The opening inventory of the top ten young emperors

[Yang Guang was very good at putting on a show, and he also knew how to please his father, the king, and his mother, the queen.]
[His father did not like extravagance and debauchery. All the musical instruments in his house were covered with dust, and some even had broken strings. His style was well known for being simple.]
[His mother didn't like men having many wives and concubines. For a long time, there was only Concubine Xiao in his harem. As for the other concubines, he just took a few of them in to make up the rules. And they were all ordinary in appearance.]

[Let's not talk about whether he is just putting on airs. If Yang Guang and Yang Yong were our own children, which one would you like more? ]
[I think the answer is obvious. At least the parents must like Yang Guang.]

[Of course, these were just the beginning. The final trigger was the winter solstice one year, when the ministers, after paying their respects to the emperor, turned around and went to pay homage to the crown prince.]
[It would be fine if they just greeted each other and went home. But Yang Yong, for some strange reason, not only wore a crown when he received the worship, but also had music played to formally accept the worship of the ministers.]
[It was like setting up a small imperial court.]

[Yang Yong forgot that he was not only the son of his father, the emperor, and his mother, the empress, but also a minister of the Sui Dynasty. How could Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty tolerate Yang Yong's eagerness to accept the grand ceremony?]
【So after this incident, Emperor Wen of Sui decided not to embarrass his good son anymore. He abolished his position as crown prince, imprisoned him, and later appointed Yang Guang as crown prince instead. 】

[After years of planning, Yang Guang finally became the crown prince, but he was still very cautious. Because he knew clearly that as long as his father was still alive, his position as crown prince could be abolished by his father at any time.]
[When will he be able to rest assured? Of course, it will be when his father dies and he ascends the throne to become the Emperor of Sui.]
[This opportunity came soon. In the fourth year after he was made crown prince, Yang Jian fell ill.]

[This time Yang Jian was very ill. Crown Prince Yang Guang also took care of everything himself and personally fed his father medicine. This touched Yang Jian very much, and he felt that he had finally found a reliable successor. ]
[However, although Yang Guang was apparently attending to the sick, he was secretly discussing with Yang Su about the succession after Yang Jian's death. And as luck would have it, this matter was also reported to Yang Jian.]

【With all the evidence, Yang Jian was furious. Not only did he immediately summon Yang Guang to meet him, but he also reportedly had Yang Yong brought out of the confinement area. He even drafted an edict to depose the crown prince, intending to reinstate Yang Yong as the crown prince.】

【At this point, Yang Guang knew that it was useless to pretend. So Yang Jian soon died of "illness", and then he not only kept the death a secret, but also forged an imperial edict to execute Yang Yong. In one fell swoop, the biggest stumbling block to the throne was removed.】

【Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was indeed well-read, and he even completely replicated the historical event after the death of Qin Shi Huang, when Zhao Gao and Li Si forged an imperial edict to kill the crown prince Fusu and support Hu Hai to ascend to the throne.】
[However, this method of forging an imperial edict to kill people seems to be poisonous. Both dynasties perished in the second generation, and even the number of generations they perished was the same.]

Qin Shi Huang after unifying the six kingdoms: …

[Back to the story. After the stumbling block was removed, Yang Guang finally ascended the throne as he wished, and the reign title was set as Daye. This shows his ambition.]
[However, after ascending the throne, Yang Guang tore off his disguise and seemed to go to the other extreme. ]

[I don't know if he was too stifling when he was in the palace. After he ascended the throne, his way of governing the country went to another extreme. Not only was he no longer cautious, but he began to expand extremely. ]

[Let's take stock of three well-known things Yang Guang did during his reign. ]
[The first was to build the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty; the second was to build Luoyang, the eastern capital; the third was to conquer Goguryeo.]

[The consequences of these events still make people have mixed opinions. But the results hundreds and thousands of years later actually have nothing to do with Yang Guang.]
[The most direct consequences of these three events on him and the Sui Dynasty were: they exhausted the wealth accumulated by Emperor Wen of Sui for 23 years, caused the death of a large number of people, aroused great public resentment, peasant uprisings broke out everywhere, and the wealthy families were ready to make moves.]
[The Central Plains was in turmoil once again. ] [So, what was Emperor Yang of Sui doing at this time? ]

[These three events put the Sui Dynasty in jeopardy, but Emperor Yang of Sui hid in the palace in Jiangdu, lamenting that the world did not understand his great talent and strategy, and lived a life of luxury. He completely gave up! ]

【Yang Guang did everything that Yang Yong did before. He also enjoyed everything that his father wanted to enjoy but was reluctant to enjoy before. He also lived a life of luxury that Yang Yong and his father Yang Jian would never dare to think of before.】
[The result was that, because of his eagerness for quick success and his love of ostentation, he had caused the people's livelihood to become miserable and in a mess. He then closed the palace gates and escaped from reality to live a life of pleasure day and night.]

[He knew that his reign would end, so he began to give up on himself. At the end, he even said, "The world doesn't understand me!"]
[It is said that at the end of his life, Emperor Yang of Sui often stared at the mirror in a trance in the palace, and would say, "What a nice head! Who should chop it off?"]
[However, he seemed to have thought too much, and in the end no one chopped off his head, and he was strangled to death by his men. ]

Emperor Wen of Sui's face turned pale. He glared at Yang Guang with hatred, turned around and rushed to the side. He drew the sword of the guard next to him and waved it at Yang Guang: "Whoever wants to chop him off, I will chop him off!"

The image in the Heavenly Scroll was playing the scene of Emperor Yang of Sui being hanged, but Emperor Wen of Sui and his family were in chaos.
But this time no one dared to stop him, not even Crown Prince Yang Yong.

He originally thought that the contents of the heavenly scroll would only be detrimental to Yang Guang, but he did not expect that he would also be devalued, and it was so reasonable that he could not refute it, and he felt as if he had suddenly realized something.
It was as if a stream of fresh air had been injected into my head, which had been feeling dizzy for so many years.

At this time, Yang Jian had already rushed in front of Yang Guang, and the sword in his hand was about to stab him, but Yang Guang seemed to have known that he could not escape today, and was not afraid of anything anymore.
He grabbed the sword that Yang Jian was thrusting at him, and said with red eyes: "Father, I refuse to obey!"

"Not convinced? You evil creature, my great Sui Dynasty was defeated by you, and you still dare not accept it?"
"What the Heavenly Scroll said is without any basis or proof. It's all things that have never happened. My father must kill me for this. Even if I die, I will not accept it in the underworld!"

"You, you evil creature, evil creature!"

(End of this chapter)