What are the examples of extravagance and waste in Yang Di?

Emperor Yang Di went to Jiangdu and asked how many people gave gifts. More promotions, less dismissals. Jiangdu county magistrate Wang gave him a bronze mirror screen and was immediately promoted to Jiangdu deputy magistrate. Liyang county magistrate Zhao gave him a bad reputation and was immediately promoted to Jiangdu county magistrate. Therefore, local officials try their best to find and prepare gifts. People in the Jianghuai area paid extremely heavy taxes, cut off their livelihood and began to eat bark and grass leaves. Later, the bark and grass leaves were eaten up, forcing everyone to eat each other.

Second, show off your strength and wealth.

Yang Di wanted to brag about the prestige of the Sui Dynasty and lure western countries into Korea. Seeing that foreigners are profitable, they come to the DPRK one after another, and the counties along the way entertain them for farewell, which costs a lot. One year, foreign envoys and businessmen gathered in Luoyang. On the fifteenth night of the first month, Emperor Yang Di performed for foreigners in the street outside the imperial city gate. There are 5000 steps (about 4 kilometers) around the theater, and there are as many musicians as 18000 people. The sound of drum music spread to dozens of miles away, brightly lit as day, and it didn't end until the end of the month. Outsiders come to Luoyang to do business. He arranged for local businessmen to decorate the market luxuriously and pile up valuables. Businessmen wear gorgeous clothes, and even vegetable sellers use dragon whiskers to lay the floor and set the dishes. Foreigners passed by the door of the hotel and the shopkeeper invited them to dinner. Foreigners have enough to eat and drink and want nothing. They praised and thanked each other and then left. The trees and poles in the market are all wrapped in silk and other materials. Someone asked him why he didn't send clothes to the naked poor, and the businessman had nothing to say.

Historical evaluation

Yang Dong: "Ming Di, the sai-jo, is a man of heaven, law and earth. He is a brave man. There are planks of wood in the east and willows in the west, with Gu Dan in front and secluded behind. Wherever the sun and the moon go, wherever the wind and rain go, they are all heads and feet, and they are all male and female servants. Treat it as a treasure, salt it, make fun of it, and change its customs. Wisdom is all over the world, and everything is salty. Daoji is the world, but it is not known for civilian use. Sai-jo went to the south to take the exam because of the calendar, pretending to be an emperor, expecting. So, in the province of New Year, an exhibition ceremony was held, detention was stopped and the road was cleared. Eight villages are as before, and seven extracts have not moved. What do you mean, trouble is very serious, and disaster comes unexpectedly and extends to the crown. On the embarrassing day, five emotions collapsed, and the number of climbs was poisonous and could not be won. "

Zu Yan Jun: "Bamboo in Nanshan is endless; It is difficult to win the waves of the East China Sea and give up evil. " "

Li Shimin: "Yang Di inherited Wendi's legacy, and he has rich wealth at home. If he can stay in Guanzhong, will he be defeated? " Regardless of the people, I went to Jiangdu, but I didn't accept the admonition of Dong Chun and Cui Xiang, so I died and laughed at the world. ""At the beginning of Yang Di's compilation, the world was strong, and it was subversive to abandon Germany and poor soldiers. Those who are close to profit, as big as Xinjiang, are troubled, and they lose their great cause and do it for me. Ye Hu Khan is also very strong. He proposed marriage by virtue of his wealth. He lost his way and lost the election. "

Zhu Jingze said: "Yang-ti is smart and knowledgeable. Don't you know that it's enough for the dragon not to listen to the fisherman? Whales and salamanders come out of the water, and ants will be a disaster? Suddenly, it was the Olympic Sports District that abandoned the letter and violated the heavy resistance of Heluo. If a thief is convicted, he who dares to remonstrate will be punished. Isn't it a lesson learned on ecstasy day? I fled to Wuyi to avoid the land and waited for the saints in the empty palace. I was also driven out by the Tang Dynasty. "

Pi Rixiu: "The Tao died and became this river, which has traveled thousands of miles so far." . If there is no dragon boat in the water temple, Yu * * * won't do much. "

Zhou Tan said, "Refusing to remonstrate is a curse, and I am extremely extravagant and arrogant. Trillions of people are exhausted and fishing, and the world is a new capital. "

Zhao Heng: "At the beginning of Yang Di's accession to the throne, he beheaded five people to thank them. At that time, the world was called a sage. There is no way, but I am deeply sorry after the Lord. "

Ann Yao Chen: "Emperor Yang Di, with his wealth and greed, angered the northern country, drove the Liao left three times, held up the banner of Wan Li, gathered a hundred ends, coquettish everywhere, collapsed and ruined the country."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Emperor Yang Di launched a division brigade, conquered Ryukyu, killed foreigners, burned his palace and captured thousands of men and women. Land is not enough, and people are not enough. They only admire fame and hurt themselves. Go down in history and embarrass future generations. "

Nurhachi: "The failure of a country has never been caused by arrogance. If Xia Jie, Shang Zhouwang, Qin Shihuang, Yang Di and Jin Yan Yan Liang are greedy for money and lust, indulge in debauchery, feast day and night, and fail to repair state affairs, they will surely die. "

Wang Fuzhi: "Sui is better than the world, and rebellion is very evil."

History of Sui and Tang Dynasties in China, Cambridge: "It's hard to describe the character of a man known as Emperor Yang Di in history. Apart from some vague feelings, people can't expect to know more about this person after paying attention to a lot of tampered history and legends and describing him as the last bad king in classical times. Historical documents compare the frugality of Emperor Wen with the profligacy of Emperor Yang, but as can be seen from the following section, this sharp contrast is exaggerated. Folk literature depicts Yang-ti as a dissolute person-obsessed with women in various whimsical ways. But people will find that even hostile historians can't hide the fact that his wife, a smart and educated woman, has never been left out by him and replaced by other concubines. She has always been respected and obviously favored. After all, Emperor Yang Di was a connoisseur of beauty, a versatile poet and a unique essayist. He may be a bit like a political aesthete. The characteristics of this kind of person can be expressed in the following language: indeed, self-deception may be a rule, because a political personality with strong artistic elements has a striking imagination, which can make his personal history dramatic and make all reality obey ambitious plans. "

"Confucian historians' moral evaluation of Yang-ti is really harsh, because they describe him as a formidable typical' last bad king'. In folklore, drama and stories, his image is greatly distorted by the arbitrary fantasy of the author and audience-people live in a world where they use power without restraint, have luxurious palaces and enjoy unlimited music, and can only produce such emotional voices. Among the emperors of China, he is by no means the worst. Judging from his background at that time, he was no more tyrannical than other emperors. He is very talented and suitable for consolidating the great cause initiated by his father, and he did have this ambition when he came to power. "

Zheng Zhenduo: "Although Yang Guang is not a very clever politician, he is an excellent poet."

Hu Ji: "Yu Wentai, Yuwen Yong, Sui Wendi, Yang Guang, Li Shimin and Wu Zetian all made historic contributions at the historical juncture when China changed from imperial examination aristocratic politics to bureaucratic politics and from aristocratic society to post-aristocratic society. Among them, Yang Di and Wu Zetian went the farthest in political reform. But the latter two are the ones that have been splashed with dirty water the most in history. "

Mengman: "Yang Di is a great tyrant, but this tyrant is not a bad king. Although Yang Di has no virtue, he has merits. It's just that his achievements are not unified with the happiness of the people, so there will be "Wei Huan has nothing to do with the grievances of the people, and his glory is blurred." In other words, he didn't properly handle the relationship between present merits and future interests. It has become a sin now and a benefit in the future. This is the biggest problem for Emperor Yang Di. ""He is a tyrant. In order to conquer Koguryo and realize his political ideal, he dragged the people and the country into disaster regardless of objective conditions, so he was called a tyrant ... He was a bad king ... In this third period, he didn't know what his responsibilities were and didn't want to perform any responsibilities. He just muddled along and was called a bad king. "