Rebirth at the turn of the Zhou and Sui dynasties

Chapter 416 Guanlong Crisis
Yang Xuangan encouraged his father to avenge his shame in the future, but it is difficult for the court to use troops at this stage.

During the Battle of Hedong, the Guanxi government soldiers suffered heavy losses, and only 6 people fled back. Time is still needed to heal the physical and psychological trauma.

The soldiers from Jingzhou had already returned to the army, and Yang Guang was worried that Cui Che would go south, occupy Luoyang, and then seize Jingzhou.

It's okay for the Shu soldiers to rely on the pass to stick to it, but if they are sent to Hedong to fight against the Yanzhao elite soldiers, it is still a little bit meaningless.

Of course, the most critical thing is money and food.

Don't look at the vast territory of the Western Sui Dynasty today, occupying Guanlong, Sichuan, Jingxiang, Jiangnan, Central Plains, Lianghuai, Lingnan and other places.

However, the Eastern Sui Dynasty controlled by Cui Che only had Hedong, Hebei and Shandong Peninsula.

It seems that it only occupies the northeast corner of the Chinese map, but it is a place of prosperity in the true sense.

Among them, there are 166 ​​households in Hebei, 9130 households in Hedong (including Daizhou and other places), and 100 households in Qingqi and other seven prefectures south of the Yellow River.

Under the rule of the Eastern Sui Dynasty, there were a total of 313 households.

Although the Western Sui Dynasty had 593 households, which seemed to be nearly double the population of the Eastern Sui Dynasty, the Western Sui Dynasty had a vast territory, unlike the Eastern Sui Dynasty, which could easily mobilize financial and material resources.

Especially now that the Guanlong area has 101 households, it is even more of a burden for the imperial court.

Although this number is far less than that of Hebei, but similar to that of Hedong, Guanzhong today is no longer the fertile land of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Severe soil erosion has made the land in Kansai unable to support such a large population.

In the past, with the help of the Yellow River water transport, the grain from the Kanto was transported, except for the famine years, the civil and military officials did not need to follow the emperor to Luoyang to eat.

However, with the fall of Hebei, Kansai not only lost the two granaries of Hebei and Hedong, but also because the Eastern Sui Dynasty and the Western Sui Dynasty shared the Yellow River, the Yellow River water transport was abandoned.

You can't transport grain to Kansai via the Yellow River in front of the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty.

The Eastern Sui Dynasty also had a navy. In the early years, Yang Jian built warships in Qingzhou in order to attack Goguryeo by land and water. After Cui Che captured Qingzhou and other places, this navy also belonged to him.

Money and food cannot be transported by water, which also means an increase in transportation costs.

Especially the food from the south of the Yangtze River, when it is really transported to Kansai, it is almost eaten up along the way.

The Shu road is notoriously difficult to walk, let alone transporting grain from Shu.

Yang Guang suddenly discovered that the only one who can give Guan Long blood transfusion now is the Central Plains.

Not to mention the high transportation cost of transporting grain from the Central Plains to Kansai by land.

Now that the Central Plains is under Cui Che's army, once all the money and food are transferred to Kansai, how can they resist the Eastern Sui Dynasty from going south.

Faced with such a predicament, Yang Guang had the idea of ​​moving the capital.

It's just that Yang Guang didn't build Luoyang as the eastern capital. Luoyang faces the east of the river, and there is no danger to defend. No matter how magnificent the palace is, it is only cheaper for Cui Che.

Yang Guang's favorite place is Yangzhou, which he has been running for many years.

When Yang Guang disclosed the matter to his cronies, to his surprise, the proposal to move the capital aroused a lot of opposition, except for the Jiangnan scholars who came to join him when Yang Guang was the governor of Yangzhou.

Scholars in Jiangnan were of course happy to see Yang Guang move their capital to Yangzhou, but the objections of people from Guan Long's noble background also made Yang Guang fearful and did not dare to actually issue an edict to move the capital.

For Yang Guang, Yangzhou is his hometown, but why are the nobles of Guanlong willing to leave their hometown and move to the south.

The decision to move the capital was put on hold, but the problem still needs to be resolved. It is an indisputable fact that the food produced in the Kansai region cannot feed so many people.

So Yang Guang came up with another way to dig a canal.

By digging a -mile-long Grand Canal connecting the Yangtze River and Luoyang, grain from the south of the Yangtze River can be transported to Luoyang by water.

Luoyang and Tongguan are only more than miles away, and Daxing can be sent to Daxing through the Guangtong Canal of more than miles through Tongguan.

But before the officials objected, Yang Guang himself vetoed it.

Now that the two Sui Dynasties are standing side by side, even if there is sufficient manpower and material resources to dig the canal, there is still the problem, Luoyang has no danger to defend.

Don't dig the canal with great difficulty, Luoyang will be occupied by Cui Che.

In the end, it was Yang Su who suggested that the money and grain from the Central Plains be transported to Kansai, and that the money and grain from Jiangnan, Jingxiang and other places be used to support the Central Plains.

It's just that in this way, there must be serious waste.

But there is no way to do this. You can neither move the capital nor dig canals. You have to find ways to fill the stomachs of more than 100 million households in the Kansai region.

In order to prevent people from imitating Cui Che and setting off rebellions in the localities, Yang Guang issued an edict to abolish the local governors' offices.

At the same time, due to the dissuasion of his cronies in Kansai, although Yang Guang put aside the proposal to move the capital, he still sent Yu Wenkai, the designer of Daxing City and Renshou Palace, to go south to build Jiangdu.

When Yu Wenkai built Jiangdu, he recruited millions of strong men.

Of course, this number is far inferior to the original time and space. In order to build the eastern capital of Luoyang, Yang Guang used a scale of 200 million young men.

In fact, Yang Guang can build slowly, but his character's shortcoming of eager for quick success and instant benefit is undoubtedly revealed after he sits on the throne.

Ding Zhuang in the Lianghuai and Jiangnan areas complained endlessly because of the construction of Jiangdu.

Jin Wang Yang Zhao has been established as the prince. In order to split the Boling Cui family from within, Yang Guang, on the advice of his advisers, let Yang Zhao and the Cui family reunite.

It's just that Yang Guang is suspicious by nature. He still refuses to entrust important tasks to Cui Hongdu, Cui Hongsheng, Cui Zhongfang and others. He only gives high positions and false titles, but he refuses to let them touch the real power. Cui Hongdu and others participated.

Even if it is his own cousin, Yang Guang still can't trust these people with the surname Cui.

Seeing the current situation of Cui Hongdu, Cui Hongsheng, and Cui Zhongfang, the members of the Boling Cui Clan far away in Hebei firmly stood by Cui Che's side.

Yang Guang saw that this strategy was useless, so he ordered the prince Yang Zhao to get rid of the concubine Cui.

A marriage was demolished in Kansai, but a marriage is being accomplished in Kanto.

In Jinyang City, Prime Minister Cui Che married the Xue family of Fenyin and married Xue Daoheng's daughter Xue family into the family, but Cui Che felt sorry for her young age, she was only 14 years old, so she didn't immediately take Xue family as her own. Instead, they are kept in the mansion for the time being.

Xue Shi was originally a bookworm, and she was indifferent by nature. To her, it was just another place to study.

At the same time, news came from Yecheng that Cui Qiji's wife, Princess Nanyang of the Western Sui Dynasty, gave birth to a son.

The relationship between Princess Nanyang and Cui Qiji broke down, and they were picked up by their two aunts, Yang Lihua and Yang Awu, to Yecheng to raise their babies.

Yang Lihua and Yang Awu have not come to Jinyang for a long time, and they are also waiting for Princess Nanyang to give birth.

The two wives stated in the letter that they would bring their grandson for Cui Che in a few days.

Cui Che was naturally overjoyed when he learned that he had an eldest grandson, but he also knew that at this stage, he wanted to seize the gap when the Guanlong Mansion soldiers were still licking their wounds, and enter the Central Plains.

(End of the third volume)
　Hukou data is taken from the five-year statistics of Daye
　　
　
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