Chapter 25 2. I am a hero and a bastard

I have to talk about the great talents of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen. Most of the emperors in Chinese history had a large number of concubines.The most numerous of them may be Hong Xiuquan, the fake heavenly king. There are more than one hundred of them. They have no names but numbers. Today they sleep from 001 to 007, and tomorrow they sleep from 230 to 250.Among these emperors, two emperors had no concubines, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty. Ming Xiaozong didn't have a concubine because he had a very good relationship with his original wife, Empress Zhang, when he was the prince, so he didn't want to marry as soon as he became the throne.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty didn't have a concubine because he was too busy to take care of her. That was really hard work.Diligence and political thinking, every sitting in the court, or until the end of the day.If, as in the TV series, the emperor goes to court every day, he will be exhausted. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty has one court every ten days.But the emperor has to deal with government affairs every day, that is to meet with the minister of military affairs, which is equivalent to meeting the class cadres. The teacher can't hold a class meeting every day, and it's over once a week.But the teacher may have to find the class cadres every day, find individual students to talk about, and so on.In the Qing Dynasty, the upper court was not in the palace, because it could not accommodate so many people, but in the Qianqing Gate, where the imperial gate listened to government.The emperor sat in the cave of Qianqing Gate, and the ministers stayed in the square.Thirty degrees below zero, the emperor held a hand stove or something, and wore a sable fur, like a panda, thirty degrees above zero, covered with a canopy, and someone played a fan.The TV shows are fun, and they all go up in the hall.The emperor of the Qing Dynasty dealt with government affairs in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, how many people could be accommodated in that hut, and it was okay for him to see the military plane, because there were not many people in the military plane.Therefore, Qianlong, Yongzheng, and Kangxi, the British lords of several generations, sat in the court every day and dealt with the government affairs all night without sleep;

The court time is very early. Before dawn, you have to get up at four o'clock, because you go to bed early at night, and you must go to bed at 8:30 or 9:00. At that time, there were no computers or bars. sleep.The same is true for the emperor, who works at sunrise and rests at sunset, and rises at four or five o'clock in the dark to go up to court, and this court goes directly to the west of the sun for a whole day. If you are an official of the fifth grade or above, the emperor will invite you to discuss the matter.In the Qing Dynasty, the officials who could meet the emperor were the fourth rank, and only the officials above the fourth rank could face the emperor.Beijing officials are all fourth-rank, local officials only have third-rank to face the emperor, fifth-rank magistrates are not good, and third-rank chief secretaries and inspectors are able to do so.At that time, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was able to be cited for discussion when he was above the fifth rank, probably because there were few officials, not as many as in the Qing Dynasty.

The soldiers of the old guard eat by passing on meals. When eating, the emperor eats box lunches and work meals like everyone else.Generally, the emperor always eats alone when eating, and does not eat with anyone to avoid poisoning.For example, today the emperor invited the empress to have dinner. The two of them are not in the same room. The emperor is in the West Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, and the queen is in the East Nuan Pavilion. I also have to thank the emperor Long En, and you who don't eat meat at all have to thank the emperor's grace.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty squatted on the ground with everyone and ate. Think how diligent this emperor is.Moreover, his queen Dugu was also a generation of virtuous queens, which made him busy with government affairs all day long and worked hard to govern.

The Chen Dynasty and Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty went down as soon as they were compared, and they were extremely corrupt.Chen Shubao, the empress of Chen, is a famous king of subjugation in Chinese history.This "Yushu Backyard Flower" was sung by Chen Shubao, and it became the sound of subjugation.When the Sui army entered the Chen Palace, Chen Shubao threw himself into a well, but the Sui army could not find it. Seeing the sound in the well, the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty said that they would not come out to throw stones anymore.Shouting inside, don't throw it, don't throw it, pull us up, why is it so heavy?Pull it up and look at the three, besides Chen Shubao, there are also the queen and the imperial concubine, who hugged them in together.Yang Guang fell in love with the imperial concubine and wanted to keep it for himself, but Han Qinhu, the coach of the Sui army, said that the Chen Dynasty was destroyed because of this thing, you still want it!Click!It was chopped with a knife.

After Sui destroyed Chen, construction began. First, build two capitals. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty built Daxing City, not the Daxing city south of Beijing today, but Chang'an.Emperor Yang of Sui built Luoyang, Tokyo.The Sui and Tang Dynasties are both capitals, "Chang'an, the western capital, and Luoyang, the eastern capital". The second wide warehouse. How big is this warehouse?There was a granary in the Sui Dynasty called Hanjiacang, where the scientists excavated. According to incomplete statistics, there were 259 grain cellars in Hanjiacang, and 500,000 jin of carbonized millet was found in one of the cellars. The 259 can be imagined.And this is not all, there is not only one Hanjia warehouse, but also Luokou warehouse, Jingluo warehouse and so on.He built so many granaries, which shows that the granary preparations in the Sui Dynasty were vigorous at that time.

To what extent are the food reserves abundant?It can supply the world for fifty or sixty years.The Sui Dynasty perished in the 38th year, so by the 20th year of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, all the food we ate was saved from the Sui Dynasty. "Wenwen Tongkao" said that ancient and modern times, "the richest person in the national economy is like the Sui Dynasty".From ancient times to the present, if you want to say which dynasty has the richest government, no one can compare with the Sui Dynasty. The Sui Dynasty is a typical state that hides wealth in the country. Third, open the canal.

Divided by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, it was divided into four sections: Yongji Canal, Tongji Canal, Hangou and Jiangnan River.With Luoyang as the center, it leads to Zhuojun in the north and Yuhang in the south. It is the earliest and longest Grand Canal in the world. It is 38 times that of the Panama Canal and 20 times that of the Suez Canal. It is 1300 years earlier than them. The fourth builds the road.This is very similar to the Qin Dynasty. As a result, the reason for the demise of the Sui Dynasty was the same as that of the Qin Dynasty. The tyranny of Emperor Sui Yang led to the demise of the Sui Dynasty, and it was also the death of the second generation.

Emperor Sui Yang was a tyrant, not a fool, and not all the things he did were not good.Like the canal, this one is as majestic as Qin Xiu's Great Wall and is a symbol of the Chinese nation.But compared to Qin Shihuang's building the Great Wall, the role of the canal is much greater. You can't stop the minority on the Great Wall. You can spend so much money and take so many lives, but you can't stop the minority.The canal is different. Before the opening of the Jinpu Railway in the early 20th century, the canal was the main artery of north-south transportation.Because all rivers in China flow from west to east and into the sea, and the transportation between the north and the south is inconvenient. The emergence of this Grand Canal just solved the problem of north-south communication, and the natural moat became a thoroughfare, which is a very good thing.But the problem is that you can't do these good deeds together, and the common people can't bear it if you can bear it.Writing two one-million-word novels will cost you several months. If you stay up late for a week to finish both books, your brain cells will not be enough, and you will die.

So when Emperor Sui Yang was in power, he conquered Goryeo three times, built the Eastern Capital, tortured and punished cruelly. Sanzheng Goryeo is Goguryeo, a local government in Northeast China, which is also today's northern North Korea.It has been unruly for more than 700 years, with its capital in Jilin for the first 400 years and Pyongyang for the next 300 years.So we say Goryeo is China's regime, and South Korea says it is its regime... Anyway, it's boring, Koreans grab everything!Emperor Yangdi fought Goryeo three times, using more than 1 million troops, and 2,700 people survived, because Goryeo dealt with China and the Sui army just like Russia dealt with Napoleon and Hitler.If the weather is clear and cloudless, I will not fight you. I will withdraw, withdraw, and withdraw. When winter comes, I will counterattack. Before I can beat you, you will freeze to death yourself.Later, in order to fight Goryeo, it was not enough to raise troops on the road, but also to go by water, which required building warships.The craftsman soaked in the water all day long, and the half of his body below the waist was rotten with maggots, just to build this warship.At that time, I was soaking in the sea all day, and if I didn't go down, I would be beheaded.

The tyranny of Emperor Sui Yang caused production to be destroyed, and the common people couldn't stand it anymore, so the peasants revolted.