Yang Guang was a talented and stubborn emperor. On the other hand, he was also a very troublesome emperor.

Since moving the capital to Luoyang, Yang Guang has basically not stopped.

First, two million strong men were sent to build the Luoyang New City, then nearly one million strong men were sent to dig a long trench that guarded Luoyang for 2,000 miles, and then more than one million people were sent to dig the Tongji Canal, and then more than one million were sent to dig the Hangou dug by King Fuchai of Wu in Huainan.

In addition, Yang Guang ordered people to recruit a large number of Dingfu to build granaries across the country. The largest Luokou warehouse is located in Gong County, 20 miles around Cangcheng, with a total of 3,000 septembers. Each cellar can hold 8,000 septembers, with a total capacity of more than 20,000 septembers. In addition, there is Huiluo warehouse in the north of Luoyang, which can have a capacity of 2 million septembers. Others with larger ones include Liyang warehouse in Weizhou, Heyang warehouse in Luozhou, Pingchang warehouse in Shanzhou, Guangtong warehouse in Huazhou, etc.

In short, Yang Guang's policies are to dig deep trenches, accumulate grain, build high walls, and prepare for war and famine.

If the above measures have more or less economic and political significance to the Sui Dynasty, then Yang Guang's actions will be purely tossing.

The construction of Luoyang City on this side was just beginning, and Yang Guang suddenly had a sudden idea and said that he would build a royal garden and villa.

Normally, people have become emperors, so it is not too much to build a villa, but the villa that Yang Guang wants to build is really too big!

This villa, called Xiyuan, is basically next to Luoyang City.

The largest capital during the Sui Dynasty was naturally the Daxing City built by Old Man Yang Jian, which was later the Tang Chang'an City. However, Daxing City was less than 10,000 meters wide from east to west (9,700), and more than 8,000 meters long from north to south. It was about 74 miles around the city wall.

The Luoyang City under construction is much smaller in size than Daxing City, probably more than half of Daxing City.

But the West Garden built by Yang Guang was actually bigger than the new capital Luoyang City! Not only that, this West Garden is much bigger than the original capital Daxing City!

The circumference of Daxing City is more than 74 miles long, while the circumference of Xiyuan is more than 200 miles long!

In other words, just one Xiyuan is as big as nine Daxing City in terms of area!

Yang Guang repaired a villa, but I don’t know if it was as simple as enclosing a piece of land. I don’t need to say anything about those pavilions and buildings. In a word, it is so exquisite and luxurious that it is outrageous!

In addition, Yang Guang also dug an artificial lake in Xiyuan, and created three small hills in the center of the lake, called Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou.

He thought he had become the emperor, so Yang Guang wanted to take care of everything, but he actually asked his subordinates to make his West Garden live in full bloom. It's okay to say that spring and summer are basically timely flowers and trees. Just pay attention to taking off the old flowers in time and putting them in new flowers. But in the autumn and winter seasons, the plants and trees are shaking and everything withered, so where are there any red flowers and green leaves!

Without any plans, the clever one came up with a solution to cut the colorful silk and disguise it as flowers and trees. But one thing is, although these colorful silks will not wither, they will fade over time! Then we have to change to a new one!

You know, this Western Garden is a radius of hundreds of miles! Once you change it, how many silks and satin will you have to change it!

To sum up in one word, that is, it’s too expensive!

After building such a big villa, can’t Yang Guang live alone?

But all the civil and military officials in the court are not qualified even if they want to live, right?

So, Yang Guang began to collect beauties all over the world to fill the palace! The palace maids and concubines in the Western Garden alone are more than the palace concubines in Yang Guang's palace, and the three thousand beauties are not enough to describe them!...

Originally, the three projects of building Luoyang City, digging long trenches and opening canals basically recruited more than four million civilians, and then granaries were built in various places. Together, hundreds of thousands of civilians were also recruited. Now Yang Guang built a villa in the West Garden and recruited nearly one million civilians.

In this way, in just half a year after Yang Guang ascended the throne, the number of civilians recruited by various projects can reach 5 million! And they are not short-term work, basically the shortest time-consuming project, and the construction period must be calculated in years!

Even so, Yang Guang still felt that the trouble was not strong enough. Not long after the construction of Xiyuan started, Yang Guang suddenly had a whim and said, "Officials should not make bureaucratic mistakes. They should be close to the general public and listen to how the people evaluate our government work so that they can improve it!"

Therefore, under the banner of going to the countryside to inspect, Yang Guang announced in a very high-profile manner that he would visit Jiangnan, and the specific target of the inspection was Yang Guang's old nest, Jiangdu.

Yang Guang wanted to patrol the capital of Jiangdu, but he didn't want to walk or take a bus, so Yang Guang thought that this season is suitable for boat rides, which is both relaxing and comfortable, and can also enjoy flowers and moon along the way!

However, when the emperor travels, he cannot take a transport ship for merchants to transport grain? That way, it is neither beautiful nor grand, nor can it reflect the royal majesty, right?

So, you have to build a ship! You still have to build a big ship! Build a building ship! Build a dragon ship!

When the emperor goes on a trip, you can't have one brother? Even if you don't want all 30,000 beauties to accompany you, it's not too much to bring three thousand beauties with you? These people have to take a boat?

In addition, you also have to bring some food, clothing, housing and transportation utensils, and those beauties also have to bring rouge, water powder, drums, music, singing and dancing utensils.

So, Yang Guang ordered people to start building ships!

The largest one is naturally the dragon boat that Yang Guang rode!

The dragon boat is 45 feet high (one foot 29.6 cm), divided into four levels, reaching two hundred feet long (one foot 2.96 meters, scared, nearly twice as long as Varyag!), with the upper part of the main hall, the inner hall, the east and west court halls, and the second part of the middle part of the room, all decorated with gold and jade, and the lower part of the eunuchs are placed in the inner hall.

Anyway, that's quite corrupt!

In addition to Yang Guang's dragon boat, the Queen's Xiangchi Boat is only a little smaller than Yang Guang's dragon boat. Other structures, decorations, etc. are basically the same as those of the dragon boat!

In addition, there are nine floating boats, which are slightly smaller than the Dragon Boat, and only three levels. This is Yang Guang’s water palace. If Yang Guang gets tired of being on the Dragon Boat, he will go to the Water Palace for a walk!

In addition to the high-end luxury ships that these palace figures have to take, there are also civil and military officials, princesses, monks, Taoists, and nuns, extras, barbarians, and officers and soldiers who are accompanying the 12 Guards in the capital. These people also have to take a boat to accompany Yang Guang on a patrol! Moreover, the 12 Guards have to bring weapons and horses, right?

Although it doesn’t need to be as luxurious as Yang Guang’s boat ride, there is also a boat to be used as a girl! All of these accompanying people are combined, but there are no less than tens of thousands!

So, Yang Guang waved his hand and ordered people to build nearly 10,000 ships in one breath, all of which were used by Yang Guang for inspection in Jiangnan!

Moreover, Yang Guang's construction period is still tight!

Starting from March, Yang Guang suddenly made a surprise attempt to tour the south of the Yangtze River, and Yang Guang's request was that he could take a boat to Jiangdu before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th!

From Luoyang to Jiangdu, it’s more than a thousand miles away?

Yang Guang's dragon boat is so big that it is not rowed by people, but by a boatman pulling it on the shore! In this way, the speed is definitely much slower than walking! It is already considered to be awesome to walk twenty miles a day!

If local officials along the way stay with them, conservatively estimated that it would take at least two months on the way!

In other words, before June at the latest, all the ships must be built and transported to Luoyang City! In this way, construction will only take about three months to go!

Ten thousand large and small ships were built within three months, including two super-large ships of super-carrier-class such as the Dragon Boat and the Xiangchi Boat, and nine large ships of the secondary aircraft carrier-class such as the Fujing!

Time is tight and the task is heavy. The only ones who are unlucky are those who are forced to build ships!

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Chapter completed!