On the third day of April, a sunny day, I had a dream that I was swimming on the Sui Grand Canal. Surrounded by places where people gather, what I see is prosperity. There was a poet named Pi Rixiu in the Tang Dynasty. He said, "When you die, you are a river. By now, you have traveled thousands of miles to meet the waves. If there is no water in the dragon boat, it is not very successful. " . "Think of the dragon boat, this is a heavy topic, and our story begins here.

Since the Sui Dynasty, historians at all times and all over the world have had a low opinion of Yang Guang, the second emperor of the Sui Dynasty. He was extravagant and extravagant, extorted money, and lived a corrupt life ... With the evolution of the times, we gradually saw some real things, which may reveal the life of Emperor Yang Di.

Yang Di lived for fifty years and became emperor for thirteen years. In just thirteen years, he did a lot of things. To sum up, there are ten points: 1, building the canal 2, building Dongdu 3, slightly paving the square 4, opening the Jinshi 5, advocating culture 6, visiting Jiangdu 7, recruiting Han 8, killing the ministers 9, Pingjiangnan 10, and dying in Jiangnan.

Now, take a few points.

First of all, about building canals. Nowadays, most people think that Emperor Yang Di built the canal to satisfy his personal desires, which is actually divorced from the historical background. The Sui Dynasty was established after hundreds of years of great division and serious national estrangement. During the Sui Dynasty, the difference between the north and the south was still great, and communication was difficult and transportation was inconvenient. There is also the construction period. The construction time of the Grand Canal was 605 -6 10. In fact, the actual construction time is half a year.

Second, slightly. During the reign of Yang Di, Turks, Khitans, Tuyuhun, Lin Yi and Koreans were conquered. In fact, most conquests are not a waste of people and money. To give a few examples, in order to conquer the Khitan, Wei Yunqi went to Turkic to borrow soldiers alone, and borrowed 20,000 yuan, which greatly broke hundreds of Khitan. Tuguhun is a country established by Xianbei nationality, which has occupied Qinghai and Hexi Corridor for a long time since the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is said that everyone has it. However, the existence of Tuguhun hindered the cultural exchange between China and the West and the rule of the unified dynasty. Yang Di broke through Tuguhun, and Qinghai was completely included in the territory for the first time in the history of China. Juxtapose the four counties, open the Hexi Corridor and connect the western regions. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains have not seen such a magnificent sight for hundreds of years. By the fifth year of the great cause, 6 10, the surplus of the national warehouse can be used for 50 or 60 years; 9 million households, 50 million people, not since Wei and Jin Dynasties. 190 county, 1255 county, with a large territory. So many countries came to South Korea and praised China as a land of immortals.

Third, promote culture. Emperor Yang Di was a hooligan with culture. Now he only talks about culture. Since Chen Ping was appointed as the secretariat of Yangzhou, he has attached great importance to the construction of culture and education. In 589, there were 100 bachelors in Wang Fu who were ordered to write. After he proclaimed himself emperor, he never stopped compiling until his death. Its contents include classics, articles, military affairs, agriculture, geography, medicine, divination, Buddhism, Taoism, and even Bo, Ying and Dog, all of which are new books, all of which are accurate, and * * * becomes 3 1 volume, with more than 7,000 copies. Yang Di not only likes reading, but also likes collecting and arranging books. In the Sui Dynasty, Xijing Jiaze Hall had a collection of 370,000 volumes, and Emperor Yang ordered the secretary province to sort it out carefully, and got more than 37,000 volumes of Zhengyu Ben, which was hidden in Xiuwen Hall. At the beginning of his accession to the throne, he wrote: "When the people are founded, teaching comes first. No matter at home or at school, those who are "smart and worthy of current affairs" are appointed. As we all know, Wei Wudi once put forward the famous "meritocracy", and Emperor Yang Di made this meaning more specific. With the study in counties and counties, they gradually recovered. In recent years, "all the Confucian scholars in the world know the history of the province and talk about it every time. "On the whole, his contribution to culture and education is great. A few words are unclear. I value the Grand Canal more than the famous East Capital.

Finally, his death. There is a famous paper called "Yang Di the Great, Success is Jiangnan, Failure is Jiangnan". To put it simply, Yang Di became the general manager of Yangzhou after Chen Ping. He stayed in Yangzhou for ten years. The contacts and influence he has accumulated here have influenced his life direction. This also became one of the reasons why he later became obsessed with Yangzhou. Because this is his land of Longxing. Later, the world fell apart, and he wanted to keep half of Jiangnan. He has deep roots here, and he has the most powerful imperial army in the Sui Dynasty. But he forgot one thing, which killed him. The imperial guards are all from Guanlong, so they can't stay with him in Yangzhou for a long time.

Sui Dynasty was a glorious and short dynasty, and Yang Di was a great and evil man. Although the Sui Dynasty and Yang Di soon disappeared in the long river of history, their great contributions to the history of China and China society will never disappear.