Yang Guang, who completed the Grand Canal matters, has long been nailed to the pillar of shame.

But Mr. Guo doesn't think he is wronged.

Yang Guang was always hot-headed when doing many things and always didn't like to consider the consequences. This was one of the reasons why he was scolded for the ages and was also the direct reason for the demise of the Sui Dynasty.

The Tongji Canal, which connects from the Huaihe River Basin to the Yellow River Basin, is a long section of the project, in order to pass through heavy dragon boats, the river channel needs to be dug very wide and deep, and the project volume is very large.

As a result, he only gave Yuwen Kai five months of construction...

With the engineering power and technical means of the Sui Dynasty, construction started in March and completed in August. Then Yang Guang happily led his concubines to Yangzhou.

And what about the price you paid for this?

Two million laborers are said to have more than four out of ten, nearly half of them.

When Yang Guang went south, small cars carrying Ding Zhuang's bodies who were exhausted and starved to build the Grand Canal were passing everywhere.

The cart transported his body back to their hometown and handed it over to his grieving family for burial.

No wonder Yang Guang planted trees and enjoyed the cool air.

Mr. Guo didn’t know if one million people died when he built this Tongji Canal, nor did he know if there was any artistic processing here.

However, if you complete such a large workload in five months, it is a wonder of the world.

Mr. Guo built the Qinling and Shu Road for several years. Although he was very careful, he instructed Hanzhong County and Yongzhou to use labor carefully.

Even so, the Shu Road project has already ruined the lives of nearly 60,000 prisoners of war and slaves. This is still the result of relaxing the construction period and pursuing quality. It almost smashed all the prisoners and slaves obtained by Mr. Guo's conquest of Liangzhou.

If local households went to build roads, the number of deaths would not be very low.

Like Yang Guang, he needs both speed and quality...

I can only say that I feel pitiful to the people of the world.

It is both arable land, workmanship, and taxes are required.

It deserves Yang Guang to be killed.

Mr. Guo sighed so much.

To build this Grand Canal, prisoners of war alone are definitely not enough.

Nowadays, prisoners of war are too busy to build roads on Shu Road and Liangzhou, so it is impossible to mobilize them to build the Grand Canal.

The captured Xianbei and Liaodong prisoners of war were building roads on the land of Liaodong. They crossed Liaoze to build roads. The construction period and manpower were also tight, so it was impossible to support the Grand Canal.

The population obtained during the development of Jiangnan was basically included in the local household registration and was renovated. The prisoners and slaves obtained were also used in local projects, and they were not enough.

In short, the Wei Empire is carrying out a comprehensive large-scale infrastructure project, and projects in various places are launched one after another. Only the Central Plains, which were developed earlier, can draw out people to help.

Therefore, the renovation of the Grand Canal will inevitably mobilize the people of the Wei Empire.

It is impossible for Mr. Guo to ignore human life like Yang Guang. Two million people worked hard to complete the canal in five months. The canal was built everywhere, and every household was repaired with white banners.

That is equivalent to forcing the people to rebel.

He must consider many things, as well as the strength of the population, and cannot die or anything like that.

We must use a large number of auxiliary troops to join this project to reduce the production pressure of the common people as much as possible, and choose to mobilize in the slack period of the farming period, so as not to delay agricultural production.

We must take turns to mobilize the men from all prefectures, counties and counties, take turns to take action and adopt a rotational rest system, and we cannot use it in one breath until we die.

We must be pity for the people's strength, give them sufficient food and sufficient logistical support.

In order to arouse their enthusiasm for labor, taxes and rewards should be appropriately reduced and rewarded, so as to offset their resentment and dissatisfaction with forced labor.

While pursuing quality, we should not pursue speed too much, and we should not cause a large number of casualties among the people, and we should not be unable to live a normal life, so that we cannot even have children.

There are too many things to do, so Mr. Guo felt that it would be enough to complete the canal from Yangzhou to Luoyang ten years ago, even if it was a huge victory.

On this basis, Tian Feng proposed to communicate from the north to Hebei, and to communicate from Hebei as well.

Guo could see his thoughts at a glance, but that was not what Guo cared about the most. What Guo cared about the most was whether there was any benefit in doing so.

This was done by the Sui Dynasty, with the purpose of dealing with Gogurye.

In order to clean up Goguli, Yang Guang realized the difficulty of transporting grain by land. In order to improve transportation capacity, he stored grain in advance to Jixian as the general logistics base of the army. Therefore, he repaired the canal from Luoyang to Jixian and communicated with the north and south.

Therefore, Yang Guang was confident to create a million troops to attack Goguli, trying to kill Goguli in one go.

Yang Guang has military purposes, but Guo does not have too strong military needs.

Goguli is gone, the Goguli royal family and the entire ruling class have been driven away by Yu Jin and no one is left. Some cultures have been completely destroyed, and those who are left behind are the people.

Gogurye will not appear in the future.

Pingzhou has been established, and the disaster has been cleared.

Other fishing and hunting nations in the Outer Xing'anling area are simply impossible to compete with the power of the Wei Empire. They will be wiped out in the future development plan of Mr. Guo.

As for what Tian Feng said about conquering the Xianbei, this is barely a reason.

In the future, Mr. Guo plans to gather more than 150,000 cavalry forces, lead himself, and go straight to the northern part of the desert, destroy all the nomadic forces that can be seen and found, and then officially start the construction of the desert animal husbandry economic zone of the Wei Empire.

For this reason, Mr. Guo has repaired a large number of granaries in Jizhou, stored a considerable amount of grain, and made large-scale reserves of cured meat for that day.

If a large amount of food is not enough, it is difficult to say whether the battle will continue. Mr. Guo is not unaware of mathematics.

And the meaning of going out to the frontier is of course to leave Jizhou, not to build the Grand Canal directly onto the grassland.

This is not for the future Northern Expedition to the Xianbei, but for his own political purposes.

But Mr. Guo was still moved.

The biggest reason for repairing the Grand Canal was not for the Northern Expedition to the Xianbei, nor for further control of Liaodong, but for the later kings and later people.

You can make a lot of preparations in advance, repair the granary and store grain, laying the foundation for a stable passage of the initial Little Ice Age in the future.

At that time, I might be able to survive, and it was not difficult to lead my people through the initial crisis.

But this wave of Little Glacier cannot be watched by myself alive.

You will die, sooner or later, and it is impossible to survive this small ice age alive.

If you can live, you will not be a human, either a god or a ghost.

After all, it is impossible for Mr. Guo to find something weird like the life and death grass.

You can guarantee to lead your people through the initial crisis, and the subsequent crisis will require the king of future generations.

Is they OK? Can they do it? Will the people in Jizhou go hungry and cold?

Can they still control the villages in the military farms, reserve strategic grain reserves, and safely allow the people to survive the crisis?

Will Mr. Guo’s arrangements and operations in the north go bankrupt completely because of their random messes?

This is something that Mr. Guo is not sure about.

If it really reaches that point and does not have strong transportation capacity, it will inevitably lead to large-scale fleeing of the people of Jizhou.

It's really hard to say how many people will die.

You cannot place all your hopes on future generations, and you cannot expect too much of your subjective initiative.

If you don’t do some things well, you can’t blame them for doing things well, and you can’t believe that future generations must be stronger than previous ones, so you can just pass the blame on them with peace of mind.

From the day the Wei Empire was established, or since the death of Guo, it was probably going downhill.

He felt that he had to keep a hand.

In order for the people who will not starve and be frozen later, it may not be feasible to prepare a path of life for them in advance.

From this perspective, if something terrible and unpredictable happened later, causing the entire Northern China to suffer disaster, and this Grand Canal is also the life path for the people of Northern China.

It would rather be more busy at this time, get tired or even take some risks, but Mr. Guo also wanted to do more for future generations.

Try to do more so that they can endure less suffering, suffer less disasters, have food to eat, and have some clothes to wear.

They are really hard and hard, and they shouldn't be harder or harder.

Throughout history, they have always been just a string of numbers in the household registration list, and no one has ever regarded them as human beings.

Zhu Yuanzhang may have regarded them as human beings, and then it will be modern.

Thousands of years of glorious Chinese history were forged by their blood and tears. Guo felt that he could not forget or deny this, no matter what.

Chinese history is not just kings, princes, generals, talents, men and beauties, but also them.

So Mr. Guo felt that he had to do something.

Even if you die and are gone, and you can't continue to protect them, this Grand Canal can still bring them some hope.

Transportation is life.

Transportation can save lives.

So, people are suffering nowadays.

When I am still alive and can control the situation.

With this idea, Guo thought Tian Feng’s suggestions were meaningful, and were very meaningful for both Northern and Southern China, so Guo thought it was OK to do so.

But whether to do it or not is one thing, and the conflict between Tian Feng and Cao Cao is another thing.
To be continued...