I am Da Song

Chapter 272 From Song Dynasty to Byzantium

The whole world is paying attention to the war in the northwest, naturally because there are powerful forces behind it to promote this public opinion.

There is no one else in this force except the students and the public class.

The scholar-bureaucrats monopolized a large amount of wealth and exploited and squeezed the people. This is a disease that has existed in the Song Dynasty, or in other words, the entire Central Plains since ancient times.

Chen Dong also bluntly stated in the court discussion that this is one of the two directions that must be faced to quell the material discussion.

But letting today's students face the scholar-bureaucrats is undoubtedly a little bit reluctant.

A more secure way is for students and citizens to absorb nutrition and wealth from the outside to strengthen themselves.Accumulate strength and smooth out the power gap with the scholar-bureaucrats.Then he accumulated a lot of money and made efforts in both political and economic aspects at the same time, sweeping the scholar-bureaucrats into the dust.

At the same time, this is also an opportunity for literati to reform themselves and change their appearance.

I have to admit that when Confucianists recognize death, they are very pedantic and stubborn. They can face a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" for 2000 years, studying the meaning of each word in the Analects.A thousand and one ways to truncate every sentence.From a sentence with no beginning or end, how to interpret three or five characters from the middle.It's just sick and insane.

But when it's flexible, it's incredibly flexible.Be inclusive, keep pace with the times, and use all means to meet the needs of the ruler's rule.

Now the emperor of the Song Dynasty talks about development every time he meets with the court or the court, covering agricultural development, industrial and commercial development, technological development, and academic development.

Therefore, including Confucian scholar-bureaucrats, they are discussing how Confucianism should be adapted and learn from the strengths of other schools.

Given a few years for Confucianism, Zhao Huan would not be surprised if the main purpose of the Confucian classics suddenly changed to "encourage industry and commerce, and restore life."

Although these two sentences seem to be contrary to the consistent views of Confucianism.

In fact, they are all Confucian classics.For example, "Make money with the end, keep it with the foundation", "Although Zhou is an old state, its life is restored."

Development is meant to extract the essence and discard the dross.

The scriptures are deleted, deleted, and deleted, and then copied from other places... Oh, no, it is a part of the content.

Confucianism can logically set off a "Hundred Days Reform" and "Jingkang Reform" in the Song Dynasty.

The key is what the ruler needs, and the Confucian classics can be reinterpreted.

At the moment, the phrase "make money from the end, keep it from the foundation" obviously needs to be re-interpreted.

There are dozens of schools and hundreds of colleges in the Song Dynasty, and there must be someone who can reinterpret the classics.

For example, "making money with little money" can be reinterpreted as encouraging business, studying economic laws, and following the example of Sang Hongyang in carrying out economic reforms.

If the explanation of "keeping it with the foundation" is not good, you can never mention it from now on.

Out of context, may I ask which scholar-bureaucrat is not a master?

Some people are really anxious to ask, "Ben" can be the country's foundation, and I want to emphasize patriotism. Only when the country is strong can the people's property be protected from the Jinren Hulu.

The true meaning of the interpretation is not important, what is important is what the emperor likes to see.

Just as Emperor Wu wanted to strengthen his rule, Confucianism proposed the interaction between heaven and man.

Now that the emperor of the Song Dynasty wants to strengthen industrial development, it is naturally excellent for Confucianism to propose "encouraging industry and commerce".If you insist on emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, wouldn't you put your face in front of the emperor and let the emperor slap him?
Because of this, many students also believed that the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats would transform in place on the basis of monopolizing a large amount of wealth, and that a group of enterprising people would smoothly transform into the masters with the most workshops in the Song Dynasty.

After a period of diversion, it will be much easier to clean up those feudal landlords who stick to the rules and are corrupt and greedy.

Regardless of whether these transformed scholar-bureaucrats, or the industry and commerce of the Song Dynasty, and the interest cakes needed by the students, they all got compensation from the Northwest.

Song Dynasty needs to regain control of the Silk Road.

In the past, the Liao Kingdom controlled the Silk Road, sold goods from the Central Plains to the West, and slandered the Song Dynasty to the West in various ways, propagating that there were only backward and barbaric Nanman in the south of the Liao Kingdom.

As a result, the West actually called the East by Khitan, especially the Ross people, and this name lasted for thousands of years.

Now the Jin people control the Silk Road, the Song and Jin countries have just quelled the war, and the caravans of the Song Dynasty are struggling.

In the middle, there is Xixia like a thorn in the throat, which is blocked in the west of Shaanxi, where the throat is controlled, and the Silk Road almost enters Xixia after leaving Chang'an.

There are also Mongolia and Xiliao who are doing evil.The war between Xiliao and the Seljuk Empire will only make the Silk Road more chaotic.

Such a chaotic situation in the north is obviously not in the interests of Song Dynasty.

The most anticipated situation of the Song Dynasty is naturally the reconstruction of the tributary system. From the banks of the Weihe River in Chang'an, to the Baishan Heishui, to the quicksand of the Western Regions, and even the European Byzantine Empire, all are vassals under this tributary system.

Although it seems that the area is a bit far away, it is not impossible. After all, the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Fushi Kingdom in the Song Dynasty, also presented swords and horses to Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty in the fourth year of Yuanfeng (1081 A.D.) And Pearl, and asked the Song Dynasty to send troops to help the Byzantine Empire to recover the lost Asia Minor region.

For Emperor Shenzong, this was indeed a difficult task.

But for a Chinese dynasty that has established the entire tributary system, this is a normal vassal request.

Therefore, while the people were discussing the situation in the Northwest, the Song court was also intensively deploying national policies.

The Song Dynasty was not a decadent dynasty closed to the outside world like the Qing Dynasty. After sorting out the internal situation, it was natural to reorganize the diplomatic situation.

With the significant improvement of the national power of the Song Dynasty, the Northeast Asian order formed in the past is obviously not in the interests of the Song Dynasty, and must be readjusted.

So in mid-February, the country decided to hold an annual large-scale court meeting.

This time, it is no longer limited to the court meeting of a few prime ministers, but a very grand court meeting involving all officials in Beijing.

A decision was made in mid-February, and on February 27, the court meeting was officially held.

This is also a meeting with a new look in the Song Dynasty since Jingkang four years ago.

On the morning of the [-]th, the spring breeze was blowing, and the sun was rising.

The army uniforms of the Great Song Dynasty were in order, and the elite Imperial Army of Xuanjia Yaori had already lined up in front of Xuande Gate.

Tall and burly soldiers with a dignified military appearance, hundreds of them stood in three teams in front of the broad palace walls and gates.

With the sound of a drum, the officer on duty waved his hand, and a large number of soldiers moved away the red branch in front of the palace gate.Then standing in the square in front of the palace gate, officials wearing purple robes, red robes, and green robes entered Xuande Gate in an orderly manner.

In the middle of the tall and majestic palace and the square, every few steps, there will be two armored soldiers with guns straddling their chests, standing guard.

As students and scholars were forced to join the army, and criminals and rogues were no longer in the army, the entire society of the Song Dynasty saw a lot of changes in the image of the army.

At least the scholar-bureaucrats were walking in the palace at this moment, looking at the majestic and majestic Forbidden Army, they were quite proud and heroic.

The Song Dynasty has a strong army like this, so why worry about the chaos in all directions?
(End of this chapter)