Yang Guang was pardoned by Yang Fan for capital crimes and reduced to commoners, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among the people of Guangling Mansion.

However, Yang Fan knew that these people had been exploited by Yang Fan here, and words of resentment were indispensable, so in order to seal the mouths of these people, Yang Fan named Guangling Yangzhou in the local area, and exempted the local people from paying taxes for three years!

Guangling was originally Yangzhou, but no one had renamed it at that time, because Yang Fan changed the name of Guangling in advance in order to welcome history!

In Yang Fan's memory, Yangzhou is naturally a good place, when the school organized a tour in the past, he came to the city of Yangzhou, and he still remembers the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou!

After staying in Yangzhou City for a while, Yang Fan is having Yaxing to appreciate the gap between Yangzhou at this time and Yangzhou in the future.

Yang Fan suddenly thought of Du Mu's praise poem written on the stone tablet in the Slender West Lake tourist attraction.

"The green mountains are faint and the water is far away, the grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not withered in autumn, and the twenty-four bridges are bright and moonlit nights, where can the jade teach!

Right! Twenty-four bridges!

At this time, Yang Fan was interested in the twenty-four bridges in the eyes of the old man!

However, when Yang Fan asked the local governor of Guangling Mansion, this guy actually said that there were no 24 bridges here!

"Young master, we have never had the attraction of the Twenty-Four Bridges in Guangling, how can you let the lower officials take you to see it, but we have a twenty-three bridges here, Young Master, are you talking about the bridge!"

Governor Mu looked at Yang Fan with a thoughtful expression.

"Twenty-three bridges? Are you saying that there are only 23 bridges in this Guangling? ”

"No, young master, Xia Guan didn't say that there are twenty-three bridges in Guangling, but that there is a bridge named Twenty-three Bridges!"

Yang Fan looked confused, and said in his heart, could it be that there were no twenty-four bridges in the Sui Dynasty, and could it be that they were built during Li Shimin's reign?

"Twenty-three bridges? How can there be such a strange name, is there a twenty-one bridge, twenty-one bridge? ”

"No, no, there is only one bridge, twenty-three bridges!"

Governor Mu himself was also a little confused by this awkward name!

Yang Fan was naturally a little strange, and hurriedly asked,

"Who named the twenty-three bridges, how could there be such a strange bridge name, I thought there were twenty-three bridges!"

Governor Mu hurriedly smiled,

"Young master, the name of these twenty-three bridges was given by Yang Guang!"

Yang Fan asked again,

"Do you know why this bridge came about, and why this Yang Guang came up with such a name!"

Governor Mu looked embarrassed, but continued,

"The subordinates are not sure, but I heard that Yang Guang took a group of concubines and palace maids to play in the Slender West Lake in Guangling when he was in power, and then passed by this bridge and asked Xiaguan the name of the bridge, because the bridge has just been built, Xiaguan has not yet taken a name, so he said that there is no name, Yang Guang's side Wei Gonggong counted a few ladies on the boat, and the palace maid took the concubine a total of twenty-three people, so Yang Guang put the twenty-three beauties around him, plus homophony, and named this bridge Twenty-three Bridge!"

"I see, it seems that this Yang Guang's absurdity and prostitution really deserves his reputation, and he actually needs twenty-three beauties to accompany him for a trip to Slender West Lake, no wonder Da Sui wants to be buried in his hands!"

After a while, Yang Fan said again,

"If Master Mu is okay, can you take me to see this twenty-three bridge?"

"Of course, the young master asks his subordinates to have no reason not to accompany him!"

……

Yang Fan was extremely curious about this mysterious 23 bridge, so under the leadership of Governor Mu, he and his subordinates took a cruise ship on the Slender West Lake!

At this time, the water in Slender West Lake is provided by the water of the canal, and the continuous flow of water looks much more ferocious than the modern tame!

The weeping willows on both sides of the river make the turbulent lake look even more beautiful, but at this time, the Slender West Lake is indeed only a big lake, and there are few other buildings except for the water!

However, the waterfowl and wild ducks on the lake dance in flocks, making people feel a little closer to the pristine nature.

Along the rushing water, you soon came under this bridge called the Twenty-Three Bridge!

What a big bridge!

Looking at the sluice gates that were used to obstruct the turbulent water of the lake that damaged the embankments on both sides, Yang Fan realized that this bridge was not any of the twenty-four bridges in his impression!

The arched bridge looks more than three meters high, the huge sluice slab is ajar at this time, and the turbulent river water forms a huge whirlpool in front of the sluice gate, and there is a rumbling sound from time to time!

The bridge is engraved with red letters, and the twenty-three bridges and the time of their construction are mentioned on them.

However, Yang Fan understood that it was not enough for such a large flow of water to just test this bridge to hinder the impact of the water flow on the embankment, so he immediately said to Governor Mu,

"The water is so turbulent, I'm afraid a bridge won't be able to support it for many years, it's better like this, Lord Muslim, you can build some small bridges on the surface of this lake to reduce the damage of the current to the 23rd Bridge, I don't know if Lord Mu agrees or not?"

Governor Mu immediately replied,

"The young master said that his subordinates have this intention, but there is no surplus silver taels in the current treasury, and there is no surplus ...... the lower officials."

Before he finished speaking, Governor Mu looked at Yang Fan with an embarrassed expression.

Yang Fan smiled,

"What's so difficult about this, you put up a notice to let the rich and powerful landlords and wealthy businessmen in Guangling donate money to repair the bridge, and promise that those who participate in the construction of the bridge will not collect any taxes in the next ten years, so that it will be solved?"

Governor Mu suddenly realized, and looked at Yang Fan with a happy face,

"The young master is wise, this method is very good, I'll do it! But how many small bridges does the young master plan to build here! ”

Yang Fan didn't think about it, and immediately said,

"From one to twenty-four, the name is replaced by a number, and there is enough to make up a solar term meter!"

"Twenty-four...... Isn't it too much......"

Governor Mu looked embarrassed.

Yang Fan smiled,

"Not much, the bridge can be repaired, but the number cannot be less, I have calculated, twenty-four is an auspicious number!"

Yang Fan is just to restore history, as for the bridge, it doesn't matter if the bridge is small, but none of the twenty-four can be missing!

stayed in Guangling Mansion for a few weeks, but suddenly came the news that Li Yuan and his son had defeated Wang Shichong.

Originally, in a few days, Yang Fan planned to go back to the north to have a look, after all, the northern Xiongnu went south, had broken through the defense line, and went towards Kyoto, if it was delayed, I am afraid that the more than 200,000 troops in the capital land would not be able to deal with it at all!

Yang Fan once read the 24 histories and understood that the fundamental reason why Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty built the Grand Canal was to strengthen transportation and allow the southern Liang to travel to the north, so as to contain the development of the northern nomads, and at the same time to allow the army to have an unimpeded road, which could quickly carry out strategic dynamic adjustments.

However, Li Yuan captured Wang Shichong, and his strength naturally doubled, and his combat power at this time was completely able to compete with himself, it was obvious that for Yang Fan now, the biggest obstacle had appeared, if he went north, then the south would be empty, and the city he had won with great difficulty was likely to be taken away by Li Yuan's father and son one by one!