What is called tricks to die, Yang Guang's behavior is like this.

In just four or five years after ascending the throne, Hebei's people's power has been almost consumed.

Rebuild the northern section of the Great Wall, first send a million people, completed within 20 days, five or six out of ten people died, and then levied 200,000 people to extend the Great Wall outside the Great Wall, killing and wounding more than half.

The Northern Tour flaunted its force and recruited millions of people, and in just a few months, it built an earthen version of the highway that was more than 2,000 miles long and passed through the Taihang Mountains, killing and wounding more than half of the people.

The eastern capital of Luoyang was built, and two million people were levied, and five or six out of ten casualties were killed in three years.

Yang Guang was ready to make a move against Goguryeo, and requisitioned one million Ding Zhuang north of the Yellow River to build the Yongji Canal, but the result was that the men were not enough to be strong enough to fill the number of women, and the Northern Canal was built for more than 2,000 miles in just a few months, and countless men and women were killed and injured.

Since Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he overhauled the granary of the palace, and levied tens of thousands or even 100,000 people at every turn, and there were luxurious palaces in the east and west capitals and Yangzhou Jiangdu, and overhauled back to Luocang on the bank of the Yellow River in the eastern capital, and hundreds of thousands of Ding Zhuang's husbands who died due to hard labor.

All of this is simply a trick to death, and the number of Ding Zhuang people who were tossed to death by Yang Guang alone exceeded 3 million, resulting in a tragic situation of Ding Zhuang lacking even north of the Yellow River, which is especially insufficient.

Yang Guang also particularly likes to run around, with countless officials and civil servants around him, in just a few years, he has hunted many times with the heroes of the western regions of the grassland, in order to show the strength of the Great Sui Dynasty various projects to do casually, for which the number of tired, hungry and thirsty casualties is still amazing.

In short, Yang Guang has been tossing quite hard since he succeeded to the throne, and he didn't take Ding Zhuang's people's power seriously at all.

That is to say, the accumulation in the Kaihuang period is enough, and the Great Sui has not completely collapsed, but the people are also complaining, and instability has begun to appear in various places.

Don't think that Yang Guang will only toss the people of the north, and the people of the south will not be able to escape either.

The Tongji Canal from the Yellow River to the Huai River has also been built in just a few months, and the number of Huaibei Ding Zhuang who have been requisitioned is only about 500,000, but the same casualties have caused a lot of local wailing.

Not only that, the canal from the Huai River to the Yangtze River also began to be launched, which not only requisitioned Ding Zhuang north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River to participate in labor service, but even sent a civil service to the Wu Guogong Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River.

Wu Guogong Lei Hu naturally refused to give in, and he planned to make a deal with Yang Guang and the imperial court on this opportunity.

From the south of the Huai River to the north of the Yangtze River, the Wu Guogong Mansion can take over, and there is no need for the local crazy recruitment of Ding Zhuangminfu, there is a professional construction corps under the command of the Wu Guogong Mansion, and only the imperial court needs to distribute sufficient grain and grass, and even the tool Guogong Mansion is round.

"Opportunity opportunity, this is an opportunity to vigorously expand our influence, even if you suffer a small loss for this, it is nothing!"

At the internal meeting of the Guogong Mansion, Lei Hu said this to his subordinate military ministers: "There is still one point that is quite crucial, that is, Huainan and Jiangbei must not be chaotic, otherwise it will seriously affect the economic development of the territory!" ”

At present, the situation north of the Yellow River is already quite bad, not only is the people's power too much consumed, but even the people's wealth has been looted quite cleanly, the living standards of ordinary people have dropped greatly, and the proportion of people who have no surplus wealth in their hands has reached an alarming proportion.

This is all the trouble that Yang Guang is extremely poor and extravagant, especially when he repeatedly shows off his wealth and force in front of the Saiwai and the Western Regions, and always draws the huge wealth of the land north of the Yellow River, and gets the rewards of the Saiwai and the Western Regions for showing off without hesitation.

This kind of move of only going in and out, and dying to save face and suffer crimes, Lei Hu can't look down on it, he doesn't want Yang Guang to harm the essence of Huainan and the north of the Yangtze River.

It is true that the economy of the territory is growing rapidly, but this is a benefit of being connected to the external environment.

If the economic development of the Duke of Wu alone is rapid, and the neighboring Huainan and Jiangbei regions become poor, then the economic development of the territory will also be affected by the external environment, and the growth rate will slowly slow down.

This was not the result that Lei Hu wanted, so when Yang Guang and the court wantonly requisitioned Huainan and Jiangbei Ding Zhuang, Lei Hu sent several folds in a row to Yang Guang, who was wandering around.

At the same time, the lords of the three major gates in the north, as well as the patriarchs of the great families who have great interests in the south, have all received secret letters from Jiangnan.

I don't know how to operate in the end, in short, Yang Guang issued an order soon after, agreed to all the requests of Wu Guogong Lei Hu, and set a time limit for him to quickly dredge the Grand Canal in Huainan and Jiangbei, and made it clear that he would directly take a boat south to Jiangdu to inspect the canal.

"Guys, it's time for us to show off what we're up to!"

After receiving Yang Guang's holy decree, Lei Hu Chong's subordinate Wu Chongchen smiled and said: "This time, we must win the hearts of the people in Huainan and Jiangbei!" ”

"No!"

A cadre of civil and military ministers was full of excitement, and they despised Yang Guang and the court in the north in their hearts.

This kind of opportunity to invite the hearts of the people is willing to give up to the local princes, either Yang Guang and the princes of the court can't see the strength of Wu Guogong clearly, or they think that this is a bad thing that costs the people and loses money and the gain is disproportionate, so they simply take the opportunity to let Wu Guogong, a big fool, do it.

The efficiency of the Wu Guogong Mansion was extremely high, and one day after obtaining Yang Guang's permission, a minister specializing in large-scale engineering construction crossed the river and headed north with a production and construction corps of 10,000 people.

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"What, Wu Guogong's subordinates came down so quickly?"

Wang Shichong was taken aback, stared at the messenger Ding with round eyes, and said angrily: "I hope you didn't deceive the official, otherwise you will look good!" ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly rushed out of the palace eunuch's yamen and went to the governor's mansion, and sure enough, the governor of Yangzhou was preparing to look for him.

"Palace supervisor, this time the people on Wu Guogong's side will be personally received by you!"

The governor of Yangzhou directly ordered: "Don't slack off on the hospitality of good students, Wu Guogong and his subordinates are not easy to provoke, and if something happens, Your Majesty can't protect you, you know?" ”

Wang Shichong hurriedly nodded and replied: "No!" ”

Out of the governor's mansion, Wang Shichong rushed to the Yangtze River ferry with his henchmen, looking at the vast and mighty Yangtze River water, the big ships carrying personnel and materials, and couldn't help but gasp.

It seems that he only received an order from the imperial court yesterday, saying that he wanted the Yangzhou Governor's Office to cooperate with Wu Guo to open the Huainan and Jiangbei section of the canal.

At first, I was a little puzzled, how did the work of opening the canal fall into the hands of Wu Guogong?

For Wu Guogong Lei Hu, Wang Shichong is both respectful and awe-inspiring.

The name of the world's number one master is not called in vain, Wang Shichong's own strength is considered a leader among first-class martial artists, and he naturally knows the weight of the world's number one master.

Not to mention, the territory of Wu Guogong is the most prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, with 6 million people and 100,000 troops, and the whole people have a profound background in martial arts, which is not something that anyone can offend.

Wang Shichong is ambitious and definitely a person with a heart.

Since he hugged the thigh of the current Sui Emperor Yang Guang, he has been very concerned about the Duke of Wu on the other side of the Yangtze River, and even crossed the river to experience the bustle and noise there during the New Year's holiday.

Sure enough, it was a splendid place, but unfortunately he couldn't afford the slightest idea of tossing.

The iron gate that is rampant in the territory of the Duke of Wu is not something that Wang Shichong can afford to offend, let alone the more powerful Wu Alliance, who dares to make trouble in the territory of the Duke of Wu, will face the gang forces that are the strongest in the south.

Not to mention, everyone in the territory of Wu Guogong practices martial arts, and there are many good players in the martial arts here, and there may be any inconspicuous block or village, there may be third-rate or even second-rate masters.

In such a place, even if the three great masters come, they don't dare to go wild easily, otherwise they will fight for people's lives, and the martial artists of any city can consume the other three great masters in the world to death.

Of course, taking advantage of the prosperity of Wu Guogong's territory and his status in Yangzhou, the caravan controlled by Wang Shichong in private has made a lot of money in recent years, which makes him admire Wu Guogong Lei Hu, but he will inevitably have a different kind of fear.

As a middle-level official like him, he can make a lot of money with a little effort, and the wealth in his hands has increased dramatically, and the wealth of the entire Wu Guogong territory is amazing, and no one can figure it out if it is not the high-level of the Guogong Mansion.

At present, the Duke of Wu Guogong has shown a very high efficiency of action, which makes Wang Shichong frightened.

He only received the news yesterday that even if he wanted to come to the Wu Guogong Mansion on the other side of the Yangtze River, no matter how fast he was, he would only have two or three days at most.

But in such a short period of time, at least a team of more than 10,000 people was organized on the opposite side to cross the river by boat.

Wang Shichong's heart moved, and he immediately understood what was going on, obviously the Wu Guogong Mansion opposite had already been prepared.

Otherwise, it can't be justified.

In just a few days, the administrative efficiency and energy of the opposite side have been easily gathered.

But there are also matching materials, as well as the tools and materials needed to build the canal, which can not be collected in just two or three days, and the only explanation is that the other side has been prepared.

It's just that Wang Shichong feels extremely puzzled that opening the canal is not an easy task, but the Duke of Wu Guofu, who is not on the other side, rushed to take it?

Listening to the information revealed by the governor of Yangzhou, it seems that the other side of the river only asked the imperial court for a sufficient amount of grain and grass, and did not even ask for a penny of silver, so he took the initiative to take over the opening project of the Huainan and Jiangbei sections of the canal, which stretched for hundreds of miles, which made people feel stupid.

Wang Shichong doesn't think that the people in the Guogong Mansion on the other side are all fools with bad brains.

If it weren't for the huge benefits that people can't see and can't touch, the Guogong Mansion on the other side of the Yangtze River would not be so active.

Wang Shichong's mind was spinning rapidly, and he didn't think that there would be any benefit in it.

"Palace Supervisor, they're here!"

A reminder from his subordinates reminded Wang Shichong to come back from his thoughts, and when he saw the dock controlled by the government and listened to a row of river boats, he walked over with a smile on his face, and laughed from a long distance and greeted the chief official of the Wu Guogong Mansion who had just gotten off the boat.