Both the Sui Emperor and the First Emperor of Qin were among the most famous emperors in the history of our country. I think the two of them are very similar, one swept through the Six Kingdoms, one marched on Goryeo three times; one built the Great Wall of China, the other dug the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal; the other abolished the system of sub-feudalism and established counties. One abolished the Nine Pins Zhongzheng system and created the Imperial Examination. They all have the courage to point out the country and the courage to open up the future.
However, the evaluation of the two is very different in later generations. Qin Shi Huang was an emperor of the ages, and the Sui Emperor was a proper emperor. The reasons for this, I think, are as follows:
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > not sympathetic to the people," the whole country began construction</h1>
The Wei and Jin dynasties lasted for more than three hundred years of chaos, and although Emperor Wen of Sui practiced frugality during his reign and the country's strength was restored, it was not a peaceful and prosperous world. In the first year of Daye (605), the Sui Emperor built Tokyo in Luoyang to control the economy of the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and after the completion of Yanggong Castle (Ziwei City), the capital was moved to Luoyang in the same year. Due to the two million people who had to serve every month, the Sui Emperor also paid attention to the perfection and luxury of the capital of Luoyang, so he consumed a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources. Even so, the political clique centered on the Sui Emperor spent most of its time wandering around and not in Luoyang.
At the same time, the Sui Emperor hurriedly built the Grand Canal, consuming a lot of manpower and financial resources and bringing a lot of burdens to the people. The people who dig the river work endlessly, and with the invasion of disease, the death toll accounts for more than half of the total. In the same year, the Sui Dynasty Emperor led a large number of people such as harems, kings, and guards to patrol the south along the canal, spending a lot of money and requisitioning many people along the way. Two years later, in 607 AD, when the Sui Emperor was inspecting the north, he recruited the people of the north to dig chi dao da and prefecture (present-day Taiyuan, Shanxi) through the Taihang Mountains, and asked the subordinate Turkic Qimin Khan to help the Turkic people to dig the chi road. A year later, in the fourth year of Daye (608), the Sui Emperor went out to Yulin to mobilize more than one million people to build the Great Wall.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > disregards national conditions and frequent wars</h1>
During the reign of the Sui Dynasty Emperor, he had great ambitions and ambitions, and was determined to expand the territory but ignored the national conditions and frequently launched wars. During the reign of the Sui Dynasty Emperor, he vainly revived the division brigade and vainly admired the false name, and launched three wars against Goguryeo three times, almost emptying the treasury of the Sui Dynasty, so that the people who were already living in hardship because of the Sui Emperor's great construction were also even more impoverished and difficult.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > extravagant and corrupt, ignoring politics</h1>
A thousand beautiful women rowed dragon boats, moving slowly forward, each holding a carved plate of gold oars. This was a trip to Jiangnan by the Sui Emperor in the famous Tang Dynasty Yan Shigu's "Records of the Great Cause". Although the Sui Dynasty Emperor built a large number of palaces, most of them did not interest him, he said, although the palaces were tall and spacious, majestic and magnificent, but there was no slightest interest. Therefore, the so-called "labyrinth" was built, which was specially built for the Sui Emperor. Tens of thousands of people were used to build it and was completed in less than a year. After the abbreviation of the labyrinth, the Sui Emperor let many concubines move inside, and constantly went to the folk to select good maidens to move inside, according to incomplete records, the number of maidens selected from the people alone can reach thousands. The Sui Emperor soaked in it every day, staying inside for several months without going out. I just want to live the life of a drunken fan in the labyrinth.
Although an emperor's absurdity and disregard for the government may be exaggerated by later generations, his absurdity is beyond reproach. His extravagance naturally led to the corruption of the entire ruling clique and the boiling of public resentment. When the peasants revolted, the courtiers around them did not tell the truth, falsely claiming that the rebellious peasants were "gradually decreasing", and finally had no choice but to commit suicide.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > created the keju but not proposed it</h1>
In fact, the imperial examination system was proposed by Yang Jian, the Sui Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and formally founded by the Sui Emperor Yang Guang, who can be said to have merely fulfilled his father's wishes. Coupled with the background of the times: the chaos of the Wei and Jin Dynasties for more than three hundred years led to the selection of officials paying attention to the door, gangs are numerous, which is not conducive to the selection of people with real talent and practical learning to be officials, and intellectuals are in urgent need of a new career path. Therefore, in order to change this drawback, the Sui Dynasty created a new system of electing officials. The Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guangshi formally set up the Jinshi Section to select talents according to the examination results, and China's examination system was officially born. The Sui Emperor only responded to his father's wishes and conformed to history.
summary:
The Sui Emperor, as a general, had a lifetime of meritorious deeds, and at the age of 20, he led 580,000 troops to cross the Yangtze River to the south to destroy the powerful and wealthy Chen Dynasty to unify the country, ending the division of China for four or five hundred years, and then destroying Tuguhun, breaking the Khitan and conquering Goryeo three times, expanding China's territory by thousands of miles, and excavating the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which has a historical influence second only to the Great Wall, connecting the north and south
The Sui Emperor held a good hand of his father's cards, and his ambition was ambitious, and he could have been like Emperor Wu of han in exercising benevolent government, opening up territory and expanding the territory, spreading Chinese culture to thousands of miles, and leaving a good name in future generations. However, he is in a hurry to do things, does not consider the consequences, covets beauty, lives a corrupt life, and buries Sui in his hands. He can be a good general, but he can't be a good emperor. A brilliant ruler understands that water can carry a boat and can overturn it, balancing the interests of all parties.
Some people praise him because they admire his ambition as a general, not their ability to govern as an emperor, after all, how can a good emperor bankrupt his country!
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