The fortune teller said there were not enough granaries.

"Jiangnan is connected with the northland, and the Sui Dynasty flooded for thousands of years". A Sui and Tang Grand Canal, which runs through dozens of cities in the north and south, not only facilitates the traffic between the north and the south, but also promotes the development of coastal economy, which has brought great significance to future generations. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, with a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers, was completed in only two years and used more than 2 million people. Now the data of this item is amazing.

Contrary to the powerful national power of the Sui Dynasty, this dynasty only existed for 38 years and was replaced by the Tang Dynasty. How did it accumulate such a huge wealth in just a few decades? How was it destroyed by the Tang Dynasty when it was so rich?

Generally speaking, the amazing wealth of the Sui Dynasty was acquired in two ways. First of all, it inherited the rich heritage left by the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Chen Dynasty. Second, the relevant systems of the Sui Dynasty: taxation system and land equalization system.

The reason why the word "inheritance" is used to describe the change of the Sui Dynasty is because the Sui Dynasty is different from the Tang Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. It is not a beaten world and has not experienced waste of money and turmoil. Sui Wendi Sui Wendi opened the Sui Dynasty through the meditation of Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The rich legacy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was not buried by the war, and it ushered in changes calmly. In addition to material wealth, the wealth left by the Northern Zhou Dynasty has a vast territory and a rich population.

Then, under the rule of Emperor Wen and Yang Di, the population of the Sui Dynasty showed a continuous upward trend, which was due to the taxation system of the Sui Dynasty, and taxation was closely related to household registration.

The household registration in the Sui Dynasty was checked once a year, and everyone's name had to be registered in the household registration, which was very strict, that is to say, everyone had to pay taxes, but the main taxes were still levied on a household basis. However, there was a rule in the Sui Dynasty that men and women must get married when they were adults, otherwise they would have to pay taxes many times. In desperation, the people had to let their children get married as soon as possible with "parents' orders and matchmakers' words" after their children became adults.

However, married couples are counted as one family. In the long run, the population of the Sui Dynasty continued to grow and the number of households increased, so the tax collected by the Sui Dynasty naturally increased. In the Sui Dynasty, in addition to paying taxes per head and per household, rent tax was also paid.

This "rent" refers to the rent of land. The land system in the Sui Dynasty was equal land system, that is, landless land was divided according to population. Whoever has a large population will get more land and the rent will increase accordingly. In this way, the people were exploited by population tax, household registration tax and local tax, and finally entered the state treasury of Sui Dynasty.

When it comes to the Sui Dynasty, later generations can't help thinking of the word "heavy tax".

The increase of population in Sui Dynasty also promoted the development of economy and agriculture. After all, in ancient times, population was the primary productive force. Because the importance of food is self-evident, whether it is marching and fighting, or in times of peace and prosperity, the phrase "food is the sky for the people" has been applicable since ancient times. However, there was no advanced technology and automation equipment in modern society in ancient times, so farming needed manpower to complete, and the Sui Dynasty did not have the worry of insufficient population.

Under this unique condition, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty and Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty were keen on building storage grain, and the "No.1 granary in the world", including Jiacang, came from the hands of Emperor Sui.

The Sui Dynasty was rich in people's wealth, grain and taxes, and its natural national strength was strong.

The national strength of the Sui Dynasty was strong, not only in the construction of the Grand Canal in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but also in the Koguryo Three Signs of Emperor Yang Di.

As we all know, fighting costs a lot, but when Yang Di marched to Koguryo, it sent out 6.5438+0000 troops. What concept? What is the most important thing in the war? It's a storage trench, full of all kinds of supplies and food. If the general concept of 1 10,000 people is converted into grain, then everyone needs at least 1 kg of grain in 1 day, and 1 10,000 people need 1 10,000 tons of grain a day, which is enough to see the amazing wealth of the Sui Dynasty.

However, after only 38 years, the Sui Dynasty was replaced by the royal family of Li Tang. There are many inevitable reasons for this, which can be seen from the above practices of the Sui Dynasty.

The first is the taxation system and the land equalization system in the Sui Dynasty. Although under this system, the taxes collected by the Sui Dynasty were like running water, and the national treasury was substantial and rich. But this is just "hiding wealth in the country", which is only the wealth of the ruling class in the Sui Dynasty, and has nothing to do with people who can carry boats and overturn them. On the contrary, the people were oppressed as much as the treasury of the Sui Dynasty was enriched.

Throughout the ancient history of China, how many dynasties perished because of "people's grievances"? There was a rift between the people and the dynasty, like a big tree rotting from the inside. No matter how it is fertilized and cultivated, no matter how leafy it is, it is only a matter of time before it dies. If there is another "rainstorm" at this time, the speed of corruption will accelerate. The Tang Dynasty was a "rainstorm" in the Sui Dynasty, which began to rot from the inside.

Secondly, the population of Sui Dynasty increased sharply. In order to get more land and avoid paying double taxes after the legal age of marriage, people have to get married and have children early to increase labor and land. However, with the expansion of population, the shortage of land will follow. There is a limit to the number of people carrying land. Exceeding this ability means a lack of resources. If even the most basic housing and food resources cannot be guaranteed, it will inevitably lead to unrest.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population had reached 46 million. What needs to be known is that the population of the most prosperous "Zhenguan rule" in the Tang Dynasty was only130,000. In contrast, we can imagine the status quo of "more monks than porridge" in the Sui Dynasty, which is one of the reasons why Yang Di insisted on conquering Koguryo. Only vast land can alleviate the impact of domestic turmoil.

Finally, Yang Di levied Koguryo three times and dug the Grand Canal. Although the Grand Canal has made great achievements in the future, it is really empty of people and money in the contemporary era, which is tantamount to pushing the Sui Dynasty, whose building is about to collapse, from behind and accelerating its demise.

In 6 19 AD, Li Yuan forced Emperor Yangdi You Yang to abdicate and established the Tang Dynasty, which marked the demise of the Sui Dynasty. How fast did the Sui Dynasty accumulate wealth, and the speed of its demise was dozens of times that of this land. At this point, all the prosperity of the Sui Dynasty was like a passing smoke, and dissipated in the long river of history.

When evaluating the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, later generations often say that the national strength of the Tang Dynasty is not as good as that of the Sui Dynasty, and it is true only by comparing the population and government financial resources of the two dynasties. However, in the Tang Dynasty, there appeared "the rule of Zhenguan", "the prosperity of Kaiyuan" and "the rule of Dazhong". This is not because the Tang Dynasty was relatively rich at that time, but because of the political clarity of this period, especially during the Zhenguan period. Under the rule of Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin, the turbulent social order was restored in the Tang Dynasty, which laid a solid foundation for its prosperity.

Although the Tang Dynasty was far less wealthy than the Sui Dynasty, it was much stronger than the Sui Dynasty. This is because the wealth of the Tang Dynasty was concentrated on the people, and Emperor Taizong really realized that "giving less to others" made people's lives much better than that of the Sui Dynasty, which was easy to pay taxes. "Hide wealth in the people" is the real wealth.