Chapter 503: The Establishment of the Sui Empire
Princess Qianjin did this, in fact, it was also Yang Jian's own sin.
After Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, the ministers of the court and China debated endlessly on how to deal with the Northern Zhou clan, but in general there were only two opinions.
One is to imitate Yuwentai's treatment of the Northern Wei clan, not to kill, but to give them preferential treatment and house arrest, and after a long time, they will accept this fact, and there will be no more problems.
Li Delin, who was most persistent in this view, believed that governing the country should be based on benevolence and righteousness, and only by occupying moral justice could the Sui Dynasty continue for a long time, and that there was neither justice nor morality in killing the Northern Zhou clan, which was no longer able to resist.
Another suggestion is to insist that all the Northern Zhou clans be killed, only in this way can the future troubles be completely cut off, and it is the minister Yu Qingze who adheres to this view, and the ministers who hold these two views argue endlessly, and all those who want to kill the clan are people who are not closely related to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Tolerance is the 'right', intolerance is the 'scripture', but also Yang Jian's guiding ideology of governing the country, Yang Jian has a deep suspicion of Confucianism, he thinks that Li Delin is just a scholar's opinion, and finally listened to Yu Qingze's opinion, and killed all the Northern Zhou clans, but Li Delin is still reused.
But in this way, it will cause big trouble!
Princess Qianjin is a member of the Yuwen clan, when she learned that Yang Jian killed all her clansmen, how could she not hate Yang Jian, the biggest hatred in the world is to kill her parents, Yang Jian not only killed other people's parents, but even the clan did not let go.
To say that there is no wind in this world that can compare to the pillow wind, under the cry of the princess, soon the Sha Bo Luo Khan, who cherishes the beauty, was moved.
In fact, Anluo himself also has the intention of getting some benefits from the nascent Sui Empire in his heart, the Turkic strength has been greatly damaged in recent years, and he has no ability to go south to plunder, and his life is not easy, at this time it is always good to get some benefits from the Sui Dynasty.
Just a month after Yang Jian was founded, the Shabalu Khan Anluo led more than 100,000 Turkic troops south into the Hetao region, and finally stationed troops in Yunzhong County, and then extorted a large amount of money, grain, cloth and materials from Yang Jian in the name of revenge for the princess.
In the face of the Turkic blackmail, Yang Jian's face immediately darkened, but now he really can't go north to fight against the Turks for a while, and he is even more helpless about Sha Boluo's short-sightedness, now it is the strongest Xia country, everyone must unite to fight against Xia Guo!
But no matter what, it is still necessary to play as soon as possible, the Turks are, after all, they have just ascended the throne, and such a situation has occurred, and everyone will think of this when they talk about it in the future, which is really too embarrassing.
Facts have proved that there are indeed a lot of talents in the Sui Empire, and at this time, the young eldest grandson Sheng asked for help and took the initiative to send an envoy to meet Sha Bo Luo Khan, and he promised that as long as he went out, he would definitely be able to persuade Sha Bao Luo Khan.
At this time, everyone sweated for the young eldest grandson Sheng, after all, everyone had just killed all the relatives of Princess Qianjin, and then went to Sha Boluo Khan, wouldn't it become Princess Qianjin's punching bag at that time?
Almost everyone was not optimistic about Changsun Sheng, and even Yang Jian, who had always known that he was clever and scheming, would be suspicious, but in the end, Yang Jian, who had no choice, still agreed to Changsun Sheng's request.
When the news came back, everyone fell under their jaws, and Sha Bolu quickly withdrew his troops and returned to the Turkic tent, and Changsun Sheng was not killed by the princess, but was forcibly taken away by Sha Bolu Khan.
Although Yang Jian was worried about the safety of Changsun Sheng, he was still relieved that the Turkic army suddenly invaded and disappeared without a trace, and he had to seize all the time to develop the Sui Empire, the nascent Sui Empire was still not strong enough, otherwise how could he be afraid of the Turkic south.
What worries Yang Jian even more is Xia Guo.
From the death of Yu Wenyun to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty by Yang Jian for more than a year, the Xia Kingdom has not moved at all, which makes Yang Jian feel extremely strange, which also happens that he needs more time to develop, only in this way can he win in the future war.
Yang Jian started from the inheritance of his father Yang Zhong's Suiguo Gong, his family was given the surname Pu Liuru, and entered the title of Suiwang, so he set the name of his new dynasty as Sui, and he felt that the word with the word has the same name as walking, which is not very auspicious, so he changed it to Sui.
As soon as Emperor Wen of Sui ascended the throne of Jinluan, he restored the Han surname, not to mention, and completely abolished all the Xianbei surnames given during the Yuwentai period, which made him gain strong support from the Kwantung clan.
Soon after, he carried out a series of major reforms to the political system, abolishing the anachronistic system of the Northern Six Officials (Heaven, Earth, Spring, Autumn, Winter, and Summer).
The bureaucratic system of the Northern Zhou Dynasty basically imitated the form of the original "Zhou Guan" in the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, the "Zhou Li", which was very primitive and extremely chaotic. The six-official system has complex titles, unclear responsibilities, and low efficiency.
After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian carried out a series of reforms in politics, economy and other systems.
In the central government, the system of three provinces and six ministries was implemented, and the local three-level system of prefectures, counties, and counties was changed to a two-level system of prefectures and counties, and local officials were appointed and dismissed by the central government, which greatly consolidated the centralization of power, and the situation of many powerful ministers in the Northern Zhou Dynasty was eliminated without a trace.
Three divisions, three public divisions, and five provinces were set up in the central government. The three divisions and the three dukes are just a kind of honorary titles, and it is the five provinces that hold the power, namely the Inner Servant Province, the Secretary Province, the Menxia Province, the Inner History Province and the Shangshu Province, which is the three-province system inherited by the Tang Dynasty. Beauty Nest
The establishment of this set of large-scale and well-organized bureaucratic institutions by Emperor Wen of Sui shows that the feudal system has developed to a mature stage, which has been followed since the Sui Dynasty and has been followed until the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, in the first year of the opening of the emperor, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered Gao Xi and others to refer to the old laws of the Wei and Jin dynasties to formulate the "Kaihuang Law". Three years after the opening of the emperor, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered Su Wei and Niu Hong to revise the new law and delete the harsh provisions.
The Law of Kaihuang had a profound impact on the laws of later generations, and the laws revised by Emperor Wen of Sui were basically inherited by the Tang Dynasty.
After Yang Jian ascended the throne, the biggest move was to build Daxing City.
At the beginning of the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the inherited capital of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was still in the old city of Chang'an, which was dilapidated due to the war, and the palace was small and could not meet the needs of the newly built unified national capital.
In addition, for hundreds of years, the precipitation of urban sewage has made it difficult to drain from the bottom, and the Weishui riverbed has been reduced, and the drinking water supply for residents in Chang'an City has also become a problem.
Therefore, Emperor Wen of Sui gave up the old Chang'an City north of Longshouyuan, and built a new city in the southeast of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, named Daxing City, in the area of Xi'an City and the east, south and west of the city, that is, Chang'an City during the Tang Dynasty.
In the first month of the second year of Kaihuang (the twenty-sixth year of the Xia calendar), Yang Jian ordered Yu Wenkai to be responsible for the design and construction of the new city - Daxing City, and required the completion of the project in March of the following year.
Yu Wenkai referred to Luoyang City in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the southern city of Ye Capital in the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Northern Qi Dynasty, and regarded the six high slopes south of Longshouyuan as the six pillars of Qianzhi, and took this as the core as the geographical basis for the overall planning of Chang'an City.
"Liupo" is the skeleton of Daxing City, and the imperial palace, many government offices and temples are all high above, which is in stark contrast to the general residential area.
In the lowlands between Okabara, except for residential areas, canals were opened to divert water and lakes were dug to increase the water area of the city. Daxing City makes full use of the advantages of the terrain to increase the three-dimensional space, which is more majestic and magnificent.
The layout of Daxing City is neat and uniform, and the shape is rectangular. The whole city is composed of three parts: the palace city, the imperial city, and the outer Guo city, and the layout is completely symmetrical from east to west.
The area of Waiguo City accounts for nearly ninety percent of the total area of the city, and the substantial expansion of residential areas is a major feature of the overall architectural design of Daxing City.
Daxing City was the largest city in the world at that time, and it was the 2nd of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty. 4 times, 1 of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the city of Beijing. 4 times.
It was seven times larger than Byzantium, the capital of the Roman Empire, and 6 times larger than the city of Baghdad, which was built by the Arabs in 800 AD. 2 times.
Prior to this, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the urban pattern in the capital city had no rules and regulations, no layout, and the palace, official offices, and residences were staggered and very messy.
After Daxing City, the balanced and symmetrical pattern of the capital city began to take shape, the streets were neat and uniform, the north and south were staggered, the east and west were symmetrical, and the streets and alleys were well organized. The three parts of the Imperial Palace, the Imperial City, and the Folk Residence are relatively separated, with clear boundaries, which are both safe and practical.
Although the honor of these plans has been snatched away by the Xia Kingdom in advance, all this does not affect the influence of Daxing City on the Central Plains.
Historically, Yang Jian succeeded in unifying China after centuries of severe division, and since then China has maintained the political unity he established for most centuries, and his personal achievements cannot be erased.
When Emperor Wen of Sui first ascended the throne, the population of the country was 4 million, and by the time Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, it had reached nearly 9 million households, and the population of the country was no less than 50 million in terms of a household of six, which was not reached until the time of Tang Xuanzong a hundred years after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.
After the death of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, when Li Zhi succeeded to the throne of Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, there were 3.8 million households, and Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, which was blown to the sky in history, had only 7.6 million households and 41 million people in the country, which was far less than the population prosperity during the Sui Dynasty.
The gap in national strength can be imagined that it cannot be made up by just boasting, the Sui Dynasty is not as bad as everyone imagined, and the Tang Dynasty is not as good as imagined.
Later generations always think that overseas Chinatowns are taken from the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, it is not, because when the Chinese were sold as piglets, the place they left was called Tangshan, and since then Tangshan has become synonymous with the mainland, which is the origin of the Tang people, not what is proud of the Tang Dynasty.
Yang Jian is indeed capable, but now that he has Wang Ze, he doesn't have so much time to create his reign as an emperor.
In order to better contain the Xia State, he tried his best to win over the Turks to fight against the Xia State, but in order to prevent the Turks from posing a threat to the Sui Dynasty, he adopted the strategy of Changsun Sheng, so that the Turks were divided into two, the east was still ruled by the Shabalu Khan Anluo, and the west was the alliance of Datou and Daluo.
In this way, on the Eastern Continent, a situation of mutual containment was formed between the Sui Dynasty and the Turkic and Xia Kingdoms.