People in the Song Dynasty were lawless

Chapter 407 It’s all because of the Song Dynasty
After the new law was issued, Bianliang City became increasingly lively in late August.

In the streets and alleys, tea stalls and wine shops, many people are talking about it.

People are watching the excitement of the court changing the name of the country and adding a national flag, national emblem, and national anthem.

After all, this kind of thing has never happened before, not to mention that this kind of thing seems to be far away from them.

But for various government departments, it is an important matter.

Under the new law, all government offices and departments must fly the national flag and national emblem, and all schools must hold flag-raising ceremonies and sing the national anthem if they do not.

There is nothing special about these things, but they have different meanings. They symbolize the country.

So to a certain extent, the national flag, national emblem and national anthem are like "dragon" and are spiritual symbols.

Therefore, after the new law was issued, the Bianliang Weaving Bureau and the Smelting Bureau were extremely busy. They started to embroider the national flag and make the national emblem for use in various government offices.

However, for this kind of thing, it is unrealistic to achieve results in a short time, and it needs to be moisturized and silent.

According to data from the Ministry of Statistics last year, after the reform in the second year of Qingli, a wave of road construction began across the country. In the first year after the reform, a total of more than 2,000 kilometers of township and county roads were repaired across the country, with remarkable results.

In terms of national transportation roads, starting from the second year of Qingli, the Song Dynasty has been preparing for nationwide basic road repair work.

Bianliang University used to not recruit students from the outside. It only admitted outstanding graduates of Bianliang High School and imperial examination candidates. Next year, it will also formally conduct examinations to recruit students from the outside.

In other words, there is a lack of easily liquid funds.

This requires training in all aspects, such as ideological education, power supervision, reward and punishment measures, etc., so Zhao Jun is not in a hurry.

Although only rammed earth roads are being repaired now, after major infrastructure construction, it is expected that these roads will be rebuilt and turned into cement roads in the next few decades.

I believe that when these technologies can be solved, it will be time to build thermal power and hydropower.

Otherwise, if the previous situation of six parts of the world being redundant and one fifth being redundant, it would be difficult for the Song Dynasty to feed the current people, let alone construction.

In addition, more than 4,000 kilometers of new roads have been opened, which has greatly improved the previous problems of potholes, inconvenient walking, and traffic difficulties.

Shaanxi, which has been divided into Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road, is now planting trees. According to the policies formulated during the period of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi, the ecological environment in Guanzhong is slowly restored and the situation of water and soil erosion is changed.

The School of Physics has been studying electricity recently. Although electricity has been invented, how to regulate and transmit it is still a problem.

Today's era is the best era of the Song Dynasty. The economy is rising and food production has skyrocketed. People have food to eat when they are hungry, clothes to wear when they are cold, and jobs even if they have no money. The imperial court abolished all corvee systems and replaced them with an employment system.

Short of money.

Including changes in the perception of officials, it is not easy to pull them out of their previous high-minded thinking and return to their original intention of serving the country and the people.

Therefore, the domestic market of Song Dynasty is now more than enough for internal digestion.

And since the north and south are being repaired at the same time, the progress is very fast, with an average of more than 20 kilometers per month, and the total mileage is about kilometers. Therefore, it is expected that the first railway, the Beijing-Xiangxiang Railway, will be officially opened to traffic by the beginning of next year.

In early September, Yanyun's wind blew across Hebei and touched Bianliang. Under the seven-story iron pagoda and on the bank of the Bian River, willows sway gently in the wind.

But compared to before, it is already a very big improvement.

In a situation where private commerce is extremely prosperous, even if copper ore is imported in large quantities from abroad and domestic mining continues, the gap in copper coins is still very large, and small and medium-sized transactions are also very inconvenient.

Workers are paid for building dams, building roads, cultivating fertile farmland, and constructing water conservancy projects.

As long as this railway is repaired, the connection between Sichuan and Bianliang will be closer, and it will also greatly improve the current canal trade, which can be said to be overwhelmed.

What hinders the development of the Song Dynasty are still old problems.

By last year, after more than four years of development, the total mileage of repaired original basic rural roads, county roads, and state roads reached more than 13,000 kilometers.

However, I believe that the financial situation will be much better after two years, because the current commercial development of Song Dynasty is not limited by size. In fact, as a country with a population of 100 million, today’s business cannot actually satisfy the domestic market. .

There are countless other measures to reclaim fertile farmland, build water conservancy projects, widen rivers, and so on. The whole country has entered a period of rapid development and construction.

With the large-scale infrastructure construction, money was spent like water. Thanks to Zhao Jun's reform of the military system, more than half of the troops were cut off. He also faced huge pressure to investigate all corruption and empty pay issues in the military, filling the financial gap. deficit.

Paper money was introduced to solve this problem. It is expected that by the beginning of next year, the printing house will be able to officially print the first edition of Song Dynasty banknotes, ushering in the era of banknotes for business.

Now after the war is over, we will go all out to develop the economy and education. Education will be an important development direction in the next few decades. When basic talents are cultivated, the school will naturally grow like a fountain.

This is just repairing the original official road.

It can be said that the current repair work is to prepare for the future construction of national highways.

The only thing that might be hurt is finances.

External raw materials continued to flow in, and wealth continued to flow into the people under the impetus of the new policy. People's consumption capacity and purchasing power increased day by day, and food, clothing, housing and transportation became affordable for most people.

In terms of education, more than 200 schools have been built across the country, including more than 100 primary schools, dozens of junior high schools, and more than 20 high schools, slowly improving basic education in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

A railway is being built from Bianliang to Xiangyang. At the end of last year, the railway from Bianliang to Weishi was in operation. Now, ten months later, the railway has been built to Ye County.

Although the recruitment target is still outstanding high school graduates from all walks of life, you must also take an exam and pass the exam before you can enter.

After all, the education in the Song Dynasty is still very poor. Not to mention the nearly 1.5 primary schools in later generations, the number of high schools alone is a number that the Song Dynasty cannot match.

This railway is the first step in a railway around the country as envisaged by Zhao Jun. That is to say, it connects Hubei to Bianliang, so that after Sichuan takes the Yangtze River to Hubei, it no longer needs to take Zhejiang and then from Huainan to Kaifeng.

Under such circumstances, the new political change only caused a slight stir among the people. The people listened to it as a new thing, and after hearing it, they stopped paying attention.

In just over ten years, the people have gone from being poor and weak to a massive influx of wealth into the hands of the people, which has greatly promoted the development of economy and trade.

In the School of Chemistry, according to the instructions of the imperial court, chemists boiled cotton fiber and flax fiber into a paste, and then added appropriate amounts of petroleum and rubber extracts to finally create materials suitable for making banknotes.

However, everything is difficult at the beginning. The reason why there are few schools now is that there are few science talents and even fewer teachers. It does not mean that the imperial court cannot build schools.

Money-making supervisors all over the Song Dynasty were working at full capacity, but it was difficult to meet the rising domestic demand.

Therefore, there is no need to delay the circulation of banknotes. While driving consumption, it can also ensure the fiscal revenue of the imperial court. As long as banknotes can be recycled, exchanged for gold, silver, and copper, and used for taxes, they can fully bear the credit currency.

Therefore, to a certain extent, Zhao Jun was far-sighted in every step he took. Often when the Song Dynasty lacked something, he could immediately make up for it, so that development would not stagnate.

And just when the development of the Song Dynasty was on the right track, with GDP growing at a double-digit rate every year, the situation in Japan was very bad.

The Song Dynasty was thriving, but Japan's domestic economy was close to collapse.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, Japan gradually recovered from its isolation and began official exchanges with the Central Plains dynasties to vigorously promote the development of private commerce. As a result, due to the large influx of Song Dynasty handicrafts, the domestic handicraft industry was almost destroyed. Japan's local currency "Qianyuan Dabao" was also replaced by Song Dynasty coins, and the entire country's economy was controlled by the Southern Song Dynasty.

In later generations, more than 350 million Southern Song copper coins were unearthed in Japan alone. There are also many coins that have not been unearthed or have disappeared in the long history. From this, we can know the economic status of Japan at that time.

The ruling Ping clan was very troubled by this and almost considered seclusion again, but in the end gave up the idea.

The current Japanese economy is more exaggerated than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The domestic handicraft manufacturing industry completely lost its competitiveness and was completely monopolized by Song products.

The Japanese people now have only a few choices for practitioners. One is to cultivate the land and become a farmer, the other is to do business and buy Song Dynasty goods from the port in Iwami area and transport them to other places for sale, and the third is to work as a manual laborer.

For example, in mining, transportation, escorting and other jobs, a large number of women worked as prostitutes, maids, and barmaids at the Iwami port terminal. A large number of people from all over the country also moved to the Iwami area.

You must know that the population of Japan in 1047 AD was only about five to six million. Now there are hundreds of thousands in the Ishimi area alone, more than the capital.

The economic environment in other places was very bad. Gold, silver, and copper from all over the country were transported to Shijian, and then loaded on Song people's ships, and transported to the country by the Song people in exchange for grain, tea, silk, ink, books, writing brushes, etc.

This situation worries the Fujiwara family, the currently ruling Kanshiro regent, and the current empress, Emperor Reizumi.

However, due to the complicated relationships within the Fujiwara family and the fact that Emperor Goreizumi currently has no actual power, they have been unable to come together to discuss countermeasures. Therefore, the country is now in a completely laissez-faire situation.

It was only in recent years that wealthy families in many places gradually stopped paying tribute and rent to the court, and began to recruit troops and horses, and tended to become independent, which attracted the attention of the Fujiwara family and the emperor.

In the seventh year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty, in September of the second year of Yongcheng in Japan, Heian Jing was in the palace, which is currently the capital of Japan.

Emperor Goreizumi, Regent Sekishiro, left minister Fujiwara Yorimichi, right minister Fujiwara Gyomichi, interior minister Fujiwara Yorizune, Dai Nagon Fujiwara Nonobu, and middle Nagon Fujiwara Nagaie sat cross-legged.

In the ancient Japanese political system, there were mainly positions such as the left minister, the right minister, the inner minister, the great nagon, the middle nagon, and the counselor.

The Teng Yuan family holds almost all high-ranking official positions in Japan, which shows how powerful they are.

However, due to the considerable conflict between the brothers, the left minister, Regent Sekishiro, Fujiwara Yorimichi, and the right minister, Fujiwara Yumichi, the Fujiwara family has been fighting internally in recent years and has no political control. As a result, powerful powers from all over the world have gradually become stronger, and the prestige of the Japanese court has plummeted. .

The conflict stems from the fact that Fujiwara Noriichi's eldest son, Fujiwara Tsubobo, died of illness three years ago.

Since Fujiwara Yorimichi's biological second son, Fujiwara Shimai, is only five years old, Fujiwara Yumichi wants his eldest son, Fujiwara Nobuie, to inherit the power of the Fujiwara family.

To put it simply, the eldest son's heir is too young, and the second eldest son wants his eldest son to inherit the family. The eldest son naturally refuses, which makes the brothers at odds. In the past few years, they have been fighting openly and secretly, allowing the place to gradually grow.

However, as external threats become more serious, the brothers naturally have to abandon their prejudices for the benefit of the family, work together again, and discuss current countermeasures.

"The Abe family thinks that now that they are powerful, they can challenge the authority of the imperial court. This is really intolerable."

Interior Minister Fujiwara Yorimune said: "Besides the Abe family, the Nakamura family of the Hitachi Kingdom also seems to have a disobedient heart."

"The tribute rents are becoming increasingly scarce in various places. The Abe family even directly cut off the tribute rents. If this continues, the country will not be able to survive."

Dai Nayan Fujiwara Nonobu also said: "I feel that Mr. Abe must be severely punished."

Right Minister Fujiwara Yudonichi said: "There is an old saying in China, which is to kill the chicken to scare the monkey. Only by eliminating the Abe family can we deter the other Xiaoxiao. I also suggest sending troops to fight."

"We must send troops, but who do you think it is better to send?"

"Let Kunimori Fujiwara take over."

"His military strength is insufficient. It's hard to say whether he can wipe out the Abe clan."

"You can try it out first."

Everyone said.

Fujiwara Gyoutong asked Emperor Goreizumi: "Your Majesty, will you send someone to question and test Mr. Abe?"

"Well, what does Da Taizheng mean?"

Emperor Goreizumi sat cross-legged on the main seat, wearing a "yellow-dyed royal robe", holding a wooden board in his hand, and looking at Fujiwara Yorimichi next to him.

The Fujiwara family was able to stay in power not only because the family held high-ranking officials, but also through the manor system.

At present, Japan is somewhat like the Jin Dynasty, when wealthy families from all over the country raised serfs, opened up manors, and cultivated food.

In peacetime, these serfs were the family's tenant farmers, but in wartime they became soldiers.

Therefore, wealthy families all over Japan have soldiers and horses in their hands. For example, the Abe family who rebelled this time is a powerful family in the Mutsu Kingdom in Northeastern Japan. They have thousands of serfs under their command, which means they have thousands of soldiers and horses.

Historically, when the Abe clan rebelled, Fujiwara, the governor of Mutsu Province, took office and sent troops to attack, but was defeated by the Abe clan. So the imperial court sent Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, a general of the Kawachi Genji clan, to suppress it.

Afterwards, Minamoto no Yoriyi defeated the Abe family and occupied the Mutsu Kingdom, laying the foundation for the growth of the Minamoto family. His grandson's great-grandson Minamoto Yoritomo eventually defeated the ruling Taira clan and established the Kamakura shogunate.

Therefore, it can be said that this Abe rebellion will still have a great impact on Japan later.

But now Japan is said to have a population of several million, but in fact most of the population is occupied by wealthy families from various places. There are more than 60 countries, hundreds of wealthy families, each family has hundreds of thousands of people, and the land and population are quite scattered.

The Fujiwara family is a very large manor owner, with over 10,000 soldiers and horses under their command, so the power is naturally controlled by them. Even the emperor has to look at the Fujiwara family's face.

At this moment, Fujiwara Yorimichi remained silent, and after a moment he said softly: "I think you still haven't seen the essence of this matter."

"What do you mean?"

Fujiwara Gyotong frowned and said: "There are many wealthy families in various places who are lawless. If they don't obey the king's rule, shouldn't they send troops?"

"Do not."

Fujiwara Yorimichi shook his head and said: "It's time to send troops, but what I want to remind you is why things are like this."

"Tell me something."

Fujiwara Yumichi said.

"All this is because of the Song Dynasty!"

Fujiwara Yorimichi's words were not shocking and he would not stop dying, which made the hairs on the back of several people around him stand on end.

Song Dynasty?

Is that something they can discuss?
(End of this chapter)