Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 589 Competing in the Central Plains (72)

Yandu
"It's over! It's over!"

"The Turkic people have been dealt with, and allies such as Tuyuhun and Linyi have also been dealt with!"

"Ku Moxi, a [-]-year-old boy, saw the strength of the Sui Dynasty, and also severed ties with our Yan Kingdom, and ran to pay tribute to the Sui Kingdom!"

"We have been abandoned by the world, and we are facing the huge Central Plains alone!"

"I said a long time ago that you should not rush to attack Goguryeo, but you should help Chen! At the beginning, you should not sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, but should intervene in the internal affairs of Eastern Turks! Now, the two most important allies have been killed. The Sui Kingdom was annexed, and other allies were also eliminated by the Sui Kingdom, and our Yan Kingdom will have to face the behemoth of the Central Plains alone!"

The news that Yang Guang annexed Tuyuhun, surrendered the Western Turks, and regained part of the Western Regions spread to Yan State, which frightened the nobles of Yan State.

In the past, the allies of the Yan State walked all over the place and formed a siege against the Sui State. The Yan State could naturally be arrogant. Now, all the allies of the Yan State have been wiped out by the Sui State with their fists. .

The [anti-Sui siege network] that Yan State spent decades building hard, was torn to pieces by the two emperors of the Sui State.

Tear up the encirclement net!So scary!
The diplomatic predicament has made Yan State desperate, and the domestic economic situation is even more appalling.

Many industries in Yan State are linked to trade in the Central Plains, such as the most profitable spice industry.

Following Yang Guang's [Maritime Prohibition Order], there was no place to sell the spices in Yan State, and a large amount of spices produced by overseas plantations were hoarded in warehouses and moldy.

Many spice processing workshops began to close at a loss, and more and more spice workers lost their jobs and had nowhere to go.

Go to the plantation to grow spices?It's meaningless, and it can't be sold!

Industries such as glass have also suffered a devastating blow!
Cities dominated by commerce began to experience economic depression.

"We need to open up new markets. The reason for the current tragedy is that our industry is too dependent on the market in the Central Plains. Once the Central Plains bans trade, our industry will suffer a devastating blow. Therefore, we must go to more distant places. Overseas, look for a broader market, only in this way can our industry develop steadily, and we don’t have to worry about the sudden ban on trade in the Central Plains.”

Eggs can't be put in one basket, that's the reason, relying too much on the Central Plains market, so that when this market is suddenly lost one day, the economy of the entire country of Yan suffers a devastating blow.

In the Spice Islands, owners of spice plantations have begun to go bankrupt. They are forced to sell their plantations at a low price, just to get some cash to enjoy the rest of their lives.

In addition, because the Turkic people obeyed the order of the Sui Empire, they also banned trade with Yan, which made it impossible for Yan to buy livestock and population from the grassland.

The cost of using manpower and animal power is getting higher and higher, but the fiscal revenue is getting less and less.

Although there is some smuggling trade, but the scale is too small, it is a drop in the bucket.

"God will not abandon us, the heroic spirit of ancestor Kang will bless us!"

Yan Xu could only use ancestor Kang's heroic spirit over and over again to appease the terrified nobles.

The people at the bottom of the country of Yan also found that their living standards began to decline, and it became more and more difficult to find a job, especially in industries linked to trade, where workers lost their jobs very quickly.

A good and healthy social order is being destroyed. This is not decided by a certain policy or person of the ruler of Yan, but the development of the reality.

However, when everyone was not optimistic about Yan State, and even Yan Xu began to waver in his heart, Nangong Wentian, the old counselor of Yan State, prophesied boldly: The Sui Empire will soon have internal and external troubles perish!

No one took his prophecy seriously, after all, anyone with a discerning eye could see it.

The current Sui Empire can be described as thriving!

Such a thriving and powerful empire, you predicted to me that it will soon be destroyed?What about bullshit?

Nangong Wentian gave his own reasons: I observed that Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, used troops more and more frequently, and the scale of various large-scale construction projects became larger and larger. After fighting Tuyuhun, Yang Guang only allowed the people to cultivate for half a year, and then went to attack the Western Turks. Attack Kumoxi, the emperor of the Central Plains, he is getting more and more impatient, so he will definitely fail!

Nangong Wentian is indeed the top strategist of the Yan Kingdom, and his analysis of people's hearts is so terrifying.

But even so, the people of Yan still did not believe the prophecy of this top strategist. They still believed that the Sui Empire was in full swing, and it was impossible for it to collapse in a short period of time.

The Spring of the 400th Year of Yan State (610 Years)
Daxing City

"Everything is ready, the battle awaits!"

After defeating the Western Turks, some civil uprisings broke out in the Sui Kingdom, but they were quickly suppressed by Yang Guang. He doesn't take such things to heart now.

He must focus on "destroying Liaodong".

After so many years of preparation, Yang Guang believed that the time had come, Yan's allies and potential threats from the Sui Empire had been wiped out. In today's world, only Yan was still unwilling to obey the Great Sui.

Moreover, since Yang Jian's later years, the Sui Empire recruited craftsmen from all over the world to frantically build warships in the two lakes of the Yangtze River (Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake), and at the same time build warships in Onozawa (Liangshanbo).

The reason why they don't build ships in coastal ports is that they are worried about being discovered by warships from the Yan State and destroying the shipyards.

At the beginning of the new year, after the New Year's Day Spring Festival, Yang Guang's various edicts began to be issued crazily.

"Temporary increase in corvee! Conscript 100 million civilians to build a palace for me! My great Sui Dynasty is a great country from all kingdoms. How can the emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty live in such a small palace? A big country in China must have the presence of a big country in China !"

"Temporary increase in corvee! Recruit 300 million civilians to build the Grand Canal for me to run through the north and south! The first emperor wanted to build it, but died suddenly, and I want to inherit the cause of the late emperor!"

"Temporary increase in corvee! Conscript 200 million civilians to transport rations to me! The first battle will be a decisive battle, and the first battle will determine the world! I will destroy Liaodong in one battle!"

"Expand the army! Expand the army! Except for the men who are working for me, all the other men should go to the army and destroy the country of Yan for me!"

"Let the women do all the farm work at home, and the men will all work and fight for me!"

"This fleet of mine has been built since the late Emperor Xiandi, and it took eight years! This super fleet of mine is named the Armada! They will be invincible in the world! Let the people of Yan who think they are invincible at sea, see what they see It is called true invincibility at sea!"

"My Great Sui! There are more cavalry than Turkic people! There are more fleets than Yan people!"

"Grassland and ocean, I want it!"

A series of terrifying and impetuous edicts were promulgated, and the whole world was in turmoil.

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Someone once made a hypothesis, if Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, died of illness suddenly in the winter of the fifth year of Daye, instead of living to the spring of the second year, then his evaluation is likely to be comparable to that of Emperor Qin and Han Wu, but unfortunately, history has no if. ——"General History of the World Song Qin Hui"

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