The Sui Dynasty's Rise and Fall

Yang Guang was even more wasteful than Hu Hai! The protagonist should have gone solo long ago; don't expect him to assist Yang Guang. If Yang Guang had listened to advice, the dynasty wouldn't have ended after only two generations! Yang Jian left Yang Guang with a much stronger foundation! The Turks were defeated, the powerful clans were suppressed, and the national treasury was full!

This means our Yang family has risen again! Back in the late Han Dynasty, the Yang family was the foremost family. But no one has written about it for a long time, a pity.

Explanation of "hugging someone's leg" 1. A person should know their own limitations. For example, I've never even been a village chief, nor have I managed a company with just a dozen or so people. Do you think I would be capable of being an emperor in the Sui Dynasty? Could I possibly manage tens of millions of people in such a chaotic situation? Absolutely not.

Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, wrote a very powerful proclamation for his northern expedition against the Turks: "From the easternmost point to the vast sea, to the westernmost point to the shifting sands, with a hundred victorious soldiers and a vast army stretching ten thousand miles, pursuing them across the northern plains, sweeping away the ends of the earth in a single glance."

Brother, this is a novel, not a thesis. Enough already! There's too much personal bias. Anyone with a basic understanding of history knows the distorted portrayal of the Yang family, but this is a novel, and one that's sold by the word. Is this appropriate? We're here to see the pacing of your novel. A slower pace is fine, as long as there's dialogue and plot. But this rhythm—starting a lecture after only a few paragraphs—is just unacceptable to me.

There are always people trying to whitewash Emperor Yang of Sui, lol. 🙂 I'll just state one point. Rebellions broke out across the land; the Turks moved south from the north, and Liu Wuzhou rose up in Hedong. Henan had Li Mi, and Hebei had Dou Jiande and other rebels. But where is Emperor Yang of Sui, the emperor you all speak of as a great emperor of all time? Where is he?

Among the 100 most influential people in world history, only two Chinese emperors made the list: Qin Shi Huang and Yang Jian. Yang Jian unified China, marking the second major unification after Qin Shi Huang. This unification was not only a north-south unification but also a multi-ethnic integration and unification spanning nearly three centuries.

This is a map of the Sui Dynasty's territory, showing the names during the prefecture-county system. It was colored according to the continents over a long period of time; I hope it helps the author.

Dear author, are you over-mythologizing movable type printing? Movable type printing is extremely expensive, far exceeding the cost of woodblock printing. It's only suitable for fast-paced publications like newspapers or small-volume printing; it's simply too costly. For large-scale printing, woodblock printing is still the way to go! Also, the paper needs to be improved.

There's a lot of criticism of Yang Guang (Emperor Yang Guang) and a lot of praise for Li Shimin (Emperor Taizong of Tang). But in reality, Li Shimin was turning back the clock. The power of the Guanzhong aristocracy had been almost completely wiped out by war, yet he went and elevated Changsun Wuji to the position of leader, unifying the Guanzhong aristocracy under his command.