Turbulent Times Chapter 854: Tianzi West Tour

Before Yang Guang proposed to move the capital to Luoyang, Yang Guang ordered the construction of official roads in various places.

In the late January of the fourth year of Daye, Liu Ziming, the head of the Internal Affairs Department of the Blue Yiwei Mansion, "does not work properly". He comes to see Wang Junlin every day, begging Wang Junlin to go to the emperor, and persuades him to extend the construction period of the Grand Canal and show mercy to the people When he was a civilian husband, Wang Tong, the governor of Yongzhou, sent great news to the palace: the road from Daxing City to Jincheng was completed!

The construction of official roads and Chidao is actually the first major project proposed by Yang Guang after he became emperor. With the virtues of officials in this era, this project will naturally kill many people, but from the perspective of national strategy , Wang Junlin supported this project with both hands. The country's ruling territory is limited by military transportation capabilities. In the past few years, the Sui Dynasty destroyed Tuyuhun and weakened the East and West Turks. Two more counties were added to the northwest. Although Since the Han Dynasty, many Guanliangs have been flattened, but it takes several months or even a year and a half to send officials and troops in many places, which is very inconvenient.

So since more than three years ago, as soon as Yang Guang became emperor, he asked the prefectures, counties and counties to repair the roads and turn the original muddy trails into "national highways" that can accommodate several horse-drawn carriages driving side by side!

In the northwest, there are border crossings of nomadic peoples such as East and West Turks, so the Chidaoguan Road to the northwest was given priority. However, the Ministry of Industry reported that it would take at least five years to complete it. Yang Guang said at the time that it would be completed in one year. In the end, the Ministry of Industry used the facts to remonstrate in every possible way, and Yang Guang issued an order to question the officials of the local prefectures and counties, and finally changed it to three years.

At that time, Yang Guang demanded that within three years, the "Western Road" from Xianyang, Tianshui, Longxi, and Jincheng to Zhangye County must be built from Daxing City. Dongfang Road", the "South Road" from Wuguan to the north of the Yangtze River.

Among the three roads, the western road is the shortest and the least, so it was completed first, and now it has just been completed, so Yang Guang is planning to start the first long-distance trip after becoming the emperor. West cruise.

Yang Guang respected Emperor Qin and Han Wu the most, and he wanted to be the emperor of the ages who stood shoulder to shoulder with these two, so he imitated many things intentionally or unintentionally from these two, such as building the Great Wall, militarism, great feats, and likes to parade In the world, in history, Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty were the three emperors who liked to tour the world the most, but the first two became emperors through the ages, and Yang Guang became a model of tyrants and faint kings.

"The two counties of Zhangye and Xiping in the northwest have been occupied by foreigners since the Han Dynasty, and now they are taken back by us in the Sui Dynasty. I will naturally go to Xichui to have a look, or I will go out of Jincheng to Zhangye to look at places outside the region. ..."

When Yang Guang uttered these words at the court meeting, the ministers had different expressions, but they were more concerned about the emperor's westward tour and which officials he would accompany.

This time when Yang Guangxi visited Jincheng in Yongzhou, he first called Wang Junlin to accompany him, but Wang Junlin left a hidden worry in his heart. He has too many secrets in the northwest, and he has many enemies. Although he does things secretly, But more or less there are still some lies that will be exposed. If some things are exposed, it will bring him great trouble, and even kill him.

So, since it is difficult to change Yang Guang's plan for the west tour, the best result is to go to Yongzhou with Yang Guang himself, so that he can respond according to the situation at any time.

"I will accompany you on the westward journey. The shortest period is two months, and the longest period is half a year. The Lanyiwei mansion is dominated by Shen Guang and supplemented by Ziming. However, if there is an important matter, the two of you must discuss and decide. If there is time, send someone Tell me quickly, Jingzong will take a step ahead today and go secretly to Yongzhou to prepare, and you must not show your feet during His Majesty's west tour..." Before heading west, Wang Junlin summoned the officials of the Lanyiwei Mansion to arrange some matters, and later Xu The leaders of Jingzong, Shen Guang and Liu Ziming stayed behind to confess their secrets.

The three said respectfully that yes, Xu Jingzong had long expected that Wang Junlin would let him go to Yongzhou to fight first. reason. It was also expected that Shen Guang would be in charge of the Lanyiwei Mansion. After all, Shen Guang was the first to follow Wang Junlin's confidant. Liu Ziming's mind was not on this aspect, and he was thinking of talking to Wang Junlin in private later, asking him to persuade Yang Guang to slow down and extend the time limit for the completion of Luoyang Xindu and the Grand Canal.

After the arrangement of the Lanyiwei Mansion, Wang Junlin returned to the mansion. Nie Xiaoyu, Wei Ziqi, Ye Ying, Jing Tian, ​​Chong Yao, Spring and Autumn Valley Master and others were already waiting here. Bring Nie Xiaoyu along, but thinking that the Wulin League has just been established, there are many things that need to be done, and the martial artists in the rivers and lakes are idle, and it is not easy to manage and restrain them. Others may not be able to truly control the Wulin League in their hands, so I confessed to Xiaoyu Nie Xiaoyu is in full charge of the theater, the Wulin Guild and the Wulin League. He only takes Chong Yao, Shen Guoer, and Chunqiu Nu to the west. The spies are at any time for Wang Jun to dispatch yesterday.

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In March of the fourth year of Daye, Wang Junlin followed Yang Guang's imperial driver, along the Chi Road out of Daxing City, passed Xianyang, and headed west.

Even from the perspective of Wang Junlin, a later generation, this official road is extremely exaggerated, especially the nearly one hundred miles from Daxing City to Xianyang, the road is fifty steps wide and can accommodate ten carriages parallel! A straight green pine is planted every three feet. The road is based on loess and is rammed with crushed stones. In the middle of the road is a special passage for the emperor to go on tour. The area where horses and pedestrians walk.

This road alone is extremely extravagant. According to Wang Junlin's guess, Yang Guang probably ordered that when Tubo, Turkic and other ethnic groups in the Western Regions come to pilgrimage, this half of the road must be passed. Yang Guang's great success must be because he wanted to make the envoys of foreign races shocked by this spacious road like a square before entering Daxing City...

Ten miles from Xianyang to Duting, the width of the road has shrunk somewhat, but it is also very spacious and flat, comparable to the roads of later generations in towns and villages. Wang Junlin can even lean on the car and doze off comfortably. Go to Chencang and Tianshui counties.

The two counties of Chencang and Tianshui belong to the south and north banks of the Weishui River, and the fertile field is six hundred miles away. It is the place where King Wen and King Wu of Zhou established their foundation. During the Warring States Period, the Qin State was the first to establish a state.

At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, a group of heirs named "Qin" surnamed Ying, for this promise, ignored death for several generations. Qun Rong. For this piece of land that could no longer be controlled, the Zhou royal family fulfilled their promise and gave it to the Qin people with a big wave of their hands.