In the fifth year after his accession to the throne, in 609 AD, he led 100,000 troops to war, won a great victory in World War I, and expanded his territory to thousands of miles, making a great impact on the western regions and allies, reopening the Silk Road, bringing the national movement of the Sui Dynasty to the peak and catching up with Hanwu in his personal career. If history comes here, Yang Guang will also be awarded the title of emperor, with great ambition and superb skills.
Great Wall Cave drinking horses and writing emperor poems
Jiang Chun grass green, endless extension to the distance, makes me miss my husband who travels far away. A husband who is far away from home can not miss him all day, but he can see him in his dream soon.
The opening work of "Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Cave" by Han Yuefu, although it is affectionate to read, has a small pattern after all. Yang Guang, Emperor of Yang Di in Sui Dynasty, also wrote a poem "Drinking horses in the Great Wall Grottoes and showing lawyers". The tone of the poem is high and the spirit is magnificent. Later generations praised it as "the first strong, quite like Wei Wu"
The whole poem is too long. Please select a few excerpts to enjoy.
From these words, we can imagine that the Sui Dynasty attacked the Great Wall with thousands of troops and horses and won a great victory. Khan came to Korea, the distant country surrendered, the army triumphed, drank wine and proclaimed the temple. Wang Ba described by Yang Guang is heroic, and the force of the Sui Dynasty is earth.
Yang Guang wrote this emperor's work when he personally conquered Tuguhun and expanded his territory for thousands of miles.
Raise 100,000 troops to take Tuyuhun.
Tuguhun (3 13―663) was originally a branch of Murong Department in Xianbei, Liaodong. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Tuguhun, the leader, led the army to the west and established the country. During the Sixteen Kingdoms Period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the territory expanded to include today's Qinghai, Gansu and other places, occupying the main road of the Silk Road. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, she once married Tuguhun, and Guanghua Princess, the daughter of the imperial clan, was a Khan Murong family who was close to Tuguhun.
Later, his successor, Khan Mu Rongfu Yun, often observed the actions of the Sui Dynasty. Yang guang is very disgusted with this. After he acceded to the throne, in order to get through the Silk Road and regain the control of the Western Regions, he decided to send troops to teach Mu Rongfu Yun, wipe out his mud, and clear the obstacles of the Silk Road.
In the fifth year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty (609), Yang Di made a personal expedition and attacked Tuguhun in the west. This time, he took 654.38 million troops and decided to pacify the overall situation in World War I. By the way, he traveled to the western part of the empire, accepted audiences from western countries and engaged in bilateral relations.
In March, Yang Guang led an army out of Linjinguan, crossed the Yellow River and went to the northwest. In April, Tuguhun sent messengers to Sui. In May, Yang Di arrived in Tuguhun, ordered Liu Quan to lead an army out of Yiwu Road to meet Tuguhun's army, pursued Mu Rongfu Cloud to Qinghai, captured more than a thousand people, and captured the capital (now west of Qinghai Lake).
Yang Guang led the army to pursue Fuyun Khan, entered Changning Valley, Yuexingling and Haochuan, and captured the two important towns of Shantou and Chishui. Fu Yun was defeated and continued to retreat to Fuyuan. Yang guang chased them and surrounded them. Fuyun Khan fled in Niling with only a few followers, and finally escaped to the Tangut. Until the ninth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, Fu Yun was defeated and killed.
The remaining Tuguhun leader was besieged, led by more than 100,000 men and women to surrender, and more than 60,000 people were beheaded.
At this point, Emperor Yang Di Yang Guang won a great victory. Tuguhun is four thousand miles east and west, and two thousand miles north and south belong to the Sui Dynasty. The Sui Dynasty established Xihai and Heyuan counties in Tuguhun. Sui Shu praised: "I broke through the mud, expanded thousands of miles, and sent troops to defend."
Yang Guang's victory greatly encouraged him to see the new territory thousands of miles away, so he wrote the first song mentioned at the beginning, Drinking Horses in the Cave of the Great Wall.
Countries in the western region of the Union reopened the Silk Road.
This great victory over the Sui Dynasty shocked all countries in the western regions and finally knew who was the boss. The history book says, "When Tugu was destroyed, barbarians paid tribute, and all barbarians were frightened and went to court one after another."
After the war, they continued westward and arrived in Zhangye. The monarchs and envoys of the twenty-seven countries in the western regions have appeared before the court to show their obedience. Gaochang Wang Qu and Yiwu Tutun Society donated thousands of miles of land.
Emperor Yang Di held a grand party at the foot of Yanqi Mountain and played nine pieces of music. Businessmen from all over the world gathered to trade and held a one-month World Expo in Zhangye. Since then, the Silk Road has been smooth and the East and West have been reconnected.
Yang Di Yang Guang also became the first emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty to patrol the Hexi Corridor in history. Sui Shu said that "the Yumenguan Gate goes out in the west of Wancheng", with a journey of thousands of kilometers. Yang Guang's footprint reached the gateway of the Western Regions, which was the farthest trip to the Western Ocean by the emperor in the ancient history of China.
During this period, there were not only wars in which soldiers met each other, but also peaceful international conferences, and even the most amazing imperial trip in China's history-the grand occasion of the World Trade Expo.
The national luck of the Sui Dynasty and Yang Guang's personal achievements reached their peak here.
Yang Guang returned home in triumph after the meeting. He never thought that he would almost die halfway because of the weather.
On the return trip, the army arrived at Dadou Bagu (now the border ferry in Gansu), which has been a shortcut connecting Hexi Corridor with Huangzhong in Qinghai since ancient times, with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters and the temperature below zero all the year round.
The army was hit by a snowstorm here, most of the soldiers froze to death, and most of the accompanying officials were separated. I don't know how many concubines fell in Yang Guang's harem, and Yang Guang's sister was frozen to death alive. Emperor Yang Di was also flustered and suffered greatly.
After returning to Chang 'an three months later, the splendid westward journey ended anticlimactic. This is similar to Yang Guang's life, starting with a heroic plan and ending with a tragic death.
Final summary:
Throughout the history of China, since the Western Han Dynasty, the powerful Central Plains dynasty has taken opening up the Silk Road and restoring sovereignty over the western regions as a grand strategy for national peace and development. Yang Di went to the Western Ocean, pulled out the big nails nailed on the Silk Road, reconnected the east and west land arteries, laid a solid foundation for the Tang Dynasty, which represented the Sui Dynasty, and created another great prosperity for the nation.