In 589 AD, the Sui army captured Nanjing. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, ordered the "healthy city to be cultivated and cultivated." A capital city that had been prosperous for three hundred years was turned into farmland overnight. , there are poems as evidence: "Thousands of households and thousands of doors become weeds", "The prosperity of the Six Dynasties suddenly turns into dust".
Yang Jian was born in a monastery and was a superstitious emperor. After Nanchen was destroyed and the emperor was exiled from his old capital, he was worried about the resurgence of the "Emperor Qi" in the southeast, so he decided to destroy Jiankang's Feng Shui and suppress it completely. Why would Yang Jian think of this? The fundamental reason is naturally that Nanjing is the residence of the emperor. From the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the fall of the Chen Dynasty, Nanjing had a history of 269 years as the capital. But it may also be the advice of the Feng Shui warlock around me at the time.
The royal Feng Shui master of the Sui Dynasty of the Yang family is Xiao Ji, who is written about in this book (for details, see the chapter "Master's Prophecy Legend? Xiao Ji, a Southern Dynasty Emperor who is proficient in the secret art of Feng Shui" in this book), Xiao Ji is a Southern Dynasty emperor. Being from the Liang royal family, he should be well aware of the wonders of Nanjing’s Feng Shui. Therefore, the author believes that Xiao Ji, the high-ranking strategist behind Yang Jian's destruction of Jiankang City, is indispensable, and he is inseparable from this matter.
How did Yang Jian suppress Jiankang's "king spirit"? According to the information revealed in the "Danyang County" article in "Sui Shu Di Buri Zhixia" (Volume 31), his method was similar to Qin Shihuang's, but more disastrous. Qin Shihuang only cut off the Fangshan Mountains, while Yang Jian destroyed the entire Jiankang City - Pingchen, and ordered it to be leveled and cultivated. He also established Jiangzhou in Stone City, unified three counties, and had 24,120 households. fifteen.
The time when Yang Jian carried out the destruction of Jiankang was after the city was broken in 589 AD. "Pingdang cultivation" means to demolish all the buildings on the ground in the city, push them to flat ground, and cultivate them into fields for farmers to plant vegetables. "Sui Shu·Five Elements Chronicles Part II" (Volume 23) also reflects this matter: " When Chen died, Jiankang became a ruin."