Chapter 96: Far Away

After being cared for a full month, Li Shimin could only go down the ground with a crutch column. The injury would only heal after three months. This is due to the injury medicine prepared by Sun Simiao, otherwise he would not be cured if he recovered for half a year.

In the original time and space, the world was in chaos this year, Yang Guang had been killed, and Li Yuan also rebelled against the Sui Dynasty for one year. Li Shimin had repeatedly revealed his talents in the war against the Sui Dynasty. However, the current Sui Dynasty is unprecedentedly powerful among the dynasties of all dynasties. There were countless countries destroyed around the surrounding areas, and even the strong Han Dynasty was not as good as that. Li Shimin had no chance to show his talents before, but this time, it was equivalent to being hit by a blow.

After healing, Li Shimin suddenly became a different person. Li Shimin used to be more intelligent and calm, but this beat made him mature suddenly. Even Li Yuan could not see what his son was thinking.

Several years have passed, and it was already twenty years since the great cause. The vast land of the Sui Dynasty was peaceful and the people lived a prosperous life. The Grand Canal that communicated between the north and south had long been completed. The emperor ordered the renovation of the roads, divided into main national highways, county highways, and county highways. It was stipulated that national highways and county highways must be paved with mixed gravel, lime and yellow sand. National highways can accommodate eight carriages side by side, county highways can accommodate six carriages, and county highways must accommodate four carriages. Land and waterways cover the entire empire like spider webs, forming a quick passage to communicate with the court.

Because millions of foreign captives were used, the court built canals and all roads, which not only did not burden the people, but the court's huge demand for food made ordinary people live better and better. Previously high-end goods such as silk and cotton cloth entered the homes of ordinary people.

All ministers and people believed that the Sui Dynasty had entered an unprecedented prosperous era, and even the achievements of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were likely to be incomparable to the emperor. Even if the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were able to make all the people in the country have enough food and clothing, and their martial arts were extremely powerful, so that the surrounding countries would either be destroyed or their ministers would be imprisoned by the empire and become vassal states.

There were not many vassal states in the Chaoting, most of which were on the Southeast Peninsula. It was not that the Chaoting had thought that the entire Southeast Peninsula would be directly included in the rule of the empire. However, the Southeast Peninsula was hot and the forests were dense. Most of the elite soldiers and generals of the Sui Dynasty came from the north and were not adapted to fighting in this environment. The Chaoting only launched a tentative attack on Linyi. Although it hit Linyi's capital, it was just because of mosquitoes and plague that caused a large number of non-combat reductions. It had to give up and accept Linyi and other countries as vassal states.

This year, the construction of the Martyrs' Temple hosted by the court was completed. It enshrined the names of tens of thousands of heroes who died in the conquest of foreign countries around the country. From soldiers to generals, the Martyrs' Temple was built next to the emperor's ancestral temple. Together with the emperor's ancestral temple, the Emperor shared the annual sacrifices of the court. On the day of the completion of the Martyrs' Temple, the emperor personally brought his ministers to sacrifice to the Martyrs' Temple. It stipulated that this day of each year is the National Sacrifice Day. Later emperors will participate in the sacrifices of the Martyrs' Temple on this day to show that the court never forgets the soldiers who sacrificed for the country's war.

In addition to the Temple of Martyrs, a Lingyan Pavilion was also built in the palace. The Lingyan Pavilion was naturally the deputy statue of civil officials and military generals who made contributions to the court since the founding of the Sui Dynasty. Among them, whether they were alive or not, the current ministers were still in the current period. All the outstanding civil officials and twelve military generals were selected to make them famous throughout the ages. These twenty-four people were not the final number. If someone had more than these twenty-four people in the future, they could also be added to the list of Lingyan Pavilion.

The military generals were naturally led by Yang Shuang, while the civil officials were led by Gao Ying, Li Delin, Han Qinhu, He Ruobi, Su Wei, Yang Shangxi, Niu Hong, Wei Xiaokuan, Luo Yi, Shi Wansui, Mai Tiezhan, Lu Mulin, Li Gang, Yun Dingxing, Qu Tutong, Daxi Changru, Changsun Sheng, Yuan Zhou, Fang Yanqian and other twenty-four people were on the list.

Among the twenty-four people, only eleven were alive, and thirteen of them passed away one after another. The ministers of Emperor Wen, such as Gao Ying, Li Delin, Han Qinhu, He Ruobi, Su Wei, Yang Shangxi, Niu Hong, Wei Xiaokuan, etc., were no longer there, which reminded people of it. However, their families received great honors from it, and the court rewarded them again, which was also considered a blessing and a descendant.

The completion of the Martyrs' Temple and Lingyan Pavilion greatly encouraged many young people to make achievements. Older people like to live a peaceful life, but young people are not like this. They hope to be like their ancestors, whipping horses and whipping on the battlefield, but just waving around. There was no strong opponent found around the Sui Dynasty, which made them feel like they were born at the wrong time.

The country was prosperous and the people were rich, and the court had a strong military strength but no opponents. Many ministers and people thought that the emperor wanted to release horses from Nanshan and restore martial arts. From then on, when the world was peaceful, Yang Yong released a map of the world.

This world map is naturally a simple version of the world map. As soon as the world map is released, the whole country is boiling. It turns out that the world is so big, especially incredible. What everyone is doing is on a ball.

The earth is round, and it was discussed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is Zhang Heng’s Huntian theory. However, the Huntian theory simply describes “the celestial body is as round as a projectile, the earth is as yellow as a chicken, living alone in the sky, the sky is big and the earth is small…”

As for what the earth is and how big it is, Zhang Heng did not say it, and he didn't know what to say it. However, the map of the world and the seas released by the court has a detailed explanation: where is the land and where is the ocean. Although it is only a rough range, most islands are not marked, which is shocking enough.

The Great Sui Dynasty had already opened the Silk Road on the land, and the capital was filled with merchants from all over the Western Regions. With the vigorous development of the Navy in recent years, the cargo throughput of sea trade was several times that of land. There were merchants from South China, India, Dashi and other countries along the coast. Therefore, the officials in the Korean Central Plains were not isolated from the outside world. Although everyone habitually focused on the Central Plains, it is an indisputable fact that the Western Regions and South China Ocean had vast territory and numerous countries.

But everyone has always regarded those places as wilderness. Now when we see this map of the world, we know that the world is far from what we thought before. The Great Sui Dynasty occupied less than 100% of the land, let alone the center of the world.

Although some people have many doubts in their hearts, no one dares to publicly question the authenticity of the World Four Seas Map, because the World Four Seas Map was personally promulgated by the emperor. The great achievements of the emperor's governance over the years are enough that most people do not doubt the courage to speak, let alone with so much evidence, how can they dare to doubt it?

The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous in China's territory. After more than a thousand years, despite the change of dynasties, it never exceeded the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Why? Did the Han people really have no intention of pioneering? Of course not. If the Han people did not have the intention of pioneering, then the Yellow River Basin would not have started, expanded to the west, the sea, the north, and the north, and the land of thousands of miles.

What exactly prevented the continued expansion of the Chinese nation? Some people say it is geography. The Chinese nation has always been a traditional farming nation. There are seas on the southeast and mountains on the west. There is only one in the north. There is a vast land in the north. However, the northern plateau area is drought and rainy, which is not suitable for farming. Even if it is occupied, it is useless for the court. Not only can it not provide taxes for the court, but it has to spend huge military expenses to send troops to station. This is not cost-effective. Because of this, although the Tang Dynasty occupied a large area of ​​northern territory in the early stage, it was all lost in the middle stage.

Because they could not expand, the power of the Han people could only be used in internal consumption. The cycle of dynasties has been repeated for thousands of years. They completely forgot that there is a wider world outside.

As soon as the chart of the world and the four seas came out, the blood of those young people who were lamenting that they were born at the wrong time was boiling again. The world was so big that even if the twenty-four heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion could not do it, there were always opportunities to win a wife and a son. Moreover, according to the emperor's introduction on the chart of the world and the Four Seas, whether it was the continent of Australia going south or the continent of America opposite the sea, there were only some natives on it. They had no country and could not even train iron tools. Isn't it easy to make contributions? That was a land that was several times larger than the entire Central Plains combined.

Not only young people were excited, but also some mature officials were also excited. The ups and downs of dynasties in the past were ultimately due to land. In the later period of the dynasty, due to the concentration of land, farmers with less or no land often had no food for a year, and became refugees in the year of disaster, which shakes the rule of the dynasty. Although the Sui Dynasty has no land problem yet, the population will continue to reproduce and one day encounter it. If several additional places in the Central Plains can be produced, it will be exciting to think about it.

At this moment, the navy heard news and found that Australia was marked on the World Four Seas Chart. The ships advanced along the Australian edge for more than a month, but still failed to explore Australia's area. It can be seen that Australia is extremely large and the World Four Seas Chart is completely correct.

The emperor had long stated that Australia was dry and rainy, and most of the middle areas were covered by deserts, which was not suitable for large-scale immigration. However, despite this, it was completely feasible to immigrate millions of people. Of course, the court does not have such a large-scale cross-sea immigration ability now, but it is necessary to send people to develop in advance. In order to encourage the people of the Central Plains to go overseas, Yang Yong ordered the implementation of the feudal system and the residential land law.

The feudal system is aimed at officials. Any official who has a title in this dynasty is willing to immigrate to Australia. Not only will the title be upgraded to one level, but the title is also fully enfeoffed. The prince can deduct 200,000 hectares as a fief, the founding duke can actually enfeoff 50,000 hectares, the founding marquis can actually enfeoff 20,000 hectares, the founding monarch can actually enfeoff 10,000 hectares, the founding monarch can actually enfeoff 5,000 hectares, the founding monarch can actually enfeoff 5,000 hectares, and the founding men can actually enfeoff 1,000 hectares, and any official above the ninth rank or above, if there was no title before, and only if he was willing to become an official in Australia, he could grant the founding man the status of the founding man. The rule of residence is for ordinary people. As long as ordinary people enter Australia, they can obtain 100 hectares of land, and the court promised that they would never be taken back.

There are precedents of immigrating overseas and facing such preferential treatment, many people are really moved. Although there are not many people, there were only a few thousand people a year at the beginning, but this is enough. There were only hundreds of British colonists who first landed in Australia. Now, the Sui Dynasty has landed on this island a thousand years ahead of schedule. It is conceivable that there are no white people in Australia anymore.

Compared with Australia's drought and rainy weather and deserts everywhere, the rich America is truly desirable. In the 21st year of the Great Achievement, just one year after discovering the Australian continent, the port of Qingzhou was crowded with people, and the people on the shore waved at the port desperately, and many women even choked out loud. Four huge sea boats in the port were slowly anchoring, and the deck of the sea boat was also full of sailors, and they were also waving to the shore desperately.

These four sea ships are the largest ships built by humans since the beginning. Each ship can carry 50,000 materials, equivalent to 2,700 tons, and can accommodate thousands of people to sail on the sea at the same time. The Sui Dynasty tried its best to select the best craftsmen and the best wood. It took five years to build these four large ships.

These four large ships are naturally ships to explore the American continent. At this time, each ship only carries 300 people, and the rest of the space is used to store clear water, grain, various fruits, vegetable seeds and medicines. They expect to reach their destination for more than half a year. If they are lucky, they will encounter a small island. If they are not lucky, they will not be able to land for more than half a year and have been spending the sea.

The sailors on the ship were carefully selected. Although the young men aged 25 to 30 were well prepared and everyone respected the emperor as gods, no one was sure whether they could reach the American continent as the emperor said. This voyage was equivalent to separation from life and death, so their relatives naturally came to see him off.

With the reluctant eyes of his relatives, four large ships set sail on time and headed towards the vast sea. The four large ships experienced various risks of sailing at sea. Finally, three large ships arrived in the Americas seven months later. One of them was hit by a storm and sunk. Fortunately, most of them moved in time, but dozens of people died, plus the 1,220 people who died of illness in Shanghai, and in the end only 1,093 people arrived safely.

Two years later, three large ships returned, and they brought back various unique properties on the American land and also brought back the news that they were extremely rich. The entire Sui Dynasty caused a huge sensation. The emperor ordered that the original feudal system and residential land law in Australia were also applicable to the Americas. At the same time, the imprisonment of King Yang Xiu of Shu was lifted, and the fiefs of King Shu and King Jin were directly set on the American continent, and a prince was selected as the commander of the entire American continent. In the end, the third prince, King Chu, Yang Yu, asked to go there.
Chapter completed!