Li Miao and his entourage did not stay long in Jinling City, rented a large cargo ship, and loaded a large number of sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, wheat, tea, spices, etc., which were needed in the north. Yang Fan entered Beijing, of course, the goods were loaded in the wharf warehouse, and a large amount of Maoshan tea and spices were left behind for the operation of the Southern Bureau.

Now Li Miao, except for the tea and spices loaded on the cargo ship, has all the inventory in the space and left it in the Jinling wharf warehouse, or it will not be long before there will be a steady stream of spices and tea output in the space.

It is still necessary to leave a sufficient supply of goods for the Southern Bureau. In the future, it will provide sufficient financial guarantee for the development of the Southern Bureau. Li Miao's purpose is to continuously increase his escort force through commercial activities.

The escort force is what he values the most, but the escort force is also inseparable from the support of business. Therefore, the best model is to develop together with the power of business behavior and protection. And it's low-key.

Soon the ship passed through the Yangtze River from Jinling City to Yangzhou Mansion, along the way the river surface is open, and the river level is gentle. The river is more than ten or twenty miles wide in the wide place. There are also more than ten miles in the narrow place. Li Miao couldn't help but be open-minded, rolling the Yangtze River east of the passing water, but unfortunately the water flow was gentle, there was no rolling trend, and the weather was not very suitable.

Entering the Grand Canal from Yangzhou Mansion, the river surface is also three to five miles wide. Because it is an artificial river, people can't help but think of Yang Guang, the last emperor of the Sui Dynasty, who has been infamous for thousands of years. This life is generally consistent with the history of later generations, except that in this life, the Great Zheng Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty of later generations. The founding emperor of the Great Zheng Dynasty drove out the Mongol Tatars and established a new Han regime.

Although the Sui Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty only experienced the second and died, they left a heavy brush and ink in later generations. Can't go unmentioned. There is no substitute for it.

The Qin Dynasty unified writing and language because of Qin Shi Huang's book burning and Confucianism, thus making China similar to the European territory. There is only one language and script. After all the alien invasions occupied China, they had to choose to assimilate and integrate themselves into China. to barely stand on its feet.

Do you know that there are dozens of national unifications in Europe? Why is there no unification. Unification by force has also occurred a few times. The point is that the language is mixed and the text is also messy. You can't rule even if you occupy it. Therefore, Qin Shi Huang's book burning pit Confucianism seems to be a good move.

Of course, Qin Shi Huang's exploits are much more than that. The main merit of the first emperor is the same track, the same book, the same line, the same land, the same quantity, since then, the unified Chinese dynasty has become the consensus of every Chinese person. It has also become the ultimate goal of all generations of Ming monarchs.

Sometimes I often hear people say that Qin Shi Huang is a tyrant, and Qin Shi Huang, as a political figure, can no longer be measured by character alone. If you evaluate politicians by the moral standards of good people and bad people, you are already off topic.

The Sui Dynasty clan is actually of Yi blood. Even the Tang Dynasty emperor Li Shimin had a quarter of the Yi blood, the Qing Dynasty of later generations. I also had to choose sinicization.。 Otherwise, it is really difficult to rule such a large country.

And it is precisely because of the unification of the written language that the Ming monarchs of China regarded the unification of China as the ultimate task, so that China was not divided into several or even a dozen countries. This is the merit of Qin Shi Huang, regardless of later generations, later generations will say that Qin Shi Huang is a tyrant. But none of them can erase his great contribution to Huaxia.

The Sui Dynasty clan itself was a Yi clan, and he took the initiative to complete the sinicization, and finally ended the darkest and most chaotic period of hundreds of years in China. Unified China, the last emperor Yang Guang also fought with his father, and made great achievements for the Sui Dynasty to open the country.

During his reign, it took nearly 20 years to open the Grand Canal, with a total length of more than 4,000 miles, making China run from north to south. Although there is a tendency to borrow the original river, the newly opened canal is not less than a thousand miles.

There is also the dredging and widening of the original river channel. In that era when river transportation accounted for 90 percent of the volume, he made great contributions. Without Yang Guang, there would be no existence of the capital. The materials in the capital all rely on the support of Cao Yun.

The establishment of any new dynasty will scandalize the last emperor of the previous generation. to flaunt the legitimate orthodoxy of the new dynasty. This is that there is no right or wrong in politics, and it is right to rule in favor of him.

The Sui Dynasty pioneered the imperial examination system, which allowed feudal society to continue in China for hundreds of years. This was also the contribution of the Sui Dynasty to feudal society. Yang Guang may have been a little more radical, and he devoted his life to weakening the influence of the great families in the court. Later, it was also overthrown by the family.

In fact, the imperial examination system of the Sui Dynasty. It is also to weaken the influence of the family in the court. Before the Sui Dynasty, all the officials in the court were members of the big families or people they recognized to be officials in the court. Only the family is eligible to be recommended.

became the king and lost the king, so Yang Guang finally became a faint king. Of course, a good hand can be played like this, and the level is also problematic.

The cargo ship of Li Miao and his entourage went up the canal. Through Jianghuai into Shandong, across Hebei to Tongzhou, what he saw and heard along the way made Li Miao depressed, and the people along the way lived in hardship and lacked materials. The land is barren and food production is low. It also strengthened his determination to promote high-yield crops in the north.

After arriving in the capital, Li Miao would buy a grange and play an exemplary role by planting high-yield crops adapted to the north, so as to achieve the effect of rapid promotion of northern crops. But you can't be too high-profile, and you can't do things that go against your will. Low-key and reluctant.

You must know that the miserable farmers Li Miao saw were relatively near the transportation hub, on both sides of the canal. It still belongs to a relatively wealthy area, and it is conceivable that those remote areas have the lives of ordinary people.

And the canal also breeds a behemoth, the Cao Gang. There are hundreds of thousands of gang members in the Cao Gang, and most of them are also poor people, and their lives are not easy. Rely on selling your physical strength to eat. When the gang was formed, its power increased greatly, and the gang members of the Cao Gang were no longer free to bully.

Now, it's even the imperial court. I don't dare to touch it easily. A pair of chopsticks was gently broken, and ten pairs of chopsticks were firmly held together. What's more, there are hundreds of thousands of pairs of chopsticks, plus hundreds of thousands of helpers. My good boy! In times of peace, it may not be obvious, but once the situation is unstable, he is a cancer, and it will worsen at any time.

If it is used by people with intentions, the consequences will be unimaginable. Li Miao seemed to see that the Great Zheng Dynasty was in turmoil. Li Miao thought to herself, if the Great Zheng Dynasty even ignored such a serious problem. So what is it doing? It can't be that such a serious problem has not been discovered.

But if you say that there is something wrong with the Cao Gang, in fact, most of the gang members just want to live, and if they can live a little better, who wouldn't want to? Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. The strong survive, and the weak eat the strong, which is just the law of the jungle. The Cao Gang can only live better if they are in a group.