As far as the Sui dies for this river,

So far, thousands of miles have been relaid.

If there is no water temple dragon boat thing,

Gongyu does not have much merit.

Zhao Ta held the deck of the Shenzhou in his hand, looking at the vast smoke and waves ahead, and sighed in his heart.

Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, was a reckless soldier all his life, violent and ferocious, so happy with his achievements, and he was the only one.

He raised the prestige of the country, did good things about the people's livelihood, and did bad things about cruelty and debauchery.

However, in the end, the country died, so under the historical pen, the folk legend is far more depreciative than praised.

The four words of the king of the dead country are a definitive word.

But even so, Zhao Ta didn't believe that he built the Grand Canal to see what Qionghua.

In fact, there is only one Qionghua, in the Houtu Temple in Yangzhou, it is a different species of hydrangeas, except for that one, there is no Qionghua tree next to it.

Not to mention whether this Qionghua tree appeared or not in the Sui period, even if it appeared, Yang Guang wanted to watch, and according to his temperament, he was afraid that he would directly send someone to move the Qionghua tree to Luoyang, instead of bothering to build any canal.

Yang Guang has never been a person who pities flowers and jade.

Yang Guang, like Li Er, was the commander of the army before the world was decided, leading the army and galloping on the battlefield.

When Sui destroyed Nan Chen, Yang Guangnai was the commander of the three armies, and he had been to Yangzhou at this time.

Soon after the destruction of Nanchen, there was a rebellion, and after the rebellion was put down, Emperor Wen of Sui sent Yang Guang to serve as the governor of Yangzhou, in charge of all parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

Yang Guang also stayed in Yangzhou for a period of time, during this time, he lived a very comfortable and leisurely life, and the most important thing is that at this time, he had a lot of contact with the big families in the south.

During the time of Emperor Wen of Sui, because of the confrontation between the north and the south before, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he had been suppressing the southern clans, but during the period when Yang Guang was the governor of Yangzhou, he contacted these clans, whether he suppressed or bought, and no one knew what he said and did.

But since he has the heart to be the emperor, many things will not be done according to Emperor Wen's ideas, or it is even likely that he has been winning over these southern gate lords.

Therefore, after he succeeded to the throne, he went to Yangzhou three times, which was to show goodwill to the southern family and want to obtain the support of the southern scholars.

Almost all the uprisings at the end of the Sui Dynasty took place in the north, and there were very few in the south, which can also prove this from the side, and he may well have won the approval of the southern scholars.

As for the construction of the Grand Canal, there is actually one of the most likely reasons, that is, Yang Guang is trying to avoid the control of the Tuolong Group.

Whether it is the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, or even the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the power is held by the Guanlong group, and the generals are not only in control of political power, but also in the hands of military power.

During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Guanlong Group felt that Emperor Jing of Zhou, the newly enthroned Emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was too young to protect their interests, so they found Yang Jian in the Guanlong Group, and with their support, Yang Jian overthrew the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty.

That is to say, the establishment of the Sui Dynasty was also because of the support of these people in the Guanlong group.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the Guanlong group became more powerful, and the army and government were controlled by these people, and many official positions in Jiangnan were also held by these people.

After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, the Guanlong Group would definitely not treat him like Emperor Wen of Sui, after all, Emperor Wen of Sui was called from the north and south, and Yang Guang was inherited.

Therefore, the contradiction between Yang Guang and the Guanlong group will inevitably arise.

Yang Guang is the emperor, and he is arrogant and arrogant, and there is no one in his eyes, so he will inevitably monopolize power.

However, there are people from the Guanlong clique everywhere in the DPRK and China, and he needs the support of these people to do anything, and if these people do not agree, he may not be able to accomplish anything.

Therefore, in order to resist, he conquered Goguryeo, exterminated Tuguhun, and expanded his territory.

The construction of the eastern capital Luoyang and the improvement of the imperial examination were all aimed at weakening the influence of the Guanlong group, but the effect was not very good, because he did not have his own basic plate.

Chang'an, Kyoto, where he stayed, was the nest of the Guanlong group, and the army was probably controlled by others, and the officials of the DPRK and China were also owned by others, so he thought of Yangzhou, after all, he had operated there back then.

Therefore, in the name of Cao Yun, the waterway is unobstructed, and for the benefit of round trips, the Grand Canal is opened, and Yangzhou is visited three times.

After he arrived in Yangzhou, it can be said that he temporarily got rid of the control of the Guanlong Group, and he could also take the opportunity to win over the southern families here, and use these people to fight against the Guanlong Group, so as to achieve great power, once the balance is successful, he can do what he wants, and he no longer needs to obey the Guanlong Group everywhere.

This should be the main purpose of Yang Guang's construction of the Grand Canal.

Yang Guang wanted to get rid of the Guanlong Group, in fact, there was nothing wrong with it, any emperor wanted to monopolize power, but unfortunately the time was not ripe, because the Guanlong Group was very powerful at that time, and no force could confront the Guanlong Group.

And the people of the Guanlong Group are not stupid, they know that Yang Guang wants to get rid of themselves, so they also made preparations in advance and chose one person, this person is Li Yuan within the Guanlong Group, with the support of these people, Li Yuan began to rebel, and finally overthrew the Sui Dynasty and established the Tang Dynasty to unify the world, and the Guanlong Group once again grasped the power, until the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Ten Kingdoms were indiscriminately killed, and the Guanlong Group withdrew from the historical stage.

Zhao Ta stood on the deck thinking about all this, the water breeze was blowing, his hair was clear, the scenery in front of him was gradually changing, Yangzhou had arrived......

Huaizuo Mingdu, Zhuxi is the best place, the spring breeze is ten miles of Yangzhou Road, it is better to roll up the bead curtain, a few years, a lifetime of drunken dreams, semi-thin West Lake.

On the bank of the canal, peach and willow green, there are already officials of all sizes in Huaidong waiting for them.

Huaidong Road pacification envoy Hong Zhongfu, Yangzhou Prefecture Governor Xue Sichang, Huaidong Road transport envoy, prison envoy, Changping envoy, Yangzhou general sentence, soldiers and horses, no less than two or three hundred people.

Hong Zhongfu was dressed in a purple official uniform, and he was finally relieved when he saw the sky Hao Zhi Ning Yuan Shenzhou and the big flag with the word "Qin" fluttering high.

Hong Zhongfu is a Jinshi in the second year of Shenzong Yuanfeng, and he has been an official at the border all his life, Xihe Lanhuang Road, Yongxing Military Road, Hedong Road, and even served as the commander of Zhending Mansion on Hebei West Road, which is the pacification envoy along the border of Hebei West Road, although he is a civil official, but he has been fighting horses for most of his life.

This is very familiar with military affairs, and any conquest has been commonplace in the northwest, and the other side is not afraid of such a thing, but ...... He was too old for his energy to do so, and he was seventy-three years old.

Hong Zhongfu served as the pacification envoy of Huainan East Road, and it was Emperor Daojun who remembered his past achievements, so before he sent him to the Jianghuai anointed land to be a commander, and then returned to Beijing to retire, and even he did not serve as the prefect of Yangzhou.

But I didn't expect that either he was unlucky, or he couldn't do without the military in his life, and he caught up with the Huaixi Wang Qing rebellion last year, and this year he met two Zhejiang Fang La's emperors.

Hong Zhongfu is haggard, the soldiers and horses in Huaidong can not be compared with the Western Army, although he does not panic Fang La's rebellion, but he is also worried that Fang La will fight over, after all, in his vision, if he is Fang La, he will take the Yangtze River, and then try to go north, at least to fight a north-south confrontation situation.

But now that Zhao Ta is here, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore, he still trusts the military ability of this King of Qin, last year Zhao Ta also preached the two Huai, although he was stationed in Huaixi, but when he left from Shouzhou, he went to visit and see it, the two had a long talk, this King of Qin asked almost all about the military in the northwest, and his knowledge was quite extraordinary.

After meeting the officials, Zhao Ta didn't say anything else, just went all the way into Yangzhou City, and sure enough, the scenery was picturesque and the characters were beautiful, but those poems about Yangzhou could not be depicted.

After the pacification division got out of the car, a banquet was set up inside, and after eating and drinking, he talked about some military affairs in western Zhejiang, and discussed the countermeasures of the two Huai, but there was nothing to do, probably to set up a heavy army on the Yangtze River, block the road of Fang La to cross the river, and then seek other strategies.

After the discussion, Zhao Ta moved the king to Yangzhou Nancheng Qionghua Garden to rest, this garden is huge, and has a long history, it is the transformation of the Jiangdu Palace in the Sui period, Emperor Yang Guangwei of the Sui Dynasty for more than ten years, every time he went down to Yangzhou to stay for a long time, most of them lived in the Jiangdu Palace.

And when Emperor Taizu mixed the north and south, Li Chongjin, the general of the Later Zhou Dynasty, was not convinced, and Emperor Taizu personally led troops to fight, and after falling in Yangzhou, he also lived in this Jiangdu Palace Qionghua Liyuan.

This garden is considered a royal garden, so it is usually just maintained, no one lives at all, all kinds of things are complete, the scenery is good, small bridges and flowing water, buildings and palaces, nine curves pass through the secluded, but unfortunately there is no rockery, the boulders that were originally decorated here as rockeries have been transported to Tokyo to fill the Gendake, and the original place is left with a strange and ugly vacant land.

Zhao Ta was also a little crying and laughing when he saw this, it seems that the idea of this flower and stone matter is not only on the common people, but also on this royal garden.

After being placed in the garden, he recruited the three brothers of the Bai family in the broken jade building.

The three brothers of the Bai family are the same as the two crabs of the Ding family, they are all from the two Zhejiang people, the two crabs of the Ding family are from Mohua Village, Huating County, Xiuzhou, western Zhejiang, but the three brothers of the Bai family are from Wuzhou, eastern Zhejiang.

At that time, the ancestors of the three brothers of the Bai family went to Tokyo to do business in order to make a living, but they were deceived and lost all their goods and money.

At that time, the right to know Kaifeng Prefecture Bao Zheng, because he wanted to handle a case, personally took people to visit, and found that the ancestors of the Bai family had good martial arts near the Zhou Bridge, and would rather sell art on the street for food, rather than rely on his fists and feet to break the law, and his character can be seen, so he recruited to the government and gave a temporary errand, and since then he has settled down in Tokyo.

Later, the ancestors of the Bai family made some contributions, and they officially became the yamen princes, and then they were also promoted, and they took over their families from Wuzhou, and they made a living in Tokyo for several generations.

In a blink of an eye, the father of the three brothers of the Bai family came here, but because of a big case of picking flowers, he chopped the prostitute thief privately, and it was nothing if he was arrested, but he drank wine and went to prison to sell crazy, and hacked the prostitute to death, but this caused trouble, not to mention the loss of public office, but also to ask for the crime, and then the then Quanzhi Kaifeng government exonerated him, which was only locked up for half a year, and he was put home.

From now on, not only can not enter the yamen as a difference, but even the children are involved, the Bai family originally had some hereditary tolerance, but after this incident, the next generation is not allowed to enter the yamen to do things.

The father of the three brothers of the Bai family drank heavily all day long, and once came home from the liquor store at night, tripped and fell to his death on the rocks in front of the door, leaving the four orphans and widows struggling to survive.

Zhou and the Bai family are neighbors, often help, and later the three brothers grew up Zhou was introduced to Zhao Ta, originally according to Zhao Ta's face, as long as he said a word, the three brothers had no problem re-entering Kaifeng Mansion, but the three brothers said that they didn't want to be bad people anymore, Zhao Ta tested their martial arts character, and then put it in the broken jade building.

Zhao Ta called the three brothers over, the three were called Bai Ao, Bai Ba, and Bai Zhan, and after he explained to the three carefully, he sent them across the Yangtze River to Jiangning Mansion to inquire about the news.

If nothing else, Zhao Kai will be stationed in Jiangning Mansion, Zhao Kai appeases Liangjiang, Jiangnan West Road is not bordered by Liangzhejiang at all, he must go to Jiangning, the capital of Jiangnan East Road.

At present, Zhao Ta has just arrived in Yangzhou, and he doesn't know the situation on Jiangning's side, whether Fang La has called, whether Jiangning has fallen, after all, across the Yangtze River, the military report is slow, and someone needs to be sent to investigate carefully.

In a blink of an eye, the next day, at this time, Zhao Ta's military order had been issued, and all the horse infantry troops of Lianghuai moved to Hezhou, Zhenzhou, Yangzhou, and Taizhou along the river.

And the warships were also mobilized by Zhao Ta, patrolling constantly along the river, on guard everywhere, and anyone who crossed the river was carefully checked, lest they get mixed into Fang La's spies.

After everything was arranged, Zhao Ta took someone to the riverside to inspect it, so that two days passed.

In the early morning of this day, seeing that there was nothing to do, Zhao Ta got up and took Zhao Yuannu to see the place where she passed when she was a child.

Although Zhao Yuannu was only seven or eight years old when he left Yangzhou, he had already remembered, and at this moment, in only eleven or twelve years, the scenery in many places has not changed.

After going to Daming Temple, Siwang Pavilion, and Slender West Lake to see the 24 bridges, I came to the bank of the Xiaoqinhuai River.

This small Qinhuai River is a waterway into the city of the Grand Canal, just go to Yangzhou City, some people on the water live on the shore, and make a living by eating the canal route.

Wang drove to a stop on the bank of the small Qinhuai River, the spear team in front was lined up, and there was a short knife team to disperse the people by the river, and the blood-colored vanguard group lined up on the road, and Zhao Ta and Zhao Yuannu got out of the car.

This is a relatively clean place on the riverside, and not far from the riverbank in front, there are many low shacks and wooden nests, which extend far away.

Zhao Yuannu stood on the riverbank, first looked at the river in a daze, and then looked at the continuous shacks and low houses, as well as the boats floating on the water, and finally couldn't stop crying.

Zhao Ta looked at her in a trance from the side, and said with a smile: "Or...... Take a look at the past? ”

Zhao Yuannu looked at Zhao Ta, then looked at the house in front of him, and said in a low voice: "That place is tattered and dirty, I am afraid of staining the eyes and feet of the prince." ”

Zhao Ta shook his head and smiled: "There is no shortage of such places in the Tokyo market, and this king has never been to it less. ”

Zhao Yuannu bit his lip lightly, and after a moment he seemed to have made up his mind, and whispered: "Lord Wang, then I'...... Take a look at the past? ”

Zhao Ta stepped forward with his hands and said, "Let's go." ”

Zhao Yuannu saluted: "I'm tired of the prince......

Zhao Tan nodded, and then the Scarlet Pioneer Group opened the way in front and walked towards the houses and wooden houses along the coast.

(End of chapter)