The bad news comes, sometimes it's so sudden: the ending of a dynasty is hidden in the emperor's thought of turbulence, and perhaps in the quiet little abacus of a son. Yang Guang, a big man who had been living in the country for a long time, probably didn't expect that he built so many palaces and dug such a long canal, and finally digging it for himself was actually a way to go.

The sun is getting worse and worse, and the thirteenth year of the Sui Dynasty is almost impossible to stand it.

Yang Guang, the man who was taken to the throne by his father Yang Jian, had just succeeded to the throne, but he was full of ambitions. What a pity that neither the human heart nor the national meridian can withstand repeated pulling. When Emperor Wen of Sui initiated the "Kaihuang Governance". Although the people may not praise each other every day, they must admit in their hearts that there are indeed not many emperors who can make the people live a stable life. On the other hand, Yang Guang likes to make trouble, and he makes the sky and the earth dark. In the first year, I asked someone to build Luoyang and insisted on building a palace like a fairyland on the ground. The money, food and strength were poured in "hula" and no one blinked, but the people were almost exhausted and broken.

His idea of ​​building the Grand Canal sounded very visionary, and he was very majestic when he drew the map. In the years he had no choice but to implement it, he almost called the people on every inch of the soil to dig canals. From the south of the Yangtze River to the north, the ship had already been broken before it was opened.

If the canal canal is barely considered to benefit future generations, then Yang Guang's "Three Conquests of Goguryeo" later became a throwing money, grain and soldiers into the abyss. Wars are fought every year, casualties are killed and killed every year. No one can count how many families there are, and white-haired people sending black-haired people.

But it is said that "the emperor loves spectacularity", and Yang Guang's spectacularity is to bring people into the mud. Not only war and building a palace, this person also likes to travel south and north, and takes a huge walk. He needs to practice the palace every time he goes. Whenever he visits, he will leave a few pavilions and towers piled up with silver at every scenic spot. The officials were tired, and the people couldn't breathe. "The world dies in service" is not an exaggeration of literati, but a lament from everyone in reality.

Who can stand it? It is a matter of time before people's minds change. In the years when the world was in chaos, it collapsed everywhere, and the flags of the uprising were everywhere, and hundreds of people were everywhere. There were also people in the small powerful people, down-and-out grass, and even the small village heads next to the dry well. It’s better for novelists to exaggerate, “Thirty-six families rebelled against the king, and seventy-two smoke and dust” are actually inseparable.

Lao Yangguang thought he could still control the overall situation and refused to admit defeat. In 616, he actually brought his men and horses to go south along the canal to Jiangdu for the third time (a bright card is today's Yangzhou). At this time, Li Mi from Henan, Dou Jiande from Hebei, and Du Fuwei from Jianghuai - these three guys, each with tougher names, almost turning their territory. Without thinking too much, Yang Guang went south to cut off his own way of retreat.

Looking at Li Yuan, who is far away in Jinyang, in the north, it is a bit like the "received in danger" in the old script. This Duke of Tang, who was usually kind and actually had a clear idea, saw that the Sui Dynasty was about to fail, so he was waiting for the opportunity to wait for the east wind.

It is not true to say that Li Yuan took the initiative to revolution; it is not true to say that he is cowardly and hesitant. His son Li Shimin is different. Shimin is seventeen or eighteen years old, but he is a little "restless" DNA. Thinking about that summer, Li Shimin stood by the yard of Taiyuan Prefecture, and probably couldn't hold it in. He insisted on coming to Li Yuan and nagging: "The world is burning, are you still not moving?" When Li Yuan heard this, his face pale and was so scared that he wanted to write a letter to report his own son. If Li Shimin hadn't been clever, this would have really become a joke of flesh and blood.

This matter is not big or small. The first time he persuaded him, on the grounds that Yang Guang was incompetent, Li Yuan almost got sick. The second time I analyzed the pros and cons, saying that if you don’t move, you will either be held accountable or become a rebellion. What are you trying to do? Li Yuan was shaken, but he still covered his cuffs and waited and watched.

It didn't work twice, and the third time, the fish finally bit the hook. At this moment, Li Yuan was almost named by Emperor Yang of Sui and wanted to tie him back to Jiangdu for punishment. It was really a pressure cooker that was pressed on his head. Li Shimin smiled squintly. It would be better to raise an army now than to wait for a knife to tie it to Jiangdu.

If you really want to say that Li Yuan’s last thought is the one who has broken Li Yuan’s confidants. Pei Ji and others were helping the fire, and to put it today, they forced the leader to "fight with the enemy's back." The beauty in the palace was sent away, and the way out was gone. No matter how much hesitation was, it was useless. Li Yuan had to grit his teeth and in July of that year, he raised his flag to rebel.

Jinyang raised an army like a landmine, directly exploding the overall situation. Chang'an in the west almost followed the flow, and Li Tang's starting point became famous. Li Yuan originally led 30,000 people, but he was recruiting soldiers and fighting. The number of troops increased. By the time he captured Chang'an, he had already dragged more than 200,000 "New Tang people". It was said that the general trend was the trend, and some people said that the opportunity coincided. In short, this step was both dangerous and accurate.

In history, I like to "relegate" Li Yuan: I don't have much credit for my son. I said that the reason why the Li family was able to stand up was entirely due to Li Shimin as the leader, and even said that Li Yuan was just passively pushed away at that time. But in this world, this father and son are still playing together.

Li Shimin was cruel, but the young man was arrogant and always looked into the distance. He must have not expected that there would be something like Xuanwu Sect waiting for him in the future, but the temperament of looking at three steps and planning more than breaking is unrestrained.

There is another small detail. The Tang Dynasty seemed to be the Han family, but the Li family was mixed with mixed blood - the Xianbei and Hu people's bloodlines were mixed with Han style. It is precisely this "impurity" that made the Tang Dynasty a so open and inclusive dynasty later. Think about it, if the people from Lao Du and Dou Jiande were elected as emperors at the end of the Sui Dynasty, perhaps Chinese history would have been completely different.

As for the word Yang, it is still a bit ironic to think about it. Once the emperor, due to excessive publicity, extravagance and trouble, he was exchanged for the despise of his descendants and the empire that collapsed almost overnight.

History can no longer explain whether Li Yuan and his son are in trouble. Whether they know the current affairs or are pushed into the water. We only see strong winds and waves, and see Chang'an change of ownership overnight, the world split, and the fireworks of the world. Maybe Li Shimin really counted the stars at night when he was a teenager, maybe Li Yuan sighed quietly at a dusk, only the people in the center of the storm knew best how proactive he was and how helpless he was.

So in the end, is it artificially created momentum or the times create people? Sometimes when the story tells this, I can only shrug and leave it to those who come later to taste it slowly.