Chapter 55: Calculating Li Shimin!!
Seeing this, Tang Taizong Li Shiming couldn’t help but take a deep breath, and the metaphor sounded in his head!
He was “impoverished” by Li Yuan since he was a child, and he was born in a martial arts family, and he was not delicate at all.
As a result, before he had time to enjoy life, he was pushed to the front of the stage at the age of eighteen and began to lead troops to fight.
For the next ten years, from north to south, from south to north, and then from west to east. Fight with Song Jingang, fight with Liu Heiyan, fight with Wang Shichong… Repeatedly, endlessly.
Until he finally became the emperor, he did not stop.
Before he could breathe, the Turks revived.
Although he is the emperor of the Great Tang, he has always lived extremely frugally, and brocade clothes and jade food are even rarer.
Even the skirt of Empress Changsun is just some ordinary silk cloth, which is used in the palace utensils, which can save money.
After all, when the Great Tang Dynasty was founded, the treasury was still empty, and it was simply unable to support the rich life of the royal family and state relatives.
But when Tang Taizong Li Shimin saw the extravagant life of the Sui Emperor, he couldn’t help but be surprised.
With such a large group of dragon boats, even the First Emperor, who was known for his tyranny and arrogance, would probably be ashamed of himself.
Although it has been recorded in previous history books, it is after all words, and this abstract concept does not give people a visual impact.
It wasn’t until Li Shiming saw his father-in-law’s fleet from the sky that he understood how arrogant his father-in-law was!
Out of the instinct of thrift, Li Shiming immediately said to himself: “The log is eight cents a foot, the craftsman is six dollars a day, and the copper and iron are seven cents a catty.”
“There are two dragon boats in the fleet, fourteen large boats, fifty-two middle boats, three hundred and seven small boats, and a number of ships…”
“If 100,000 workers are recruited, it will take at least about a year and a half to complete this project.”
“Coupled with the eating and drinking along the way, all kinds of squandering luxuries, and repairing the palace”
“In this way, this Yang Guang will probably be able to spend almost three million taels of silver next time in Jiangnan!” If you go down to Jiangnan three times, it will cost tens of millions of silver! ”
Speaking of this, Li Shimin sighed: “With such profligacy, how can the Great Sui not die?” ”
“You must know that my Great Tang’s annual tax revenue is less than 20 million taels of silver!”
Hearing this, Empress Changsun seemed to see Tang Taizong’s heart and said softly
“Your Majesty is wise! This is also the reason why His Majesty can achieve the Great Tang and achieve this prosperous era! ”
“Since the establishment of the Great Tang, the lessons of the Sui Emperor have been fully absorbed, no matter the dynasty, we must be thrifty, and it took ten years to have this prosperous era.”
“It can be said that our prosperous era is completely thrifty by His Majesty with the subjects of the world!”
Hearing the queen praise herself so much, Li Shimin was even more satisfied in his heart. He was different from the Sui Emperor, he only needed to leave a good reputation.
Looking at the extravagant picture above the firmament, he shook his head again and responded: “Yes! ”
“This is only the cost of the Sui Emperor’s three trips to Jiangnan, if you count the war and the cultivation of the eastern capital Luoyang…”
“Exhausting the wealth of the world, exhausting the people of the world, in the end it is just a bamboo basket for water.”
Li Shimin was a very wise emperor, and this wisdom was reflected in his ability to learn lessons in time and listen to the advice of his subordinates.
Because of this, the emperor tried at the beginning of his life to avoid repeating the mistakes of the previous dynasty, practicing economy and encouraging agriculture and commerce.
Although many people in later history books pointed out that the Sui Dynasty died of brutality, in Anton’s view, the Sui Dynasty really died of financial collapse!
Large-scale construction projects, three trips to the south of the Jiangnan, the use of troops on all sides, all this, which one does not need money?
However, the Sui Emperor did not ask, and when the imperial court ran out of money, he had to increase the tax burden, so that the people of the world had to rebel.
At the same time, in another parallel time and space, Emperor Wudi of Han was deeply stimulated by the video in front of him.
At first he was just surprised, then he became extremely angry!
“Sui Field Emperor Yang Guang”
“Which dynasty is this?”
Without having time to think about it, Emperor Hanwu was completely attracted by the train of dragon boats in the picture in front of him!
“So many big ships, so magnificent!”
“This Sui Emperor is so pompous”
“If you can.”
Speaking of this, Emperor Wudi of Han thought about it and said with some disdain: “If it is Xuan, there is money to build this big ship for pleasure, and it is even more necessary to conquer the slaves to lay down the great cause of my great Han world!” ”
Due to the time of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, the southern regions of the Jiangsu River, especially in parts south of the Yangtze River, were still not fully developed.
At that time, the Central Plains mainly referred to the areas in the north today.
Only those who have sinned will be exiled to the misty and humid land of Jiangnan.
And the many developed cities in the south of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Dragon Kingdom were still used for exile criminals during the period of Han Wu.
However, after hundreds of years of cultivation, the land in the south of the Jiangnan has become more suitable for sowing and living.
And the people of the north also continued to move south with repeated wars, and during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the overall development of Jiangnan had surpassed that of the north.
Emperor Wudi of Han looked at Dongfang Shuo in front of him and asked softly: “Sir, who is knowledgeable about ancient and modern times, can you see what year, month and dynasty this is?” ”
Dongfang Shuo nodded and responded respectfully: “This dragon boat is richly decorated and painted with danzhu, and under the hull, the river channel is tens of feet wide, and the water surface is calm, this must be a big river (Yangtze River) undoubtedly!” ”
“Your Majesty and look at the banks of the Yangtze River, there were already thousands of rice paddies and countless villages and towns, and Your Majesty looked at the fishermen and raccoon women on the river, you can see that this area has been lively for many years.”
“Judging from the speed at which all things are in the sky, from this point of view, this dynasty must be at least five hundred years from now.”
Emperor Wudi of Han nodded and said with a sad expression: “Then it is said that the Great Han can’t even hold on for five hundred years?”
Thinking of this, Emperor Wudi of Han couldn’t help but hang his head a little.
In the era when Emperor Wudi of Han lived, most of what he learned still came from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
In the Warring States Period, which was set against the backdrop of the Eastern and Western Zhou, it was normal for a great country to have a five-hundred-year-old national ancestry.
Just like the five hegemons of Spring and Autumn, most of them have enjoyed the country for seven or eight hundred years.
And the Great Han even took Qin and replaced it, and it stands to reason that there should be a five-hundred-year-old Guozo casually.
At the same time, above the firmament, the video about the Sui Field Emperor continued.
In the video, Anton wrote: “In the second year of Yang Guang’s succession, he tried his best to build the eastern capital Luoyang! ”
“If the courtiers dare to oppose it, they will be exiled at light, and beheaded at worst, without mercy!”
“Although there were political reasons for building the eastern capital Luoyang at that time, the amount of people’s resources and goods consumed by the Sui Emperor is really unimaginable.”
“The construction of the eastern capital lasted for October, and two million people were recruited from all over the country every month!”
“When the eastern capital Luoyang was finally repaired, the Sui Emperor began to build dragon boats again, and the cost of civilian power was hundreds of thousands.”
“At the same time, in order to satisfy his arrogant and lascivious life, he overhauled the palace gardens and left the palace annex in various places.”
“By the time he went down to Jiangnan three times, the imperial court was already empty of the treasury, and he didn’t think about it.”
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“But it was under this circumstance that Emperor Sui actually decided to march north to Goguryeo.”
“Then the Sui army dispatched 1.13 million soldiers, but more than 2 million people were defeated in Liaodong City.”
“It is not that the soldiers of the Great Sui are invincible to the strong enemy, but that the soldiers are low and the people are tired.”
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“And whether it is defeated or not, it is only a thought.”
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