introduction

"The end of the Sui River is this river, and it has been thousands of miles away. If there is no water temple dragon boat matter, Gongyu will not have much merit. "It is said that the Tang people stayed on the banks of the Bianshui River on a restful day, and they couldn't sleep at night when they heard the sound of oars and boat songs. Feeling the prosperity of today and the people's livelihood in the past, he wrote a song "Bianhe Nostalgia" to comment on the merits of the canal. This poem is sung all over the world. In one sentence, Mr. Du Daopi said that the cause of the decline and fall of the previous dynasty was exhausted. But I don't know that the defeat of the previous dynasty is far more than a canal can carry. As for the details, listen to me slowly!

The Grand Canal is divided into two parts, the north and the south, the south is called Tongji Canal, and the north is Yongji Canal. The south reaches the Yangtze River, and the north connects Zhuo County, which is more than 240 steps wide and more than 3,500 miles long. Since its completion, millions of goods have been shipped every day, benefiting both sides of the strait for thousands of years. Only Yang Guang's dynasty did not get any benefits at all, but planted the bane of the country? According to folk legends, Yang Guang dreamed of Qionghua in the south of the Yangtze River, so he did not hesitate to risk the loss of the country and built the canal. But if Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was just for the Dragon Boat of the Water Temple to go directly to Jiangdu and play and enjoy himself along the way, why did he dig the north and south canals together, causing the anger of the heavens and the resentment?

In fact, the Great Sui Canal has been excavated since Yang Jian was in power, and the reason for the excavation is not for pleasure. In fact, transporting grain to the north to deal with Goguryeo, a large country in eastern Liao, was its real purpose.

The Goguryeo Kingdom is said to have been built by the descendants of the Minja, and at first it was only a village the size of a projectile. After the two Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the king of Goguryeo was attached to the Xianbei people and continued to invade westward. By the time the Great Sui was established, the country had become the second largest country after the Turks, and Yang Guang and his son were busy dealing with Nan Chen and had no time to look north, so they constantly provoked border provocations.

In the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Sui could not bear it anymore and sent Gao Ying to lead 300,000 soldiers and horses to the east. 300,000 soldiers were buried in the wilderness, and less than 3,000 returned.

Yang Guang, the second emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, killed his brother and took the throne. Eager to establish meritorious deeds in order to plug the mouths of the people of the world. Therefore, after ascending the throne, the monarch and ministers have been planning how to crusade against Goguryeo in order to complete the unfinished business of the previous emperor. In order to avoid repeating the mistake of not being able to receive grain and grass last time, from the first year of the Great Cause, nearly 3 million people were recruited to expand the canal when Yang Jian was in power, and excavated the north and south at the same time, vowing to connect the Yangtze River, Huai River, Yellow River, Hutuo River, Sangganshui and other major rivers in the world as a whole. It took several years to finally build a water transportation artery connecting the north and south of the Central Plains.

After the canal was completed, Yang Guang immediately issued a conscription order, raising a total of 1030,000 soldiers and more than 2 million people. Although the determination of the Eastern Crusade was great, the monarchs and ministers despised the resistance of the Goguryeo people in their bones. Thinking of the achievements of a hundred generations in the First World War, and wanting to show the benevolence of the Central Plains Holy Monarch to the Cypriots. As a result, the Goguryeo king's soldiers rebelled and then surrendered, and the war dragged on for more than four months with just one trick.

In desperation, Yang Guang sent his confidant Yu Wenshu to lead the elite of the Great Sui Zhenguo, and 300,000 soldiers made a detour to attack Pyongyang, the royal city of Goguryeo. Although Na Yu Wenshu has one of the best qualifications in the army, he is far from being a general. In addition, a good and happy overseer elbowed from the side, and the Goguryeo people cut off the supply line in a daze. As a result, 300,000 elite soldiers in hundreds of battles had no food and no support, and the whole army was wiped out.

As soon as the 300,000 government soldiers were lost, the foundation of the Great Sui was immediately shaken. Yang Guangjun was anxious to recover his losses, and in the spring of the second year, he immediately gathered his soldiers again and launched the Second Eastern Crusade. For a time, the people of the world were impoverished, living in peace was unbearable, and plundering was still prolonged, so they began to gather as a group of thieves.

Before the two crusades began, the world was in chaos. There are Wang Bo in Henan, Sun Xuanya in Hebei, Zhang Jincheng, Dou Jiande, and Gao Monk in Longyou, and Du Fuwei in Lianghuai. Everywhere he went, he slaughtered the homes of the rich, washed the doors of the commoners, and the government repeatedly recruited and suppressed them, but nothing was achieved. The farmers and traders, who usually did not even dare to speak loudly, had to take refuge in the hands of the rogues and join them in order to survive.

When the news reached the imperial court, Yang Guang convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures. The ministers looked at each other, and Qi Shushu looked at the two important ministers who participated in the government, Pei Ju and Yu Shiji, who were known as the first and second smartest people in the world. Pei and Yu had long known that thieves were swarming all over the world, but they had been hiding it and refusing to let Yang Guang see the urgent documents from the place. At the moment, he was stared at by his colleagues, and in his anxiety, he really came up with a clever plan.

The strategy was to order all the local people to move into the city, so that the thieves would not have a chance to attack. As for those whose dwellings are far from the city, they build forts and live in seclusions. The thieves attacked, so that he had no money to rob, no strong men to catch, and the walls were clear, so he was naturally starved to death!

When Yang Guang heard this, he felt that this plan was very good, and immediately ordered the local authorities to do their best to implement it. Less than half a month after the decree was issued, the prefectures and counties were overcrowded, land prices soared, and goods from the north and south were in short supply. At first glance, it is several times more prosperous than the peaceful and prosperous times. As for whether there are people cultivating the fields outside the city, and whether the grass grows taller than wheat, it is not a matter of concern!