In the Spring and Autumn Period, the place near Yangzhou today was called Guan Guo. In 486 BC, Wu destroyed Xing, built and opened Xing ditch, which connected the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. The more you destroy Wu, the more you belong to your own land; Chu is destroyed, and the land belongs to Chu. In 3 19 BC, the state of Chu built a city on the site of Seoul, named Guangling. After Qin unified China, Guangling County was established, belonging to Jiujiang County.
Yangzhou in the Han Dynasty is today's Guangling. Jiangdu has long been a vassal fief. Liu Ying, the King of Wu, opened the Salt River (the predecessor of the Toarey Yang Canal), which promoted economic development. In order to strengthen ethnic relations, in the sixth year of Yuanfeng (BC 105), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty married Liu Xijun, the daughter of Jiangdu King, to Wusunguo, more than 80 years before Wang Zhaojun married Xiongnu. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the peasant rebels led by Zhang Ying fought in Guangling area for more than ten years. Although lured by Zhang Gang, governor of Guangling, many peasant rebels quickly responded to the Yellow Scarf Uprising.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the wars between Wei and Wu continued, and Guangling was a military stronghold in the Jianghuai area.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Guangling was transformed into "Wuhu City" after several wars. However, due to the hard development of the working people for hundreds of years, their economic status has been continuously improved in the recovery. The Northern Zhou Dynasty changed Guangling to Wu Zhou. Immigrants from Qingzhou and Chongzhou in Shandong moved south to Guangling, which promoted the economic development of Yangzhou.
In 589, Chen was destroyed and a unified Sui regime was established. The Sui Dynasty changed Wu Zhou to Yangzhou and set up the general manager's office. When Yang-ti became emperor, the Grand Canal was opened to connect with the Yellow River. Huaihe River, Yangtze River and Yangzhou have become water transport hubs, which not only facilitates transportation and irrigation, but also promotes the Yellow River. The economic and cultural development and exchange between Huaihe River and Yangtze River played an important role, laying the foundation for the unprecedented prosperity of Yangzhou in Tang Dynasty. In June, 60516, Yang Di visited Jiangdu (now Yangzhou). 6/kloc was killed by his subordinate Yu Wenhuaji in 0/8 and buried in Tang Lei (now the suburb of Yangzhou). At the end of Sui Dynasty, Li Zitong, a peasant uprising army, established Yangzhou as its capital, with the title of Wu. It was renamed Yangzhou in 626 AD and has ruled Yangzhou ever since.
In Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, agriculture, commerce and handicrafts were quite developed, and a large number of workshops and manual workshops appeared. Not only is it "rich in the world" between Jianghuai and China, but it is also the largest metropolis in the southeast of China, sometimes called "Yang Yi Er" (Yizhou is now Chengdu). Yangzhou is the transportation center of grain, grass, salt, money and iron in the north and south, and it is an important port for domestic and international transportation. He used to be the ambassador of Doudufu, Doudufu, Huainan Road and Huainan Province, and was in charge of Huainan. Jiangbei States. Yangzhou has always played a pivotal role in the land and water transportation network centered on Chang 'an. As an important port for foreign communication, Yangzhou has set up a special ship ambassador to manage foreign exchanges and friendly exchanges. Yangzhou had frequent contacts with Dashi (Arabia) in Tang Dynasty. There are thousands of big eaters in Yangzhou. Persians, Japanese, Polomen, Kunlun people, Silla people, Japanese, Koreans and other Koreans have all become businessmen living in Yangzhou. Japan sent envoys of the Tang Dynasty to Yangzhou, and monks from Jian Zhen visited Japan, which promoted the politics of China and Japan. Economic, scientific and cultural exchanges. On the basis of absorbing predecessors' achievements, Shan Li, a native of Yangzhou, re-annotated the Selected Works and widely quoted it, thus preserving a large number of lost important documents for future generations. His son Li Yong is not only influential in writing and poetry, but also one of the great calligraphers after Yu Shinan and Zhu Suiliang. Zhang, one of the "four outstanding people in Wuzhong", only wrote the poem "Moonlit Night on the Spring River", which has the reputation of "the solitary piece overwhelms the whole Tang Dynasty". In 684, Xu Jingye. King Robin opposed Wu Zetian's rule in Yangzhou.
In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, warlords scuffled and Yangzhou was seriously damaged. Yang Xingmi established political power in Yangzhou, known as "Yang Wu" in history, and the economy recovered briefly. Soon, it fell into the destruction of war. In 960, the Northern Song Dynasty was established. With the rapid development of agriculture and handicrafts and the further prosperity of commerce, Yangzhou has once again become the economic and cultural center of southeast China, almost as famous as Kaifeng, the capital. The annual business tax income is about 80,000 yuan, ranking third in the country. In A.D. 1 127, Emperor Zhao Gou of Gaozong moved the capital to Yangzhou for one year, which further promoted the prosperity of Yangzhou. In 1275- 1276, Li Tingzhi and Jiang Cai led the army in an unyielding struggle with Yangzhou people. Unfortunately, they were all martyred, leaving only a few thousand people in Yangzhou. 100 years, Yangzhou has been a battlefield for resisting gold and yuan. Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Yue Fei and other famous Southern Song Dynasty players fought bloody battles in this area. The war has seriously damaged the economy and society.