The Sui Dynasty was the richest dynasty in Chinese history. In ancient China, there was a fixed saying: the Sui Dynasty was rich and the Tang Dynasty was strong. The richest dynasty in ancient China was the Sui Dynasty, and the strongest dynasty was the Tang Dynasty. The Sui Dyna

Sui Dynasty is the richest dynasty in Chinese history.

In ancient China, there was a fixed saying: Sui Dynasty is rich and strong in Tang Dynasty. The richest dynasty in ancient China was the Sui Dynasty, and the strongest dynasty was Tang Dynasty . The Sui Dynasty was famous for its country's wealth in Chinese history. How rich was it? In " Literature Tongkao ", Ma Duanlin, a Yuan Dynasty scholar, said that "there are no richest people in ancient and modern times who have called national wealth as the Sui Dynasty." Many people don’t feel it after hearing it, so I will talk about a number, and the number is more convincing. " Zhenguan Zhengyao " records that Emperor Taizong of Tang said: "Planning the world to save money, I have to offer it for fifty or sixty years." It means to clean the treasury of the Sui Dynasty and support the central government of the Tang Dynasty for fifty or sixty years without tax collection. This was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty many years after the fall of the Sui Dynasty. Even now, the world's top two economies, , cannot achieve this wealth.

The Sui Dynasty had advanced grain storage technology. Taking the archaeological excavation of Sui Dynasty , Jiacang , as an example, this warehouse was made of braised soil. The low walls of the cellar were coated with a two-mm moisture-proof layer (made of tung oil material), and the moisture-proof layer was also covered with wooden boards and hay. The anti-corrosion and moisture-proof technology of the granary has been greatly improved. If the grain in this warehouse was placed from the end of the Sui Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, it would be fine to eat it. From to years since the Emperor Wen of Sui, the Sui Dynasty repaired granaries. By the Emperor Yang of Sui, the common shocking scenes of various granaries were: Luokou warehouse had 3,000 cellars, each cellar could hold 8,000 stones of grain. Return to Luo Cang "Ten miles a week, and through three hundred cellars." This type of large granaries were spread throughout the important areas of the northern Sui Dynasty. In the two places of Luokoucang and , the grain storage area was more than 20 million stones, which was equivalent to nearly double the annual grain income of the Yuan Dynasty seven hundred years later. According to statistics, the economic indicators of the Sui Dynasty were not reached more than 100 years after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.

Sui Dynasty granary

China's longest artificial canal- Grand Canal .

When you mention the Grand Canal, everyone will think of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal , and the two are different. The Sui Dynasty canal is more than 2,700 kilometers long, while the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is more than 1,700 kilometers. The Grand Canal connects the political centers and economic centers of the north and south. However, the Grand Canal opened by Emperor Yang of Sui is centered on Luoyang, the eastern capital, and is divided into two systems: north and south. Among them, the South Canal system is Tongji Canal , Hangou and Jiangnan Canal in the southeast direction of Luoyang ; the North Canal system is Yongji Canal in the northeast direction of Luoyang to Zhuozhou (Beijing).

The Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty took the ancient Yellow River as the base, making full use of the characteristics of the north-south natural terrain trend of the ancient Yellow River starting from Luoyang, so that the water of the ancient Yellow River flowed into the south and north canals. At the same time, the canal also communicated water transportation between different water systems, promoting the development and prosperity of the social economy at that time. The canal of the Sui and Tang is centered on Henan, communicating the whole country's east, west, south and north. Therefore, because of the canal relationship, China's development was relatively balanced at that time. It is much better than later dynasties. Comparing the current nine major national central cities, , drives regional development, we can see the balanced and forward-looking development of the Sui Dynasty.

Sui Grand Canal