"You must know that Yang Guang is really a great talent and a great strategy. You all think that going to Jiangdu is wrong. But in fact, even now, you really have to say that Yang Guang's choice to go to Jiangdu was not wrong. What was wrong was that he miscalculated

People's hearts are probably wrong about Yu Wenhuaji. He never thought that Yu Wenhuaji and Xiaoguo Army, whom he deeply believed in, would rebel, nor did he consider that my cousin would take advantage of the opportunity to guard Taiyuan..."

Li Yuan gritted his teeth and explained his words clearly.

"As a stay-at-home in Taiyuan, I recruited soldiers and horses to fight against the Turks and Shanxi bandits, which gave me enough reasons to organize the army, win over the Guanlong nobles, and then pick the biggest and fattest peach.

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"When the Yang flowers have fallen and the flowers have bloomed, it is true that I say this. As soon as Yang Guang died, I took Guanzhong directly. I sat back and watched the clouds roll and relax in the world, and the flowers bloomed and fell. I remained unmoved and slowly conquered all the heroes in the world.

It's so hard, before the Xuanwu Gate, the Tang Dynasty really pacified the world, and then the Turks moved south."

Speaking of this, Li Yuan sighed. His Tang Dynasty and Sui Dynasty were really of the same origin. The brothers killed each other in the same way, but he did not die in an unexplained way.

"If the King of Qin hadn't been unfilial and used weapons rashly, the Weishui Alliance would never have appeared."

Li Yuan's long words made everyone feel dizzy. They all thought that Yang Guang went to Jiangdu and caused chaos in the world. However, they did not expect that Li Yuan would say that Yang Guang did the right thing, but they couldn't stand it anymore.

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So they started asking questions one after another.

Then Li Yuan started his explanation from Turks, because all of this cannot be done without talking about Turks.

You must know that the Turkic Khanate was 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. This kind of "marriage" was used throughout the entire

It is rare in history, and the inequality of the relationship may be compared to the Yuan Dynasty marrying a princess to the King of Goryeo.

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

After the Sui Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, the unified Turkic Khanate was still a behemoth with millions of strings and thousands of miles from east to west. It was not until Changsun Sheng went north to drive a wedge between the Turks and divided them into East and West Turks. The Sui Dynasty fought and pulled, and their vitality was seriously damaged.

The Eastern Turkic Khanate surrendered and called Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty the "Sage Khan".

However, the Western Turks occupied the entire Western Region all the way to the west and were still a big threat to the Sui Dynasty.

It's just that after receiving this title, the Sage Khan allowed the East Turks to recuperate and stopped suppressing them. Just like the later Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, after receiving the title of Tian Khan, he allowed the various tribes in the grassland to recuperate.

Same, let the East Turks recuperate.

After Yang Guang came to the throne, he immediately mobilized millions of people to renovate the Great Wall in the north and excavate long moats as preparations for defense against Turkic attacks. These measures are recorded in detail in the book, and these works he did are all

It was carried out while the Turks were still under the control of Qimin Khan, a "subordinate" who always remained deferential to the Sui Dynasty.

In that peaceful period when the Turks were still vassal to Yang Guang just like in Yang Jian's time, Yang Guang had realized the threat of the Turks recuperating for decades, but he could not promote divisions within the Turks by sowing discord like in his father's time.

and disintegration belong to the dilemma of caring about face and not being able to take care of the inner child.

When Yang Guang came to the throne, the East Turks had already recovered. More importantly, the Turks had figured out the pulse of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, or the pulse of the "Chinese-style emperor": love of face, face rather than arrogance, this Confucianism

It is a common problem for emperors after taking power.

Therefore, in the third year of Daye, when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty made a lavish northern tour of Yulin, Qimin Khan introduced a group of special guests to the "Sage Khan", Gao Gouli.

These people lived up to the expectations of the Turks, which made Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty very angry, because Gao Gouli did not come to pay homage to Yang Guang, but to pay homage to the Turkic Khan. This made Yang Guang very dissatisfied. You know

At this time, Qimin Khan personally pulled grass and built a road for Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Zizhi Tongjian recorded: So he set out from the northern border of Yulin to Qiya, and reached Yuji in the east. It was three thousand miles long and a hundred paces wide, covering the whole country.

Serve and open the imperial way.

At this time when all the Turks had surrendered, Gaoguli did not go to the emperor, but to the Khan. This made Yang Guang very dissatisfied. In Yang Guang's view, the people of Gaoguli just refused to obey the Sui Dynasty.

North Korea-led international order, it competed with the Sui Dynasty for dominance in Northeast Asia.

Then a face war broke out between him and Gao Gouli, which lasted for several years, which was the Three Conquests against Gao Gouli.

This superficial war was meant to be staged for the Turks, the instigators of the war. It was both a performance and a deterrent. However, it was just "botched" and instead stimulated the other side's ambitions.

Then in the eleventh year of Daye, when Yang Guang was besieged by the Turkic Shibi Khan in Yanmen County, the political structure of the entire north changed dramatically. The intervention of the huge Turkic force completely offset the pressure surrounding Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

The deterrent power of my orthodox court and imperial army.

Then Yang Guang made a series of decisions very decisively.

As a mature politician, Yang Guang knew very well how much damage he would do to the empire's prestige if he was surrounded. This was equivalent to admitting that he had lost his "force advantage." If it happened again, by the time the siege was lifted, the Sui Empire might no longer be able to

The Sui officials in various places had long since left to find their own way out.

Therefore, he continued the strategic layout of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and used the members he considered the most trustworthy, his grandson Dai Wang, the Yue King to guard Chang'an and Luoyang respectively, and his cousin Li Yuan to guard Taiyuan, forming an "iron triangle" to guard the fundamental place.

, the mission of these three people is to make Guanzhong, the fundamental place of the Sui Dynasty, more than a loss.

As for himself, he led the main force of the Forbidden Army to guard Jiangdu. On the one hand, he avoided the possibility of being besieged by the Turks again. On the other hand, he monitored Jiangnan, which was about to make a move. At the same time, he watched the "fratricide" in the Kanto region.

This is not stupidity and cowardice, but a real long-term vision. After arriving in Jiangdu, Yang Guang did not enjoy and do nothing all day long. Instead, he always tried his best to maintain the smooth flow of canal transportation lines and counter-insurgency in the basin areas, such as Chen Lengtong and others.

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 killed Lu Mingyue.

Then something interesting happened. Twelve years before the Great Cause, the rebels were still mainly local tycoons and bandit commanders. They were also defeated one after another in front of the twelve envoys sent by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to arrest them. However, they entered the Thirteenth Year of the Great Cause.
Chapter completed!