Great fusion of heaven and earth

Chapter 825 The Decline of the Sui Dynasty

"You must know that Yang Guang is really a great talent. You all think that it is wrong to go to Jiangdu, but in fact, even now, you really have to say that Yang Guang's choice to go to Jiangdu is not wrong. What is wrong is that he miscalculated. People's hearts, I guess Yu Huaji was wrong, he didn't think that Yu Huaji and the Xiaoguo army he believed in would rebel, and he didn't take into account that my cousin would take advantage of the opportunity to guard Taiyuan..."

Li Yuan gritted his teeth and explained clearly.

"As a stayer in Taiyuan, I recruited soldiers and horses to fight against the bandits of the Turks and Shanxi, which gave me enough reasons to complete the organization of the army, and to win over the nobles of Guanlong, and then picked the biggest and fattest peaches. "

"Yang Hua is exhausted and Li Hua is blooming. It's true. As soon as Yang Guang died, I took Guanzhong directly. I sat and watched the clouds and clouds in the world, and the flowers bloomed. I stood still and slowly brought the heroes of the world to me." It’s hard, before the Xuanwu Gate, my Tang Dynasty really pacified the world, and then the Turks went south.”

Speaking of this, Li Yuan sighed, his Tang Dynasty and Great Sui Dynasty were really in the same line, and it was the same for brothers fighting each other, but it was just that he didn't die for no apparent reason.

"If King Qin hadn't been unfilial and used swords recklessly, hmph, the Weishui alliance would not have been possible."

Li Yuan's long speech made everyone a little dizzy. They all thought that Yang Guang went to Jiangdu to cause chaos in the world, but they didn't expect Li Yuan to say that Yang Guang did the right thing. They couldn't stand it anymore. .

So they started asking questions.

Then Li Yuan started to explain from Turkic, because all of this has to talk about Turkic.

You must know that the Turkic Khanate used to be a terrifying memory that could not be erased for the former Northern Zhou Dynasty, Northern Qi Dynasty, and the nascent Sui Dynasty. The former Northern Zhou Dynasty even wanted to marry a Turkic princess as the queen of the palace. It is rare in history, and the unequal relationship between them may be compared with Yuan Dynasty marrying a princess to King Koryo.

To put it bluntly, the former Northern Zhou Dynasty was basically a servant of the Turks.

After the Sui Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty, the unified Turkic Khanate was still a giant with millions of strings and thousands of miles from east to west. It was not until Changsun Sheng went north to separate the Turkic interior and split into East and West Turks. The Eastern Turkic Khanate surrendered, and called Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty "Saint Khan".

However, the Western Turks have occupied the entire Western Regions all the way westward, and they are still a big threat to the Sui Dynasty.

It's just that the saint Khan let the East Turks go after he got this title, and he didn't suppress the East Turks anymore, just like the later Tang Taizong Li Shimin, after he got the title of Tian Khan, he let the tribes of the grassland rest and recuperate Same, let the East Turks go to recuperate.

Immediately after Yang Guang ascended the throne, millions of people were mobilized to renovate the Great Wall in the north, and at the same time dig a long moat in preparation for defending against Turkic attacks. These measures are recorded in detail in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", and his These tasks were carried out while the Turks were still under the control of Qimin Khan, a "subject" who always remained submissive to the Sui Dynasty.

In that peaceful period when the Turks were still surrendering to Yang Guang like in Yang Jian’s time, Yang Guang had already realized the threat that the Turks had experienced for decades to recuperate, but he couldn’t promote the internal division of the Turks by sowing dissension like his father’s time Disintegration and disintegration belong to the predicament in which you can't take care of your face when you care about your face.

When Yang Guang came to the throne, the Eastern Turks had already slowed down. More importantly, the Turks had already grasped the pulse of Emperor Sui Yang, or the pulse of "Chinese emperors": love face, want face and not liking, this Confucianist After taking power, it is a common problem of emperors.

Therefore, in the third year of Daye, when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty made a ostentatious north tour of Yulin, Qimin Khan introduced a group of special guests, Gaogouli, to the "Sage Khan".

These people lived up to the expectations of the Turks, which made Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty very angry, because Gaogouli did not come to pay pilgrimage to Yang Guang, but to the Turkic Khan, and this made Yang Guang very dissatisfied, you must know At this time, Qimin Khan personally pulled weeds and repaired roads for Emperor Sui Yang's royal driver. It is recorded in Zizhi Tongjian: So he sent Yulin to the north, reached Qiya, and reached Yuji in the east. It was three thousand miles long and a hundred steps wide, covering the whole country. Serve as a royal road.

When the Turks had already bowed their heads and proclaimed their ministers, Gaogouli actually did not pay homage to the emperor, but went to pay homage to the Khan. This made Yang Guang very dissatisfied. North Korea dominated the international order, and it was competing with the Sui Dynasty for the dominance of Northeast Asia.

Then a face war broke out between him and Gaoguli, which lasted for several years, that is, the three campaigns for Gaoguli.

This face-saving war was originally staged for Turkic, the instigator. It was a performance and a deterrent.

Then in the 11th year of Daye, when Yang Guang was besieged by the Turkic Shibi Khan in Yanmen County, the political situation in the entire north changed dramatically. The deterrence of the orthodox court and the imperial army.

Then Yang Guang made a series of decisions very decisively.

As a mature politician, Yang Guang is very aware of how much damage his being surrounded would do to the prestige of the empire. It is tantamount to admitting that he has lost his "advantage in force". Once it existed again, Sui officials from all over the world had long since sought their own way out.

Therefore, he continued the strategic layout of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, using the members he considered the most reliable, the pro-grandson Daiwang and the King of Yue guarding Chang'an and Luoyang respectively, and his cousin Li Yuan guarding Taiyuan, forming an "iron triangle" guarding the fundamental place The task of these three people is to make Guanzhong, the fundamental place of the Great Sui Dynasty, more than lost.

And he himself led the main force of the forbidden army to guard Jiangdu. On the one hand, he avoided the possibility of the isolated city being besieged by the Turks again. On the other hand, he monitored the Jiangnan that was about to move.

This is not stupidity and cowardice, but a real long-term vision. After Yang Guang arrived in Jiangdu, he did not enjoy himself all day long. Su Weibing attacked Li Zitong, Zuo Caixiang and Du Fuwei, Yang Yichen and Yang Shanhui defeated Gao Shida, Zhang Jincheng and Ge Qian, and Wang Shichong beheaded Lu Mingyue.

Then the interesting thing came, 12 years before Daye, the rebels were still dominated by local tyrants and bandits, and they were defeated by the twelve envoys sent by Emperor Sui Yang, but after entering Daye 13 years ago, The rebels began to spread to Sui officials.

(End of this chapter)