Speaking of the reasons for the demise of the Sui Dynasty, people would definitely think of military violence, abuse of the people's power, arrogance and prostitution, rampant corruption, etc., but there is a factor that has been ignored by everyone, and this may be the number one reason for the demise of the Sui Dynasty.
Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang is certainly not a good leader, but this buddy is indeed a very ambitious and ambitious guy. He wants to build great achievements and put his name in the history. Therefore, he started his greatness as soon as he took office. The cruel history of tossing, until the last moment of his life, it can be said that life is not limited, and tossing is endless.
The great progress of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty has never lacked the appearance of major safety accidents. If the news media at that time were as developed as they are now, major safety accident reports would have been endless, endless, flooded with screens, and exposed endless evils.
In the first year of the great cause (605), Emperor Yang of Sui gave an order to excavate the Grand Canal. At that time, the population of the whole country was 8.7 million households. This unprecedented feat shared about 150 million manpower. On average, each household had to provide nearly 20 manpower. Countless people are forced to dig rivers and transport soil day and night, working hard, and many people are exhausted to death in the rivers that have not been dug.
In the eighth year of the Great Yee (AD 612), Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goguryeo for the first time. Before he sent troops, he recruited a large number of migrant workers and ships from the south of the Yangtze River, and transported the grain from Liyangcang and Xingluocang from Henan to Zhuojun. One after another, there was an endless stream. There were as many as hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians running on the road in fatigue. Many of them became sick and fell dead by the side of the road.
In order to have a comfortable place to rest while traveling east and south, Emperor Yang of Sui sent 2 million people to build the eastern capital of Luoyang every month, and sent a large number of exotic stones collected from various places to Luoyang. No hundreds of people are forced to rush day and night, many people are exhausted to death on construction sites or roads.
Countless ordinary people have lost their precious lives in the process of opening canals, building palaces, cutting Goguryeo and other "great achievements". There should be three main reasons. The first two are obvious-one is labor intensity. Too big; second, too little rest time, and the third one is easily overlooked, that is, insufficient food supply.
In fact, during the reign of Emperor Sui Yang, the Great Sui Dynasty did not lack food, on the contrary, it was abundant and abundant.
According to the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", during the reign of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty (581-600 AD), the country prospered and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The food produced was enough for the 8.7 million households across the country to eat for 50 years. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty set up official warehouses throughout the country to store grain. The aforementioned Liyang warehouse and Xingluo warehouse were two of them.
Emperor Yang of Sui died and died in 618. He was less than 20 years away from the imperial period. There should be a large amount of food stored in the official warehouse. However, he was not sympathetic to the people, did not care for the people’s strength, and refused to open the canal. The people in the army provided enough food that many people died of exhaustion and starvation. Endless military service and military service forced tens of thousands of farmers to leave their homes, and a large number of fields were barren. Farmers who returned to their hometowns after service had no food and were unable to live. They only feed on leaves and bark, and even cannibalism occurred. During the tragedy, Emperor Sui Yang still refused to open the warehouse to release food and help the victims. He only cared about his own sensuality, singing and dancing, and drunken life and dreams. Therefore,
"one man is in trouble and the world is in trouble, and the world is laughing."
If Emperor Yang of Sui understood the principle of "If you want a horse to run, you must first have a horse full", and to provide timely and adequate meals to the laboring migrant workers, and in the event of a disaster, he would open the warehouse with a big hand for relief, then, even if he made great efforts in construction , The abuse of people's power will not lead to a world chaos, the tragic end of the people's rebellion, and their heads in different places.
However, Emperor Yang of Sui is Emperor Yang of Sui. He is neither Emperor Wen nor Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. He is an extremely greedy miser. He has always refused to let the common people share the fruitful fruits of the "Government of Emperor Kaihuang", and he has searched hard. There is a strong tendency for the world’s wealth to be kept in the bag.
Emperor Sui Yang took the super luxurious dragon boat three times to travel south to the river, and each time he issued an imperial decree to ask the people within 500 miles along the way to dedicate exquisite food for free, and he dug a pit and buried it when he sailed. thing. Many people are unbearable and bankrupt.
In order to show the prosperity and prosperity of the Great Sui Dynasty, Emperor Sui Yang invited envoys and merchants from the Western Regions to the capital Chang'an to investigate business.The counties and counties along the route were ordered to spend huge sums of money to welcome and send them off. The officials of the counties and counties were certainly not fools. They would double the expenses several times before apportioning them to the ordinary people. Emperor Sui Yang also ordered Chang'an East City merchants to wear beautiful costumes to welcome guests from the Western Regions, and to entertain the guests from the Western Regions with good wine and food. Even the food sellers on the street stalls had to use dragon-xu mats to shop the floor. Emperor Sui Yang also asked city officials and people to use expensive colored silk to decorate the large and small trees in Chang'an City to show their abundance. The guests from the Western Regions were surprised to see them and asked: "You also have naked poor people in the Sui Dynasty. Why don't you use these colors? Silk made clothes for them, but used them to wrap trees for nothing?" After the desperate struggle of Emperor Sui Yang (Qin Shihuang in front of him),
, the Great Sui Dynasty, was crumbling, and as a result, his one " "Good head and neck" was not chopped off as he wanted, but according to his premonition, he accompanies the heart suffocated by the rope and finished playing. Therefore, the song ended, and the stinks fell for thousands of years.
If you use modern vocabulary to describe what Sui Yang did and do, you can say that he is a greedy person, a stingy person, a self-interested person, a person who does not benefit others, and a person who does not allow the common people to share the fruits of victory. , The last point allowed him to finally bury the Great Sui Dynasty created by his father, leaving the inexhaustible and inexhaustible oily corn and white rice in the Guancang to the later Li Tang Dynasty. Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty Li Shimin was an emperor who was willing to share with the people and knew how to empathize with the people. Standing on the shoulders of the huge material wealth of the "rule of the emperor", he created the well-known "rule of zhenguan".
