The Sui Dynasty fell, tourism and building prevailed, and who was the emperor became a mystery
In 605 AD, Yang Guang ascended the throne with the name "Great Cause". He hoped that the coming era would be as magnificent as the name of the era, so he pardoned the world and changed the yuan. However, from the perspective of seeking truth from facts, the word "obstacle" should be added to the end of the great cause to indicate the difficulties and obstacles of this period.
In order to realize his dream, Yang Guang sent Yang Su and Yu Wenkai to join the Luoyang Construction Action Group and began to build the Luoyang construction site. The construction site needs to employ 2 million people every month, and tens of thousands of households are recruited from residents of the city and wealthy businessmen from various states to enrich Luoyang.
In addition, the Erkun Road was abandoned, the book road was opened, and the highway from Guanzhong to Luoyang was built. Yang Guang also ordered Yu Wenkai and Feng Deyi, a member of the Inner History House, to build the Xianren Palace, which was connected to Fujian in the south and Luoshui in the north, and requisitioned high-grade building materials south of the river and north of Wuling to be transported to Luoyang.
At the same time, exotic flowers and plants and exotic birds and animals were recruited nationwide to enrich the Royal Zoo. After the task was assigned, Yang Guang decided to go to various places to collect style, and he went to the Huaihai Special Economic Zone first on the grounds of observing the people's feelings.
However, as the supreme emperor of the great cause, he could not ride a horse and ride a chariot, so on April 21, he ordered Shangshu Youcheng Emperor Fu to levy more than one million people before and after the people of Henan and Huaibei counties, open up the Tongji Canal, divert the water from Xiyuan and Luoshui to the Yellow River, and divert the Yellow River water from Banzhu to enter Bianshui through Xingze, and divert Bianshui from the east of Daliang into Surabaya to Huaihe River, and also requisitioned more than 100,000 people in Huainan to dig and dredge the ditch, and the river from Shanyang to Yangzi section runs through the Yangtze River.
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty embarked on the royal canal project, the canal is 40 steps wide, the imperial road is built on both sides, willow trees are planted, and more than 40 palaces are set up along the way. At the beginning of the project, he sent Wang Hong, the squire of the Yellow Gate, to the south of the Yangtze River to build dragon boats and escort cruisers.
Based on the solid foundation of his father Yang Jian, Yang Guang mobilized national resources and implemented strict enforcement, and the Luoyang construction site appeared ruthless in the constant pursuit of progress.
The mortality rate of the strong men in service is close to 50%, and from Chenggao to Heyang, there is an endless stream of corpse trucks. Every project of the Sui Dynasty pursued rapid completion, and did not hesitate to sacrifice manpower to present gifts to the leadership.
When building Yang Jian's resort, Yang Su once said: "Yishan Annihilation Valley is used to build a palace, and Chongtai is tired and prosperous. The servants were in a hurry, and many of them died, and they were tired and upset, and they filled in the pits and covered them with earth and stones, so that they were built on a flat ground, and the dead were tens of thousands. ”
Like the Luoyang construction site, it cannot be truly implemented without sacrificing tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people. Both father and son used the state apparatus, the only difference is that Yang Jian unified the world, set the Turks in the north, and realized his self-worth, while Yang Guang needed to complete his great cause in order to make up for his regrets of pretending to be a grandson in the past few years.
Yang Guang's grandfather was a founding ancestor, he pacified the war, shook the Quartet, swept the north and south, and his martial virtues shined in the annals of history. However, Yang Guang finally gave his grandfather the nickname "Wen".
This may be because he wants to keep the word "wu" to himself. In May, Yang Guang announced the start of the Xiyuan project. The scope of this project is 200 miles in radius, and there is a "sea" with a circumference of more than 10 miles.
In the sea, Yang Guang built Penglai, Abbot, Yingzhou and other sacred mountains, these mountains are more than 100 feet higher than the sea, and there are Taiguan Palaces on them, like a fairyland. There is a winding dragon scale canal in the north of the garden, which leads to the sea.
There are sixteen courtyards along the canal, and the halls and towers in each courtyard are extremely gorgeous. In order to ensure Yang Guang's sensory enjoyment, the trees in the palace will be placed with artificial flowers after the leaves fall in autumn and winter, making people feel like they are in the East China Sea in spring.
The door of each courtyard is built near the canal, and each courtyard will also arrange a Sipin lady in case Yang Guang can come and enjoy it at any time.
This was a major project by Yang Guang, who led thousands of palace maids to ride horses around the West Garden in the moonlight and play the "Early Night Journey". The administrative efficiency of the Sui Dynasty was amazingly high, on April 30, Yang Guang ordered the construction of a dragon boat project in the Jiangnan area, and on August 15, just over three months later, all kinds of hardware facilities were ready, and Yang Guang went south to Yangzhou.
The bureaucracy of the Sui Dynasty was like Doraemon, and there was no more comfortable emperor than Yang Guang. His flagship dragon boat has four floors, 45 feet high and 200 feet long, and the top floor is the main hall, the inner hall, and the east and west courts; There are one hundred and twenty gold and jade decoration rooms on the middle two floors, the lower floor is the place where the courtiers live, the queen Xiao's flagship Xiang Yan boat is slightly smaller, and the other supporting facilities are exactly the same, there are nine floating boats, the three floors of the ship building are water palaces, and there are thousands of ships such as Yangcai, Vermilion Bird, Cang Yan, White Tiger, Xuanwu, Feiyu, Qingjiao, Lingbo, Fifth Floor, Dojo, Xuantan, etc., for the harem, kings, princesses, hundred officials, monks and nuns, Taoist priests, Fanke, etc. to accompany Yang Guang's super-large tour group to ride.
In order to pull these boats, a total of more than 80,000 slender men, in addition to thousands of forbidden ships pulled by the soldiers themselves, the boats and boats are connected to each other for more than 200 miles, the lights shine on the rivers, the cavalry guards on both sides of the river, the flags cover the wilderness, along the way through the states and counties responsible for food tribute, must be given the emperor's tour group the best food and water curiosities.
This kind of tour group is not a small movement today. In the past six months or so, Yang Guang has been recorded in history forever.
Yang Guang ushered in retribution after ascending the throne, and the ** prince Yang Zhao unfortunately died. Yang Zhao has always been a key factor in Yang Guang's ascension to the throne, deeply loved by his grandparents, he was the first imperial grandson to be crowned king, Yang Guang became the crown prince and was promoted to the king of Jin, and awarded the position of Neishi Ling and Zuo Wei general, he not only has the right to participate in politics, but also became a military attache of the forbidden army, which shows that Yang Jian attaches great importance to and trusts Yang Guang and his son.
Yang Zhao has a modest personality, calm words and deeds, both civil and military, and is known for his benevolence. However, his sudden death has raised concerns about his future. In order to make up for his mistakes, Yang Guang began to pay attention to the people's livelihood, and he realized that the laws of the Gaozu period were too harsh, so he decided to reform the law.
He ordered the law to be revised, hoping to improve the lives of the people. However, the reform of the law did not bring the desired effect, but only exacerbated the suffering of the people. The government began to find a way out on its own, and the enforcement of the law became chaotic.
In order to ensure the consumption of Luoyang, Yang Guang set up Luokou Cang and Huiluocang, the establishment of these granaries changed the strategic style of play at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the 64 roads and dust had to be strategically laid out around the granaries of the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang carried out reforms on almost all the structural cornerstones of the political power, he set up five provinces, three Taiwans and sixteen prefectures, abolished the titles of earl, son, and bar, and only retained the titles of king, duke, and marquis.
He also reformed weights and measures and realigned his official position. However, his reforms did not bring the desired results, but instead exacerbated the contradictions in society.
In terms of death, Yang Guang can be described as an all-skilled player, who not only tosses around the world, but also carries out crazy reforms to the state apparatus. His special northern tour led to the men of more than a dozen counties in Hebei being requisitioned and excavated Taihang Mountain, and the governance of Taihang Mountain and the road from Luoyang to Bingzhou opened a highway.
In Yang Guang's private interview with Weifu, ** from all over the country expressed their loyalty and created surprises and encounters for him. However, this excessive extravagance and waste eventually led to the collapse of the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang began to face the problem of gift-giving frankly, and held a special study class for Yang Kuo, the Taishou of Ma Yi, to learn how to give gifts to leaders, so that the problem of gift-giving could be clarified in the bureaucratic system.
This move also made Ma Yi Taishou Yang Kuo and other ** begin to know how to send a sumptuous offering to the leader.
Yang Guang was full of admiration for the scenery outside the fortress, and at the same time issued the highest order to levy more than 1 million men to build the Great Wall, but the project did not go smoothly, and tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded.
In the past two years, the bigwigs in the DPRK and China were very dissatisfied with Yang Guang's tossing practices, and Shang Shuzuo's servant Su Wei and Gao Xi, who was the Tai Changqing at the time, dissuaded Yang Guang from overworking the people and losing money.
However, Yang Guang did not listen to dissuasion, continued to build the Great Wall, and recruited the National Song and Dance Troupe to perform in Luoyang. Gao Xi was very worried about this, he thought that Emperor Zhou Tianyuan died because of his happiness, and he was afraid that Yang Guang would follow in his footsteps.
The matter was quickly exposed, Gao Xi and others were defined as slandering the government, and then they were purged, their son was exiled, their home was raided, and He Ruobi's family was not an official slave. Soon, Yang Guang drove from Yulin, leading 500,000 soldiers, 100,000 horses, banners, and baggage stretching for thousands of miles.
Yang Guang ordered Yu Wenkai and others to build a mobile castle, and ordered the construction of Jinyang Palace, so that Li Yuan could dress for the wedding. Yang Guang said that the border patrol was very successful, and he will continue to explore the Western Regions and build the Silk Road into a face-saving project, and the annual expenditure on this road is amazing.
In 608 A.D., four years of the Great Cause, on the first day of the first month, Yang Guang issued an edict to levy more than 5 million troops north of the Yellow River to dig the Yongji Canal, and countless casualties were inflicted.
In July, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty requisitioned more than 200,000 Ding Nan from Yugu to the east and began to build the Great Wall. He believed that the most top-level projects must rely on the power of nature, so he began to plan five-A scenic spots on the national map and build palaces for himself.
At the same time, he also made a request to Tiele and Tuyuhun in this year, asking them to attack Tuyuhun to create a smooth trade route for himself, so that he could rule better.
After the defeat of Tuyuhun, he asked the Sui Dynasty for assistance. Yang Guang sent Yang Xiong, the king of Ande, to lead his troops and successfully repelled the Fuyun Khan of Tuyuhun. Subsequently, he forcibly relocated the Tuyuhun people to the frontier, and all their prisoners were relocated to the frontier.
In September, he even recruited more than 10,000 eagle trainers from all over the world to Luoyang. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the fifth year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang ordered the whole country to be equalized. In the fifth year, Yang Guang pacified Tuyuhun and added four counties.
At this time, there were 190 counties, 1,255 counties, 8.9 million households, 46 million population, and 55.85 million hectares of land. However, Yang Guang's land ledger exaggerated too much, because the Sui Dynasty was taxed according to households and dings, while the population was taxed according to ding.
In order to meet the needs of taxation and forced labor, the land ledger of the Great Sui exceeded the amount of arable land in the entire world at that time. However, this kind of oppression has become unbearable for the people and has sparked public anger.
In this context, Yang Guang decided to start a plan to go west, first to the south and north, and then to the west. He ordered a nationwide land census to increase the number of households, but the land ledger was still exaggerated.
Although Yang Guang's actions triggered a large-scale population movement and the attrition of the state apparatus, he firmly believed that as long as the state apparatus was in his hands, the people would have no power to resist.
During the Western Expedition, he ordered the people not to possess forbidden items such as iron forks, hooks, and knives. However, in the course of the western expedition, his army suffered a heavy defeat at Heyou and suffered heavy losses.
Subsequently, he arrived in Zhangye and received a warm welcome from the countries of the Western Regions. During this period, he set up thousands of miles of land in Tutun as Xihai, Heyuan, Shanshan, and Jimo counties, and forcibly relocated the prisoners to the frontier.
However, this behavior caused the Kansai region to begin to fall into trouble, the people lost their jobs, and the western region began to suffer. On the way back to Chang'an, he encountered a heavy snowstorm, most of the soldiers froze to death, and the horses and donkeys were seriously injured.
This made Yang Guang usher in the first embarrassment in his life. Despite this, he still decided to go east to Goguryeo in the northeast, but his plan faced great challenges.