Which emperor was the first to propose that people do not need money to eat?

After Emperor Yang Di came to the throne, he built the Eastern Capital, dug canals, built the Great Wall, and opened roads, sparing no expense to build his image. At that time, the country's population was only 46 million, and in 8 years, more than 30 million people were used for labor service.

It can be said that Yang Guang, Emperor Yang Di, has lived for others all his life. In historical materials, we can see such records: "The great ancestor was fortunate enough to be in the first place. He saw that the strings of musical instruments were broken and there was dust. If you don't use them, you will think that it is not good to be a prostitute, but it is good to be a prostitute. Especially from the pretentiousness , so he was called Renxiao. When I was caught in the rain while watching the game, I put on my oily clothes and said: 'Everyone is wet, I am wearing my clothes alone!'"

In the reign of Emperor Wen and Sui Yang, In front of others, Yang Guang always pretended to be a bad guy, diligent and virtuous, and was called Renxiao at the time. It rained while hunting, and his men gave him a raincoat, but he said: "The soldiers are all soaked. How can I wear this clothes alone?"

In order to get the throne, he disguised himself Your true self. After the emperor ascended the throne, external pressure and constraints disappeared, and the long-suppressed "radical factors" in nature became uncontrollably active. Unrestricted power strengthened his political vanity, while also fueling his inner impetuousness. On such a big stage, his desire to act is even stronger. He continues to play a false self, a self beyond his capabilities, but by this time the audience has expanded from just the "Two Saints" to people all over the world.

The trees along the road were wrapped in silk, but some people had no clothes to wear.

At the beginning of Yang Guang's accession to the throne, the economic indicators and population growth of the Sui Dynasty showed an upward trend. Yang Guang thinks very highly of himself. He believed that since he could become the leader of the world, he would naturally be superior to all living beings.

He once boasted: "People all over the world think that I can inherit the throne because I was born in a royal family and I own the whole world. However, you asked me and those intellectuals to use martial arts to fight for the throne of the emperor." I am the right one for the position.”

Those who have never been an emperor cannot imagine what it is like to ascend the throne. One sentence can change the fate of a person, and another sentence can change the fate of an ideal city. The power is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more things to deal with. Yang Guang, who ascended the throne, realized the dizziness brought by power.

The financial system of the Sui Dynasty was to enrich the country and strengthen the army, which led to a large accumulation of bureaucratic capital, while the lives of ordinary people were extremely difficult. According to historical records, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the sixth year of Daye, Yang Guang held a grand festival celebration in Luoyang, the eastern capital. The envoys and merchants from various countries who accompanied him to Beijing were fortunate enough to witness the prosperity of the empire. More than 50,000 musicians from all over the country gathered on Tintinmen Street outside the Imperial City of the Eastern Capital and were noisy for half a month.

In addition to showing off his spiritual civilization, Yang Guang also shows off his material civilization. The market in Du Dong has been given a new look, attracting traders from all over the world. Even those vegetable vendors with low cost and low income have to lay carpets in their stores. Businessmen from all over the world who pass by the hotel will be pulled in for a few drinks. After drinking, they can just pat their butts and walk away without paying. Those bosses said: "We are a big country in the Central Plains, and people don't need money to eat in hotels."

The drunken Hu people stumbled out of the hotel with a suspicious look on their faces, and bumped into a tree trunk on the roadside. It didn't hurt at all. When I was half drunk and half awake, I looked up and saw that the trees on the roadside were all wrapped in silk, which was extremely luxurious. Hu Shang did not understand the luxury of this big country. They turned around and asked their friends in the Central Plains: "Some of you here can't even afford clothes. Why don't you use the silk wrapped in the trees to make clothes?" This sentence is extremely ironic.

Yang Guang spent a lot of money on the construction of image projects, and the people were miserable.

After ascending the throne, Yang Guang was eager to complete his "holy king career" in the shortest possible time. He believed that if an emperor could usher in the grand occasion of people from all over the world coming to court during his reign, it would mean that the emperor was worthy of the standards of a holy king. On the one hand, Yang launched an attack on North Korea in order to achieve the dominance of the "four foreign countries"; on the other hand, he built the capital east, dug canals, built the Great Wall, cleared roads, and spared no expense in image engineering construction.

According to the Chinese standards for judging history, Yang Guang's generosity was not something a satisfied emperor was willing to do. Regardless of the considerations, the Chinese Empire tends to the ideal world in Yang Guang's mind in an alternative manner. An impetuous overlord's heart has been satisfied like never before.

For the poet Yang Guang, he wanted to build his own utopian world; however, for Emperor Yang Guang, this was a grand and difficult proposition, and he was unable to deal with the relationship between personal heroism, eternal achievements, and the happiness of the people. The Eastern Capital was built to prove that it was the core of power orthodoxy; the Great Wall was built to build a solid barrier for the Chinese Empire; the canal was built to connect the water vessels of the north and south; the conquest of North Korea was the most important thing in the "Holy King Industry" game. This important move is also the key to success or failure in Yang Guang's imperial power operation.

When the world is at peace and the country is strong, it is a common way for those in power to use such large projects to decorate the prosperity of the prosperous age. These image projects were launched in such a concentrated and large-scale manner that in a short period of time almost all the people of the country were gathered at the labor site.

From the moment Yang Guang ascended the throne, he devoted himself to building a huge labor production line. China's territory is like a huge labor competition field. He plunged his empire into endless fighting, and the people struggled under the unbearable weight of life.

According to historical records, the three most famous projects during Yang Di's period are: the construction of the eastern capital Luoyang in the first year of Daye, which took ten months and employed two million people every month. In three years of great work, the Great Wall was built and more than one million people were paid their wages. From the first year of Daye to the sixth year of Daye, the Grand Canal was built and more than 3 million workers were employed.

So, how heavy was the burden on the people during the Daye Years? Historian Hu Rulei once made an estimate. From Yang Di's accession to the throne in the fourth year of Renshou to his first expedition to Korea in the eighth year of Daye, during these eight years, the Sui Dynasty launched 22 major projects with a total manpower of more than 30 million people. During Yang Di's period, the country's population was only 46 million, but within 8 years, more than 30 million people were employed. On average, about 4 million laborers were recruited every year, which was close to one-tenth of the total population and almost 10% of the country's men. total. At that time, great projects that caused evil in the present and benefited in the future seemed to be a waste of life and money.

In order to realize his career as a holy king, Yang Guang plunged the entire empire into a crazy state where all the people were soldiers and all the people were in submission. Coupled with years of natural disasters, especially in Shandong and Henan, flooding has become a problem. The damage caused by natural disasters to China's farming society and economy is often irreparable and fatal.

China's monsoon climate is a very unstable climate, and local disasters occur throughout China's vast land throughout the year. What's more, the situation at that time was already such that "when men refused to serve, women began to serve." Men were captured to participate in foreign wars or directly sent to work as migrant workers in imperial construction sites, resulting in "people being poor, financial resources depleted, and being too cold to live in." , He had to die quickly, but he still had to live longer, so he began to gather people to commit thieves." In other words, in order to survive, many people are forced to become bandits, risking their lives to obtain blood rewards through illegal means to maintain their bottom line of survival.

There is no trust between monarch and ministers, and officials are either friends or enemies.

People are not afraid, those bureaucrats are afraid

Yang is arrogant and suspicious by nature, especially towards those in the court who have different political views from him. He once said to minister Yu Shiqi: "I don't like being reprimanded, but I want to be famous. I can't stand being reprimanded for the sake of reputation. As for the humble people, although they have less time to rest, they die on the ground. You know!" That said, I have a natural aversion to other people’s advice. If you are already in a high position and you still want to gain a good reputation through this kind of advice, I will kill you on the spot, especially since I can't accommodate you. If you are a humble person who comes to persuade me, I may be more lenient, but after all, I will not let you stand on this ground for a long time. I will eventually kill you.

Even before that, Emperor Yang Di had eliminated all political enemies he could in accordance with the eternal emperor law of killing rabbits and cooking dogs. However, with the failure of the Eastern Expedition to Korea, domestic conflicts have become increasingly tense, and the unstable interest chains within the power structure have also shown signs of relaxation and rupture.

There is no trust between monarch and ministers, and officials are either friends or enemies. Who can reverse the empire's collapse?

As the situation at home and abroad deteriorated sharply, the Sui Dynasty collided with the power system that was about to collapse like Mars hitting the earth. After sporadic riots and looting, Yang Xuangan, dissatisfied with the imperial power, rose up in Liyang in northern Henan. This person was a social elite of the Sui Empire and had an estranged relationship with the royal family. His father Su Yang was the founding father of the Sui Dynasty and one of the most trusted ministers of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. At the beginning of Yang Guang's expedition to Korea, Yang Xuangan, the Minister of Rites, was in charge of the military supplies in Liyang, the main military supply base of the Sui army.

In early 613 AD, a peasant uprising broke out in what is today Shandong. Taking advantage of the general public opposition to the Korean War and extreme dissatisfaction with Yang Di himself, Yang Xuangan summoned the rebels to the eastern capital of Luoyang and besieged them. Yang Xuangan's slogan of "solving the world's urgent needs" is very attractive. For a time, followers followed suit one after another, and the team expanded rapidly.

The rebellion went away as quickly as it came, lasting less than two months before being declared a failure. Yang Xuangan's property was also destroyed and his head was beheaded. The fire has ignited the dry wood and cannot go out automatically. China's empire is filled with smoke, and various unconfirmed rumors and purposeful predictions are circulating within the power system and among the people, becoming fuel-supporting gasoline sprinkled on dry wood. During the period of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, the mysterious prophecy that "Li will be the emperor" that had been much hyped once again became popular. This mysterious prophecy made the emperor and his power supporters pale, especially those named Li. Everyone was in danger, including Li Yuan, an aristocratic official who had stood silent in the corner of the empire for half his life.

Yang Di’s large-scale construction and war against North Korea dragged a turbulent empire into the quagmire of death.

Rebellions are raging in various places, and hundreds of rebels, large and small, are involved in the redistribution of imperial interests. These rebels had a common program of action, which was to call for opposition to heavy corvee and military service. There is nothing new in China’s thousands of years of history. The germination of new institutions was often based on opposition to heavy corvee service. When the new system becomes the old system, the heavy corvee will become the last straw that breaks the old system.

The Shandong Wangbo Uprising Army’s military song Wuxiang Liaodong Lang Death Song asked, “If Liaodong is destroyed, what can be done to hurt its head?” The lyrics sing, “Those who evade conscription will go home more often. many". In other words, they opposed Yang Guang going to fight in North Korea and treating poor people like them as cannon fodder.

Li Mi's Wagang Army listed many crimes against Yang Guang during the Battle of Yang Guang, including "setting up a pond, building a palace, setting up a jade shop in a gold shop, and guarding a green house in Zuotan" ". In order to satisfy his luxurious life, Yang Guang dedicated the entire country and consumed the wealth of the world. Therefore, among the anti-Sui armies, those who joined the anti-government ranks in order to avoid conscription were mainly people struggling at the bottom of society. There is a record: "There are many thieves in the east of Pishan, and there are ten tribes without wealth. Is Chen She's ambition to destroy Qin and a plan to disrupt the Han Dynasty?" They all suffered from insatiable greed. They are hungry and cold, and they are trying to survive. "Actually, the treasury of the Sui Dynasty was not empty, but the people were so poor that they could not even maintain the most basic survival.

The people are so excited, and those emperors who are a little people-oriented should be vigilant. They often adjust their political strategies in order to recuperate and temporarily relieve the nervous imperial nerves. However, for Yang Guang, who has a high self-esteem and only wants to realize the Holy King's hegemony as soon as possible, he not only shows no signs of restraining, but actually intensifies. He did not deliberately torment the people of the world. In his calculation of interests, the lives and deaths of those struggling at the bottom were weighed against his great cause. They were nothing at all, just tools for manual labor and weapons for military service. < /p>

People are struggling on the verge of death, the situation in various places is imminent, and uprisings are everywhere. However, Yang Guang is still obsessed with his heroic dream and cannot wake up. In Yang Guang's view, rebellion is just a matter of urgency. A channel to channel public dissatisfaction. It cannot become a climate rebellion and cannot withstand the gentle pressure of the imperial army.