Chapter 675: Seven Years of Great Cause

In the blink of an eye, it was the seventh year of Daye!

In autumn, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty arrived in Youzhou and officially launched the expedition against Goguryeo.

Jia Huan's rebirth did not prevent this major event from happening!

This was Yang Guang's action against the Guanlong military aristocratic group, and the interests involved were not transferred by personal will.

A piece of imperial edict shocked the world!

One million soldiers were gathered and two million laborers were conscripted, and the world was suddenly in turmoil and people's hearts were floating.

Fortunately, Jia Huan's existence, especially the previous one-man-one-sword deterrence of Emperor Sui to bow his head, still played a corresponding effect, and the people in the hinterland of the Central Plains were not tossed to the point of desolation.

The construction of the Grand Canal was still the national policy formulated by Yang Guang, and Jia Huan did not stop it at the beginning.

But at least, the construction period of each section of the canal was no longer so stuck, giving the laborers involved in the construction a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.

For this reason alone, the construction speed of each section of the Grand Canal was not slow, but the number of laborers injured and killed was at least reduced by 80%, corresponding to a million people.

The construction of the Grand Canal section north of the Yellow River was completed, and the people of Hebei did not suffer heavy casualties!

As for the construction of the Grand Canal from the Yellow River to the Huai River, the situation was much better than the original history.

The labor was still hard and even life-threatening, but it did not make the people shudder!

Not only that, with the strong cooperation of the Central Plains Taoist sect, the Taoist ancestor's true teachings were fully operational, and too many young and strong laborers in Hebei and the Central Plains moved their families to settle in the northwest border.

In just two years, the number of people who moved in from the northwest border reached three million.

This is also the main reason why Yang Guang recruited two million laborers instead of three million in real history!

Too many families in Hebei and the Central Plains had already moved to the northwest border to settle down.

Even if Yang Guang was crazy, he would not recruit people from the border to serve as laborers.

The northwest border area at this time was quite prosperous!

The Silk Road has been reopened, and there is an endless stream of merchants coming and going.

The towns along the way are all prosperous and noisy, and they are all prosperous no matter how you look at them!

As the most important link between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, the four counties of Hexi now have hundreds of thousands of people, and most of them are locals who migrated from the Central Plains.

Even the towns along the Great Wall are crowded with people and have a strong commercial atmosphere.

Outside the Great Wall, there are large and small earth and stone towns built along the river. These are all newly built grassland towns outside the Great Wall in the past two years.

Because of the continuous improvement of wool textile technology, the wool trade outside the Great Wall is quite prosperous, resulting in many tribes no longer needing to migrate everywhere for grazing.

They only need a stable grassland to raise enough sheep!

Through trade with border merchants, various materials from the Central Plains can be continuously transported over, and there is no need to obtain them through robber-style high-risk looting.

In this case, having a stable settlement is naturally better than drifting everywhere.

The black and white disasters on the grassland are no joke, and there are many small tribes that disappear every year because of this.

Since the grassland tribes that already had a stable source of livelihood had a demand, the disciples of the Taoist True Transmission actively promoted it, and soon towns with mixed earth and stone buildings appeared on the grasslands outside the Great Wall.

Each town outside the Great Wall represents one or several tribes settled here, and there must be a Taoist temple in the town to be responsible for the faith.

Such towns outside the Great Wall spread along the river to the Western Regions.

In the Western Regions, settlements were established through desert oases!

Of course, these are just plans, and it takes too much time to complete them completely.

However, the Taoist True Transmission has completely set the goal to spread the tentacles and Taoist beliefs to the hinterland of the Western Regions.

Similarly, the Silk Road started to operate ahead of schedule under the strong promotion of the Taoist True Transmission.

Whoever dares to stop it will be killed without mercy!

This time, Zuo Youxian personally took action to solve the tribal leaders and horse bandits who did not give face in front of everyone!

Even the Turkic overlord of the grasslands outside the Great Wall did not have the courage to confront the tyranny of the Taoist lineage.

Because the Taoist lineage not only has a martial arts master, but also has the Great Sui as its backer!

Not to mention, after tasting the sweetness, many tribes within the Turkic have already turned to the Taoist lineage!

Such a trend forced the knowledgeable people within the Turkic to spread their energy and thoughts to the hinterland of the Western Regions, hoping to open up more living space!

It can be said that Yang Guang dared to personally conquer Goguryeo in the seventh year of Daye, and there was also a reason why the Taoist lineage was too powerful. There has been no war in the northwest border for several years.

Changgeng Temple, built in a town near the Great Wall, is very popular, and believers come and go every day.

This is the new ancestral temple of the Taoist lineage, and the whole town is built around Changgeng Temple.

There is a large medical clinic attached to Changgen Temple, and there is also a university attached to Changgeng Temple.

The number of students in the university and the apprentices in the medical clinic alone exceeds 3,000, not to mention the Taoist children in Changgeng Temple.

As for the number of people serving Changgeng Temple, they are all in tens of thousands.

Zuo Youxian did not go out today, and he called Jia Huan, his junior brother, to discuss things early.

"The Emperor of Sui wrote again to invite me to go to Youzhou for a period of time!"

Zuo Youxian said straight to the point: "Junior brother, do you think I should go?"

"Then go!"

Jia Huan said indifferently: "Maybe, I can fight with Goguryeo martial arts master Fu Cailin!"

"That's what I mean!"

Zuo Youxian chuckled: "The masters outside the Great Wall are not strong enough, and few dare to fight me directly!"

"It's just right to use Fu Cailin's hand to test my sword skills!"

After saying that, he asked curiously: "Junior brother, don't you have any interest in it?"

"Senior brother, no need to say more, I have no interest in this at all!"

Jia Huan said indifferently: "Fu Cailin uses the chessboard as his swordsmanship, but unfortunately his cultivation level is not strong enough, and he can't really lead the chess game of heaven and earth "Domainization!"

"If he really reaches that level, I would be interested in meeting him!"

After saying that, he waved his hand and smiled: "It's better for me to stay in Changgeng Temple to avoid unexpected changes!"

"Junior brother, you are too cautious!"

Zuo Youxian said disapprovingly: "At this time, Bi Xuan and Zhao Deyan are both focusing on the hinterland of the Western Regions."

"Even if our brothers are not here, they dare not act rashly!"

"Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of one, there is no need to take risks with the foundation of the Taoist ancestor's true lineage!"

Jia Huan still insisted, he really didn't agree with Yang Guang's idea of ​​attacking Goguryeo.

Zuo Youxian didn't say much when he saw this, and the matter was settled.

Otherwise, how can you say that the martial arts master is so impressive!

In order to invite Zuo Youxian to go out, Yang Guang had written a letter to invite him for the first time, and also promised many benefits, which would have been unthinkable two years ago.

The waves caused by the masked knight in the bamboo hat have not been completely calmed down after two years.