In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

"Guohe Shashengshu"!

A strange book that was later evaluated on the Internet as a memorial that directly ruined three dynasties.

The monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty were indeed a group of people who decided national affairs by slapping their foreheads.

Influenced by "The Book of Guiding River Shapes", he decided to risk his own life and change the course of the Yellow River.

It can be said that it did indirectly cause the Sanyi River to return to the river, turning the mother river into a stepmother river, causing harm to the river for hundreds of years.

But in fact, this thing and Li Chui himself were mostly demonized.

As a student of history, Zhao Jun naturally has to look at the problem objectively and cannot directly beat people to death subjectively.

At least in terms of foresight, Li Chui did have a unique vision.

In addition to the fact that the buttocks are too crooked, the memorial does not consider people's livelihood, and it heavily mentions that once the Yellow River flows north, it will cause the Liao Kingdom to invade from the south, the specific plans contained in it are still worthy of recognition.

Because the specific plan is to dredge rivers, dig artificial rivers to release floods, and simultaneously remove blockages. This is an old method that has been used since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Later, Jia Lu in the Yuan Dynasty, Pan Jixun in the Ming Dynasty, Jin Fu in the Qing Dynasty and others used similar methods to this, blocking and removing at the same time.

So in a sense, Li Chui could only say that his starting point was wrong, but he was on the right track.

It's just that the court was very chaotic in the late Zhenzong Dynasty. Ding Wei and other five ghosts, coupled with Song Zhenzong's incompetence in his later years, made the court a mess. His suggestions were not adopted, and the opportunity was missed.

When Zhao Jun heard that everyone knew "The Book of Guiding River Shapes", he nodded and said: "Yes, it is this harmful thing, but there is nothing wrong with the strategy in it. The old method is to dig canals to release floods and reduce the damage to the old road. The pressure of going to sea.”

"I remember that "The Book of Daohe Xingsheng" mentioned the dredging of nearly ten rivers including Yuhe, Baigou, Chihe, Hengzhangshui, Hutuo, Chanyuanqu, Bianqu, and Xidahegudu!"

Yan Shu opened his mouth wide: "Such a big project, I'm afraid it's no worse than cleaning up the old wastes of the Yellow River."

“It’s definitely not as big a project as cleaning up the Yellow River.”

Zhao Jun said: "Li Chui's flood discharge plan is to dig six rivers and connect more than ten rivers in Hebei. This can relieve the flow pressure of the Yellow River. Secondly, by planning the drainage basins of the six rivers, broad agricultural water conservancy facilities can be built. Geographically strengthening the military defense in eastern Hebei will require much less work than dredging the old Yellow River road.”

"But even so, the manpower and material resources to be spent are still a huge amount. If the construction started in the year of Jingyou, the Song Dynasty was about to go to war with Xixia, and it would have to spend military expenses, dig rivers and build canals, and there would not be that much money at all. Come and do something.”

Zhao Zhen couldn't help but said.

If you don't become a householder, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil, and salt are expensive. The treasury is almost empty, and there are only more than one million guan left in the internal funds. This river repair project is probably at least tens of millions of guan. How can you afford to spend so much money.

"But this is a relatively feasible method, and the Yellow River in Jingyounian is still in good condition. It will be more difficult to manage until Sanyi returns to the river. As long as the canals can be dug out first, the flood pressure on the Yellow River can be alleviated. "

Zhao Jun said: "In the Yuan Dynasty, Jialu River was built by blocking and dredging at the same time, and the Jialu River was dug to release floods. In the Ming Dynasty, Pan Jixun adopted the method of "confining water and flushing sand" based on Jialu's method, building new canals to release floods and building dams at the same time. The accumulated water flow impacted the sediment. In the Qing Dynasty, Jin Fu used water to flush out the sand on their shoulders, while simultaneously clearing the silt manually. These are all experiences. "

The old Yellow River waterway is more than 600 kilometers long, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are quite spacious. The average width of the river channel is about 500 to 600 meters. To clean up such a large amount of sediment, even the manpower and material resources that modern society wants to mobilize are impossible. It is estimated that it will cost hundreds of billions of RMB to get it done.

In ancient society, to complete this project was no less than building a complete Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Even with that kind of money, it cannot be completed in a few years. It may take decades or even hundreds of years to complete.

Therefore, dredging the Yellow River waterway and digging out the river bed ten meters higher than the original river channel is no less difficult than climbing to the sky.

But there is no problem in digging several new river channels for flood discharge, because Jia Lu in the Yuan Dynasty, Pan Jixun in the Ming Dynasty, and Jin Fu in the Qing Dynasty all did this.

Among them, Jia Lu dug the "Jialu River", Pan Jixun dug the "New Water Transport Canal" and the "Kui River", Jin Fu dug the "Huai'an River", "Zhong River" and "Qingkou River", and the rest of the diversions and canals, large and small, were dug. countless.

Therefore, many things depend on man-made efforts. Jia Lu, Pan Jixun, and Jin Fu could do it. If the Song Dynasty before the Yellow River completely became violent, why couldn't they do it?

However, Zhao Jun felt that it was meaningless to say this.

He said: "Of course, I just want to tell you that the ruling class of the Song Dynasty lacked foresight, and the dog emperor and the brain-dead ministers were stupider than pigs. It was obvious that the Yellow River could be stopped before it overflowed at a very small cost, but If you insist on procrastinating and choosing the most disgusting way to govern, it will cause harm to you for thousands of years. Song Renzong should be nailed to the pillar of shame."

Zhao Zhen almost cried.

Ever since he mentioned Sanyi Huihe, he has been scolded as a pig's head.

The key is that in the past, Zhao Jun would occasionally scold people like Lu Yijian to share the pressure for him, but Sanyi's return to the river was something that happened in the middle and late stages of his rule. He was scolding people like the later prime minister Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi. None of them were present, so he still had to Can he fight it all on his own?

For a moment, Zhao Zhen glanced at Fan Zhongyan with resentment, thinking that Old Fan was so good that he went to ask Sanyi about returning to the river.

The rest of the people were deep in thought.

Today's content can be said to be the most exciting content these days. Before, they didn't dare to talk too deeply. They were cautious and probing every time, for fear that Zhao Jun would find out the clues.

But now Zhao Jun's eyes recovered quickly. Today, he finally no longer needs to be secretive and can ask questions openly.

For the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, this was something that greatly broadened their horizons. Seeing that Zhao Jun was about to regain his sight and was about to discover the truth, if he didn't ask when he finally told the truth, then when should he ask?

However, Zhao Jun's words still shocked them.

From the total value of social wealth, to productivity and production relations, and finally to Sanyihuihe now. An unprecedented perspective was placed in front of everyone, allowing their knowledge and understanding to increase rapidly.

More importantly, Zhao Jun mentioned the essential core of the feudal dynasty. Does that mean that, if it is true to what Zhao Jun said, as long as productivity continues to improve and the cake is made big enough, this regime will remain stable and remain stable for thousands of years. Will it not collapse in years?

Yan Shu said: "In the final analysis, the Song Dynasty was unable to build the river because of lack of money."

"Yes and no."

Zhao Jun sneered and said: "Lack of money is only an excuse on one hand. The root cause is that Zhao is cowardly and incompetent. It would be fine if he was hung up by the Liao Kingdom and beaten. Even Xixia, which is in a corner of the northwest, can't do it. In order to stop the Liao Kingdom's attack, they wantonly killed People. This kind of garbage country doesn’t deserve to live. It’s better to destroy it as soon as possible.”

Zhao Zhen was silent for a long time, and then asked in a hoarse voice: "What if, I mean what if. If there was an industrial revolution in the Song Dynasty and productivity increased, could it defeat Xixia and Liao, repair the river, and keep it forever?"

"Are you kidding me?"

Zhao Jun said in disbelief: "Productivity is indeed related to production relations, but to be honest, the productivity of the Song Dynasty was much stronger than that of the Liao, Jin, and Xixia, and the Song Dynasty did not eliminate them."

"Why?"

"Because in the era of cold weapons, the impact of comprehensive national strength was far less than that of modern times. Unless hot weapons reforms can be carried out, it will still be difficult to overwhelm Liao, Jin, and Meng. In addition, there are the institutional issues I mentioned before."

"Why is it involved in institutional issues again?"

"Aren't those cowardly emperors in the Song Dynasty afraid to death of foreign enemies? Even if thermal weapons appeared, they would not dare to develop them on a large scale. They were as timid as mice, and they were more defensive than external. They were afraid of arming the army, and the army turned around and overthrew them. How can these idiots carry out reforms in this area under their rule?”

"I don't think you're right."

Hearing Zhao Jun start to say that the emperors of the Song Dynasty were all mentally retarded, Zhao Zhen decided to refute it and said: "Other emperors are indeed mentally retarded, but Song Renzong is a very good emperor. If he hears what you say, he will definitely be modest. Seek advice, work hard to improve productivity, and strengthen your country.”

"oh?"

When Zhao Jun heard Gang Jing Wazha Muguo's words, he didn't raise his eyes and asked lazily: "How can you be so sure that he will humbly ask for advice? Has he done anything decisive in history? Or maybe Is there anything praiseworthy?”

"Forehead"

Zhao Zhen choked up because he didn't know what he had done in history.

Anyway, I just heard Zhao Jun say that he was a barely qualified emperor in the Song Dynasty, and then there were a series of words such as "old pervert", "old pervert", "two fools", "cheap bones", "stupid donkey" and "big coward".

How could he know exactly what he had done?

So he hesitated and said: "During Jingyou's reign, Li Shen made a law on money. The tea merchants gathered together to be dissatisfied and unwilling to buy grain into the tea merchants. It was up to Song Renzong to solve the problem."

"Is this happening?"

Zhao Jun scratched his head and said: "Forget it, I haven't read "History of the Song Dynasty" very much, so it should be there. It's not a big deal, not to mention that our teacher didn't say that seeing Qian Fa change rapidly with the death of Li Shen If it ends, isn’t that still nonsense?”

Is Mr. Li dead?

Zhao Zhen opened his eyes wide, and the others also looked at each other in confusion.

In fact, in the past few days, they have also curiously asked when Zhao Zhen, Yan Shu, and Lu Yijian died.

After all, people always have concerns about this.

But Zhao Jun likes the history of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. He doesn't even know when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty died, let alone Zhao Zhen, Yan Shu, Lu Yijian and others.

Mainly, the main course in the history department is called "Ancient Chinese History". This course will not specifically talk about when big figures died. At most, it will talk about the dates of birth and death. Students will not remember them specifically, but just roughly. I talked about the history from China’s primitive society to the Qing Dynasty.

The content is the same as high school history, covering the political systems, important events, national characteristics, cultural influences, etc. of each dynasty.

If you want to study a certain dynasty specifically and study it more thoroughly, you have to take an elective course. There is an elective course in the history department of the Renmin University called "Selected Readings of Historical Materials". Students can specifically look for detailed historical materials of that dynasty.

Anyway, Zhao Jun did not take this elective course. He chose "Political History" and "Cultural History".

It is worth mentioning that among these elective courses, there are also "History of Women", "History of Song and Dance", "History of Beggars", "History of Prostitutes"...

The reason why Zhao Jun knew about Li Shen was because when he happened to be taking "Cultural History" as an elective, the teacher talked about tea culture, mentioned the tea law reforms caused by the tea culture of past dynasties, and then talked about Li Shen.

At that time, the teacher mentioned that Li Zhen's second meeting with Qian Fa ended shortly after Li Zhen died of illness, so Zhao Zhen showed off to him that Song Renzong had settled the tea merchants. Isn't that still useless?

Zhao Jun's words plunged everyone into a haze. Zhao Zhen immediately waved and Wang Shouzhong came over with small steps. He whispered a few words to Wang Shouzhong. Wang Shouzhong left immediately and sent the eunuch to the Imperial Medical Bureau to ask the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat Li Shen.

There was a slight silence in the scene because everyone heard about Li Zhen's death. Zhao Jun thought that his words calmed everyone, so he smiled and said: "Are there any other records?"

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "The great Jianghuai disaster in Jingyou years was quelled by Song Renzong's internal funds of 200,000 silk."

"Isn't that what we should do? Natural disasters are unpredictable factors. When natural disasters cause people to suffer, the government should be the first person responsible."

Zhao Jun wondered: "How much manpower and material resources did our country spend during the Wenchuan earthquake? When the Yangtze River flooded in 1998, the People's Liberation Army jumped into the river and used their bodies to stop the flooding. In the feudal era, the monarchs were the family of the world, so they should be patriotic and stand in the same way. We should stand together with the people. The people of New China are the masters of the country, and the government is not the only one in the world. Isn’t it much better than the feudal society when the disaster relief efforts are so great?”

Zhao Zhen was speechless for a moment, and then said: "The power of ancient times was originally limited and not as good as modern times. Renzong's behavior was to love the people like his own son."

"not necessarily."

Zhao Jun retorted: "I still say the same thing. The emperor should love the people rather than the herdsmen. He should stand with the people. However, I remember a saying from Renzong's court, which is called "The rich have a field of hope, and the poor have a lot of hope." There is no place for excellence." This is where he was stupid."

"I"

Zhao Zhen was speechless, because this was a fact. From the Zhenzong Dynasty to his present, land annexation in various places had been extremely serious, people had been displaced, and countless landless people had gathered to rebel.

But he just didn't have any solution. This was the root of the problem.

Zhao Jun said: "So Renzong was only benevolent to the scholar-bureaucrats and landlords, not to the common people. At best, he was a paper framer, at worst, he was a softie. It's really funny to expect him to do anything. Knowing one What are the jokes about the Song Dynasty?"

"How did you say it?"

Zhao Zhen asked subconsciously.

"During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, a young man complained at work: "This kind of emperor is really a softie. As a result, he was overheard by a guard and arrested. The young man argued: "I didn't tell you which emperor it was. How could you arrest me casually?" ""

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "Don't lie to me," the Imperial Guard roared, "I have been working here for more than 20 years. Do I not know which emperor is a softie?" , the whole Song Dynasty knew that Zhao Zhen was a softie. "