In the Jiangdu Mutiny, why did Yu Wenhua kill Emperor Yang of Sui and not use him as a puppet?
In March of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause (618), Sima Dejia and Hu Benlang conspired with Yuan Shu to push Zhi and Pei Qiantong to usurp the throne, and led the army to launch a rebellion in Jiangdu with the general Yu Wenhua of Zuotunwei, and contained and killed Yang Guang, the Yang Emperor of Sui, which we call this history"Changes in Jiangdu"。False. So, why did Yu Wenhua kill Yang Guang and not let him be a puppet?
Power issues: Yucheng has limited power and finds it difficult to control Yang Kuang and Emperor Yang of Sui.
For the ministers,"The lord is weak and the minister is strong"The principle is extremely important when setting up puppets, only in this way can the powerful ministers keep the emperor firmly in their hands. Only in this way can the ministers firmly control the emperor. However, Wei Chi Jingde and Yang Guang did not fully meet this condition.
First of all, although Yu Wenhua was born in a famous family, before he became a general, he finally became the general of the Right Tunwei, which can be regarded as a high authority. However, Yucheng can't talk about the power of the government and the opposition, and even the general caller of the Jiangdu uprising is he Yucheng, and the military secretary of the Xiao cavalry army, Sima Dezhao and Yuwen Zhihe and others, Yucheng is also the leader of the righteous army who was selected after consideration and everyone's decision.
Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, although Yang Guang at this time lost the hearts of all the people and was very disappointed with the situation of the uprising, but was he not a cowardly monarch, would he be willing to be a puppet for a long time? After all, he has been an emperor for many years, and I'm afraid no one will believe that he doesn't have some important ministers.
As mentioned earlier, the power in the hands of the Uyghur Wei Chi Gong is limited, and the Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty Yang Guang is not easy to control, so it is very difficult and dangerous to turn the Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty into a puppet.
Influence problem: The world**, Yang Guang's charm is limited.
The purpose of supporting the puppet emperor is undoubtedly to use the emperor's personality charm to take the lead in morality, to achieve the goal of winning the hearts of the people, and then justifiably seizing the world, which was vividly manifested in the late Han Dynasty, when the world was in turmoil. However, the last years of the Sui dynasty had little success at this point.
On the one hand, after the turbulent times since the Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented it"Confucianism"since the formation of the"The right of the king is divinely granted"concept, due to the careerist's thirst for the title of emperor suffered a devastating blow, once the emperor lost the support of the people, his legitimacy and personality charm will quickly solidify; On the other hand, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented"Confucianism"since the formation of the"The right of the king is divinely granted"Ideas, devastating due to careerists' thirst for the title of emperor, quickly solidify their legitimacy and charm once the emperor loses the hearts of the people. Once the emperor loses the hearts of the people, his legitimacy and charisma will be quickly cemented. Once the emperor loses the hearts of the people, his legitimacy and charm will also harden rapidly. In addition, Emperor Yang Guang also lost the support of the Guanlong group, which had strongly supported the Yang family, but due to the continuous suppression of the Guanlong fortress by Emperor Yang Jian and Emperor Yang Guang, the confrontation between the two sides became extremely fierce, which was also the main reason why Emperor Yang Guang resolutely refused to return to Chang'an and Luoyang, and the Li Tang family actually replaced the Yang family as the representative of the Guanlong group.
On the other hand, before Emperor Yang of Sui was killed, the world was also ** because of Emperor Yang of Sui's violations. First of all, in the thirteenth year of the Great Cause (617), the Wagang army approached the eastern capital and announced the ten major crimes of Emperor Yang of Sui. Li Yuan immediately entered Chang'an and established a generation of heroes Yang Yu as emperor. At the same time, rebel armies rose one after another, and their power became stronger and stronger, and the area controlled by the Sui Dynasty became smaller and smaller.
Based on the above two reasons, Emperor Wen of Sui and Yang Guang period"Jiangdu Rebellion"Because of Yang Guang's influence and appeal, Yang Guang not only has no benefit as a puppet emperor at this time, but I am afraid that he will soon become the first target of the entire rebel army.
The situation requires: the army needs to be stabilized and the determination to change the dynasty.
By the time of the Jiangdu uprising, the rule of the Sui dynasty was already under threat. Not only did the world fall apart, but the Sui Dynasty also lost control of the north, and the Wagang army cut off Emperor Yang of Sui's road to the Western Regions, and Jiangdu was threatened. At the same time, there was a shortage of food in the Jiangdu city, and the Jianghuai rebel army led by Du Fuwei and Fu Yucheng came to the city.
It is worth noting that most of the vassals who followed Emperor Yang of Sui to the south and were responsible for escorting Emperor Yang of Sui's army were from Guanbei, and when they learned that Emperor Yang of Sui did not plan to return north, the soldiers began to flee.
In fact, the rebellion in Jiangdu was triggered by the intention of the Xiao Wei army to flee. Hu Benlang will Fufeng Sima Dejiao and Hu Benlang general Yuan Yi, Zhige Lang general Pei Zitong discord, want to lead the troops to flee to the northwest, so with the internal history Yuan Min, Huya Lang general Zhao Xingshu and others, Yinghua general Meng Teng, Fu Demon general Niu Fangyu, Zhigao general Xu Hongren and others, Xue Shiliang and others contacted the city gate general Tang Fengyi, doctor Zhang Kai, Guanglu doctor Yang Shilan and others. In the end, he persuaded Yu Wenhua's younger brother Yu Wenzhi to launch a coup d'état. As a result, Woo Wenhua's younger brother, Woo Moon Jihe, staged a coup d'état.
Since the personality charm and influence of Emperor Yang Guang during the period of Emperor Wen of Sui have dropped to the extreme, it is difficult to make him a puppet, on the contrary, it is likely to have the opposite effect, it is better to kill him to show his determination to change the dynasty, which can not only stabilize the morale of the army, but even restore the people's hearts to a certain extent.
As mentioned above, Wei Chi Gong did not have a certain control over Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, and the effect of making Yang Guang a puppet was limited, so he could only choose to kill Emperor Yang of Sui to stabilize the morale of the army or regain the trust of the people. Even if the rebel army set up a puppet, it rarely set up a true monarch, but chose another monarch from the royal family to set it up, and the same was true of Wei Chigong, after he killed Emperor Yang of Sui, he set up Yang Hao as emperor from the royal family.