Luoyang City is becoming more and more prosperous, the silk of the south of the Yangtze River, the ivory of the Lingnan, the fur of Liaodong, the preserved fruits of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the beautiful jade of the Western Regions, the fine wine of Jinling, and all kinds of commodities are dazzling.

Every day the gates were opened, and there was an endless stream of caravans. There are many restaurants in the city, and a large number of merchants come and go, especially the Yellow River carp is the most sought after, and it is the meaning of the carp jumping over the dragon gate. And Luoyang is the imperial capital, and every three years the school palace examination is in the carp jumping dragon gate, and jumping over is the carp turning into a dragon.

Almost all the farmland outside the city, which is ten miles away from the city, has been planted with vegetables and fruit trees, and these fruit trees are supplied to those dignitaries and nobles in Luoyang City.

Even the water that those dignitaries drank was transported from the mountain springs outside the city.

Luoyang City is like a black hole, devouring supplies from all over the world, and there is a long convoy on the road every day.

After Xiao He raised the issue of Luoyang City, the court paid special attention to it. After all, these people all live in Luoyang.

After some deliberation, the canal from Luoyang to Huai'an was successfully passed. Then the edict ordered the craftsman to send out people to survey and map along the way.

Building a canal is not something you just need to dig a ditch, it has to be rigorously surveyed. Although the national strength of the Great Cadres is strong, it is not something that can be wasted at will.

The canal from Luoyang to Huai'an needs to rely on natural rivers as much as possible, otherwise thousands of kilometers of rivers will be easily cut off without water replenishment.

Even if it was barely passed, the water level of the canal was too low, the passage of ships was difficult, and transportation was limited, and a lot of manpower and material resources were wasted in the end, but the goal was not achieved.

After Wang Jing's edict was issued, many scholars who knew how to control water were also sent to the palace. Although the way of controlling the water in the Daqian School Palace has not been paid much attention in recent years, each generation of the royal family will send the children of the royal family and the prince family to learn.

Wang Jing is the most outstanding water control in this generation of school palaces.

After some surveying, in the fourth year of the Mandate of Heaven, Wang Jing and the master craftsman made Zhai Yue's book, and the Grand Canal from Luoyang to Huai'an was changed to start from the big beam.

"Your Majesty, Daliang as the capital of the former Wei State, King Hui of Liang built Daliang City, dug a large ditch in the north of the city to divert water to irrigate farmland, and then dug a network of Daliang canals, and then connected to Jishui north of Xingyang to divide the Yellow River water eastward. Further south, there is Yingshui to connect Pengcheng, Shangqiu and other cities, and finally enter Surabaya to connect Huaishui. ”

"This borrowed the rivers of Bianshui, Jishui, Yingshui, Surabaya, etc., and finally entered the Huaishui, passed through Huai'an, and reached Huiji in the south, so that the canal could reduce construction with the help of ditches and rivers dug in the former Wei Dynasty."

Wang Jing is still quite satisfied with this plan, although the canal has been changed to the girder, but the distance between Luoyang and the girder is not far.

"Your Majesty, although the starting point of the canal is in Daliang, but the north of Daliang is the Yellow River, and ships can pass through the Yellow River and go up the river to enter the water of Yinluo. Luoyang only needs to trim the Yin Luo's water channel. ”

Wang Jing and Zhai Yue's plan was approved by Wang Jing, and soon began to be implemented, and a large number of craftsmen and scholars were sent to various places to measure the local hydrological situation.

Wang Jing asked for the design of the canal as large as possible, and after this period of discussion, Wang Jing has realized that as long as the canal is successfully dug, Daqian will be able to better control the southeast, and even the connection between southern Fujian and the Central Plains will be deepened.

Maybe it won't take a few years for southern Fujian to be integrated into the Great Dry.

In the fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven, Wang Jing ordered the conquest of millions of laborers to dig the canal from Daliang to Huai'an. Millions of people began digging canals in this ancient land.

The canal was not only used to transport supplies, but also to transport soldiers and ships, so the canal needed to be dug deeper and wider.

The length of the canal is more than 1,000 miles, and even if it borrows many rivers and some ditches and canals dug by the former Wei and Song states, the amount of work is still very amazing.

Wang Jing ordered a large amount of grain and grass to be used to dig the canal, which he planned to build in three to five years.

In the real history, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug the Grand Canal, and the section from Luoyang to Jiangdu used millions of laborers, and it was completed in less than a year.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty asked for the construction to start in March and complete the construction in August, which did create a miracle of human beings digging canals, but what was the result? The result was a million people who died in servitude. Historical records record: 'The dead are four or five'. 'Officials are dead in a car', 'east to Chenggao, north to Heyang, facing each other in the road'.

What does it mean, that is, four or five of the ten people died, and the officials carried the dead bodies in cars, from the foot of the mountain outside the city in the east to Heyang County in the north, and there was an endless stream of people transporting the corpses.

It is not difficult to see from these cold words that at least half a million people died when this section of the canal was built.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty could have given more time to build the canal, but he forced the canal to be completed in half a year. From the beginning to the end, he did not see those people as human beings, he was indeed talented and capable, but the damage caused was even greater.

Wang Jing mobilized millions of people, and there was plenty of time, which would not cause social unrest, but that the government spent more money and food. But Wang Jing doesn't see it that way, since Zijue founded the country, he has left a large number of books, in which he has a completely different view from others on the way of money and goods economy.

For a country, money in the treasury of the state does not reflect any value, it is just a pile of copper. Only when the money is spent can the value be reflected.

Through the excavation of this canal, the imperial court spent a lot of money and grain, and the people also reaped a lot of money, and at the same time, merchants from all over the world also obtained a lot of income through various goods, and the circulation of goods intensified.

As goods flowed more, the state collected more taxes from merchants, and at the same time, when the people had money, the response to spending increased, and the market prospered.

After the money circulated in the market, it returned to the imperial court through various means such as taxes, salt, iron, and wine.

In the end, the people lived better, their incomes increased, the merchants made money, and the state received taxes. Although on the surface it was not as much as it used to be, the canal was built.

The state could have collected a lot of money here through the canal.

Coins and commodities will only develop and progress when they are circulated, and if coins are kept in the warehouses of Taifu, the world will be like a pool of stagnant water.

In the seventh year of the Mandate of Heaven, the Luohuai Canal connecting the Yellow River and the Huai River was connected, since then Luoyang can go directly to Huiji by boat, this canal has become the main traffic artery in the heyday of the Chinese Empire and has lasted for thousands of years. ——"The History of the Rise and Fall of the Great Qian"

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