隋煬帝
他完成了仍將揚子江與北方連接的運河系統，重建了洛陽，重啟了絲綢之路，並向高句麗投擲了三支巨大的軍隊。最後一支軍隊摧毀了這個國家：數百萬人被徵集，叛亂開始了，618年他自己的守衛在江都將他勒死。
隋煬帝
简体 隋炀帝
“Built the Grand Canal, and spent the dynasty doing it”
He completed the canal system that still links the Yangtze to the north, rebuilt Luoyang, reopened the Silk Road, and threw three enormous armies at Goguryeo. The last of these broke the country: millions were conscripted, the rebellions began, and in 618 his own guards strangled him at Jiangdu.
Almost everything he built outlasted him and was used by the Tang; almost everyone who built it died doing so. The verdict of the histories — that he was a monster — was written by the dynasty that replaced him, which does not make it wrong.
Empress Xiao stayed with him to the end, and afterwards passed through the hands of rebels, the Turks and finally the Tang court, dying in Chang'an at over eighty.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
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Written for this site to place Yang's reign around the paintings. For the full biography, the dynastic histories and the scholarship behind them, start at Wikipedia.