The most rare thing is that before the expedition, the people enthusiastically joined the army, in the Zizhi Tongjian: "There are those who do not pre-enlist in the name, voluntarily join the army in private clothing, and move with thousands of requests, all of which are known: 'Do not seek the reward of the county officials, but are willing to die in Liaodong!'" 'Not allowed.' ”
The Sui Emperor was really covered with black spots, and washing could not be washed white.