Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 230 Where is Da Song sick?

Zhao Huan's inspection work in Guanzhong progressed very smoothly.

When we arrived in Guanzhong, the impact of the military disaster became negligible, but the people in Guanzhong lived a little better than the people in Hedong Road.

Cai Jing turned the Green Crop Law into a usury loan. The originally set two-point interest was directly pushed to a four-point interest. He also forced all the people to borrow money for spring farming and repayment for autumn harvest.

Coupled with the landlord's rent, the imperial grain and the national tax, there is no surplus every year, and when there is a slight bump in the year, it will starve to death countless times.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Huan frowned, standing on the Longshang, looking at the village in the distance.

"I'm throwing babies. The folks can't afford to raise too many children. If a child is born, all they can do is throw the child. Then find a place to throw it away. There are many graves for dead old children. Officials." Zhao Ying Khan said with gusto that he felt the anger of the king was brewing.

"Since I have already equalized the land, and the tax has become much lower than the original tax, can they afford the [-]-for-[-] agricultural tax? Why are they throwing babies!" Zhao Huan was very angry, but his voice was relatively bland.

Zhao Ying pushed Shen Cong, this anger could not be borne by himself, and Shen Cong accompanied the officials on inspection.

Shen Cong bit the bullet and said: "The spring seedlings have just been planted, the official family. They don't have any surplus food this year to feed the baby."

"I see. Let's go to Qinfeng Mansion. I want to see Zhong Shizhong and He Li." Zhao Huan sighed, stepped into the car, and headed towards Qinfeng Road.

Zhao Huan looked at the hard-working people on the fertile soil in Guanzhong. This is the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty. If there is no foundation, then the great tree of the Great Song Dynasty will only end with withering.

He frowned and looked at the peasants on the thousand miles of fertile soil, feeling sorry for him.

The longer Zhao Huan has been on the throne, the more anthologies he has seen in the court, and the more anthologies he has exchanged in the system, the more he knows where the Great Song Dynasty came from. question.

Do not blame the common people for falling babies.When you can't afford to live, raising a child makes the child suffer even more.

This phenomenon should be attributed to the law of the ancestors.

The law of the ancestors does not regard warriors as the commander-in-chief, but authoritarianism must use civil servants as the strategy and general rule.The military man is the general manager, who leads the troops and horses, and is the number one officer.

That is to say, the civil servants of each route are called Jinglueshi, who are in charge of military affairs and finances, while the warriors are the general managers, who manage the soldiers and horses.

Therefore, the position of Yongding Army Route Manager who cultivated the way of teachers is greater than that of Yang Zongmin's general manager.

When civil servants command the army, there will be many idealistic operations.

Of course, because Zhongshi Dao himself was born as a civil servant, and came back as a military commander, he first established a festival and then became an economic envoy, so he has rich experience in battle and belongs to a civil servant, not a military officer.

Who finalized this ancestral law?
It was not from the hands of Song Taizu. During Song Taizu's period, there was no strict distinction between civil servants and military officials. Everyone was in the same palace as ministers.

The root of this ancestral law is Song Taizong, the emperor of the donkey cart was hit by arrows in both legs, and he was defeated, and the generals were ready to move out of control.

Song Taizu paid attention to reforming the old and improving the new, and Huang Zuo was named Jing Ming at the beginning.Turn home into country.Hong En should be in Huan District.Probably it is to continue to change, to turn the family into a country, and the continuous change changes with the changes of the times.

However, Song Taizong's method is to prevent things and make music to control them. The discipline has been established, and things are normal.The game is that when everything is implemented, all aspects must be considered, and a sound system must be formulated and implemented.

Keeping the inside and leaving the outside, strong stems and weak branches was also first proposed and used by Emperor Taizong.

Such a national policy of emphasizing civility over military affairs led to the fact that in the subsequent Chanyuan alliance, the Wang family had 20 troops, and they sat and watched Song Zhenzong and Liao Shengzong's war in Chanzhou turned upside down.

The Chanyuan alliance not only had positive significance, it did bring a hundred years of peace to the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, but it happened that the hundred years of peace and the relaxation of military equipment became the main reason for the sudden death of the Northern Song Dynasty.

More importantly, the Chanyuan Alliance weakened the imperial power, an unprecedented weakening.

The emperor's authority has finally changed from infinite to the definition of the country's king.

There is one item in the Chanyuan Alliance that does not attract attention, that is, the Song Dynasty and the Khitan became a brotherly country.

The letters of credence are signed by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to the emperor of the Great Khitan.

This is the first time in history that a Chinese emperor shares the title of emperor with others.It completely broke the concept that the Central Plains Dynasty has always been accustomed to, has been propagandizing, and is deeply rooted in philosophy.

That is the land of the king in the whole world, the shore of the land, the subjects of the king, the sky has no two suns, and the people have no two masters.

To admit that the other party is the emperor is to admit that there can be two emperors, or even multiple emperors in this world.

Such a change made the Central Plains Dynasty, who was used to the debate between Hua and Barbarians and called them barbarians, completely lose their aggressiveness.

Because of the rapid corruption of peace, the upper class has no ambition to subdue Yan Yun, nor has the idea of ​​preparing for war.

The root cause is that the emperor has lost the idea of ​​​​unifying the world.

The second change of the Chanyuan Alliance made it clear that the Juma River in Xiongzhou was the boundary between Song and Liao.

Before the Chanyuan Alliance, the term China, or the Central Plains Dynasty, was more of a borderless concept. As big as the world is, the territory of the emperor is as big as it is.

As far as the eye can see, wherever the iron hoof steps, it is all Han soil.

Even if you can't completely take it for yourself, you still have to carry out the tribute system, and even directly set up the tribute system for management.

But after the Chanyuan Alliance, the Central Plains Dynasty had the concept of territory for the first time, and for the first time divided this is the territory that the Central Plains Dynasty should have.

After the farming area is unified, nothing else matters.

Let the Central Plains Dynasty completely move from expansion to restraint.

The advantage of this is the extreme stability of the imperial power.The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms thus became the last period of great division in history.

The disadvantage of this is that when the power of the dynasty is weak, the locality is also weak, and it is easy to be wiped out like fallen leaves by the autumn wind.

Jin, Yuan, and Qing all entered the customs from the northern barbarians.

The Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties were the pre-Chinese era, while the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties became the post-Chinese era.The Song Dynasty was also the most important turning point of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The ancestral law of emphasizing literature over martial arts has completely turned Neo-Confucianism from scholars into a dualistic monster of scholars and officials.

The principle of mutual recognition between the monarch and his ministers, the principle that the emperor must "jointly determine the state" with the scholar-bureaucrats, also made the scholar-bureaucrat class and the Neo-Confucian school become the political subject.

This ancestral law's state policy of emphasizing literature over military affairs locked the emperor in the palace.

The emperor sat on the dragon chair, intoxicated in a bright world constantly depicted by literati, unable to extricate himself.

They don't know what the Great Song Dynasty looks like.

The emperor also completely lost his aggressiveness, raising crickets, fighting dogs, playing with women, playing Cuju, painting, writing, and carpentry.Be what they do best.

And the emperor, as the leader of the Central Plains Dynasty, completely lost his leading role.Become a puppet controlled by literati.

Zhao Huan's trip to Hedong Road and Guanzhong Road, the biggest gain is that he broke his inherent understanding and fully understood what kind of cruelty this world looks like.

He also has a deeper understanding of the main contradiction of the Song Dynasty.

Song Dynasty must also, need to blaze a new path. 【Note 1】

"The official Qin Feng Road has arrived, the chief of the planting division, and He Li, He Jinglue is waiting." Zhao Ying broke Zhao Huan's contemplation.

　Note 1: Many opinions about Song Taizu and Song Taizu come from many articles by Deng Guangming, a famous researcher on Song history, and his daughter Deng Xiaonan's book "The Law of Ancestors".In fact, the conclusion is that the donkey cart emperor had never beaten the orphans and widowed mothers of the Liao Kingdom, so he had to set a national policy of keeping the inside and the outside, and strengthening the weak branches. stage.China has entered the post-Chinese era, and the Northern Yi continued to enter the Central Plains.

　　
　
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