Like an inadvertent episode in life, the rest is still to do what you have to do, where you come from, where you go from there, step by step. Of course, this time is also a big adventure, and the harvest is also very large, although it has been delayed for a while, but it is flawed. Everyone has gained, and it is not small, especially Lin Yi is a fragrant journey, just like the goddess of Mengwu Mountain, the king of Chu, with the help of Luoshen, not only found the long-lost jade box, but also really got the recognition of this pair of treasures such as jade seal and jade box. Although his current cultivation can't really control this pair of treasures, and he hasn't even discovered the magic in them, he believes that sooner or later, this pair of treasures will become a sharp weapon in his hands.

With this koi king Li Gen, Yao Da and the others didn't bother to look at his children and grandchildren, because they naturally let them live. They continued along the waterway, down the southeast of the Yellow River. The speed of this road was extremely fast, and in less than half a day, they passed through this Xingyang County, and the Yellow River had begun to turn northeast and enter the sea through the land of Qilu. Lin Yi and others had to abandon the shore of Zhoushan and should take the dry road.

If we can connect the Yellow River into the Huai and dig out this section of the canal, the water transportation to the south will be unimpeded, and the water transportation will naturally flourish. Lin Yi sighed in his heart. He only took this waterway, and he also had the selfishness to inspect the topography of this road on the spot. In his heart, he had already had the intention of digging this section of the canal, and he wanted to advance the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which would open up the north and south for more than 200 years, and all he owed was the countless manpower and financial resources.

Later generations referred to the Grand Canal. The first thing that comes to mind is the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, as well as the tyrant Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. However, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal had its prototype as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, canals were basically dug to serve the military campaign to conquer other countries. For example, the direct purpose of Wu Wangfu to send people to dig a ditch was to transport the army to the north to invade the Qi country, and the chasm dug by King Wei Hui in 360 BC was basically to serve the military campaign to conquer other countries.

The Sui Dynasty made the decision to run the North-South Canal after the unification of the world, and its motives went beyond the purpose of serving military operations, because the whole world was unified by this time. There was an economic motive for the Sui canal. For a long time in ancient China, the economic center of gravity has been in the Yellow River Valley, and the economy of the north is more advanced than that of the south. But by the time of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, society had undergone profound changes. More than 400 years of chaos have hit the economy of the North hard, compared to this. The economy of the South has developed rapidly. Become the center of gravity of the national economy. After the Sui unified the whole country, they attached great importance to this region, but Chang'an, the capital of the Sui Dynasty, could not move south with the development and change of the economic center of gravity. Therefore. The State needs to strengthen its management of the South. Chang'an needs to be connected to the affluent economic zone. Food supplies from the south were needed to supply the north, whether it was the central court, the bureaucracy and aristocracy, or the northern border. At the same time, the long-term division has blocked economic exchanges between the north and the south of society. With the increase in the level of productive forces, economic development in this period has urgently required the strengthening of economic ties between the north and the south.

Although the current economic and political center is still in the Yellow River Valley in the north, Lin Yi has long felt that it is urgent to dig a canal that runs smoothly from north to south. Not only military, economic, and political, but also the general trend, Lin Yi only thinks about how to advance as soon as possible.

First of all, the northern climate was originally colder, and other natural disasters such as floods and droughts were also frequent, and now it is not as suitable for human survival as the southern barbarian land in the eyes of the northern scholars. Although at this time, under Lin Yi's order, the imperial court was very supportive of the development of Jiangnan and encouraged the northern tribesmen to move south, but the effect was still not very obvious. The effect of relying on the coercive power of the government is naturally far from being driven by the invisible hand of the market. When the canal connecting the north and the south is unblocked, it will naturally intensify the exchanges between the north and the south, whether it is economic trade or political and demographic.

The second is that the minority regimes in the northern border are also a great danger to the Jin Dynasty, such as the Xiongnu and Xianbei nationalities, especially the increasingly powerful Xianbei, which are becoming more and more powerful! The imperial court has to send a large number of troops to garrison the border, and these troops are not enough to rely on tuntian, and must rely on the supply of grain and salary from the Jianghuai and the Central Plains. The road is far away, and the overland route is far away, and it is difficult and dangerous. Therefore, the key to solving the problem is to dig a canal.

All dynasties after the Sui Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty, whether it was the regime during the period of great unification or the period of separation, all paid attention to the dredging and improvement of the canal, and its motive was nothing more than economic, political, military and other aspects, and made full use of the canal for transportation. Based on the canal, the establishment of a huge and complex transportation system, which continuously transported material resources from all over the country to the location of the capital, became one of the main means to maintain the ruler of the land of China.

The main purpose of the rulers to gather huge manpower and material resources to dig the canal was to carry water. The canal was born for the purpose of transporting the dynasty, which was the life support and power supply system of the dynasty to maintain the life of the dynasty. Due to the difficulty in solving the problems of piracy, wind and waves in the sea, canal water transportation is the main preferred solution in the history of water transportation. The excavation of the canal is a veritable merit in the contemporary, beneficial in the autumn of the great undertaking, for the builders, the effect may not be able to appear in time, just like the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade, the predecessors paved the road and the descendants enjoyed the blessings, but it brought a decisive impact to the later generations of the dynasty.

In any case, Lin Yi decided to be the pioneer of this canal, and this canal was dug and settled! Lin Yi thought about this problem all the way. There is a ditch in the south that runs through the Huai River and the Yangtze River, and only needs to be dredged and widened. Although the chasm also runs between the Yellow River and the Huai River, because the age is too old, and it is through the mountains and mountains, the cost of dredging and widening is very large, and the south direction of the chasm is the land leading to Jingzhou, the upper reaches of the Huai River, and there are thousands of mountains and rivers from the core of the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, Lin Yi had already planned to give up this widening and dredging gap, and instead supported the re-digging of a canal from the vicinity of Kaifeng to the southeast, which could be connected with the ditch. This location is actually the Tongji Canal that was completed and dug in 605 of the Sui Dynasty.

Due to this easterly position, as far as the eye can see, it is all plains, belongs to the yellow flood area, and the waterway canal flow is closed, and the cost of this excavation is also much less. At the same time, both sides of this place are the land of fish and rice, as long as the wind and rain are smooth, this season's grain is enough to eat at least two or three years, both geographically and economically Lin Yi is naturally the best choice of this channel. Then from Kyoto and Luoyang to the territory of Youzhou in the north, it also became its next plan.

This way came over like this, although there was no time to carefully check the terrain along the road, but Lin Yi's mind was always about digging the canal for the benefit of future generations, and a few days later, Lin Yi and his party of five people finally arrived in Jinling City.

This Jinling City is called Jianye at this time, which was originally the capital of Eastern Wu, and after the fire was extinguished, it became the seat of the state of Yangzhou.

This Jianye City is also called Yecheng, Yuecheng, Stone City, etc., but this Jinling City is its loudest, most elegant, most famous and oldest nickname.

"Jinling" was originally the earliest name of Zhongshan, and later became the place name of Nanjing. The word "Jinling" was first used in the name of the city during the Warring States period. According to local chronicles, in 333 B.C., King Chu Wei defeated the Yue Kingdom, killed the Yue King Wujiang, and took all the territory of the Wu State seized by the Yue Kingdom, and built a city in Shishan (now Qingliang Mountain), called Jinlingyi, or Shishou City. At that time, Zhongshan was called Jinling Mountain, and its remnant hills did not have their own names, and Stone Mountain was part of the remnants of Jinling Mountain at that time, so this castle built on Stone Mountain was named "Jinlingyi".

At that time, "Jinneung-eup" was only a small castle with military significance, and although the city was not large, it was the beginning of the administrative division of this place, and the beginning of "Jinling". Due to the dangerous geographical location of "Jinlingyi", with the increasing influence of this place, the name of "Jinling" is becoming more and more loud.

There is another saying about the origin of the name "Jinling", that is, the theory of "burying gold". In this statement, "mausoleum" is interpreted as a tomb. According to legend, the name of Jinling is because Qin Shi Huang buried gold in Jinling Gang to suppress the king's anger, that is, "the mausoleum where gold is buried", so it is called Jinling. Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang once heard that this place has a royal spirit, so the gold caster is buried here. And said that in Qin Shi Huang buried gold in Jinling Gang once erected a monument, engraved: "Not in front of the mountain, not behind the mountain, not in the south of the mountain, not in the north of the mountain, someone obtained, rich a country." ”

But some people say that Qin Shi Huang did not really bury gold, but only falsely claimed to bury gold in the mountains. In this way, let the people who are looking for gold in the north and south of the mountain, "chisel all over the mountain, the gold is not obtained, and the breath of the mountain is discharged".

In addition, there is also the king of Chu Wei buried gold, it is said that at that time the king of Chu Wei felt that this place "has a royal spirit", very afraid, so he ordered his subordinates to bury gold in the north of the Lion Rock (known as Longwan in ancient times). There is an ancient record: "In the thirty-sixth year of King Xian of Zhou (333 BC), Chu Zixiong Shang defeated Yue and took the land of Wu. There is a royal spirit in this place, because the gold is buried in the town, and it is called Jinling. ”

In 229 A.D., Emperor Sun Quan of Wu built the capital here, changed the Moling to Jianye, and then rebuilt Ye in 282 A.D., so the name of Jianye was used here. (To be continued......)