Unfortunately, Wendi died before moving the capital to complete his great career. Fortunately, his child, Emperor Yang Di, still remembers it. Initially, moving the capital was conducive to strengthening the manipulation of the central region, but Yang Di was eager for success, which eventually led to the peasant war, and the people did not talk about life.
In the last years of Yang Guang, he personally rushed to Luoyang and climbed Mangshan Mountain to see the terrain. He thought Shan Zhinan, east of Yi Que and east of Jian River were good places for national defense, so he decided to build the Imperial City here. In March of Ye Wei's reign (605), he ordered the Prime Minister to build a supervisor for Dongdu, a deputy supervisor, and a great craftsman to build a large-scale project for the Dongdu Luoyang every month.
In the second year of 65438+ 10, Du Dong was completed. Emperor Yangdi marched straight into the south of the Yangtze River, immediately considered Jiangdu District, and arrived in Luoyang, the eastern capital, in April. So Cao E of Liugong also moved to Luoyang. At this time, Luoyang, as the core of national political smelting, economic development, culture, art and transportation and tourism, has a population of millions and tens of thousands of rich people. The garden in the west of the city is the largest and most beautiful garden in China.
In order to strengthen the north-south traffic and promote the rule of all parts of the country, Emperor Sui also ordered the opening of the North-South Grand Canal. The Grand Canal is divided into four sections: Yongji Canal, Tongji Canal, Hangou and Jiangnan, with a total length of 4,000 miles or 5,000 miles. The canal takes the eastern part of Luoyang as the core, leads to Zhuoxian in the northeast and Yuhang in the southeast, and becomes the main artery of north-south traffic. The excavation of the Grand Canal has played a great role in the exchange of economic development between North and South.
During Yang Di's period, China's economy had a great development trend: the sown area increased greatly, and the output of food crops increased; Luoyang official warehouse stores a certain number of stones, but millions of stones are a minority. Handicraft industry has a new development trend; The shipbuilding industry has high technical quality and can build a magnificent warship with five floors.
However, in order to cope with such basic national conditions, Yang Di chose to abuse the people's power. He patrolled the streets and alleys of Jiangdu District three times by dragon boat, carrying thousands of boats and driving for more than 200 kilometers continuously. States and counties along the way need to provide food for this huge warship.
Emperor Yang Di also launched a beautiful war. Complicated military service and military service drove many farmers away from land resources and desolate fields, which led to the famine of mobile phone version. In the seventh year of Great Cause (6 1 1), the farmers in Changbai Mountain in Shandong rebelled first, and then the whole country responded. The peasant uprising gradually gathered in many powerful group companies, the most important of which was Zhai Rang and Shi Mi's Wagangjun, leading cadres. Wagangjun rebelled in Wagang, Henan Province, occupied Luoxingcang, a big grain depot in the Yuan Dynasty, and sent food crops to farmers. In the future, the political parties in the Yuan Dynasty will be in danger.
We can't help asking, why did Yang Di spend a lot of resources to build Luoyang in Tokyo to replace Chang 'an and become the new political center of the Sui Dynasty? On this question, the answer in Zi Tong Zhi Jian is: Yang Guang believes the warlock's words and popular folk prophecies.
Shortly after he ascended the throne, a warlock named Zhang Taiwei warned the emperor: "The emperor's life belongs to wood, and Yongzhou (Chang 'an, Gyeonggi Province) is located in the middle of broken wood and is not suitable for long-term residence. The prophecy is "rebuilding Luoyang and repairing the world in the Southern Song Dynasty"! The warlock's confusion persuaded the Emperor Yang Di, so he ordered to move the capital a few days later.
As we all know, is it really because of a warlock's words that Emperor Yangdi made this important political and metallurgical move? The objective facts are not so simple.
As we all know, when Emperor Wendi was in power, although the Yuan Dynasty maintained the unification of heaven and earth in its territory, the north and south were still strangers. After all, the north and south collapsed for more than 300 years. Although the bleeding of the wound has stopped at the moment of history, the invisible and huge cracks that run through it cannot be stitched up in a short time through unified operation on the surface.
This kind of crack is inevitable in the fields of political smelting, economic development, culture and art, social atmosphere, folk customs and so on, which seriously weakens the team cohesion and reliability that China should have. Chang 'an is located in the northwest corner of the kingdom. Once there is a mutiny in Shandong (east of Xiaoshan) or Jiangnan, it is likely that the mutiny will be irreversible until the information is reflected in the middle.
Therefore, it is urgent to transfer the power nerve center of the kingdom from the northwest corner to the Central Plains in order to better strengthen the central government's control over the territory of the Quartet, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, to better eliminate the bad feelings of historical time, to truly unify the road from the spiritual essence, and to establish a new capital at the northern and southern border of Luoyang. In this way, when Yang Di built Luoyang, he would say, "Since the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he has always wanted to start his own business with rivers and Luoyang as places. Wang Xian worried about it for a long time. He was so excited that he began to cry! I will move on!
Looking back on the process of Yang Di's move to Luoyang, we can see that this move is conducive to strengthening the central government's control over the south of the Yangtze River and strengthening China-DPRK relations. Although Emperor Yang Di himself was older than him, his original intention of moving the capital was undoubtedly appropriate and effective.