Chapter 49 Epoch-Making Reformation Masters IV
11. Dig a wide canal. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In 584, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered the master craftsman Yu Wenkai to lead the people to dig the canal: from the northwest of Daxing City in the west to lead the Wei water, flow through the old road of the Cao Canal in the Han Dynasty, and then flow into the Yellow River at Tongguan, with a total length of more than 300 li!
Emperor Wen of Sui's move kicked off the prelude to his son Emperor Ming of Sui's Yang Guangda to repair the canal!
12. In terms of diplomacy and military affairs, Emperor Wen of Sui adopted a diplomatic strategy of pacification, friendship and "distant friendship and close attack, separation from the strong and weak together".
For the Turks, who were the strong enemies at that time (divided into the Eastern and Western Turks), the Turks were divided by means of wooing and affinity (and at the same time, discord) and causing the Turks to fight among themselves! Civil war!
The Sui Dynasty took the opportunity to recover a large area and expand the border to the north of Yinshan!
Therefore, the Great Sui Empire "has three generations of land and eight generations!" ”
The mighty army of the Great Sui Empire, which was "strong in armor and strong in armor" and "traveled thousands of miles", annihilated or severely damaged the Chen Dynasty, the Turks, Tuyuhun, Khitan, and Goryeo······ Therefore, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian and Emperor Ming of Sui Emperor Yang Guang, father and son, were successively elected as international leaders by the leaders of these countries: Sage Tian Khan!
The Great Sui Empire implemented a well-established territorial scope, that is, its territory, which the Tang Dynasty did not reach until 630!
13. Emperor Wen of Sui also had a political initiative that had a far-reaching impact on China and the world: the "Three Provinces and Six Ministries System", which checked and balanced each other and was independent: the world's earliest "separation of powers" mechanism! (See below)
Fourteen, almost bloodless to conquer the Chen State of the Southern Dynasty! It has brought an end to the situation of nearly 300 years of division and more than 400 years of war in China, and completed the great unification of China! (See below)
During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian, "during the twenty years, there was nothing in the world, and Yan Ru was also in the district. The first king of the test is enough to be in full swing. ”
Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian's martial arts surpassed the "previous kings" of previous dynasties! In the "twenty years" under his rule, it can be called the "rule of the emperor"!
The "rule of the emperor", which covers great achievements in politics, economy, military, legal system, culture, etc., is far from being comparable to the "rule of Zhenguan", which has no economic achievements and only has political enlightenment, and the "prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty" that inherits the achievements of its predecessors! also ordered to squeeze the blood and sweat of the Han people's "Kangqian Prosperous Era" to look at it! (See below)
As far as the reform of the political system and the design of the political regime model are concerned, not only Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, but all the emperors of China, can only sigh to themselves! Because Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian was the founder of the political structure of China's feudal dynasty! The originator of the world's "separation of powers"! Because he founded ······
Prior to the Sui Dynasty, the state institutions and governance models of all dynasties were modeled after the "Zhou Guan" (i.e., "Zhou Li") system in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
And the Western Zhou Dynasty has been more than 1,500 years away from the Sui Dynasty! Obviously, the outdated and backward "Zhou Guan" system is far from being suitable for the emerging countries more than a thousand years later!
Therefore, Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, and his ministers, who were outstanding in political wisdom and statecraft, drew on the experience of their predecessors and combined with the actual situation to establish a central political institution with the three provinces of Shangshu, Menxia, and Neishi and the six ministries of Shangshu Province as the core. The functions of these institutions are both collaborative and complementary; But the powers are separated, and they are balanced by each other!