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Chapter 1 Preface: The Beginning of the Sui Dynasty


The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city is deep in spring The south, since the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, has been called a barren land, and this situation has continued until the Western Jin Dynasty.

Because the Eight Kings Rebellion exhausted the last trace of vitality of the Han people, it led to the beginning of a large-scale invasion of the Hu people in the north to the south, which is known as the Wuhu Rebellion Due to the inhumane massacre, enslavement and oppression of the Han people by the Hu people during the Wuhu Rebellion, the Han people in the north began to move south in large numbers At this time, the south was still in a barren land, both economically and populationly, it was still very backward, far from the north; At this time, the Han people in the north began to organize a large-scale migration to the south due to the oppression of the Hu people, resulting in the economy and population of the south beginning to grow and be enriched.

The South officially began to be developed After hundreds of years of development, it came to the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the southern economy at this time was no longer comparable to the southern part of the Qin and Han dynasties, and there was a qualitative leap in both economy and population In the Song Dynasty, the economic prosperity of the south reached a terrifying period, and it can be said that the economic population of the south at this time was not inferior to that of the northern region.

Therefore, it is precisely because of the large-scale development of the south that the southern region has gradually become stronger and richer, which also enables Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to raise troops with a cloth cloth and finally win the whole world, which is inseparable from the development of the south.

Since then, no matter which dynasty is in power, it has put the development and construction of the south in the first place Therefore, since then, the south is no longer the so-called wild land of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but the solid backing of China and the granary of China In 581 AD, Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty gave way to Yang Jian, the prime minister, Yang Jian ascended the throne as the emperor, changed the name of the country to Sui, and was known as Emperor Wen of Sui in history, and was called the Great Sui Dynasty In 589 AD, the Sui army carried the prestige of unifying the north, and under the leadership of Generalissimo Yang Guang, hundreds of thousands of elite divisions of the Sui army crossed the Yangtze River.

Directly smashed the last regime in the south - the capital of Nan Chen, Jiankang However, in just a few months, the elite soldiers of the Sui army destroyed the last separatist dynasty in the south, Nan Chen At this point, the centuries-long division between the north and the south of the Central Plains finally achieved reunification Fast forward to 612 A.D A dilapidated house, surrounded by countless weeds, and under a willow tree was a young man who was lonely and pondering something I saw that the young man was dressed in a shabby gray cloth costume, with jet-black hair wrapped around his head, and was leaning under the willow tree, leaking a puzzled look The boy's name is Gao Qi, but he is not from this period, and his soul comes from the 21st century It turned out that Gao Qi was a historian in the 21st century, just because there was an abnormal movement in the ground somewhere in the west of X, so he was ordered to go to the field, but, after going deep into the ground for hundreds of meters, he inadvertently hit a stone wall and fell unconscious.

According to the thoughts of the original owner Gao Qi, Gao Qi knew that it was now the sixth year of the Great Cause, that is, the reign of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty In addition, Gao Qi also learned an important message, that is, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered to build a grand canal running through the north and south As soon as Gao Qi's family was close to the riverbank, their home was ruthlessly occupied by the order of Ma Shumou, the overseer of the canal Of course, it was not only Gao Qi's family who was forcibly occupied, as long as they lived by the riverbank, they were basically occupied Therefore, this is the scene of Gao Qi's family today "Hey, master, since I'm crossing, I'll cross, if it's a rich and noble family, how can I live in this dilapidated scene now?"

I saw that Gao Qi leaned under the willow tree and let out a helpless sigh A tree, a teenager, stands lonely here "Qi'er, Qi'er, come and eat" At this time, a simple middle-aged woman who was over four rounds old suddenly came over and shouted, this is Gao Qi's mother now "Mother, I know, I'll come right away" Although this is not her biological mother, since she came to this period, this middle-aged woman has taken care of herself Therefore, in Gao Qi's heart now, he has long regarded this woman as his biological mother In the back room, I saw that only the middle-aged woman and Gao Qi were sitting and eating together On the table, the dishes are also unusually simple, only some green vegetable soup, even compared to coarse tea and light rice "Hey, this Sui army is really human-faced and beast-hearted, if they hadn't forcibly seized our property, how would our mother and sister have fallen to such a point?"

I saw that while eating, Gao's mother sighed for a while and said helplessly.

Gao Qi on the side listened to these words, although he was silent on the surface, his heart was also changing As an excellent historian in later generations, Gao Qi once deliberately studied the intention of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty to build the Grand Canal The construction of the Grand Canal not only strengthened the economic and cultural exchanges between the north and the south, but also facilitated the transportation of grain from the south to the north, and made it more effective to manage Since the Sui Dynasty, the vast majority of the main rivers run east-west, and there is no north-south waterway, and this horizontally closed natural water system seriously restricts the traffic of all parts of the country, which is not conducive to the unification of the country, economic and cultural exchanges and development.

However, Gao Qi felt that although the construction of the Grand Canal was a good thing for the benefit of the people, Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was too eager for quick success.

Completely ignoring the lives of the common people, increasing the burden on the people, coupled with the military failure of the three conquests of Goryeo, finally broke out a vigorous peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty Under the willow tree, Gao Qi really doesn't know where to go in his future life Although I know that this is a chaotic era at the end of the Sui Dynasty, in this chaotic era, there are countless heroes and heroes, and there are many anti-kings It even refers to many heroes such as Li Yuanba, the first good man in heaven and earth, the majestic Sui Tianbao general Yuwen Chengdu, and Pei Yuanqing, the silver hammer Taibao There is even a once-in-a-century great emperor Tian Khan Li Shimin Every time he thought of so many heroes, the corners of Gao Qi's mouth couldn't help twitching There are so many heroes and heroes, they are just a nobody, the lowest level of society, where is the future of the future Thinking about it, Gao Qi fell asleep unconsciously and was summoned by the great chaos of the end of the Sui Dynasty :