The digging of the Grand Canal is Yang Mu's wish that he has been thinking about day and night in the past few years.

In fact, since the relocation of the capital, the canal of Cangguo has been running in an orderly manner.

Over the years, many fragmented rivers across the country have been linked together because of the canal excavation plan.

However, the process is slow.

The main reason is that digging a canal is a very difficult task, such as design and excavation, various equipment, etc., which requires a lot of relevant talents.

It takes time to cultivate talents, and it took the Ministry of Education four years to cultivate thousands of professional talents.

Therefore, over the years, the mileage of the canals built in the entire Cangguo is actually relatively short, only about a quarter of the plan.

Of course, compared with the rest of the countries, Cangguo is at the forefront.

It was one of his grand plans to push other countries to build canals.

As we all know, the most developed water system in the world is the Jin Kingdom.

It can be said that the Jin State was able to leap to the top in an expansion, and the developed water system contributed a lot.

If it weren't for the blessing of the cement road and track, Cangguo would not be able to compare with the Jin Kingdom.

In ancient times, there were two kinds of canals: natural river transport and artificial canals.

Natural river transport has brought convenience to human transportation, both labor-saving, and economical, as long as the water power can be competent, it can reach all parts along its coast with the waterway.

Although the transportation on land is not limited by the river, it can be done at will, but in addition to the flat land, the mountains and hills, there are difficulties in transportation everywhere, and in terms of transportation volume, the gap between vehicles and ships is very large, and the force is also very different, compared with the two, it is natural that the advantages of river transportation are great.

Of course, the transportation of natural rivers also has its shortcomings and shortcomings, that is, the river should be determined with the highland of the terrain, and the river has a certain flow direction and flow problems, and the area far away from the river will not be convenient.

In this way, the method of artificially digging canals has emerged to supplement the lack of natural river channels.

According to what Yang Mu knows, ancient China began to dig canals in order to go north to the Central Plains to compete for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period and Wu Wangfucha era.

The excavation of the canal in Cangguo can be divided into three considerations.

Politically, after the canal became the main waterway of Cao Yun, Cao Yun took advantage of the convenient conditions of communication with the Grand Canal to transfer grain and goods to most parts of the country, which became a powerful means of adjusting materials and balancing society.

Cao Yun is an indispensable material foundation for maintaining the central power, and the huge local garrisons distributed in various places, the defense and offensive along the long border, and the various wars of the four sides can all rely on Cao Yun as a strong material backing.

Economically, most of the key areas for the requisition of light grain are areas with developed agricultural production, and the development of water conservancy in response to the needs of water transportation has promoted the development of agricultural water conservancy to a certain extent in some areas, and water transportation can greatly promote the circulation of commodities.

In Chinese history, the influence of Cao Yun on the rise and fall of cities and towns was most obvious, especially along the canals. On the one hand, with the opening of the canal and the continuous improvement of transportation conditions, a large number of towns have sprung up, on the other hand, the increasing frequency of canal transportation, as well as the large number of goods and trade opportunities it brings, have greatly attracted merchants and hawkers and other types of merchants from all over the world, and the prosperity of towns along the canal has also become a natural thing.

For example, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Linqing, Jining, Huai'an, Yangzhou, etc., along the canal, although it cannot be said that they prospered entirely because of Caoyun, but the northward and southward movement of Caoyun, as well as the trade opportunities it promoted, must be the main reason for the prosperity of these towns.

The convenience of transportation and the flow of goods brought by Cao Yun, and the increasing prosperity of towns and cities, contributed to the formation of a market network along the canal. The rise and fall of the first-line towns of the canal is closely related to the smoothness of the canal and the normality of the canal.

In society, Cao Yun is an important means to maintain the stability of a dynasty and check and balance the society, especially in the middle and late stages of ancient Chinese society, the rulers skillfully and frequently use Cao Yun to carry out social checks and balances and regulation, eliminate social instability factors such as heavy endowments, disasters and price fluctuations, etc., from the regulation of the market, the stabilization of prices, relief and other aspects, have a great role.

Of course, this is only the long-term impact of the development of water transportation on the country after the construction of the Grand Canal.

From the current Cangguo, the construction of the canal also has a very big effect, that is, the implementation of the secondary distribution of wealth.

Why?

It's time to talk about the state of Cangguo.

As we all know, since Yang Mu ascended the throne, he has been vigorously promoting light levies, and the pressure on the people of Cangguo has been greatly reduced, and even many poor people do not have to pay taxes at all, and one of the very important conscriptions, although they also exist in law, but what Cangguo has implemented in recent years is paid conscription.

What is paid servitude?

That is to say, if the government has any important projects, let the people sign up freely first, and if the number of people is not enough, then issue a requisition order to force the number of people to be enough.

However, whether it is compulsory recruitment or free registration, as long as it is a forced service, the government will issue subsidies.

In fact, the subsidy is wages, which is equivalent to saying that these people are working for the government.

For example, in every war, the logistics personnel who were temporarily recruited to escort grain, grass and baggage, and make arrows and other things were all paid conscription.

In recent years, once there is any large-scale project, there is no need for the government to recruit and transfer at all, and the number of people who sign up will be much more than the quota.

Many times, there will be some cases of several people grabbing a place.

No way, there is too much idle labor.

Especially during the non-agricultural busy period, the people have more than half of the time to stay at home, occasionally weaving or doing a small business, most of the time is idle, and there is very little work that can make money.

For the government, it is not too cost-effective to ensure that someone can do the work and the quality of the work is high, and it can also disperse the government's money through this method.

This is also what Yang Mu is willing to see.

According to the common sense of economics, the government actually has a function of macroeconomic regulation and control through government procurement to achieve the secondary distribution of social wealth.

In previous economic crises, the government has developed infrastructure construction, provided job opportunities for the people, and then revived the economy and protected the overall interests of the people through a series of cycles such as stimulating domestic demand.

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