Everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty is recognized as the richest dynasty in ancient China, and indeed the Tang Dynasty is the most well-known to the world, at that time many small countries came to the Tang Dynasty for exchanges and studies, of which Japan often sent emissaries to study and exchange.
However, in the 1960s, the Luoyang archaeological team found a very large warehouse in the process of an accidental archaeological survey, 612 meters long from east to west, 710 meters wide from north to south, covering an area of 430,000 square meters.
In fact, it later became a national key cultural relics protection unit Han Jiacang site, Han Jiacang was first built in 605 AD, to the Tang Dynasty officially became the country's large granary, unfortunately was later abandoned, did not expect to be excavated by our archaeological team after a thousand years.
The appearance of Han Jiacang is not as simple as the shock we now appreciate, and there is actually a big secret hidden behind it, that is, it indirectly shows the wealth of the country during the Sui Dynasty, and it is not too much to say that it is rich!
According to archaeological experts, a total of more than 400 warehouses have been found in Hanjiacang, and the general small cellar can also hide at least a few thousand stones of grain, from the beginning of the Sui Daye to the 8th year of Tang Tianbao, this Hanjia warehouse has stored a total of 5.8 million stones of grain, one stone is equal to our current 53 kilograms, that can be calculated how many kilograms of grain there are about 5.8 million? There are about 600 million catties of grain.
This number frightens people to tremble when they hear it, and it is inevitable that they will think that this Hanjiacang is simply too cattle fork, and can actually hide more than 600 million kilograms of grain, which can be eaten for people to eat.
According to historical records, during the sui wendi period, due to the excessive financial resources of the state, the sui wendi was very unhappy, so he ordered a reduction in the taxes of the common people, and then encouraged the people to do business freely, and also opened the ban on the mountain, etc., such a policy was very slight in the ancient dynasties.
However, even though Emperor Wen of Sui paid taxes so lightly, the Sui Dynasty was still very rich, and experts said that the living standards of the people of the Sui Dynasty were much higher than those of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty combined.
Even in the sui dynasty, when Yang Guang was almost every year of conquest, but still could not really drag down the national strength of the Sui Dynasty, of course, in addition to Han Jiacang, the Sui Dynasty also established many other grain warehouses, and their storage of grain is no less than that of Han Jiacang.
The most perverted thing is that by the time of Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, the grain stored in the Sui Dynasty had not yet been eaten, and this information was undoubtedly shocking, and it can only be said that the Sui Dynasty was really a greatly underestimated dynasty.