Yang Xuan's Feeling

A traitor to the Sui Dynasty in China. Son of Yang Su, a high-ranking official of the Sui Dynasty. He was promoted through his father's achievements and became Minister of Rites. He liked reading, excelled in horseback riding and archery, loved literature, and many famous people from all over the country gathered under him. However, he became hostile when he learned that Emperor Yang's politics were in disarray and that he was estranged from the emperor. In 613, during Emperor Yang's second expedition to Goguryeo, he rebelled with Li Mi and others in Liyang (north of the Yellow River in Henan Province). However, after failing to capture Luoyang, he fled westward and tried to enter Guanzhong, but was defeated by a pincer attack from the Sui army from Chang'an and an expeditionary army that had abandoned its expedition to Goguryeo and turned back, and committed suicide. His corpse was crucified in Luoyang for three days. After this rebellion, the end of the Sui Dynasty entered a period of full-scale rebellion.

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中国、隋(ずい)の反臣。隋の大官楊素(ようそ)の子。父の功により栄進し、礼部尚書に至った。読書を好み、騎射に優れ、文学を愛し、天下の知名の士がその下に集まった。しかし、煬帝(ようだい)の政治が乱れ、帝から疎んぜられていることを知り、反意をもつに至った。613年、煬帝第二次高句麗(こうくり)遠征のとき、黎陽(れいよう)（河南省黄河の北）で李密(りみつ)らと反乱を起こした。しかし洛陽(らくよう)の攻略に失敗し、西方に逃げて、関中に入ろうとしたとき、長安からの隋軍と、高句麗遠征を中止して引き返した遠征軍に挟撃されて敗れ、自殺。その屍(しかばね)は洛陽で3日間磔(はりつけ)にされた。この反乱ののち隋末は本格的な反乱期に入った。

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