In the chaotic era at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenhua and why did he kill Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty instead of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes?
Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian ended nearly 300 years of China and the Western Jin Dynasty, and ushered in a 23-year peaceful and prosperous era - the rule of Kaihuang established a strong and unified Sui Dynasty, and Yang Guang of Sui overthrew the rule of Kaihuang, destroyed the country for more than ten years, and the population was reduced from 8.9 million to 2.2 million.
He reigned for 14 years, running around for many years, building palaces, building the Eastern Capital, building the Great Wall, digging the Grand Canal, conquering Goguryeo three times, abusing the people's power, and launching large-scale peasant uprisings.
The ending of the peasant uprising in the Sui Dynasty is a bit like the ending of the peasant uprising in the Qin Dynasty, there are rebellions everywhere, the emperor is disobedient, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty also took advantage of the leisure time of the eastern tour of the Jiangdu and captured him in the Jiangdu, drunk and dreamed of death every day, and thought about moving the capital to Nanjing, but Yu Wenhua was killed, so the question is, Yu Wenhua and why he killed Emperor Yang of Sui, didn't he coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes?
Map of the last years of the Sui Dynasty.
1.I don't know a few people who call themselves emperors.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao once said:"If there is no Cao Cao in the world, I don't know how many people are called kings and emperors!
Cao Cao, as a powerful minister who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, fought in the name of the court and the emperor, of course, no one dared to call the king the emperor, once the king was called the emperor, Cao Cao would be eliminated like Yuan Shu and Song Jian.
But the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty was completely different from the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there were not many people who dared to call the emperor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, partly because there were powerful ministers like Cao Cao, and in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there were no powerful ministers like Cao Cao under the banner of the Sui Dynasty.
The second reason is that in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there were too many people in the world who claimed to be kings and emperors, too many:
In 616 AD, Jiangxi people Lin Shihong and Cao Zhi raised troops against the Sui. They led their army to capture Yuzhang County (now Nanchang, Jiangxi) and defeated more than 100,000 Sui troops at Poyang Lake. Lin Shihong was named the king of Nanyue, guarded Qianzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi), and soon became emperor. Thousands of people defeated the Sui army at Poyang Lake. Lin Shihong proclaimed himself the king of Nanyue, guarded Qianzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi), and soon became the emperor, built the capital Yuzhang, and the year name"Taiping"。
Map of the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
In the first month of 617 AD, Dou Jiande, the leader of the Shandong peasant rebel army, proclaimed himself King of Changle, with the year name"Ding Chou"。
In 617 AD, Yin and Yang County of Xiazhou of the Sui Dynasty ordered Liang Shidu to cooperate with the Turks and conquer Xiazhou, Diaoyin, Honghua, Yan'an and other places. Liang Shidu was called the emperor and established the Liang State, the country name"Wing Lung"。
A.D. 617. Yuezhou Jiedu made Dong Jingzhen, Zheng Wenshou, the brigade captain, Zhang Xiu, the assassin of Xinzhou, and others to rise up against the Sui, and jointly supported Xiao Mou, a descendant of the Xiliang royal family, as the leader; Xiao Mou called himself the Duke of Liang and the King of Liang, and the following year he was called the emperor, the country was called Fenghuang, and the capital was Jiangling (now Jingzhou, Hubei), which was in the south of the Han River and the east of the Three Gorges. His army consisted of 400,000 men.
In 617 AD, Li Yuan gathered an army in Taiyuan. Soon, Li Yuan led the army to attack Chang'an, and established Yang Yu, the grandson of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, as the emperor, and respected Emperor Yang of Sui as the emperor, and changed the name of the year to"Yining", appointed Li Yuan as prime minister, and Jin Feng as the king of Tang.
In 617 AD, Liu Wuzhou, the commander of Ma Yi, killed Wang Rengong, the governor of Sui, and proclaimed himself the governor. Liu Wuzhou defected to the Turks, seized Yanmen, Loufu, Dingxiang and other counties of the Sui Dynasty, changed his name to Tianxing, and proclaimed himself emperor.
In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there were too many princes and generals.
In 617 AD, Emperor Yang of Sui was alive, and Wang Shichong named Yang Tong, the grandson of Emperor Yang of Sui, as Emperor Taishang of Luoyang"Emperor Sun"。
These acts of claiming hegemony all happened when Emperor Yang of Sui was still alive, which shows that no one took Emperor Yang of Sui seriously, the Sui Dynasty at that time existed in name only, there were so many emperors in the world, who still cared about Emperor Yang of Sui? Who cares if Emperor Yang of Sui is Emperor Yang? Of course, the meaning of being a courtier emperor is gone.
2.Emperor Yang of Sui is no longer politically correct.
The significance of the emperor being held hostage by the princes is to oppress other princes under the banner of the emperor, which is of course politically correct. The most fundamental reason why Cao Cao was able to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was that the end of the Han Dynasty had not yet arrived, and some people still remembered the Han Dynasty in their hearts.
As for Emperor Yang of Sui, he was not politically correct, but politically wrong. There are so many anti-Sui rebels in the world, which shows that Emperor Yang of Sui has made great efforts in building palaces, canals, and the Great Wall.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty lost the hearts of the people.
2, Emperor Yang of Sui has become the best side of the world, who dares to blackmail the Son of Heaven under his banner to order the princes, can only get the opposite result.
3. Emperor Yang of Sui has long been unable to command the princes of the world.
Although Emperor Yang of Sui became the emperor, in the world of peasant uprisings, he hid in Jiangdu to drink, as if he wanted to evade responsibility, Li Yuan pushed Yang Yu to be the emperor, Wang Shichong pushed Yang Tong to be the emperor, no one gave Yang Guang and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty face, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty could not control anyone, not even the eastern capital Luoyang, let alone other princes.
Emperor Yang of Sui couldn't even control the outlaw army under his command, the Jiangdu Rebellion was a coup d'état launched by the Xiaoguo Army under Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Yang of Sui wanted to move the capital to Nanjing Jiangnan, but the generals under his command were all from Guanzhong, they were homesick, they didn't want to stay in Jiangnan, they wanted to go home, Emperor Yang of Sui launched a coup d'état, they were very depressed.
Emperor Yang of Sui was killed.
4.The united front is easy to control.
The main reason for the turmoil in Jiangdu was that Emperor Yang of Sui wanted to move the capital to Nanjing, but his generals were all from Guanzhong and did not want to stay in the south, so the gentry began to rebel.
Yu Wenhua did not dare to cooperate at first, first, he was not capable enough, and he was timid and afraid; The second is that this incident happened suddenly, Yu Wenhua and they were not psychologically prepared, and finally after persuasion, Yu Wenhua accepted the rebels, and the rebels captured Emperor Yang of Sui, and then killed Emperor Yang of Sui and his relatives, relatives, etc., and the behavior of these people did not rein in.
Emperor Yang of Sui and Yu Weihe.
Because Emperor Yang of Sui no longer has any effect, the whole world has different opinions, not to mention that there are more than a dozen people who say that Emperor Yang of Sui did not control any princes, even the eastern capital Luoyang set up a new monarch, Emperor Yang of Sui is still useless, inconvenient to control, if there is another new monarch more suitable than the emperor, it is obviously more suitable for control.
Yu Hua and another new monarch finally wanted to pave the way for their own country, at that time the whole world was in chaos, but all some powerful princes and kings asked to be called emperor, Yu Hua of course also wanted to kill Emperor Yang of Sui and another new monarch, in addition to being more convenient to control the emperor, it was also more convenient for him to ask for the emperor in the future, so he wanted to kill Yu Hua and Emperor Yang of Sui, and the change of Jiangdu was a plan.