But in any case, just after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it spent a lot of money to build a new capital, and it was to build a Grand Canal nearly 6,000 miles long, which did not affect the people's livelihood.

Fu Jian could only smile bitterly: "The foundation of the people is good." ”

But he is also a hero, and he is more concerned about the political impact brought by the relocation of the capital of the Tang State: "If the Jingshi is placed in the north, they can deal with the troubles in the north more conveniently...... Daiguo is in danger. ”

Wang Meng also said with a solemn expression: "Murong Chui led 50,000 foot cavalry Chen soldiers to Yanmen County, threatening Pingcheng and Jingshi Shengle of Daiguo at all times, and Daiwang has asked us for help several times. ”

"The Tang Kingdom moved its capital to the northern capital, and Daning in the north of the Dai Kingdom will also be in danger, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to support the enemy on both sides."

Fu Jian said: "I'm not afraid of Tang Guo fighting, I'm afraid that they won't fight, this is the deadliest." ”

What Qin Guo wants to do most now is to have a showdown with Tang Guo, even if he dies on the battlefield, but he won't be given a chance at all.

The strategy of the Tang State is a naked conspiracy, confrontation and consumption, to see who can't support it first. But as long as you are not stupid, you know that time is on the side of the Tang Kingdom.

Firearms have great disadvantages in field battles, but they are invincible in fortified stations. As long as they don't move first, the Qin State has no way at all, and if they dare to take the initiative to attack, they will be sent to death.

But as long as they show their flaws, Tang Guo will take a cold breath. If you have a chance, you will be beaten a city, and if you don't have a chance, you will retreat if you bite and hurt.

There are 600,000 troops in the air, but there is nowhere to do it, let alone feel more aggrieved.

What's more, they really can't afford to drag it out. Fu Jian himself knew that the Qin State would collapse in two years at most.

Wang Meng also knew this, but even if he was incomparably intelligent, he would not have the slightest way to face this situation.

……

Luoyang, Wen Yi looked at a map in front of him, on which was the overall plan of the Grand Canal, and there was a construction plan next to it.

This Grand Canal had already been planned before he entered the Central Plains, and it was very important for the country, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a major artery.

Isn't it much more convenient to develop seafaring capacity than to dig canals?

That's not what I said, let's talk about the simplest thing. Why do Caoyun take inland rivers instead of the sea? Is it true that the ancients were too stupid?

No, to prevent someone from stealing chickens.

How big the sea is, you can make the ship disappear with any excuse, and the state can't find out.

There is no need to worry about this problem in inland river transportation, where the ship sinks, the country can go to see if something really happened or someone stole chickens.

This is only from a security point of view, and there are economic benefits. A major artery inland river can drive the development of dozens of cities in several provinces along the way.

Historically, there were two Grand Canals, one was the Sui and Tang Canals, and the other was the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The Grand Canal of Sui and Tang Dynasties is from Yanjing to Luoyang, and then from Luoyang to Hangzhou, in the shape of "".

This route not only communicates the north and south, but also connects Luoyang, an important place in the world.

When the Yuan Dynasty put the Jingshi in Yanjing, in order to more conveniently transport grain from the south to the north, the Sui and Tang Canals were straightened. From Tianjin directly south to Suzhou, the distance was shortened by 900 kilometers.

This will indeed make it easier to transport grain from the south to the north, but this is bad news for Yuzhou and the entire central region.

The towns that originally arose by the Sui and Tang Canals lost their vitality, and the prosperous 'Central Plains' basically declined.

With the rise of maritime trade, the entire central region lost the opportunity for development and became the so-called national breadbasket.

Wen Yi was not the Yuan court, he had to consider the balance of the development of the entire country, and the Sui-Tang Canal was undoubtedly the best plan.

With this Grand Canal, the entire central part will get better development opportunities. Although it still can't catch up with the coastal areas, at least there will not be any opportunities for development.

As for the canal line, it has been extended by 900 kilometers...... This is not a problem at all compared to the development of the country as a whole.

What's more, there are steam engines and trains, and when the train technology matures, the railway line running through the north and south can solve this detour problem.

There is a third reason, which is to standardize and adjust the hydrological conditions in the Yanjing area.

There are many rivers in the Yanjing area, but most of them are seasonal rivers, which either die of waterlogging or drought. The Guanting Reservoir and the Miyun Reservoir have solved the problems of the Yongding River and Chaobai River, which are the largest, respectively.

But what if there are dozens of smaller rivers left?

That's when a big river is needed to constrain these water resources and make them available to humans.

Moreover, Jingshi is bound to be a densely populated place, and the demand for water resources will be very large, so how to ensure that water resources are sufficient when local rivers are short of water?

This requires an external river to transport water, and the Grand Canal can also play a role in diverting water from Huang to Beijing.

Well, here is the flow of the Grand Canal, with the Yellow River as the boundary, the north bank of the Yellow River flows to the northeast, and the south bank of the Yellow River flows to the southeast.

In short, the Grand Canal is not just a river that transports waterways, but also involves a lot of things that are very complex. That's why Wenyi just established his power, and he couldn't wait to start construction.

However, he also knew very well that he could not be Emperor Yang of Sui.

Yang Guang completed such a large project in only six months, while the Yuan Dynasty took ten years to excavate the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Naturally, he can't make the mistakes made by others again, so when he made the plan, he determined a hard condition to start work as much as possible without affecting people's livelihood.

And for the first time in order to dig the canal, he also used forced labor.

Although the people of the Tang Kingdom only had one kind of field tax, they still had to serve as forced labor, that is, they worked for the state for free for one month every year.

It's just that the forced labor is carried out locally, and public channels are dug to pave bridges and roads, and the people will not be brought from the south to the north to participate in the forced labor.

For example, when digging the Grand Canal, people only need to repair the section in front of their homes. In remote places, or places where construction is difficult, let the slaves do it.

If there are not enough slaves, they will be caught, or they will pay to hire a man to do it...... However, after the land reform of the Tang Dynasty, the people could not plant all their own land, and not many people were willing to work and sell their labor.

Even if you pay several times the salary, nothing is as important as your own land in the eyes of the people. Although I don't earn as much as I go out to work, the land is my own.

Conscription is an inevitable choice.

It's not that Wen Yi wants to exploit the people, but the productive forces are there, and he has no way to go against the sky. Otherwise the whole country will come to a standstill, and don't think about any major projects.

And in the long run, these big projects are convenient for the people.

However, at this time, the excavation of the Grand Canal was not as easy as it seemed.