I am Da Song

Chapter 211 [-] Million Taxes Achieved!
Jiangnan should have been the easiest place in the Central Plains to develop a strong industrial civilization.

But how weak Jiangnan is, there is no need for Zhao Huan to say more.

The scenes that happened in history are simply depressing.Facing the invasion of the Hulu cavalry, Jiangnan was always defeated.

Except for Zhu Yuanzhang's heroic rise, Jiangnan has always given people the impression that martial arts are not prosperous.

But even Zhu Yuanzhang, the open-faced figure who opened up the Ming Dynasty, did not start his army from the south of the Yangtze River. He made his fortune in the Jianghuai area as a rebel general, and then went south to unify the south of the Yangtze River.

Most of Zhu Yuanzhang and his founding heroes were born in Haozhou, Anhui, and they are fellow villagers with Wei Wudi Cao Cao.

This is completely different from the Northern Expedition in modern times, where the Northern Expedition army swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger.

Yang Shi said: "The other side of this food consumption lies in the scholar-bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River. On the northern border, the Song and Jin Dynasties killed bloody mountains and rivers, and the sun and the moon are dark. The southern scholar-bureaucrats are singing and dancing, drunk with money."

"Just now the officials calculated that there were [-] million people in the Song Dynasty, and each person consumed one stone of grain per month. They really underestimated the corruption of the literati in the south of the Yangtze River. Since more than [-]% of the land was owned by the literati, the literati's granaries were full of grain. It piled up until it rotted and moldy. It is not a lie to say that the wine and meat of rich families smell like frozen bones on the road.”

"But with so much wealth, the scholar-bureaucrats naturally cannot avoid wasting extravagance. A large amount of wealth is not used to benefit the country. Tens of millions of people have not benefited from it, and only a few hundred thousand scholar-bureaucrats have gone to corruption in their dreams. .”

Zhao Huan clenched his fists secretly, the scene in front of him was so similar to the Spanish Empire.

Spain, with its invincible fleet, harvested a lot of wealth from the world, completed primitive accumulation, and laid the foundation of industrial civilization.

As a result, before dawn, the Spanish royal family and nobles indulged in the luxury of gold.Using a lot of wealth for extravagant enjoyment, and finally sinking in corruption.

The mighty Armada finally lost its former glory and fell into the abyss along with the corrupt nobles.

The corruption of these nobles is roughly the same among all nations in the world.

Later generations often say that if productivity does not increase, corruption of officials is inevitable.

But again, if no one whips these corrupt nobles behind them, they can drag the entire country into the abyss, completely unable to develop productivity, let alone cross the era and approach industrial civilization.

The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were actually polarized, and they would also reflect on themselves internally.

Otherwise, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty would not have concluded that the biggest drawback of the Song Dynasty is: "The scholar-bureaucrats are shameless."

Now that Yang Shi is full of energy and energy, he can't wait to show his ambitions, leave an eternal honor, and become a famous figure admired by later generations. Naturally, he can't understand the corruption of those depraved scholar-bureaucrats in the south.His analysis can be described as penetrating.

Zhao Huan asked: "I have already killed a lot of people in the south of the Yangtze River, but I still can't motivate these corrupt literati. How do you think you can make these corrupt and depraved people work hard?"

When the imperial power made up its mind to rectify a power, the ending of this power would be very tragic.

Don't look at the scholar-bureaucrats boasting that they share the world with the emperor every day, as if they are powerful in fighting for nine heavens and ten lands. After three generations, they are the only ones, so that later generations feel that they can fight against the emperor and limit the imperial power.

But it's really too much to overestimate them.

There are too many forces that are stronger than them in history.

Not to mention the long-standing princes and nobles, such people with fiefdoms can directly raise troops to fight against the monarch.Not to mention aristocratic families and tyrannical places where the hereditary families control the retainers, taxes, and trilogy by themselves.

As far as the Guanlong military group is concerned, in terms of combat effectiveness, these scholar-bureaucrats are also hoisted up and smoked.These people not only get on the horse to manage the army, but also get off the horse to manage the people.

But when the emperor felt that they threatened his rule, he didn't want to use them to help him rule the world.In the end, they were all beheaded and wiped out, completely swept out of the stage of history.

Compared with the terrorist power and bloody means of the ancestors of the past dynasties, the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats was maintained at the level of non-violent non-cooperation.

Emperor, if you hit me, I will stare at you.I still dare not scold. The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty did not dare to directly criticize the emperor like the officials of the Ming Dynasty.The well-known eternal writer Su Shi, just because of the Wutai poetry case, seemed to mock the imperial court, and was charged with "concealing evil intentions and resenting him", was sent to prison, and was almost executed.

And if the emperor, you still want to force me!I'll resign for you!

Besides... Compared with the previous generations, they are simply weak and hot-eyed.When the seniors saw their performance, they almost jumped up and down and cursed them as bad luck, ashamed to be with them.With such backbone, you still want to fight against the imperial power?Go home and wash, go to bed early!There is everything in the dream.

With Zhao Huan's current prestige, if he made up his mind to completely sweep the literati class into the dust of history, there would be no more emperors sharing the world with literati, and no literati to help him rule the world.Then the seemingly huge group of literati and bureaucrats will quickly disappear into the long river of history like the Guanlong Military Group.

It's just that the other class that Zhao Huan uses to replace the scholar-bureaucrats to help him govern the country has not been cultivated for a short time and is still thriving, so he tolerates the scholar-bureaucrats and continues to encourage them.

But if the scholar-bureaucrats are still as drunk as they are now, it won't take long for them to lose everything they have now, be wiped out by the new class, and take away all the privileges and wealth they once occupied.

Yang Shijiu was in the center, and he knew all the whereabouts of the government's appropriation funds, and he could understand the current situation most profoundly.

My colleagues are still dreaming of life and death, but they don't know that the situation has reached the point of no delay. If they don't forge ahead, they may even worry about life and death.

In any case, Yang Shi is also a member of the scholar-officials, although he can easily change his family and become a member of the new privileged class, and he should even be regarded as the leader of the new class.

But he still planned to help the scholar-bureaucrats, saying: "If you want to make the scholars-bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River forge ahead, I think that you still need the subtle guidance of the imperial court."

That is, the invisible hand of the government?Zhao Huan asked: "Master Ji thinks how should the court set up national policies?"

"This involves the imperial court's financial expenditure. The imperial court's tax revenue statistics this year have reached 4000 million mu of fertile land, and the country's regular tax totals more than [-] million guan. These [-] million guan are in the hands of the imperial court. Once invested in a certain This direction will form a trend of world attention, which is enough to change all the old patterns."

(End of this chapter)