The excavation of the canal has played an important role in the improvement of China's water transportation, here we have to mention the most famous canal in the history of our country - the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, this canal was ordered by the Sui Emperor to improve, in the history of the Sui Emperor looks like a tyrant, but the Sui Emperor ordered the improvement of the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, which is of great significance to the formation of the entire Grand Canal system, we have to admit his role in promoting history.
The history of the canal can be traced back to the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and The King of wu, Fu Cha, can be said to be the first person to build the canal. Canal as a kind of water traffic line, its main role is transportation, whether it is transporting people or food, the canal can make itself play a role, sometimes the road traffic line will not be faster than the canal to where to go, on the contrary, the canal may be faster than the traffic on the road.
In the Spring and Autumn Warring States, there were constant disputes, and Wu Guo wanted to go north to attack Qi, but there was no waterway between the Yangtze River and the Huai River, so Fu Cha made up his mind that since there was no communication line, he could build one. So Fu Cha ordered the excavation of the Han ditch, and after the excavation of the han ditch was completed, the Huai River and the Yangtze River were connected together. Hangou also became the first component of the Grand Canal, which was the beginning.
With the passage of time, the Grand Canal was also continuously improved and expanded, and by the time of Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng ordered the construction of the Ling Canal, which played an important role in economic and cultural exchanges at that time as a water transport channel. Li Bing excavated the Zhengguo Canal, which is located in the Guanzhong region of China, and the Zhengguo Canal has promoted agricultural development.
Due to the dry climate in the Guanzhong area and the frequent drought of the farmland, the canal can not only play the role of irrigating the farmland, but also transport the grain from the Guanzhong area. The Han Dynasty exerted a key influence on the Grand Canal, as the Han Dynasty for the first time had a sense of preservation of the Lingqu Canal, and the Han Dynasty rulers not only expanded the Grand Canal, but also incorporated Weishui into the Grand Canal system.
In the Han Dynasty, Weishui was introduced into the Lingqu until the Weishui water was connected with the Yellow River, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, people realized that the Hangou dug by the Wu Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period had certain risks, and if the waves of Sheyang Lake once affected the Hangou, then the Hangou was in a dangerous state.
So during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chen Min transformed the Hangou and dug a new canal, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, people had a sense of crisis and an accurate assessment of the safety of the canal, which was a big progress. The excavation of many canals during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties has important foundational significance for the Sui and Tang Grand Canals during the Sui Dynasty.
The construction of these canals before the Sui Dynasty played an important role in the construction of the Sui and Tang Grand Canals of the Sui And Tang Dynasties of the Sui Dynasty, and it can be said that without the excavation of some local canals, it would be impossible to have the Sui and Tang Grand Canals of the Sui and Tang Dynasties period, and we will not see the whole picture of the Sui and Tang Grand Canals today.
If the Sui Emperor excavated the Grand Canal, this is wrong, it can be said that the Sui Emperor only penetrated the canal left by his ancestors, and the Grand Canal built during the Sui Dynasty was accurately only tongji canal, Hangou canal, Yongji canal, jiangnan canal, he connected some of the previous small canals, and only then did he achieve the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, which is now famous at home and abroad.
The Sui Emperor has always been in people's impression of being arrogant and lascivious, a tyrant without compromise, and has to admit that in order to build the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, he disregarded the people's livelihood and was only thinking about his own political achievements. But this cannot be used to define the Sui Emperor simply as a "tyrant."
If he is really a tyrant who neither builds the Grand Canal nor pays attention to the sufferings of the people," we must also see what kind of historical impact the Grand Canal built by the Sui Emperor has had. First, the Grand Canal had an impact on the culture and economy that connected the regions.
In ancient times, the economy of the north was more developed than that of the south, the difference between the north and the south was very large, and the opening of the Grand Canal undoubtedly played a role in the balanced development of the north and the south, and promoted the rationalization of the development pattern of the north and the south.
Out of economic and cultural exchanges, the Grand Canal has played a role in maintaining the regime of the rulers, the Grand Canal is an important military channel, once the turmoil occurs, the rulers can use the Grand Canal to mobilize military forces in a timely manner, which is also of great significance to strengthening the centralization of power.
From the perspective of the development history of the Grand Canal, it is also a history of historical inheritance, without the hard work and maintenance of the ancestors generation after generation, the Grand Canal is impossible to form, the Sui Emperor inherited the wisdom of the ancestors, and built the Grand Canal on the basis of the original.