Yang Guang, who completed the Grand Canal matter, has long been nailed to the pillar of shame.

And Guo didn't think he was wronged.

Yang Guang is always hot-headed when he does a lot of things, and he always doesn't like to think about the consequences, which is also one of the reasons why he was scolded for thousands of years, and it is also the direct reason for the fall of the Sui Dynasty.

From the Huaihe River basin to the Yellow River basin to the Tongji Canal, such a long section of the project, in order to pass the heavy dragon boats, the river channel has to be dug very wide, but also very deep, the amount of work is very large.

As a result, he only gave Yu Wenkai five months to work......

With the engineering strength and technical means of the Sui Dynasty, the construction started in March and was completed in August, and then Yang Guang happily took the concubines south to Yangzhou.

And at what cost?

Two million laborers, more than four-tenths of them are said to have died, nearly half.

When Yang Guang went south, the car carrying the corpse of Ding Zhuang, who had died of exhaustion and starvation in order to build the Grand Canal, was passing everywhere.

The cart transported his body back to their hometown and handed it over to their grieving family for burial.

It is no wonder that Yang Guang planted the tree and the descendants took advantage of the shade.

Guo didn't know if a million people died in the construction of this Tongji Canal, and he didn't know if there was any artistic processing here.

But the five-month construction period completed such a large amount of work, the immortal is a wonder in the world.

Guo built a Qinling Shu Road, and for several years, although he was very careful, he instructed Hanzhong County and Yongzhou to use labor carefully.

Rao is like this, the Shu Dao project has also buried the lives of nearly 60,000 prisoners of war and slaves, which can be regarded as the result of relaxing the construction period and pursuing quality, and almost smashed all the prisoners of war and slaves obtained by Guo Someone's expedition to Liangzhou.

If local households go to build roads, it is estimated that the number of deaths will not be low.

Like Yang Guang, you need speed and quality......

It can only be said that the people of the world are pitiful.

It's ploughing, it's work, and it's taxes.

He deserved to be killed.

Guo sighed.

To open the Grand Canal, prisoners of war alone would certainly not be enough.

The current prisoners of war are building roads on the Shu Road, and they are no longer busy paving roads in Liangzhou, and it is impossible to mobilize them to build the Grand Canal.

The captured Xianbei and Liaodong prisoners of war are building roads on the land of Liaodong, and the road is being built across Liaoze, and the construction period and manpower are also very tight, and it is impossible to support the Grand Canal.

In the process of Jiangnan development, the population obtained was basically incorporated into the local household registration and cleared the wasteland, and the prisoners of war and slaves obtained were also used in local projects, and they were not enough.

In short, the Wei Empire is carrying out a full range of large-scale infrastructure projects, and projects have been launched in various places, so only the Central Plains, which was developed relatively early, can spare people to help.

Therefore, the construction of the Grand Canal must mobilize the people of the Wei Empire.

It is impossible for Guo to be like Yang Guang who does not care about human life, two million people rushed to work in five months to complete this canal, and the corpses repaired by the canal were all over the field, and every household who repaired it hung white flags.

That is tantamount to forcing the common people to rebel.

He must have to think about a lot of things, as well as the tolerance of the population, and he can't die or something.

It is necessary to use a large number of auxiliary troops to join this project to reduce the production pressure on Li Shu as much as possible, and also choose to carry out general mobilization during the slack period, so as not to delay agricultural production.

It is necessary to dispatch the strong men of all states, counties, and counties in turn, take turns to act, and adopt a system of rotational rest, and they cannot be used until they die in one go.

We must have mercy on the people's strength, give them sufficient food, and give them sufficient logistical support.

In order to arouse their enthusiasm for labor, it is also necessary to appropriately reduce taxes and give incentives, so as to offset their resentment and dissatisfaction with being forcibly conscripted.

While pursuing quality, we should not pursue speed too much, so as not to cause a large number of casualties among the people of Limin, and not to make them unable to live a normal life, so that they can't even have children.

There are so many things to do, so Guo thinks that it will be almost enough to complete this canal from Yangzhou to Luoyang in Yande ten years ago, and it will be considered a huge victory.

On this basis, Tian Feng also proposed to communicate from the north to the south to Hebei, and to communicate with Hebei.

Guo can see his thoughts at a glance, but that is not what Guo cares about the most, what Guo cares about the most is whether it is good or not.

The Sui Dynasty did this in order to clean up the Goguryi.

In order to clean up Goguryi, Yang Guang realized the difficulty of transporting grain by land, and in order to improve the transportation capacity, he stored grain in advance and sent it to Jixian County as the general logistics base of the army, so he repaired the canal from Luoyang to Jixian County and communicated the north and south.

As a result, Yang Guangcai had the confidence to raise a million troops to crusade against Goguryi, trying to kill Goguryi in one go.

Yang Guang has a military purpose, while Guo does not have too strong military needs.

Goguryi is gone, the Goguryi royal family and the entire ruling class have been exterminated by the ban, and some culture has been completely destroyed, and all who remain are the Li people.

There will be no more Goguryeo in the future.

Pingzhou has been established, and the scourge has been swept away.

It is impossible for other fishing and hunting peoples in the Outer Khing'an Mountains to compete with the power of the Wei Empire, and they will be swept away in the future development plan of Guo someone.

As for the conquest of Xianbei that Tian Feng said, this is barely a reason.

Guo plans to gather more than 150,000 cavalry troops in the future, led by himself himself, to penetrate directly into the north of the desert, exterminate the Xianbei group, destroy all the nomadic forces that can be found, and then officially start to build the desert animal husbandry economic zone of the Wei Empire.

For this reason, Guo has repaired a large number of granaries in Jizhou, stored a considerable amount of grain, and wantonly made reserve cured meat, for that day.

If a large amount of food is not enough, it is difficult to say whether this battle will continue to be fought, and Guo is not ignorant of mathematics.

Moreover, of course, the meaning of the battle is to leave Jizhou, and it is not to build the Grand Canal directly to the grassland.

This was not for the future Northern Expedition at all, but for his own political purposes.

But Guo was still tempted.

The biggest reason for repairing the Grand Canal was not for Guo's Northern Expedition to Xianbei, nor for further control of Liaodong, but for the sake of future generations of kings and later people.

You can make a lot of preparations in advance, repair the granary to store grain, and lay the foundation for the future to smoothly pass the initial Xiaoice River period.

At that time, he might still be alive, and it would not be difficult to lead his people through the initial crisis.

But this wave of Xiaoice River is not something that I can watch alive.

I will die, sooner or later, I will die, and it is impossible to survive this period of the Xiaoice River alive.

If you can live, you will not be a human being, you will either be a god or a ghost.

After all, it is impossible for Guo to find something as weird as the grass of life and death.

He can guarantee to lead his people through the initial crisis, and the subsequent crises will need the kings of the future.

Will they be able to do it, can they do it, and will they let the people of Jizhou starve and freeze?

Can they still safely control the villages of Tuntian, safely reserve strategic grain reserves, and safely let the people of Li survive the crisis?

Will Guo's arrangement and operation in the north be completely bankrupt because of their nonsense?

This is something that Guo is not sure of.

If it really comes to that point, without strong transportation capacity, it will inevitably cause the phenomenon of the people of Jizhou fleeing south on a large scale.

It's really hard to say how many people will die.

We should not pin all our hopes on future generations, and we should not expect too much from the subjective initiative of future generations.

There are some things that the predecessors did not do well, and the descendants cannot be blamed for not doing well, let alone that the descendants must be stronger than the predecessors, so they can throw the blame to the descendants with peace of mind.

From the day the Wei Empire was established, or since the death of Guo, it was probably going downhill.

He felt he had to keep his hand.

In order for the future people not to starve and freeze, it may not be impossible to prepare a path of life for them in advance.

From this point of view, if something terrible and unpredictable really happened later, causing the whole of North China to suffer, this Grand Canal is also the life route of the people of North China.

I'd rather be busy at this time, be a little tired, and even take a little risk, Guo also wants to do more for future generations.

Try to do as much as possible, so that they will suffer less, suffer less, have something to eat, and have clothes to wear.

They are really bitter and hard, and it shouldn't be more bitter and harder.

Throughout history, they have always been just a string of numbers in the household registration book, and no one has ever really looked at them as human beings.

Zhu Yuanzhang may have seen them as people, and if they come again, they will be modern.

Thousands of years of glorious Chinese history are forged by their blood and tears, and Guo feels that he cannot forget or deny this no matter what.

Chinese history is not only about princes, generals, talented and beautiful women, but also about them.

So Guo felt that he had to do something.

Even if they are dead and gone, and they can't continue to protect them, the Grand Canal can still give them some hope.

Transportation is life.

Traffic effectiveness saves lives.

So, people are suffering a little now.

While I was alive and still in control.

With this in mind, Guo felt that Tian Feng's suggestion was meaningful, and it was very meaningful for both North China and South China, so Guo felt that it was okay to do so.

But it's one thing to do it or not, and it's another thing to have a contradiction between Tian Feng and Cao Cao.

Tian Feng proposed to build the canal to Jizhou to connect the distance from Yecheng to Luoyang, so as to communicate the north and south and achieve a real connection.

His purpose is by no means simple, what his thoughts are, Guo is clear.

The plan was supported by some, but it was also strongly opposed by a group of people.

As soon as Cheng Yu and Cao Cao heard about this plan, they immediately expressed strong opposition.

Cheng Yu and Cao Cao believed that it would have been very difficult to build a canal.

According to their predictions, it will take at least half a million workers to mobilize and at least two years or more to ensure a safe and quality finish.

The money spent will definitely not be less than the money needed to repair the Shu Road.

Repair Shu Road because of the danger of a large number of deaths, the Grand Canal on the flat ground, the danger is not great, but the amount of work will be very large, if the excessive use of people's manpower, there will be accidents.

What Guo Peng needed was a canal waterway from Luoyang to Yangzhou, not a waterway to Hebei.

If we want to connect to Hebei, we must increase the labor force by at least 200,000, pay more than 10 million yuan in capital and a large amount of grain, which is more than worth the loss.

And in all senses, there is no need to extend the canal to Hebei, as long as the canal can reach Luoyang, any material can enter Hebei through the Yellow River.

With the distance from Luoyang to Yecheng, there is no need to add an additional canal at all.

It's something that doesn't make sense.

PS: May the deceased rest in peace, may the living work hard, and may the motherland prosper.