Since Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, there has been a lot of construction work in successive years. Yu Wenkai, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, has never been idle and has been traveling around all the year round.
Normally, the emperor should really rest and recuperate with the people, and should not continue to mess around like this, but the family fortune Yang Jian left behind was so rich that Yang Guang never stopped thinking about it.
Family wealth is not just about money and food, but also a stable taxation policy, a military system, a sound administrative system, a stable country, and the fertile south that remains to be developed.
If you don't do anything until now, then Yang Guang will definitely belong to the ranks of wise emperors in history. Just a grand canal is enough to make him surpass many emperors.
It's a pity that there is no if, the matter of repairing Chi Road was brought up again.
The vast majority of people are still against it. The three-thousand-mile Chi Road is no joke, and the Chi Road is in the north. In other words, to build the Chi Road, we still have to recruit civilians from the north. What is the north like?
Yang Guang's reasons for Xiu Chidao were very good. Goguryeo did not come to pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty. When he was in the Turks, he issued an ultimatum to the Goguryeo envoys, but they did not take it seriously.
This made Yang Guang lose face. The small country of Panyu dared to ignore the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty. It was seeking death.
The North-South Canal has been opened, named Yongji Canal, which can carry soldiers from the Central Plains and the South to the north, but this is not enough, because the elite of the Sui Dynasty are in Guanzhong.
Therefore, Yang Guang wanted to build a Chi Road from Guanzhong in the west to Zhuojun in the east, so that the elites in Guanzhong could quickly support the border and use troops outside the border.
The name Chidao first appeared in the Qin Dynasty. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he built Chidao with Xianyang as the center that can lead to all parts of the country, similar to a national highway.
Things like building roads have always been determined by politics and economics. We will not build a road for no reason. Since it is built, it must have its use.
But this time, Yang Guang still didn't succeed, because all the ministries and government offices were crying about poverty. They really had no money. It didn't cost anything to recruit civilians, but food supply had to cost money, right?
The problem now is that in the north, even if you have money, you don’t know where to buy food.
At the court meeting, Yang Guang looked at Gao Jiong, hoping that Gao Jiong would stand up and support him.
"Dugu Gong thinks my idea is unrealistic?"
It is simply a fantasy. Gao Jiong stood up and said:
"I believe that building Chi Dao will be beneficial to the country, but isn't this timing inappropriate? Since Your Majesty intends to personally conquer Goguryeo, we will need at least three years to prepare. If Chi Dao is divided into three years
If we repair it, the country can barely bear it."
Gao Jun has now learned his lesson and will never confront Yang Guang, but he cannot ignore the current situation, so his answer not only takes care of Yang Guang's face, but also leaves room for the current situation.
"With our national power, does it really take that long to prepare to conquer Goguryeo?" Yang Guang frowned.
Gao Jiong nodded: "To conquer Goguryeo, Hebei must be the rear area. However, all industries in Hebei are ruined right now. People's minds are stable. It will take time to resume production. Logistics support is unstable. It will be difficult to deploy troops in the front. For a safe plan,
, you should really prepare everything and then plan it slowly."
It is obviously impossible for Yang Guang to hold this breath in his stomach for three years. He even wishes to go and fight Goguryeo now, but the current situation does not allow him to do so.
Just as Gao Jiong said, Hebei has not yet been appeased. Don't expect him to personally conquer Hebei by then. As a result, before Goguryeo can be attacked, Hebei rebels again.
So what needs to be solved urgently now is to appease Hebei. To appease, we need to settle accounts.
But Luoyang is not a place for settling scores.
I saw Yang Guangdao: "Yuan Bao was originally the governor of Qijun, but he is old. I allowed him to recuperate in Luoyang. I promoted Zhang Xutuo, the general governor of Qijun, to be the governor and took back the jingjie."
You won't always be able to hold a banner like this. It represents a temporary power that must be taken back when it expires. After all, it has too much power.
Then, Yang Guang said again: "Confer Yuan Bao the title of Doctor Jin Zi Guang Lu."
This was to give Yuan Bao some compensation, after all, he had just married his daughter to his second son.
Yang Guang added: "Yu Juluo has made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion. He was granted the title of Dr. Zuo Guanglu, with a settlement of 1,000 households. Qiao Zhongkui and Shi Huaiyi were granted the title of Dr. Yinqing Guanglu, and were rewarded with 5,000 pieces of silk."
This time he only has rewards and no punishments. As long as you are not in the reward category, you can basically wait for the emperor to settle accounts with you.
Yan Bi was already panicking. After the canal was completed, he had already followed the emperor back south to Luoyang, and he knew in his heart that he would definitely be punished this time, depending on how serious the crime was.
Therefore, he also hoped that the emperor would discuss the crime after returning to the capital. Because there was King Qin in the capital, King Qin would definitely target King Qi, and the size of his crime depended entirely on how much blame he would bear for Yang Jian.
The King of Qin was the only person who could help him reduce his crime.
In the Sui Dynasty, the Chinese New Year was not as lively as the Shangyuan Festival, and this year's Shangyuan Festival in Luoyang was another extremely extravagant and grand celebration.
What to celebrate? To celebrate the opening of the canal, we must also thank God and the Yellow River Water God.
These things are all done by Taichang Temple.
The war in Hebei has not affected the prosperity of Luoyang at all. What you can see here is a scene of prosperity at its peak.
On the third day of the first lunar month, a man came from the east.
This person's name is Xiaoye Meizi. He is not a girl, but a man. His name is Su Yingao.
This person was the Japanese envoy sent to the Sui Dynasty, that is, the son of Little Japan. He came this time with a group of Japanese monks and the credentials of the Japanese leader, hoping to learn some Buddhism from the Sui Dynasty.
As we all know, Japanese Buddhism was introduced from China. Later, Confucianism and Taoism were also introduced to Japan. The former was used by the rulers, while the latter was far less influential than Buddhism.
However, Taoism directly changed the title of Japan's supreme ruler. The word "emperor" is a Taoist term, and the two artifacts, the sword and the mirror, which represent the status of the emperor, were also influenced by Taoism.
Until later generations, China, Japan and South Korea were still jokingly referred to as the Three Treasures of Confucianism.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The person responsible for receiving foreign guests is Honglu Temple. Yang Ming is also in charge of this department. If he is not around, the people responsible for receiving foreign guests are naturally Su Kui and Chen Shuming.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Ono was brought into the Ziwei Palace to have an audience with the Sui Emperor.
This kid can speak Chinese. I don’t know how he learned it. Although he is poor, everyone can barely understand it. I saw him standing in the main hall, holding his credentials and saying:
"The Emperor Haixi Bodhisattva revived Buddhism. On the order of the Emperor of Japan, I asked to see the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty and asked the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty to allow Japanese monks to study Buddhism here."
"The Bodhisattva Emperor of Haixi revived Buddhism", this is what the Japanese called Yang Guang, because for Japan, the Great Sui Dynasty was to the west of the sea.
The word "Japan" sounds like a curse, but Japan during this period was indeed called "Japan".
The pronunciation of their Japanese word "Japanese" is the same as "Yamato", so Japan later called itself Wajin, Yamato people, and Yamato nation.
When we call them "Japanese pirates", it has a derogatory meaning. We are talking about them, but when they call them "Japanese pirates", it has no derogatory meaning.
Yang Guang knew the purpose of this mission. It was nominally to study Buddhism, but in fact it was the Japanese plan to use troops, namely sticks, against Silla.
Silla is located to the south of Goguryeo. Currently, it is under pressure from Goguryeo to please the Sui Dynasty. The Japanese state is saying hello to the Sui Dynasty in advance. They do not want to conflict with the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang originally agreed, but if there was chaos in Silla, Goguryeo would definitely take advantage of it, and it would also drag down the country's power, which would be good for the Sui Dynasty.
But when he opened the letter of credentials, his face instantly turned ugly.
Because the first sentence of the letter of credence is "The emperor writes to the emperor where the sun rises, and the emperor is safe where the sun disappears."
Just by looking at his tone, he knew that he was the Emperor of the Sunless Emperor. I was prosperous in the Sui Dynasty, so why did the Sun disappear? Do you think you can talk like that?
How dare a small country in the middle of the sea call itself emperor in front of me?
Yang Guang immediately got angry and said coldly: "Barbarian books are rude, don't read them again."
It means that this kind of rude credentials should not be seen by me again in the future.
As a result, Miss Ono was in trouble and was invited to go down by the people from Honglu Temple.
After the others left, Pei Ju hurriedly said: "Japan plans to use troops against Silla, which will be beneficial to me. I think I should send an envoy to return to visit to show that we, the Sui Dynasty, are a country of etiquette."
Yang Guang frowned and said, "Why do I need to make friends with the barbarians? The Japanese country is just an island country in the sea, a corner of the country."
Pei Ju smiled and said: "The purpose of our return mission is to inform the Japanese leader that we will not intervene when he attacks Silla. At the same time, we, the Sui Dynasty, need to send people to Silla to inform King Jinpyeong Jin Baijing and tell him
The Japanese country intends to use force against Silla, but we just sit back and watch the fight."
Yang Guang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "The world is full of scheming and good decisions. Whenever I solve my worries, I will do what you say. But who will be the envoy?"
Pei Ju said: "Pei Shiqing, the guest in charge of Hongluqing, is proficient in the Japanese language. He can lead the envoy to cross the sea eastward to convey His Majesty's holy will."
"Call this man in," Yang Guang said.
After a while, Pei Shiqing from the old Pei family came over in a daze. Does he really understand the Japanese language? He knows a little bit about it.
If he understands Chinese, he can roughly understand the meaning of Japanese. It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, he can make a rough guess by looking at the words.
The dissatisfied brother married for three days, and the adoptive mother's temptation, don't tell me that you can't understand it?
Chinese characters were introduced to Japan from the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Japan officially integrated Chinese characters with the native Japanese language to create their own language.
Pei Shiqing is half-assed and fully competent. He is from Hedong, so the difficulty of communicating with Japan is about the same as that of communicating with people from Lingnan.
When he knew that he had been entrusted with this important task, he felt a little unhappy. He had traveled too far and had to cross the sea. He didn't know if he could come back.
But he also knew that the clan leader Pei Ju was giving him a chance. As long as he could successfully complete the task, he would be promoted when he came back.
After all, it is not easy for a powerless intellectual like him to climb up.
So Pei Shiqing said happily: "I will fulfill my mission."