Chapter 48 Epoch-Making Reformation Masters III
The abundance of grain in its granary is simply staggering! In the eleventh year of the Zhenguan reign of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, when the superintendent Ma Zhou advised Li Shimin to curb the soaring prices, he said: "Sui stored Luokoucang and Li Mi because of it, accumulated cloth and silk in the eastern capital and Wang Shi filled it, and the Xijing treasury was also used by the state. "When Ma Zhou said this, Emperor Wen of Sui had been dead for 33 years, and the Sui Dynasty had fallen for 20, and the grain and materials of the Sui Dynasty were hijacked by the forces of the thief Li Mi and the traitor Wang Shichong, and the grain and cloth left by the Sui Dynasty were still used in the Tang Dynasty!www.biquge.info In other words, the grain stored in the granary of the Sui Dynasty was enough for the whole country for fifty or sixty years! The population of the Tang Dynasty at that time was less than half of that of the Sui Dynasty, so it was not a problem to use a hundred years! In today's world food crisis, what is the concept of "50 or 60 years" and "100 years"? So much so that Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict in the seventeenth year of the emperor's reign; Tax-free nationwide for one year!
The Sui Dynasty was truly "rich for the people!" "The real country is strong and the people are rich!
9. Save Han culture and promote Buddhism.
Due to the war that lasted for three or four hundred years, many cultural texts were destroyed in the war or lost in the war! In 583, Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict: Whoever offers a book and a scroll tastes a silk horse! As a result, "folk books often come out from time to time!" "The Sui Dynasty has the largest collection of books in all dynasties: 370,000 volumes (Tang Xuanzong's 80,000 volumes is a fraction of him)! It has played an important role in the revival of Han civilization!
At the same time, because Emperor Wen of Sui himself grew up in Buddhism before the age of 13, he naturally had a special fondness for Buddhism, so he also adopted a series of measures favorable to Buddhism, which played a role in promoting the development of Buddhism.
10. The strong economic strength established the international status of the Sui State as a powerful country at that time, in order to show the world a capital city commensurate with the national prestige, Emperor Wen of Sui decided to build Daxing City as the new capital of the Sui State!
The original capital city of Chang'an has been nearly 900 years since the founding of the city to Emperor Wen of Sui! Due to the war, the city is dilapidated and abandoned; Coupled with the increase in population, the city is seriously polluted, and the groundwater is undrinkable. And Emperor Wen of Sui is determined to build the Sui Dynasty into a "superpower", and it is bound to have a magnificent and magnificent capital to match!
Because he once named Daxing Gong, the name of "Daxing" is auspicious, so the new capital is called Daxing City.
After Kamchatka, the capital site was set at the southern foot of Longshou Mountain (the original Chang'an was at the northern foothills).
In the first month of 582 (the second year of the emperor's reign), Emperor Wen of Sui ordered Yu Wenkai, a master craftsman (equivalent to the current Minister of Construction), to lead the construction of the workers, and by March of the following year, it was successfully completed in only thirteen months!
After the completion of Daxing City, the scale is grand! Magnificent! It covers an area of 85 square kilometers! It is 2.4 times that of the original Chang'an City! 1.4 times that of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties! 7 times larger than the capital of the Byzantine kingdom at the same time! That's 6.2 times the city of Baghdad, built in 800!
The layout of the city is dense and orderly, the functional partition is reasonable, and the fusion is applicable, beautiful and scientific in one city!
After the completion of the new capital, the weather is myriad, magnificent and magnificent! The palace is splendid, the city tower is about to fly, the Buddhist temple is towering into the sky, the shops are lined up one after another, the lake is as clear as a mirror, and the city river is like a ribbon······
Daxingcheng became the metropolis of the empire and the international financial center! It is a landmark of the Great Sui Empire! It is also "the world's first city!" ”
The design and layout of Daxing City not only influenced China's future urban construction, but also imitated by Japan and North Korea!