The canal from Jiangnan to Luoyang, turned a bend halfway, straightened and extended to the north, until Youyan, that is, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal that we are familiar with in later generations.

The reason why the Yuan Dynasty took the canal was because his capital was in the land of Youyan.

All the centers of the Great Song Dynasty are Bianliang, Kaifeng Prefecture, and Bianliang is the distribution center of all materials, and the grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River even have to come to Bianliang to buy grain, and then transport it back to sell.

This kind of pathological development has caused serious setbacks in the development of all parts of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is almost exhaustive of the country's strength to raise a Kaifeng Mansion.

This phenomenon is what all the scholars and ministers in Bianliang like to see, and it is also caused by them, and it is not easy to change it.

Yang Lin now wants to take the canal with the merit of recovering Youyan, but now he can't think of any help.

This time, it seems that he is going to wrestle with Cai Jing, after all, Cai Jing's new policy is more inclined to the power of the whole country to raise Bianliang, and many measures pay more attention to Bianliang and despise the locality. For example, Cai Jing's salt and tea system made countless wealthy merchants in Lianghuai become beggars, and all their wealth was attributed to Bianjing.

Thinking of this, Yang Lin didn't have the slightest idea of retreating, but said to Zhang An with a smile: "Anyway, you are ready, I will straighten this canal!" ”

Zhang An's expression was straight, he got up and hugged his fists and said: "If Shaozai Yucheng is in this matter, the lower officials dare to be loyal and wise, and take the canal for the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Yang Lin was a little surprised, how could this Zhang An feel grateful, Zhang An saw his puzzlement, and said with a smile: "Good teaching Shaozai learned that Xia Guan is from Qingzhou, Hebei East Road. ”

Yang Lin suddenly realized, looked at Zhang An, and the two of them laughed together.

The civil official group of the Great Song Dynasty lacked virtue and bubbled, in order to block the Khitan from going south and keep the wealth of Bianjing. He sacrificed the entire Hebei East Road, he used to plant trees for you on the official road, dug everywhere there were canals, a piece of mud, and deliberately led the Yellow River over, resulting in the waste of fertile land, the road was blocked, and the people in Hebei were miserable.

This Zhang An is from Hebei, no wonder he will be in awe of Yang Lin, at this time, the concept of local people is still very important.

Zhang An stood up and retired by the way, and Yang Lin personally sent him under the ship, and he was courteous. When he returned to the top of the boat and saw that Zhehuanxiang was in a daze, Yang Lin walked over and said with a smile: "I'm tired all the way, I'll enter Bianliang immediately, and you can rest well." I have a big yard in Bianliang, I didn't live in Zhaodefang before, and I have already ordered someone to clean it up, and I also won the peony flower you like. ”

Zhi Huanxiang sighed: "I like to stay by your side, but I am so bored when you deal with official business, and I have nothing to say to others, I don't know if you have time to accompany me when you return to Bianliang." ”

Yang Lin hugged her and talked sweetly, which made the beauty smile, and at this time the boat had already entered the boundary of Kaifeng Mansion.

After all, Zhehuanxiang was still a widowed little widow, Yang Lin sent someone to send them to his own courtyard, and then took Lu Qian and others to land, ready to ride into the city.

Youyan's victory, the shock of Kaifeng Mansion is too great, everyone is jubilant along the way, and most of the words in the mouths of the people are the night battle of Zhuolu Mountain.

What they said became more and more mysterious, it was Yang Lin himself, and he had to be shocked when he heard their description, it turned out that I was so fierce.

When there were still more than ten miles away from Bianliang, a group of white-clothed scholars on the official road had been waiting for a long time, led by Yang Lin's eldest disciple Wu Min.

Although Yang Lin has been away from Beijing for a year, he is clear about Bianliang, and now so many people should be his own disciples and grandchildren...

Wu Min and others opened an altar to give lectures under the Yanqing Temple, and received many disciples, Yang Lin was supportive, and secretly asked Yin Muhong to give them some more gold, silver and copper coins, and made suggestions to build momentum for them.

Otherwise, Wu Min and others alone would not be able to achieve today's situation. Yin Muhong has sufficient experience in building momentum and is a good hand. The planning is also leaky, but unfortunately it is a little bit of character.

"The students have seen their teachers." Wu Min ran over from a distance and saluted with his junior and apprentices.

When Yang Lin saw his disciple, his back unconsciously straightened, and his face became kind.

After getting off the horse, Yang Lin walked with a group of people, and there were many new students along the way, asking all kinds of difficult doubts, and Yang Lin answered them one by one.

My own subject is very simple, that is, pay attention to the application of learning, not to do fake and empty knowledge, but to have a target.

According to your own interests and talents, choose a direction and delve into the rules of exploration. The world is full of knowledge, which is still very attractive to these young students, because Yang Lin's doctrine is indeed more interesting.

Of course, in the process of learning from things, the traditional scriptures and history Ziyi also have to be learned, after all, in this era, aside from these, you are not a literati.

Yang Lin's mind has the results of the research of countless generations of sages in the world after a thousand years, and these things are common sense in the eyes of later generations, and they are all great cognitions in this era.

Yang Lin can almost tell the truth about the problems of the disciples and grandchildren, which further elevates his status in the hearts of the students of the Yang Sect.

In their opinion, Yang Lin could have become a saint like Confucius and Mencius as soon as possible.

The group was talking and walking, and they actually arrived at the outskirts of Bianliang City. Yang Lin didn't feel tired at all, and a dozen miles of travel was a very easy thing for him.

There were already people on the outskirts of the city who had set up a color platform, waiting to welcome him into the city and take back Youyan's people, no matter how grand the greeting was, it was not too much.

Yang Lin just wants to keep a low profile now, after all, in the near future, he will mention the matter of the canal.

At that time, most of the officials and gentry here will become their own resistance, they are the actual beneficiaries of the Bianliang central system, and control the economy, culture and power of the entire Great Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty made strong and weak branches, and the main trunk was too thick, while the surrounding branches and leaves were sparse and sparse, and in the long run, it has become a pathology.

There are many stubborn diseases in the Great Song Dynasty, and this one especially needs to be solved, so Yang Lin will know the difficulties.

Cai Jing may not be able to see the harm of this, but there is no way, he, the prime minister, is also the spokesperson of this Bianliang class and the biggest profiteer.

The crowd was full of familiar faces, he had been away from Beijing for a year, and the situation in the world had changed abruptly, but Bianliang had hardly changed.

is still that group of familiar people, doing familiar things, in the redundant and rotten system of officialdom, mixed with the days, the flower streets and willow alleys of Bianliang, and the prostitutes drinking and having fun.

Glancing around, Yang Lin shook his head and sighed: These Gonggong princes are all their enemies in the future, and they are much more terrifying than the Jurchens.

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