On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 416 Guanlong Crisis

Yang Xuangan encouraged his father to avenge his humiliation in the future, but at this stage, the court was unable to use troops.

In the Battle of Hedong, the Kansai Prefecture soldiers suffered heavy losses, with only 60,000 people able to escape. It still takes time to heal their physical and psychological wounds.

The Jingzhou soldiers had returned, and Yang Guang was worried that Cui Che would go south, attack Luoyang, and then seize Jingzhou.

It's okay for the Shu soldiers to rely on the passes to hold on, but if they are sent to the east of Hedong to fight in the field with the elite troops of Yan and Zhao, it is still a little bit meaningless.

Of course, the most important 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, Cui Che only controlled Hedong, Hebei and Shandong Peninsula in the Eastern Sui Dynasty.

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

Among them, there are 1,669,130 ​​households in Hebei, 1,003,242 households in Hedong (including Daizhou and other places), and 462,439 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 3,134,811 households.

Although the Western Sui Dynasty had 5,935,320 households, which seemed to have a population nearly double that of the Eastern Sui Dynasty, the Western Sui Dynasty had a vast territory, and unlike the Eastern Sui Dynasty, it could easily mobilize financial and material resources.

Especially now that the Guanlong area has 1,017,925 households, it is even more of a burden for the imperial court.

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

Severe soil erosion makes it impossible for the land in Kansai to support such a large population.

In the past, with the help of the Yellow River water transport, grains from Guandong were transported. Except for years of famine, civil and military officials did not need to follow the emperor to Luoyang for food.

But with the fall of all 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 Eastern Sui soldiers.

The Eastern Sui Dynasty also had a navy. In the early years, Yang Jian built a large number of warships in Qingzhou in order to attack Goguryeo on land and water. After Cui Che captured Qingzhou and other places, this navy also came under his command.

Money and grain cannot be transported by water, which also means increased transportation costs.

Especially the food from Jiangnan, by the time it was transported to Kansai, it would have been almost eaten along the way.

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

Yang Guang suddenly discovered that the only people who could give blood transfusions to Guan Long were the Central Plains.

Not to mention transporting grain from the Central Plains to Kansai by land, there are also high transportation costs.

Now the Central Plains is under Cui Che's military front. Once all the money and food are transferred to Kansai, how can they resist the Eastern Sui Dynasty's southward march.

Faced with this dilemma, Yang Guang thought of moving the capital.

However, Yang Guang did not build Luoyang as the eastern capital. Luoyang faced Hedong directly and had no danger to defend. No matter how magnificent the palace was, it was just an advantage for Cui Che.

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

When Yang Guang revealed this 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 defect to Yangzhou when he was the general manager of Yangzhou.

Of course, the scholars in Jiangnan were happy to see Yang Guang move the capital to Yangzhou, but the opposition of the noble family in Guanlong also made Yang Guang use caution and did not dare to actually issue an edict to move the capital.

For Yang Guang, Yangzhou was his hometown, but how could the nobles like Guan Long be willing to leave their hometown and move to the south?

The decision to move the capital has been shelved, but the problem still needs to be solved. The food produced in the Kansai region cannot feed so many people. This is an indisputable fact.

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

By digging a two-thousand-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 is only about 400 miles away from Tongguan, and Daxing can be sent to Daxing through the Guangtong Canal, which is more than 300 miles away through Tongguan.

But before the officials could object, Yang Guang himself vetoed it.

Now that the two Sui dynasties stand side by side, even if there are sufficient manpower and material resources to dig the canal, the problem remains that Luoyang is undefeated.

Even if the canal is finally dug, Luoyang will be occupied by Cui Che.

In the end, it was Yang Su who suggested transporting money and grain from the Central Plains to Guanxi, and then using money and grain from Jiangnan, Jingxiang and other places to support the Central Plains.

But in this case, there must be serious waste.

But there is no other solution. We can neither move the capital nor dig canals. We must find ways to feed the more than 1 million households in the Kansai region.

In order to prevent people from following Cui Che's example and setting off local rebellions, Yang Guang issued an edict to abolish the general administration offices in various places.

At the same time, due to the dissuasion of his cronies in Kansai, although Yang Guang gave up the idea of ​​moving the capital, he still sent Yu Wenkai, the designer of Daxing City and Renshou Palace, south to build Jiangdu.

When Yu Wenkai built Jiangdu, he recruited millions of people.

Of course, this number is far less than the scale of the two million men Yang Guang had in the original time and space in order to build the eastern capital of Luoyang.

In fact, Yang Guang could build slowly, but his character's shortcomings of eagerness for quick success were clearly revealed after he took the throne.

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

Jin Wang Yang Zhao has been established as the crown prince. In order to split the Boling Cui family from within, Yang Guang responded to the advice of his advisers and reunited Yang Zhao with the Cui family.

It's just that Yang Guang was suspicious by nature, but he still refused to entrust Cui Hongdu, Cui Hongsheng, Cui Zhongfang and others with important responsibilities. He only gave them high positions and false titles, but he refused to let them touch the real power. In the battle of Hedong, Yang Guang did not give up.

Cui Hongdu and others participated.

Even if they were his cousins, Yang Guang still couldn't trust these people with the surname Cui.

Seeing the current situation of Cui Hongdu, Cui Hongsheng, and Cui Zhongfang, the Boling Cui family in Hebei Province firmly sided with Cui Che.

Yang Guang saw that this strategy was useless, so he ordered Prince Yang Zhao to divorce the Crown Princess Cui.

A marriage was broken up in Kansai, but a marriage was being made in Kanto.

In Jinyang City, the Prime Minister Cui Che married the Xue family of Fenyin and married Xue Daoheng's daughter into the family. However, Cui Che felt pity for her young age, only fourteen years old, so he did not immediately take the Xue family as his own.

, but is temporarily kept in the house.

Xue was a bookworm and indifferent by nature. For 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.

Princess Nanyang's relationship with Cui Qiji broke down, and she was taken to Yecheng by her two aunts Yang Lihua and Yang Awu to raise her child.

Yang Lihua and Yang Awu have not come to Jinyang for a long time, because 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 his eldest grandson, but he also knew that at this stage, he wanted to seize the opportunity while the soldiers of Guanlong Mansion were still licking their wounds and invade the Central Plains.

(End of Volume 3)

The household registration data are taken from Daye’s five-year statistics.

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