As the saying goes, the snow is not cold and the snow is cold, and the really difficult day has arrived.

In the entire vicinity of Luoyang, the cold wind is bleak and the cold is biting.

If this is placed in the future life, there is no way to work in such weather, but not in Dasui.

There is a large shortage of winter clothes to protect against the cold and firewood for heating, and it is the kind of shortage that cannot be replenished at all.

The ground is even harder, a hoe down, the hoe cracks, but the ground can only dig out a shallow mark, just hold on to three days later, there has been the largest attrition since the construction of Luoyang.

The bodies were pulled out of the construction site one by one, frozen and stiff, and they were not sent back to their hometown for burial, but dug a deep pit and buried them in a place 30 miles away from Luoyang.

In the face of the number of attritions that are increasing every day, coupled with the pressure from Yang Ming's side, Yu Wenkai had no choice but to temporarily suspend work.

In this kind of weather, let alone the people's husbands, even the officials who supervise the work can't stand it, and they complain bitterly.

At noon today, hundreds of officials sat in the hall of the eunuch's mansion to discuss the next construction steps, everyone wore cloaks, and more than 20 fires were set up in the hall.

"Stay up until early spring, there shouldn't be any problems, we need to speed up the progress, the court has been urging," Yang Da took a sip of hot soup, holding the soup bowl with both hands and refused to put it down.

Liu Su, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, also rushed back from Yuzhang County, he was originally responsible for the supply of palace materials in Jing and Yangzhou, and now all the materials have arrived in Luoyang.

I only heard him say: "Finally live up to His Majesty's trust, the palace city is basically completed, although the next Guocheng is the most time-consuming, but before September, it must be able to be completed, the court said hello, east of the Xinjing Imperial City, a total of 29 miles, all of which are assigned to the official residence, as for how to distribute, in the end it has to be decided by His Royal Highness, I here, there is a plan for the initial discussion of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, please look at it." ”

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The whole construction site was suspended, and the people rested, but they couldn't rest, and many things had to be discussed.

Luoyang will be the future Tokyo, and there will definitely be many officials stationed here, and the major tycoons in Guanzhong will also come here to divide their territories and open up their houses.

Yu Wenkai's original plan, north of Luoshui, west of the imperial city, east of the official residence, that is to say, the future of Luoyang, with Luoshui as the dividing line between north and south, crossed the river in the north, and has nothing to do with the people.

This is very similar to Daxing, Daxing City is over the 93rd line, and it has nothing to do with the people.

Yang Ming took the plan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs handed by Xu Jing, unfolded it on the table, and browsed carefully.

Although Liu Su said that Yang Ming had to decide in the end, in fact, it was just a formality, since the people had decided, it was not good for Yang Ming to change it too much, otherwise it would be the stage of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The official residence is also divided into levels, and the current official residence area has not yet been built, so they must discuss a plan as soon as possible, so that Yu Wenkai can refer to the drawings and divide the homesteads of each family.

The first echelon, which must be the prince and princess, will be roughly distributed among the five miles closest to the imperial city, Zhengdao, Guangdao, Huaqing, Deli, and Fucheng.

Among them, Yang Ming has the highest title and Yang Lihua has the highest qualifications, so the mansion of the two of them has the largest area, among which Yang Ming's Qin Wangfu covers an area of 480 acres, in Guangdaofang, almost two-thirds of the area, and the remaining one-third, there are three marquises.

One is called Yuan Shou, the current Taifu Siqing, the Marquis of Longcheng County.

One is named Wei Dezheng, who attacked his father Wei Shi's Jingcheng County Marquis, and is currently the provincial magistrate, and his sister is married to Yang Yong's eldest son Yang Yan.

The last one is Guo Rong, the Marquis of Pucheng County, the current general of Zuo Houwei.

These three people will become Yang Ming's neighbors, Yang Ming could have changed it and changed himself to a neighbor, but he felt that most of the plans of the Ministry of Civil Affairs were submitted to his father by default, so there was no need to change it.

Among the second echelon, the largest mansion area is undoubtedly Yang Su, which should now be called the Duke of Chu Mansion, in addition to Xu Guogong Yu Wenshu, Song Guogong He Ruobi, Liang Guogong Xiao Cong and so on.

In the whole plan, Yang Ming only changed in one place, moving the mansion of Yang Yin, the king of Qi, from Huaqingfang to Delifang.

This kid has no virtue, he has to be virtuous, and he won't say anything after his father knows about it.

The progress of the project in Guocheng will be very fast, after all, the design of Lifang is from the hands of Yu Wenkai, and with the experience of Daxing City, it can be said that it is familiar with the road.

The key is that there are enough people.

The food problem is basically no longer a problem, and the control of the granary by the Great Sui is unprecedented, although there are also some greedy officials, but the impact is not great.

In other words, Yang Ming will have a good time in the next days, and there is almost nothing to worry about.

So his attention has begun to move to the Grand Canal.

After everyone dispersed, Yang Ming left Yu Wenkai alone.

At the earliest, the matter of digging the canal was proposed by Yu Wenkai at the court meeting, and in the future, it must be Yu Wenkai who will be responsible for the excavation of the canal, and Yang Jin is just the nominal foreman.

"What does Your Majesty mean, apart from Huang and Huai, are there any other thoughts," Yang Ming asked with a smile.

At this time, there is no need for Yu Wenkai to be in Tibet, after all, the imperial court has already sent him a message, asking him to be ready at any time, and at the same time supervising Luoyang, he is responsible for supervising the construction of the canal.

Yu Wenkai said: "In the seventh year of the emperor's reign, the Supreme ordered that on the basis of the ditch in the Spring and Autumn Period, the entrance to the Huaikou was changed from the end to Shanyang, but at that time, my Great Sui had already reorganized the army and fought a war with the strength of the whole country to crusade against Nanchen, so this river channel did not have time to improve, and now it is very narrow, the silt accumulates, and the boat is still difficult to walk. ”

Yang Ming asked again: "The canal on the first line of Huanghuai, plus Shanyang, a total of 1,500 miles, Yuwen Shangshu thinks that how many people need to be requisitioned for this project?" ”

In fact, Yu Wenkai was very happy to work with Yang Ming, although he already knew that the person in charge of the canal would be Yang Ming, the king of Qi.

If he could change it, he would rather have Yang Ming come to Governor of the Canal, not only because the other party was honest, but also because Yang Ming had never interfered in any of his deployment arrangements for the project.

The snow is heavy, not to mention, people urgently called a stop, also out of consideration for the overall situation.

I only heard Yu Wenkai said very patiently: "The first line of Huanghuai, from Xingyang to Xuyi, needs to levy 600,000 people, Shanyang needs 200,000, plus the palace along the way, to build the water hall dragon boat that His Majesty took on the southern tour, the total need to levy more than 1 million." ”

Yang Ming hugged his shoulders and smiled: "Where did you recruit from?" ”

Yu Wenkai smiled embarrassedly: "It should be requisitioned from Hebei and Henan." ”

"The war in Hebei has just been settled, and Henan is making every effort to build Luoyang, how to recruit and transfer?" Yang Ming said with a smile.

Yu Wenkai said: "It can only be forcibly requisitioned, I know that His Royal Highness is sympathetic to the people, but this canal is related to my Great Sui Guozuo, the south is now a rich land, rich in food, prosperous in all industries, but the people's hearts are unstable, this river connects the north and the south, and promotes the exchange and integration of the people in the north and the south, and the trade is interconnected. ”

Saying that, Yu Wenshu couldn't help but sigh: "Your Majesty's vision is far-sighted, and his ambition is magnificent, and the minister is breathtaking. ”

Yang Ming nodded.

In ancient China, the real development of the south actually began with the southward movement of the Jin Dynasty, that is, the southward crossing of Yiguan, and before that, it was basically a wild land.

A large number of Han people entered the south, naturalized the local minority people, and taught agriculture, textiles, water conservancy and other technologies, so that after 300 years, the south has shown a wealth and prosperity that is not inferior to the north.

Yang Guang has been the chief manager of Jiangdu for 11 years, and he has long understood this, so the opening of the Grand Canal is actually to realize the integration of the north and the south.

The south has a small population, more acres of land, and a large output, which is just the opposite of the north, so the Grand Canal is also to supplement the north with the south.

In later generations, many people criticized this river, saying that the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty had been abandoned in the Song Dynasty, and that it was nonsense to say that the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty was beneficial in the present generation.

In fact, what they say is nonsense.

What would have happened if the Sui Dynasty had not had this river? Without the foundation of north-south integration laid by the Sui Dynasty, what would be the situation in China?

Although Yang Guang borrowed this river and toured the river three times, he was extravagant and extravagant, but it is undeniable that this river is a bridge related to the exchange and integration of the Chinese people.

It's more than just a canal.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the eight words "merit is in the contemporary" and "benefit" are in the Qianqiu, but they cannot be used to describe Yang Guang.

That's why there is Pi Rixiu's sentence: The end of the Sui Dynasty is this river, and it has been thousands of miles away. If there is no water temple dragon boat matter, Gongyu will not have much merit.

He was actually wrong, the Sui Dynasty died not because of this river, but because the root knot was still in the Three Expeditions to Goguryeo, which unprecedentedly consumed the national strength of the Great Sui, so that the Great Sui Guozuo no longer had the slightest possibility of continuation.

"Those sixteen national policies, I also hope that Yuwen Shangshu can remember it when he digs the canal," Yang Ming said.

Yu Wenkai nodded: "It's about the country, it's about the people, and the ministers don't dare to forget it for a day." ”

Yang Ming said again: "If the King of Qi comes in chaos, you must play Your Majesty as it is, and you must not cover it up." ”

"How does His Highness know that it is the Director of King Qi?" Yu Wenkai was stunned.

Yang Ming smiled: "What you can know, I can know, what you don't know, I still know,"

Yu Wenkai smiled: "I'm stupid, I heard that after the New Year, the Yue Guild will return to Beijing to recuperate?" ”

Yang Ming nodded: "The matter of the canal should be in March and April next year, then the King of Qi will come to Luoyang first and negotiate with you to make arrangements, there is no major event in Tokyo at the moment, and the king should be transferred back to Beijing, so everything here will be entrusted to you." ”

"Alas......" Yu Wenkai sighed, in his heart, working with Yang Ming and Yang Su can be described as a fish in water, one is willing to delegate power, the other is an expert in itself, plus Yang Da, the cooperation between the four of them is actually very successful.

He knew that what Yang Ming said was right, the two princes had a very unpleasant quarrel earlier because of the food supply, so His Majesty would not let them stay in the same place at the same time, King Qi came, and King Qin would definitely leave.

But the king of Qi ......

Alas...... It's hard to say, but I hope he doesn't break my elbows.