Chapter 26 3. Stand on the shoulders of relatives

The Sui Dynasty fell in 618 AD. At that time, a farmer named Wang Bo made a song "Death Song of Wuxiang Liaodong Wave", which was translated into vernacular, that is, don't go to Liaodong to send death song for nothing, published it, and incited the peasants to revolt.In the storytelling, the Wagang Village, Chen Yaojin and Qin Shubao, the 18th Road Against the King, and the 64th Road Wolf Smoke were all inspired by "Don't Go to Liaodong to Send Death Songs for Nothing". Finally, in Jiangdu, which is today's Yangzhou, the imperial guards mutinied. Emperor Sui Yang saw that the time had come, so he died.He took off the silk belt from his body and handed it to the general, who strangled him to death.

Emperor Sui Yang reigned for 18 years and stayed in Yangzhou for 13 years. He was the first emperor in Chinese history to stay in the south for a long time.Since he always stays in Yangzhou, some people say that he wanted to go there as an important reason for building the canal.No, we must speak responsibly, and the main thing is to communicate between the north and the south. After the end of the Sui Dynasty came the Tang Dynasty. The founding ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, raised troops in Jinyang and proclaimed himself emperor in 618, that is, Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty, the country name was Tang, and the capital was Chang'an.Li Yuan is the cousin of Emperor Sui Yang, and their mothers are two sisters, Dugu family, so they are aunts and cousins.Li Yuan was Tang Guogong at that time, and Jinyang stayed behind.

After he attacked Chang'an in Guanzhong at the beginning, he made the grandson of Emperor Sui Yang the emperor.So in this way, there is a reason for Li Yuan to raise troops, because the Sui and Tang dynasties are cousins.Later, his cousin Emperor Sui Yang was killed, and Li Yuan gave his cousin a funeral and buried him grandly, and then dealt with those who killed Emperor Sui Yang as treason. In 626 AD, Li Shimin came to the throne, that is, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. The process of Li Shimin's accession to the throne was very tragic, although it was tragic, it was also clean and tidy.That is the famous Xuanwu Gate change in history.During the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin killed his elder brother Prince Li Jiancheng and his younger brother Qi Wang Li Yuanji, forcing his father to abdicate, acting vigorously and resolutely.Then he tampered with the history books, and now the history books say that Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji are two bastards and playboys.How could the two playboys have achieved such high military exploits? It's nonsense after thinking about it.Because the history books were changed by Li Shimin, it is impossible to read them.And generally speaking, every word the emperor said was recorded by the historian.Although there was no video recording at that time, the historian was in the court, and he recorded every word the emperor said on the spot, which became the actual record of the emperor.The emperor himself should not be able to read this memoir. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were authoritarian enough, and the emperors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties did not read the memoir, because the memoir was every word he said, especially every word he said to the ministers in the court (talked to the concubine cannot be written), and the record cannot be changed.But Li Shimin just read it, not only read it but also changed it, this sentence is inappropriate, you delete it for me, if you don't delete it, you will be killed.

However, no matter how brutal, cruel, bloody and chilling Li Shimin's method of ascension to the throne is, he has made great contributions to this history. Emperor Sui Yang was the uncle of Tang Taizong, not only his uncle, but also his father-in-law. Tang Taizong had a concubine who was the daughter of Emperor Sui Yang.It is equivalent to saying that Tang Taizong saw with his own eyes how his uncle and father-in-law perished, and how he died and the country perished.Therefore, Tang Taizong learned from the lessons of the Sui Dynasty and emphasized the preservation of the common people.

Therefore, such a powerful Sui Dynasty, the second great unification in Chinese history, ended in 38 years, and the second generation died, which was comparable to the Qin Dynasty.The Qin Dynasty was 15 years old, and the Sui Dynasty was only 30 years from unification to its demise.