The country of abundance was the first to comment on the Guanzhong Plain.

Although the environment of the Guanzhong Plain has recovered well after hundreds of years of war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, because of the policy of relocating people to enrich the land of Guanzhong after the establishment of the Sui Empire, the number of people in the land of Guanzhong has skyrocketed, and the damage to the ecological environment has also intensified.

As early as two years ago, drought began to occur in Guanzhong one after another, but because the scale was relatively small at the beginning, the local counties alone could provide relief to the people, and it did not attract the attention of the ministers of the Sui Empire, and Yang Jian did not pay attention to it.

However, after the first two years of small-scale famine, in the summer of the 38th year of the Xia calendar, the scale of the drought suddenly expanded, and the entire land of Guanzhong was severely drought, in addition to the accompanying locust plague, which caused panic among the people of the Sui Empire.

In later modern society, locust plagues can be dealt with by many means, but in ancient times, there was a lot of awe for the unknown disaster of locust plagues, especially the Futu sect in order to gather believers and grab wealth, often claiming that it was a heavenly punishment.

Not only did they obstruct the government and the people from actively exterminating the locusts, but they even vigorously encouraged the people to give money to the monasteries in order to eliminate their own sins, but after giving a large amount of money, the locust plague not only did not automatically disappear, but became more serious.

When the entire Guanzhong region fell into a serious situation of drought and locust plague, famine gradually followed, and even some counties in Guanzhong began to have incidents of people spontaneously fleeing out.

After all, the productivity of ancient times was too low, and the Xia Kingdom has developed well after these years, with a good grain farming system, a large number of livestock pastures, and a strong marine fishing capacity, as well as a huge territorial territory, so that the Xia Kingdom will never fall into a situation of lack of grain.

But after a large-scale famine occurred in the Sui Empire, it was much more troublesome, and the drought for two consecutive years had already involved a lot of energy in this great empire, and the famine in front of it made the monarchs and ministers of the Sui Empire not have much energy to pay attention to more distant things, and they had to ensure that their people had food.

When Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian was a child, because his father believed in Futu Buddhism, he was even born in the Praroni Temple in Feng Yi (now Dali County, Shaanxi), so he was accepted as an apprentice by the nun Zhixian nun soon after he was born, and he grew up in the nunnery since he was a child.

During the 12 years he lived with the nun Zhixian, he was a vegetarian and frugal person, which led him to develop a frugal personality until he was thirteen years old.

After ascending the throne, although Yang Jian is the son of heaven, he does not eat heavy meat, does not use gold and jade jewelry, and the palace maids do not make beautiful decorations, and their lives are very frugal, and even many utensils in the palace are made by Yang Jian and Queen Dugu themselves, and Queen Dugu also takes the lead in spinning.

After learning the lesson of the previous extravagant death of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Yang Jian knew the importance of the emperor taking the lead in cultivating a thrifty atmosphere, and often taught the crown prince Yang Yong to be thrifty, saying that the country could not be stable for a long time because of luxury and corruption. He also advocated frugality among officials.

Even because the crown prince Yang Yong and the king of Qin Yang Jun violated Yang Jian's ban successively, and the extravagant, Yang Jian, who was furious, severely punished the crown prince Yang Yong and the king of Qin, which led to almost the entire Kaihuang period without too much luxury life, and the scholars only wore ornaments made of wood, bone and horn.

It was precisely because of Emperor Wen of Sui's early thrift and less exploitation that the people in the Sui Empire were basically able to live and work in peace and contentment, and their household registration and property also increased dramatically, coupled with some other measures to promote production, in a very short period of time, all industries flourished, and economic prosperity was born.

At the beginning of the drought within the Sui Empire, the ministers did not worry about it, because after Emperor Wen of Sui ascended the throne, in order to prevent famine and other disasters, large granaries were built in many important places across the country.

Among them, the more famous ones are Xingluocang, Huiluocang, Changping, Liyangcang, Guangtongcang, etc., which have been written in the history books of later generations.

According to the calculation of 160 catties per stone, one pound of grain a day for an adult in a famine, the grain stored in a large granary is enough to feed 500,000 people for more than a year.

If calculated according to the minimum of half a catty per person per day, a granary can feed millions of people for a year, which is absolutely amazing.

After the defeat of the Xia Kingdom, because the population of the entire lower reaches of the Yellow River was almost swept away, the Sui Empire also followed the development ideas of large farms there, and the grain output increased greatly, so there were more than 20 large granaries built in the country, and there were nearly 100 other large and small granaries.

In the original history, in the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Ma Zhou, the superintendent of the imperial history, said to Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty: "The Sui family is the prince of Luokou, and Li Mi is because of it; The Xijing Treasury is also for the use of the state, which has not been exhausted so far. ”

That is to say, the Luokou warehouse established by the Sui Dynasty in Luokou was widely used by the Wagang army led by Li Mi, and the granary of Chang'an in Xijing was also used after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, but it was not used up until the eleventh year of Zhenguan, at this time the Sui Dynasty had been destroyed for twenty years, and even the founder of the granary, Emperor Wen of Sui, had been dead for thirty-three years.

In 1969, in the archaeology of Luoyang, a large granary of the Sui Dynasty was discovered, including the ruins of Jiacang. The area is more than 450,000 square meters, and 259 grain cellars have been protruded inside, among which there is also a grain cellar that has left 500,000 catties of carbonized millet, which shows the wealth and strength of the Sui Dynasty.

Today's Sui Empire is richer and stronger than in the original history, and the grain production is also higher, both the number of granaries and the scale of grain storage far exceed the original number.

It stands to reason that at this time, the grain stored by the Sui Empire was enough to allow nearly half of the country's population to eat for a year, and in the event of a drought, it was enough to open a warehouse and release grain, but the ministers of the Sui Empire were embarrassed to find that their majesty was a Pixiu who only entered but could not leave.

Emperor Wen of Sui's thrift made him only go in and out after establishing such a huge granary, and only thought about establishing a warehouse, but when he needed to take it out to save the people, he was reluctant to open a warehouse to release grain, which made the ministers of the Sui Empire anxious.

Originally, these warehouses were established for disaster relief, but now you are unwilling to open warehouses to release grain, doesn't this make these warehouses meaningless?

Under such circumstances, the ministers led by Gao Ying and others advised one after another, but Yang Jian was in a bad mood on the one hand because of Queen Dugu's affairs, and on the other hand, he was reluctant to put food into his stingy character, and the matter was not resolved for a long time.

In the end, Yang Su, who knew Yang Jian's mind best, finally knew what to do.

After discussing with Yang Guang, he wrote to Yang Jian that now the famine has occurred, but how to relieve the disaster has not been solved for a long time, and when the imperial court makes a decision, I am afraid that most of the hungry people in Guanzhong will starve to death, so he suggested that Yang Jian open the passage inside and outside Guanzhong, so that the hungry people in Guanzhong can go to Luoyang to eat.

Yang Su's suggestion can be said to be very in line with Yang Jian's thoughts, he must be reluctant to open the granary, but it is even more impossible to let millions of hungry people in Guanzhong starve to death, so that there is only one way to go out of Luoyang to eat, even if this is the case, Yang Jian still has to send the eunuchs around him to investigate.

In ancient times, although the eunuchs were smeared in every way, it cannot be denied that most of these people were attached to the emperor's center, and Emperor Wen sent people from the left and right to go out of the palace to check what the people in Guanzhong were eating.

When Yang Jian came back, he found that the food of the people he brought back was actually some bean dregs and mixed chaff, but there was no food, at this moment Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian finally knew that he was wrong, he cried in the court, and blamed his mistakes in front of the ministers.

However, Yang Jian finally did not have the determination to completely open the warehouse to release grain, he only opened a small granary to help the hungry people from Guanzhong to Luoyang on the road to eat, but in order to reduce the grain pressure of the hundred officials and the army in Daxingcheng on the Guanzhong area, he decided to personally lead the hundred officials and troops in Guanzhong to eat in Luoyang.

Along the way, Yang Jian canceled the wine and meat in the imperial meal, and even met the hungry people who ate Luoyang on the way to worship Mount Tai in the east.

Along the way, when he met people who helped the old and the young, Emperor Wen of Sui would also make way for these people, and the cavalry would dismount and lead the horses to make way, lest they hurt the hungry people, and they would go away with comfort. In the difficult and dangerous places of the road, if you see a person with a load, you will be asked to help it left and right. After arriving in Qi County (now Jinan, Shandong), Emperor Wen still thought about the people's feelings and asked about the suffering.

However, from beginning to end, Emperor Wen of Sui still did not open a large number of warehouses to help the hungry, which is also the most criticized thing in his years.

The previous defeat of Wang Shiji in Rinan County made Emperor Wen of Sui realize that his strength was still not strong enough, and the Sui Empire still needed time to grow, but after a series of things happened within the empire, although Emperor Wen of Sui had the intention to unite with Dulan Khan to continue to fight against the Xia State, he did not have that energy.

The disappearance of the sharp spirit made Emperor Wen of Sui temporarily lose the courage to fight against the Xia State in an all-out battle, and the most he could do was to vigorously support Dulan Khan to fight against the Xia State in Mobei, and only the longer the Turks held out, he could feel at ease.

The Xia State seemed to know Emperor Wen of Sui's mind very well, not only did he not continue to attack the Sui Dynasty in the previous few years, but the Xia army in Rinan County only honestly defended his own territory, and the Xia army in the direction of Liaodong never approached the range of 200 miles of the Sui Empire.

In addition to the seriously ill Changsun Sheng, who was very worried about the future of the Sui Empire, the Sui Empire was full of talents when it was founded, and it had begun to fall into the struggle for power and profit, but he didn't know that in addition to Changsun Sheng, of course, Li Yuan's wife Dou saw the crisis of the Sui Empire.

Since she was a child, she was extremely intelligent, and she actively advised her husband, so that Li Yuan's prestige in the Sui Empire gradually rose, and he successively served as an official in many places, but Dou finally died early due to a serious illness, but she laid a solid foundation for Li Yuan's future.

With the economic development of the Sui Empire, because he lost the desire for foreign expansion, he also fell into the whirlpool of struggle for power like other dynasties.