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How did Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty spend 14 years to lose everything and finally the country was destroyed and the family was ruined? How did Tang Taizong Li Shimin spend 5 years to build a crisis-ridden Tang Dynasty into a powerful country that all parties surrendered to, and finally became famous throughout history and admired by all generations? Similar beginnings lead to different endings. This book will give readers a panoramic view.

"Jingkang Meditations" is the second part of the Meditations on Rise and Fall series. The author majored in history at university and majored in Chinese as a graduate student. After working, he studied law by himself and engaged in legal work. Therefore, the greatest feature of this book is to integrate history, literature, and law, sort out the historical context with the logic of the rule of law, and show the rise and fall of empires through literary forms. The characters and events in the book are all derived from real historical documents, insisting that everything must have history and words must be well-founded. The main purpose of the article is to explore how the Jingkang incident happened? Why are Cai Jing and others so good at dancing? What did officials think and do when the regime was in danger? Could the tragedy have been avoided? This book attempts to immerse oneself into history through a contemporary perspective, to interpret history, to see lessons from history, and to hope that one will know what is wrong and not do it again.