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Chapter 1000 The Emperor¡¯s Southern Tour

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    Yang Guang is not in the mood to care about his cousins ??at this time, and he doesn't know what outsiders think of him.  Yang Guang is a very strange person. On the one hand, he attaches great importance to the opinions of the outside world, especially the praises of foreigners, which can make him excited and unable to sleep; but on the other hand, he cannot listen to the opinions of outsiders at all and hates advice.

    By August, the canal to Yangzhou was barely dredged, and Yang Guang was ready to go to Yangzhou.

    Since March this year, the canal has been dredged and excavated for only five months, and it is already able to sail. In addition to the exquisite skills of the Sui Dynasty workers, it is the imperial court's exploitation of the common people.  Under every mile of this canal, there are countless corpses of common people, full of blood.

    On August 5, the emperor issued an edict that Su Wei, the prime minister, should stay in Luoyang and Huang Mingyuan, the Duke of Lu, be in charge of the imperial guards. On Renyin (the 15th day of August), the emperor left Xianren Palace for Yangzhou.

    When the emperor visited the south, in addition to his concubines, maids and chamberlains, there were tens of thousands of important officials and bodyguards in the court.  Originally, Chang'an was the capital. After the emperor arrived in Luoyang, he stayed there as prime minister. Now he sent people to stay in Luoyang. There were three political centers in the world, which made people laugh.

    "But the emperor thinks it's okay, so it's okay."

    In order to visit Yangzhou, Yang Guang prepared for several months.

    When Yang Jian was in power, people in the court often went to Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat, but this time it was different.  In addition to concubines and officials, there were also family members of courtiers and envoys from various countries. Yang Guang even brought Concubine Nanchen, the deposed King of Shu Yang Xiu and others with him on a southern tour. This was the first time for such a large-scale trip to Yangzhou.

    It is about 1,500 miles from Luoyang to Yangzhou, with more than ten state capitals and hundreds of county capitals along the way. It is quite criticized that the imperial court spent so much time on its southern tour.  Huang Mingyuan privately felt that in addition to touring Jiangnan and deepening his rule, Yang Guang also had the idea of ????returning to his hometown in glory.  After all, although his family is in Guanzhong, he has been in Yangzhou for more than ten years, so he can be considered an old Yangzhou native.  Of course, it is still unknown whether Yang Guang was tired of living in the palace.

    On August 15, Yang Guang took a tour of the unfinished Xianren Palace and then boarded the dragon boat brought by Wang Hong.  As a close confidant of the emperor, Wang Hong was considered a famous sycophant at this time. Because of his work in building dragon boats for the emperor, his reputation as a sycophant now far surpassed that of Pei Yun and Yu Shiji later.

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    At this time, the damage caused by sediment in the Yellow River was not that serious. It was not only navigable, but also large ships, and even the largest five-tooth warship.  The rolling Yellow River, all the way east, is still the most important transportation waterway in the Central Plains.

    As the important minister in charge of the Imperial Guard, Huang Mingyuan cannot leave Yang Guang's side for a moment.  It would take a year and a half to go to Yangzhou anyway, so Huang Mingyuan was ready to take his eldest son Wei Yang, Lu Zhen and his maid Qiqi with him.  If it weren't for a few young people who were inconvenient to travel, Huang Mingyuan would have been prepared to take Pei Shuning with him.

    Jiangnan is great. When the sun rises, the flowers on the river are as red as fire. When spring comes, the river is as green as blue. It is actually very lucky to be able to see the original mountains and rivers of Jiangnan.

    As an important prime minister in the court, Huang Mingyuan naturally has his own car.  Wang Hong, who was responsible for building the dragon boat, also knew that he, the emperor's little confidant, had far less status than Huang Mingyuan, the big confidant, so in order to welcome Huang Mingyuan, he arranged a very comfortable car for Huang Mingyuan.  Although it has not been transcended, there is a cave within it.

    However, Huang Mingyuan himself and his son are not often on the boat.

    As the commander-in-chief of the army, Huang Mingyuan naturally needs to travel back and forth.  At a young age, Huang Weiyang was often by the Emperor's side.

    The Yang family are all relatives across generations. Although the relationship between Yang Guang and Yang Zhao is not very close, Yang Guang loves his grandson Yang Ji very much.  Since Yang Guang left Chang'an, he has kept Yang Ji by his side and taught him personally, just like Yang Zhao did back then.  Yang Guang felt sorry for his grandson who had no playmates, so he often invited Huang Weiyang to come to his dragon boat to play with Yang Ji.  Therefore, Huang Weiyang is often by Yang Guang's side and is quite liked by Yang Guang.

    On the 18th, the southern patrol team arrived at Xiaozhuhang, exited the Cao Canal at Luokou, and put on a more magnificent dragon boat.

    There are four buildings on the emperor's dragon boat, forty-five feet high and two hundred feet long.  The uppermost floor of the dragon boat is the main hall, the inner hall, and the east and west halls; the middle two floors have one hundred and twenty rooms, all decorated with gold and jade; the lower floor is where the palace courtiers live.  The Xiangchi boat that Queen Xiao rode was smaller in size than the dragon boat that Yangdi rode, but the decoration was the same.

    There are also nine floating boats in the entire team. There are three buildings on the boats, all of which are palaces on the water.  There are also Yangcai, Zhuniao, Cangchi, Baihu, Xuanwu, Feiyu, Qingfu, Lingbo, Wulou, Dojo, Xuantan, Banxi, Huangmi, etc.There are thousands of boats for the harem, kings, princesses, officials, monks and nuns, Taoist priests, and Tibetan guests, and they carry items donated by various institutions inside and outside the imperial court.

    In order to make these dragon boats travel in the canal that has not yet been completely built, these boats require more than 80,000 civilians to pull them.  Moreover, the trackers are also divided into levels. Among them, there are more than 9,000 strong and powerful ones above the Wanyangcai level, called palace footers, all wearing robes made of brocade.  These temple feet are specially used to pull the dragon boat. From a distance, it looks like the clouds are pulling the dragon boat forward.

    In addition, there are thousands of ships such as Pingcheng, Qinglong, Xingxuan, Xingxuan, Bazhu, and Tingge for the soldiers of the Twelve Guards to ride, and they are loaded with weapons and tents, which are pulled by the soldiers themselves and not given to the civilians.

    Looking at the countless large ships, Huang Mingyuan's first reaction was that with the shipbuilding technology at this time, his sailing fleet was gone.

    I originally thought that the Chinese people did not pay attention to the navy, and shipbuilding technology did not make a qualitative leap until the Song Dynasty. Now it seems that my knowledge is still too shallow.  China's leadership in shipbuilding technology has never ceased throughout ancient times.

    The team going south was more than 200 miles from end to end.  Every night, lights shine on the rivers and land, and the canal looks like a swimming dragon that stretches thousands of miles.  A large number of cavalry were marching on both sides of the strait, with flags covering the field.  Yang Guang ordered all the prefectures and counties within five hundred miles of the team to donate food to support the emperor.  One state would have to offer hundreds of carts of food and treasures from land and water. The harem was tired of eating these things, and many of them couldn't eat them. When they were about to set off, they threw away the food and buried it on the spot.

    Everyone says that the emperor is good, but Huang Mingyuan never felt that before.  Whether you watch it on TV or experience it now, you always feel that except for the great rights and heavy responsibilities of the emperor, everything he has may not be good. After all, everything you gain must have something to lose.  But now looking at this hundred-mile boat trip, the delicacies from the mountains and seas, the gold, silver and jewelry, and the extreme luxury, who is there who would not be fascinated by such a scene?  It seems that under such circumstances, it is normal to act like a fool.

    Looking at Yang Guang¡¯s relaxed and joyful attitude every day, Huang Mingyuan couldn¡¯t help but shake his head.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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