Finally it was the turn of the highlight to give the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty a posthumous title.
Yang Daoxuan’s mansion.
Yang Tong held his chin and watched his cousin crawling around on the couch: “Second brother, what kind of posthumous title do you think I will have?”
After they changed their identities, they temporarily removed the older brother who was not very familiar from the ranks of brothers. Yang Tong was the eldest, Yang You was the second, and his cousin Yang Min became the third.
Yang You said, “How many emperors have you been? You should not have a posthumous title.”
Yang Tong sighed, “I guess so. My cousin said that Li Yuan was the leader in the enthronement. I want a good posthumous title, and I will choose it after the second cousin ascends the throne.”
Yang You said speechlessly, “You are not dead yet, what posthumous title is? How unlucky? Besides, there is nothing to think about for a puppet emperor. If your brother wants a posthumous title, we should work hard to study and practice martial arts and earn a more meaningful posthumous title in the future.”
Yang Tong said, “I just want two posthumous titles? Most people only have one posthumous title. If I have two posthumous titles, how amazing it is.”
Yang You: “…” He really doesn’t understand the brother’s idea.
In the palace, all the officials in the court were looking forward to waiting for Li Yuan to pronounce the posthumous title of Yang Guang that they agreed on together.
Originally, after Yang Tong succeeded to the throne, the posthumous title given to Yang Guang by the small court of Luoyang was “Ming”.
“Ming” is a beautiful posthumous title. “Thinking far is called Ming; appointing a virtuous person to be far is called Ming.” The second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, recognized as the capable king Liu Zhuang, the posthumous title of “Emperor Ming of Han”.
At this time, people did not mistake the Grand Canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal as the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and then said that Yang Guang had “thought far away”. The feudal dynasty did not have so many ideas of sacrificing oneself for the people. The so-called “far” is the continuation of family and career.
In the original time and space, the posthumous title given to Yang Guang by Emperor Taizhu was also “Ming”, praising Yang Guang for being a visionary with his appointment; Dou Jiande’s literati named Yang Guang was “Min”, which means “a kind and benevolent but not long-lived”, praising Yang Guang for being kind.
In order to win over the old ministers of the Sui Dynasty, they all pinched their noses to give Yang Guang a posthumous posthumous title. But what is interesting is that “Ren Xian” and “mercy” happen to be a virtue that was criticized by Yang Guang when he was alive. Therefore, Yang Guang’s two posthumous titles are completely contrary to the real situation, which is a satire of explicit praise and derogatory criticism.
The pen of a literati is really interesting.
In the original history, Li Yuan was given a posthumous title to Yang Guang after the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was solidified in the fourth year of Wude. The Tang Dynasty has now unified most of the world, and its foundation for establishing a country is very stable, so Li Yuan doesn’t need to flatter Yang Guang now.
When deciding Yang Guang’s posthumous title, Li Yuan and Li Xuanba had some conflict.
“It is Yang against the will of heaven and abuse of the people.” Li Yuan wanted to posthumously title Yang Guang as “Emperor Yang of Sui”.
“Killing innocent people is called Li.” Although Li Xuanba thought “Sui YangEmperor” is not bad, but he was ill-hearted and wanted to give Yang Guang a posthumous title that was different from the original history.
The father and son had a relatively harmonious atmosphere in this conflict and summoned the ministers to discuss.
The ministers unanimously agreed that Yang Guang’s posthumous title should be “Yang”, because “Yang” also means “going to the rituals and far away from the people”.
Yang Guang did not respect the laws of his ancestors, and stayed in Luoyang, the eastern capital, alienated Xijing Daxing, and constantly reduced the titles and treatments of nobles. He also appointed nepotism and was close to wise ministers and close to villains. For the ministers, of course, it was “going to the rituals and far away from the people.”
“Disagata and abuse of the people” was the curse of the people to Yang Guang, and “going to the rituals and far away from the people” was the dissatisfaction of the ministers with Yang Guang.
Moreover, Yang Guang was addicted to building palaces and fighting with Goryeo. He ignored other government affairs and was not even active in suppressing peasant uprisings. Isn’t this a kind of “lack of government”? Not doing serious things is “lack of government”!
The dissatisfaction with Yang Guang broke out when the posthumous title was formulated this time. Some old ministers were too intense when scolding Yang Guang and fainted several times in the court.
Fortunately, although he was a famous doctor but also a civil servant, Sun Simiao was napping in the pile of court officials, and took out a golden needle from his cuff to wake him up.
After the old ministers woke up, they refused to leave to rest and continued to jump and scold Yang Guang.
Who is promoting corvee labor every year? The Grand Canal and the Great Wall are still useful. Several palaces are built every year. Are you sick?
And what about you? You are the King of Goryeo! If you want to fight, fight well. Every time the other party surrenders verbally, you retreat, and then go on an expedition to waste money and waste money. You and King of Goryeo are playing games, right?
Li Xuanba’s expression was very strange when he heard it.