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Chapter 1101 Water is also real water [Free]

[These recent chapters have a lot of historical content, so this chapter is given to everyone for free]

In the plot of these 1200 chapters, apart from the various rebels in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the one that occupies the most plot is actually the Sui Dynasty itself.

As the only two unified dynasties in history that died after two generations, compared with the Qin Dynasty, the demise of the Sui Dynasty is actually the most worthy of description and regret.

The reason for the demise of the Qin Dynasty was actually destiny. Although the operations of Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, were very abstract, if you study the history carefully, you will find that the abstract operations of poisoning were limited to his own palace, and at most they were just requests. The world only offers beauties and treasures. This has been a very normal imperial operation in all dynasties. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty held a national draft almost every year. How could he not die without seeing the second emperor of the Qing Dynasty?

During the few years of Hu Hai's reign, almost everyone in the country rebelled in the first year. Even if he wanted to issue any orders that would harm the country and the people, he could not pass them on. Therefore, the Qin Dynasty did not end in the hands of Hu Hai at all, and it had little to do with Qin Shihuang. In fact, when the Qin Dynasty decided to implement legalist governance, implement Shang Yang's reforms, and use the people as tools to fool and use them, the Qin Dynasty was half dead.

If Qin Shihuang were replaced by Han Wendi, it might be possible to continue, but the First Emperor is the First Emperor, so the demise of the Qin Dynasty was already doomed when he unified the world.

But the demise of the Sui Dynasty was different. The demise of the Sui Dynasty was really caused by his own death. It had nothing to do with the ancestors of the Sui Dynasty. After all, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was a naive old farmer five generations ago. What ancestral problems are there to torment your descendants?

At the beginning of the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the population was small and land conflicts were not intense. Although the aristocratic families have become extremely powerful, Yang Jian's methods in the world are very powerful, and he has put all the families in order, so to be honest, it is really not difficult to spread the Sui Dynasty for more than a hundred years.

It's a pity that a talent like Yang Guang appeared in the old Yang family, which directly ruined his family's national destiny.

In fact, when Yang Guang came to the throne, although the court and the people had already said that Yang Guang killed his brother, patricide and usurped the throne, Li Er killed his eldest brother openly and openly, and it was not a big problem if his father was imprisoned. An emperor for all eternity, plus Yang Guang is a true legitimate son, the process and procedures for his accession to the throne are impeccable, plus he has destroyed the Chen Kingdom and unified the north and the south, so after he succeeds to the throne, he really has unlimited rights Big, not inferior to his father.

But Yang Guang has a problem, that is, he is too smart, too decisive, too wise and powerful, and on top of that, he is too impatient.

Yang Guang was smart, so he saw through at a glance that there were two biggest problems in the future of the Sui Dynasty. One was that Chang'an was no longer as long as the Han Dynasty. It was the fertile soil of Guanzhong with 800 miles of fertile fields and plains. Instead, soil erosion was serious, and the population was too exploded. , where food relies heavily on external inputs.

No matter how advantageous the geographical location of such a place is, if it cannot support people, it will be a mortal enemy. If your descendants stay in Chang'an, they will be doomed sooner or later.

There are two ways to solve the problem. One is to solve it through transportation. Build a highway so that food from the south can be quickly imported to Chang'an, so that Chang'an will not be short of food. In ancient times, highways refer to canals. Before the advent of cement, if a ton of grain was transported by land, 70% or even more would be eaten by the people responsible for transporting it on the road.

The canal is better, the transport capacity of ships can solve all problems.

The second way is to move the capital and find a place with convenient transportation and superior geographical location as the new capital.

These two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. The former is once and for all, but it costs a lot. The latter is easy to implement, but the basic base of the Sui Dynasty is the Guanlong nobles. They will never accept you moving the capital to other places, and the political risks are huge.

Politicians with normal thinking usually start to do multiple-choice questions at this time, choose 2 from 1, and choose the method with the least risk and the easiest implementation.

The awesome thing about Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty is that he chose children to do the multiple-choice questions. I want them all. So Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty mobilized a large amount of people's power to build the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and he also built it in the north and south directions at the same time. He mobilized hundreds of thousands of corvees, which almost directly destroyed the economies of both the north and the south.

However, it should be clarified here that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did not really start from scratch and build a thousands-kilometer-long canal from scratch. Instead, he sent people to connect several existing rivers and canals, and finally formed the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. The Grand Canal is not that scary in terms of difficulty of construction and the amount of people mobilized, and it will not really cause a rebellion in the world, otherwise it would not be possible to build it in just a few years.

But it did greatly consume the economies of the north and the south and sow the seeds of hatred in the hearts of the people.

On the other side, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty wanted to build Luoyang, the eastern capital, and also build a capital in the south. The old man traveled back and forth to three capitals a year. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty traveled three times a year, and the court officials also had to travel with him. At the same time, he also had to travel with the most elite troops of the Sui Dynasty. Tens of thousands of people were constantly running around in three places across the country. This economy Who can bear the consumption?

The most important thing is that this will greatly reduce the influence of the Guanlong nobles. The Sui Dynasty was established with the support of the Guanlong aristocratic group, and if the capital was stable in Chang'an for a long time, the Guanlong aristocratic group who were closer to the water, first come first served, would naturally obtain the rights of the central court.

But if the imperial court travels to three places in the north, south and middle a year, the nobles in the three regions will have the opportunity to get close to the central court and gain power on a relatively equal basis. This is naturally a good thing for the rule of the Sui Dynasty, but for For the Guanlong nobles, that would cost their lives.

Originally, the implementation of any of these plans required careful consideration, and even took more than ten years to slowly advance. But Emperor Sui Yang, who was smart, decisive, wise and martial, immediately decided to execute it at the same time, and offended all the people in the north and south as well as the Guanlong nobles.

In the first year of Daye, Yang Guang decided to move the capital to Luoyang. Starting in the fourth year of Daye, the 72 smoke dust mentioned earlier began to rebel one after another, and the early rebellions were concentrated in the northern region, under Yang Guang's nose.

Yang Guang, who was smart, decisive, and wise, immediately realized that the rebellion was actually behind the Guanlong aristocratic group. They were dissatisfied with their plan to move the political center to Luoyang, which would cause them to lose power, so they planned to use various northern regions. Taking the threat of rebellion, he forced himself to move the political center back to Chang'an.

Yang Guang was angry, how could someone like him be forced by other forces? In addition, Goguryeo in the north was jumping around again at this time, so Yang Guang had a genius idea, which was to use the influence of the Guanlong nobles The powerful northern army went on an expedition to Goguryeo, which could not only eliminate Goguryeo as a flea, but also take advantage of Goguryeo's bad climate conditions to kill a large number of troops in the hands of Guanlong nobles.

The Guanlong nobles no longer had an army in their hands, so they were left to their own devices.

So Yang Guang announced his intention to expedition to Goguryeo in the 8th year of Daye. Unfortunately, Yang Guang's idea was beautiful, but the reality was cruel. The invincible Yang Guang failed in his first expedition, so he naturally had to fight a second time. He failed again for the second time, and the angry Yang Guang started for the third time, but naturally he was still defeated.

When Yang Guang was preparing for his fourth expedition to Goguryeo, he was horrified to find that almost all the most elite troops in the north of the Sui Dynasty were exhausted. Millions of people died in the north during the three expeditions. Everyone hated Yang Guang. , uprisings broke out in more than a dozen places in one day, and the entire imperial court's transportation in the north was even cut off.

This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that he originally planned to consume the troops of the Guanlong nobles, but the troops of the Guanlong nobles did not seem to have been consumed much. On the contrary, the hearts of the entire Sui Dynasty were completely consumed.

Yang Guang, who originally wanted to plot against the Guanlong nobles, found out that he was the one being plotted in the end, and the Sui Dynasty fell!

It can be said that as long as Yang Guang did not bother and could be the emperor of peace, then Yang Guang, who opened the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal or moved the capital to Luoyang, might be able to get the title of emperor for eternity, but he was ultimately defeated. , and became one of the symbols of tyrants through the ages.

The entire Sui Dynasty also came to an end in the struggle between the imperial court and the aristocratic families. The demise of the Sui Dynasty can greatly reflect the various contradictions and disputes between the centralized government and local families. There are simply not too many contents and stories to write. Liu Xu started from Yang Guang's accession to the throne and continued to the three conquests of Goguryeo. The various political and military struggles in it took up another five to six hundred chapters.

What Liu Xu writes is "refreshing", but the water is also real water!

(End of this chapter)