The pacification of Lingnan means the complete unification of the Sui Dynasty!

It seems that everyone can return to the peaceful days when the four seas are unified and the world is one!

The people of the Great Sui in the north rushed to tell each other, and the big guys no longer had to worry about being transferred to fight at any time, they didn't have to worry about the rebel army coming at any time destroying their homes, and they didn't have to worry about their heads being cut off by the rebel army to ask for merit and reward.

After the people of the Southern Dynasty were incorporated into the Sui Empire, although their hearts were sour, they felt a little comforted when they thought that their relatives did not have to go to war anymore and no longer had to be disturbed by the chaotic army, but they didn't know where to go after all.

After capturing Jiankang City, in order to destroy the so-called royal spirit here, the Sui army completely razed the entire Jiankang City, which was once prosperous, so the world's first megacity with a population of more than one million finally disappeared in front of the world.

At this time, although Daxing City had become the capital of the nascent Sui Empire, it still failed to reach a million people, after all, the geographical location of Guanzhong was too remote, although it may have the best defensive terrain, but it was not enough to support more people.

At this time, Yang Jian had just become the emperor, and everything seemed relatively normal, but after waiting for more than ten years, with the development of national strength, the grain output of the Guanzhong Plain could no longer meet the needs of Daxingcheng.

Of course, at this time, Yang Jian didn't have to think about these future troubles, he was frowning in the study at this time, thinking about the problem.

This problem is not because the Turks invaded south again and extorted a large amount of property from him, nor because the Xia State suddenly approached dozens of miles in the direction of the White Wolf Water (Daling River) as a pasture, and seriously threatened the safety of Yingzhou.

Not to mention that it was not because of the rebellious rebellion of those remnants in Tuyuhun's hometown, what he was thinking about now was that in the hometown of Nanchen, which had just been pacified, there was a sudden and large-scale tide of displaced people, and this abnormal phenomenon made him feel uneasy and surprised at the same time.

Long before the attack on Nanchen, in order to ensure the stability of the rule of Nanchen's hometown in the future, Yang Jian had resolutely demanded that all troops and horses should not burn, kill and loot, so as to win the support of the people of the Southern Dynasty, and only in this way could the Southern Dynasty, which had been fighting between the north and the south for hundreds of years, integrate into the Sui Empire as soon as possible.

In order to achieve this goal, he even severely punished Han Baohu, the general who connived at the looting of his soldiers after attacking Jiankang City, so that the general who captured Chen Shubao and had outstanding achievements was greatly discounted, and most of the rewards were deducted.

With the lesson of Han Baohu, in the months of the capture of the Southern Dynasty, the military discipline of the Sui army has been maintained very well, and the people of Nanchen have not committed any crimes, even if the people's soldiers of later generations are simply incomparable, at least it is written in the history books.

Against this background, there was no large-scale wave of displaced people in the Southern Dynasties even at the time of the war, so why did there appear another wave of displaced people today when the war has ended?

This made Yang Jian puzzled.

Could it be that there is a fan of Nanchen Junchen who is unwilling to fail? This is the first idea of the skeptical Yang Jian, but thinking about the boring little kid of Hou Chen, Yang Jian understands that this is impossible, he doesn't bother to pay attention to this amorous little kid, and his Zhang beauty has been thrown back to him.

Yang Jian, who has been raised in a nunnery since he was a child, is not very greedy for women, and Queen Dugu is jealous, he once vowed to only favor Queen Dugu alone, and even the palace laws formulated by Queen Dugu herself made him unconditional to add any concubines.

After almost completely quitting women, the control of power and the desire to complete the unification of the country have become Yang Jian's top goals.

In his plan, after Nan Chen stabilized, it was time for him to deal with Xia Guo, but now that Nan Chen suddenly appeared, he had to suppress the irritability in his heart.

If in the original history, he had already set his sights on Goguryeo, the overlord of the East China Sea, who occupied Liaodong, and tried to recover the four Han counties, in order to completely complete the great cause of national unification.

Of course, these are all things that Yang Jian doesn't know, what he knows is that Goguryeo, which originally dominated Liaodong, and small states such as Khitan, Xiren, Baekje, Silla, and Ya, have all been destroyed by one country, and this country is the more powerful Xia State that now occupies Liaodong.

For this country, which was also established by the Han Chinese, Yang Jian heard a little, and they quickly became strong at a speed that Yang Jian had never heard of, even if Yang Jian knew very little about this country, but this did not affect Yang Jian's knowledge of the strength of the opponent.

Yes, Yang Jian only knew that the Xia Kingdom occupied a large area of land in the direction of Liaodong, and he didn't know that even the entire East China Sea had long been the land of the Xia Kingdom, but it was nothing to know, in his opinion, after all, the sea was dangerous, and the place where the two sides could be allowed to fight, that is, here in Liaodong. Grave

Although he didn't know the specific situation of Xia Guo, Yang Jian faintly felt in his heart that the sudden wave of displaced people in Nanchen this time probably had a close relationship with the neighbor in the northeast, if it was really this neighbor who intervened, I am afraid that the strength of Xia Guo would be further overestimated.

It's not that Yang Jian has any evidence, nor that he got the news from other places, but because in order to increase his own people, the Xia State continued to migrate a large number of people from the Central Plains, and when the Northern Zhou Dynasty attacked Sanqi before, the Xia State even migrated all the three million people in Sanqi.

In this way, a large wave of displaced people suddenly appeared in Nanchen's hometown, and most of these displaced people went to the southeast coast, which seemed strange.

Just as Yang Jian was thinking, suddenly Gao Ying, Li Delin and others hurriedly walked in, Gao Ying said with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, this matter really has a close relationship with that Xia Kingdom!" They even started to encourage a small number of Nanchen people to migrate before we attacked Jiankang City, and now they have been stopped by us for more than three months! ”

Yang Jian nodded and did not speak, and then motioned to Li Delin, who was about to speak, to speak, and Li Delin said with a worried face: "Your Majesty, for the true strength of the Xia Kingdom, I am afraid that our past guesses are far from enough, and we need to further overestimate it!" ”

Because the trade between Xia and Nanchen was more frequent, many maritime merchants in Nanchen had arrived in the East China Sea and knew the situation there very well, although they didn't know much about the number of Xia troops and other things, but Xia had a general understanding of the strength of the country and the sphere of influence.

Since ancient times, the relationship between merchants and officials in China has been inseparable, after the Sui Dynasty conquered Nanchen, the merchants of Nanchen had to choose to hug the thighs of the Sui Dynasty in order to better develop in the future, and even to protect themselves, and there was nothing more attractive to the Sui army than the intelligence of the Xia State.

These merchants betrayed the intelligence of the Xia State in order to hug their thighs, and used the intelligence of the Xia State in exchange for the preferential treatment of the Sui Dynasty, precisely because the merchants did not have any bottom line, Wang Ze made a large number of laws and regulations on the merchants while making business.

Li Delin said with a gloomy face: "Wang Ze, the chief of the Xia Kingdom, went to sea from Sanqi to capture Tamluo Island as early as thirty years ago, and used this as a base to first attack and destroy the Japanese Kingdom in the East China Sea, and then took advantage of the fact that there were many people in the Northern Qi War to absorb a large number of displaced people to migrate to the Japanese Kingdom, so as to establish a foundation!"

Then he continued to fight in the east and west based on the Wa Kingdom, first weak and then strong, successively defeated Baekje, Silla, Yeon, Goguryeo, and even the rebellion of Nanchen to attack Jiaozhou was also won with his help, and the Linyi Kingdom was also destroyed because of him, and even Yizhou across the sea in Jian'an County was also his land! ”

Gao Ying saw that Yang Jian was silent in thought, so he continued: "Your Majesty, not only that, but the Xia Kingdom also controls the sea trade road that stretches for tens of thousands of miles from the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Western Great Qin.

Every year, just collecting taxes from passing ships is a huge amount of income, and they also encourage maritime trade, so they have strong financial resources, and it is with their stronger national strength that they defeated the invasion of the original Turkic army of millions, and now they occupy a territory even larger than our Great Sui! ”

The two of them continued to talk about all the information they learned one by one, but Yang Jian's face darkened the more he listened.

In the end, he slapped the table and shouted angrily: "It was said before that although the Xia Kingdom has a strong army, it is only a small country in the northeast, and we can use our strong national strength to drag it down."

But now I know that they are even more powerful empires than our Great Sui, could it be that the scouts and secret agents who collected intelligence before were all-eaters? Could it be that when we faced the Xia Kingdom, we could only rely on the superiority of manpower to defeat the other party? ”

"Ahem, Your Majesty!" Li Delin bowed his head apologetically and said, "Your Majesty, although the population of our Great Sui is already nearly 30 million, and the Xia Kingdom is currently only more than 10 million, and we are almost twice their population, but once a full-scale war really starts, I am afraid that the manpower mobilized by our Great Sui is not as good as that of the Xia Kingdom!" ”

"What?" Yang Jian's eyes almost popped out at this moment, "Could it be that my 30 million people in the Great Sui, two are not worth one Xia country?" Aren't all the people of their Xia Kingdom migrating from the Central Plains, can they still be iron-clad!? ”

Yang Jian was very dissatisfied with Li Delin's words, but he knew the importance of knowing intelligence, so he finally listened patiently to Li Delin's story.

"Your Majesty, this Xia country has attached great importance to the way of strange skills and tricks since before the founding of the country, especially the Mojia skills, they have invented a large number of machinery in the past few decades, not only textiles, iron smelting can use a large number of steel machinery, and even they plough, harvest, threshing, have large agricultural tools.

According to the detailed work we sent to the Xia Kingdom, the number of farmers and herdsmen in the Xia Kingdom is actually only one and a half people, and the most popular farming method is large farms and large pastures, often only ten people are needed to manage thousands of acres of farms and pastures! ”

Li Delin didn't dare to say anything more when he said this, because Yang Jian's face was so black that he could almost drip ink, and he thought that he would become the most powerful empire after completing the unification, but now it seems that it is still the same old age.

And Gao Ying's words made him almost jump, "You mean, there were 300,000 displaced people in Nanchen who were taken away by them before, and they were all sent to Yizhou and the islands of Nanyang to go to the local master?" ”