The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 926
A large city with a population of one million is quite rare in the ancient times dominated by agriculture. It is not that the Central Plains Dynasty did not have such a large population, but that the people who have lived on the land for generations cannot do without the land; once they enter the city, if they do not have a share Stable income and life are a big problem. Compared with expensive big cities, ordinary people prefer to live in villages that rely on mountains and water. Only businessmen, craftsmen, and scholars with good family backgrounds will move from the countryside to the city. When they have a stable source of income, they consider settling down in a big city.

The people in the Sui Dynasty were very hardworking. Even in the slack season, they would find work to supplement their income. Even if they did not find work, they would still be busy in their own fields. Therefore, during the day, most people would close their doors and listen to the performances on TV. The bustling scene in the city is completely opposite. Once the hero and heroine of many costume dramas appear on the stage, even a very small town will be full of people, and all kinds of actors will talk about it. This kind of thing did not exist in the living ancient times. In fact, The rural areas of later generations are completely the epitome of the life of the ancient people.

Crowds of people and endless streams usually only appear in big cities during festivals and major celebrations. After this period, it immediately returns to silence.In some counties and counties, the festival period is actually the same as usual. The whole family almost huddles at home and chats, at most, they just visit neighbors, relatives and so on.

shop?nonexistent.

Even Daxing, Luoyang, and Yecheng cannot avoid this kind of daily "depression".

These three big cities were built by the three emperors of the Sui Dynasty with a population of one million, but the population has never reached this level. The so-called population of one million is just an exaggerated imaginary number.

Although Daxing City has been recovered for many years, and because the Silk Road has been unblocked again, the business here has flourished; but today, the southern area of ​​Daxing City is still sparsely populated and the land is barren; Sometimes it's just like this.

According to the current population, even if the population exceeds one million, it is estimated that Daxing, Luoyang, and the southern part of Yecheng will all be desolate. Unless there are more than one million people, Bai Juyi's "difficult to live" phenomenon will probably appear.The great poet Bai Juyi has never been able to buy a house here. It’s not that he can’t afford it, but that he wants to buy it in a location across the street from the imperial palace, because he is such a writer who doesn’t do production and is not good at management. How is it possible to afford it?If it was in Nancheng, I'm afraid there would be several houses.

Today's population distribution in Daxing City can be divided by the 'Yanpingmen-Yanxingmen' horizontal street. The northern half of the city north of the horizontal street has more population as it goes north, and the southern half of the city decreases as it goes to the southern city. Of course, this is not the case. Most of the people living in the empty squares are the old "Chang'an" who moved from Han Chang'an City to Daxing when Emperor Wen moved the capital. As long as the family is not completely dilapidated, at least they have an old house in the southern half of the city.

At the entrance of the southern half of the city, the eastern half is divided by Suzaku Long Street. The western part is less and the eastern part is more.

Qujiang Pond is located in the southeast of Daxing City. Half of it is outside the city, and the other half is outside the city. One of the sources of water for the southeast of the city.

As early as the Qin Dynasty, it was opened up here as a royal forbidden garden and a palace. When it came to Daxing City, it was built on the Qujiang River. After crossing the southeast, at the beginning of the city's construction, Yu Wenkai took the method of "wearing victory" to destroy it, dug the Qujiang River into a deep pool, and after a little repair, it became a royal garden with beautiful scenery, so that the imperfection was turned into perfection. After all, the imperial palace belongs to the emperor, and Qujiang is also the emperor's royal garden. Whether the emperor's aura is in the southeast or in the north, it all belongs to the emperor's family. After doing this, Emperor Gaozuwen, who firmly believes in Fengshui, is satisfied , My heart is at ease.

Later, he felt that the word "Qu" was unlucky, so he ordered Gao Jiong to change his name. Gao Jiong thought of the lotus in Qujiang Pond, which was in full bloom and was extremely red.However, people still call it Qujiang Pond in habit.

After Yang Guang ascended the throne, Huang Gun carved various water decorations in Qujiang Pond, and the ministers made drinks on the banks of Qujiang Pond to enjoy Qujiang's flowing water, and introduced the story of Qushui Liushang, a literati of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, into the palace garden, giving Qujiang The scenic spot endows a humanistic spirit and lays the foundation for the formation of Qujiang culture.Later, Yu Wenkai was asked to expand the construction scale and cultural connotation of Qujiang Garden on the basis of Furong Garden. In order to solve the problem of drinking water for the people in each square, water conservancy projects were dug to expand the water surface of Furong Pool and Qujiang Pool. Except for the Royal Royal Garden "Furong Garden", all the people can come and go freely, making it a gathering place for the royal family, monks, literati, and common people. The place of prosperity.

In order to promote Sinology, Yang Guang also invited great Confucian scholars, literati, monks and Taoists many times to hold elegant ceremonies and Confucian debates here, which he personally practiced.Qujiang drinking, Xingyuan Guanyan, Leyou Climbing... etc. The popular orthodox Han culture returned to the north.

Over time, Qujiang Gardens, where the government and the people are integrated, has become a cultural gathering place in Daxing City.

In Daxing City, if the brothel culture in Pingkangfang represents "great vulgarity", then the Han family culture in Qujiangchi is undoubtedly "great elegance".The two are one south and one north, but they make up a Daxing cultural place that "appreciates both refined and popular tastes".

The Furong Tower is located at the highest position in the entire Daxing City. Standing on it, it is magnificent and magnificent, and you can have a panoramic view of the Daxing City, which is as strict as a chessboard.

To the south of Furong Tower is an extremely low-lying place, where there are rippling blue waves and a long stream of water, which is called Qujiang.

On both sides of the Qujiang River, weeping willows are like clouds, and the colors are striking, which is a prosperous place for great prosperity.Every year in Shangyuan, Shangsi, Zhongyuan, and Mid-Autumn Festival, wealthy businessmen and ordinary people gather here to have banquets, meet friends, and dance endlessly. Therefore, there is a saying that "the weather is new on March [-], and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an". .

It was the first time for Yang Tong to come to the Qushui Pool, where the eyes are surrounded by flowers, the smoke is bright, the shoreline is winding, there are several boats in the blue waves, lotus and calamus grow in the shallow part of the pool, and the pavilions and palaces are hidden. flowers and trees.The willows and shades are in harmony, the water is shining and the sky is beautiful, and it is lovely and refreshing.

This time, Yang Tong, who was wearing a samurai uniform, didn't come out to play, but his family's Lao Yang came back from Yizhou, and asked him to come to Furong Tower to meet, making it like two spies meeting.

That guy has completely let himself go now, dumped the Taihe Army to Yang Yichen, and ran back to Guanzhong with a few people. When he arrived in Daxing City, he did not go to live in Daxing Palace, but stayed in an ordinary The inn, living a leisurely and leisurely life every day, looks like returning to basics.

Because Yang Tong didn't know the way, he came out much earlier than agreed, and he also brought the Empress Xiao Xiao and Li Xiuning's son Yang Dai who hurried over from Luoyang.

This child is too young, it is not good to be away from parents for too long, and the war will not be over for a while, so Yang Tong simply asked the empress of the Great Xiao to bring him too. It is in Daxing Palace.

Seeing that the scenery here is really good now, Yang Tong leisurely and leisurely walked along the winding pool bank. As for Empress Xiao and Li Xiuning's mother and son, he had arranged to go to Furong Garden.

It was midsummer, and there were not many tourists in Qujiang, so it was just time to calm down and enjoy the scenery of this world.

Behind Yang Tong, there is an off-string arrow following him. A few tens of steps away, three heroic women are strolling and enjoying the scenery of Qujiang. Their horses also follow their masters by themselves.

In the light and dark places around, there are more than a thousand male and female knights in different clothes who have already dismounted and "walked around". The sneak attack corners were tightly sealed off.

The lush lotus leaves are densely crowded by the pool, and the breeze blows between them from time to time. In the green waves, occasionally there are a few white or bright red lotus flowers, just like a slim girl who is coming from the lake. It poked its head out from among the green lotus leaves, peeking at passers-by on the shore.

Another gust of wind came, and these 'Lotus Girls' hurriedly pulled the green leaves as their sleeves, covering her blushing face and blocking the eyes of passers-by.

The lotus flower hidden under the lotus leaf in front of Yang Tong's gaze returned to Yin Mingyue, Yang Qinfang, and Lan Xue'er behind him.

I saw them pointing and shaking their heads, giving Yang Tong the feeling that they seemed to be reciting a poem, but the three of them seemed to be of no use, if it was Changsun Wugou, Lu Qinghua, Xiao Yuexian or something similar.

Yang Tong slowed down and found that they were not reciting poems, but Yang Qinfang and Lan Xueer were arguing.

I only heard Lan Xueer bewitched: "It's okay to be inferior to others, but if you don't have the courage to fight, then you will never enter the country again. How about it, how about we make gestures?"

"You are good at swordsmanship. Every time I am tortured to death by you, you are happy, but I can't be happy." Yang Qinfang snorted and continued: "You grew up playing in the mountains since you were a child, and you are fast. I look like a female leopard, and my sword skills are weird, I am indeed no match for you in foot combat. But I am not good at foot combat, so why use my own shortcomings to fight the enemy's strengths?"

"Then what style of play are you good at?"

"Two kinds, one is to use all kinds of killing methods; the other is to fight on horseback."

"Sounds amazing."

"Of course." Yang Qinfang Xiaoyao's nose turned up proudly: "I am not as good as you in regular martial arts competitions; if it is a life-and-death fight, I can kill you countless times; if you are not good at horsemanship, if we Fight immediately, I can stab you off the horse with one blow."

"I can't run fast on horseback, so I'm sure I can't beat you." Speaking of this, Lan Xueer's eyes suddenly lit up: "Why don't we try to do everything we can? Let's go to the mountains to fight, if I Hide in the mountains, and make sure that you will not see anyone when you come to me. And I can also set up traps, trip ropes, climb trees, and make many medicines with the vegetation on the mountains, which even big tigers can’t stand. One point, it will definitely turn over."

Yang Qinfang got a little hesitant when he heard it, and said with a lack of confidence: "How can you try random killing techniques? I don't want to kill you."

Lan Xueer is simple and true, but she is not stupid. She saw that Yang Qinfang slapped her swollen face and pretended to be fat, "You big liar, I'm just afraid, and I'm still looking for so many reasons."

Yang Qinfang was not provoked by her: "Believe it if you love it, and let it down if you don't believe it. Anyway, I don't want to fight with you anymore."

Lan Xueer rolled her eyes, pointed at Yang Tong's back, and suddenly said with a smile on her face: "I think A Lang seems very powerful, why don't you tell him and let him compare with me?"

Yang Qinfang put on a pretty face: "Can't compare?"

Lan Xueer narrowed her pretty eyes: "Why can't you compare? You are afraid that Alang will lose, he is the God of War."

Yang Qinfang sighed: "You girl, why are you so aggressive."

"I'm older than you." Lan Xueer said unconvinced.

Yang Qinfang looked at her bulging breasts, and it seemed that they were indeed bigger than her own, but she said proudly, "I'm a big woman, I don't want to bother with little girls."

Lan Xueer stopped talking, she was indeed still a big girl.

Although Yang Tong didn't speak, he listened to their conversation.From Lan Xueer's words, one could hear the meaning, that is, Liaoren men and women are born special soldiers, and it is easy to cross mountains and mountains.This also gave him a way to defeat Gao Shilian.

He just received an eagle letter from Su Dingfang yesterday. Not only did he know that they had made a major breakthrough in Padang County, but he also knew the situation on both sides of Padang County.

Although Gao Shilian has become the turtle in the urn, he is not bad in all aspects. In terms of military strength, he himself has 3 soldiers. After Li Jing harassed him for more than half a month, he gathered all the counties in Badong County and moved them to Zigui County. , so that the army in his hands did not decrease but increased, and the total strength was still more than [-]. Moreover, as the frontier of the war, Zigui County had sufficient food and grass, and a few days before Su Dingfang took over Renfu County, he mobilized a large amount of military equipment And [-] shi of grain, if nothing else happens, his grain is enough to last for several months.

Zigui's terrain is very dangerous. To the west is the long and narrow Yangtze River Valley. Gao Shilian, who has suffered a loss, has blocked the west of Zigui, so that Su Dingfang can't cheat the military fort. If he attacks by force, then Hou Junji's embarrassment will have to be replaced by Su Dingfang , This also realizes that the style of play from west to east is completely bankrupt.

What about Li Jing?Not much better.

This still has to be said in terms of terrain. The eastern part of Zigui is open, like a trumpet mouth, and the terrain is also dominated by plains, so if Zigui is lost, Yiling is dangerous.

When the Shu Han army arrived in Zigui, Sun Quan was so frightened that his face turned ashen.Why was Sun Quan so shocked when the Shu army reached Zigui?The answer is simple: if the Shu army passes through Zigui, the next stop will be Yiling, an important town with open terrain, and the next stop will be Yidu, Jiangling, and Xiakou.Then there is Wuchang, the capital of the Eastern Wu Kingdom.

Soochow also knew the importance of losing Zigui, so they all believed that it would be very difficult to defend Yiling. When the Shu army left Zigui, the generals of the Wu army expressed that they would take the initiative to meet the Shu army.However, Lu Xun believed that Liu Bei's imperial conquest, the morale of the Shu army was at its peak, and the Shu army was on the defensive at a high level, so it was very unfavorable to attack from below.All the generals of the Wu army believed that Lu Xun was timid and fearful, but the facts proved that Lu Xun's judgment was correct.When the Shu army entered Yiling, the battle line became longer and longer, and their morale became lower and lower, and they were finally beaten to shame by Lu Xun.

Li Jing is now in danger of being occupied by Gao Shilian, just like the Eastern Wu army before the Yiling War.

If Li Jing and Su Dingfang make a strong attack, they will inevitably pay a heavy price, and they will not even be able to defeat them. Internally, Gao Shilian, who has suffered a loss, will not pay any more. What is the best way now?Consumed him, but that would have to wait a few months.After so much time, it is estimated that other troops have already reached the city of Chengdu.

Such a result is not only displeased with Li Jing and Su Dingfang, the generals of the Sui Dynasty, but Yang Tong is even more displeased, because this will make Gao Shilian take advantage of the convenient location, stepping on the prestige of the great Sui army and famous generals, and easily become immortal. Shuaicai.

Now it's all right, let Shen Guang lead an army of bureaucrats to act and kill this blocker, if he can't be killed, he can be poisoned to death.

Having made a decision, Yang Tong took out a pen and paper from Lixianjian, wrote a short message, and summoned a 'pedestrian' to give it to Ling Jing who stayed behind in Shangshu Province.

(End of this chapter)