I am Da Song

Chapter 266 Celebration and New State

On November 28, the queen successfully gave birth to a son, and the royal family officially added a member.

As diagnosed by the imperial doctors, he is a prince.

He can't be called a great king yet, because even Zhao Huan's son has to serve in the army for three years before he can be crowned the throne.

However, entering the army does not necessarily mean going to the battlefield, especially in the Song Dynasty, the country has been peaceful recently, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But even if the prince goes to the battlefield, Zhao Huan is not unacceptable.

When the prince grows up to adulthood, Da Song will probably enter the age of firearms.

Like the nobles of the British Empire, he leads an infantry division and infantry regiment, and participating in the war is also a qualification and experience.There are definitely risks, but compared to the gains, it is acceptable.

Montgomery, for example, did not rely on commanding the military counter-insurgency of the Indian subcontinent, accumulated sufficient meritorious service, and finally became a famous general of the empire.

Therefore, Zhao Huan had high hopes for the second prince and named him Jin himself.

I hope he can "push the talents and advance to achieve them" like Da Song.

For the crystallization of love between himself and the queen, Zhao Huan is very fond of it.

As soon as the second prince Zhao Jin was born, Zhao Huan gave him 5000 taels of gold, [-] guan of money, and [-] bolts of silk.

Even if Zhao Jin Xianyun Yehe, with the gift of birth, he can spend his whole life well-clothed and well-fed without any worries.

It is rare that the nosy officials of the Song Dynasty did not jump out to find fault this time, because the royal family was too rich.Recently, the royal family has rented out the properties one after another.

Just collecting rent has collected more than [-] Guan.

The rent is paid quarterly, so the royal family has received a lot of cash in one go.

It may be two or three thousand guan to say that the daily income is ten thousand guan, but it is definitely not a problem to make a fortune every day.

The royal family took out their legal income and rewarded the prince, and other literati and bureaucrats really couldn't say anything.

With the joy of having a baby, since December, the city of Tokyo in the Song Dynasty has been shrouded in a festive atmosphere.

In order to celebrate the prince's birthday, the royal family gave 140 million kan according to the population of Tokyo.

As long as people in Tokyo have household registration in the imperial capital, they can go to Kaifeng Mansion to receive wedding money.

It's not a small sum of money per person.It is equivalent to one-third of the monthly income of an ordinary citizen.

Converted to future generations, if it is an ordinary white-collar worker, it is equivalent to an extra cash benefit of about 2000 yuan.If you are a student, it is equivalent to an extra month of living expenses.

Moreover, it is a universal welfare for the elderly, children, women, and students.

A family of five can receive five pennies, which is equivalent to adding a month's income to a family.

Although it was found in gold, it did not cause much inflation.Because it was the end of the year, Tokyo, the imperial capital, was buying a large number of New Year's goods from all over the world, and there were plenty of supplies in the market.

With this bounty, every family feels that this new year is a lot easier than ever.Take out a month's income to buy New Year's goods. The abundance of New Year's goods is also a rare grand celebration in memory.

This is completely different from the previous few years, when the wind and rain were turbulent and the war continued.

It is the leisurely time at the end of the year, and children from all over the world gather back to the ancestral house, and it is inevitable to discuss state affairs together.

This led to a sharp drop in Zhao Huan's cheap father's reputation.

In the previous two years of the maritime alliance, the Supreme Emperor provoked unprovoked quarrels. He obviously could not win the Jin Kingdom, but he wanted to unite with the Jin to destroy the Liao Dynasty. The long-term peace was broken.It has been bloody and rainy for several years, and the wars continue.

People's eyes are still sharp.

No matter how the literati and bureaucrats belittled Zhao Huan and satirized the emperor, the common people still had a clear understanding of the quality of their lives.

Therefore, Zhao Huan has an excellent reputation among the grassroots people who occupy the main body.The common people generally believed that it was the current officials who cleaned up the mess for the Supreme Being, and with their mighty military power, they forced the Kingdom of Jin to restore the peace treaty made several years ago, and the two countries lived in peace.

These major events in the government and the public, the current situation in the country, are just the material for a group of old and young men to get together to drink and brag.

What really makes the people grateful is that the government implements the method of collecting silver by mu and returning it to the land to pay taxes.

This made the exorbitant taxes of the Song Dynasty since the Five Dynasties abolished.The tax pressure on the common people, which was ten times heavier than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, disappeared in one day.

Countless people felt that overnight, the people of the Song Dynasty lived more easily than the people of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

In this regard, the most direct feelings are those "law-heavy" areas.

Because before that, the Great Song Dynasty "taken money from all the people, lest there be more than enough. Grace was captured by hundreds of officials, lest there be insufficient".

"Murder and set fire, be recruited." has become a folk proverb in these areas.

Emperor Shenzong had to promulgate the "Thieves' Heavy Law" to specifically govern these unique areas.

However, after the collection of silver by mu, the number of thieves in the Song Dynasty generally decreased, and the law and order was improving in an orderly manner.

Many thieves took off their thieves' clothes after observing them secretly for a period of time, and sneaked into the city's workshops.

Since they don't own land, they don't have to pay taxes.With all your strength, you can support yourself by doing a little hard work.This is much safer and more stable than licking blood with a knife.

You know, everyone likes buying and selling without money.Then why not find a safer and more stable one?
Except for those vicious and vicious thieves, most of the people who were forced by the tyranny voted with their feet.

As a result, the population of each city is slowly increasing every day and every month, the urban economy is becoming more and more prosperous, and the culture of the urban class is also developing rapidly.

The biggest characteristic of this class is undoubtedly that it is popular and hates the rich.

Urban citizens, handicraft workshop owners, and small businessmen are incompatible with feudal landlords and scholar-bureaucrats.

There is even a proverb in the city: "Zero tax rate is the best tax rate. For the sake of the peace and prosperity of the Song Dynasty and the people's pockets, it is time to suffer for the scholar-bureaucrats."

In the public opinion war at the end of the year and the New Year, the literati and bureaucrats suffered for the first time, but they did not gain the upper hand.

It's not that they can't scold a group of vulgar low-level citizens, but that in this scolding battle, the other party has won the support of a cultural class.

That is young students.

These high-spirited young students left far behind the scholar-officials in terms of passion and action.

This time, the literati and bureaucrats from all over the world experienced the helplessness of the emperor facing a group of civil servants.

They can't tear their faces apart, and they are single and weak, and they can't face the verbal criticism of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people.

So the old and corrupt scholar-bureaucrats have the same feeling that the people in front of them talk a lot, and they always greet their ancestors and ancestors in every sentence, and they often stand on the moral high ground and say something like torture their conscience.

The scholar-bureaucrats are full of resentment, we a group of noble scholar-bureaucrats, do you need a group of unknown pawns to torture their consciences?

joke!
Do we scholar-officials have such a thing as conscience, we don't know better than you?
(End of this chapter)