Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Yao recalled that the last time he saw the light curtain, it took him a long time to accept the fact that the Ming Dynasty would also perish thanks to the Queen's guidance.

At that time, there were many speculations about the cause of the country's collapse.

Barbarians from the North? The marauding Japanese pirates? Pirates of the Far West?

As his eyes followed the "Resolution of Wrongs" written by Song Ci as time went by, Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that he knew a lot about the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

The Western Yi came across the sea and instigated disobedient people like the Japanese. They gave them firearms and money and food, making them enemies of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, the Ming Dynasty perished from border troubles.

But at this time, the young man told him in a clear and unmistakable voice:

"The only number of poor people in Ming Dynasty"

The only number? !

The memories of his youth surged up uncontrollably, turning into blazing flames like fuel, threatening to burn out all his reason and gentleness.

The Great Tomorrow, who had just celebrated his fifty-third birthday, had not yet reached his prime, and the enraged roar caused by boundless anger instantly flooded the entire hall:

"Ridiculous!"

"Absurd!"

"Huh... you are a treacherous dog!"

Before the entire Huagai Palace could recover from the sudden talk about the Ming Dynasty dying of poverty, they were faced with the anger of the powerful butcher king.

The ministers drooped their heads and lowered their eyebrows. The people in the Qintian Prison were so frightened that they immediately fell to the ground. The kings were even more nervous and did not dare to breathe. Even Zhu Biao pursed his lips.

He dared to quarrel with his father, but that was only when his father could still reason. At this time, he did not dare to stroke the tiger's beard.

But fortunately, the only person who can calm dad's anger happens to be here at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who stood up and pointed at the light screen and cursed angrily, felt his right hand being pulled, as if asking him to sit down.

But his anger couldn't care less about this, so he immediately threw it away impatiently.

He was pulled again and thrown away again.

The third time he was pulled, the force was much stronger. Then... he failed to get away, and he was pulled again.

So Tomorrow reluctantly sat back down again.

The anger subsided, and the atmosphere in the entire Huagai Palace became more lively.

"We are just..."

Queen Ma shook her head to stop Zhu Yuanzhang's words and said:

“It’s hard to live a hundred years in this world, how much more likely to happen hundreds of years from now?”

There was no need to say so much between husband and wife, so Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already held back his breath and wanted to argue hard, sighed slowly.

Zhu Biao breathed a sigh of relief, leaned towards his father and said:

"Dad, the two Zhejiang provinces are most in need of people who know how to make money."

The words were not finished, but Zhu Yuanzhang knew what his son meant, shook his head and said:

"How can we avoid the disasters caused by the previous dynasty, but we can understand a few things to prepare for unexpected events."

This answer was enough to surprise Zhu Biao, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not look at him. Instead, he looked at the light screen and remembered what later generations said about the work of bridging the north and the south. The south has been prospering since ancient times. If it follows the example of Song Dynasty, the north will be prosperous. How to deal with it?

There is no answer to this question yet, so Zhu Yuanzhang just said that his son can understand it, but he still has many things to worry about.

"This is a matter of taxation." Suddenly remembering what the young man said, Tomorrow took a few glances at Zhu Di, Zhu Rui and other sons who looked like good babies, and finally shook his head and told Zhu Biao:

"Legislation has always been adapted to local conditions, but this taxation should be done with great caution."

Zhu Biao bowed and obeyed the order, and immediately tried to choose some comforting words for his father:

"At least based on what Li Zicheng said, he still appreciates my kindness to the Ming Dynasty."

Hearing his son mention this, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer cared much about him. After all, after hundreds of years, could he send troops or food to the other party? In the end, I could only sigh because of his words:

"Two hundred thousand... to the country, it is almost like a broken bowl."

The Huagai Hall was silent except for Empress Ma, who leaned on her husband's shoulder.

[The topic returns to Jia Sidao.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jia Sidao faced an economic crisis that could be said to be corrupt.

Years of war have completely destroyed Huainan, causing heavy damage to the most basic agriculture.

The war brought about rising military expenditures. During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty, the amount of military expenditures increased from 20 million yuan to 140 million yuan during the reign of Emperor Ningzong of the Song Dynasty.

Chu coins can be simply understood as Jiaozi banknotes, which were used in the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties as a means of increasing military expenditures.

Behind the severe damage to agriculture and the surge in military expenditures was the increasingly serious problem of redundant officials in the Southern Song Dynasty. This is even simpler. Just submit the memorial to Lizong to supervise the censor:

"During Jingdeqing's reign, the wealth of more than 330 counties was used to support the salaries of more than 10,000 people. Today, the power of more than 100 counties is used to support the redundant officials of more than 24,000 people."

From Song Renzong to Song Lizong, the number of officials doubled, but only one-third of the territory remained. The problem of redundant officials can be said to be very serious.

When the Northern Song Dynasty fell, the Jin soldiers who went south directly "physically sorted out" the internal troubles of the Song Dynasty, solved the three redundancies, and forcibly evened out the land. The Southern Song Dynasty also established the country accordingly.

However, these official lands were soon ordered by Wan Yangou to "dedicate all official lands to all roads", either for military purposes or for self-satisfaction, which made the Southern Song Dynasty enter a relatively unique era of land ownership by big landlords, which in fact caused Land annexation is unprecedented.

The so-called treacherous big landowners in the Northern Song Dynasty, such as Cai Jingtong Guan, were in tears when they came to the Southern Song Dynasty. They only owned a thousand hectares of land at most, but the big landowners in the Southern Song Dynasty were embarrassed to say hello to others if they didn't have 100,000 acres of land.

Zhang Jun had more than 6,000 acres of land in public, and during the Southern Song Dynasty, the best of them could even achieve the "glorious" achievement of covering one million acres.

The more serious the land annexation, the more frequent the peasant uprisings, the more irreconcilable the contradictions between landlords and peasants, and it would directly affect the survival of the country.

Of course, it was not that no one in the Southern Song Dynasty realized that the land limit order and the boundary law, which were repeatedly raised by conscientious officials, were intended to curb land annexation, but they were destined to be ineffective in the face of the large landlords' grouping, so the public land law was finally promulgated by Jia Sidao, who was already a high-ranking official.

For Jia Sidao, the crisis he saw was even greater.

In the early days of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a profit-making law to deal with food shortages, that is, to purchase private grain after bargaining.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, the profit-making law was rapidly developed, and forced purchases at low prices and exchange of money were the norm, and these costs would eventually be passed on to the people.

Judging from the ancient rice price index of modern statistics, the rice price index of the Southern Song Dynasty showed a slow downward trend, but its lowest point was still higher than the average of the Ming Dynasty. The rice price did not rise sharply until the end of the Ming Dynasty and reached the average level of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The economic prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years is true, but it was only the prosperity of the big landlords, literati and royal clans at that time.

But for the poor people of the Southern Song Dynasty, these more than a hundred years were undoubtedly the most difficult time in the past thousand years. 】