Chapter 203 It’s unreasonable for you not to die.

On the canopy,
A shirtless farmer was waving the hoe in his hand, hoeing the ground.

The picture is raised and zoomed out.

Looking around, countless civilians spreading to the sky opened up an extremely wide and endless trench.

The picture overlooks the earth,

The camera keeps advancing along this winding trench.

The upper side shows the length of the trench.

ten kilometers.

One hundred kilometers.

Three hundred kilometers!

Five hundred kilometers!

Nine hundred kilometers!

The screen zooms up quickly!
One line starts from Longmen, goes to Changping, Jijun, Linqingguan, crosses the Yellow River to Junyi, Xiangcheng, and reaches Shangluo, a 900-kilometer-long chasm emerges on the territory.

This cutting road spans the north, east, and south of Guanluo Land, guarding Chang'an and Luoyang.

……

[On the fourth day of November in 604 AD, an edict was issued to recruit people from Shanxi and Henan to build a large long moat. 】

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The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
Liu Che looked at the trench in the sky, knocked on the desk and thought.

Turks, Qilu, Jiangnan.

One trench was used to defend three places, which was indeed a bit of a deliberate move.

But... nine hundred kilometers...

Isn't this a bit impatient?

……

[On March 605, AD, the construction of Luoyang City, the Eastern Capital, officially started. 】

……

Luoyang,

A towering palace complex with a circumference of sixty-seven miles rose from the ground.

The central hall is twenty feet high.

Thirteen bays and twenty-nine racks!
Majestic and majestic, tall and towering.

And a garden to the west that is twice the size of the palace complex is even more luxurious.

An artificial lake with a radius of more than ten miles.

There are three rockeries on the lake, one hundred feet apart and more than ten feet high.

There are Taoist temples built on the mountain.

The plank roads on the lake are connected to the lake pavilions, which are well-proportioned.

There is a winding water dragon on the north side of the garden. It twists and turns according to the terrain and flows into the artificial lake.

Where the water channel passes, there are sixteen palaces and courtyards.

The view from the palace to the building is extremely gorgeous.

There are flying bridges of various shapes on the canal.

There are willows and swaying bamboos beside the canal.

……

The screen turned,
Outside the majestic palace city.

Hundreds of thousands of shirtless civilians were pulling stones and wooden blocks, step by step, towards the magnificent palace.

Occasionally someone fainted from exhaustion.

The supervising officials on the side raised their long whips and beat him severely.

Some were awakened and gritted their teeth to continue.

Some of them couldn't wake up, so they were thrown aside.

……

[Luoyang Dongdu recruits two million civilians from various places every month. 】

[Among them, there are more than 800,000 for earthwork, more than 700,000 for building palaces and cities, and more than 100,000 for building palaces, walls and courtyards. 】

[Carpenters, bricklayers, metal workers, and stone workers each have more than 100,000. 】

[In order to build the magnificent Xianren Palace and other palaces, a large amount of precious wood was harvested from the south of Dajiang and north of Wangling, and traveled thousands of miles to Luoyang day and night. 】

[Transporting wood and stone requires hundreds of thousands of labor. 】

[And in the west of the eastern capital city, a royal garden of 400 square kilometers was built after the Shanglin Garden of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which was called Xiyuan in history. 】

[Four to five hundred thousand civilians were exhausted to death at the foot of the city wall, next to the palace and on the transportation road. 】

[On the road from the capital Luoyang to Chenggao in the east and Heyang in the north, there was an endless stream of vehicles transporting corpses, and the roads were crowded. 】

[Some bodies were not transported out in time, so they were buried in a random hole. 】

[In this way, the construction of the Eastern Capital was completed in ten months. 】

……

Da Qin,

Ying Zheng only has one idea now.

How similar!

They regard the world as easy and people's livelihood as child's play.

……

Big man,

Liu Bang looked at the people lying on the road and sighed.

"Are you another person who stands high and refuses to bow his head?"

"Do you have to be in such a hurry?"

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The period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty
Liu Heng sighed.

"Too much haste."

……

Datang,

Xiao Li Zhi looked at everything in the sky and looked back at Li Shimin.

"Father, is this all true?"

Li Shimin nodded silently.

"Why would he do this? Is Chang'an bad?"

Xiao Lizhi didn't understand.

Chang'an City is the center of the world, and Guanzhong is the land of four fortresses.

Why do we have to go to Luoyang to build a new capital?

Li Shimin looked at him and thought for a long time.

Finally he gritted his teeth and said:
"Although the Guanzhong region is rich, the population growth during the Sui Dynasty was staggering."

"The people all flocked to Chang'an City, and the court had to find a way to provide for their food and clothing."

"Chang'an is the capital of the country and is responsible for the collection, storage and transportation of food and money."

“You have to transport food in, and you have to transport food out.”

Xiao Li Zhi didn't know why, and Xiao Sizi on the side also looked at him and listened with his ears pricked up.

"Then bring it in?"

Hearing Li Zhi's words, Li Shimin shook his head and sighed.

“At that time, food from the south was mainly transported to Beijing by water.”

"We have to pass through the Yellow River and Weihe River on the way. Over time, the riverbed of the Weihe River has accumulated sand and soil, making it impossible for large ships to walk on it." "So after arriving at the Weihe River, the grain must be unloaded from the ship and sent to Chang'an by vehicle."

Xiao Li Zhi and Xiao Si Zi looked at each other.

So troublesome?

"That's not right, Father, all that food comes by water!"

Xiao Lizhi suddenly thought of the blind spot.

Li Shimin didn't ask how he knew, he just looked at the sky and said:
"This is all thanks to Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty."

The two cubs were shocked!

Thank you Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty for understanding, thank you Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty?
Father is confused because of fever?

Li Shimin put his hands behind his back and said with a complicated expression:
"In order to solve this problem at that time."

"Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty built a 300-mile Guangtong Canal from the east of Daxing City to Tongguan County near the Yellow River."

"The Guangtong Canal solves the water transportation problem from Chang'an to the Yellow River."

"But from Jiangnan to the Yellow River, from the prefectures and counties along the Yellow River to the Yellow River, and the dredging of the Yellow River."

“For decades after that, almost nothing could be done.”

"As a place with four fortresses, Guanzhong is easy to defend, but it also has its drawbacks."

"It is very difficult to transport supplies from all over the country to Guanzhong."

"Luoyang is located in the Central Plains and has convenient transportation. It is much more convenient to transport materials from across the country here."

Xiao Li Zhi looked at Li Shimin who changed the subject and did not continue to ask about the question from Jiangnan to the Yellow River.

Because this question no longer needs to be asked.

……

[March 605, AD, was the fourth day that the construction of Dongdu began. 】

[Yang Guang ordered Shangshu Youcheng Huangfu to discuss and go to Henan, Huaibei and other places to recruit more than one million civilians to build a Tongji Canal to connect the Yellow River and Huaihe River. 】

[At the same time, more than 100,000 people were recruited to dig Hangou. 】

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The period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty
Liu Heng closed his eyes and didn't want to look anymore.

The Sui Dynasty had a population of more than 40 million, and there was a greater increase in taxes than in the past.

It can mobilize an average of two million people per month within ten months.

This is actually an amazing thing.

Because since the land of China, no court has ever been able to control such a large population.

There would be no labor on this scale.

but……

"Sometimes, a capable and incompetent king is more terrifying than an incompetent and mediocre king."

Once the mobilization of labor begins to become a habit.

The consequences are doomed.

……

Sui Dynasty,

"boom!"

The inkstone was smashed to the ground, and Yang Jian was furious!

"What is he going to do!"

"What does he want to do!"

Yang Jian looked at the sky, gritted his teeth and said bitterly:

"Does he want to imitate the violent Qin Dynasty!"

"Does he think I don't want to communicate with the North-South Canal?"

"Did he do this?"

Dugu Jialuo couldn't help but feel worried when he looked at Yang Jian who had begun to speak incoherently.

"Na Luo Yan..."

Yang Jian, whose eyes were bloodshot, held the desk with both hands.

"King Wu Fucha built the ancient Hangou to connect the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River!"

"King Wei Hui, Wei Feng, dug a chasm to connect the Yellow River and Huaihe River, and dug an ancient Bian Canal to connect the Yellow River and Sishui River!"

"I will dredge the ancient Hangou and Shanyangdu!"

"Who doesn't want to open up water transportation between the north and the south!"

“But none of this can be accomplished in a day!”

"This Zhuzi... Zhuzi!"

"What on earth does he want to...!"

Yang Jian suddenly thought of a possibility.

Grains are transported from the south to the north.

The troops from the north move to the south!

……

On the canopy

The screen is divided into two parts,

On one side is the territory map.

On one side is a picture of a civilian.

On the territory map, a red line starts from Zhukou, Bancheng, Xingyang.

It goes out of the Yellow River and passes through Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Shangqiu, Huaibei and Suzhou.

All the way to the Huaihe River in Xuyi.

On the map of civilian workers, countless civilian workers in ragged clothes are digging and clearing blocked rivers.

……

[Tongji Canal, the first phase of the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal. 】

[The east side starts from Zhukou, Bancheng, Henan to the Huaihe River in Xuyi, Jiangsu, with a total length of about 650 kilometers. 】

[From Huaishui Shanyang to Guhangou in Yangzhou, the total length is 197 kilometers. 】

[The west starts from Xiyuan in Luoyang, diverts Luo River and Gu River into the river, passes through Yanshi and Gongxian, and finally flows into the Yellow River, with a total length of fifty-seven kilometers. 】

[In March 605 AD, Tongji Canal was officially excavated. 】

[In August 605 AD, Tongji Canal was officially put into use. 】

[In five months, the 700-kilometer Tongji Canal and the nearly 200-kilometer Guhang ditch were all dug. 】

[Also at the end of March, Yang Guang ordered Wang Hong, the Huangmen servant, to go to the south of the Yangtze River to supervise the construction of dragon boats. 】

[In August, the construction of the dragon boat was completed, and Yang Guang was ready to set off for a southern tour. 】

……

 The role of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal was not only reflected in the Sui Dynasty, but also continued to the Tang and Song Dynasties.

  It can be said that this project is as great as the Great Wall.

  But this does not stop scolding Yang Guang.

  Two different things.

  Three million laborers were mobilized in March alone.

  By August, it will be 13 million!

  He died unjustly.

  Don't talk about the power of Guanlong Group or aristocratic families.

  They didn't ask you to mobilize more than 10 million in labor for five months.

  I have to thank Yang Jian for being able to hold on for eight years before the war was everywhere.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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