Yang Su was praised by posterity as "the most cold-blooded famous general in Chinese history". His method of leading troops is very simple and crude: he has extremely strict military orders -- give you combat tasks, complete them, and come back to reward them; if they can't finish, come back and take the death -- the enemy and you, anyway, can only live one. But his reward is extremely heavy - if you bring one or two heads back to the camp, then you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life; if you bring three or five heads back to the camp, then from now on the grapes will be drunk night and night, and there will be a lot of money and beauty...
Yang Su
In the ninth year of the Reign of The Sui Dynasty (589), the sui generals He Ruobi (544-607) and Han Huhu (538-592) led a large army to attack Jiankang (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), the capital of the Chen dynasty, captured Chen Shubao (553-604), and Destroyed Chen. After that, the Sui Dynasty army swept through Jiangnan with the power of destruction and decay, and Chen Dongyang stabbed Shi Xiaoyan (?) –621) When the Sui army surrendered, the Sui army immediately occupied the entire territory of Huiji Commandery (Huiji County was included in the Territory of the Sui Dynasty). During the reign of Emperor Yang Jian of Sui (541-604), Shaoxing was known as Wu Prefecture. In the first year of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang (569-618), Shaoxing restored its ancient name to Yuezhou; in the third year of Daye (607), Shaoxing was renamed Huiji Commandery.
The Sui Dynasty unified the whole country, which was an inevitable trend of historical development. However, the Sui Dynasty's implementation of the Juntian system in Jiangnan greatly inhibited the occupation of land and population by the Jiangnan Shi clan and local tyrants; the implementation of the county system almost completely deposed the old officials of the Chen Dynasty (Jiangnan officials were generally replaced by northerners). Moreover, the confrontation between the northern and southern dynasties has been separated for more than 250 years, so Yang Jian, the Sui Wen Emperor with Hu ancestry, and others may have regarded the Jiangnan Shimin as "foreigners" who disobeyed the king. Soon after the Sui Dynasty unified the country, the central government of the Sui Dynasty immediately promulgated a "reading book of common sense of ideology, politics and law", the Five Teachings (the main contents of which are fatherly righteousness, motherly kindness, brotherhood, brotherhood, brotherhood, and filial piety), and forced that "foreigners" (Jiangnan Shimin) must be read by everyone.
After the promulgation of the Five Teachings, according to the Zizhi Tongjian, poor Jiangnan "had a grudge against the people."
Territory of the Sui Dynasty
The destructive power of rumors is enormous. At that time, the people of Jiangnan were rumored that the Sui Dynasty would move the people of Jiangnan to the north... As a result, Jiangnan chaos! Historical records record that in the tenth year of the kai emperor (590), the Hao clan in Jiangnan successively rebelled against the Sui. Gao Zhi of Wu Prefecture (present-day Shaoxing City), Shen Xuanyou of Suzhou (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), Wang Wenjin of Wuzhou (present-day Jinhua City), and others successively rebelled and claimed the title of Tianzi; Le'an (present-day Xianju County, Zhejiang Province), Jiang Shan (present-day Zhongshan, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), Rao Prefecture (present-day Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province), Wenzhou (present-day Wenzhou City), Quanzhou (northwest of present-day Quanzhou City, Fujian Province), and Hangzhou (present-day Hangzhou City), each of them raised troops against Sui and claimed the title of Governor of Dadu...
The Jiangnan rebels are very ferocious, simply ogre possession. According to records such as the Zizhi Tongjian, the flames of war quickly burned through the "homeland of Chen", and once the rebels captured the county commander, "either pumped his intestines or ate his flesh, that is, he could make Nong recite the Five Teachings even more!" ”
Whether it is the degree of ferocity or military strength, the high wisdom of Wuzhou's famous "macho man" seems to be superior. Historical records record that the famous "macho man" Gao Zhi occupied the east bank of the Qiantang River to establish a camp, surrounded by more than 100 miles; there were also water troops, warships to cover the river... Gao Zhi also established himself as king, set up hundreds of officials, and exchanged voices with other rebels, and his arrogance was very arrogant.
To paraphrase a Shaoxing slang saying: "The centipede is afraid of the snail, and the wicked have their own wicked grinding." In this world, there is no most ferocious, only more ferocious... The wise and others, who have always been known as "macho men", will soon be killed by a heavyweight who is "fiercer, fiercer, and more cruel" than them. This heavyweight is simply a terrifying tycoon: his body is actually shrouded in a prominent cultural aura - the famous poet of the Sui Dynasty. His poem "Shanzhai Sit Alone and Present Xue Neishi" says: "The rock ravine clarifies the scenery, and the jingqing rock ravine is deep." White clouds fly twilight, green water stirs up the sound", how extraordinary and long-distance the artistic conception is; its poem "Out of the Plug" says: "Running amok for thousands of miles, Hu Yun has been poor for a hundred years." The stars of the soldiers' sleep, the moon of war and the moon are in the air", how vast and mighty the aura is; his poem "Gift to Xue Bozhou" says: "In the past, the heavens and the earth were closed, and the goods belonged to Tunmeng." Peace for the king, mourning and resentment", how profound and wise is the thinking...
The key is that his combat effectiveness is explosive, because he is still an outstanding military figure of the Sui Dynasty and a generation of famous generals. It wasn't that I meant to scare you, he was even praised by posterity as "the most cold-blooded famous general in Chinese history." Because his method of leading troops is very simple and crude: his military orders are extremely strict - give you combat tasks, complete them, come back and reward them; if they can't finish, come back and take the death - the enemy and you, anyway, can only live one. Moreover, he also liked to kill people before the war, casually find a reason or even an excuse, first kill him dozens, hundreds of people, and then issue a combat mission, who dare not listen? You don't have to worry about subordinate dissatisfaction or rebellion, in fact many soldiers especially like to follow him. Why? The reason is also very simple and crude: he is extremely rewarded -- if you bring one or two heads back to the camp, then you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life; if you bring three or five heads back to the camp, then from then on the grapes are drunk night and night, and there are a lot of money and beautiful women. So, who wouldn't want to follow him?
He is a "literary and martial all-rounder"! Oh my God, if you want to use a knife and a gun against him, will he invite you to burn incense, listen to the rain, play the piano, and make tea? If you invite him to play chess, poetry, fish, and painting together, will he immediately use his sword against you?
Historical records record that at that time, jiangnan rebelled, the dynasty was shaken, and the emperor was angry! Yang Su (544-606), a famous poet of the Sui Dynasty, an outstanding military figure, and a famous general of the sui dynasty, was appointed by the Sui Emperor Yang Jian as the commander of the march, and commanded the people to fight against the rebels in Jiangnan.
Emperor Yang Jian of Sui
Yang Su (杨素), courtesy name Dao, was a native of Hongnong Huayin (present-day Huayin, Shaanxi). As early as the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yang Su served as a che general, and made many achievements in the war to suppress Northern Qi, and had already had a deep friendship with Yang Jian. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Su served as the Imperial Grand Master first, and led hundreds of thousands of sailors to destroy Chen Zaihou with the command of the Marching Marshal. After the destruction of Chen, Yang Su served as the Commander of the Inner History, in which he was almost all involved in major decisions of the imperial court.
Later, Yang Su was awarded the title of "Duke of Yueguo" by jin for his merits. In the fifteenth year of the kai emperor (595), Yang Su had built the Renshou Palace for the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian, which was in the sweltering heat, but in order to rush the construction period, resulting in a large number of migrant workers suffering from heat stroke, the deceased lay on the ground, Yang Su actually ordered the burning of all the dead bodies (in ancient China, the dead were as large as possible, and the funeral should be as grand as possible, and it was necessary), and the degree of brutality was outrageous. In Chinese history, The Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian was the most frugal emperor, and once he personally inspected the construction site of Renshou Palace, he could not help but be angry: What is the heart of old Yang Su? Spending countless assets and people's resources, the palace built by the overseer is so luxurious, is it not to make everyone in the world curse and hate and become enemies? Empress Dowager Dugu (544-602) explained to Yang Su: Yang Gong knows that you and I are old and have no other good entertainment projects, and what made Renshou Palace gorgeous is not his loyal and filial heart? In Chinese history, if we talk about the historical figures who are "afraid of their wives", if the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian is modest and does not rank first, it is estimated that no one is embarrassed to lean on the first place. Therefore, the result of this incident was that Yang Su was not only not guilty, but was given millions of dollars and three thousand silks. After that, Yang Su led the Sui army to fight the Turkic department. The poor Turks dominated the desert for hundreds of years, but they were cut in half by the Sui army and swept away. The fierce and belligerent Turks fled in the wind and did not dare to go any closer to the border city. After the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang ascended the throne, he worshipped Yang Su as a situ and renamed Yang Su the "Duke of Chu". After Yang Su's death, the imperial court gave him the title of "Jingwu"—of course, these are still afterwords.
The Sui army broke the Turks
Going back to continue to say that Yang Su pacified Jiangnan. Yang Su led his troops to cross the river at Yangzijin (present-day south of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province), and the "three strokes, five divisions" quickly put down the rebellion in Jiangsu. In the great battle with the Wuzhou Gaozhi Ministry, Yang Su adopted the Ministry of Future Guardian (?) —618) suggested that tactics such as "sneak attack, fire attack, and strong attack" were all used, and Gao Zhi was defeated and fled to the sea. After that, Yang Su quickly quelled the rebellion in Wuzhou, Wenzhou, Gaozhou and other places. Like the high wisdom of the bird of fright, he led the remnants to defect to the rebel general Wang Guoqing in Quanzhou.
However, Wang Guoqing is a person who understands, and the thing of "picking up a wasp to bite the hand" will definitely not be done by Wang Guoqing. It is said that "the person who knows the times is Junjie", and whether Wang Guoqing is a descendant of "Junjie" is unknown, but the historical records record that Wang Guoqing had already had secret contacts with Yang Su, and Yang Su ordered Wang Guoqing to "capture high wisdom to redeem himself". Of course, Wang Guoqing refused to "back the wood" for Gao Zhi, so Zhao Zhao Wufu Gao Zhi immediately became a "meeting gift" given to Yang Su by Wang Guoqing... In the end, Gao Zhi was beheaded by Yang Su in Quanzhou.
Yang Su countered the rebellion
Yang Su quickly put down the Jiangnan rebels. However, everywhere the Sui army went, there was a bloody storm, and the people of Jiangnan were killed and injured. At that time, the Sui Emperor Yang Jian issued an order to Yang Su that all those who participated in the rebellion should be beheaded, women would be rewarded to meritorious soldiers of the Sui army, and all prisoners of war would be enslaved...
For the people of Jiangnan ("Chen's homeland"), the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian and Yang Su and others were all very prejudiced and even discriminated against, and their ruling methods were also very harsh and even bloody. For example, the historical records record that Wuzhou (Yuezhou) has always been a developed area of ancient shipbuilding industry - how big a ship Wuzhou (Yuezhou) can build during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the author has no examination for a while, but from the "Sui Shu Yang Su Biography" record, there were already five-story high "building ships" at that time, which can "accommodate eight hundred warriors"; according to the "Miscellaneous Records of Daye", the dragon boat that the Sui Emperor sat on when he went out on patrol was four stories up and down, "forty-five feet high, fifty feet wide, and two hundred feet long", and it was expected that the ships that Wuzhou (Yuezhou) could build would not be too small - but in order to consolidate his rule, To prevent the people of Jiangnan from rebelling, the Sui Dynasty government forbade the people of Jiangnan to build large ships privately. The Book of Sui records that Emperor Yang of sui insisted that "the people of Wu Yue, who have inherited evil customs, have built large ships privately, and because of their convergence, they have caused harm", and ordered that "in the jiangnan states, there are captains of more than three captains in the world, including officials." The Sui Dynasty's prejudice against the people of Jiangnan can also be seen here.