CHIN 50W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Imperial Examination, Luoyang, Li Bai
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Created new legal code which applied to all, even imperial princes. When yang jian"s son violated spending limits, house arrest. History remembers him as a decadent man who built a pleasure palace known as the. Built the grand canal which linked several important waterways. Symbiotic relationship between capitals in the north and the yangzi river delta which was the agricultural and economic center. Li yuan gaozu, new ruler, was cousin to the last sui emperor. 620s, two of his sons contended for power. Li shimin, the winner, killed two of his brothers and their 10 sons in order to assure his succession. 626, he ordered his father to abdicate and assume the throne as emperor taizong. Both yang and li families were products of the mixed xianbei, xiongnu, and han. While the north had claimed legitimacy based on geography and the south on ethnicity, the sui and the tang ruled with both.
