Emperor Yang of Sui
Emperor of the Sui Dynasty · Writers · Lived 569 to 618 · aged 49
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Something wrong?He finished the Grand Canal, pushed the empire to its widest reach, and bled it dry doing both. The Sui dynasty lasted two emperors - he was the second, and the catastrophic campaigns he launched made sure there wouldn't be a third.
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Yang Guang was renamed by his father after consulting oracles, made Prince of Jin in 581, then given command of five armies that crushed the Chen dynasty in 588. Those victories and quiet work against his older brother made him crown prince in 600. His father died in 604 - most historians believe Yang Guang ordered the murder, though it's unproven - and he took the throne. He completed the Grand Canal, rebuilt the Great Wall, and sent expeditions that brought Sui to its greatest size, including a conquest of Champa that killed thousands of his own soldiers from malaria. Then came the Goguryeo campaigns: disastrous, repeated, bankrupting. Conscription and taxation broke the north into revolt. He spent his final days in Jiangdu, where his general Yuwen Huaji strangled him in a coup in 618.
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